The Emperor Who Was Chapter 96 : Chapter 96

Chapter . 96

"You intend to appear before people looking like this?"

"It would be more dramatic if I say I ended up like this while saving the Prince."

The way he spoke, it sounded like he would drag

and offer

to the Emperor right away.

"It's good for you too. It's better for you to stay here to avoid triggering your father's obsession anyway. Rather than constantly having a bounty, no, a reward, anyway, gold put on your head."

Michelon's eyes fell into ecstasy.

"It's better for the territory to beco mine than to go over to soone else. Just as we share the Dragon's Grave, we share those territories too. And starting a territorial war centered on that territory, I will take all the territories of the Empress, Dukes, Marquises, and Princes! Kuhaha! My rank will also beco incredibly high. If they don't give

a rank around Duke, I'll just beco a King altogether, Kuhahaha!"

I worried about ruffians from all over the country, but the greediest guy was right by my side.......

"It's good for you too. Don't you want to carry around a Duke under your arm like other Princes? You're the only Prince without a Duke."

Then he brazenly added.

"When I beco a Duke, I want to see Marquis Steiner's face. How good it would be to see the face of the guy who kept warning

not to abuse your favor, Kuhahaha!"

While the dragon was exuding lust for power, the invisible eye returned.

"Give

that. It was my jewel."

"The attached one is my mother's ring?"

"Then make one for

too. And let's get out of here. I'm really hungry now."

Although the dragon certainly looked gaunt, he was also the guy who would drag

to the Emperor if we left here.

As soon as we went out, I cast a barrier and manifested the Throne Magic Circle.

"Can you just do that in broad daylight?"

"If we get caught, I can just turn it off. That's why I cast a barrier."

Still, I had used the Throne Magic Circle very cautiously until now, but there was no need to be careful anymore.

When my Imperial Father is gathering not only my enemies but also ruffians from all over the country to my territory under the pretext of saving .

Not only my territory's people, but my people who must be stomping their feet anxiously since I disappeared, could be falsely accused and treated as criminals, whether they are mages or not.

"Hand over all the jewels you have."

When I took even Michelon's brooch after the ring, he jumped in surprise.

"Taking back what you gave! Is that fair!"

"You're rich now too. You're even about to beco a lord, buy it yourself!"

"Still, this was your gift. Here, use this instead!"

Michelon took out a few jewels from his bosom.

"Did you bring these from your house?"

"The workmanship is totally ancient style, so they look plainer than current ones."

There was no use arguing with Michelon about jewels. I threw the jewels he offered into the Throne Magic Circle and infused his mana as well, processing them into eavesdropping artifacts.

When I added the magic formula of the portrait ring I grasped while processing the portrait ring with Tess, a more powerful formula erged.

Like Tess, the Throne Magic Circle also took the form of a furnace and began to rotate so fast it made

dizzy. Inside, the jewels revolved like planets moving along their orbits.

"You're making artifacts with the Throne Magic Circle too?"

"Honestly, the mana consumption is too high so it's a waste, but since we can just pour in your mana. So, it's like creating very luxurious artifacts in an instant."

"I said I'm hungry!"

"I'll cast invisibility magic on you, so bring sothing from the kitchen."

"If I get caught, I can just say I found you and brought you, right?"

"I decide when to go to my Imperial Father. If you act on your own before that, I'll say you kidnapped ."

"Do you hate your friend becoming a Duke that much?"

After Michelon disappeared grumbling, I completed the spying artifacts and checked them. Michelon's jewels responded to mana better than ordinary jewels.

Whether the workmanship was old-fashioned or not, since they had been exposed to such mana in that space for a long ti, they were the best artifact material.

'But still not as good as Mother's keepsake.......'

Leaving the analysis of the portrait ring's material for later, I put it back on my hand without using it this ti. Unless I operated it right beside , it could be destroyed upon detection. I didn't know about other things, but this was a keepsake.

After that, I brought up the map of the entire Imperial Palace on the Throne Magic Circle.

The map was very detailed as a floor plan of the entire Imperial Palace, but when I enhanced the spatial magic with the circle, it imdiately changed to 3D.

The floor plan soared up, down, and sideways, transforming as if reproducing a miniature model of the Imperial Palace.

When the spatial magic successfully perford in the Dragon's Grave t the origin of Tess, a miniature model of the Throne Magic Circle, things proceeded smoothly.

"Here, here, here......."

I hesitated for a mont at the last point, but I couldn't drag on any longer. After floating the newly created invisible eyes, I positioned them in each space of the 3D map I had designated.

The Imperial Palace model floating above the brilliantly shining Throne Magic Circle, the iridescent radiance of jewels floating in the space where transparent lines crossed in the air.......

"Cool!"

Even Michelon, who returned instantly with an armful of food, was impressed. I smiled and gestured. The jewels disappeared at once.

"Right now... surely you didn't send them all to the bastards' dwellings? To spy like earlier?"

"Of course the Throne Magic Circle can do teleportation magic too. Sending these small artifacts to every corner of the Imperial Palace where the Throne Magic Circle is rooted from the foundation is nothing."

"...It's just amazing that you ca up with such an idea."

"It's because I experinted with teleportation in your house. Your house is full of mana so it's good for experinting, and the results are very good. After draining myself once there and coming out, it's much easier to use magic elsewhere."

"Like running with sandbags as Alexander claims, feeling lighter when taking them off?"

"Roughly so. But why are you back so quickly?"

"As soon as I went out, there was a servant passing by with food, so I tempted him saying I'd tell him where you are, and he gave it right away?"

"...You probably knocked him out. Control your strength well at tis like that."

"I knew you'd nag like that, so I softened it, but you're making a fuss anyway."

We ate the food Michelon brought first. Unlike Michelon, I was used to hunger and endured well, but it certainly took a toll on my body. Eating made the dizziness disappear, and energy revived without having to force my limbs to move.

"Look at that!"

Although it was my magic, Michelon sensed it faster. As I raised my head following where the owner of instincts beyond human reach pointed, an image from the Throne Magic Circle popped up. The appearance of the Empress detected by the spying artifact.

It ant that among those we intended to spy on, the Empress was acting the fastest. Truly a diligent person.

"Why does it look so blurry and flickering as if it's about to go out?"

"Because it has to pass through eavesdropping and spying prevention magic."

But soon the image beca clear. Because the Throne Magic Circle and dragon jewels, artifacts made with my magic and dragon mana, were far superior to other artifacts.

"We could make artifacts and sell them? Deceive them that you made them with materials much more expensive than jewels and sell them to enemies too! Saying we provide anti-spying while spying on them ourselves!"

I was glad Michelon showed the temperant of a business genius besides a warmonger. A business genius to oppose Rhiannon, very reassuring.

"Cardinal Orlanto."

"Your Majesty the Empress."

Just then, Orlanto was entering. Red light arose from the door he was entering and enveloped him. Then it slowly changed to orange, yellow, and all colors of the rainbow. The Cardinal had to stand still until all those lights passed through him. Michelon was intrigued.

"What is that?"

"It's an artifact developed by the Empress faction that does anti-eavesdropping, anti-spying, weapon detection, etc., all at once."

"It wasn't like that when we went."

"They are also reluctant to let enemies know that such a thing exists. Since it consus trendous mana, they don't even use it for general etings. If they activated that, it ans they will have a really important conversation with the Cardinal."

"Then how does your artifact pass through that?"

"It doesn't need to pass through. That is installed on the door, and the Throne Magic Circle didn't transport the artifact through the door or hallway, but sent it via spatial magic through the model of the Imperial Palace. There is no space in the Imperial Palace that the Throne Magic Circle does not govern."

"You're a genius."

"Why don't you add 'madman'?"

"...I praise as I please. Not what you want to hear."

"I know, it was a joke."

"...Not funny."

"I joke as I please. Not what you want to hear."

"......."

"Actually, copying you just now was the joke."

"...Let's go back to the artifact story."

"What's this? You bringing up magic talk first."

"So do well when I say let's do it. What I want to know is, what happens if Desmond, not Orlanto, goes to see his mother? Although we can see him with the artifact in the Empress's space instead of the one sent to his space. What I want to know is whether your artifact stays only in the space or follows the target."

"Both are possible. Those artifacts are consumable. If I use my artifact in my space, I only need to supply mana so it's permanent, but if I send it to soone else's space, the mana consumption is high due to the barrier and it wears out quickly."

Even the artifacts enemies placed in my dwelling, which their maids or servants regularly swapped, I left alone pretending not to see until Yolande ca.

"It lasts longer if it stays only in the space. Consumption is higher if it follows the target."

"Still, since it's a crisis situation, it's better to follow the target."

"I did that. However, while it might be fine when they go out, when they return to their dwelling, they receive inspection from mages to see if they were exposed to any attacks outside, so it must be retrieved before that. So this must be used only when absolutely necessary. Without them noticing."

"Then apart from the Cardinal who doesn't have a dwelling in the Imperial Palace and wasn't sent an artifact, can Desmond pass through that door while wearing your artifact?"

"That door is magic cast by the Empress faction on the Imperial Palace, and since the Imperial Palace itself is under the jurisdiction of the Throne Magic Circle, it inevitably falls under it anyway. To cast magic resisting the Throne Magic Circle in the Imperial Palace, one must break the Throne Magic Circle first."

"So it ans it works?"

"Theoretically possible ans I don't know because I haven't experinted. That's why I utilized the miniature model without going through the door. It's more efficient too."

"Speaking like that, it's no fun even if I want to listen to your magic talk."

While we were talking, Cardinal Orlanto finally passed through all those lights. The Empress, who hadn't even looked at him anwhile, spoke sharply as soon as the Cardinal entered the door, barely acknowledging his greeting.

"You disappointed

in this matter."

"Everything is rely the will of the God Traneha. Regarding what happened according to God's will, please do not let personal feelings intervene. I fear you might stray from God's will again next ti if you do."

The Empress glared at the Cardinal as if to kill him, but if Grimiati was a marble statue, Orlanto was a wooden tombstone. Exposing a rough and untrimd surface as is.

"If you act like that, there will be no reason for

to send the Knights of Saint Romola again for the unprecedented incident of Leontes's disappearance."

Although the Empress boldly insulted the temple by speaking as if the Knights of Saint Romola were hers, the Cardinal didn't take the bait.

He could send them without the Empress's permission anyway, so he could have gotten angry and left, but there was no reason to cause conflict with the Empress who still had great influence in that region and its vicinity.

"Why wouldn't I send them, rciful Empress? Even though neither the Knights of Saint Romola nor the Temple of Traneha has any interest in dragon eggs."

Then, the Empress smiled alluringly. Not to seduce the Cardinal, but because she felt good at the Cardinal's words containing the promise she desired. Just as she did to

before the regression.

"If so, I will decide to trust you just this once more."

The Empress picked up a quill pen and wrote sothing on parchnt with ink. Although they seed like ordinary luxurious items, they were all artifacts.

Rhiannon pricked her fingertip with the pen nib to draw blood and signed with that blood, and subsequently, the Cardinal did the sa.

"What did they write? I can't see?"