The Blood Knight’s Villains

My Villains Chapter 244

49. Visitors (7)

The lodging that our party was currently using, the Herb Guild Hall, was tidy but not luxurious.

The only rooms on the first floor were a few offices used by guild leaders and other executives, and a warehouse kitchenette.

The 1st floor of the guild hall was quite quiet to suit this simple structure.

At a table in the corner, Gidon the Crossbowman was sitting alone, reading the Bible, and at the table next to him, a freckled mummy and heavy swordsman Umberta were whispering something with their heads together.

Meanwhile, in the midst of such silence, I was sitting at the table in the middle, mending my armor.

“What’s going on?”

” huh?”

Ellen, who was sitting across from her, continued with her gaze fixed on the glass crystal ball.

“I don’t like your expression.”

“expression? ah.”

because of what happened before.

The bundle that received the present stung for a while and then withdrew into the room with a gloomy face. I was a bit worried because it was different from usual, and even I had a hardened expression because of that.

“…umm nothing.”

Wiping the rapeseed oil from the shin guard with a clean cloth, he naturally turned around.

“What are you doing? Are you done training today?”

“Not today. Simos didn’t come at the time, so I need to adjust the crystal ball.”

The boy’s eyes were shining blue as he peered into the crystal ball. It’s something I’ve seen several times before.

Ellen’s mana flowed into the crystal sphere as if following her gaze, and at the same time, the mana contained in the crystal sphere also flowed into him. In that way, mana was exchanged as if it were convection, and the magic tools were adjusted.

“Why didn’t Simos come?”

“I don’t know. I have work to finish at the upper house.”

“firm?”

“okay. You must be being eaten by your cousin at the store.”

Sanghoe is the place where the army sent by the king is stationed. As it is the place where those who took control of the city by order of the king reside, it is now practically the administrative office of Modos.

The past few days, Heila has been in and out of the store with Simos and Dervish and a few other mercenaries. They say they plan to buy a few people at the same time as the takeover…

Well. I don’t know if it will work. you will do well

“It’s a pity.”

“uh? Who is pitiful?”

“Sea Moss.”

“Why Simos?”

“The path to learning has opened, albeit belatedly, but you’re missing out on opportunities because of useless things.”

“A chance… a chance to learn a spell from you?”

“no.”

Ellen shook her head with a determined face.

“I do not teach spells. No matter what my skills are, I haven’t earned the title of Master yet.”

The guy continued talking with his characteristic arrogant eyes and nasty face.

“Of course, even if you were a Master, you wouldn’t have taught a spell to a half-assed fool like Simos.”

“So what is Simos’ missed opportunity?”

“An opportunity to receive advice.”

“advice?”

“okay. Even if you don’t teach the spell directly, I can give you a hint.”

“Aha…

I nodded, then tilted my chin to one side at a thought that suddenly came to my mind.

“By the way, you can only use one electrical spell, right? Can you give me some advice on that?”

Ellen frowned slightly, as if her pride had been hurt. It was also to regain his arrogance for a while and speak out confidently.

“Do you think that handling a few spells is all I can do?”

…wasn’t it?

“then’?”

“If you use magic in front of me, you can easily understand the flow and operation of mana. Advice based on that will be an opportunity for growth.”

I nodded my head with an expression of ‘Ah, yes, I see’, and finished cleaning the armor.

Then he suddenly remembered what had happened at church and asked Ellen a question.

“Have you been thinking about it?”

“worry?”

“uh. I told you to think about whether to go to the palace or to find the forbidden book.”

” ah.”

Ellen, who put the crystal ball in her bosom, drooled with a cautious expression.

“Do I have to decide now?”

“What is it? Looking at the monks, it seemed like they would let them go soon.”

“…”Hmm.”

Ellen was given two options.

first. Chasing the ‘Dark Knight Akhil Lemnur’ in order to retrieve the forbidden book of the palace lost by the teacher.

second. Take the master’s enemy, the spell thief Saitz, and return to the palace to clear the name right away.

He smiled at Ellen, who kept her mouth shut and continued her worries.

“Whichever you choose, don’t worry, I’ll help you.”

“…you never worried?” The guy who acted cutely, continued to worry again. When the thought had gone on for quite some time, I opened my mouth.

“What are you worrying about? Say something.”

“That’s it,”

Ellen continued, brushing off her brief hesitation with a deep breath.

“I want to chase the dark knight and retrieve the forbidden book… but I don’t even have a clue, so it’s a bit helpless.”

“That’s right. Besides, it is unknown whether we will be able to deal with the dark knight.”

“In the end, it seems appropriate to go back to the palace to receive support, but… Ellen was speechless. I guessed what he was worried about by looking at his expression.

“Is it because of Galnar?”

Galnar is Ellen’s uncle and is a powerful wizard with ambitions to occupy the palace. He lured the spell thief Saitz to kill Ellen’s teacher, and he is the one who tried to kill his nephew in order to become the enemy of the archmage. So no wonder Ellen was worried about him

…

“No. It’s not Galnar I’m worried about.”

“huh? no?”

“Now that you’ve captured Saitsu, once you return to the palace, it’s not difficult to stop his tricks. Because the grandmasters are alive and well.”

“Then what are you worried about?”

The boy let out a short sigh with heavy eyes.

“Dark Knight. I can’t imagine what he’ll do with the forbidden book in your palace, which is so dangerous.”

“Ah…

“I know I have no choice, but it still bothers me to have the forbidden book in his hands.”

I totally agree.

Dark knights are not simple monsters, but magic swordsmen who use high-level magic. A guy like that would definitely use the forbidden book somehow…

“…Well, that’s not something you can do right away. Let’s start with the things that can be dealt with right away and solve them step by step.”

Ellen nodded her head with a worried expression.

Baron Innomen was a man with a hearty personality, and was a knight who earned the nickname ‘Steel Hoof’ thanks to his excellent fighting skills on horseback.

He gathered the residents from the day he arrived in Modos and started repairing Raven’s Cliff Castle as soon as the sun rose the next day.

More than a third of the castle, large enough to serve as the main castle of the county, had been destroyed, so it would take some time to restore it to its original form, but cleaning the courtyard surrounded by the castle seemed like it would be finished in no time. When it’s properly shaped, it must be a plan to use the castle as a base instead of a complex trade association.

On the other hand, Baron Grief, another rider of the king, was a man whose prowess as a knight was insignificant. However, he was good at training and commanding troops, and was called a master of the ranks even at a relatively young age.

Perhaps because of this, he was stationed in Sanghoe and took on the role of organizing the garrison. It was a bonus to search the surrounding villages to gather refugees and figure out the number of households gathered in Modos. The vigilantes created by Heila were absorbed into the garrison and served as senior soldiers.

Finally, Baron Shaenna led heavy cavalry and patrolled the surrounding area. Thanks to taking several knights out, they easily wiped out a group of greenskins, and one day they hunted a giant monster called ‘Manticore’ with a human head, a lion’s body and a scorpion’s tail.

Thanks to her and the knights’ efforts, various merchants were able to safely arrive in Modos. And along the way, a lot of interesting news has been delivered.

By the time the sun had completely set and the party had gathered in the guild hall, sloppy-dressed garrison soldiers roamed the streets beating drums or brass bowls.

The loud noise was very annoying, but it was unavoidable. Because there would be nothing more important than securing public order in restoring a destroyed community. Someone may feel safe listening to that drum.

Of course, the mercenaries, who regarded the improvised garrison of Modos as just a bunch of stupid serfs, didn’t like that noisy patrol.

“Ah, do a fair bit of X-selling.”

The ponytail Fritz turned around and widened his eyes as if he would run out at any moment. Then, when they saw three or four patrols beyond the door, they shouted loudly.

“You bastards, don’t patrol here!”

At that loud voice, the patrols stopped dancing, and after checking everyone gathered in the guild hall, they became contemplative and retreated to the other side of the road.

“You stupid bastard, how come you don’t patrol here?”

“I told you to sit still for a while, you stupid bastard!”

Fritz’s face turned red from Steedman and Umberta’s bruising. Just as he was about to say something with an angry expression, I knocked on the table and drew the mercenaries’ attention.

“Stop it. What is the good news?”

Just before the noisy patrols appeared, the mercenaries rushed into the guild hall saying they had interesting news. I got the latest hot information from the merchants who arrived in Modos a couple of hours ago.

“Oh right. There was a great uproar in Longville.”

“…in Longville?”

“Yes, Phoenix-sama. I was very surprised to hear it.”

Steedman went on to say that he had heard the news from a grain vendor from Marva.

“You remember Edwin? That mercenary.” “know. But why is he?”

“That madman assassinated Baron Mallory.”

“…what?”

Utequai, who had been sitting against the wall and listening to the story in silence, opened his mouth with an incomprehensible face.

“Edwin? He is Mallory’s brother. You mean the younger brother killed the older brother?”

“That means he is crazy. I thought that if my brother died, I would be able to become a lord. In the end, he was caught immediately after committing an assassination and was imprisoned at the gates.”

“her. stupid.”

Heila, who had just returned from a visit to the store, rubbed her eyes with a tired expression and nodded.

“It’s not something I can’t understand. If we cannot make an legitimate successor, we must let the bastard inherit the Rado family.”

“Is the family line that important? Enough to kill your brother?”

“Each person is different in what they consider important.”

“O uh” —ns-.

Leaving Utequai narrowing her eyebrows behind, Heila turned to Steedman and asked a question.

“Then, is Longville’s owner now a mullein bag writer?”

“Oh no. I heard that the baroness is ruling the estate.”

“Is it Dionea?”

I involuntarily widened my eyes and raised my voice, and Steedman nodded while stroking his bald head.

“yes. Isn’t there anything strange about it? The baroness acted as lord even when her husband was missing.”

“That’s a different story.”

Heila said softly, touching the teacup in front of her.

“It is possible to temporarily serve as regent for a missing husband. But it’s different now that all the members of Nog Nam are dead.”

“…is that so?”

“o”

Heila beckoned to the dervish who was sitting in the corner and commanded something in her ear. As Dervish went upstairs, Heila took a sip of her tea and blinked slowly.

“Countess Clarissa, who became the new owner of Marva, is not such an easy woman. There is no way I would leave an undeserving widow as a vassal.”

“But I heard rumors, Lady, that Countess Clarissa is helping the baroness?”

“how?”

“Looks like you lent me money. I heard that in Longville, they use the money to build a new wall and gather people.”

“……okay?”

Around the time she put down the teacup with a somewhat calm expression, Dervish, who had gone upstairs, came back and handed me something wrapped in paper. Heila took it and carefully unfolded it.

“…what is that?”

“snack. Want some?”

What she brought out was a snack made of egg and flour, baked thin and crispy, and topped with nuts, seeds, and sugar.

“Where else did you get this?”

“Lorena gave it to me.”

“Who is Lorena?”

“The maid of Baron Shaenna.”

“…why is Baron Shaenna’s maid

giving you sweets?”

“We became friends.”

no, what the hell is this?

Heila, who said something incomprehensible, blinked while holding a snack.

At first glance, the eyes directed at me said, “Do you want to eat?” Although it looked like it, because of the pupils that trembled slightly and the lips that seemed to be about to open, the inside of ‘I don’t want to share’ was clearly visible.

I shook my head slightly, and Heila bit into a snack with a look of relief.

“…What are you doing? You pretended to be serious and then ate snacks.”

Ellen, who was sitting across from Heila, shook her head in amazement and turned to Steedman.

“so. Is that all a funny story?”

“yes? uh no There are a few more…

Steedman glanced away, and the chubby Esson veteran conjurer and others picked up the story he had heard.

-The electors of the empire are gathering troops again.

-The army of Count Akele, who was staying at Vitian Port, is moving north.

-Black lightning strikes near the capital.

-A powerful warrior appeared in the East and was nicknamed ‘Storm Sword’.

There was a lot of interesting news, but there was something else that caught my attention.

“Thanks to the retreat of the undead army that was sweeping the plateau, Prince Ulkar got out of the siege.”

“The undead army backing down? why?”

“The peddler said it was thanks to the efforts of Princess Theodora and the Holy Knights.”

I thought over the news that chubby Esson had delivered and then asked a question.

“Then did the undead go to Blade Bay and join the Fishman army?”

“no. It bounced east, not south.”

“…. .East?”

“yes. East.”

An ominous thought flashed through his mind as he turned to Heila.

“Where is the eastern side of the plateau?”

“Antrum.”

“What is there?”

“The Arya family.”

It was a family that served as the frontier commander until the kingdom’s territory expanded to the west 30 years ago. A group of gangsters comparable to the royal family of Zeore, who once single-handedly waged war against the three electors of the empire at once.

Its prestige continues to this day, and the head of the Aryan family, the ‘Marquis of Avon’, is counted among the three most powerful people in the kingdom based on vast farmland and strong military power.

“…Luke is a madman, but he’s not stupid. Arya can’t run a family.”

“Then it must be the Seteniora Monastery.”

“what’?”

Heila blinked and said.

“It’s right on the border between the plateau and Antrum, and you can destroy the holy ground and kill the saint at the same time.”

With a calm face as usual, she muttered, ‘This is a place the king of death would target’, and then took a sip of tea.

I completely agreed with her prediction, so I unknowingly covered my forehead.

“shit.”

As Heila said, the Seteniora Monastery is the holy place of the Kwangmyeonggyo and the place where the saint stays.

And the background of the fifth chapter was also.