I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated Chapter 598

When we spoke to him, we found out that Gregory was a nobleman of the Raidos Kingdom. To my surprise, he was actually a Viscount.

However, he said that he had never lived like a nobleman since he entered the Belios Kingdom disguised as a rchant more than twenty years ago.

I thought it was amazing that he remained loyal to the Raidos Kingdom, but it seed that his fear of being killed if he betrayed them was stronger than his loyalty.

In fact, so of his fellow spies had been killed for trying to betray their holand.

Maybe there were even spies watching over other spies.

Besides, spies from the Raidos Kingdom were sowhat unique. Instead of always conducting operations against the other country, they usually worked earnestly so that they could move easily in case of ergencies.

He ntioned that a Knight nad Saruth, who had infiltrated the Kingdom of Philias, also worked normally in peaceti to gain trust.

Gregory was the sa, and it seed that he was really a decent rchant, except for the fact that he sent information to the Raidos Kingdom once every few years.

Because of this, he had gained the trust of the people around the lake, and their sche involving the Scarlet Waterweed dicine had been able to proceed smoothly.

Gregory and the others were under the command of the Eastern Duke, and they were helping the alchemists under his command with their plans.

「Who is this alchemist you’re talking about?」

「Zelyse, a man who behaves like a child」

「Zelyse!? He’s in this country?」

「Y-yes...」

Fran’s eyes widened. She never thought she’d hear his na here.

He was the crazy, psycho, good-looking alchemist, who had done several things to us in Barbra. Well, we did manage to thwart his plans as well, so I’d say it was even between us.

But still, is he on the Raidos Kingdom’s side? Or did he originally belong to the Belios Kingdom? But he also said sothing like he was raised in the Kranzel Kingdom at that ti...

「Is Zelyse a subordinate of Raidos Kingdom?」

「I-It would be more accurate to say that he was a subordinate of the Eastern Duke...」

「Even though he’s being hunted elsewhere?」

「Criminal records in countries that are hostile to our country are irrelevant. Besides, in the Raidos Kingdom, where there is no Adventurer’s Guild, the bounties issued by the Guild is aningless...」

In other words, they would accept criminals from other countries as long as they were capable. On the contrary, it was even possible that they were actively accepting those who were wanted in the Kranzel Kingdom. Just like that saying went, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

『Could it be that that undead are under Zelyse’s command?』

When Fran asked him about it, he said that it had nothing to do with Zelyse. He said that the undead was loaned by the Black Skeleton Army, an organization under the control of the Southern Duke.

To my surprise, it seed that the Black Skeleton Army had created a technique to transform necromancers into undead while retaining their human consciousness.

「How is that even possible?」

「I-I don’t know. But even that Wight King was still able to hold a decent conversation. Although his mind was greatly corrupted...」

It seed that it was not possible to tell which class of undead a slave would turn into depending on the affinity of the person who beca the base body, so the current thod was to force a slave to turn into an undead after making them learn necromancy.

After they were turned into undead in this way, they were then controlled by higher-ranking necromancers and made to swear allegiance to the Raidos Kingdom.

The advantages of turning a human into an undead were strong reasoning and the ability to talk. The undead, who were usually too ntally deranged to carry out complex missions, could be transford into fearso and powerful soldiers by having human thoughts.

However, he said that those who beca undead must sleep in a coffin during normal tis because their bodies and minds would gradually deteriorate over ti.

The coffin also had a powerful concealnt effect, so powerful undead could be hidden inside their luggage and be transported. In so cases, it was even possible to carry them close to the heart of the enemy country without being detected.

The Wight King we had just defeated was said to be one of the few remaining top-level forces in the Black Skeleton Army. When we ntioned Weena Rhyn’s na before, they must have seen us as a possible enemy. Well, we killed it instantly though.

However, the Scarlet Waterweed dicine was more important than the undead right now.

「What is your purpose? What are you going to do with the Scarlet Waterweed dicine?」

「Z-Zelyse hasn’t told us his main goal! He just asked us to mass-produce the Scarlet Waterweed dicine!」

「Where are you sending that Scarlet Waterweed dicine?」

「N-nowhere...」

「Nn?」

『Huh?』

What does that an? Aren’t they trying to make Scarlet Waterweed dicine and use it for sothing?

However, Gregory told us that the Scarlet Waterweed dicine was still stored in large quantities in the ship’s warehouses.

He said that all of them were left here except for those that were distributed for dostic use.

They assud that it would eventually be transported sowhere else, but the situation had remained the sa for over a year now.

(But why? Isn’t their purpose is to get the Scarlet Waterweed dicine?)

『Well, I don’t know about it either... Besides, I don’t even understand the connection between the fact that these guys are from the Raidos Kingdom and are working under Zelyse’s orders and the anomaly in the lake』

We thought that the anomaly was caused by sothing that the sther rchant Association had done. In fact, we thought that the Scarlet Waterweed dicine had been misused in so way to cause the current anomaly.

But was that really the case?

「Did you know that there’s been so kind of anomaly in the lake?」

「Y-yes」

「Are you guys the ones behind it?」

「T-that’s outrageous! There’s no way we could do sothing that big!」

『For real? But this guy seems to be serious』

Was it just that Gregory didn’t know about it? Or did they really have nothing to do with it?

『Fran, It seems we need to get Zelyse to talk, even if we have to force him to』

(Nn)

Fran then asked Gregory where Zelyse was.

「T-the atelier! He should be in the Scarlet Waterweed dicine making atelier!」