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Chapter 28
The Extermination Squad
The title of Sage is one of those titles that absolutely cannot be self-proclaimed, and its criteria are strictly applied.
Among the Sages known on the Serdes Continent, Helus Povidas became a Sage through an unprecedented process.
This was because he was neither from Escolea, the city of scholars, nor was he a mage bastard of commoner origin who was separately expected to be a genius.
Helus left behind an anecdote about how he became a Sage.
While he was sleeping as usual, he awakened and said he faced something absolute.
Ẃе b̂ňó_v̊е̄ l Ě n̈ ü m а
That absolute something appeared in the form of a god and told him to choose between two things.
The potential to reach the position of a 7th Circle Archmage.
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And the wisdom and knowledge that encompass all things.
He could have risen to the 7th Circle stage where he could rule everything, but Helus chose wisdom and knowledge to help all people, or so the story goes.
It was bullshit so fresh it was unprecedented.
But no human dared to raise an objection to that story.
Ė ñu ḿа . ĭ d̃
Anyway, he was a man called a Sage, and he possessed knowledge and wisdom close to miracles.
Although he was a vulgar human, his wisdom was said to never waver, so in a sense he could be called a superhuman.
However, the actual Helus Povidas was not such a superhuman.
He was a figure honest with his emotions to the extent of being no different from ordinary people.
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And right now, Helus was making a displeased face.
His gaze looked down at a woman kneeling.
Ẃе́b n о̄ v̌еl̃ Еnù ḿ а̌
As if she were the root of all evil, his two eyes contained anger.
That middle-aged woman was someone who had once been his valet.
Helus had spent half of his accumulated wealth to find this woman.
Skilled mages and trackers chased her traces, and they finally succeeded in bringing her to his mansion.
When she first entered the mansion, she was beaten like a dog.
They stayed up all night, the servants' beating broke her whole body, leaving her barely able to hold herself together.
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She dropped her head to the floor and trembled in fear.
She opened her mouth.
"P-please spare me, Master......"
"Master?"
Helus sneered.
"Right, I was your master. That's right. Do you know what happens to a valet who abandons their master and runs away?"
W_е̊b ǹ о_v е̇ l Ѐ nu m̃ӑ
He said, tapping his palm with the club he held in his hand.
"You get beaten like a dog."
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"P-please spare me. Please......"
The middle-aged valet desperately pleading with her broken hands pressed together in prayer.
Her slightly open mouth had barely a few teeth left.
"Fine, I'll forgive you. If you just tell me where that brat you stole from me is."
W̄êb̈ǹ.о̄ v el̇ Е́ ň ů mа
"I don't know. I was just deceived and had that child taken from me!"
Helus kicked the valet's head.
"Do I look like a retard!? You think I'm doing this because I don't know two gold coins popped out of your pocket!?"
"Ack! Please just spare me, please!"
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"Right, I'll spare you. If you just find that brat! So hurry up and dig out whatever wisdom you have, think! Think! Think!"
Helus couldn't suppress the urge to slit her throat right then and there.
Ӗ ń úm а̊
But he couldn't.
After all, this woman was the only clue to retrieving 'that'.
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
A man wearing a black hood entered.
"Sage-nim. The commission you entrusted is complete."
It was the best news he'd wanted to hear recently.
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Like a child receiving a toy, he ran to that man with a bright face.
"Ooh! Show me. What is the result?"
"As a result of inquiring with the montage made from the valet's description, the conclusion is that it's Valdrova's Regent."
"Valdrova...... Regent?"
"I expected you'd be surprised. We also didn't expect that person."
He wasn't surprised by that existence.
Е nũ m̈а́
He knew Valdrova was a dragon, but he made that sound because he didn't know what a Regent was.
"We confirmed from the Far East side that it's the Regent and a maid, so it's certain."
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"What kind of people are they?"
"As you know, recently, as the spouse of the Grand Duke Valdrova, they started running the Grand Duke's territory—."
"Aah."
Helus waved his hand, cutting off the words.
Е̌ ńů m̊ á.
"Enough. So those damn bastards took my thing, that's what you're saying, right?"
"That is correct."
Helus could roughly understand.
The person who took it was the King's spouse, wasn't it?
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'They came from the Far East and took it? Why? Could they have noticed its use?'
Helus bit his nails in anxiety.
Е̃.ň u m а̇
It was the reason he could become this famous, and the bastard who would become his money source.
So he cherished it while simultaneously using it as a valet.
To hide a tree, it's best to hide it in a forest.
'Because of that stupid bitch......'
He never imagined the valet would sell that child.
Helus looked down at her with eyes full of anger.
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The middle-aged valet wept.
"Congratulations, Master-nim. Now you kn-know who it is, don't you?"
She forcibly pressed her broken fingers together in prayer and begged and begged.
"Now please spare me. I beg you. Wherever I go, I won't breathe a word about Master-nim, and I'll live quietly. Please......"
Helus looked down at her with dry eyes.
Yeocheok-isim. (Change of heart / Fickle)
Е̌n u̇ ḿ ā .ï d̊
They say the mind going to the outhouse and the mind coming out are different.
Since the clue's information was specifically revealed, there was no reason to leave a useless trouble seed.
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Helus turned his head toward the Black Hood.
"Hey."
"Yes."
"Kill her. That useless woman."
W е̌b̀nо v̌еl̇ Е.nū ma
"Hey, that's not the promise!?"
The Black Hood drew his sword and approached the valet.
Unavoidable death draws near.
The valet, who had only cried and begged pathetically, exploded in anger as a last struggle.
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"You dirty bastard! I know your truth! What you did through that young bitch too! You're not a Sage! You're—."
The old valet's head fell to the floor.
Еnú m a
The valet's head, dead with her cursing expression intact, rolled pathetically.
The Black Hood shook the blood off his sword.
"The mission seems to be over with this, so can you give me the reward?"
"Of course."
A jewelry box containing an amount equivalent to 1/4 of his wealth.
The man roughly checked it and stuffed it into his leather backpack.
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"Thank you sincerely for using our Black Bandana. Customer-nim."
Do the job, get the reward, leave cleanly.
That was exactly the secret organizations called Black Bandana.
With this, he had spent 3/4 of his wealth.
'It was something that had to be done.'
If he spared it, he'd get screwed.
W e̊b̈ n ӧ v́.е l̆ Е̃num̂ а̌
Helus looked down at the two montages the Black Hood left behind.
A handsome gray-haired man and a silver-haired girl with a side-up ponytail.
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Helus's fat face distorted in anger.
'A bastard looking like a rolled dog bone dares to covet my thing?'
Resolving that he would never send these bastards away nicely, Helus started scheming.
"How to take it from these bastards......"
Е ǹu m а̄ .ìd̂
There are plenty of methods.
Who is he?
A Sage.
A man to whom all kingdoms send love calls asking him to become their advisor.
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He's a national treasure-level figure, so naturally the Empire contacts him frequently too.
'I'll use the Imperial Audit side. Whether it's a Regent or whatever, in front of the Empire they're no different from dogs.'
Ẃė b ňо̃vѐ l Е ñǔ m̂ а
The other party was the Grand Duke's fiancé, but that wasn't a problem.
Since the 3rd Prince's assassination, Valdrova hadn't shown herself to humans.
It had been that way until now, and it would naturally be that way now too.
Helus placed his hand on the crystal ball on the desk.
Reacting to his magical power, the crystal ball began to blink.
After a moment, the crystal ball's light stabilized, and a voice rang in Helus's head.
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-I greet the Sage of Water! I am Hans, the Imperial Court Communication Mage of the Great Arken Empire!
"Can I speak briefly with Sir Karl Harvest?"
-Sir Karl Harvest? Understood. Please wait a moment.
After a brief wait, an energetic voice was heard.
-Ooh, Sage-nim! Greetings! Have you been well all this time?
"Haha, I've been doing well. How about you?"
Ẅ é b̄ṅ о̀ v e̊l̄ Ẽ ñùm̂ á
-I've been losing sleep every night! Just waiting for Sage-nim to enter our Empire!
"Haha, is that so?"
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He got a feeling the conversation would go well.
Helus decided to get to the main point.
"Look here. Actually, I've been anxious about one thing lately."
-Anxious, you say?
Е̇ nŭ m̃ á. i̊ d́
"There's a young maid, and she was kidnapped by some ruffian. So recently I squeezed out this knowledge and wisdom, and barely found out."
-What kind of place? Just say the word! We'll help.
"Valdrova's...... Regent? That's what they say."
-Valdrova Regent!
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Karl answered with a startled voice.
"Why? Is there some problem?"
En̂ ů m̆ а
-No. It's just that I thought what a coincidence! I heard that brat's been rampaging lately too.
"He's quite famous, huh?"
-Even our Cheokgyeoldan side was thinking of going to discipline him.
"Ooh, really? But he's a person related to a dragon, won't it be dangerous?"
-Haha! Don't worry too much! You know dragons can't interfere in human affairs unless something major happens, right?
"Th-that's right, yes."
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Helus didn't know.
-That brat has to solve it alone, what will you do? No matter how much he rages, he's powerless under the Empire's laws! Even the local lords are reluctant, so we need to show who's superior!
Helus smiled.
"Then I'll ask a favor, while you're at it, bring that brat here! Then I'll join the Empire side like you wanted!"
-Ooh! You'll really do that? Then I'll gladly grant that favor! Haha!
"Right, I'll send one montage. Just bring that child. I'm counting on you!"
Ē nü m̌ǎ.ĭ d
-Of course, just leave it to me!
Helus cut the communication with a satisfied face.
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'This is the power and fame I can enjoy as a Sage.'
Once he'd tasted it, he could never throw it away.
'If only that child is brought back...... not a fake Sage, but a real Sage again.'
That's why he had to retrieve it no matter what.
Е n̈ ům̌ а. īd̂
* * *
"Your Excellency. A letter has arrived from the Empire."
"Hmm, has what was coming finally come?"
The elderly lord, Ulbera Consillus, stroked his beard and picked up the letter on the tray.
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Seeing the Imperial Family's crest stamped on it, he expected maybe the supply department was trying to apologize.
"Hmm......"
Е̄ n üm̃ а
But the moment he saw the sender field, Consillus felt his blood rush backwards.
-Cheokgyeoldan (Eradication Corps)
"Hehehe......"
Consillus let out that speechless anger as laughter.
"Arwen."
"Yes, Your Excellency."
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"A letter from the Cheokgyeoldan flew to our territory. It seems we've got something to eat too."
"Those dirty bastards dare......"
Arwen raged as if he'd draw his sword any moment.
Consillus, as if there was nothing to see, tilted it to throw it into the brazier in front of him.
"Hmm......"
But then he suddenly thought maybe he should read the contents.
Ẅ ĕb ṅ ӧv́ё l̊ Е̃ nǔm̌a
That intuition hit the mark.
-What kind of person is Ferda Valdrova?
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They weren't targeting Count Consillus, but Ferda.
"These cheeky bastards were aiming for the Regent."
Arwen was startled.
"They'd do such a thing to the person becoming the Dragon's consort?"
Е̂ nů m̌ а́ . і̇d́
"Would those bastards inside the Empire's walls have ever seen a dragon? They're bastards who fear forest trolls more."
A nearby fist hits closer than a distant sword.
They hear to fear the dragon's wrath, but the generation that actually experienced the dragon's wrath is a tiny minority.
"And thinking about it, it's not completely impossible either."
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"Is that so?"
"Haven't we also been treating His Highness Valdrova as non-existent until now?"
W̌ е̌ b̊ n о v̂ е̃ l Ė ṅ ú m̄а
"Aah......"
"And we also looked down on him as just the Grand Duke's fiancé."
"That's true, but......"
Arwen also realized it then and reddened.
"Still, a mere knight wouldn't dare send a letter trying to shake down the Regent......"
"That's proof of how rotten the Arken Empire has become."
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Nobles are soaked in pleasure, and knights' swords are rusted.
They were sucking up local taxes to win the hearts of the capital's people, killing them off.
They tried to raise rebellions several times, but each time they were suppressed without a sound and just died.
'The pillar our ancestors built is solid, so it won't collapse even if gnawed at.'
But when the time to collapse comes, it'll surely collapse helplessly.
Consillus, who was just a Count, had tried to live vaguely within that flow.
Еn um̌а̊
But now it's different.
"Ferda Valdrova......"
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A single ray of light, a man like a pinch of salt.
When help was needed, he was the only one who supported without a word.
Only for the territory's development and peace.
Is that why,
Wеb̃ n̊ о v̊ еľ Ėǹ u m̆ а
"Detestable bastards."
Consillus couldn't help but be angry.
He was an old man just walking a tightrope, but he was a leader protecting the Empire and his subjects.
Now that something finally seems to be turning in the Far East, he couldn't forgive those cheeky brats ruining it.
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"We need to put a ring through the Cheokgyeoldan's nose."
Not a check or threat, but complete suppression.
Еn um̊ ӓ
We can't leave bastards who make even a decent lord into a kill target alone.
What's needed for that is using Ferda Valdrova.
'These bastards don't know what a great existence the person becoming Valdrova's consort is.'
So he decided to pour abuse on Ferda.
Precisely, he wrote the story up to Ferda threatening the lords, and added that he was a heinous bastard.
"Send this to the Cheokgyeoldan side. An answer will probably come quickly."
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"Understood. Should I also inform the Valdrova Regent in advance?"
Count Consillus pondered for a moment then shook his head.
"No, let's keep this between us. Anyway, everything will be resolved when we arrive."
"Understood."
He didn't say it, but Consillus also had a desire to confirm one last thing.
How Ferda would come out when facing the Cheokgyeoldan.
Ė n̄u m а
And his expectation was not betrayed.
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