A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius - A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius chapter 352

352 – Golden Sun, Silver Moon (7)

Gibraltar Gorge, recapture completed.

There are three masters deployed.

The number of knights and soldiers was about 1,000.

The casualties themselves were less than 50.

‘I like short-term battles like this.’

If you eliminate the enemy’s leadership, destroy the command system, and make the soldiers lose morale, unnecessary blood will not be shed.

There are also dead people.

More than 97% of those who died on the battlefield of this narrow canyon were Imperial soldiers, but the remaining 3% were our Gibraltar knights who either died or received injuries equivalent to death.

“…”

It had been like that for a long time, but the imperial muskets could no longer be called magic missile shells like 10 years ago.

A magic bullet goes beyond a knight’s eyes and pierces his brain, while a live bullet destroys his armor, inflicts damage, and pierces his heart.

And above all, what caused the greatest damage was the barrage of artillery shells dropped downward as the airships rose.

Whether or not the Imperial soldiers in the canyon were hit by the cannonballs, many knights survived and were damaged by the Imperial airships firing downwards to prevent Gibraltar from pursuing them.

But we won.

The golden airship, which may take more than half a year to rebuild and cost a huge budget, was destroyed.

The Second Gate of Gibraltar was completely destroyed, with only the remains of the walls on the left and right remaining.

Members of the Canyon Knights, whom Gibraltar had nurtured with care for the past dozen years, were struck down by artillery fire falling from the sky.

Nevertheless, we recaptured the canyon.

Once again, they occupied the gateway that could be said to be the front line of Gibraltar.

In response to the bloodshed in Gibraltar, thousands of Imperial soldiers who were unable to escape the tightly closed canyon were taken prisoner.

Although it was hit by a golden airship and hit a cliff and exploded or was destroyed in half, parts of the airship were also captured.

Some, only 3 units.

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There are only about 3 airships that can be operated properly, but the rest are either destroyed somewhere, have dead people inside, or have large cuts, making them impossible to fly due to wind blowing in while flying.

I am currently operating one of them and have climbed to the top of the canyon.

“Whew.”

300m, above the canyon.

In the days of traitor Gray, it came up more often than expected, but now it almost never comes up.

“The scenery is still amazing.”

The view from above the Gibraltar Gorge was always so admirable that the empire’s tourism industry experts often suggested building a staircase on the 300-meter cliff so people could climb up to the top of the gorge.

“Isn’t that right, Astasia?”

“…I can’t even try to surprise you. Really.”

“My senses have become a bit more sensitive.”

Behind me.

Astasia slowly comes down from above.

“Are you so desperate that you came on Nidhogg? You also have a fear of heights.”

“I have to endure it. Gray is here.”

Nidhogg flaps her wings and takes off into the sky.

The height of the canyon is already 300m, but for Nidhogg, this height is not even possible.

“Gray. “I have something to ask you.”

“What is it?”

“Why did you attack the airship? It wasn’t the Dragoons.”

“…”

There were choices.

All you had to do was fly, so if you attacked while riding a flying dragon, the effect would definitely have been similar.

“Well, I don’t know.”

But I took out the airship.

“What I want to ask about Astacia is because she used that golden ship as a disposable charger, right? She is that golden airship, the ship that her family in Gibraltar later flew on together.”

“…”

Perhaps Astasia thought that I was so shocked that she threw away the golden airship and destroyed it.

“It’s okay, Astasia. This is a kind of declaration.”

“Declaration?”

“Even the gateway can collapse someday.”

“…”

It could be taken away, so what guarantee is there that it won’t collapse?

“The Second Gate has collapsed. We don’t have the time or stamina to clear the rubble, but even if the canyon reopens, the Second Gate will not be restored.”

“Then… “

“Gibraltar must always protect the gorge. It is even throwing off that obsession.”

Hwiiing.

The wind blows.

Unlike the inside of the canyon that was artificially carved by Gibraltar’s ancestors, the wind blows arbitrarily and passes by your head.

“I thought that if I did this, I would be free.”

“…”

“It doesn’t have much meaning, but people who give it meaning will think deeper in many ways.”

“People will still want heroes.”

“I guess so.”

Nostrum fell into crisis as always, and overcame the crisis with the help of someone who showed heroic actions.

“Astacia. Actually, I don’t really dislike heroism that much.”

“Yes?”

“It’s good when a hero comes along, because he takes my place and solves the problems that need to be handled by me.”

“…”

“Fundamentally, I am a person who hates helping or sacrificing for others. I am just an extremely conservative and selfish person who only cares about myself, my family, and my surroundings.”

The reason I accepted the empire’s technology and culture was simply for the convenience of myself and my family.

“To be more honest, if there is someone who can kill the Emperor, he will spare no resources to do so.”

“…”

“If there were a hero who could kill the emperor instead of me, I would spare no time or resources for him.”

“But I couldn’t find it.”

“Yes. “Unfortunately.”

The emperor was too strong to believe in heroism alone.

“Maybe you are the hero the golden dragon thought of.”

“…Maybe so.”

I couldn’t win before the regression, but what happens now?

“Astacia. Isn’t the wind really nice?”

I walked towards Astasia and hugged her from behind.

“The wind at high altitudes is cold. But the wind at sea is relatively warm, especially in the southern seas.”

“Are you saying we’re going to win and go, or are you going to run away like this?”

“As I said, if there was someone else than me, I would leave everything to that hero and go to the sea with you…”

It’s so unfortunate.

“I don’t think there’s anyone there right now except me.”

I am the only one who can kill the emperor.

“Traitor, traitor, trash. I thought I could become anything.”

For Astasia.

“Some may think of me as a hero, and some may regard me as a protector. Some may say that I am a rare migratory bird that tried to kill the emperor while trying to be loyal to the empire.”

For my princess.

“Even if someone calls me the protector of Nostrum like I always have, I won’t care. All of this is for you.”

* * *

And, midnight.

Exactly 7 days from the day the emperor promised.

“…?”

On top of the castle wall, the wind passes by your face.

The coat flutters behind, and the hair falls back.

“…What is it?”

“Your Excellency, the direction of the wind right now…?”

Bu-euung!!

A strong wind begins to blow.

The flag of Gibraltar, which had been fluttering towards the empire, suddenly began to flutter behind the empire instead of behind it.

“Could it be that a battle breaks out inside…?”

“That can’t be possible. The canyon is long. The wind direction has never changed in 500 years.”

The wind inside the canyon changes due to the aftermath of the battle that brought down several airships?

That’s not it.

According to the reverberation of the wind blowing now, that wind is not a natural wind-

“Magic…?”

Because it was the wind caused by the manifestation of magic.

“The empire is sending a wind of this magnitude?”

I don’t understand.

For what purpose?

Are you trying to use the wind to hinder the dragoons or airships from flying through the canyon to the Empire?

The emperor?

I would rather be the person who would hit the suicide airship just like I hit the golden airship into the canyon gate.

I won’t commit something like this-

“Ah.”

Beyond the night sky.

It was visible.

Is this how the soldiers of the Empire felt when they looked through the telescope at the golden airship we came on?

“What is that?”

“Your Excellency the Margrave. Do you see something?”

“…Hey, what do you think that is?”

I pointed forward, 15 degrees above, and Sir Robert followed my finger and turned his eyes to the dark night sky.

“It looks like something like a star is twinkling. It looks like silver or gray-“

The moment Sir Robert mentioned color.

“…That, really?

I noticed it right away.

“Are you saying it could be the emperor’s private plane?”

“I think so.”

It’s far away so it’s hard to see.

But at least we can clearly see that something is coming towards us, floating much higher than the 300m canyon.

One thing is clear.

Something is flying in the sky and coming here.

That something is flying, covered in a color I don’t know whether it’s silver or gray-

“…Castle?”

Without realizing it, I thought over the words I had said.

“Yes?”

“No, wait a minute. Isn’t that flying object approaching like a twinkling star… A castle?”

“What do you mean, a castle? Are you saying that the top of the airship was made like a castle?”

“That’s not it.”

It is visible.

The ultramarine blue magic stone lamp that seems to be decorated on the outside starts to twinkle and its shape gradually begins to become visible.

“That’s the Habsburg Palace that the Habsburg Emperor has been using since he was crown prince.”

“…The imperial palace?”

The Tersian Empire, especially the Habsburg Emperor, has his own old that he has used since his days his as crown prince.

The castle, which even changed its name to ‘Hapsburg Palace’, is now flying in the sky.

“What altitude is that right now…?”

A castle that flies so high that we have to look up from the 50m high castle wall where we are standing.

The reason it wasn’t visible was because it was flying too high.

In an instant, a memory flashed through my mind.

-An emperor is someone who reigns.

Traitor Gray era.

When the Habsburg emperor occasionally invited me to the empire, he told me various stories in the garden of the emperor’s womb, which he used as a child.

-So it should be in a place where everyone can look up to you. That was the reason why Thersian’s imperial palace soared so high.

-Why not just build an imperial castle on the top of the mountain?

-I’m thinking about that too. I feel like I want to fly in the sky and look down on the entire continent.

At that time, the emperor said to me.

-To reign over ten thousand people. That is the one who leads the foolish people.

“Um, what is that?”

“Something like the moon…?”

“It looks really big. The shiny thing also seems strange…”

Was it because Sir Robert and I were looking at the night sky?

The knights standing to our left and right also focused their gaze, and then swallowed their saliva as they saw something in silver.

-Humans are afraid of two things.

“Something bigger than yourself…”

-And.

“Something higher than yourself.”

As if a building called the Imperial Palace had been attached to the ground below, it was slowly approaching through the sky, emitting enormous wind stone magic beneath the ground.

Night sky.

The Habsburg imperial palace is flying in the sky.

High in the sky, which could easily be estimated to be several kilometers, a silver giant star was flying toward Gibraltar.

[My enemy.]

There.

[I am here.]

There is Habsberg.