A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

253 – A Funeral, Not a Festival (4)

Everyone has their own talents.

A person’s life changes depending on whether he or she realizes this talent early and the environment in which that talent can be developed.

Although there are some people who live in a high class without demonstrating their greatest talent, even such people tend to want to utilize their greatest talent once they discover it.

The problem is when this talent does not match one’s social position.

If the princess and queen of the kingdom is someone who wields an imperial musket better than anyone else on the continent.

Unless you are in a situation where you are quite on the defensive, someone will be offended by the thought of lowering the prestige of the Kingdom of Nostrum just by raising a gun.

If so.

Ta-euang!

What if you were in a position like now where no one was watching and you could only shoot in the dark?

“Hehe, hee hee, hee hee.”

Naria smiles slightly and quickly finishes loading.

Heading towards the end of the secret passage that suddenly appeared in the mortuary, she immediately points her gun and pulls the trigger as soon as she hears the sound of something rustling.

“Three.”

Naria counts the numbers.

Five shots, now three.

A 60% hit rate is something to think about, but it is not a hit rate that simply hits the enemy.

Kill score.

He shot five times, killing three.

Written by Gu Hu, Barcelona Government General Every time she fired an imperial-style magic bullet at an enemy trying to secretly infiltrate a secret passageway spread out underground, Naria’s body her trembled.

“Hehe…”

When you fire a gun, recoil occurs due to an internal explosion.

This is not the basic type that fires magic missiles, but the ‘magic bullet’ firing type newly developed by the Empire for war.

An explosion magic occurs inside, shooting the loaded bullet forward, and a ‘magic bullet’ that spins and flies along the spiral groove inside the gun barrel.

At the end of the magic stone bullet, which looks like an arrowhead, is a ‘release magic’ that is small enough to fit inside the gun barrel, and the discharge magic that reacts under the influence of the explosion magic makes the magic stone bullet fly forward as quickly as a windstone.

“Tsk.”

The first introduction of a secretly developed rifle began in the hands of Naria.

Since the emperor assumed that I was a regressor, I now act randomly without paying attention, but there are still things that make me think, ‘This is a bit wrong.’

This magic rifle is like that.

This was an item that I personally modified to execute reactions when I was a traitor.

“How are you, Queen Naria?”

“Give it to me.”

“Look here.”

“I won’t write in front of others, but I will write secretly only at important moments.”

Ta-ang.

Naria pulls her trigger again

“Doesn’t it have a significantly different killing power than the regular magic rifle that was a magic missile? Making such a dangerous item is treason. I will confiscate it.”

The sound of something falling was heard from across the passage, but Naria did not check whether it was a human or a shadow, and she only focused on shooting the magic bullet.

“It’s not something that was remodeled for a few days to have Her Majesty confiscate it.”

“Or, you are giving me a gift. They say it is a hunting machine that has been modified for hunting animals.”

“It’s a gift to kill an animal, but aren’t you killing a person instead of an animal?”

“There is no one.”

Naria shook her head resolutely and pulled her trigger.

“There is no way that a scum who tries to ruin a funeral by using a secret passage, and whose purpose is even to ruin the face of the mourner by damaging the body, is a person.”

It is a straightforward theory.

But wouldn’t it be a bit unfair to try to take someone else’s musket by using that theory?

“Lord Grey. Do you feel anything?”

“Do you feel it?”

“The traces of those far away.”

“…There is one thing I want to tell you in advance.”

I stood next to Lia and lifted her staff like her musket.

“Our government-general identified this underground passage a long time ago and analyzed its structure. And as a result, we also figured out that the distance from the stairs going down there to here is about 500 meters.”

This does not mean that the underground passage is only 500m long.

If you go straight along the straight passage for about 500m, there are stairs in front of you.

The official investigation ends here.

“I haven’t figured out what’s behind those stairs yet.”

If you continue following the stairs, you will reach the forest outside the Marquis Castle.

This is traitor Gray’s knowledge, and I deliberately stopped the investigation in order to use this secret passage.

“Why?”

“If they are found to have identified the passage, they will come through another passage, and then they won’t be able to hunt so easily.”

A 500m straight passageway built in the deepest room underground in Marquis Castle.

“This is a secret passage created for the people of the Marquis to secretly evacuate.”

“Isn’t it too long for something like that? What if the chase team comes after me and shoots arrows?”

“The goal is to shoot and hit.”

“Yes?”

“The group that ran away first survived, and those who ran behind were hit by arrows or magic missiles fired from here and fell.”

“Aha.”

Naria nods her head loudly and places her index finger on the trigger again.

“You were trying to use a meat shield.”

“Yes. There are no luminous magic stones or luminous signs, so nothing can be detected other than the light shining from here to there. There is even a detection-blocking spell on the wall that cannot be detected by magic, so it is impossible to know how many people are on the other side. “No.”

Ta-ang. Tang.

“So, no matter how sharp your eyes are, you can’t accurately spot something writhing in the dark, where you can’t see anything.”

A passage without a single light.

A fog of man spreads to limit vision.

As long as all the concealment magic to completely block the view inside the passage from this side is intact, attacking from this side to that side can only be done by intuition.

“Even with the eyes of a master?”

“You can only see it with the eyes of a master.”

I turned the aura from the tip of my wand into a magic bullet and shot it.

“It’s not like someone who isn’t a master like the queen can shoot and kill everyone just by holding a gun.”

“Is that so?”

Naria calmly twitched the corner of her mouth.

“Then wouldn’t I be able to say I’m a musket master?”

“It’s an imperial weapon?”

“I’m already riding imperial trains, eating imperial snacks, and reading imperial newspapers, so what’s the point of using imperial weapons?”

“…”

“Whether it’s a kingdom or an empire, all you have to do is kill it well…”

Click, click.

We ran out of bullets.

“Use it.”

Rather than firing a magic missile made of refined mana, you grind actual magic stones into bullets and shoot them, so when the magic bullets in the magazine run out, all that’s left is a heavy musket.

“One more.”

“Did you leave the magazine with you?”

“More.”

“Didn’t you say that it was made just for me in the first place? Originally, the idea was to put an aura on the front of the magic stone bullet and only shoot the aura.”

“Are you saying this is a weapon that only the Master can use?”

“Even if you’re not a master, you’re using it right now.”

“It looks like I can be a musket master.”

“…”

If it is said in the sense of replacing the existing sword master, it is a very absurd thing to say, but if it is said in the sense of a person with master-level talent, it is not wrong.

“If you give this to me, I will give you a nice gift.”

“What kind of gift?”

“Lemberi, I’ll eat it.”

“…”

The moment I was about to fire the auror bullet, my ears perked up for a moment.

“Baron Gunther of Lembourg died without a proper heir. He does have a daughter, the Marchioness of Gibraltar.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Gibraltar is only required to renounce the Barony of Gunther of Lembourg in exchange for the forgiveness of his debts to the state.”

“Hmm… “

I thought about it.

In fact, it was one of the plans I was planning to suggest after the funeral, but thanks to Naria suggesting it first, the process became much easier.

“Is this a suggestion from Queen Carmen?”

“No. This is my suggestion.”

“If you eat Lembury, you will lose a lot of money. There is no gold mine there.”

“Wouldn’t you be indebted to the House of Gibraltar for not paying the debt?”

“The joke is. Aren’t you actually trying to increase the power of the ‘Naria faction’ while pretending to check the expansion of the Gibraltar family’s land?”

“Oh, I got caught.”

Naria continued to click her trigger, even with her empty magazine.

“It won’t be a bad thing. Lembourg Gunter is full of people who hate Gibraltar anyway, so wouldn’t eating there only lead to more assassins causing terrorism?”

“Do you want to create a new Baron Gunther of Lembourg? Who?”

“No one.”

No one.

This is-

“No one will let in?”

“We will build a factory.”

“Oh.”

It’s quite an appetizing sound.

“We will build an imperial-style factory and have it process food. The first thing that comes to mind is a cookie factory.”

“Sweets?”

“If there are families who cannot even bake bread, wouldn’t it be okay to buy and eat snacks made in factories?”

“That feels like a very dangerous statement…”

I don’t know what it is, but it feels like I’ll be stuffed for the rest of my life if I say something wrong.

Or-

“Queen Naria’s opponents may be distorted by her slanderous remarks to slander Queen Naria. While the starving people were suffering, the Queen said, ‘Shouldn’t we eat cookies, not bread?’ “

“Cookies are cheaper than bread.”

“…”

“And we plan to supply the snacks made at the Lembourg factory so cheaply that they can be exchanged for 1 gold each.”

“It’s a food factory…”

“Does this sound too young?”

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“No. Proper food supply is always an important issue.”

The people of Nostrum refuse imperial snacks.

But what if it is a snack made by Nostrum workers using Nostrum flour in a factory built on Nostrum land?

“Okay, let’s do that.”

That’s a problem later, it’s a problem of nostrum.

“Lord Grey. You seem very happy to have disposed of Lembury?”

“Do you really think that I will be happy that I have taken care of a pile of debt? I am doing this because I am hoping that in the record of Her Majesty Queen Naria, there will be a phrase that says, ‘She gave snacks to every household so that all the people of Nostrum would not go hungry.'”

The queen who ensured that no child went hungry.

Since the previous king was Saint Geo, everyone will praise him even if he is just average, but if he shows actions worthy of praise, he will truly become the Sun King praised by the entire kingdom – no, the entire continent.

“So what kind of snacks are you going to give out?”

“Biscuit?”

“…”

What.

I decided to be satisfied with disposing of Lemberi.

Anyway, we sold it to the imperial family or the royal family, but for us, our biggest goal was to cut off the remaining ties of Lembourg Gunther to our Gibraltar family.

“Then Queen Naria. Where is the money to build the factory coming from? You’re not trying to rip us off, are you?”

“That’s… “

The moment she was about to say something, Naria tilted her head for a moment.

“…Lord Gray.”

“Yes.”

“I’ve been feeling this for a while, but since Lord Gray didn’t point it out much, I thought it was a mistake.”

Naria pointed beyond her hallway.

“I have the sense to shoot and kill, but why is it that none of them even scream?”

“…”

One thing.

Naria has complete memory ability, and when entities in the darkness are revealed to the light, their images can be imprinted in her eyes.

“Naria.”

So, I quietly opened a bag next to the coffin and handed an item inside to Naria.

“They are beasts anyway. Shoot them.”

“…This is a different story.”

Naria began to grin as she received her magazine, and before I could say anything, she immediately operated her musket and replaced her magazine.

“I felt like something was lacking, but alas, this heavy feeling is so…”

“…”

Her index finger and slightly raised little finger were trembling with joy.

Ta-euang!

The moment the trigger was pulled again and the magic bullet was fired.

“…Huh?”

“…”

There must have been an error in the production of the bullet, and the first bullet exploded and burst into light.

‘Oh, shit.’

The embers of the magic bullet that flew toward the hallway in the wind illuminated the attackers in the darkness.

“Lord Grey. What is that?”

“…”

Ah.

It was ruined.

Naria saw it and stopped.

“A zombie with gold dripping from its body…?”

The identity of the attackers who were killed in the dark could only be seen through the eyes of the master.

“Lord Grey.”

“I don’t know.”

“…If you didn’t know, Lord Gray would have taken that as is, right?”

“I didn’t know.”

An undead knight dying with gold flowing from his body instead of blood.

“I think it’s definitely true that I didn’t know…”

It’s my first time seeing something like that.

“Even if you saw it for the first time, didn’t you keep it a secret from me and try to steal the gold later?”

“Naria.”

“For some reason, it didn’t even light up the darkness. It wasn’t because I was worried about seeing the body, but because I was trying to hide the gold over there flowing like blood? Yes?”

“Queen?”

I picked up the bag.

“I’ll give you all of this, so let’s split it in half, right?”

I was just worried that Naria would save the terrible scene in her memory.

“Is this a bribe?”

“This is just a small gift from Queen Naria to support her personal hobbies.”

“…”

Ta-ang.

“I don’t take bribes. All the gold in Nostrum land belongs to Nostrum. And I picked up a gun.”

“…”

Be patient.

Gray, the traitor inside me.

“I’m just kidding. Take it all instead.”

“Instead…?”

“Give me this.”

Naria held her musket tightly as if it were more precious than gold.

“Matangi No. 2 is now mine.”