The Necromancer Commands Slaves, Not Undeads

43 – The princess’s secret (6)

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After winning over Maria, I watched the showdown between Oscar and Dorothy. The strange blue eye glow that had been seen during the battle with Morse was appearing on Dorothy.

The two people were too fast to be considered humans. In a fight where they were busy following each other with their eyes, the two showed movements that were close to acrobatics.

Dorothy was bleeding from the nose. He had slightly sunken eyes and looked like he had done quite a bit of damage compared to Oscar.

In comparison, Oscar had no injuries despite having the handicap of bare hands, showing that his skills were superior to Dorothy’s.

I sensed something strange about him. Even though he was wearing heavy armor, the way he moved quickly was very strange.

I watched the battle with my hands sweating. Dorothy, wielding a rapier, looked dangerous.

But the only thing I could do here now was quietly cheer for her.

This was not a fight to kill, but a fight to prove. That fight was solely Dorothy’s responsibility.

“Ugh…My golem…”

Meanwhile, Maria, who had been screaming at the golem that had torn off her arm, sat in front of it and was still sobbing. I spoke to Maria as she sighed.

“Stop crying now and come here and take a look. Even if you cry, the golem won’t come back.”

“It’s noisy! It’s all because of you!”

“I was only exercising my legitimate skills as a mock battle. If you cared so much about the golem, you should have surrendered a long time ago.”

“Keuung…”

Maria closed her mouth and rubbed her eyes, as if she had no reason to refute my words. After a while, Maria seemed to have calmed down and came next to me to watch the battle between Oscar and Dorothy.

“Oh my god, are we still fighting?”

“Yes, I guess.”

Maria looked very surprised.

“Why are you so surprised?”

“No, it’s rare to see someone who can hold out like that against Oscar…”

“Is he that strong?”

She thought, of course, that she was definitely a skilled person since she was the princess’s bodyguard. But is she really that surprised?

“Oscar is one of less than a hundred Auror users in the Empire, so it’s natural for him to be strong.”

“What is an Auror?”

“Ha, are you really a wizard?”

Maria looked at me with a frustrated expression. Well, people may not know this, but they give it a lot of reproach.

“Listen carefully, Auror is magic used by people who are not wizards. Usually wizards use it by converting mana…”

Maria, who looked about my age, seemed to have studied diligently, unlike me, and seemed to know a lot about Aurors.

She was ticked, but as she watched Maria explain a lot about Aurors, she thought that maybe she wasn’t actually such a bad person.

Or maybe she just likes to show off.

Anyway, to summarize Maria’s explanation in one word, she was the magic used by warriors.

It is a type of magic that strengthens the body, but the number of people who can use it is extremely limited, and the effect is so powerful that it has become the envy of all knights.

Those who can properly use Aurors are worth a hundred by their very existence, and in the case of the Auror brothers who were the first to awaken Aurors, they were said to be unrivaled against the military, so it was understandable as to why Maria highly valued Oscar.

No matter how bare-handed she is, Dorothy is able to stand firm against an Auror user with great power.

I thought she was amazing. Even though it had only been half a year since Dorothy picked up the sword in earnest, she had the skills to withstand an Auror user.

I was finally able to deeply understand why the black wolf called Dorothy a genius.

“Dorothy is amazing.”

At that moment, a blue light flashed in Dorothy’s eyes. Dorothy’s mood, which had been pushed aside until now, changed.

The moment the blue eye light flashed, Dorothy’s body accelerated. Her eyes watched her Oscar’s arms and legs, preparing for her blow. Dorothy, reading her enemy’s movements, dodged Oscar’s blows with minimal spacing.

Dorothy’s next move was to stab. So far, her attacks have never caused any significant damage to Oscar. However, Dorothy’s rapier, which penetrated the gap in her armor’s shoulder, succeeded in wounding Oscar for the first time.

Dorothy’s rapier was stained with her blood, and Maria, looking at it, blinked her eyes blankly.

“Oh my god, what did I just see…”

“What, what… Is that girl also an Auror user?”

“It looks like that…”

It appears that the suspicious eye glow she saw during the battle with Morse was a symbol of Auror manifestation.

I swallowed my saliva. Because I was just as surprised as Maria. Dorothy has now grown further in this fight. But that was all.

After her counterattack, as much as Dorothy got faster, her Oscar also got faster. After that, Oscar dominated, just as she had initially expected. Dorothy persevered with persistence, but eventually reached her limit.

Oscar’s sharp middle kick landed squarely in Dorothy’s empty abdomen. Dorothy’s body sways and flies behind him. Dorothy rolled around on the floor and could no longer get up.

“Dorothy! Are you okay!?”

I immediately ran towards the fallen Dorothy. Dorothy was clutching his abdomen with a painful expression.

“Up there!”

Oscar’s next move did not follow. The princess announced the end of the mock battle in a satisfied voice.

“It’s okay…”

I didn’t feel any negative emotions in that clear sounding voice.

I scratched my head and sighed. Even though it was a chance to prove her skills to the princess, seeing Dorothy injured didn’t feel good at all.

I supported Dorothy’s body and lifted her up. The princess, Maria, and Oscar came closer to us. The princess opened her mouth to her closest aides standing next to her.

“So, how do you feel about dealing with these people?”

“Honestly, I was surprised. I regret the past when I looked down on her because she was just a young girl, but this girl exceeded my expectations.”

Oscar’s deep voice, which had remained silent until now, rang out. The knight’s straight gaze behind his white helmet turned to Dorothy, and he held out his hand in a handshake.

“My name is Oscar. I would like to greet you formally.”

“My name is Dorothy.”

Oscar and Dorothy shook hands. Oscar bent her knees towards the girl who was smaller than herself and spoke with her respect.

“Although I’m ahead of you now because I’ve been alive for a long time, I’m sure you’ll soon overtake me. I’m looking forward to seeing you grow in the future.”

hehehehe, contrary to his first impression of her looking heavy and cold with a wide smile, Oscar spoke warmly to Dorothy.

This time the princess looked at Maria. Maria, unlike Oscar, remained silent. The princess looked at Maria intently, and Maria opened her mouth, covering her face with both hands with an expression of embarrassment.

“It was a complete defeat to the point of splitting… I hate to admit it, but that guy is an excellent wizard. But I’ve never heard of magic like that in any book…”

The mock battle was our victory. It didn’t mean that we beat Oscar and Maria, but that we proved our abilities to the princess.

Okay, it was short and difficult, but now it’s time to hear the truth about what happened with the Golden Lion and the Princess.

“Okay, then there is no need to drag the story any further. I promise that what I say here and now is the truth in the name of Amelia von Russell-Wittenberg, the First Princess of the Empire.”

The princess began to explain the strange things she had experienced so far.

“That day was a banquet to commemorate Brother Elias’s return to the capital. It was a large and noisy banquet with all the nobles of the empire, merchants and mercenaries connected to them gathered. As usual, the ram brought by the servants “I was enjoying a banquet while drinking red wine from the Berger estate…”

The emperor has three sons and one daughter. The character Elias is the emperor’s eldest son and the first prince of the empire. The rumors I heard weren’t very good.

She said that although she was not stupid like other princes, she had an evil spirit and had a lot of scandals involving women. The emperor was also aware of the problem, and naturally he moved away from his position as crown prince.

Seeing as they held a banquet for him upon his return, it was clear that the emperor still cherished him as his son.

“I felt different from usual. I felt a thirst that could not be quenched no matter how much water I drank, and it was a very unpleasant feeling. I couldn’t look disheveled in the banquet hall, so I went outside for a while and took a walk at night. And Unfortunately, I met a golden lion.”

The princess bared her teeth in front of us. She looked like an ordinary person’s teeth… But at that moment, the blood vessels on Princess Amelia’s face began to stand out. The shape of her teeth became sharp, like those of a beast.

“The moment I saw the nape of his neck, I couldn’t bear it, just like that, Kwasik! I bit into human skin for the first time. After that, it was just as you know. I screamed and the golden lion was taken away for s*xual harassment. All.”

As soon as she finished explaining, her teeth returned to their human form. Maria explained further.

“I found out why the princess became a vampire. Wine was the culprit. The wine the servant brought was mixed with vampire blood. The princess drank it…”

Maria shook her fists with a very indignant expression.

“The servant is the culprit…”

Dorothy cautiously opened her mouth, but the princess shook her head.

“It’s an unfortunate fact, but nothing came out of interrogating the servants. The identity of the culprit has not yet been revealed.”

Is that really what happened? I felt like the question I always had was finally completely resolved.

Why is the Golden Lion alive and not killed by the hands of the intelligent princess?

If it becomes known that the princess is a monster that sucks her blood, not only will she not become the emperor, but she may have to spend her whole life having to explain why she became a vampire.

The act of s*xual harassment by a member of the royal family can result in summary execution. Her guard, Oscar, could have cut off the golden lion’s head with a single sword even if it had resisted.

There would have been many ways to kill the golden lion without leaving any evidence. If you wanted to keep the incident a secret.

I told her princess what I should do from now on.

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“Then what we have to do from now on is take the Golden Lion’s side.”

The princess looked at me and gave her answer with a grin.