Knights, Let’s Smash Them

144 – Lubern Trilogy: Parabellum

It was late, and Phillips returned to the mansion.

As the realization of the plan is right around the corner, I’ve been really busy lately.

A permanent advisor position under the pseudonym Erhara.

Actually, the words were permanent advisors, but Phillips was practically a lord.

The vassals trusted and followed Phillips more than the immature lord who treated them badly.

“If I achieve this, I can become a decent second order…… !”

Blaucrochts.

It started at the lower end of a feared group called the Blue Cross Society.

This is Phillips, who was treated as subhuman but made it to the Third Order after endlessly trying to prove himself.

But recently, Ronald Draco, who was one of the Second Order members, was subjugated in Count Rupel, and a seat in the Second Order became vacant.

This was truly an opportunity given by the evil spirit.

It’s not enough that he couldn’t form a close relationship with Farneri Karahan, the lord’s representative of the Marquis of Karahan, and made him his puppet.

Preparations to advance to a higher level were steadily progressing.

If everything goes according to plan, you will be able to take the vacant second order seat yourself.

‘But…… I’m sure you haven’t smelled it already.’

Country of Rupel.

Currently, Phillips was the most wary force.

Well, didn’t the marquis invade the territory last time, even accompanying the saintess? Confidence to the extent that it was unthinkable for a county on the outskirts that was on the brink of collapse just a few months ago.

In fact, Farneri Karahan, the deputy lord who said not to worry, was brutally smashed by the administrator.

Thankfully, all of the rights I had were taken away.

‘Besides, the priests are needlessly scared after the saintess came back, so I don’t want…… Is the Heretic Questioner that scary?’

Philips clicked his tongue. She trembled at what was so frightening when the day she would be honored as a saint was not far away anyway.

Still, it was hard to hear the voice of the deputy lord whining all day long, so Phillips decided to take a simple revenge on Count Rupel in order to collect the feelings of pain he lacked.

He ordered his faithful henchman, one of Farneri’s knights, to spray the county’s village with the plague factor he had specially developed.

A plague that spreads using reddish-brown olives produced in the Marquis of Karahan as a catalyst.

In addition to simply eating olives, it could also be transmitted through the meat of livestock that grew up eating olives, so it wasn’t too bad to dismiss it as a simple plague or food poisoning.

Of course, there was a natural remedy called poppies, but the Count couldn’t get a lot of expensive medicines that cost dozens of silver coins per bunch.

In the first place, it doesn’t grow wild in the north, and there’s no way the lord could open his safe and buy poppies for the residents just because it was a waste.

In the meantime, the fatality rate is close to 100%, and the speed is very fast.

It is clear that the county will not be able to control it easily if it belatedly noticed the situation.

‘And thanks to that, I’ve collected the pain emotion to the limit. In a few days, the long-awaited wish will come true…… !’

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Phillips looked at her emotional crystals that slid from her waist with her satisfied face. It was a very expensive artifact that absorbed human emotions and converted them into magic.

A truly essential item for warlocks who use unclean emotions as their main energy and source of magical power.

Of course, I heard that the moment you reach the level of the Second Order, you don’t need any modifications.

You will no longer have to go through the hassle of cheating behind the scenes.

At that time, the annoying and incompetent deputy lord should be replaced just like the old lord, and Farneri’s young son should take over the Marquisate completely.

Chuckles.

Just imagining it makes me laugh. Phillips burst into that creepy grin, then hardened his face.

It was a pretty bizarre scene.

“Then…… Shall we enjoy the game that we haven’t enjoyed in a while?”

He’s been busy lately, so he hasn’t enjoyed it, but Phillips’ hobby is torture. It wasn’t because he didn’t enjoy the pain.

At first, tramps and orphans. After that, raise the level a little more, and the common people.

Later on, from soldiers to priests to nuns to apprentice knights.

Philips slowly and brutally engulfed the Marquis of Karahan.

“I don’t know how long I’ll be alive in the dungeon. I left it for three days, so I think the skeleton soldiers would have fed it on their own.”

Muttering to himself, Phillips went down to the basement of the mansion. There were about half a dozen toys in the dungeon of the mansion.

It was time for the new nun who had been brought in two months ago to go, so it would be just right for her to play with her one last time and dispose of her flesh.

‘Next time it wouldn’t be bad to catch an elf.’

Anyway, this is Philips, who succeeded in abducting an elf following the orders of the Second Order, who were subjugated by the Imperial Black Lion Knights and the Emperor’s Office last time.

He succeeded once, so he couldn’t fail twice.

It seemed that the screams of the races loved by the forest were sweeter than others.

By the way.

“?”

Arriving at the dungeon, Phillips’ eyes widened. All the locks, which should have been double and triple locked, were all unlocked.

“My, my toys?!”

I rushed inside, but the situation inside was the same. Only the stench mixed with the smell of the prisoners’ blood and the smell of filth was all there was.

The really important Yeonnom had disappeared right in front of my eyes.

Who the hell?

Philips’s face contorted with anger. He jerked his head around and screamed in the direction of the stairs.

“Robalt Awww!!!!!!”

Robalt, a fallen knight, was picked up by Phillips, who recognized his true worth, and lived with him in the mansion.

The status of a knight was more than enough to entice the riches that Phillips had pointed out, and as a reward, Robalt would also participate in Phillips’ heinous acts.

If an intruder had entered, the alarm would have sounded and there would have been a trace left. Since it was Robalt who handed over the command of the Skeleton Soldiers to defend the mansion, it was only his responsibility if he failed to detect and subdue the intruders early.

It was at that time that Phillips’ face turned red.

“Robalt? Ah, is this what you mean?”

A voice came from the darkness of the dungeon. Phillips was immediately ready for battle.

The reason he was able to rise from the bottom of the Blue Cross to the Third Order wasn’t because of his outstanding talent in black magic or because of his unusual achievements.

Noticing right away.

Phillips was very good at discerning his opponent’s strength and intentions.

And the spirit of the man beckoning from the other side of the darkness showed clear murderous intent and overwhelming skill.

“The marquise’s chivalry behaves like limbs. It was quite a giant. So, did the priests of the marquis also crawl?”

“Who are you!!”

“It’s Robart.”

Robalt, smirking, smirked, his neck freed from the darkness and rolling on the floor.

Judging from the expression on his face just before his death, it was clear that he had been decapitated before he was even aware of it.

Anyway, it’s an article. Although he may not be said to be a great person, he is a being who can usually gain an upper hand against quite a few people.

The head of such a knight was swollen.

The hairs all over the body stand on end at the instinctive threat.

Gulp. He swallows dry saliva and spreads his hands. Then, something in the form of a human figure slithered out of the persistent shadows painted all over the wall.

The opponent is a prosecutor. That’s why he summoned the ‘swamp ghost’, which has some resistance to the concept of ‘cutting’.

“Put.”

However, the sound of laughter suddenly came as if laughing at that choice. Phillips, who would normally have trembled at being insulted, now trembled with fear.

Even with the black magician in front of him, he never shows signs of being shaken. Wasn’t it a tricky opponent? So, is he actually a wizard? Or maybe he’s a magic swordsman who handles both magic and swordsmanship.

‘It would be quite difficult if there were only five magic swordsmen in the empire… …. How did you smell it?’

Perhaps he was a member of the imperial family dispatched to investigate a series of incidents that occurred in the Rupel estate.

Among wanderers, there are bound to be talented people hidden, but he couldn’t have crawled all the way to Karahan and followed him.

Philips’ head spun. If it was really the imperial family, they would have to blow up this mansion right away and run away without looking back.

Even if he kills the assailant in front of his eyes, his identity has already been discovered.

The chase will follow immediately.

‘Damn it.’

Phillips clenched his fists. And he fixed his gaze on the figure beyond the darkness.

The man slowly walked down the hallway and approached the warlock. The moment our eyes meet eyes like pitch-black darkness.

“…… !!!?”

The faces of the people he had fixed in Phillips’ mind as people to watch out for in the Blue Cross flashed by.

And among them.

The man in front of me was definitely there too.

Lubern Alroy.

A black fox who ate Alroy’s legitimate successor and took his place!

Why is this excellent strategist and assassin who, even during the Great Expedition, not only repulsed all the attacks of the Blue Cross, but almost drove them to the brink of destruction?

“Wasn’t you a member of the Imperial Black Lion Knights? No, he was transferred to the Inspection Department…… ? Of course it could be…… !!”

“What are you talking about, you idiot?”

Lubern Alroy’s eyebrows crumpled at Phillips talking nonsense out of nowhere.

“When was the last time you got rid of that f*cking knights?”

“Sul, no way…… If that’s the case, you’re the newly appointed administrator of Rupell.”

“Didn’t you know? I thought I knew everything and was fooling around.”

“Lee, Lee Lee Ik!!!!”

Despair overtook Phillips.

‘Because he’s like an idiot lord’s assistant. If you had heard the name of Lubern Aloy, you should have told yourself right away, why did you just say that you were an administrator…… !!!’

But I couldn’t despair like this. Since he didn’t come from the imperial family, he could evade the pursuit easily if he dealt with it.

Lubern Alroy.

The name had a weight that Phillips couldn’t easily bear, but that doesn’t mean there’s no odds.

Now that this has happened.

“It’s a judge’s decision…… !!”

Philips held out his hand. It was to summon more swamp ghosts.

“Huh?”

I couldn’t move my fingers. No, the hand itself did not move.

“It was good that I didn’t learn chanting magic. If I had used the chant, I would have cut off my tongue, not my hand.”

A chilly voice tickled my ears.

At the same time, a sharp pain from both arms hit Phillips’ nerves.

“aaa)”

At some point.

Both of his wrists were rolling on the floor.

As it were, Phillips, who fell asleep screaming, faced the face of Robalt, who was smirking with only his neck left.

The face that wasn’t even funny seemed to be laughing at himself.