Chapter 715 – Secret of the Kingdom

It’s cold.
Have you ever experienced such sharp silence in your life?

I swallowed my saliva and quietly called her name.

“Younghee.”
【 Ppaeaaeaeuck!! 】

The merciless Sajahu!
My eardrums almost fell off from the harsh screaming.

“Then… Flower?”
【Why does it keep saying that name!!!!!! 】

-Hardly!!

The subsequent emotional pulse grew louder, and the resistance of the human being began to pound my brain.
Jammin in the PC room thumps like he’s shooting a shotgun.
Suddenly, my vision became distant due to the inter-floor noise inside my brain.

I covered my forehead and made excuses.

“No, the flower is pretty.”
【Not one!!!! Not!!!! Pretty!!!! 】

I thought about it for the longest time, but it’s disappointing to see such a reaction.
He must be feeling my feelings, but seeing as he doesn’t feel sorry at all, it seems like he really doesn’t like the name I gave him.

Still, isn’t it worth considering at least once?

【 If you keep doing this, I will die with my crown and my nose stuck in a plate. I’m serious, you know?! I’m serious! 】
‘Calm down. ‘Because I understand.’

You shamelessly take the crown hostage.
Shiba and Wiki care about their names very much. As the children’s leader, she thinks she needs to follow some example.

【Why am I the leader of the children? Because I’m more mature than you? 】

Ignore arguments that make no sense.

Aori, who seemed to have doubts about what I was saying to myself, looked in my direction and approached me.

“King, king! Who is Younghee? “What about Kkot-nim?”
“There is such a thing. “What did you find?”

Let’s just skip over the story related to the Son of Man and ask. Aori confidently gave me a large painting she had hidden in her waistband.

“This one.”

It’s another picture.
As soon as I received it, I opened it and saw a large painting that could be displayed in a grand temple.

Inside the treasure chest, women who were often seen in photos or paintings were gathered in one place.
Among them was the girl I had seen, the Duke of Basia.

“One, two, three… “How many people is this?”
“There are too many to count. Still, there are eight people here in the center. “The names of all the cronies are recorded.”

Duke Basia’s name was inscribed last of her eight wives.
The eighth crony. The portrait is almost of a middle school student. Considering the year and time, there was nothing strange.

“Aori, is there a woman similar to you? “She’s the same as being short and having big breasts.”
“Maybe it’s my great-grandmother… Yes. “I’m not sure because there have been a few incestuous marriages, Gaejokbo.”

Golden Delicious. Their family members, who were said to be the closest associates, were barely visible at the edge of the picture.

Other than that, there were individual words engraved under the pictures of the wives. Because this was not a language we knew, we could not interpret it.

Wouldn’t another noble or Dieffenbachia be able to interpret it?
Leave the artifacts and junk alone. I decided to go down and pick a few pictures and something that caught my eye.

‘I can’t find what I’m looking for.’

Feeling lingering, I searched the treasure chest a few more times, but I couldn’t even find the snout.

An artifact said to have been created with the power of the king. ‘Dawn’.
Surprisingly, it is an unknown weapon that has been around since the academy days.

The first is Azalea’s adoptive father. What Lee Seong-han had.

The mass-produced pink dawn played a key role in helping him take over Azalea’s mother.

‘It’s a worse version of subjugation.’

If someone said that the king’s power was imbued with it, it was worth nodding that it could be possible.
In fact, the actions that Lee Seong-han showed were similar to the subjugation that King Mokryeong and I committed.

‘Then, what about the other dawn?’

Green dawn.
When a problem arises in the dungeon and you are transferred to another island. This is the power used by the twins I met.

I couldn’t tell if it was a mass-produced type or not because I had never held it in her hand. In the end, he was recovered by the church and no way of knowing was lost.
Was his ability ‘dominance’? Unlike subjugation, it was related to charisma and dignity.

‘Was there anything similar among the abilities you gained when you were king?’

There is one.
A pheromone that makes woodmen and trees feel much more stable.

Similar to servitude, with the power gained along the way. Surprisingly, it was an ability that could be turned on and off manually.
Now I’ve lost the status window. I don’t know how much more of the king’s power I have gained and manifested… Wouldn’t it be a power quite similar to the dawn?
Although I couldn’t confirm it, it was a reasonable inference.

“King?”
“… For a moment.”

Aori tilts her head cutely.
I reached out my hand and stroked Aori’s head, immersed in her thoughts.

“Hi-Hi. “It tickles, my king~!”

Pink, green dawn.
Here one more question arises.

‘The mass production type. ‘Who is extracting that power?’

If it is true that the power of the king is separate. There may be someone who tried to gain that power.
Some may have tried to use this to gain greater power.

What follows immediately is an experiment with the World Tree and Flower.

‘… ‘I know about Flower’s experiment.’

Gaining strength by injecting the elements of trees into humans.
This is the full story of the serial Ent incident.

3 years ago, until then, the technology was imperfect. When injected into a human, the mana went out of control and he mutated into an Ent.

That day when me, Master, and the members of Dowonhyang fought together.
The drug continued later and was used in the subjugation of the Cornus family.

Cornus’ goal is to make Cornus officinalis immortal through various experiments in addition to existing drugs.
I thought that the experiment would come to an end with the extinction of Cornus, but that was not the case.

‘The point of all the experiments was to inject a power similar to that of the World Tree.’

The reason Menedel was injected into humans and caused them to run away with Ents was to overcome the differences between species.
The principle of Cornus officinalis achieving immortality was thanks to the formation of a magical organ in her body similar to that of the World Tree.

I turned to the body of the former king I had seen before.

‘King Mokryeong also had a body that was too deformed to be human.’

He had a monster-shaped body that had been transformed into a tree.

If one of the Mukryeong King’s powers is to modify the body and build up power modeled after that of a higher species. There was a possibility that ‘Dawn’ of a different color contained that power.

‘Menedel and Cornus officinalis.’

Predictably, these are all traces that ‘Dawn’ left on the world.
There were still a lot of things left unresolved, but I knew quite a bit about the clues I overheard from the King of Trees.

Perhaps my student Ebondan is also greatly involved in this experiment.
I get it.
I stood up and gathered my thoughts.

“I can see the stem.”
“Yes?”

This has been going on for 3 years.
Starting from the events that happened around me, to the reason why the World Tree and Flower endlessly encountered each other in unknown places.

I thought they were all separate things. The roots were the same.

Flower tried to transcend the race by amplifying the power left behind by the king.
To prevent this, the World Tree kept the guy in check in various places.
What I went through was the very process of experimentation.

‘… One more.’

Flower.
The power they have also derives from the king.

This is a truly arbitrary guess. I didn’t hear anything from the King of Trees, and it was a judgment based solely on my own experience.

The basis is that a being with the power of flowers is inside this tower.
Even though Dieffenbachia is a tree, it amplifies its power through flowering like a flower executive.

‘It is said that the king gave that power directly to the corps commander.’

It can have the characteristics of wood and flower at the same time.
It was also explained why Chastity’s younger sister, Freesia, belonged to Flower, and why she had the name of Flower.

Flower is a group that declared that they would carry on the king’s will.

Besides that, there was only one solid evidence left.

‘…’

Just one person. A human of opposite gender, as recorded in the picture.
Could it be something like the SS? The face of the knight dressed in huge armor looked very similar to the face of a man I knew.

‘Tarragon.’

The head of Flower and a man who assists the saint.

He was also a contributor to the empire who worked hard to support King Mokryeong.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

When I returned to the throne room, Diefenbachia was nowhere to be seen for some reason.

“Are you talking about the commander? “I heard you’re going to the barracks as soon as training is over.”

I grabbed a soldier whenever I could and asked him about it. He was able to get a clue.

Dajeong always stayed by my side from the afternoon after training ended. Was what happened last night too shocking?
Even during morning bath time, his face did not show once.

‘But I can’t not see it.’

Sometimes I have to ask for interpretation of the photos in the treasure trove.
More than anything, I couldn’t forgive my trustworthy Da-jeong for trying to distance herself from me.

I entered the barracks and found Da-jeong’s room.
Since I had come to her private room once before to take out her underwear, she was able to get there without any hassle.

– Rumble.

I grab the doorknob to open the door, but it’s locked.
Am I doing something private that shouldn’t be discovered?

Knock twice. As expected, there is no response.
I thought he was taking a nap because he couldn’t sleep well, so I tried spreading my magic. I saw the silhouette of Da-jeong lying on the bed and writhing.

‘Awake?’

What is it that you’re so absorbed in that you can’t even hear the knock?

All the hard work had been in vain.
I thought about just rushing in, but no matter how tough I was, I had no intention of just going in and out of my private room.

Although the interpretation of the photo is urgent, I have no choice but to take my time and observe.

-Finch!

I leave the barracks, ignoring the trembling silhouette.

“Hello, Your Majesty!”

One thing, military discipline is clearly maintained. It was very annoying to have to greet every soldier I made eye contact with.

‘By the way.’

I really don’t have time anymore.
We need to get down before something goes wrong, but there are still a lot of things to manage in this tower.

I come back to my room. I faced the sun with Aori, who had already arrived.

“Are you here? “What about Da-jeong?”

The subjects used their respective abilities and did their best to restore the kingdom for several days.
They are the two people I care about the most and are like family.

I took off the black dragon robe and hung it in an appropriate place and answered Taeyang’s question.

“I think I was looking at some personal matters.”
“Wow, Dajeong is already at the end. Brother, have you eaten already?”

It worked in many ways.
When I laid out the photos I had brought on the nightstand and sat down on the bed, Aori, who was looking at my blanket, poked me on the shoulder.

“King, how many times did you do it?”
“… Do you see that? “I’m sure you should have replaced it with a new blanket.”
“No matter how much you wash, old things are still old~ Sniff. It smells like the king’s baby. “Can I help you?”
“What help?”

Aori spread his arms wide and lay down on my bed, hugging the blanket tightly around me.

“New Aori air freshener~!!”

There is a faint sour-sweet smell.
A startled Taeyang looked at Aori.

“Is this new? “Your mouth says that old things are old.”
“Your love for the king is something new, right? Taeyang Stop saying things that are unpopular. If you keep doing that, the king will tell you that Taeyang got his butt pierced.”

Aori, what do you mean?

“… “Sun, you.”
“No.”

Still, it’s an old story, right?

“…”
“You can’t be with Yuli.”
“… “Are you the kind of person who only needs to reveal the secrets of his subjects to relieve his anger?”
“How did that happen?”
“I don’t remember much either. But this was when I couldn’t act like a man…”

It was a fact I didn’t want to know at all.
The story of the box I opened without knowing was an act I could not bear to tell. Aori excitedly started talking on behalf of the silent day.

“Prostate stimulation… Penny Barn.”
“Hey, hey!!! “How much have I put you to sleep and fed you?”

Lady of the Sun. I thought she was a wise mother and good wife, but her tastes are much harsher.
There were times when Sky, the daughter of the sun, made strange hand gestures to her doll. Now I finally understand them.

‘I’ll be fine.’

I’m not worried about Seyoung, Dallae, or Byeol, but I’m afraid of Sansuyu or my part-time job, as I don’t know where they’ll end up.

Due to the nature of the crown, it replaces any taste with pleasure. If there were any signs of that happening, it had to be removed from the root.

Let’s keep this in mind.
I took a deep breath and promised myself several times.