A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius - A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius chapter 353

353 – To the Night Sky (1)

The castle flies in the sky.

The white giant flew through the night sky and arrived right in front of us.

That location is the exact same place where I received the airship from Empress Erwin and passed over Marquis Claydoll’s head not long ago.

“Crazy.”

When I climbed up the canyon and measured its height, the floating height seemed to be approximately 2km above the ground.

A location like the top of a tall mountain.

There is even a castle floating higher than the highest mountain in the empire, which is a bit hard to find in the Kingdom of Nostrum.

Did it violate the laws of physics according to the Empire’s magic engineers?

That’s not it.

“Ha…”

I wondered where the wind was blowing so strongly.

“Are you saying that they hit a large amount of windstone so recklessly that it made the castle float?”

If you approach the base of the giant white star, the wind will definitely blow vertically.

It is a manifestation of the constant power that the windstone emits downward to maintain its altitude against the effects of gravity and weight.

Unless it’s an illusion, that giant star is just physically floating.

It could be said to be a magical power, but a certain master-level wizard did not forcibly float the castle, but simply used the power of magical engineering and alchemy to levitate the castle in the sky.

The only peculiarity is that the scale is a single ‘province’ unit.

And it’s just that the person who does it calmly is the emperor.

“It’s absurd.”

“…Do we have to fly all the way there?”

“It seems like it’s a difficult altitude to climb on an airship.”

Sir Robert and Sir Mente look up at the sky with serious faces.

A height so far away.

There is even a possibility that that is not the highest altitude.

“Are you telling me to come up on my own by airship?”

“Or you could be told to teleport using the help of a senior wizard. …Although such a being is already dead and does not exist.”

“Then there is only one means of thinking.”

Sir Mente pointed to the sky with a pale face.

“The emperor is planning to slam that castle into Nostrum.”

“…”

“Either Gibraltar, Orosol Academy, or even the royal capital Toledo. The last is the most likely. He slams his imperial palace on top of Nostrum’s royal castle.”

“It’s destruction.”

Falling a castle does not mean that the kingdom will fall, but it is a clear fact that the royal castle will be destroyed.

Goo goo goo.

The white giant star slowly began to approach us.

However, we cannot control a castle flying 2km in the sky.

In the end, we can’t reach it right away.

“Whether I’m killed or eaten, I have no choice but to launch the airship…!”

“Your Excellency the Margrave!”

Flap.

Sir Carlos, who came up riding the drake he raised in Gibraltar, shouts urgently.

“Airships!”

“…!”

With Sir Carlos’ urgent cry, two airships suddenly soared into the sky from below the canyon.

Haha! Shame on you, Gray Gibraltar!!”

An imperial officer with one side of his face disfigured from torture shouted and pointed at me from the deck.

Some of the dragoons tried to stick together, but other imperial soldiers were unable to stick together because they were shooting their muskets accurately at the drake’s eyes.

“We’re heading to the emperor! He won’t catch you! Haha!”

“…”

If you want to run, you can run.

It increases altitude at an incredibly fast speed, but if you jump with all your magical energy, you can barely reach the end of the airship.

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“Sir Robert. How much magic attribute was left in the airship’s magic engine?”

“…I’m almost at the end.”

But even if the airship is captured again, will there be enough mana stored up to reach that giant chalk?

Not at all.

“Let’s stay calm for now.” If an airship of that specification can reach the imperial palace, then we can also reach it.”

Although Gibraltar’s facilities are insufficient, several airships waiting in Nostrum can reach the flying palace.

“So-“

At that moment, I felt like something was shining in the direction of the imperial palace.

“…?”

It feels like mana is condensing.

“Didn’t the imperial palace just come down slightly?”

“Yes?”

“It felt like the output was slightly reduced.”

It’s not an illusion.

‘Did you think I was riding it? Probably not. That can’t be possible.’

The altitude of the imperial palace has been slightly lowered.

“No way are you trying to accommodate an airship…!”

“…Maybe I was overthinking it.”

If you think about it in terms of common sense, it’s one of two things.

Either lower your altitude to catch me going straight to kill you in an airship.

“The emperor humbles himself to accommodate the defeated soldiers?”

Either take the risk and lower the output of the wind stone in order to accept the imperial prisoners who managed to escape.

“…Has the emperor become such a prosperous ruler in the meantime?”

That can’t be possible.

Even if the imperial army officers were talented people for ‘human victory’ that fit the emperor’s ideals, were they human beings who warmly welcomed their soldiers who so desperately flew into the sky?

Are you saying that people can change in such a short period of time?

It does exist.

People with head injuries sometimes show things like that.

“…”

If that’s the case, we might be able to compromise in the case of the lesser evil-

“Ah.”

No.

It hasn’t changed.

If anything, it has become more ‘Thersian’.

“The angle is…”

“Yes?”

“You don’t have to lie down. Both of you, put your weapons down.”

I immediately put my sword down.

“What… “

“Be prepared for impact.”

“S-you can’t believe we’re going to attack…?!”

“I’m going to attack.”

“…Not us, that one?”

The moment when Sir Robert’s finger his, who had just plunged his sword into the floor, pointed to the airship.

Shiny.

As soon as something golden sparkles from the silver giant star.

Kwaaa!!

Just like that, a golden vortex pierced the airship.

Hwieeeeeing ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!

The wind blows.

A mana storm with clear murderous intent, completely different from before, blows and attacks us.

“Pfft!”

The ferocity of the wind was such that Sir Robert had to kneel down on one knee and hold his sword with both hands.

“Lord Mente, be careful not to be blown away by the wind.”

“Ha…!”

Sir Mente got down on one knee and held on.

I breathed mana into my whole body, held her sword with both hands, and looked up at the sky.

“Are they using windstone as a weapon?”

Golden Wind.

It is not the color of the empire, but it is clear that the magical energy emitted from the windstone was used for killing.

“It’s like a legendary dragon spewing out its breath.”

Either they were made similarly, or the destructive power seen now actually has the same killing power as the breath exhaled by a dragon.

Kwa-eu-ang!

It explodes.

The golden storm swallowed up the airship flying towards it whole, and the airship was shocked as if it had been hit by something huge in the sky and was swept away by the wind.

“aaah!!”

It’s not enough to be blown away by the impact, it’s broken, destroyed, and thrown to the ground by a storm.

“…”

If a person falls from a height of about 400 meters above the ground, that person’s fate will inevitably end in one thing.

“Are you saying they won’t even allow access?”

“Well, that… Isn’t it just a weapon?”

“I’ll give you 1000 points.”

“…Damn.”

Sir Robert said this without realizing it, but he immediately started tearing out his hair at my score.

“Can you win that?”

“Well.”

“Your Excellency!”

“It’s a matter of the emperor’s will. And now…One thing has become clear.”

The emperor is looking this way.

Without giving detailed explanations, it is passing over our heads.

“This is a warning.”

The wind blowing out of the windstone oppresses us.

“Even though that wind could at any time turn into the golden storm we just created, just passing overhead is a warning to us.”

“You can kill me at any time.”

“…If a sharp wind falls from the sky instead of a guillotine and rips off your head, there is nothing more terrifying than that.”

“B-but isn’t that all made of magical power? Infinite magical power…!”

“No, no.”

The flying imperial palace is about to pass through the canyon.

“Sir Carlos!”

“Keuheuk, yes!”

Sir Carlos comes back.

Because of the storm, the drake could not flap its wings easily and had to crawl on the ground as if lying face down.

“Lead the dragon knights and turn around to run towards Gibraltar. Run as low as possible along the bottom of the canyon, and if you pass by the Flying Imperial Palace, you will run with a favorable wind.”

“B-but… “

Sir Carlos looked back and forth between the airship on the ground and his drake, which was still unable to spread its wings.

“It’s not targeting Gibraltar. Even if it was, we should run right now and tell them to evacuate.”

“…I will risk my life!”

Sir Carlos nodded his head loudly and climbed on top of the dragon.

Purr.

The drake folded its wings and crawled down the cliff upside down, and soon the drakes, like Sir Carlos, grabbed the cliff and started heading toward the third gateway.

Goo goo goo.

The door opens.

As soon as they landed on the ground one by one, the drakes began to spread their wings at a distance of 1m from the ground, and instead of taking off, they just skimmed the ground and headed for Gibraltar.

“…”

Let’s move on.

The flying imperial palace crosses the Gibraltar Gorge and heads to Nostrum.

“…”

Raise your head and look up at the sky.

Although the altitude was almost vertical, my fists were shaking as they looked down at me.

“Yeah. I guess they stole it. For some reason I couldn’t see it, but as expected.”

The end of the flying imperial palace.

There, the emperor in a gray coat stands.

In a place where he would immediately fall from a height of 2km if he took a single step, he was standing still and holding on to something circular next to him with one hand.

Golden disc.

Items that disappeared from Gibraltar Castle.

“…Ha.”

The moment I saw that golden disc, I had mixed emotions.

Maybe it was the emperor who hid his mother

Maybe my mother miraculously hid inside there.

Or, even if her mother passed away, she might have another chance if she taps into the miracle within her.

“…”

The truth can only be known when it finally reaches the sky.

“The emperor will definitely go to the royal capital.”

I drew my sword and stepped forward.

“He must have gathered mana with the intention of going to the royal capital. Not only physical magic stones, but all the materials he could gather before the war.”

“…Your Excellency the Margrave.”

“It will be too late to counterattack in Toledo. By then, all the magic power to blow up the royal capital and Nostrum will have already been gathered.”

Even if the power of the wind stone is turned off and the entire castle is destroyed, the emperor wins.

“Perhaps the reason the cutting wind for attack is golden is… Sir Robert. Guess what. Where do you think you got the magic power from?”

“…False gold?”

“I think so too. I’ll let you know the score later when it’s confirmed.”

The emperor won even if he wiped out the Nostrum by replacing the mana of the Gold Dragon, the countless false gold that had been absorbed to the point where the empire’s economy was devastated.

“I would like to leave it alone whether the emperor wipes it out or not, but there is Orosol Academy in the royal capital.”

So.

“If the emperor is in heaven, he has no choice but to chase him to heaven and kill him.”

It must be stopped.

“Whew.”

After taking a deep breath.

Beep!

I whistled.

“Sir Mente. Sir Robert.”

A gray shadow running towards me against the wind.

“Please take care of the ground.”

I just stretched out my hand and grabbed everything that came into my hand.

Flap.

“Nidhogg.”

I lightly patted Nidhogg, who willingly gave up his ankle, and flew up into the sky.

“This is your and my last flight.”

Flap.

Nid Hogg turns his body over.

In an instant, my body floated, and Nidhogg lowered his body as if he was falling.

“Let’s go.”

I let go of Nid Hogg’s ankle and stretched out his hands forward.

“To the enemy.”

Nidhogg turned over again, and I landed on Nidhogg’s back.

“Show me that the sky is the realm of drakes.”

Kyaaa!!

Nidhogg roared and spread his wings toward the night sky.

Toward the silver giant castle, the Habsburg Flying Imperial Palace.