Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

It’s Just a Little Threat

Gold. It stimulates people’s desires.

A very large amount of gold fascinates and attracts people. I don’t know if Duke Vlad Shmira intended it, but her lordship was covered in gold and gold.

“The walls are gold, and the floor is pure gold. The Duke’s family likes it from generation to generation.”

While being ushered into the drawing room, Mr. Layton spoke up.

“Even so, isn’t luxury beyond the limit?”

Gold that is not eaten anyway. Unlike Roka, who was not interested, the princess frowned.

Rather than anger, it was the feeling of seeing something incomprehensible.

“I am not insulting you, but was the Duke of Shmira wealthy enough to make even one wall of gold? I’ve never heard of this estate being particularly wealthy.”

“We work without a paycheck. Where did all that money go?”

“ah.”

The princess immediately made an expression of understanding.

But if you work without getting paid, isn’t this just slavery?

“It is understandable to some extent. The Vlad family is now the only remaining true ancestor on the continent. From the outside, you may only see him as the lord of a small estate, but the Duke himself will think of himself as the head of the clan and the leader. I wish I could give you a paycheck though.”

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Mr. Layton tried to smile, but the laughter was bittersweet.

The castle was too big compared to the manor, and only after passing through several rooms and hallways was we able to get to where we were staying. I couldn’t see Duke Shmira right away.

“Once I’ll post a report, please take a good rest today.”

I have a lot of work to do, but it’s late at night. For vampires who had no choice but to turn day and night, night is a lively time, but for us humans, it is time to sleep.

Staying up all night is nothing to fear for me, and the princess will be able to survive for a day or two. But Loca is a different story.

Still, the child’s tail hair seemed a bit frizzy. His eyes were droopy as if he was sleepy.

Although magical powers can chase sleep and keep the body active, otherwise it can drive away drowsiness by calling on the divine divinity of the Lord.

If it is not an unavoidable situation, it is good in many ways to sleep when you can.

“It’s only natural that you came without an appointment. So when can I meet the Duke of Shmira?”

“The Queen will probably have time around tomorrow evening. Until then, I will order the maids to serve you.”

We all nodded.

After a while, those who identified themselves as the maidens of the dukes came to visit us. We promised to show all three of us our own rooms, but Roka shook her head and the princess refused.

“Okay. done. This priest will share the same room with me.”

“Oh my… Oh, I see. I will prepare like that. Can I guide you to the room with the largest and most spacious bed among the VIP rooms?”

“To do so.”

When the blushing maid left her, only then did the princess explain her true intentions.

believed I think there must be some meaning to that action.

“saint. The saint needs to be more careful with his actions. They saw and recognized the healing of vampires. Do you know what that means for them?”

“I know.”

“Yes, it can be used as a tool to extract the divine power after abducting the saint by coveting the divine power, locking him in a secluded place. The saint doesn’t even have the fighting power… you know?”

sure. I don’t dare say I’m smart, but I do know that to some people the power of the Lord is more precious than gold.

Also, there may be people who want to intimidate or persuade me to achieve their goals. But when you start to fear those things, you can’t do anything.

“I am not afraid that someone will covet me for your divinity. That’s just an external risk, and it’s a small risk. It is truly dangerous for that fear to lead to prejudice and viciousness. No one else knows, but I shouldn’t be.”

The great danger lies within me, not outside, and I should only think about what threatens my soul. Others may be wary of me, but I shouldn’t.

Yes, the priest must never be wary of the neighbors.

The Lord takes care of my back. This is a great privilege I have as a priest.

Even with such help, the Lord will withdraw his outstretched hand to me if I do not fear anything or risk the slightest threat for my own safety.

“The saint is…”

The princess’s face, who was about to say something, showed a complicated look.

He pressed the words he wanted to say and swallowed them before opening his mouth again.

“Nevertheless, be a little careful. Because you are a person of much greater value than you think.”

While talking with the princess, Roca disappeared silently, saying that she had come to wash for a while.

I also took out a candle, lit it, and placed it quietly on the table. It’s a pity that there’s no candlestick, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t. The candle will not melt, it will not shrink, and it will continue to burn.

“Do you always light that candle?”

“It’s kind of a habit. There’s nothing wrong with smoking it, so I’ve always smoked it.”

This is all a habit that I developed while traveling with the Yurinell party.

Because even this little candle was enough to light the four of us. It’s all a story now, but it’s a story that remains as a memory.

“Can you tell us a little bit about the adventures of the saint? I want to know a little bit about the Hero Party.”

“sure. Urinelle and I were originally hometown friends. But one day, the church…”

While I was talking about my adventures for a while, I suddenly realized.

Is Rocca still washing?

*****

If there is a person in front of you who can absolutely control yourself, you can’t help but be afraid of whoever it is.

This was the reason Layton’s steps to find Duke Schmira were as heavy as walking on a thorny road. To be honest, the Duke of Shmira was a boss who didn’t quite fit in with him.

‘What else will the Queen make today…’

You can find out what Duke Shmira’s personality is like by working in this estate for just one day.

She wants her subordinates to absolutely obey her words. No, I don’t want it, I just take it for granted. Taking it for granted that not even a handful of objections were raised, there were many instances where Layton, a working-level worker, felt like her head would explode.

‘ha.’

It’s not like he’s doing it to hide his subordinates who are loyal to him. The Duke of Shmira is really the type of person who thinks only his own opinion is the truth.

He was so engrossed in the role of the queen of the clan that he even ordered him to come up with a plan that he thought was absurd. At this time when the empire is in decline, the vampires will occupy the southeastern part of the empire and establish a kingdom.

Vampires are vampires that do not even have a population of the small town of Larpentia, even if they are all gathered together.

Even that, in front of the sunlight, their lives will fall like a ephemera.

Let’s build a nation with this population? are you kidding me?

Even if it became independent from the empire, it was as if the country had been in trouble from the beginning. It would be much better to be part of the Empire as it is now.

If he had given me some brilliant plan or strategy, or at least a sufficient budget, I would have squeezed my head and tried to do something, but none of that. only command

This is a disadvantage of vampires who dominate lower classes with ‘power of domination’ instead of salaries. They do not understand that budgets are indispensable for everything. Can a vampire rule the same vampire without pay, but can humans do the same? Even if you can, what’s next?

Is the temple watching it silently?

How about the empire? Even if the empire was tilted to and fro, the fundamentals were not yet broken.

Layton tried to stop Duke Schmira by desperate persuasion, but from that day on, she noticed that her gaze on him wasn’t what it used to be. It was then that he realized that in the realm of the blind, those who opened their eyes were crippled.

‘This is something we do not know.’

In the eyes of vampires, humans are insignificant and confusing.

It is incomparable to those who have no choice but to carry out orders from above, whether they like it or not. However, Layton, who had been observing humans while acting as the outward face of Duchy of Vlad, knew.

In that dissonance, various opinions are born and presented, and there are times when they move toward a better direction.

It is scary in a sense that the upper and lower parts move with one heart, but

There is no complexity in the movement. Your hands and feet just follow what your head tells you to do.

On the other hand, in humans, countless forces are swarming without heads. Even the emperor is only a representative of all the powers of the empire, and cannot make them absolutely obedient.

However, that autonomy continued to create novelty, and furthermore made humans the representative race of the continent.

If anyone does the truth, someone else can take the place. But what about vampires?

When the queen is twisted, the whole race is like that. The fate of a race depends on only one man.

Neither a counter-revolution nor a replacement is possible.

They are such an evolved race.

Even mere bees change the queen if the queen fails to lay eggs, but vampires can’t even do that. They were, in a sense, inferior to the bees.

This is a great advantage when the intellect nurtures it, now when it comes to inventing tools.

When civilization flourishes in earnest and a confrontation structure between civilization and civilization, race and race is created, this is no longer the case. The power of domination was a trait no longer suited to the times.

“majesty. This is Layton. Would it be okay if I put up a report from the courthouse?”

Even so, it doesn’t mean that you can’t make a lot of money just by realizing it.

Layton went into the palace and bowed down. You have to keep in your head the idea that it’s hard to watch this bastard’s queen play any more, don’t give it a try.

As he knelt and glanced at him, the Duke of Shmira looked at him calmly as he touched the golden throne.

“So, it seems certain that that woman is a princess. You don’t even know if that priest is a priest of the Old Gods?”

“I couldn’t be sure with my shallow insight. But it seems certain that the priest can heal our vampires. I personally received his divine power.”

When Kyle briefly infused with divine power to interpret the curse of the sun, he felt a sense of elevation for the first time in his life. All fatigue was gone, my head was open, and my body was revitalized.

At least, it is certain that his divinity gives benefits to vampires.

“Yeah, well done.”

After hearing the report, Duke Shmira nodded his head.

I still feel good today. With a sigh of relief inwardly, Layton tried to back away, and for a moment, her head felt dizzy and her footsteps staggered.

A sharp pain that seemed to bite the intestines hit his stomach. The sound of laughter echoed through the battlefield.

“You’ve worked hard all this time.”

A strangely elongated, dark red spear, as if the arms of a very slender person were extended a little more.

No one grabbed the spear and stabbed it, but the spear itself pierced Layton’s back and jumped forward. The tip of the spear split like a bird’s beak and swallowed the bitten intestines.

“why…?”

Layton shuddered at the bizarre feeling of blood being sucked out of his body. I could tell what this spear was just by looking at the monstrous phenomenon, as if all the power was being sucked away.

A spear of Jinjo handed down to the Vlad clan. A spear that breathes blood and swallows flesh.

The bullet-blood spear, a relic of ancient vampires, stabbed him and drove him to death. But why the hell?

No matter what anyone says, he is not the type of person to be executed like this.

I mean, I’ve never committed such a crime.

“Layton. What I hate most is pretending to follow my words on the outside and having other ideas behind the scenes.”

But whether it is or not is not for him to decide.

Duke Shmira did not think so.

“If you have a son. A child with a deformity that is not suitable for a blood relative.”

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My torn heart sank,

Fear engulfed his whole body. I’m not afraid to die myself.

I was afraid of losing something more precious than my life. He stuttered, and continued.

“Even if you look at the work you’ve done… my… my family…”

“I told you to kill that handicapped kid. Your wife married someone else.”

Really, for that moment, even physical pain was okay.

The pain that seemed to be ripped to shreds came rushing in. The wounds of his heart overwhelm the wounds of his body, and he had no choice but to speak and open his mouth.

“Even if you receive another man’s seed, if you give birth to another deformed child, then that year should be discarded.”

I was thinking wrong. Even if he made a big contribution towards his blood relatives, to Duke Shmira, all of that was nothing more than ‘what he had to do’ as long as he was born as a vampire.

In front of her, she wasn’t like a subordinate or a vassal, she was just a tool.

A tool that Duke Shmira can discard at any time. But is it the only one?

All vampires would look that way to her. Since he was born with the right to escape from life or death, other vampires would not be seen as his own kind in the first place.

thud!

The light of resentment and regret appeared on her already bloodless face, and then faded.

The bullet spear that drank the blood of one rod and swallowed the life seemed satisfied, and was pulled out by itself and caught in the duke’s hand. It was this incident that took care of Chang, who had not been drinking blood properly.

Thanks to this, Chang ate enough blood to satisfy him, and his power reached its peak. That’s a good thing.

Go away!

The tip of the spear closed again and became pointed, and the color of blood was gushing out. Duke Shmira, who used the tool he was going to throw away anyway to sharpen his spear, gave a satisfied expression.

After passing Layton, who was almost dead, she left Daejeon and headed for the hallway. The purpose is not to kill the princess, but to subdue it, so I took out this spear.

‘Ardain von Illumina. I’ll play with it for a while and use it as a surrender ground.’

The last known princess’s skills are top-notch experts. The master’s realm could not be penetrated.

If so, I have the confidence to overpower it. On this night without a single handful of sunlight, there is no variable that will reverse the skill gap. Vlad Schmira was confident in his abilities.

They told me to remove the beef horns as well. Right now, Ardain would be in a state of defenselessness.

If he captures the imperial princess, even the first princess, and presents it to the mage, she will be able to become an important figure in the empire at once. Then, why not build a kingdom?

As the expectations grew, the duke’s steps grew faster and faster. The future you dreamed of is right in front of you.

The vampire’s revival will come from her own hands and no one else’s. The task that all her ancestors wished for will now become a reality in her hands.