Chapter 365
To think that young bastard didn’t come to trade with him, but to manipulate him.
Duke Ikhaldoren felt cold sweat run down his back.
“……”
“Are you okay?”
The escorts exclaimed in bewilderment at the sudden change in their master’s condition.
It was extremely rare for a duke, who was protected by all sorts of expensive magic, to show himself like this.
What happened?
“It is nothing. My body… not feeling well.”
“I’ll call the priest right away.”
“done. It would be better to rest a little. I’m sorry. I will wake up first.”
Duke Ikhaldoren rose from his seat.
I needed some time to reflect on this confusing situation.
It was really unbelievable.
The Duke himself was so frightened that he pulled out his tail first.
I’ve never been like this even in front of the head of the great Wodanaz family…
‘What kind of monster did you create, Wodanaz!’
When the Duke got up and left the banquet hall, Lee Han frowned.
“Why is that?”
“Strange. There’s no way someone like a duke would suddenly feel unwell.”
It was a position where potions and magic scrolls could be poured over the body with just one finger movement.
There was no way Duke Ikhaldoren, who was wearing artifacts that would easily exceed the price of a castle, would spare magic.
“It definitely is.”
Rowena was surprised by Lee Han’s knowledge.
He thought the duke was not feeling well, but this boy from the Wodanaz family noticed something.
“There is only one reason.”
“What is that!”
“I’m pretending to be sick because I don’t want to give souvenirs.”
“…yes?”
Rowena listened in anticipation and was taken aback.
“There is no reason other than that.”
“…I do not know…?”
No matter how much Rowena respected Lee Han’s insight, this was a difficult hypothesis to accept.
* * *
In the banquet hall below, the duke took a break, unaware that Lee Han was having a very rude misunderstanding.
The magic circles installed in the study aroused and energized the mind, but as long as the cause remained, the disturbed mind did not disappear.
‘Should I withdraw my hand from Ein Lorgard?’
At this point, I wondered if I should have never touched Einrogard.
Believing in the Duke’s own strength, he stabbed it, but the more he put his hand in, the more it felt like he was sinking into a bottomless swamp.
If only the sent subordinates had been retrieved, he would have seriously thought about it…
“Master.”
A cautious voice came from outside.
Those who had served the peacock for a long time could tell that the peacock’s planting had become rough.
Everyone was extremely careful, lest they would get angry with each other for nothing.
“The knights have arrived.”
“…What do you mean by that?”
The Duke’s voice went down even further. There was a cool chill.
“Were there any knights visiting this mansion today?”
“That’s it… It seems that the Knights mistakenly visited me…”
“……”
The armrest of the chair the Duke was sitting on sounded like it was breaking.
“Hick!”
“Are all the knights idiots? Can’t even count?”
It wasn’t meant to be that angry.
It wasn’t such a big mistake to visit by mistaking the date.
The duke didn’t care whether he visited a few days earlier or later, as long as the person he invited was important.
But today’s events were draining the Duke’s patience.
In the morning, students from beast-like knight families made a mess, and in the afternoon, the knights couldn’t count the number and came on a different date from the day they were invited.
“Doll… Shall I return it?”
“…done. It won’t be fixed by educating the idiots. get ready to serve I’m going to rest for a bit.”
Still, the duke calmly calculated.
It was better to treat the knights well and send them away, then praise them, rather than disgrace them and kick them out and make complaints.
It was also the duty of a great nobleman to treat invited guests well.
After a while.
The servant came to the duke who was resting with his eyes closed again.
The attendant trembled all over and said as if he really didn’t want to tell it.
“The knights say they want to see the Duke in person and thank him…” “
…Tell him to sit still and eat before he kills you.”
“……”
The attendant couldn’t bear to go and waited. The Duke said with a shallow sigh.
“Make it clear that you will go out after resting more. Now, if someone comes and calls me again, I swear I will bury them. Got it?”
“…yes!”
* * *
The White Sheep Knights were a gathering of knights who traveled all over the empire to help the weak, jump into danger, and seek honor as knights, but in fact, the White Sheep Knights were a peculiar group of knights.
Who would like to travel all over the empire without any reward? Even if it was a knight, it was a difficult and painful job.
Most of the Knights of the Empire were a much more comfortable and interest-group gathering of local knight families to protect the region or for friendship.
The Beech Knights also belonged to the latter.
The knights of the Beech Tree Knights, who operated in an area a little far from Granden City, were very energetic at the Duke’s invitation.
“Not everyone can receive an invitation from the great nobleman of the empire, His Highness, Duke of Ikhaldoren. It is possible because of the glory of the name of the beech tree.”
“The bastards who have nothing to do…”
“They are saying things like glory. They must have gathered together and played wizard cards.”
“Shh. Be quite.”
The young apprentice knights of the White Sheep Knights, who were moving with the Beech Knights, grumbled.
The average knight who brought them warned them to be careful.
“I will not forgive you if you behave rudely to the knights of other knights.”
“But aren’t those bastards too arrogant…”
“I would have told them to stop!”
When the average knight expressed his anger, the apprentice knights kept their mouths shut.
It wasn’t that even the rank knights didn’t understand their feelings.
The Beech Knights tended to act more like nobles than knights, as do knights with a lot of wealth.
If you were to act like the apprentice knights of the White Yangmok Knights, you should respect and respect each other, but when you look at your clothes and weapons, you keep taking an attitude of looking down on them, so the apprentice knights couldn’t help but be angry.
“for a moment. Why are you leading me this way?”
One of the knights of the Beech Knights noticed something strange and asked.
The duke’s mansion in the city was large and spacious, and there were several spaces that could be used as banquet halls.
However, the banquet hall, which is the most central among them, was, as anyone can tell, the hall located in the center.
By the way, isn’t the place the servants are guiding us to the banquet hall on the left?
“A passenger is coming.”
“A sailor?”
The knights groaned.
It was surprising that there were guests who came before them, but they occupied a better banquet hall.
I wasn’t feeling very well.
“Who are you?”
“These are the students of Ein Lorgard.”
“……”
The dissatisfaction on the faces of the knights rose.
Even if the heads of families from other families had visited, it was only possible that the place was taken away by the students of the magic school.
Of course, if you think about it coldly, you can calculate what the status of the students of this magic school is on average, but the knights started to argue instead of calculating.
“Is it the one assigned by His Highness the Duke?”
“Could it be?”
From the point of view of the servants, the duke could not be excused for such a question. In that case, even a few necks were not enough.
“Then what do you mean?”
“We don’t know either…”
“It looks like the students went in first.”
The servants’ cautious answers were interpreted differently by the knights.
“I could be mistaken because I’m still young.”
“Can’t we just use the banquet hall on the left?”
The rank knight of the White Sheep Knights cautiously opened his mouth.
Considering the status and position of the Einrogard students, they didn’t want to fight over a single banquet hall.
Then the knights of the Beech Knights responded in a fit of rage.
“Why should we give up the banquet hall we should use?”
“It’s not a good thing to leave students alone! I have to tell you that what is wrong is wrong. Apprentice knights of the White Sheep Knights may be happy with this kind of treatment, but we are not.”
“……”
The average knight’s eyebrows twitched at the remark that blatantly ignored the apprentice knight.
As the average knight with a threatening impression radiated momentum, the knights of the Beech Tree Knights also changed the topic, as if they were sorry.
“Go and tell me. I think there was a mistake.”
* * *
“Wodhanaj ruined a good party.”
“that’s right. It was really free and so much fun…”
“If there are people who keep muttering, I’ll throw them upside down in a barrel, so shut up and eat.”
When the awakened White Tiger Tower students grumbled and ate their food, Lee Han warned them.
Even thinking about what he had done earlier, giving him food was a waste.
“That Mr. Wardanaz.”
“??”
When a servant came running and whispered with a pale face, Lee Han was puzzled.
what?
‘I don’t think it’s saying that I need to get even a silver coin.’
It was really nonsense, but the evaluation of the duke had already come down that much within Yihan.
“The knights…”
“…?”
Lee Han, who heard the explanation of the situation, tilted his head because he did not understand.
Realizing that something was wrong, the friends also gathered in a loud voice.
“Why are the knights here? Is that today too?”
“Is it strange?”
Students from aristocratic families were well aware that several groups were not invited on the same day.
“Have you ever misunderstood the date?”
“no way. They must be that crazy.”
“Look at the White Tiger Tower guys. Stupid, but not that stupid.”
“Tutanta. Do you want to die!”
“Shut up. Bastards who collapsed drunk at someone else’s banquet hall.”
“I didn’t fall down, I passed out from being beaten by Wodanaz!”
“Hey… it’s embarrassing, so speak quietly…”
Lee Han asked the servant while his friends chatted.
“So you want me to give up the banquet hall now?”
“Absolutely not! Wodanaz!”
“That sounds crazy!”
The students of the White Tiger Tower reacted most violently.
They had a lot of experience gathering among knight families, so they had no choice but to be sensitive.
Unlike the gatherings of aristocratic families, there were many times when violent wars of nerves took place in the gatherings of knight families.
Trying to enter a banquet hall that was being used by others in this way was one of them. As a knight from a family, he could never yield.
“Can I yield? Have you finished eating?”
“I can’t do it, Wodanaz!”
“Wake! You guys aren’t that kind of guy! He was the kind of guy who would break bones if he got into a fight!”
“…I can see what you think of me.”
Not only the White Tiger Tower students, but also other friends showed rejection.
Then, Lee Han did not say anything more and meekly agreed.
“okay. if you don’t want to go out Tell them you’ll refuse.”
The servant who had been caught in the middle lowered his head pitifully and ran out.
and came back and said
“That Mr. Wardanaz. Wouldn’t the knights decide by lightly competing their skills…”
‘Is the banquet hall smeared with honey?’
Lee Han couldn’t understand the knights obsessing over the banquet hall like crazy.
Is there any kind of magical pulse flowing here?
why so far?
“Kuh… hahahaha! You are digging your own grave, you idiots!”
“The Beech Knights. You still don’t know how wide the empire is! You guys died today!”
“????”
The servant who conveyed the words was taken aback by the reaction of the White Tiger Tower students.
I knew I would turn down a ridiculously rude offer.
‘how…?’
