Chapter 681 – [White Church]

I walked out of the tavern and down the street.

As you pass the main road in earnest, you can see that the army is stationed there. Of course, since the coup d’état was based on military force, it was natural that armed force should be stationed there.

In the early days, it was necessary to catch other powerful people and required secrecy, so unexpectedly many troops were not needed, but after the coup was successful, many soldiers were needed to maintain the position.

Well, even the 2nd prince who couldn’t win the support of one of the ten continental powers won’t last long. If I had taken Leticia and her nanny, or at least my sister, as hostages, I might not have been able to move easily and would have sided with the second prince on the outside.

Oh, of course, if you figure out where the hostages are, they’ll make you the same as the kids who invaded the White Church in 3 seconds.

“Redeem those who rebel or scheming against the new emperor!!! If you resist, you can kill me!!!”

“The Crown Prince’s spies may have infiltrated the capital! Search all over!!!”

The soldiers were saying that openly in the streets.

It seemed that the smoke rising from all over the capital came from there. Originally, when you fight, there’s a fire and that’s how it is.

But even with that, it was pretty good. Doubt, doubt, a command typical of a suspicious patient.

How can I say it… The feeling of having to constantly be suspicious of those around you for the rest of your life because of the lifelong shame of your ascension to the throne? It’s almost like I saw this with a king.

Anyway, I arrived in front of the imperial palace walls without much trouble.

Honestly no one Those who are vigilant, and those who look around there.

“It’s cold”

I tucked the hooded hood over myself a bit deeper and jumped.

Lightly jump dozens of meters, climb over the wall and enter. And dozens of senses enter my senses.

No matter how invisible it is, there are many kinds of surveillance in such an important place. But I got through it all by bringing one thing.

“Hey, I don’t know when I’m dealing with you, but I have it, so it’s awesome.”

I murmured as I jumped over the wall with the piece of Jantman in my arms.

Thanks to this, there was no problem going over the wall. Rather quiet. It was pretty good because it seemed worthwhile.

Anyway, I crossed the castle wall and headed straight to the main palace. The palace where the emperor stays and conducts business…… Heading to the Diamond Palace.

There were no boundaries. However, instead of vigilance, someone’s energy filled the place and prevented them from entering.

It’s a familiar momentum. I quietly ignored the momentum and entered the palace.

Inside the Diamond Palace, I could see traces of a fight here and there. But somehow… He seemed to have quit halfway through.

It was something I could see. It’s a look that you can recognize if you’ve seen and understood countless fights.

Anyway, as I kept going inside, there were two familiar people there.

One fell and died.

The other was Duke Magnus, who was kneeling beside him, seemingly penitent.

“Duke”

Startle!!!

Duke Magnus, who was guarding the emperor’s body, stood up with his sword and looked back at me.

Then, recognizing who I am, I kneel down with trembling hands.

“Your Highness the 3rd Prince…”

“First of all, my condolences.”

I have no deep feelings for the Emperor.

Even death, let alone emotion, didn’t touch me that much. However, I couldn’t help but feel a little bad, so I expressed my condolences to the emperor with that feeling.

At least because he’s the father of this lifetime.

No matter how bad I felt, I had to treat her at least. I expressed my condolences and sat next to Duke Magnus.

Duke Magnus seemed to have been here without washing for a long time. I didn’t care about that and asked him slowly.

“What happened?”

“………That”

I slowly listened to Duke Magnus’ story.

And one of them, if there is an amazing story…….

“Your Majesty has chosen suicide.”

The emperor’s death was not a murder but a suicide.

*        *    *

This is the story I heard from Duke Magnus.

While protecting the emperor, the battle was fought by Zantman, who broke through the surveillance.

And in the middle of the battle… The emperor suddenly screamed and committed suicide.

It’s about fighting Zantman. Since I beat him, he’s at a level where he can fight, so it was understandable thatheheld out to some extent. A person who has achieved fantasy evolution at the level of the continental 10 river can fight, but what?

“…I couldn’t protect Your Majesty!!!!!!”

“………Hmm”

I slowly looked at the Emperor’s body.

His body had been mutilated. To be precise, all the scars on his body were left by himself.

The scars on his arms and shoulders were scratches he had scratched himself with his fingernails. Even to me, who is an expert in this field, the emperor could not bear the pain and committed suicide because he was unable to harm himself.

By the way, the last sign was a dagger he had for self-defence. Who knew that a tool to protect oneself would become a tool to end oneself?

“………..Ah”

“Why is that?”

“I can see why he died.”

According to the gray god, Zantman could not erase the self-fantasy of a person who had achieved fantasy evolution.

At least the nullification of self-fantasy was of no use to Duke Magnus. But… It was different for the emperor.

The Emperor’s self-fantasy has been the same since before. He’s been running well since the beginning, so he wouldn’t have felt the need to change.

“Do you know what the emperor’s self-fantasy is?”

“I’ve been serving His Majesty for a long time, but that’s…”

“The emperor’s self-imagining is [The perfect emperor]. The reason why the emperor who lacked in talent and ability was able to demonstrate his outstanding ability as an emperor is thanks to that.”

Instead, it blocks humanity in return.

That is why the emperor died. Because Zantman has the ability to nullify self-fantasy that has not evolved… No matter how long Duke Magnus takes, if he can nullify it, it will be a victory for Zantman.

What did the emperor think of when his long-ignored humanity returned?

A family that collapsed compared to a peaceful empire, children who secretly resent her, an empress who poisoned another lover… And so on.

In the end, all the emperor felt was intense emotions and despair. The choice there would have been suicide.

………… Originally, I was supposed to have no feelings for the emperor, but this time I thought it was a little different.

If the emperor chose to commit suicide after feeling emotional, I think it is humane.

“I think it would be better to take care of my father’s body first.”

“Majesty……..”

If you think of calling him father only after death, he is a child of Buddha, but he knew that only right before he died, so let’s call him teacher.

I decided to enshrine his body first. At least I should put it in a coffin somewhere… It’s still cold, so the one with less decay is better.

“But why did she stop the second prince from entering her main palace?”

“Should I leave my son-in-law who is going to have a coronation rather than a funeral when his parents are dead?”

“There’s a consensus there.”

“It’s unfortunate that I couldn’t hand over His Majesty’s body to him, so I couldn’t slit his head because I was here.”

Well, that means that you have a lot of greed. I said that he was not suitable for an emperor because he prioritized his own desires over the duty of becoming a human being.

I split the air and opened a dimensional rift. The other side is the academy. Even if you couldn’t ask, it was an environment where you could at least go through the funeral process.

“That’s the academy. If you explain it to the department head, he’ll take care of it, so go.”

“His Highness…”

“I have to take care of this.”

Originally, I felt dirty, but it became much dirtier.

It would be better if the emperor had just died as an emperor, but if he had died as a father, I wanted to show him respect.

In addition, no matter how much Magnus was blocked, the funeral was not funeral, and the dogs who wanted to take the coronation had to take some time.

“Let me tell you one thing. If my sister ascends as her new emperor, are you willing to follow her?”

“I always follow the orders of His Majesty the Emperor”

“I get it roughly”

Anyway, you’re saying that you’re following the one who officially became emperor.

The Duke of Bistra is sitting in his own domain, or maintaining neutrality, but I will support whoever I support. I support my sister.

In the end, it means that my sister will become the emperor.

There is an older brother, but… Since he was swung around by the white goddess, and since he had already given up the position of emperor, it was difficult to rise again.

Do you think that the emperor is not the village chief, and he says he wants to do it, then throws it away because he doesn’t want to do it, and thinks it’s a position where he can rise again because he wants to do it again?

I don’t know if I gave up once, but I can’t climb again in the middle of it. I’m sorry to my older brother, but in the end, my older brother can’t become emperor.

Whether it was intentional or unintentional… Even if it was unwilling, it was the person’s responsibility to not endure it.

“Let’s go at once”

“…….See you later”

Duke Magnus carried his father’s corpse in his arms and passed through the rift in his dimension.

All that’s left is me There is no one left in the main palace, so I’m really the only one left in this castle.

“Then, now…… Shall we go after the 2nd prince?”

No matter how much he was in the main palace to protect the body of the emperor or his father, there were ten continental powers that were hostile to him, but the second prince was in the imperial palace.

Oh sure, it’s not that close. The imperial palace was so large that you had to take a carriage to get there. When you think of Gyeongbokgung Palace or something like that, you walk around, but it’s hard.

But when I thought about it a little, I understood his attitude to some extent. He is proud of himself.

Now that he is the emperor, what if he is scared and stays somewhere else? Embarrassing? Originally, he was also a guy who took care of himself, so he wouldn’t risk himself, but now that he’s an emperor, there’s nothing to see.

“Oh, there are a lot of people.”

The second prince’s palace… Ah, what was his name? I’ve only been there once so I don’t remember. Well, you don’t need to remember the name of the place that will soon be destroyed.

Anyway, there were a lot of people walking around, maybe he was trying to take care of himself as much as possible. Soldiers and knights… No matter how close he was to the emperor, there were too many of them.

“I think it would be inconvenient to move with such an army.”

I was thinking of attacking openly or just sneaking in, but I thought sneaking would be better.

No, it would only become more troublesome if he attacked and then escaped through a secret passageway. No, you can track it down and catch it, but it’s annoying to catch it if you escape and run away to another territory using the 【Bridge Connecting Space】.

Kill the presence and enter the castle. There are dozens of sensory self-fantasies, but I was able to get in and out easily thanks to a piece of Zandtmann.

Let’s see… Ah, the bastard is here.

Fools like high places, and the second prince’s presence could be felt at the top of the tallest spire. Well, not a bad choice. In this era, flight technology is still less developed, so high places are the safest places.

I sneakily climbed up the wall and climbed up to the spire where he was. And peek inside through the window.

“Incompetent things!!!! What the hell do you know how to do!!!! You can’t even get rid of the traitors in the main palace!!! You let go of the 3rd prince’s vassals!!!! You can’t root out the rebellion and even the crowd!! !!”

“Your Majesty…I have nothing to say.”

“At least, we couldn’t even capture the first princess, so now it’s a mess !!! If we had taken the first princess as her hostage and fully gained her power, she would have had a coronation ceremony right away!!!!”

It’s too greedy. You don’t even plan well, so you think what you’re doing will work out?

Macau: My dear, life is…

I told you to stop, neutral witch!!!!

Macau, Joma: Pheheung!

Anyway, the 2nd prince’s temper tantrum continued and ended only after 30 minutes.

“Get out of here!!! I don’t want to see your face until you get one thing right!!!!”

And only the second prince was left in the room. It’s time for me to step in.

I mentally untied the latch on the window and opened it. Suddenly, cold air rushed into the room, and he screamed in surprise.

“Who are you!!!!”

“나다 이 씹새끼야”

Prince Hyung is out…… Ah, this is not the line!!!!

Ah, anyway, I’m going to go to the ending where everyone is killed and burned, so there should be no problem.