A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

264 – The Most Gorgeous Coffin for You (8)

Many reporters from around the empire gathered at the Gibraltar Gorge to capture the moment of the century, but those there were either apprentices or newcomers to the newspaper.

Where are the editors and veteran reporters?

It is in the royal capital.

After receiving permission from the embassy and wearing the royal family’s entry permit around his neck, he was allowed to enter the royal palace on the condition that he clearly learned the etiquette of Nostrum.

It is said that when they found out it was an airship, they shouted, ‘I should be there!’, But they soon changed their minds and waited and waited for the emperor’s airship to arrive from the royal capital.

They say it has been flying in the sky ever since it crossed the canyon.

In that case, at least the airship won’t go over the royal capital’s castle, but if you take a picture of the Hayreddin approaching near the royal capital, that alone would be a great picture.

Or, if there was a scene showing him going over the kingdom’s walls, it would be a great scene.

This means that the imperial airship breaks through the skies of the kingdom where the barrier is spread and lands on the royal capital, which is also proof that the relationship between the kingdom and the empire has improved much more than before.

The reason the emperor came here right now is a movement for peace.

It would be better if the kingdom’s princess and the empire’s crown prince were engaged to each other, but unfortunately, there is no official crown prince in the empire.

Even if there was such a person, if she had tried to marry the Queen of Nostrum, she would have taken someone long ago and made him her crown prince.

That doesn’t happen.

Instead, the marquis within the kingdom, the heir of the Gibraltar family, and the imperial princess make a promise to marry in a historic place in Nostrum.

A place with 500 years of brilliant history.

The capital of the Kingdom of Nostrum.

The name is ‘Toledo’.

Hosted by Queen Naria Gio Nostrum, a festival and banquet was held in the royal capital with the entire capital as a stage.

Gray Gibraltar and Astasia von Tersian, the second grand and extravagant banquet in Nostrum for the two.

The banquet began with an imperial ship flying through the sky above the horizon, slowly descending and landing on the rails entering the capital’s station, passing through the kingdom’s wide open gates.

* * *

Wow!!

When we looked outside through the window installed in the small banquet hall on the third floor instead of the deck, we saw a large crowd of people gathered outside and waving small hand flags at us.

“I guess I should cancel the evaluation of him as the king of tigers.”

I smiled softly as I looked at the soldiers lined up on both sides of the rail and the citizens of the capital waving hand flags.

“Waving three flags together. Whose words were these? Huh?”

“If Queen Carmen had been born into the imperial family, she might have become the Habsburg Crown Prince’s greatest political rival.”

“Ah, I see. I guess she taught me that.”

Although Queen Carmen did not know much about the empire, she quickly understood and absorbed things about the empire through books and newspapers.

Her political engineering methods are now shining brightly from the welcoming crowd of the royal capital.

The people in the royal capital who came out to see the airship on the street – originally, the magic automatic ship – were all waving the flags of Nostrum, Gibraltar, and Thersian Empire.

“Well, if you had prepared it instead of Morgania’s Black Rose, you wouldn’t have prepared the flag of the Terscian Empire.”

“What are you saying?”

“I know, but, hehe.”

The Habsburg emperor raised his arms and secretly fiddled with the buttons on his sleeves.

It was an ordinary silver button, but it had a unique pattern engraved on it that was rarely seen in the empire.

Habsburg’s personal coat of arms.

And sooner or later, it will become a unique symbol of the continent.

Future.

Like the symbol engraved on the flag of the time when the Habsburg emperor declared a unified continental calendar as soon as he conquered Nostrum and named the country ‘Hapsburg’.

“Where is the Queen now?”

“You will be in the palace right now.” You will be waiting to greet the emperor on the throne.”

“Throne…”

“There will be no Saint Geo Nostrum. He would not be here in the first place.”

“Isn’t it dangerous?”

“…”

The Habsburg Emperor pointed in the direction of Gibraltar, but I simply shrugged his shoulder in response.

“Indeed. I don’t know anything else, but I’m saying that he was more thorough in with his family than anyone else.”

“Thanks to the creation of the train, wouldn’t it be possible to travel from the Royal Capital to Gibraltar in one hour, one way, if you decide to?”

“If you use the miracle of magic, teleportation will be possible in less than a minute.”

“It is not possible to use magic all the time, and this is impossible because there is a wide anti-magic shield spread across the royal capital.”

“It’s an anti-magic shield…”

The emperor looked out the window, towards the sky of the royal capital.

“That shield that nullifies attacks below advanced magic, even those flying through the sky?”

“According to the literature, it is said to be a blessing bestowed by the golden dragon Geo Nostrum. It is called ‘Manadome’ or something.”

“I don’t know if it was created by a guardian dragon or a great wizard from the founding myth, but at least it tells you not to think about attacking from the air.”

“Yes.”

If it had been possible to attack from the air, the battle to conquer the royal capital before returning would not have been a siege in the traditional sense.

Even though St. Gionostrum had fled, I Ria Gionostrum and his loyal soldiers remained, risking their lives to defend the royal gates of Toledo.

The reason why it became a traditional siege was because aerial assault from the sky was impossible and failed.

They tried to infiltrate from the sky above Nostrum by deploying parachutes under the airship, but they were soon hit hard by the shield, and the number of soldiers who rolled through the shield and fell below the castle wall quickly exceeded double digits.

“Grey Gibraltar. How would you plan to attack this castle?”

“Is it okay for someone who came for peace and harmony to say something like that?”

“Until the entrance to the airship is opened, no sound will travel anywhere else. Tell me. How will you attack? The royal castle that has not been attacked even once in 500 years.”

Just as the canyon has not been breached until the last gate, the royal capital has never been occupied even when looking back on history.

“It will be surprisingly easy. No one would ever think of doing it, but when you do it, it will feel like nothing.”

“Do you know because you tried it?”

“Rather than saying I know it because I tried it, wouldn’t it be enough for a master level to cut down the entire wall if it’s an old castle wall that has only been repaired a few times over the past 500 years?”＜ Br＞

“What kind of nostrum-like answer is this!”

The emperor screamed as if it was absurd.

“I thought you would take over the capital in a more elegant and refined way.”

“Isn’t this the most elegant and sophisticated way to conquer the royal capital?”

“Cutting down the castle wall?”

“If you cut the castle wall in a V shape, half of the troops in the capital will lose their will to fight. If it is a gate instead of a castle wall, the effect will be doubled.”

“Hmm… “

“Of course, that castle gate or wall over there. Unless you are a decent master, you won’t get cut easily even if you use an auror.”

Before we knew it, we had crossed the center of the royal capital, climbed up the regular road, and were approaching the inner gate leading to the royal castle.

“Forcibly breaking open the castle gate with overwhelming force. Is there any other way to capture the royal capital as surely as that?”

“What if there is no such force?”

“Then, at that time, you will have to use your brain and wisdom.”

I pointed down.

“Whether you come up with a way to infiltrate from the inside by digging a tunnel, infiltrate from the air under the cover of darkness at a time or method that the enemy’s shield cannot recognize, or bribe internal personnel in advance to secretly open the castle gate before the siege unfolds, the traditional method is either use the siege method.”

“Tradition?”

“Isn’t the original siege meant cutting off food supplies and lying down on the ground until you starve to death? It’s not a sophisticated method, but most people can’t overcome hunger easily.”

“That’s a good answer.”

The Habsburg Emperor nodded deeply.

“I don’t think I can tell you all because I don’t have time, but I’m sure you know dozens of other ways, right?”

“I only thought about it as a theory. Just like when the Empire was trying to take down the gateway to the Gibraltar Gorge, bachelors wrote reports and graduate students even wrote it as thesis topics at numerous academies in the Empire about what would be the best method.”

“Haha. It must be such a pity for those graduate students.”

“So you changed the topic of your thesis to knocking on the gates of the Kingdom of Nostrum instead?”

“Haha. But that doesn’t mean we’re really at war.”

Is it okay to say things like this just because you can’t hear from outside?

I’m really looking forward to what the kingdom’s people out there, who are passionately waving their flags at the emperor of the empire, will say when they hear this conversation.

“Get off slowly. You have to walk from now on.”

“Maybe it’s because I’ve been drinking, but I feel like I’m stumbling a little. Can you help me?”

“I can lend you a cane.”

“To be merciless.”

As soon as the Emperor snapped his fingers, the sound of the airship’s magic engine moving slowly began to subside.

As the power stopped, the speed naturally decreased, and the wheels also slowed down due to the weight, and the movement gradually began to stop due to friction with the floor.

“Please guide me. Gray Governor of Gibraltar Barcelona.”

“Follow me, Your Majesty Habsburg.”

The door opens.

The cover covering the bow of the airship opened left and right on its own, and the wide board stretched forward, creating an incline.

Jeopuk, Jeopuk.

As I took the lead and walked sideways, the Habsburg emperor walked slowly along with my steps.

“Hehe.”

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The emperor smiled and followed behind me.

I wondered if there was a need to come this close, but in fact, if my left arm and the emperor’s right arm moved greatly, they came close to touching each other, so I was a little embarrassed.

“Your Majesty the Emperor. For now-“

Per-eok.

For a moment, silence fell on the street.

The honor guard lined up left and right stopped playing their instruments, and even the people who were waving the flag stopped doing so.

“Hmm.”

I expected it, but I never thought they would start doing something crazy like this already.

“This, this…!”

The Black Rose Knight, who was holding a musical instrument as an honor guard, hurriedly attacked an old man.

In the old man’s hand was a rotten egg that looked as if it had been prepared a long time ago, just by looking at the shell.

One of them has already flown in front of us.

I just waved it away with my stick.

“Grey.”

The emperor spoke in a very low voice so that no one could hear.

“Even after this, will we leave Nostrum as is?”

“Your Majesty.”

As I was being detained, I pretended to lightly flick my thumb towards the old man who was trying to scream something.

“Saint Geonostrum is not singular.”

“…Hehahaha!!”

The emperor stopped in his tracks and burst into laughter.

“Yeah, yeah. I see. If that’s the case, fine. Let’s go…”

Grinning.

“How many people in Nostrum are like Saint Geo Nostrum? If there are 100 people in the capital, at least 30 people are like Saint Geo Nostrum.”

“My answer is always the same. Except.”

I pointed towards the road where silence fell and increased my speed.

“If that is 99 out of 100, I will purge those 99 with my own hands.”

“I’m looking forward to it.”

In the silence where not even music flows.

“If you decide to kill, I think you can kill better than me.”

“That’s why I endure it.”

The emperor arrived at the royal castle.

“I feel like once I start killing them, I’ll kill them all, leaving no one behind.”