A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

105 – Dancing With Elves (6)

Open your eyes.

The sky is blue, the grassland is green.

And this familiar curtain that covers half of the sky-

“Are you awake?”

“…Princess.”

Beyond the curtain, she is looking down at me and smiling.

Normal people look ugly when looking up from below, but this woman is always pretty even from below.

“What are you thinking like that?”

“…”

“Of course it’s a dream. The fact that I came out this clean.”

In an instant, several scenes pass by before my eyes.

Above the execution site-

“No bad thoughts.”

“Ugh.”

The princess grabbed my head from both sides and started squeezing it.

“Let’s only think about the good things and what lies ahead.”

“It’s the future…”

“For example, even though I am defeated now, I will win if I become stronger in the future!”

“I wasn’t pushed back with a sword.”

I got up and focused on the sensations flowing through my body.

“If only I could create an aura, I would have been able to counter it many times.”

He makes his empty hand as if he is grasping something, fills the inside with aura, and creates a blade shining with gray aura on top.

Bu-woong.

Cut the air.

“What is lacking is an auror.”

The illusion in front of you is split to the left and right, and the upper and lower body are split diagonally.

“I just don’t have enough mana in my body, everything else is already complete.”

“Oh, really?”

The princess kneels down and tilts her head.

“You really don’t think it’s enough?”

“Of course. That too…”

I knelt in front of the princess, putting the tip of my sword downward.

“The one who taught me this sword was none other than you, princess.”

“…”

“There is no way the knife you taught me is not perfect.”

Before us, an illusion begins to shine like a doll.

“The Margrave of Gibraltar, who gave up everything and thought only of treason.”

15 years old. Gray Gibraltar is swinging his sword in the training hall.

Blood dripped from her hands as she held onto a sword that did not fit her her body her her, but the red master in front of her held the true sword and swung it until he was about to die, teaching Gray.

“The Grand Duke of Winchester, who fulfilled his selfish desires in front of everyone in the name of Gibraltar’s future.”

17 years old. In the middle of the royal capital’s grand military hall, Gray Gibraltar is wielding a spear.

The white-haired veteran wearing heavy armor wielded a spear imbued with Aura and brought Gray Gibraltar to his knees.

“It was the same with the arms of the empire.”

A green-haired swordsman swings a sword, a giant with shining hair swings an ax, and after that, all kinds of weapons fly towards Gray Gibraltar.

“Among them all, the sharpest, most precise, and strongest sword has always been you.”

After fighting through countless people, a woman with flowing white hair is holding a sword in her hand.

“The princess repaired me from the beginning. She gave me the sword that suited me best.”

“Yes, I did.”

“Thanks to you, I was able to defeat them all. Even though I couldn’t reach the emperor, there’s no way your sword was wrong when it felled the eight gods.”

“Do you really think so?”

The princess looks at me seriously.

“Look at it objectively. With my eyes and my voice.”

As always, this woman is the concentration of my unconsciousness.

“If you give the answer yourself, you’ll think it’s wrong, but what I say in my voice means you think it’s the ‘right answer’, right?”

“…”

“Do you really think that the Imperial Swordsmanship learned by traitor Gray is the correct answer?”

“…No.”

For some, the answer was right.

“For Gray, a traitor who had already been sentenced to death by the sword of Gibraltar, the princess’s way was the right answer.”

The princess smiles lightly.

“It is not a sword to kill someone, but a sword to prove strength. Princess, you improved and refined it in a way that suits me.”

“Is that right for you now?”

“No, not at all.”

That’s the correct answer.

“I’m not a traitor yet, so there’s no need to keep learning the martial arts for the future of the empire.”

“That’s right. This is a sword for domination, not for someone else.”

The princess grabs the Auror blade I left on the floor.

“There must be will in wielding a sword. To protect someone, to dominate someone. “What will you wield the sword for now?”

“To kill a man.”

Holding hands with the princess

“Because that is the way to protect you.”

“…Then, you should learn it, right?”

The princess extends her free hand to me and strokes her head.

“Work hard.”

The world turned red, and I made a promise to the princess while holding the sword.

From noble mtl dot come

It may be a dream, but it will lead to reality.

* * *

“Can I have you as my teacher, Baek Geum-gyeong?”

“I still like the answer you give as soon as you wake up.”

As soon as I opened my eyes, what I saw was Iperia, the platinum mirror, staring down at me from the side.

“Okay. How did it feel to meet you in person?”

“A feeling that aid that has been cut for hundreds of years cannot be defeated?”

“Wrong.”

Ta-aak.

Lord Platinum raised the blade of her hand and struck my forehead.

“Your sword is already finished. And it is clearly a blade derived from me.”

“…”

“I guess that’s roughly what I expected. Yes. Considering your concerns, it could be possible.”

Lord Platinum closed her eyes with her bitter face.

“In the end, the elves will be extinct, and all of the elf heritage will belong to humans.”

“That… “

“There is no need to say it. Sometimes, a single blade is felt more clearly than a thousand words.”

“Well, the person who taught me how to use a sword didn’t say that.”

“…”

Baek Geum-gyeong frowned.

“What did you say?”

“It’s better to express things honestly and clearly rather than being ambiguous.”

“So, do you think it would be possible for her to say it like that right now?”

Lord Platinum pointed once to her her own her neck her her her her, then to her her her her her me her her her.

“I guess you yourself don’t trust her, so you don’t reveal everything about her, but you keep trying to talk about her, but you swallow it and spit out everything about her.”

“The elves will perish.”

“…”

“Nine human masters will attack the elf forest, and all elves will die in the process.”

One thing, let’s take out insurance just in case.

“Of course, this is not a spoiler, it’s a curse. It’s just a curse word uttered by a zombie who lost in a sword fight.”

“…What about Erwin?”

“You will die.”

Even if you’re half elf, your lifespan is similar to that of a human.

“I know that Erwin is going to die. ‘How’ is important to her.”

“I didn’t see it myself, I only heard about it, but I will be executed.”

I flinch.

“Chairman Erwin is someone who really helped me a lot, but that help was all thanks to his enormous capital. The Empire won’t just leave that capital alone.”

“It’s impossible.”

“What are you saying is impossible?”

“Even if Iperia Industries collapses, Erwin cannot die. Even if-“

“President Erwin is also a mother.”

“…”

“It’s all just an expectation.”

If there is a case where a person who cannot die dies, there is no other answer than to die obediently.

“Even if he is the strongest swordsman on the continent, anyone can kill him if he chooses to die himself without raising his sword.”

I already saw it.

“Even if everyone in the world becomes your enemy, even if you are someone who can destroy tens of thousands of people by destroying the execution site and taking the sword if you decide to kill everyone.”

“Because we are human.”

“It’s a matter of the heart.”

“…It’s complicated. Humans are.”

Baek Geum-gyeong gets up from her chair and walks towards the wall.

“500 years ago. Even before Nostrum was created, renegades existed.”

“Suddenly, a history lecture?”

“Just listen.”

“…Yes.”

I straightened my posture and opened my ears.

“The apostates who broke the rules left the Land of Guardians and headed beyond the canyon. The humans there quarreled with each other, envied each other, and began countless wars.”

“It was the empire that unified it.”

“The first renegade, his name is ‘Thersian.'”

“…”

No way.

“Rest assured. Tershian, the apostate, does not exist in this world. She was killed by her original wife.”

“That’s… “

“They brought a demonic beast from the contaminated area and attacked the land of guardians. The demonic beast was resolved by the hands of humans, and the main maid received the call and killed the apostate.”

That was already over 300 years ago.

“After that, I realized that the empire needed my power. I sent like-minded people among humans and created the Aiferia Company.”

“Sanghoe…?”

“Yes. It started out as a small business in a local city. And 300 years is quite a long time.”

“…”

Well.

Even if you buy a piece of land and leave it lying idle for 300 years, how much profit can you make from it?

Moreover, when the empire was in the midst of a war and its assets were being lost, the Iferia Company would only seek out and kill the vampires hiding behind the empire-

“I have a question. White Gold Mirror.”

“Ask.”

“The empire appears to have sided with the vampires, but even with enormous capital, Aiferia did not pursue the empire but rather established a cooperative relationship.”

“…”

“Aren’t traitors unconditionally killed?”

“I have to kill you no matter what.”

“But why did the Chamber of Commerce build a close cooperative relationship with the Empire…?”

“…”

Lord Platinum scratched his head.

“So to speak, we have to talk about 300 years of history…”

“Could you please shorten it to 3 sentences?”

“One. In the end, it was humans who ran the company. There were six major betrayals, and countless minor betrayals. There was even a time when the company’s shares exceeded 30%.”

Ah.

“Two. Among the forest elves, there were many who left the forest because they longed to live among humans. The renegades did not end with the first true ancestors. They continued to appear in the elven forest as well. Unlike the unchanging, plant-like forest, the human world where humans move like animals. It was fatal and provocative.”

Ah.

“Three. Actually, this is the biggest reason.”

Lord Platinum continued her words with a serious expression and a hand on his chest.

“As time passes, the empire will eventually fall. The vampires will also naturally perish. By the capital they love.”

“…Capital?”

“Put it down with money.”

Lord Platinum spread her arms and raised her head.

“Over a long period of time, humans themselves have come to realize that there is greater value in enjoying life as a member of the golden family under Aiferia than as a blood family under a vampire.”

“…”

“Rather than a life of being a slave to a vampire and drinking blood every day with great power, a life of building a house made of gold, hunting down vampires, enslaving them and wielding a golden whip.”

“Putting everything else aside, wouldn’t that require a huge amount of money… ?”

“The power of the empire resides in the imperial family, but it is Iperia that holds the capital of the entire empire tightly.”

Ah.

“Dynasties and empires change many times over hundreds of years, but capital does not change. I believe that one day there will come a ruling system based on capital, not power based on blood.”

“Over there… “

“And in that world, I believe that vampires would not exist anywhere else.”

“So.”

To put it briefly.

“Now that the Empire and the vampires are on the same side, are you saying that you and the vampires will destroy the ‘Empire’ itself?”

“It’s nothing bad. I don’t think it’s too bad from the kingdom’s perspective or your perspective, right?”

“Uh, um…”

“Although the main woman has never physically been to the human world, especially the Empire, she has observed it closely for 300 years.”

Baek Geum-gyeong smiled with a confident face.

“In the end, I thought that I had to secure money and capital to rule over humans, and that I could prevent them from joining hands with vampires. Vampires will join hands with others even if the empire falls, and even if the empire falls , there will be another vampire. I thought a country would be created.”

Confidence gradually turns into disbelief.

“Until I see your sword.”

It soon turned into resignation.

“Erwin is also a mother. That’s right. For her daughter, she gave up everything she had. All the golden lineage that she had built up over hundreds of years.”

Soon.

“That’s why she is her daughter. For her daughter, she should be able to do anything. That’s right.”

Beyond resignation and sighing, it changed to understanding.

“Thank you. And thanks to you, I think the main maid also has the opportunity to correct her maiden’s failures again.”

“Again?”

“When the demonic beasts passed through the contaminated zone, the main woman did not hear any news from the elf forest. At that time, she broke through the maze and a human from the kingdom came to visit.”

“Were you by any chance the royal family of Nostrum?”

“Okay.”

Indeed.

“If I had remained ignorant of anything, I would have failed, but now that I have a vague understanding, I cannot afford to fail.”

“Yes. Of course.”

If you fail even after knowing it, you are a human being destined to fail.

Either they are incompetent, or they didn’t do anything even though they knew they would fail.

“It will happen. After all, the best she can do is raise you.”

“Are you teaching me your sword?”

“Of course. The sword you learned is ultimately derived from the original woman. Even if she branches out fruit spreads and spreads new fruit, its fundamentals do not change.”

Baek Geum-gyeong grabbed the sword hanging on the wall.

“Now that you have a certain level of skill, you should fill in what you are most lacking in. What do you think you are most lacking in?”

“It’s mana.”

“Yes. It’s mana. No matter how great your technology is, if you don’t have enough mana, nothing happens.”

Sigh.

Baek Geum-gyeong pulled the curtain covering the window to the side.

“This is probably the place where the purest man resides in the world.”

Beyond the window.

There is a wide lake with sparkling blue-green water.

“From now on, the main woman will push mana into your body. To the limit. If the vessel overflows, she will expand it, even if it means breaking the vessel and attaching an auror between them.”

“…”

“Can you do it?”

“Can you do it? That’s a natural premise.”

It must be done.

“As much as you want.”

“I see. Then.”

Baek Geum-gyeong smiled slightly.

“Take it off. Everything.”

“…?”

“To obtain nature’s mana, isn’t it nature’s duty to become nature itself?”

“…”

Just.

“There is no selfishness.”

To become strong, you just have to do whatever it takes.

“Everything to bring down the empire.”

I became nature.