A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

Chapter 100

100 – Dancing With Elves (1)

It takes hard work to become a master.

In storybooks, the moment you become a master is when you awaken in an extreme, life-threatening situation, but such cases are rarer than you might think.

You can gain enlightenment while eating and become a master.

You can continue to absorb the mana of the magic stone and at some point reach a critical point and become a master.

You can become a master by sparring with a master by directly swinging your sword.

In that sense, the process by which Sir Mente became a Master may seem somewhat tedious to others.

‘As a result of continuously pouring in mana, the curse was broken and the mana in the body became fully activated.’

He was wearing a kind of mana restraint, but the curse was broken by powerful mana.

‘It’s scary. Emperor.’

The emperor’s method of making Sir Mente the Eighth Lord of the Empire was not wrong.

‘I thought I had cursed him, but it turns out that the emperor was just pouring in a lot of mana.’

It builds up mana in the body and causes a large amount of mana to flow through the body so that the curse cannot stop it.

Crucially, ‘Caroline’ drove the wedge in the Gibraltar bag, but Sir Mente had absorbed a considerable amount of mana.

‘It took 5 years.’

It took the Empire about 3 years to make Lord Mente a Master.

What about us?

When I discovered Lord Mente, I was 10 years old.

It’s been three years since Morgania invested in Sir Mente and laid the groundwork.

And now, two years in Gibraltar.

Although it took a total of 5 years, it took much longer than the Empire –

“It is pure man. It became a master in a pure state, without any impurities.”

Following his father’s advice, Lord Mente truly walked the right path and became a master.

“Is it because you broke the curse? I can tell just by looking at your momentum. You’ve become stronger.”

The father continued to look Sir Mente up and down and expressed his admiration.

“It’s really surprising that my body has changed like this.”

“That’s right. I thought my height would remain the same even if I became a master.”

Lord Mente traced his hand below his solar plexus.

“To grow up like this in one night. Wouldn’t someone later say I was a heretic or something?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. It’s surprisingly common for your body to be reorganized when you become a master.”

There is no separate term to refer to it, but in the empire, it is expressed as ‘Hwangool transformation’ or something like that.

“It must have been painful.”

“Uh, um, not really…?”

“The compressed bones and muscles would have stretched all at once, but it didn’t hurt?”

My father’s expression distorts.

“Mana lines spread throughout the blood vessels of my body, and it wasn’t painful at all?”

“To be honest, that’s what happened when I woke up.”

“…Grey.”

“You could say it’s Caroline’s effect, or Silver’s effect.”

My father looked like he had a lot to say, but I just laughed.

“Why do you say that? Are you saying that Sir Mente must have felt the tremendous pain of having his bones stretched and his muscles torn, suddenly growing about 30 centimeters taller?”

“Surely I would do that?”

“Sometimes there are people like that among soldiers. It was like this in their time. People who think that only their juniors can go through that kind of pain to become real soldiers.”

The moment you become a master is the moment your body completely changes and you become a ‘superhuman,’ which is accompanied by tremendous pain.

I was like that too.

“Well, let’s just say Sir Mente was lucky, right?”

“Gun… “

“Or, if you sleep with Caroline and Silver together right before you become a Master, you will be in a state where you won’t feel any pain when you awaken.”

“…There is a possibility.”

The father bowed his head seriously and was immersed in his agony.

“If that is true, I would like to leave it as a vision of Gibraltar. No. Is it good to become a Master comfortably without the pain of awakening…?”

I think my father is also truly human.

“Lord Mente. Do we need to sparr?”

“Count? You’re talking about direct sparring?”

Sir Mente asked back in confusion, but his father was serious.

“Only the Master can deal with the Master’s sword. Now that his body has changed, he must want to test his sword.”

“…”

Is it an illusion that the will to do something is visible?

“Everyone does that when they become a Master. Just like I challenged the Duke of Winchester when I was 16.”

“…And then our relationship got really bad. And you were a master before you were 16.”

“Officially, I needed to announce to the public that I earned my master’s degree at the age of 16.”

Once.

Before my father entered the academy.

He once defeated Archduke Morgania of Winchester, who was in active duty at the time, in a 1:1 head-to-head match.

First confrontation with an official master.

With that, my father made his name widely known, and it was the moment when his engagement to Morgania, which had been discussed before, was confirmed.

“Father. Unofficially, against whom…?”

“Your grandfather.”

“Ah.”

“It’s like a ritual passed down from generation to generation in Gibraltar. When you become a master, you defeat your predecessors.”

“Your grandfather was also a sword master.”

“That’s right.”

“Did you win?”

“Okay.”

“…”

How does a master feel when he is defeated by someone who has just become a master?

Even being defeated by someone younger than yourself.

“The Margrave. What are you going to do if I defeat the Margrave?”

“Lord Mente. This is not Crimson Gibraltar.”

“…Write. This makes me burn my desire for a challenge.”

Lord Mente licks his lips and wriggles his hands.

“Am I really going to win?”

“Everyone claims that they can cross the Gibraltar Gorge.”

She secretly gained momentum and showed her fighting spirit towards her father, but his father just let the momentum go and drove the horse.

“Hehe. It might be possible someday, but unfortunately, it’s not possible right now. I guess…”

“If you don’t want to reveal it to others because of Gray, you can deal with him in the large sparring hall we have built in the basement of the villa over there.”

“…”

“And judging by Gray’s expression his, it looks like he has no intention of hiding Lord Mente’s ascension to master.”

“Yes.”

He is also my father.

“The best thing is to hide Sir Mente’s awakening, but Sir Mente has completely changed to do that.”

I pointed to the middle of Sir Mente’s forearm.

“Even before awakening, the top of my head was about here.”

“It wasn’t that bad?”

Sir Mente was irritated, but he wasn’t particularly angry or anything.

Kidney, which was a complex, is now a thing of the past.

“A person has changed so suddenly. How can I explain Lord Mente’s change? I must say he has awakened into a master.”

In fact, I’m worried that by making it public like this, I might be caught up in the crown prince’s surveillance network and giving him an excuse.

‘It’s like discovering a hero from scratch.’

A person who was not properly evaluated by those around him due to a curse, but suddenly awakens and acquires hero-level abilities.

Because they are the type of people the crown prince is most concerned about, the ‘heroes of the kingdom’.

“If you want to hide it, you have to completely eliminate her existence, but how easy would that be? Her hair is so similar, it’s no exaggeration to say she’s a daughter, and she’s become a beauty.”

“What are you saying to a girl who has never dated a man, let alone married?”

“If you are going to create a false identity, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to say that you are Lord Mente’s secret daughter, Lord Mint.”

“Hey.”

“It’s a joke.”

A person cannot change human relationships in an instant.

“Let’s congratulate Lord Mente on becoming a master. Let’s take some time instead.”

“It changed overnight. That’s definitely something that can be talked about.”

“Roughly… After going on an expedition, I got a clue, and after training in a place where no one could see for about 6 months, I came out and this is what happened. Wouldn’t this be appropriate?”＜ Br＞

“Six months… Shouldn’t it be a year?”

“Let’s hide Sir Mente for a year? That’s up to the person involved…”

“Maybe it doesn’t really matter as long as I get paid?”

Sir Mente lightly shrugged his shoulders.

“Master Gray’s skills have now become strong enough that I don’t need to always follow him, and I also need to become stronger to be able to deal with anyone who comes.”

“Are you okay?”

“Whether it’s 1 year or 2 years, whatever. And if I fight right now, I’ll lose to Robert too, right?”

“Yes?”

Robert, who had been quietly driving the carriage until now, flinched and spoke.

“Well, what is that?”

“I need time to adapt to my body. I have to find a weapon that fits my hand.”

“Weapon…? You use a sword.”

“Double-edged swords and swords do not suit my constitution. I have been using them since I am a knight of Nostrum, but I think now is the time to train myself to fit my new body with new weapons.”

Lord Mente chuckled, clenched his fist and patted his shoulder.

“Should I go to the academy instead? If I’m still like this in two years, I don’t think anyone will think it’s strange if I say I’m really 17.”

“That’s true, but…”

“Right?”

“Uh, Lord Mente?”

Robert looked straight ahead and carefully raised his hand.

“It’s a little hard to say this, but-“

“If you know that, shut up.”

“…”

“You b*stard, you were suddenly aging so rapidly that you were trying to say what would happen if you reached my age. Huh?”

Sir Mente grabbed Robert’s back and started rocking him back and forth.

“Well, that can’t be possible!”

“I was thinking. Did you think that in just two years, would I become a middle-aged woman in her 40s? Ha. I’m sorry, but I’m guaranteed at least 10 or 20 years when I become a master?”

A master does not age easily.

Like the Duke of Winchester, he was defeated by a young master, suffered a broken engagement, but could not say anything to the other person, watched his daughter enter into a political marriage with a man she did not love, and then spent about 15 years focusing on the administration of the kingdom and training properly. It is only after failing to do so and going through such physical and mental hardships that aging appropriate to one’s age finally comes.

‘Even my father said everything when he saw that he had the appearance of someone in his mid-20s even though he was already close to 40.’

Master is a symbol of youth.

“Anyway, when I return, Sir Mente… Ah, father. But why did you come out to meet me in such a hurry? Is your mother pregnant again?”

“I don’t make such a fuss about things like that anymore.”

“Then why…? Also, did Saint Geo get drunk and hit Princess Naria?”

“No.”

Suddenly, Gibraltar Castle began to come into view.

From noble mtl dot come

“There is a customer who came to see you.”

“Guest…?”

“Yes, Master. …No, more than that.”

“…?”

An incomprehensible visit.

“It’s an elf.”

“??”

* * *

County castle, villa.

I thought the first guest in the luxuriously built drawing room would be Queen Carmen, but in reality, someone else was sitting on the sofa, leisurely drinking somnus tea.

“Over there… “

“The tea smells good.”

A pure and gentle voice.

“I did a good job brewing the Wolmyeongcho that did not receive sunlight. The Holy Spirit is so thick. It’s quite good, child.”

A tone of voice that contrasts with the appearance and does not match the appearance.

“Although the amount of moon blessings contained here is small, if you collect a lot of dust, it will pile up higher than the canyon. It’s a good idea.”

She is wearing a golden robe, but it appears above her neck as if she has no intention of hiding her identity.

“If you cultivate them separately instead of forcibly tearing them from nature, there is no need to be angry that you have broken the laws of nature. Rest assured, these children were destined to be like this from the moment they were born, so this is natural. “

It’s an elf.

The ears are pointed, and the hair color is a unique light blue color not found in humans.

“Over there.”

“What is it?”

“This is my first time talking to an elf.”

Even in my past life, I have never met an elf in person.

-I will tell you a secret that not everyone in the kingdom knows. I went directly to the elf forest with only the eight leaders and killed the elves. With their king.

Before the Empire crossed the Gibraltar Gorge, a small elite group marched into the Elven Forest and annihilated them all.

The Emperor and the 8 Sword Masters.

The elf forest looked like a dense forest on the outside, but no one could tell that there were elf corpses buried underneath.

Even until the Emperor got drunk and spoke directly to me, Ba Xinjang didn’t even say anything to me.

“Um. I’m sorry. It’s been almost 70 years since I’ve had a conversation with a human.”

“70 years…?”

“Elves live a long time. Don’t judge based on appearances.”

“No, that’s right.”

Rather, that’s what I want to say.

“…He looks like he’s my age.”

“Are you flattering me? Hehe. It’s nice to hear empty words. But you should only say that to other kids over there.”

The elf smiled slightly as he drank his tea again.

“The reason I came to see you is because I have watched you hunt vampires several times.”

“…”

“Vampires are the enemies of elves, and you are quite entertaining to her true maiden.”

The elf glanced around.

“You might be curious. Why I came. But I can’t talk about it carelessly in front of others.”

There is no one in the reception room.

The reason this unidentified elf visited was to talk to me alone.

“There are ears listening even from outside. What should I do? If you don’t mind, the main lady is willing to formally invite you to the ‘forest’.”

“Forest…?”

“Because there, the two of you can talk quietly without being disturbed by anyone. Keep it a secret, even from the contemporary guardian behind the wall with his hand on the sword.”

The walls are thick.

The door is closed.

However, I am aware of my father fiddling with the sword on his waist beyond the door.

“You are strong.”

“Strong. For now.”

The elf did not hide that she was strong, a master-level being.

That’s why my father came looking for me in the first place.

“Are you saying you knew who I was and invited me?”

“I don’t know. So now I’m taking you to the forest to find out.”

“…Is it okay to invite humans to the forest?”

“Yes. I don’t know anything else, but you have that child’s blessing.”

The elf pointed a finger to his forehead.