The Max-Leveled Princess is Bored Today As Well

“Magic…?!” Caesar, who stood beside me, muttered in disbelief.

I didn’t say anything, but I was surprised too.

Is it possible to activate this kind of magic in this era…?

“It’s magic!”

“Save me!”

Shortly after the magic circles emitted light, holes appeared all over the plaza floor. And from those holes, familiar beasts crawled out.

“Lucocrotta…!” I gritted my molars and lamented.

The large monster I met at Vandalium during the monster’s subjugation mission now appeared in the plaza.

And not just one. There seemed to be a good dozen of them.

“Hahahahahaha!!” In the center of the plaza, which had turned chaotic because of people’s screams and confusion, Marianne burst into maddened laughter.

“I’ve warned you! Did you think I would die easily?!”

“That crazy woman…!”

Did she make this mess to get revenge on Caesar and me? Even involving innocent people?

“Your Majesty! Your Ladyship! Come this way!” Leonard, holding a sword, appeared and called Caesar.

The two of us came down from the terrace and back to our room, escorted by the imperial bodyguards.

As soon as Caesar entered the room, he took his sword, put it on, and started a discussion with the cavalry commander Garmal.

“There are soldiers in the square. I will send 100 to evacuate the people.”

“Good. Let the Black Knights guide the guests to a safe place.”

“What should we do with the monsters? It’s better to form a group around the margrave.”

“No, it would be better to move around the people who went out to subdue the monsters last time.”

“Then we’ll leave the monsters to the Red Knights.”

“I’ve already sent Gerald to move, cavalry commander,” Dalton said with a firm expression. His expression was so tense that one couldn’t even recall his usual image mischievous and sloppy look.

“Duke Garmal. Don’t let the monsters leave the square. They’ll be more difficult to solve if that happens.”

“Yes!”

Dalton and Garmal left after saluting Caesar.

I glanced at Caesar. Even in this embarrassing situation, he directed the handling with relatively calm and accurate judgment. But I could see his jaw trembling slightly. I felt sorry for him as I saw the cold sweat on his forehead.

‘Magic… Did she summon the monsters with magic?’

Leaving Caesar to give instructions, I calmly reflected on the previous situation.

The reason Marianne harmed people was probably that this type of magic was activated by sacrificing human blood or corpses. ‘Taboo’ usually requires such things.

‘Then, if the number of casualties increases due to the monsters, will this magic circle continue to exist?’

People for sacrifice are full and numerous. Even if we try to kill the monsters that have been summoned now, there’s no answer if the monsters are constantly summoned.

We have to stop the magic itself somehow.

“My lady!”

At that moment, I heard Agoth’s voice from the other side of the hallway. When I looked up, I saw her running at me panting with a large weapon bag in her arms.

“Agoth!”

“Huft, huft… I-I thought you might need this…!” Agoth, who arrived before me, collapsed and gasped for breath. Her whole body was covered with sweat.

“I brought your sword and gauntlet…! I didn’t have time to find clothes to change into…!”

“It’s okay. This is enough. Well done, Agoth.”

I was genuinely proud of Agoth.

Hamilton, overhearing the conversation between Agoth and me, shouted in dismay, “Are you thinking of going out?”

“Of course. What’s the point of sitting around when you need one more hand?”

“I mean, how can you be involved in such a dangerous thing when you’re now an empress- Aaagh! What are you doing?!” Hamilton screamed as I took off my loose dress. Not just Hamilton. All the knights standing there turned around with blushing faces in bewilderment.

While even Leonard was covering his eyes with one hand, only Caesar stared at me with his hand on his waist.

“Can’t you at least get undressed in the absence of the others, Helena?”

“There’s no time for that.”

Taking off the heavy dress, I wore a light slip. I tried to remove the veil too, but it was hard to do so because it was firmly fixed on my head, so I cut it short with a sword.

As I changed my clothes, I continued to speak to Caesar.

“If the magic doesn’t stop, the monsters will continue to be summoned.”

“How are you going to stop it?”

“Marianne, the subject who activated the magic… We have no choice but to get rid of her,” I said as I fitted the sword to my waist. Caesar responded to my words with a hmm.

“… Hey, you.” Caesar, who seemed troubled, slowly looked at the attendants standing beside him and pointed at one of them.

The attendant, who was pointed out, was startled and bowed his head, trembling all over.

“Take off your shoes.”

At Caesar’s command, the attendant jerked his head up in embarrassment. However, he took off his shoes without hesitation at Caesar’s cold expression.

Caesar brought it up and sat on one knee in front of me. Then he took off my shoes and put them on.

“Your Majesty…?”

“You weren’t going to run around in your shoes, were you?”

Hmm… I even thought about running barefoot. But I’ll get scolded if I say this, so I’ll shut up.

Caesar took off his cloak and threw them over my shoulder.

“You can take it off if it’s cumbersome.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“If you answer ‘yes’ so quickly, I’ll get hurt.” Caesar smiled as if wanting to relieve the tension. In fact, seeing that smile, I felt a bit calmer.

“Will it be okay for you two?” Caesar said, looking at Leonard and Agoth. The two nodded at the same time in response.

“Okay then,” Caesar said determinedly.

“Let’s go.”

“… What?!”

This time it was I who was taken aback, not Hamilton.

Go? Where are you going?

“Now, wait a minute! You want to go too?!” I screamed in surprise.

But instead, Caesar tilted his head as if asking me what the problem was, “Then did you really think I’d send the empress alone to that mess?”

“Ah, no, I don’t need you to protect me-”

“What are you talking about, wife? I will kill Marianne Valer. So my wife has to protect me.” Caesar smiled wickedly as he drew his sword. “Aren’t you a knight who only guarded me?”

Is this why you asked me to be knighted?

Just then, screams rang from afar along with cracking sounds. Did the monsters enter the imperial palace?

We don’t have time to argue here.

“Your Majesty is really stubborn,” I grumbled, and Caesar burst into laughter.

“I learned something from my master.”

“All right. Let’s go clean up this mess,” I said while adjusting the fluttering cloak.

The air calmed down at my declaration. It was an intense statement no one could refute.

***

There were not many monsters infiltrating the castle, so most of them were solved by the Black Knights.

They were ridiculed as the ‘ceremonial knights’, but a knight is still a knight. Above all, many trainees received my teaching.

“Your Majesty, this way!” Leonard, who had been running ahead, shouted.

Caesar and I blew off Lucrocotta’s, who was struggling at the entrance to the imperial castle, head and then followed Leonard to the inside of the plaza.

“Fortunately, it seems that the evacuation went smoothly,” Caesar said as he looked at the plaza where the population density had decreased drastically. It was thanks to the success of the White Knights and the enlisted soldiers in promptly evacuating people as ordered.

However, the plaza floor was already stained with corpses and blood here and there. The damage was only ‘less’ than expected, not ‘no damage’.

“It’s coming from behind!” Agoth exclaimed as I turned the handle of my sword in a subdued rage.

I already felt the killing force approaching from behind, so I turned around and cut off the leg of the beast approaching from behind.

The monster limped away before turning back toward me.

However, before it could attack me again, Leonard’s sword cut off its head.

Hamilton turned white and kicked the severed beast’s head with his foot.

Everyone seems to have properly remembered that the body and head must be separated since Lucrocotta is a monster with a fast regeneration speed.

I was the one who couldn’t remember it properly, instead.

“Ahhh, two are coming!”

“There’s one from here too!”

After I dealt with one, this time three monsters rushed at me.

Right. I had forgotten…

‘The monsters came after me…!’

Like a magnet, as soon as I appeared in the plaza, all the beasts nearby rushed towards me.

One or two wasn’t a problem, but no matter how strong I was, several at once was too much for me.

“You really-!” I put the sword under the jaw of the monster approaching from the front and took it out, uttering a curse.

‘Because of this, let alone finding Marianne, we won’t be able to take even one step forward from here!’

“My lady! Be careful!”

Agoth’s voice was clear and reached my ears. When I turned my head, a monster stood to my right with its mouth open.

‘I can’t avoid this.’

If I had been adequately equipped with armor, I could have pushed it away. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to give up my arm to cut off its head… Or so I thought.

“Gwaaaagh—!”

The beast’s head which was aiming its fangs at my shoulder flew away into the air instantly.

I, who had been preparing for the pain, paused in bewilderment.

“Oh, Your Majesty?”

It was Caesar who cut off the beast’s head.

Caesar, drenched in the blood of the monster, turned around to me. He then shouted at me, who was puzzled by the angry look on his face.

“You can’t do this!”

“… What?!”

What? What are you saying?!

Why are you suddenly scolding me?!

I was more flustered than when the monster appeared before me and completely froze.

“How long are you going to fight alone, Helena?”

… Ah.

I see.

‘Now I’m not fighting alone.’

I was distracted by the battle and forgot again about the fact that now there were people who I could trust my back to.

“… Brother! Agoth! Make a way into the plaza!” I raised my sword again and shouted. At my words, Caesar gave a satisfied smile.

Leonard and Agoth also quickly changed their attack patterns. As if they had been in agreement from the beginning, they calmly and skillfully lured and finished the monsters.

‘Okay, let’s go!’

Leaving the back to the two, Caesar and I leaped and ran into the plaza.

“Marianne!”

After running for a while, we met a woman with red hair under a pillar in the plaza’s center.

‘As expected, this woman is the center of magic.’

The magic circle beneath Marianne’s feet emitted a brighter light than the outside of the plaza.

Moreover, several monsters were standing around her and roaring as if to protect her.

Marianne gave us a relaxed smile, she said, “Do you like my congratulatory gift?”

Caesar smiled coldly and pointed his sword at Marianne. “This is the worst. I’m thinking of returning it with your body.”

“That’s too bad. I even borrowed Lord Lable’s hand for this.”

‘Lord Lable? Noe Lable?’

“I hope you like this present.”

This present? Is there anything else besides this?

The moment I thought so, from the plaza’s center where Marianne was standing, black color began to spread widely.

The black floor, like the holes created when the monsters came out, covered the plaza with an incomparable size.

‘What’s this?’

I gripped my sword even tighter and glared at my feet.

‘Just cut whatever comes out at once.’

Perhaps Caesar had the same idea, he fixed his grip on his sword.

A tingling sensation ran through my body.

Instinct was warning me that the one below was dangerous.

And after a while, what I found under my feet…

“… Eye?”

…was a huge eyeball.

Yellow, shiny, reptilian eyes.

“… Get away!” I screamed and left the spot immediately. At the same time, a large black reptile rose from the floor.

It was a dragon made of all sorts of odds and ends.