The wise man returns

It was practically a death sentence to put the opposition, the Holy See, in charge of the trials.

The nobles who intuited this changed their attitudes in unison at the next moment.

“No! The Holy See! How dare you!”

“But you didn't tell me. It's the Horses.Shouldn 't we act under the Holy See? ”

From there, Balin raises her hand to Randolph.

Randolph closes his eyes as he feels a knife come out of his hand and pierce his heart.

“Duke Rudens has already allowed the Maa invasion and cannot be trusted, and Duke Abel is currently in his own hands. Well, what else do you have? ”

“... ”

“Tsk.”

The notorious Randolph opens his mouth, his lips trembling while the nobles are in a daze.

“I didn't think you'd get the Holy See out first. You're a wizard. ”

“Haha.”

Balin smiles lightly and adds.

“Wizards are open these days. Me, too."

“... Open... I see. ”

The answer is absurd, but Randolph clearly realizes he's backed into reverse.

I never imagined that the wizard Balin would bring in the Church of Layan first.

‘If I refuse here, I have no reason to, but if I accept, I will kill all the nobles gathered here as rats. ’

The only thing left to do was to admit that the Contest is legitimate, as Balin said.

"to have this conversation ahead of time..."

It's hard to clear the suspicion of the Horseman's hilt if you take over.

It is because he has already told me that the Duke and Hespea have been defeated by the Horsemen.

Randolph, who predicted it, stutters for the first time.

“No, that's...”

“You can't say that, can you? I thought you said you knew you were being exploited by the Horsemen and you were responsible for that? ”

After finishing his speech, Balin curls her eyes, raising her jaw.

It was the same expression that broke many opponents' minds in their previous lives.

“If you are so greedy for the position of emperor, you can win under the authority of the Holy See. Absolutely.”

“... ”

Randolph clamps his lips tightly.

Lips that were closed like fortresses of impenetrable poverty never opened until the end of the meeting.

Balin, who defeated the enemy, slowly subjugated the remaining remains.

One race was justified when the Horses participated, so the logic of not having to play the rematch worked out so easily this time.

Now that the Holy Father is about to die and dance his sword, he is no longer able to hide the hot meal.

“Then the aristocracy meeting will end here today. Well done."

Instead of silent Randolph, an old nobleman tells the end of the meeting.

It was concluded that the competition was ongoing. But the next step is to repair the arena, strengthen the shields around the arena, and so on.

After leaving the meeting room, Valine wipes the sweat off her forehead and looks at Randolph, who is getting away.

A human being who can maintain a perfect expression all the time.

Balin has seen many such people in her past life.

‘Maybe you've lost interest in the world itself, or you've got a different mental problem. ’

A little compassion, but that doesn't erase his sins.

The sin of conspiring with dark magic must be questioned at a later date.

“You were amazing today. Please feel free to come back later. ”

“I'll make sure of it. Be careful in there.”

The nobles who followed you quarrel in front of you and rush towards Balin.

For them, this was the expression of their eagerness to make connections with Balin.

Balin, however, dealt with the nobles with sincerely, rather than annoying them.

Of course, there are truly impressed nobles.

After everyone left, Balin remains in the imperial palace sighing and relaxing.

“Now that the meeting is over, let's check it out or find out. ”

The appearance of Balin quickly became transparent after finishing speaking.

Invisibility Magic! Silence! Everything else completely obliterated his popularity.

"Where..."

When ready, Balin slowly heads down to the imperial palace.

Hwang Sung of the Cadim Empire had been in and out several times in his past life, so he knew the approximate structure.

But the place he's looking for right now is the most secret place inside the castle!

The dragon's magic that Evelyn spoke of was hidden away.

* * *

When Evelyn first came to me and asked me to sign a contract, she mentioned dragon magic.

A thousand years ago, a dragon sealed the Demon King to extinction!

It was hard to believe that the magic they left behind before they were destroyed was in the imperial palace.

Because it was so great, the kings of the five countries who had made the alliance at that time decided to seal it forever.

The only way to break the seal is with royal blood! The Bible says that anyone in the five kingdoms can break the seal.

Evelyn said it must be true, but as Balin, it's either a lie. Or there was something else.

In order to do this, a dictionary answer was necessary, but it was the perfect opportunity to come to the castle for the aristocratic council.

“Let's see...”

Unlike the crowded exterior, the imperial palace's underground popularity was extremely rare.

Because of the Emperor's death, the normal work of the imperial palace has disappeared.

Balin continued to dig under Hwang Sung while enjoying the antisocial benefits.

“Yes, I feel like this. We need to move around using Mana Pung, looking for maps, wandering around... what's that? That's it.”

Woof.

I felt relieved and smiled at Valine's mouth.

Thanks to Mana showing the structure of the basement in a burst of movement.

“Last time the Duke of Abel didn't make it, I had a hard time. I had to do something this time, but I'm really glad. ”

When finished, Balin's body enters the thick wooden barrel.

Where he is now is the Imperial Underground Barracks.

It was a very humble walk compared to the magnificent words of finding dragon magic.

'Let's see... here we go. ’

As soon as Balin was looking for a place to rub against the wall, he smiled.

Dwight!

The next moment, with a strange sound, the wall disappears like a lie and a hole is revealed.

It's not a secret passageway. Balin used the land's mana to get rid of all the dirt and rocks.

A stone staircase that is covered in dust but feels generally clean.

Surprisingly, there was a luminescent artifact embedded throughout the staircase, illuminating the way.

“I can't believe there was an entrance there. ”

Balin raises her head in a hollow expression.

It wasn't hard to find this passageway itself.

But the moment he confirmed the entrance, he had to have a hollow smile in his mouth.

Right under the throne of battle.

There was an entrance to the underground passageway.

It was originally used as a place of refuge for the royal people, but Balin noticed a different path in the middle.

Manat, who was spreading, sensed exactly what passages and rooms looked like on the ground.

You cannot go to war to enter the secret passageway. In the end, Balin came all the way down to the nearest basement in the passageway as an alternative.

“Is this it?”

Balin, who breathed Mana into one corner of the warehouse, was soon able to see the emperor's escape route with his own eyes.

The passageway is dusty and smells pleasant, but still incredibly clean.

After sealing his back and walking down the road, Balin arrived at the target shortly after.

“Here... it is! ”

A stone wall crumbles like a lie when Mana is blown in. Thereafter, there was a passageway leading to a completely different area from the original evacuation route.

This is the place where the Dragon's Magic was sealed!

The castle's structure and detection magic have been responding to some strange defensive spells here.

Valine is cautious because there may be a trap.

One step at a time. Many traps have set in motion every step of the way, but Balin, who was prepared in advance, dealt with them appropriately each time.

“They say it was built a thousand years ago, but it's still hard to get there. ”

Balin, who released the fifteenth trap, mutters.

Somehow, the magic of this passageway was less difficult to destroy, even as Balin accumulated knowledge through regression.

Given how much magic has progressed over the course of a thousand years, this has been truly remarkable.

If it was someone other than Balin, he would have fallen into one of the traps and become a corpse long ago.

“This is the last trap...”

“Khoo...”

The deflected, moving armor settles.

Living Armor, one of the most commonly seen summons. But this was a living armor with a tremendous hardship, a beginner to the Sword Master.

All the intruders would have been defeated, but there was no business to survive in front of the nonprofit in Balin.

Balin, who defeated Living Armor, examines the rest of the gate.

It looks like an ordinary stone gate, but Manat's lines engraved on it are terribly tightly woven.

“Let's see...”

Balin reaffirmed his appetite and inspected the security of the door.

After a few hours like that, Balin had to lie down as soon as he woke up to the groan he heard from somewhere.

“Huff. Huff...”

I focused and focused, but I couldn't open the closed door either.

The door that was made a thousand years ago was enough to make two hands raise as well as Balin who knew all kinds of knowledge.

“The old doorway blocked the bypass again. Oh, my God."

Balin grumbles and grumbles at the exhausted body.

It was also a security place that sealed the Dragon's Magic.

It was a good thing there wasn't any harvest at all.

“The space in the room is roughly five square meters, and what's in it... is teleport magic traveling somewhere. ”

All the information I could find out with all the numbers. But it was enough to know that Evelyn's words were true.

We can't wait any longer, so Valine turns around.

I couldn't get anything else anyway, so I intended to go back and rest at that time.

“... ”

On his way up, Valine didn't stop to think.

The symbols I saw at the entrance to the door. The shape was strangely familiar.

‘The one that was blocking the entrance... it must be. I was anti-Semitic at first, but it's definitely true. ’

The words of the sorcerer who was blocking the door, they were surprisingly similar to the slates found on Soldier's territory.

Of course the content was almost different, but the characters used there were definitely the same.

We don't know exactly what the letters are, but Valine hasn't forgotten to write the sequence.

“Huh? Balline's out? I thought you were back. ”

“No, I was just walking around Hwang Sung for a while, so I took a nap... and then I left. ”

When I came out, the year was beginning to fall apart.

Balin makes a light greeting to the entrance guards who recognize her and makes a move.

Earlier, the rumors that Balin had surrounded the knights changed the soldiers' attitude 180 degrees.

“Thank you. I feel so much better now, thanks to you! ”

“Thanks to you, we are face-to-face. I don't know how to repay this kindness...”

The nobles have become accustomed to ignoring soldiers and knights as usual.

However, everyone was changing their teeth as if they weren't sick because they had a pair of cuffs.

I was halfway giving up on destiny, but I couldn't thank you enough that Valine took the knights' side and cast a spell to make noble nobility a prize.

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Thank you for reading. The third and final episode will be up shortly.