A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

177 – Light Dragon Is Not Air Force Training Anyway (6)

The imperial palace of the Thersian Empire, the emperor’s office.

“Look at that. They say it was something Gray Gibraltar had designed and planned years ago.”

The Habsburg Emperor grinned, pointing to the mana energy sparkling on the wall.

“It’s Gyeongryong. Even if you close your eyes and scream, it’s oily.”

“Isn’t it just a coincidence?”

The grumpy-looking man sitting across from the Habsburg emperor, the Marquis Claydoll, seemed uncomfortable, as if he wanted to get out of this situation at once.

“Your Majesty. I have something to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“Your Majesty is watching the light dragon training held at Orosol Academy over there using remote projection clairvoyance magic, so why do I have to use my mana?”

On Marquis Claydoll’s head, there were unidentifiable machines made of magic stones, and every time his head sparkled, the light from the mana that drained from his body his his was projected onto the white wall, creating an image. .

In a similar way, it seems as if someone’s view on site is projected into the imperial palace in close real time.

The technology created through the research of the Empire’s Magic Engineering Research Department, which combines video magic stones, remote magic signal transmission, and clairvoyant magic, was now showing its effectiveness in front of the emperor.

What is needed is overwhelming magic attribute proportional to distance.

And here is the master who can handle that magical power, Marquis Claydoll.

“If I were to monopolize the mana of the 3rd Knights by myself, I would have to do something like this.”

“No, I didn’t eat that alone… “

“You happened to be at the imperial palace, and more than anything, isn’t this an inspection of the enemy country’s military training trends? Isn’t it natural for the Minister of National Defense to give time and mana?”

“Isn’t it just a race where you compete on speed with flying dragons? It’s no different from horse racing.”

“Does it look like that?”

The emperor pouted the corner of his mouth as if he didn’t like it at all.

“To me, it looks like dragoon training designed to snipe airships with flying dragons.”

“That’s… “

“You might think they’re just guessing based on the results. But my guess is probably not wrong. Right now, they’re just throwing them to the ground like that, but in a few years, they’ll be reborn as elite soldiers and carry out aerial assaults against airships. I will show it and do it.”

“My thoughts are different.”

The Marquis of Claydoll wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve and opened his mouth.

“I happened to see the Drake Knights training once, and it was full of such bad guys that they couldn’t possibly be called the legendary dragoons. Even though I saw them when I was 17… Or even younger than that.”

“Did I really see this before I was 17?”

“Your Majesty, what are you thinking?”

“No, just. Okay, I hope it’s rain.”

The Habsburg Emperor lounged back on his armrest and grinned as he watched the flight of the Gray Gibraltar on the screen.

“If he knew from a young age that we were trying to develop an airship and created it to deal with it, then he is a genius. Even if not, he is a prepared human being who prepares a response plan according to the situation in advance.”

“Do you like it that much?”

“Then. If Gray Gibraltar had been your son, wouldn’t you have been able to leave Marquess Claydoll with peace of mind?”

“That friend is my son? Haha, what kind of cruel words are you saying? I don’t even consider such a heartless son as my son.”

“Ha. You once said that Gray Gibraltar has some similarities with the Habsburgs. Does that mean the emperor has no sympathy?”

“Really?”

“…”

The Habsburg Emperor was silent for a moment at Marquis Claydol’s words.

“It’s true that Gray Gibraltar is heartless.”

“The same goes for Your Majesty.”

“But Gray Gibraltar gives more attention, affection, and love to those who are on his side than anyone else.”

“So, are you trying to get that attention, affection, and love by giving me an ‘airship’ as a gift?”

“Aren’t you looking forward to it?”

The Habsburg Emperor picked up the red candy placed in front of him.

“If Gray is as I guess, he will create a manual for combat between air forces ‘in one fell swoop’, and if he was just a genius from a young age as you guess, he will create a manual equivalent to it even if he goes through trial and error.”

“Are you judging people based on their timing in creating new theories, studies, and tactics?”

“Yes. Just like the criteria for judging Nostrum’s heroes in the past were the same.”

The emperor sarcastically threw the candy into his mouth.

“When an epidemic breaks out, are you the ‘genius of the present’ type who loses his family to the epidemic and researches a cure to get revenge, or is he the type who invents a cure as soon as an epidemic breaks out.. No. Something similar to that even though the epidemic was not even known. Are you the type of ‘ready genius’ who creates a cure by combining medicinal ingredients that no one knew about in order to treat symptoms?”

Crack.

“Aren’t you curious? If it’s the former, it doesn’t matter, but if it’s the latter, I’d like to ask.”

“Did the Empire’s air force conduct propaganda against the Kingdom’s air force, you mean?”

“No. If it was the latter, we would have absolutely overwhelmed it.”

There was a hint of confidence in the emperor’s words.

“If we had just left the dragoons like that alone, of course our airship would have been eaten by those b*stards, but if we try to fix it somehow, wouldn’t we be sure that we won?”

“Isn’t that just a story about ‘winding it up’?”

“Yes. Of course, even if that is not the case, it is a topic worth thinking about.”

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Before you know it, the first lap of the race is over.

“In the future, the dragoons of Nostrum will change. They will be transformed into elite soldiers, and criticism will be poured out on Gray Gibraltar, who caused the uproar.”

“It’s not praise, it’s criticism… ?”

“Isn’t the current nostrum like a patient who didn’t know he was sick and then babbles at the doctor who told him he was sick?”

“That’s for sure. …Then Gray Gibraltar…”

“Is there any need to create public opinion criticizing him? Even if we don’t do that, Nostrum’s traditionalists will criticize Gray as a ‘traitor who exposed the country’s shame,’ and we can create public opinion that sympathizes and understands him. That’s enough.”

“I don’t think he’s someone who will be swayed by public opinion.”

“It’s natural for anyone to care about public opinion. No matter how crazy they are, as long as they are human, they don’t care about what others think-“

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“I don’t have any.”

Stadium.

2nd lap.

“…Is that really crazy?”

The Habsburg Emperor’s jaw dropped as he saw the golden dragon running in front of Gray Gibraltar.

“No, uh, ha.”

“Your Majesty.”

Marquis Claydoll quietly took a sip from the glass in front of him.

“Sometimes I feel truly grateful that you are my lord, or that I am lucky that I was born in Thersian and not in Nostrum.”

“Ha…”

“If you were born in Nostrum, wouldn’t you have had to have someone like that as your king?”

“Ha, really.”

The Habsburg Emperor laughed like a broken magic machine.

“Really…”

* * *

“Is he crazy?”

The voice came out without me even realizing it.

If it had been shown on the screen, it would have been an uproar, but fortunately, the screen clearly reflected the crazy guy in front.

Haha!”

It looks like he’s really drunk, and he grabs the reins without being able to control his mind.

Considering the condition of the saddle, the lower body is virtually fixed to the saddle. Even if one tries to pull the torso out, the metal breastplate attached to the saddle holds the lower body tightly, so it would not be pulled out.

It’s probably fixed so firmly that it doesn’t fall down even if the dragon flips over and flies.

It can’t be said to be a trend.

It is no different from simply being ‘mounted’ on a drake and flying.

‘That’s why you drink and run.’

The speed is fast.

Regardless of the rider’s skill or such, the ‘Golden Dragon’, a drake that only the King of Nostrum can ride, is born with dragon blood and is the fastest drake among drakes.

Purr…

Nidhogg grits his teeth, clearly showing his displeasure

Apart from the fact that the flying dragon that suddenly jumped out was the guardian dragon of the kingdom, it seemed that he was annoyed by the presence of that crazy person who ruined the plan for the second round.

“Nidhogg.”

Purr.

When I call out to Nidhogg, Nidhogg starts to speed forward and folds his wings for a moment.

Then, it flew down like a tumble, and then rose again to a graceful altitude as if drawing a streamlined shape.

Kwa-euang!

An explosion occurred along Nidhogg’s trajectory.

It was a magic explosion, an explosion to block the path caused by the wizard on the castle wall.

“Uh, ah! I’m sorry, Chairman!”

“Hey, tell the front team! The leader is now the king!”

The cries of the wizards reach my ears.

Perhaps the mission given to the wizards this time was to focus on attacking and disrupting the leaders, but that mission was not given as a ‘king’s command.’

“No, sir…! Crazy!”

All they can do is just swear.

The reason they are throwing magic at me as they follow me is because, although some of them may be loyal soldiers, there are others chasing after me who are also throwing magic at me.

“Gray Gibraltar ㅡㅡㅡ!!”

Back.

Knight Commander Zeros Barcel is chasing you.

After that, the riders who had already been eliminated are chasing after the dragon, putting their bodies close to the dragon’s back.

At the back.

“Wow. I think they’re saying they’ll kill me if I get caught.”

The Duke of Winchester, filled with comprehensive shame, shame, and anger, is chasing from afar, holding something that looks like a whip.

The Grand Duke of Winchester, with a life-threatening spirit that seemed to have already bled his back, was shaking his beard as he looked at the drunk pilot who appeared on the electronic screen further in front of me.

“Ah.”

It was visible momentarily on the electronic display.

The Duke of Winchester’s explicit ‘ㅆ’ word appeared in the shape of his mouth

“…I guess I’ll have to cover it up later and say it was all directed at me.”

No matter how angry they were, who would openly throw double insults at the king?

If he were a normal socialite, he would have covered his mouth with his hand, but even the Archduke of Winchester would never have imagined that his six-headed text his would be transmitted to the audience in its entirety on a screen that was captured in an instant.

So.

It’s not the Duke of Winchester’s fault for failing to adapt to the empire’s culture, but I have no choice but to fix it.

“I have to think about saving my grandfather. Nidhogg!”

That swear word was not directed at the king.

“Fly with full power! Raise it!”

Purr…!

Towards me.

Whirrick!

Nidhogg slows down momentarily and turns his body his his his.

I let go of the ankle I was holding and leaned forward, floating in the air.

If you fail like this, of course you will be eliminated-

Good luck!

I landed on Nidhogg’s back and immediately grabbed the reins between his feathers.

“I guess I can prove it in front of everyone.”

Nid Hogg prepares by folding and unfolding his wings.

“This ‘traitorious spirit’ of mine.”

‘Acceleration’.

“In the sacred Gyeongryongjang, there is no king or nabal.”

Make your body as close to vertical as possible and collect magical power with the tip of the staff stretched out behind you.

“Acceleration.”

And then, he sprays the accumulated magic backwards at once.

Pa—-ang!!

Nidhogg folds his wings and leaps forward.

It was already flying fast, but as if there was magic in the middle of it, it leaps forward even faster, as if riding a tailwind.

Nothing special.

Like pushing up an elevator with a windstone, I’m just releasing magic power with the tip of my staff and spraying it behind Nidhogg like a windstone.

It’s just that the magic contains a little ‘sincerity’.

I love you!

“Huh?”

Nidhogg jumped over the golden drake that was running ahead of him and started running while looking straight ahead.

An empty track with no one around.

‘Swear to your heart’s content.’

A person who kills more animals than the king without notice in a hunting competition.

A knight of the kingdom who does not lose by even a narrow margin in the knightly competition in which the king participates.

And he openly declared that he would take first place despite the king’s intrusion, but he was a traitor who ran as if he was proud of his head.

Ah.

The head is, of course, the head of a drake.

Head is a word used only for animals.

Winning is up to humans.