He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 192

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor – Episode 192

“Is that their hideout?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“It’s surprisingly far from the rebel area.”

“The darkest place is often under the lamp [meaning the most obvious place is often overlooked].”

It was caught quite easily for that.

Of course, they wouldn’t have known there was someone like me. I even changed my face after learning from Mirror, so it’s hard not to be fooled.

“Alright, then wait here. I’ll be back.”

“Are you going alone?”

“You guys are few in number because you came secretly, and it’s better for me to go alone than to risk your exposure.”

Hendrick must have thought it would be difficult for a few spies to protect me, so he nodded obediently.

“I’ll be back soon. Even if it gets noisy, don’t rush in and request the Dark Elf army to advance.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

[Shadow Stealth Deployed]

After saying that, I hid in the shadows under my feet as if diving.

Thanks to Cerebres’ dark blood, I could use dark magic more freely.

Thanks to that, I could utilize several skills in addition to the Shadow Blade.

Rustle-

“Huh? Didn’t you hear something over there?”

“What sound are you talking about?”

“No, I definitely heard something…….”

“Then go check it out. I’m too lazy.”

I lured one of the guards guarding the entrance of the hideout.

“I definitely heard a sound from this side-”

Stab!

“Kuh-heup……!”

A blade stretched out from the shadows in the bushes and stabbed the guard’s neck. The guard, whose neck was stabbed, fell without even groaning.

“Hey, what’s going on?”

“No, nothing’s going on.”

I immediately finished the Doppelganger transformation and acted as that elf guard.

The other guard, who had no idea that I had transformed, yawned repeatedly without a shred of doubt.

“Hey, what do you mean there’s something? No one knows this place. Unless there’s a traitor inside.”

“That’s right. It would have been difficult to find otherwise.”

“Yeah…… Huh? What did you just say-”

Stab! Stab!

“Heok!”

I stabbed his neck and heart in turn. This guy had some leeway, so I could show the mercy of quickly ending his life.

“Hmm, good. Shall we infiltrate…….”

Mirror is good at this kind of thing, but isn’t this kind of thing fun sometimes?

Of course, with my level of power, I could just break into the hideout head-on.

But I didn’t do that on purpose.

First of all, I didn’t want to reveal that the Empire had intervened in this elven civil war. This is similar to what happened with the Greenskins.

But the difference from that is that while the Greenskin civil war was to empower Golrak, this one is to further weaken the elves’ strength.

The elves, who were once devastated and found it difficult to recover, have the advantage of having a very long lifespan.

And even if they are ruined, the strength of their long history does not disappear.

So they really need to be broken down so that they can’t recover. It would be best to make them hate each other.

To do that, the resurrected Spirit King must die again. Well, Diablo has been resurrected twice, so the Spirit King still has a long way to go.

“An underground facility built under a giant tree root. It seems like they used spirit magic.”

It didn’t seem like a facility built now that spirit magic has weakened. Could it be a facility built in the past?

If so, it explains why it’s far from the rebel area. It must have been impossible to build a new one in the rebel area because it was already built.

Anyway, I passed that rather mysterious place and continued to go down.

“Hey, Raphel. Are all the guards posted?”

“Ah, I have something to report…….”

“Are you slacking off instead?”

But a guy who I don’t know if he’s a superior or a colleague came up and started talking to me. My transformation skill is still clumsy, so memory theft is incomplete, so I couldn’t be sure.

“What are you going to report? If you have something to report, tell me here now.”

“That’s…… Actually, it seems like someone has infiltrated disguised as one of us…….”

“What? Where? Who?”

“Come closer.”

When I said that with a serious expression, he came closer and listened to me.

“Actually, it’s me.”

Stab!

And I took care of him.

After that, I quickly cleaned up the body before anyone else saw it.

“This is troublesome. Does this happen if I transform into someone with too low a rank?”

Seeing this, Mirror is really amazing. Even if you copy memories or habits, you can’t do it if your acting skills don’t follow.

Anyway, I needed to transform into someone with a higher rank. At the same time, someone who wouldn’t be suspected…….

“Ah, that would work.”

Then I transformed into someone who suddenly came to mind.

“Lord Gawain? What are you doing here?”

“I just came out for a walk.”

It was Lord Gawain. He is an important person to these resistance elves, so they can’t just tell him what to do when he walks around.

“I thought you were just holed up in the workshop; I didn’t know you even took walks.”

“It’s necessary for artistic inspiration.”

“Hmph, then go on your way.”

But he wasn’t exactly friendly.

He is treated as an important force, but in reality, he is also a target of hatred because he is human, so that must be why.

Anyway, elves are too two-faced.

“Hmm? What are those…….”

While continuing to search the hideout in that way, I was able to find something unique.

“Is that the doll with the spirit inside?”

There were dolls. Even though they were dolls, they were almost no different from humans, so it was difficult to notice unless you saw that unique artificial feeling.

But judging from the energy of the spirit flowing from the whole body, it was clear that it was a doll with a spirit inside.

“Such perfection, it’s a level that can’t be ignored.”

“That’s right, if you get close, they’ll even find out that you’re disguised, you know?”

“……!”

At that time, a familiar voice was heard from behind me.

“You are…….”

“Come this way.”

A little girl gestured to me and led me to a room on one side. I followed the girl.

“You, you’re the lord’s daughter. No, not the daughter, but a doppelganger.”

It was a doppelganger marionette transformed into the lord’s daughter.

“Hehe, did Mirror tell you? Then who are you?”

“I don’t really want to say.”

“Then I won’t help you either.”

“Do you think I need your help? Rather, you, you might die by my hand. Demons are my enemy.”

In fact, I could have killed her since she appeared defenselessly in front of me, but I wanted to have a conversation.

Then the marionette smiled.

“Really? I’m not exactly on the demons’ side?”

“Are you going to lie? You guys are demons.”

“Just because you’re a demon doesn’t mean you have to be on the demons’ side. To be exact, I’m not on the Demon King’s side. Demons are originally individualistic as a race. Doppelgangers are even more so.”

……Is that so? I felt like I was being deceived, but it was very convincing.

Mirror is like that, isn’t he? No matter how much I tempted him with wealth and glory, he betrayed me too easily.

“Well, whether you believe it or not is up to you. Anyway, I’m going to leave here.”

“That’s troublesome. I want to secure your identity too. Or kill you.”

“Because I might harm the Empire?”

“That’s right.”

“Hehe, that’s troublesome. What should I do to get you to let me go?”

“Hmm…….”

I’m rather embarrassed because she’s asking so boldly.

“If you contribute to the Empire, I’ll let you go. No, I’ll even treat you as well as you contribute.”

“Oh, are you trying to win me over like Mirror?”

“Reject if you don’t like it. Of course, if you do…….”

“I’ll accept it.”

“……Don’t you have any loyalty?”

Are doppelgangers all like that?

“It’s not that I don’t have loyalty, it’s just that I’m flexible.”

“That’s the same thing…….”

“Well, if I really had no loyalty, I wouldn’t even think of asking for this favor.”

“What favor?”

The marionette scratched her head as if she was a little embarrassed at the last question.

“Save the poor lord. He’s in danger now.”

That was an unexpected request that I really didn’t expect a doppelganger to make.

* * *

“Gawain. Is this the body of the doll that I will inhabit?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“It’s a pathetic body of a young child.”

“…….”

The lord was silent at the dying Spirit King’s words.

He shouldn’t get angry at such things, and there was no reason to get angry.

If he put in a little more effort, that arrogant king would disappear without even knowing he was being used.

“It was a joke, Lord. I heard it’s a doll modeled after your dead daughter. Is that true?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Is there a reason why you took such a form? Is it because of longing?”

“No. How could I imbue such trivial emotions into the body where Your Majesty will reside?”

The lord bowed and said.

“It’s just that this is the best form I can create under the given conditions.”

“Hmm…… That makes sense. If I have to create it in the form of a child anyway, I have to create it in the form that I am most confident in.”

The Spirit King was convinced.

The lord smiled faintly inside. He thought he had deceived him.

“But that doesn’t seem to be the only reason. You’re planning to revive your real daughter with this body, right?”

“……!”

But it was the lord who was arrogant.

“You have a look that says you don’t know how I knew. Come in.”

Cheo Cheok-

“Butler…….”

“Lord, I’m sorry. I couldn’t betray my race.”

“……I see. Well, it was wrong of me to trust an elf.”

It was the elf butler who betrayed him. He was taken in after being sold as a prostitute, and he was directly raised to be loyal, but he simply betrayed the lord.

But the lord wasn’t very angry. In the first place, the lord didn’t completely trust him either.

The lord just thought that even if he was caught, he had done as much as he could.

“Your attitude is very calm. Aren’t you frustrated that your plan failed?”

“Just getting here was exhausting.”

“Oh, now that I see it, you don’t seem to have a deep desire to save your daughter.”

The lord smirked at the Spirit King’s sarcasm.

“It’s because the regret of not being able to do anything for my daughter is greater than the regret of losing her.”

The lord’s eyes turned cold.

“You, who don’t know what affection is, wouldn’t understand that.”

“……Foolish words of a failure.”

With those words, the Spirit King gestured. Soon, the butler searched the lord’s body and took out a white soul stone.

“Is this the soul stone containing your daughter? Unfortunately, you’re the only one who has the skill to make this.”

“…….”

“You wouldn’t have thought that your daughter, a lowly young girl, could handle my soul…… Oh, I see. You were planning to weaken my soul during the procedure? So that it could become fertilizer for your daughter’s soul?”

“……I told you, my only regret is that I couldn’t do anything for my daughter.”

The lord smiled and continued.

“I was going to give your soul to my daughter as a gift, but I failed. You dirty elf bastard.”

“Insolent bastard.”

Thud!

The Spirit King gestured and the butler hit the lord. The lord glared at the Spirit King with burning eyes.

“Then, Lord, you made a mistake. Your precious daughter’s soul will belong to me.”

“…….”

“I’m already looking forward to what kind of humiliation I can do in front of you in the form of your daughter.”

As he said those words, the Spirit King swallowed the soul stone.

Soon, the Spirit King’s collapsing body crumbled.

Then, a doll in the form of the lord’s daughter, Loretta, opened her eyes.