A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

95 – Seville, a Plague-Polluted City (3)

As always, there is a ‘nucleus’ in the heart.

Just as a human’s vital point is the heart.

Just as all the wizard’s mana gathers in the heart.

Even for demons, the ‘magic stone’, which can be said to be the core of mana, is located in the heart.

Not all monsters are like that.

Demons who were vulnerable to protecting their hearts began to store their magic stones elsewhere.

However, most life-type monsters contain a magic stone in their hearts.

To use the pipeline-‘blood vessels’ to spread mana throughout the body as quickly as possible.

In other words.

In order to safely mine the magic stone, aim for the heart and cut it out well.

Phu-uuk.

Thrust the sword forward.

The large monster-troll that was about to raise its sword high towards me frowned with a twisted face.

“Big, big…!”

Tearing the chest muscle and stabbing the area around the heart does not cause instant death.

A troll’s strongest power is its regenerative power, and its source is in the heart.

But.

Phu-uuk.

By forcefully twisting the sword imbued with mana, the blood vessel leading from the heart is forcibly severed.

Before a fountain of blood swirls forward, he immediately steps on the troll’s thigh and settles down on his shoulder.

-Is there a need to use the sword only with the hand?

A master once said that to me.

-In the end, if all you need to do is defeat the enemy, you can use something other than your hands.

As he said and as he did.

“Wow!!”

I throw myself down before the troll even reaches out to grab me.

At the same time, he turns his body around, fills his toes with mana, and kicks them straight out.

Fuuuk!

The sword goes deeper into the troll’s chest.

By hitting the tip of the sword accurately, the sword trapped in the regenerating muscle is pushed further in, and at the same time, mana is thrust from the handle of the sword to the tip of the sword.

Although it is not an auror, it momentarily causes mana to flow sharply through the entire sword body, similar to an auror.

“Cook.”

The troll looks at me with murderous eyes-

“Big-“

The guy’s hands grab the air, and his body falls backwards.

Ku-euung!

The moment it lands on the floor, the troll’s heavy body falls flat.

The sword stuck in his chest he kept trying to erupt, but now it is stuck like a sword stuck in a huge rock.

If I cast the petrification spell like this, in the distant future, wouldn’t it be widely known as something like a magical beast sealed in a holy sword?

“Young master!”

“It’s okay.”

Whites, who were waiting behind to check from a distance, quickly approached.

“The injured area is…!”

“Nothing. I said from the beginning that Sir Mente would be safe too.”

“If you get caught by a troll, you’ll end up getting beaten up.”

“B-But if we get hurt like that, the Count will scold us… !”

“He doesn’t know how a servant feels.”

“Lord Mente…!”

“And I’m not in a position to get scolded either.”

The Whites tried to argue with Sir Mente with faces that looked like they were about to cry, but Sir Mente just shrugged his shoulders and smiled mischievously.

‘Is this already the 7th expedition?’

At first, they seemed nervous and kept each other in check, but after going through hardships together on several expeditions, they seemed to have become close friends.

Although he is small in stature, he is a high-ranking knight of the kingdom who can slaughter people.

A shadow of a double agent from an empire who is young but must be looked up to.

“That’s too much, really. I’m afraid that when I make my regular reports to the empire over there, they’ll report that ‘Lord Mente is a piece of trash.'”

“It’s actually what I was hoping for, isn’t it? Since they say Inseong trash is next to Gray, won’t everyone ignore him even more?”

It’s not an easy relationship to get close to, but under Gray Gibraltar’s command, everyone seems to be able to exchange malicious jokes.

“Stop chatting.”

I pulled the sword from the troll.

“Come and retrieve the troll’s heart. And some blood.”

Magic beasts become money.

The entire body does not make money, but only the parts that make money need to be taken care of efficiently.

The wings of a wild griffon.

Orc leather.

It’s the root of a mandrake.

Now, in the case of the troll I hunted alone, the heart is like that.

“How is the state of the magic stone?”

“Well, it’s intermediate level. It’s almost advanced, but…”

“This isn’t a high grade. Well, if it were a high grade, I would have been a troll captain.”

Magic stone, a basic common by-product obtained from those belonging to the ‘demon’.

“Collect the blood in black, not red. According to the Encyclopedia of Demonic Beasts, it is said that the healing ability within is intact only when the blood flowing through the body while alive is collected.”

“Master. Where did you hear that again? Is there some kind of magic strategy in the Imperial Newspaper?”

“Aren’t you getting imperial books from the Iperia Outlet? There was a booklet there with instructions on how to defeat demonic beasts.”

And blood with strong regenerative power, which is a unique characteristic of the troll race.

“It would be a nice surprise gift to the Baron of Seville, who only has it as a family vision.”

“…”

“What’s wrong, Robert?”

“Young master. Are you really going to kill him or… No, die?”

Asked Robert, who had just taken down his share of trolls, scratching his head.

From noble mtl dot come

“Although he is an old man, he has no kindness at all. He only wears dentures and clinks his teeth and nags the residents of the territory. He says that he will die when he gets old, but he is an ugly person who eats. . Everything that is said to be good for the body and tries to live just one more year so as not to die. Although he is an old man…”

“I think it’s you, Sir Robert, who I’d like to kill half-heartedly?”

“If you ask me, ‘Have I committed a sin worthy of death?'”

After Robert caught his breath for a moment.

“… If you say that his words and actions are a deadly sin, then I will follow your wishes.”

It looked a little gray instead of white.

“No, no. Sir Robert, please stay where you are. Only by talking about such things will I become aware of the ‘good’.”

“Line…?”

“If there are only people around you who are dark-hearted like Sir Robert and there are no good people like Sir Robert, you might get criticized later when you actually commit a crime.”

When I pointed to the white people, their expressions turned sour for a moment, but what can I do?

They tacitly participated in trying to kill me along with numbers 9, 18, and 27 in the past.

They don’t even dare to think about assassinating me now, and I don’t have the skills to do so, and they are acting as double agents while relying on me to survive and succeed.

‘Those born in darkness cannot turn white on the inside just because they are white on the outside.’

If I decide to kill him and give him the order to assassinate him, these are the shadows who will kill Baron Seville even by sneaking in as maids.

No matter how much white you mix with black, the color will ultimately end up being gray, close to white.

“I am always grateful to Sir Robert. Otherwise, I might have carried out whatever assassination method came into my head.”

“I’m not going to press charges, but what on earth are you thinking about, folding and unfolding your fingers like that?”

“Hmm… “

I turned my attention to the wheeled cart being pulled by number 81.

“They mix troll blood with drugs that make the wound worse.”

By mixing imperial silver into a potion made from troll blood, you can prevent hemostasis from occurring and actually cause bleeding to become more severe, causing death from excessive bleeding.

“Spreading rumors that growing and eating mandrakes is good.”

The kingdom people are unaware of the Mandrake’s malicious intent, and do not know that if proper measures are not taken, the Mandrake will regenerate its roots in flower pots and then shout into humans’ ears in the middle of the night, rupturing their eardrums.

“The zombie biloba fruit that often appears here has a bad smell, but it is said to be good for stamina if you keep eating it.”

“Master…”

“Is this real? It’s because it’s toxic.”

“…”

Biloba, an improved type of magical tree planted in the empire as a street tree to purify the air, or ‘gingko tree’ in imperial language, is said to be good for stamina, and eating 30 ginkgo biloba a day can lead to death due to a trace amount of poison accumulating.

“This wasn’t an assassination. They just didn’t tell us.”

“Master…”

“And in the kingdom, the crime of failure to inform is only a crime committed against the Nostrum royal family.”

I don’t really care about the secret struggles that occur between nobles.

“If I assassinate the Baron of Seville with cruel words and devour this territory, how will the royal family react?”

“Of course, wouldn’t you just warn me or hold me accountable for murdering a nobleman?”

“You will ask. But why?”

“Oh, of course…”

Robert glanced at Sir Mente.

“Lord Mente. Do you know anything?”

“It’s not because I killed a noble, it’s because Master Gray is a ‘Gibraltar’.”

“Lord Mente, 100 points.”

As expected, he is a knight who has been active in the central government for a long time.

“To add to what you said, Master Seville, I don’t mind becoming Mente Seville as long as you pay taxes regularly, and the same goes for Sir Robert, who was a commoner knight.”

“140 points, Sir Mente.”

“Aha. The royal family is trying to check the growing power of the Earl of Gibraltar?”

Robert clapped his hands and opened his mouth.

“It doesn’t matter who becomes a noble other than Gibraltar. As long as they are loyal to the Nostrum royal family.”

“That’s right. And anyway, the stronger person became the noble, right? Then…”

“The probability of a hero being born into that family increases!”

“Okay.”

The kingdom is crazy about heroes.

It is safe to say that this is a country where everything revolves around heroes.

“If criminals were heroes of national salvation, it was a country where they could forgive their sins by marrying a princess.”

No one knows whether a hero will be born in this era or not.

“Of course, even if you have a hero’s lineage, you can go to waste if you try to get a title.”

The hero is great, not the hero’s bloodline.

To prove your greatness, you must continue to produce heroes from generation to generation like Gibraltar, or at least maintain enough dignity to continue the family.

“The Seville family also has a long history. The family’s progenitor, ‘Female Lord Seville’, was the right-hand man of the mercenary king ‘Blondia’, who sided with Nostrum and subdued the demon beasts during the large-scale demon beast. Crisis in the demon beast contamination zone “

“It is said in Yasa that he is a descendant of the great hero Blondia.”

“It was certain because the progenitor was a woman, but no one knows if she is really the descendant of the Mercenary King.”

“…”

“There are not a few people in the kingdom who claim to be descended from heroes. Wouldn’t it be better for Sir Robert to see the Baron of Seville suffer this kind of slander?”

Yasa.

If we say that the great hero, mercenary king, and sword master Blondia sowed seeds in the Seville territory.

“No one knows whether he is of the Seville family, or whether Sir Robert here is a true descendant.”

“Don’t say that, master.”

“Why? Does it seem like you’re insulting the Baron too much?”

“There is nothing like that, but when you say something like that, doesn’t it seem like it’s true…”

“I admit that.”

Sir Mente helped Robert with his concerns.

“Sometimes, I see that you have a tendency to tell secrets that everyone doesn’t know as if they were expected. Just like the Canadian Lord Gibraltar.”

“That’s not it, Lord Mente.”

This is a real misunderstanding.

“I hope so.”

Sir Robert’s future is simply that he was truly indignant at Gibraltar’s treason and died while remaining loyal to the kingdom.

If anything, I got to know Sir Robert better in this life.

How would I know whether his ancestors were great heroes, or whether he was just a commoner who emerged as a hero in times of national crisis?

“Is that so? Haha. That’s right. I’m the descendant of such a hero. It’s quite a joke.”

“Yes. If that were true, I would have researched your bloodline more than four years ago and made you a legitimate Baron of Seville.”

“…”

“Why? Why don’t you check it out now?”

“No… Sigh.”

Robert shook his head as if he was tired.

“I’m just going to escort you in peace. Baron Seville…Um.”

“I’m saying this because of the old man’s story, but I’m also saying this because of the story of the crime of failure to notify.”

Someone will die sooner or later.

“Suppose I have the ability to read the future like Lord Cardian. Of course, it is a later guess that Lord Cardian would also have such an ability, but let’s just say he has future vision.”

“Roughly speaking, what if, that is, right?”

“Okay. Under that assumption, let’s say I miraculously saw a future where Baron Seville dies.”

Even if you know that future, you have no obligation to inform the person concerned.

“If I had to do that, wouldn’t heroes have already made that choice throughout history?”

And this proposition has already been proven by the 500-year history of Nostrum.

“All of those who were presumed to have vision of the future seemed to save only those who benefited them, ‘heroes’, or take care of them in advance.”

“…”

“For the great cause of preventing the fall of the kingdom, to put it really nicely, it was an indispensable sacrifice. So,”

If I were in the same situation.

“It is more beneficial to find a way to take care of the people of Seville, who will be in chaos after the death of that person, while you are struggling to save an old man who has not much time left to live while clicking his dentures.”＜ Br＞

“In your opinion, then, what is the most ideal future for the Seville territory?”

“Um…Well.”

Since it’s not Gibraltar, I’ve never really thought about it seriously.

“From a conservative perspective, even if a baron dies, the next baron will run the estate as he does now. That’s not a big problem.”

“What if a big problem arises?”

“Of course it will be a problem. For example… “

I wiped the troll’s blood from my robes.

“The Baron is afraid of death, so he eats things he shouldn’t in order to somehow live longer and slow down aging.”

Even though quite a bit of time has passed since we talked, the troll’s blood is still sticky and hot.

“Because of that one person’s choice, a human disaster occurs that causes the entire territory to suffer.”

I think.

Destiny can be changed.

However, in order to change the foundation of someone who has already become an adult, unless it is an event that takes them back in time, humans will not change.

“Just remember this, Sir Robert, the man you serve is called Gray Gibraltar.”

I wiped the troll’s blood and threw it on the floor.

“Whether it is white or black, I am a selfish human being who chooses what is helpful to humans.”

Pushui.

“And even if he has such a vision of the future, he is not one to reveal it carelessly enough for others to find out.”

When the blood that falls on the floor touches the cold ground, steam rises.

“Predicting the Baron’s death is not predicting my will to assassinate, nor is it a spoiler reading the future and revealing fate.”

Just.

“It is an inductive inference made based on the life the person has built.”

No matter what others say, who can stop someone from doing something deadly and dying?

“It is possible to tell just by the way they looked during the 7 expeditions, but the Whites have completed the investigation, so I’m done.”

Early morning the next day.

After the hunt, we returned to the baron’s castle, rested, and left the wagon loaded with game at the warehouse managed by the baron.

And.

An incident occurred where troll blood was stolen from the corpse of a demonic beast we brought in at night.