All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 240

120. I Miss You – 2

We happened to arrive at the Iron-Blooded Duke’s territory.

There’s no reason not to seize the opportunity.

“All the actors are here, huh… Bodellon.”

“Yes! Your Majesty!!”

One of the Black Knights answered respectfully, and the Emperor waved his hand lightly.

“Go and see if the Iron-Blooded Duke has entered the territory.”

“Understood!”

As he left, the Emperor said calmly.

“The actors came, but the curtain falls without achieving their purpose….”

“If you’re going to catch the guys behind him, let’s do it together. I heard you have a grudge?”

Ian said calmly as the Emperor’s white eyebrows twitched.

“There’s no need to drag it out, right? They must have invested a lot here anyway.”

So, let’s catch the Iron-Blooded Duke and turn his territory upside down.

Wouldn’t they show some reaction then?

Why sit around waiting for them to come out?

“Your way is too slow. You have to smash everything to make them nervous. I’ll help too, so let’s get rid of them all this time.”

The Emperor frowned at Ian’s suggestion.

“Hmm….”

As he staggered and tried to get up, Holledenin quickly tried to support him.

But the Emperor coldly refused her help.

“Your Majesty…?”

“I knew you were poisoning me.”

“Yes…?”

Holledenin’s expression hardened.

Krepen, who was hearing such a story for the first time, and the Black Knights guarding the Emperor looked at her with surprised faces.

“Y-Your Majesty? What do you mean… The medicines I prescribed have all been inspected and approved by the Temple of the Moon.”

“That’s right. Those medicines are.”

“But how….”

As the Emperor raised his hand, an intelligence agent moved.

He took out a small box from the bag he was carrying, and Holledenin’s face stiffened as it opened.

The box contained a luxurious medicine bowl.

“I heard from the Sword Saint a long time ago. Medicine, you see,”

“Can sometimes be poison.”

As Ian spoke, the Emperor looked at him with interest.

“The top student of Fredon Academy.”

“Huh. Is that so.”

The Emperor nodded lightly and looked at Holledenin.

Holledenin trembled at the indifference in his gaze.

“I ordered the Imperial Intelligence Agency to examine this bowl. It turned out that one medicine was coated on the bowl.”

“B-But that medicine was only used to nourish vitality and remove the bitter taste of other medicines!”

“I know.”

The Emperor’s lips twisted, and the intelligence agent said coldly.

“We were able to confirm it by combining the medicine that His Majesty often takes with the sweetil [sweet coating] coated on this bowl.”

“What was it?”

“It’s okay for about a month or two, but if you take it for more than a year, it creates psychological instability. Also, if you take the medicine and eat certain foods….”

“It leads to muscle aging and the suppression of Aura [magical life force]. And that specific food is wheat bread.”

Holledenin’s expression hardened.

There was a lot of wheat bread on the table in front of the Emperor.

“It seems that this lady is like a chief physician. Who prepares the meals?”

“Empress Holledenin prepares them herself.”

Krepen’s voice was stiff.

Holledenin trembled as he glared at her as if to kill her.

“Do you know too?”

“The top student of Fredon Academy, huh.”

The intelligence agent looked at Ian with wonder.

This is not a combination method that can be known with the knowledge of an ordinary student.

Even the medical bureau under the Imperial Intelligence Agency was able to find out with all its efforts.

But Ian knew it so naturally.

“How do you know that? No, more than that.”

As the intelligence agent tried to resolve his question, Ian shook his head.

“I don’t think that’s important right now. And Emperor, shouldn’t you be able to detoxify yourself?”

“That’s right.”

The Emperor’s body swells.

The suppressed Aura flowed out as if it were exploding, straightening his bent waist and swelling his muscles.

“Cough!!”

He coughed violently, gathering the toxins accumulated in his body by moving the Aura.

As he spat out phlegm with a terrible smell, Krepen and the Black Knights raised their weapons.

Anyone could tell.

That the black thing flowing out from inside the phlegm was poison.

“You bitch…!!”

“How dare an Empress who lives by His Majesty’s grace do such a thing?!”

Holledenin was embarrassed as everyone in this place revealed their murderous intent towards her.

Then, she hurriedly clung to the Emperor.

“Your Majesty!! Your Majesty! It’s a misunderstanding! It wasn’t like this! I… I!!”

Pointing at her, Ian said calmly.

“That woman seems to be receiving something from the Iron-Blooded Duke.”

“Is that true?”

The intelligence agent looked at Ian with a surprised face and nodded.

According to the Imperial Intelligence Agency’s investigation, the herbal medicine manager who supplied Holledenin with medicine secretly met with the Iron-Blooded Duke once a month.

“What did you receive?”

“I didn’t receive anything! I didn’t receive anything! I just… he said he wanted to hear about His Majesty’s condition….”

Fear filled Holledenin’s eyes.

She had heard rumors about Ian.

A man who knows everything once he sees it.

Holledenin was afraid as his eyes were fixed on her.

As if what she was hiding was about to be revealed.

“Shall I ask?”

“Even the Imperial Intelligence Agency is not bad at torture. And the Dragon Shield Knights are the same.”

Ian shook his head.

There’s no need to send her to torture and wait for her to resist, shouting about being an Empress or something.

As Ian took a step closer, Holledenin shouted urgently.

“H-How dare you!! I am the Empress of the Empire! Count Ian! No matter how much you are a noble of another country, laying a hand on me is pointing a sword at the Empire!”

Holledenin shouted desperately.

But Ian didn’t care.

“I’ve already pointed a sword at the Empire.”

And he reached out and grabbed her by the collar, flashing his eyes.

“Tell me everything you know.”

“Kyaaaaak!!”

Holledenin screamed as the color of Ian’s eyes turned red.

There was no need to drag it out for too long.

Because she revealed everything in less than ten minutes after the Compulsion of Crimson began.

“The Iron-Blooded Duke ordered it, huh.”

From the beginning, it was the Iron-Blooded Duke’s order that Holledenin was recommended as Empress.

“I didn’t know that.”

The intelligence agent said with a troubled face.

More than seven years have already passed since Holledenin was accepted as Empress.

At that time, he had thoroughly investigated her background, but he had not been able to figure out that she was related to the Iron-Blooded Duke.

“It means that the Iron-Blooded Duke hid it that perfectly. He’s a monster-like elf who has lived for over 300 years. There must be dozens of snakes inside him.”

“Then, isn’t it possible that other people in the Imperial Palace were raised similarly?”

“I can’t say no.”

The Emperor muttered, and Krepen gritted his teeth.

“You bitch…!!”

As he tried to kill her with his eyes turned upside down with anger, the Emperor raised his hand to stop him.

“I understand that you are angry, but let’s just move on for now.”

“However, Your Majesty!! This person is a traitor and tried to assassinate Your Majesty….”

“Let’s just move on for now.”

“It’s good to move on, but that woman won’t live long anyway.”

How long will she live after her soul is tattered?

As Ian spoke indifferently, the Emperor smirked.

“I didn’t intend to keep her alive for long anyway. The Iron-Blooded Duke… no.”

He slowly shook his head and growled, revealing his teeth.

“That was just a tool to attract Gehern behind him.”

“Then it’s even more meaningless.”

The Emperor retorted even more bluntly to Ian, who spoke bluntly.

“That’s right. Now that I’ve decided to reel in the fishing rod.”

* * *

An elf was staring coldly at the destroyed gate of the territory.

The middle-aged wizard next to him said carefully.

“Duke. Let’s go now.”

“Huh. Yes. I have to go.”

Duke Foadbe, called the Iron-Blooded Duke in the Empire, turned his gaze away from the destroyed gate.

A young punk from the north who suddenly became famous around last year.

He shook his head as he looked at the traces of Ian Brandon aiming a blade at the Empire.

“Are you okay?”

“If I’m not okay? Schlei [Duke Foadbe’s aide]. These things happen often in life.”

He spoke bluntly to Schlei, his right-hand man and aide, and got into a luxurious carriage.

As he said, these things happened a lot.

“Even before His Majesty the current Emperor ascended the throne, this happened, and before that too.”

Duke Foadbe pointed to his ears.

Elf.

More than 300 years have passed since he, a race that lives longer than humans, settled in the Empire.

During that time, it was not uncommon for the territory to be attacked in this way.

“And those guys were all thoroughly trampled on.”

“I know that too. No Face also caused a terror in the territory before.”

“Yes.”

“Besides them, there were many forces that had antipathy towards the Empire… and in the process, the gate was attacked many times.”

“I know.”

“But the gate has never been destroyed like that, has it?”

“Well. These things happen, and those things happen.”

He spoke bluntly again and closed his eyes.

Schlei sighed softly as he looked at him.

“Are you worried?”

“A little. It’s strange that Count Ian suddenly came to the Empire… and that he openly opposes you. I’m worried that he might have noticed what we’re trying to do.”

“You shouldn’t talk about such things carelessly. Don’t you know that the rats listen to night words and the birds listen to day words?”

Schlei hesitated as Foadbe spoke.

But he couldn’t stop.

“I think this trip to the territory is a bit of a problem. The fact that a variable called Count Ian has come is a big problem.”

“But if I don’t come? Who will take care of the things that happened in the territory right now?”

“Are you talking about the Red Moon Faith? Haa. I’m honestly a little dissatisfied with that too.”

It was about ten years ago.

He took Schlei and met a merchant, who smiled and gave him a shining stone.

He said that he could gain power by using it.

He studied the stone with Foadbe’s permission and learned that it was a treasure with tremendous power.

After that, he used it for Foadbe.

Just using that stone could make the weak incredibly strong.

They quickly became loyal subjects to Duke Foadbe and became a powerful force, expanding his power.

Since then, the merchant brought shining stones several times a year, and last year he even taught him how to make the stones.

Of course, it wasn’t free.

“The price was the Red Moon Faith.”

“That’s right.”

“But the Red Moon Faith is a faith that performs human sacrifices.”

“How many people have died from your magic? Are you afraid of mere human sacrifices?”

“I’m just worried that the Sun Order and the Moon Order will take issue with it.”

“It’s okay. What can they do?”

Foadbe was confident.

Schlei sighed again at his appearance.

“Why did he suddenly tell us to spread the Red Moon Faith in the Empire?”

“Well? I can’t say for sure up to that point….”

At that moment, the carriage suddenly stopped.

Was there something wrong?

Schlei, who was wondering, opened the door and got off.

The front of the carriage was surrounded by people wearing golden armor.

“Dragon Shield Knights? Count Krepen! What are you doing!”

Schlei shouted roughly and raised his hand.

When the Iron-Blooded Duke’s knights, who were escorting the carriage, grabbed their weapons and prepared to fight.

A boy walked out from among the knights wearing golden armor.

“…You are.”

Black hair and a blunt impression.

A boy with a pure white cat on his shoulder.

The rising star currently called in the north.

It was Ian.

“Count Ian Brandon.”

“You’re Schlei?”

As he spoke in a nonchalant voice, Schlei bit his lip slightly.

“That’s right.”

“Can you tell the Iron-Blooded Duke in the carriage?”

“What…?”

“The answer is to destroy the world.”

Schlei’s expression hardened.

Ian shrugged, laughing at him.

“You should have known that there are people who can hear day words and night words.”

“What… What are you doing!!”

As he shouted, Ian drew his sword.

“The Emperor wants to see you.”