Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 227



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Episode 227: The Peace Evangelist (4)

The moment Judith bowed her head to Lilia, the trembling air in the conference room immediately returned to normal. Galen had instantly recovered his magic power.

“Well thought out, my lord. This is truly a wise decision.”

As if he had completely forgotten all his memories up until that point, Galen spoke to Judith gently and politely, praising her.

Judith tried to control her temper as she thought to herself, “Who is this kid teasing?” If she was going to get angry, she should have done it earlier. It would be ugly to show her emotions now after giving in to the momentum.

She forced a smile and spoke politely.

“It is all thanks to you two for opening this old man’s eyes. We will actively cooperate with the church’s policies in the future.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Yes? The Archbishop just asked for your cooperation―”

“Yes, Lilia. Not the church.”

Galen cut Judith off with a snicker.

“Didn’t Lilia, who inspected the area, ‘advise’ the lord on improvements, and the lord thought it was right and decided to ‘take it upon himself’ to revise the family’s policy? Did I misunderstand?”

It would be annoying if this incident were defined as ‘the church setting the policy for the Protein family.’

This will give other noble families room to talk about the church’s interference in internal affairs, and it will also be easy for Protein to blame the church if something goes wrong later, and in particular, it could be seen that Lilia has encroached on Ernst’s authority.

So this must have been something the Protein family did on their own. Lilia? She just gave me a word of advice in passing? Anyone can do that, right?

He always mixes in some nonsense even in his trivial greetings, for fear that people might say he comes from a prestigious family. He really wants to get away with it.

“… Duke Galen is right. I made a slip of the tongue due to my shortcomings.”

Judith quickly changed her tone, gritting her teeth internally but maintaining a polite demeanor on the outside. Galen smiled kindly.

“It’s okay. People can make mistakes. Isn’t it true that we all learn from our mistakes?”

“Thank you for your generous understanding. I don’t know what to do with myself.”

Unlike her lips, her eyes were even colder. Galen warned her that if she did something like that again, he would consider her incapable of learning and cut off her balls, and Judith immediately put her tail between her legs.

Galen, who had finished directing traffic, looked back at Lilia.

Unfamiliar with political rhetoric, she simply tilted her head. That was cute, and Galen’s smile seemed genuine.

“Do you have anything else to say, Lilia?”

“Nothing in particular? You’re not a kid, so you’ll figure it out.”

“Then, please wake up soon. Let’s go and eat dinner.”

“yes!”

While I was treating this chaos as some kind of pre-meal exercise, I could hear the sound of Judith and the elders’ clothes bursting.

Galen chuckled as he looked at the expressions that could never be bright, even though he was trying his best to manage them.

“Don’t be too upset, my lord. This is all advice I gave you so that you can do well in protein.”

“Is that so?”

“They say that good medicine tastes bitter.”

Galen calmly answered Judith, who was gritting her teeth and asking questions.

“To be frank, what harm does this do to the Protein family?”

“…yes?”

“Let’s be honest, my lord. Even if we eat up all the land we’ve eaten so far, it won’t take even a hundred years to fully digest it. Do you think taxes will come in just by planting a flag in an uninhabited land?”

“… … .”

Judith couldn’t bring herself to refute that statement.

The area was so big that it wasn’t bad, so she had fun expanding it, but of course she also knew that the population density would drop drastically the further north you went.

It would take at least several generations, as Galen said, for a region to transform into the general form of a combination of city and hinterland villages.

“If you continue to be greedy and try to gain more profits in the distant future, and end up destroying your current family, what kind of foolish thing would that be? I stopped you before you were destroyed by the fairies, so please be more careful in the future.”

“… Destruction of the clan?”

“I am being serious. I know fairies much better than you, my lord. I can assure you that if the Sky Fairies use their full power, even if all the families in the plateau unite, they will surely be defeated.”

“What the—”

“Silver, gold, jewels. No matter what you bring, they can’t compete with the numbers of the elves by just mentioning a few families. Do you think I tried to stop the war because I felt sorry for the elves? I stopped it because the humans died in far greater numbers.”

“… … .”

If someone else had said that, I would have laughed and turned a deaf ear to the idea of ​​overestimating fairies.

Galen’s voice, which had become indifferent and had a playful expression on its face, was etched vividly in the minds of Judith and the elders.

“If the gate that could have been rebuilt was broken and about a hundred people were injured and could have recovered in two or three days, then it would have been a very cheap deal. You just have to stop being greedy. Don’t cross the line and come back to us or the Sky Fairy.”

“… I would appreciate your advice.”

Judith gave an example in a calm voice, but with a more polite demeanor than before.

Galen, who had taken the example of Ma-ja, stood up from his seat. He was about to take Lilia out when he suddenly spoke.

“Oh, my lord. Before you go, could you please write a personal letter to Typhon?”

“Typhon… right?”

“Protein isn’t the only family that has conflicts with the Sky Fairies, is it?”

“If I do that, to them too?”

“We should tell it to stop expanding, just like we did with protein.”

“I’ll be happy to write it for you.”

Judith was the first to volunteer.

Seeing them smiling brightly at the thought of sharing good things with their rival families, they truly looked like a noble family.

The two stopped by the office for a moment to receive the letter and then left the mansion.

Most of them had dispersed, and only a few remained, garnering the complicated and subtle gazes of the family members who were cleaning up, as well as the gazes of the passers-by who were making a fuss on the street outside the mansion.

They walked on without a care in the world. As they happened to see a carriage passing by, they caught it and got on.

“Whoaah.”

As soon as she sat down, Lilia, who had been sagging, leaned over to the side.

“Fortunately, it worked out well.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Galen smiled as he stroked Lilia’s head, which was leaning against his shoulder.

“You speak very well.”

“Well, I had practiced with you beforehand. Fortunately, I didn’t get out of the situation I had practiced in.”

“Since we have the decisive argument, they have limited say.”

It was even stranger that the case could not be resolved, since Protein was not originally innocent, and was also accused of being the devil.

The only question was how smoothly it was handled, and I think it was handled smoothly enough.

If there are 0 deaths and 0 serious injuries, then they must have been very careful about controlling their strength, to be honest. It’s also thanks to Lilia, who worked harder to treat them, than to Pan Galen.

“I’ve even received a personal letter, so I’m more than halfway done. I think I can almost relax now.”

“Then get some rest. Sometimes I see you thinking too much, and it seems like you can’t rest properly even when you rest.”

“That’s just his nature. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to play with magic instead of wasting time?”

“There are so many types of magic to play with, that’s the problem! This won’t do. I have to force my brother to rest his head.”

“yes?”

“Once you sweat until you’re exhausted, you won’t have any distracting thoughts!”

“That’s not called ‘resting,’ Lillia.”

The carriage carrying the two people meowing peacefully rolled along in the sunset.

* * *

In this case the Church ‘officially’ did nothing. Galen made it so.

But that doesn’t mean it’s okay for the church to not know anything at all. Galen may be okay, but Lilia isn’t okay.

So, first I wrote a letter to Ernst.

The reason for visiting the Northwest. The process of tracking down the Demonic Cult and the appearance of vampires. The atmosphere within the Sky Fairy that I heard from Shamita. The judgment and decision made based on all of that. There was even a warning that Typhon would be next after Protein.

Overall, it’s as polite as possible, with the nuance of ‘I didn’t do it on purpose, but somehow things ended up this way. I’m sorry… ‘.

It was sent as a matter of utmost urgency through the church’s network.

Ernst was an archbishop in charge of not only the northwest but also the north, so his seat of government was a bit far from here. No matter how many times he changed his words, it would take a long time for the letter to return.

While waiting for the reply to arrive, the two rested in Kirin.

It has been a little over two months since I left the Vatican, saying I would go to the desert, and during that time I have been moving almost every day. It is no ordinary forced march.

Of course, it was a tough journey, mostly by carriage, sometimes by camel, or by plane, but anyway, since I had never really stayed and rested, I took this opportunity to take it easy.

“You’re saying that my brother has become strong again on his own in a fatal way… … .”

“… Is it that obvious?”

“You’re wearing a scintilla!”

“Oh, right.”

While raising the vampire has increased the level of some magic, the most noticeable change is that Vanity Flame has evolved into Heat Magic, adding a new primal spirit.

“The ninth miracle isn’t something you can obtain just by wanting to get it, and since the Spirit Inspector isn’t me, but my brother, it’s up to me to become stronger so that Unika can become stronger too… I guess I need to practice the power of the stars more.”

“I think you’re really lacking.”

It’s been about a month since I came up with the idea of ​​imitating the physical enhancement of a warrior with the power of stars, taking a hint from the operating principle of mass-produced horsemen.

Although I practiced here and there during that time, Galen’s results were not very satisfactory.

Now, it is possible to barely contain a very small amount in the body without any side effects, but the problem is that the amount is so small that it is embarrassing to even call it an enhancement.

Is it just that on days when you’re in good condition, your performance goes up a little bit? It’s meaningless even in everyday life, let alone in actual matches.

On the other hand, Lilia’s progress was on a different level from Galen’s, as if someone might call her a true genius.

“I… um.”

Lilia pondered as she looked at the hand that was slashing through the air at a speed that left an afterimage.

“I think it’s around 100. I think it’s still a bit ambiguous to call it top tier.”

“… Baek Eun-i in a month?”

“Brother, if you learn new magic, you’ll be able to do that too, right?”

“Ahem, that’s true.”

“It’s a bit different from the miracle of the rigid body, but it has something in common in the big picture, so I was able to reference it. It’s nothing special.”

“You know you should never say that in front of the warriors, right?”

“I’m doing it because it’s in front of you, brother. But if you think about it in real life, it’s really nothing special. I think it would be useful if it could turn into gold with just the power of the stars.”

“Well, at our level, Baek Eun is… … .”

I know it’s really unfortunate, but what can I do? The difference between silver and jewels is so extreme that it’s hard to even use them as a side job. At the very least, it should be gold to be of any use.

Still, it is a joy to see that there is potential for growth. Lilia did not become impatient and devoted herself to training step by step.

Galen was mainly focused on leveling up Sky Liberation. Wall Power Ilseong is still something that can be learned on one’s own, but it’s a bit difficult to practice it in the city.

A fortnight passed like that.

A reply arrived from Ernst.

Fortunately, there was no content criticizing them. Rather, it was written that he was grateful for taking care of the big issue on his behalf and that he would also be entrusted with taking care of the Typhon family. He just asked them to show up once before leaving the Northwest. He was a truly kind archbishop.

“I got official permission, so there shouldn’t be a problem!”

Lilia read the letter and smiled brightly.

“Now let’s go and break down that house’s front door!”

“… What are you breaking?”

Shamita, who had rejoined just yesterday, asked back in a trembling voice.