Chapter 278. More Brazen Demands (2)
Winter’s Heart.
A sacred thing that compressed all the chill of the harshest season.
A terrifying weapon that puts all the cold of the year’s winter into a ball that is only 2 cm long.
Thanks to this, it is a strategic weapon that has proudly occupied one of the three major gods of the Magentano royal family.
Its power was truly beyond imagination.
What if all the cold energy contained in the beads is released?
In an instant, a coldness that surpassed the Ice Age swept through the region.
In just one day, an entire estate could be frozen solid.
In 10 days, the average temperature in the Gyeonggi-do area could be lowered by as much as 20 degrees.
It is basic that the farming of the year is ruined.
It was inevitable that both people and livestock would perish in the sudden cold weather.
‘It was like that in the novel Iron Blooded Knight. It’s so powerful that even the Magentano royal family has only used it twice in history.’
Lloyd recalled what was in the novel.
The heart of winter in the middle and latter half of the novel was the third episode in history to be used.
‘The tyrannical King Alicia wrote it. Used the Heart of Winter as an example for the Reign of Terror to quell the rebellion in the West. The result was the annihilation of five territories and a catastrophic famine throughout the western provinces.’
There really was no such thing as a disaster.
Many people froze to death.
The aftermath of the storm brought great famine.
By the following year, people starved to death one after another.
As much as that, the heart of winter could be said to be a divine object and a strategic weapon with tremendous power.
‘So it must be. The king’s sister is looking at me with those eyes.’
Lloyd let out a wry smile.
The King’s eyes looking this way.
I wasn’t shocked or angry.
Rather, it was the opposite.
She was looking at this side with very pitiful eyes.
“this. When you were working so hard and living, you should have dried up a little, but Jim’s mistake is really big.”
“….”
“People are like that. Because people are not livestock. Because when you rest, you have to rest, and when you enjoy, you have to enjoy and live. but you couldn’t You always worked hard to rebuild the East while overcoming disasters in the East. so it was so it was Tsk tsk.”
“….”
“But it’s okay. Because you are the contributor to Jim. I can understand if you sometimes say stupid things or gossip out of your mind or spit out some nonsense about what you ate wrong. How can I not understand? You who lived so hard and ended up like this.”
“…Your Highness over there?”
“Yes, tell me. The eldest son of Prontera.”
“Well, first of all, I’m not crazy or out of my mind, and I haven’t eaten anything wrong.”
“It will be. I have never heard of a madman calling himself crazy.”
“I’m not like that. I’m really good at it.”
“Hmm really?”
“How can you, Your Highness, know that I am mentally sound?”
“Will you marry Jim?”
“I was wrong.”
“Tsk, you’re fine.”
“I apologize.”
Lloyd’s bitter smile deepened.
Leaving behind the terrifying (?) Q&A that made me wake up on my own, I said while wiping away the cold sweat.
“I am not out of my mind. It’s not just spitting shit. I am asking Your Highness after making accurate predictions and calculations and drawing conclusions based on them.”
“…So you want to borrow the Heart of Winter for a while?”
“That’s right, Your Highness.”
“You must know what the heart of winter is, right?”
“Of course I do, Your Highness. That is why I have requested an audience with Your Highness like this.”
Lloyd bowed his head deeply.
It was true.
The Heart of Winter is a royal treasure.
No matter how much he was promised full support by the king, it was not something he could carelessly overlook.
Renting (?) the divine Heart of Winter.
It was a change in the level of support received by about a hundred steps.
‘of course. The Three Great Gods are not things that even the king himself can use carelessly. It’s an item that can only be used with the King’s request and the unanimous consent of the aristocrats, only when there is a serious matter at stake for the survival of the country.’
Of course there were exceptions.
This was the case of Alicia, who became a tyrant in the novel Iron Blooded Knight.
‘But that’s a very exceptional case that was possible because the king’s sister was in the dark and was dying. Anyone who objected, be it a nobleman or a minister, was beheaded on the spot, regardless of the reason. Because the country itself was in a situation where it was going to the end. But now? different.’
The king’s reason is extremely intact.
The system of the country is also very solid.
King’s power and nobility’s laws too.
The two chariots were leading state affairs in peaceful harmony.
So, the current king, Alicia, would not even think of writing the three great gods on her own.
In other words, if you want to receive Heart of Winter support?
This meant that the king had to ask the aristocrats to use the divine property.
It means that it is possible to obtain unanimous consent of the House of Nobles.
“Whoa. If so, you should know that this request is a political burden for Jim.”
“Of course, Your Highness.”
“Are you going to make such a request anyway?”
“It is. majesty. It is because there is a reason that must be done this way.”
“Because it is absolutely necessary. Say it.”
“Yes, Your Highness. If I dare to tell you, it is because the heart of winter is absolutely necessary to implement the freezing technique I told you about earlier.”
“It’s a freezing technique. Earlier, your explanation was too long, so I couldn’t understand it properly.”
“To explain it in an easy way, it is a method of freezing the moisture contained in the soil around the pipe by blowing cold air through a pipe inserted into the ground.”
“You mean to freeze the water in the soil?”
“Yes, Your Highness. This will make the ground much harder than usual.”
“I guess so. Just as the soil in the shade in the early morning of midwinter becomes as hard as a stone. But what are you trying to do by freezing the ground hard like that?”
“I want to dig a big hole under the castle.”
“Oysters?”
King Alicia furrowed her eyebrows slightly.
thank god.
She is showing interest.
Lloyd, who caught a positive atmosphere, answered quickly.
“It is. It is to take Tauranga, an ancient object I mentioned before, from under the royal castle.”
“yes. You said you were looking for something called Tauranga. But that thing is under the royal castle?”
“Yes, Your Highness. To be precise, it is being used for foundation pillars that are rooted like roots in the ground below the royal castle.”
“But is it okay to take it out of the castle?”
“I am implementing a freezing method to make it okay.”
“A little more detail.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
good night.
it comes down slowly
Lloyd wet his tongue skillfully.
“The frozen ground becomes much harder than usual. The hardened nature itself will become a strong support and support the vertical shaft to be drilled under the castle so that it does not collapse. Also, if you take Tauranga out of the Freestanding Pillars of the King’s Foundation, it will give you some time to hold out until you put in the replacement rocks.”
He spoke softly without the slightest interruption.
All of that was true.
A freezing method developed in England in the mid-19th century.
The reason this construction method was devised was to prevent the risk of collapse in the process of vertical shaft excavation from the beginning.
In addition, the freezing method has been used as a ground improvement method for excavating the ground while protecting the joint construction of tunnels or surrounding important structures even in modern times.
‘So it’s perfect for this Tauranga extraction project.’
Horizontal and vertical shafts to be drilled under the castle.
Subsidence of the royal foundations expected thereby.
could have stopped that.
In addition, it seemed that the burden of handling the load that would be applied to the independent pillar in the process of replacing Tauranga could be reduced a little.
That was Lloyd’s intention.
Use your own theoretical calculations and simulation options.
It was also the conclusion obtained after numerous experiments.
‘So please! King! majesty! sister! Just once!’
May your request be readily accepted.
I hope you can do it in an easy way.
Lloyd hoped and hoped.
Like a puppy waiting for a snack, he looked up at the King with bright eyes.
Thanks to that, King Alicia….
“under.”
I ended up laughing without even realizing it.
I shook my head.
“You are truly a fool.”
“Your surname is indescribable, Your Highness.”
“Tsk. Jim hasn’t granted your request yet.”
“I apologize, Your Highness.”
“okay. You should know the line of apology. It makes it impossible to reject such an absurd yet burdensome request without a change of face and brazenly.”
“Indeed, Seong-eun is devastated, Your Highness.”
“Because you haven’t given permission yet.”
“However, you are already giving permission with your eyes, Your Highness.”
“Do you dare to read Jim’s intentions?”
“I apologize, Your Highness.”
“Tsk. You can’t even hit one.”
“…yes?”
“no. I muttered Jim’s little wish, so forget what you just heard. I only want to ask you one burden.”
“Please excuse me.”
Lloyd lowered his head.
King Alicia’s question fell.
“If you use the freezing method with the Heart of Winter and take out the Tauranga from under the castle, can you promise me that it won’t harm me and the royal family?”
“Of course, Your Highness.”
“good night. I won’t allow it.”
“…yes?”
Lloyd flinched and raised his head.
Thanks to that, I was able to face the King with a cool smile.
“You made a promise to Jim, and Jim chose to believe the promise. Need another word?”
“Oh, it is not. but….”
“but?”
“Since Your Highness so readily agreed, I feel like I’m becoming a bad guy, so stop….”
“You are a bad man. Not bad.”
“yes?”
“no. Anyway, if you want to harm Jim and the royal family, you can do it without having to choose such a cumbersome method. I am only trusting in your goodwill, which is not the case. Hani, let me go away. The House of Nobility will let Jim convince you.”
“Your last name is ruined.”
Finally got the king’s permission!
Lloyd hid his joy and quickly bowed.
Then, at the speed of light, he retreated before the king.
It was because he was worried that the king would change his mind and say something different.
After Lloyd left.
King Alicia only swallowed back a bitter smile.
“under.”
Just a little while ago, I felt crowded.
After Lloyd left, the office suddenly felt empty.
“There is no such thing as a truly cunning and cunning person.”
Lloyd Frontera.
If possible, I want to keep it by my side and pamper it for the rest of my life.
Thus, I want to lay the rock upon which the thousand-year kingdom can be built.
However, he was the one who seldom got caught every time.
It was a person who had already lost half of it.
It’s too big to hold on to.
On the contrary, it got bigger than this one.
Now, if you’re not careful, you’re going to be dragged around by the author.
It was just like that now.
Even so, there was a lot of overdue work.
However, because of Lloyd’s request, the work has increased like a mountain.
How to place a request to use the Heart of Winter in the House of Nobility?
Roast the nobles to get unanimous consent?
It seemed like there was a lot to prepare for.
“When you see that he only looks for sex when he feels sorry for himself even though he dares to work, he is a bad man.”
King Alicia’s low grumbling roamed the office.
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Ten days have passed.
Lloyd had to spend that time busy.
Preparations were made to implement the freezing method.
He recruited workers with the support of the royal family.
Prepare materials for excavation work.
The location to dig the vertical shaft was precisely measured.
While excavating a temporary vertical hole with blasting, he looked all the way down, which was not visible through underground scanning.
And the location where the freezing pipe will be installed was selected and designed.
Meanwhile, the king also had to spend ten busy days.
The Heart of Winter, a sacred item of the royal family.
A request was made to the House of Nobility for approval of its use.
At first, the nobility expressed great disapproval.
It was the heart of winter that could only be used in critical cases where the country’s life or death was at stake.
But to think that such a god would only be used for the restoration of the royal castle.
No matter how important the capital’s emergency repairs were.
Even if it is a matter directly related to the authority of the royal family.
I wondered if I had to write the heart of winter.
At first, everyone doubted the intention of the king’s request.
However, as the date passed, the atmosphere changed.
One by one, the king was persuaded.
Or was captured.
King Alicia did not hesitate to use appropriate bribes.
The nobles of the House of Nobles nodded one by one to the sweet offer and appeasement reward.
Finally, the motion was signed unanimously.
The heart of winter, one of the three sacred objects of the Magentano royal family, was handed over to Lloyd’s field under the strict management and escort of the royal magicians and royal guards.
A strategic weapon with the power of a season.
Disaster-class weapon that will drive an area into an ice age if it is determined and opened.
However, it was no good to fall into Lloyd’s hands.
Strategic arsenal and what.
Disaster-grade weapons and what.
It began to be used (?) as a refrigerant at construction sites.
Thus, the construction of the freezing vertical shaft to obtain Tauranga began.
Of course, Lloyd, who carries out the construction.
Xaviel and the workers helping Lloyd.
no one knew
…Doo-kung…Doo-kung….
Heart of Winter in a Special Control Box.
At some point, that body was resonating with Lloyd’s heartbeat.
