Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 46

Sepher had several conversations with Zion.

He mainly asked questions about the war in Nudia, and Zion, while trying to maintain a nonchalant attitude, answered with a subtly excited demeanor.

“…and that’s why the enemies all retreated.

It was such a ridiculous sight.”

“Haha!

Wow, Duke Zion is even more impressive than I thought.

The kingdom’s future looks very bright!”

“You flatter me.”

Zion was smiling as if he was secretly pleased, even though he said that.

Sepher muttered inwardly at the sight, ‘As expected, a kid.’

Even if he tries to act like it’s nothing, the way it all shows, he’s definitely just a young man who barely became an adult, someone who doesn’t know the whole world yet.

“More than that, the royal palace has so many fascinating things.”

“Is that so?”

“I’ve never thought about this before, but when I return to my territory, I think I’ll miss the royal palace a little.”

Thinking that youth is inevitable, Sepher replied in a subtly encouraging voice.

“If you ever feel stifled, you can come to the royal palace sometimes.

The Margrave of Lichten would probably allow it.”

“That’s… ahem, shouldn’t I fulfill my duties as a noble?

I am the son of Clausen, who defends the frontier, so I cannot neglect that duty.”

“Of course, you should.

I made a mistake.

Please forgive me, Duke Zion.”

“It’s nothing.

I didn’t mean it that way.”

After talking about various things for a suitable amount of time, Sepher finished assessing Zion Clausen.

He was certainly a young man with ability and a decent mindset, unlike the rumors, but he still didn’t know anything about the world, especially in political matters.

“Ah, Count Sepher.

Do you happen to know what this is?

I was passing by the market and bought it out of curiosity.”

Zion held out a liquid in a glass bottle.

Sepher stared at it for a moment and nodded as if he knew what it was just by looking at the bottle.

“It’s a digestive medicine that the kingdom’s people sometimes use.”

“A digestive medicine?

This liquid?”

“It’s said to be refreshing and cooling when you drink it, so it’s commonly used like that.

I don’t know about the effects, but since the sensation is definitely certain, the kingdom’s people seem to use it to some extent.”

“Ah, I see.

There’s nothing like this in Clausen.”

“It’s a medicine that’s just starting to spread, mainly around the royal palace.

I’ve used it once, and it definitely felt like it cleared my stomach.”

“Ah, then would you like to receive one as a gift?

You gave me a ride in your carriage, so I need to pay you back, but valuable things might cause unnecessary talk.”

“Shall I?

I happen to have some leftover alcohol from yesterday that I want to get rid of.”

Sepher said that and grabbed the bottle that Zion was holding out.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Your Excellency.

We’ve arrived at the royal palace.”

“Ah, you’ve worked hard.

Duke Zion.

Let’s go.”

With those words, Sepher got out of the carriage first.

As Zion followed, the soldiers guarding the front gate of the royal palace showed their respects.

“Your Excellency, Count Sepher Kaschgar.

Duke Zion Clausen.

Welcome.”

“You’re working hard.”

“We will have a brief inspection.

Please hand over all your belongings here.”

Anyway, what he had brought was the same as yesterday, the only difference was the liquid digestive medicine that Zion had given him.

As Sepher picked up the bottle from his pocket, one of the soldiers tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“Your Excellency?

What is that?”

“Ah, this is…”

It’s a medicine that the kingdom’s people occasionally use, and I just received it as a gift.

Sepher’s words were cut off there, unable to come out of his mouth.

Kiiiiing!

“Huh?”

“What’s that light…?”

A bluish light suddenly burst out from the bottle that Sepher was holding in his hand.

And that light soon became a huge explosion that engulfed everyone.

The moment everyone was staring at the scene with bewildered eyes, Zion raised both hands and shouted inwardly.

‘Shibal [Korean slang, similar to “damn it”], Loo-bing-pong! [nonsense word used to express surprise or shock]’

Kwaaaaaaaang!―.

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‘Kkeueueue…’

It felt like his head and vision had all turned white.

Sepher barely managed to lift his heavy body and looked around.

Some of the walls that had been firmly guarding the royal palace had collapsed, and magicians and royal knights were running around in a frenzy.

‘Shibal [Damn it], what the hell is going on?’

It was a situation that made those words come out naturally.

Staggering, Sepher steadied himself on the ground and waved his hand, trying to signal that he was okay when he spotted the knights running towards him.

“Unforgivable traitor!”

Peo-uk!

It was hit so hard that he couldn’t even scream.

Or, it could have been that he couldn’t even scream in the face of such a sudden situation.

“Arrest him immediately!”

“Be careful, like the magician said, he might have some other mana devices!”

What the hell are they talking about?

Why were the royal knights surrounding and beating him, the head of a great noble family?

And why were they rummaging around haphazardly, trying to find something? Sepher couldn’t understand at all.

Eventually, Sepher barely opened his mouth to stop them.

“Wh-what are you doing!

To me, Sepher, the master of the Kaschgar family…”

“Shut your mouth!

If you say one more word, I’ll tear your mouth apart!”

“Wh-what did you say?

Even if you’re a royal knight, how can you say such a thing!

I am…”

“I said shut up!”

Jja-ak!

Sepher’s face turned to the side from the royal knight’s fancy spike [referring to the spiked gauntlet or armor].

He had been slapped on the cheek as a noble, and by a man, not even a woman!

“Do you know what this is!”

One of the knights held something in front of Sepher’s eyes.

The bottle, already broken and with all the contents spilled out, was quite familiar to Sepher.

“That’s, that’s a bottle that contains digestive medicine used by the kingdom’s people…”

“I knew you’d say that!

The bottle is, but not the contents!”

“Wh-what are you talking about…”

“The royal palace’s magicians have already confirmed everything!

Inside was highly concentrated mana that vibrates the surrounding mana and explodes it as it is!

Thanks to that, the mana bomb you had installed in advance exploded on the wall!

And in that gap, intruders rushed into the royal palace!

Is that an explanation?

Kaschgar, a proud noble whose name will soon be erased from the kingdom’s history?”

They were all incomprehensible sounds.

What was a mana bomb, what was the wall explosion, and what were the intruders?

Confusion, confusion, and more confusion made him have a lot to say, but his mouth wouldn’t move properly.

In the meantime, the royal knight was enthusiastically filming a reasoning novel all by himself.

“Hearing that the Hynes Merchant, who had no choice but to cooperate in this matter due to your threats, was risking his life to tell His Majesty the truth, you committed the act earlier than planned.

If the Hynes Merchant had been just a little late, we would have sent you away without even knowing you were the culprit!”

“Nonsense, don’t say such nonsense!

Why would I do such a thing!”

“The Hynes Merchant will explain everything.

Isn’t that right?”

Why was the Hynes Merchant coming out here again?

The only thing related to him was Zion Clausen, who came with him in the carriage…

“Wa-wait!

Wait!

I have something to say.

It’s important!

That bottle you’re talking about!

That content!

It’s not mine.

Duke Zion, that man gave it to me!

I don’t know what’s going on, but this one thing is certain.

I’m innocent!

I just received that bottle!

If you’re going to investigate, investigate Zion Clausen, that man…”

“Ah, so that’s why you insisted on putting me, who was walking with the knight, in the carriage.”

A voice that didn’t feel any emotion, a very cold and hardened voice, was heard in Sepher’s ear.

In that place, a young man with scratches all over his body was standing, supported by a female knight.

“I thought it was strange from the moment you handed me that bottle.

It was like handing me a poisoned chalice.”

His eyes were shining coldly, even though he was trembling with exhaustion and shock.

Combined with his handsome appearance, he looked like an angel who had overcome all kinds of trials and tribulations and descended to this place.

“Wh-what are you talking about, Duke Zion!

You, you gave it to me!

You, you!”

“That’s amazing.

Why, for what reason would I do such a thing?

I fought for my life in the war with Nudia, I, who protected Hispania, would now commit treason?

Why would I go through all that trouble?”

The knights nodded at those words.

In the first place, the Clausen Frontier was originally famous for its loyalty to the kingdom and the royal family, and even in this war, the eldest son of the family had directly stepped up to fight.

But suddenly blowing up the royal palace?

No matter how you think about it, the picture didn’t fit at all.

“I don’t know, I don’t know!

But you gave me this bottle!”

“Sepher Kaschgar.

A disgusting trash who tried to put your sins on others.

Unfortunately.”

Zion limped towards Sepher.

He looked quite haggard from the injuries, but he was still subtly pressuring the other person.

“There’s one thing you didn’t know.

It was a secret that I wanted to hide forever.”

“What nonsense!

You are…”

“Please tell him.”

Zion coolly passed the explanation to the knight next to him.

“Yes, Duke.

Listen carefully!

The liquid in that bottle is made in a way that it can only be ignited by injecting a certain amount of mana.

You already knew it, but!

So, the moment the guards were inspecting your belongings, you held it in your hand and injected mana, and the mana inside ignited as it was, and the mana bomb installed on the wall exploded.”

“That can’t be!

I didn’t even know what this was!

This is…”

“And then you would have tried to put the blame on Duke Zion to confuse our royal knights and magicians.

But it’s a pity, Count Sepher!

Duke Zion revealed it himself.

No, I should say that you were forced to reveal it because of your shameless act!”

The knight shouted, banging on his plate mail as if he was more angry than anyone else.

“Duke Zion cannot handle mana.

Do you know what this means?

The ignition device you prepared cannot be handled by Duke Zion even if he dies and comes back to life!

Who would be crazy enough to use a mana ignition device when they can’t even use mana!”

“O-oh, uh…?”

For a moment, without even knowing the situation he was in, Sepher reflexively turned his head and looked at Zion.

The descendant of a great noble family with a symptom that he cannot handle mana at all, which is called almost the worst incurable disease on the continent.

This was the biggest weakness among weaknesses, and at the same time, it was a part that should never be revealed!

‘But you revealed it with a bang because of you.

A weakness that must be hidden unconditionally.

Then, who would others see as the one who committed a capital crime?’

It seemed like it would be a very enjoyable party today as well.

Here, and also inside where the intruders had entered.

―

The originally scheduled time was the best time, late in the evening when all the nobles had gathered in the party hall and the party was in full swing.

Collapse part of the wall and somehow infiltrate through the gap to the party hall.

And attack those inside.

The results were not important.

It was enough to infiltrate and threaten.

That was the order the assault team received.

That’s why they moved diligently even though things were twisted.

When the solid wall collapsed and everyone in the royal palace was embarrassed and flustered, they finally carried out what no one had ever done before.

“Intruders!”

Of course, the Royal Knights were also formidable.

They immediately noticed the suspicious signs and quickly took action.

The place where the king and royal family were staying was the first to enter the highest level of alert, and gradually began to scan the entire royal palace.

But their goal was not the king, prince, or princess.

The probability of failure was too high.

If the surprise attack succeeded, it could not only cause chaos but also collapse the kingdom itself, but the risk to be taken was that much greater.

‘Don’t be greedy.

Our purpose is only to create chaos and division in the noble society.’

They targeted the party hall, which had relatively weak security.

Knights were stationed, but the number of nobles gathered was over a hundred because the party time was approaching.

Since they couldn’t protect all those people safely, their decision was reasonable.

The attackers ran and ran again.

If they met knights along the way, they threw the designated person as bait and moved forward.

Finally, the party hall came into view.

The mission was over just by going through that door and swinging the sword.

Uung!―.

The wind blew, and the sword cried.

The bodies of the rushing attackers were simultaneously cut in half, and a rain of blood scattered in all directions.

‘What?’

The fairy, who had brainwashed and led the somewhat skilled humans to this point, was greatly surprised.

Even though they were brainwashed, their senses were not completely dead, but they, as well as herself, were not even aware that the sword strike had come.

“Duke Zion was right.”

Sabak.

A man with a cold atmosphere revealed himself.

Emitting a fierce aura, highlighting the chilling sharpness.

The protagonist of the novel, ‘Kim Yoo-hyun,’ aimed at his ‘enemy’ in front of him.

‘Strong!’

The fairy, reading the opponent’s mana, was horrified.

A man much stronger than herself was blocking the way.

One person, just one person, but his aura was more threatening than hundreds or thousands.

“In the world I used to be in, this kind of trickery was rampant.

On the surface, they would talk about justice and so on, but behind the scenes, they would stab you in the back, stab you in the back, and dig into your weaknesses.

So I hate those guys very much.”

Uuuuuu―.

Whether it was the sword crying, or the mana gathering at the end of it crying.

I couldn’t be sure, but one thing was certain.

“You cannot pass through here.”

It’s ruined.

Ah, damn it. We’re doomed.

[Author’s Note] Recommendations are always right…

Sweet, sweet…!