Iron Blood Earl Riccianne

“What are you talking about? I haven't even started yet. ”

“Huff, what? ”

“Did you think I'd end up like this? ”

“What a bunch of guys... ”

Lycaen said with an indifferent look on his face.

“Look forward to it. There's still plenty left. ”

“Phew ~”

A deep sigh came down in the dark room. Sitting alone in the dark, the one who lowered his head was the king of the Kingdom of Kelven.

Thinking about what had happened so far, I was too pathetic. How did things get this far?

“I shouldn't have trusted them.... ”

It was the most regretful thing in my life.

But even back then, he thought he would repeat the same process. The power they showed me was great.

The ability to make an island that had once been densely forested a wasteland that could not even be found by grassroots.

On the condition that they lend their power, what they asked was "people." I asked for 500 people every month on a regular basis. Both men and women, old and old, both sick and healthy, it was a condition that only 500 people were needed.

It looked simple, but it wasn't easy. 500 a month, 6,000 a year. It was a huge number.

But what they gave me was just as tasty. He offered them abilities, but he also offered to lend them strength for invasion from other kingdoms. Of course, there was a clue that I had to keep secret.

King Kelven, who was coveted by their abilities, finally accepted my terms and provided them with 500 men each month. Instead, King Kelven dealt with the static within the kingdom and pressed the power of the nobles to establish an absolute kingdom. At the same time, you were also able to gain a solid defense force from the invasion of the outside world.

In addition, they found gold mines, borrowed their power from the roads where they were struggling, from businesses in the wilderness, etc.

Even when the invasion came from the Republic of Morellia, they did their best to help.

But at the crucial moment, they turned away. It was at the time of the invasion of the Gronis Empire.

When the king hears that the armies of the Gronis Empire are headed for the Kingdom of Kelven, he urgently summons them. But they no longer responded to the king's call. I freed the man and searched all over the kingdom, but I saw no trace of him. It evaporated, it evaporated in one word.

I did not neglect to prepare for the war, but I did not feel a great crisis because I believed in their power. It did not raise an army thoroughly, and that became the decisive reason for the imperial invasion.

And now he's holed up in a small village on the south end of the kingdom.

“Haaa ~”

The crucial reason King Kelven believed them was that they did not provide free power. He believed it was a ‘trade’ because he asked for a ‘person’ who could not be bought with money, and he thought he could trust them as long as he made a 'trade’.

But I couldn't tell the story to anyone else. In retrospect, they were doubtful, no matter how they looked. I had to make a complaint to become a pathetic king.

In fact, I was able to rest in places like this without dying, because I really thought, what if? In case you were wondering, the guards who invested a lot of money moved properly, so they were able to escape here.

Whee!

Suddenly, a scattered breeze blows through the room. Suddenly, the king was startled by the cold feeling that was passing by.

“Hmm!"

And I was flabbergasted. It was because the window was closed and there was no wind. Then someone's voice dug into the king's ears.

“There you are. It's been a while.”

“Nu, who are you? ”

As the startled king turns to hear the sound, a human shadow slowly approaches this way from the corner of the room with a dark shadow.

Suddenly, the king hurriedly stepped back and asked, feeling the voice ripen in his ears.

“Could it be Harkan? ”

The man who had just walked out of the middle of the room turned the hood behind him and said,

“You still remember the voice. ”

The king's eyes tremble. It was them. A group of Byrons who fooled themselves with great abilities.

“Yes, why are you here……. ”

“Oh no! You're not asking me that out of curiosity, are you? ”

“What? What is that……. ”

“If you talk nonsense, you lose faith in us. ”

The ominous sensation of King Kelven's ambush makes him stagger back and forth, as the torch rises from Harkan's hands, the room brightens like daylight.

“Hey, hey! No one!”

The fearful king cries out in evil, but no one answers. And Harkan smiled contemptuously at such a king.

“Just die quietly. ”

The flame rises out of Harkan's hand long enough for the horse to be finished, and it reaches out to the king.

“Ahhhh!”

Kuang!

The king, who was running his hands around his butt, falls to the ground, and a flame pours down on his head.

Pa-ang!

Strange noises that came out of nowhere, followed by darkness. And Harkhan's baffling voice.

“Who, who……. Knng!”

Harkhan lets out a brief scream before he even looks to the left and right.

Kuoooo!

The body of a fallen Harkan, like a rotten old tree, begins to tremble at the limbs. And another shadow standing in the place of the fallen Harkhan.

He leans back and speaks out loud.

“I won't kill you. Stay calm.”

Then you slowly raise your gaze to King Kelven.

“You, you……. ”

The shadow slowly approached the king who was too surprised to recover his mind.

“Oh, don't come, you bastard! ”

He stops his foot from stepping forward, then stands in a hard position.

“You don't seem to understand the situation. ”

“What, what? ”

“Did I not spare your life? ”

“Help me? ”

After hearing the story, my head began to clear up gradually. Harkhan tries to kill himself, and that Harkhan is defeated by that mysterious man.

“Oh, thank you. I will repay you greatly later. ”

The man said that without even knowing it, he lost his place.

“A reward? The king doesn't have the power to do that now, does he? ”

At that moment, the king shouted, his face fluttering without even knowing it.

“You fool! How dare you insult me! ”

“I don't think that's the right time to talk about it. ”

“What?! ”

“Shouldn't you be more aware of the situation? ”

“What……. ”

As the man said, the king was dumbfounded without seeing the situation, and a frustrated man pointed at Harkan.

“Now that he's here, it's clear the others will come, too." ”

Then I woke up. Harkhan is here, which means they know where this safe house is. Besides, this mysterious man in front of me knows where he's holed up.

“Why are you telling me this? ”

“I'll take you. ”

“Excuse me?”

“Would you like to wait here? They'll come again. ”

“But following you to my hideout is also dangerous. ”

The king asked me with a very curious face.

“Then where are you going? ”

“That's ……. ”

I told you, but now that I think about it, there's nowhere else to go. The guard appears to have all been killed by Harkan, as no one was present at the time of the shout. I didn't know the way, I didn't have a place to go, and there was no one to take me.

“And you don't think they'll find you wherever you go? ”

“But……. ”

“I'll tell you first. I could faint and take His Majesty with me right now. But we're not doing that because we've been told to be as polite as possible. If you follow me now, I will take your family safely, or I will just leave the queen, the prince and the princesses here. What do you say?”

“Hey, you! ”

The king had no idea he was going to face the situation of abducting himself in front of him. Even my unbelievable Byrons didn't talk to me in some way.

However, the man still intimidated the hard tone, as if he had no interest in the king's feelings at all.

“Not yet, I'm not finished. If you follow me now, they'll never find you. ”

“How can you do that? ”

This secret hideout was reserved by the commander of the guard without speaking to himself, the king. A hideout decorated and crafted by the Guard Commander. And yet they found this place. And you'll never find it.

“If you don't trust me to the end, I don't think we need to talk anymore. Then I'll knock you out. ”

The man steps forward, fearful of the end of his words.

“Now, hold on! ”

“Hmm?"

“Ha, I will. ”

“What will you do? ”

“You, I'll follow you. So take the queen, the prince and the princess with you. ”

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