Chapter 261
Silence .
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No one opened their mouth .
No, couldn’t open their mouth .
Everyone with their eyes widely goggled stared at Roan Lancephil .
Within a very short amount of time, too many unbelievable events had happened .
Roan alone incinerating ten ogres, the ones called Amaranth Taemusa Troop appearing and annihilating the goblins, and Roan himself announcing himself to be the monarch of this land .
The Lare Village’s people dryly swallowed with dumbfounded expressions .
‘M, monarch?’
‘King?’
They couldn’t fathom just how they should react .
If he had become even just a general, no, a great general, they would have clapped and cheered .
They would have greatly praised him saying he achieved his dream .
However, Roan became not merely a great general but a monarch .
Even more, he became a founding king that raised a new kingdom .
An event they hadn’t dare even imagine .
No, to say it honestly, it was something they couldn’t believe even now .
“I, is that really true?”
Bas, who was hiding behind a wooden hut, showed himself out onto the vacant lot .
Melly followed his back and came out .
Roan brightly smiled and nodded his head .
“It is all true . ”
A gentle voice .
“I do not lie . ”
There wasn’t even a little deceit in his eyes and expression .
Bas and Melly, who watched and raised Roan since he was born to the year he turned eighteen, could tell that everything was the truth .
The two people kneeled before Roan .
“Y, your majesty . ”
Their voices sharply shook .
Roan, with a shocked expression, pulled up Bas and Melly .
“I couldn’t tell you because I knew you would do this . ”
A bitter smile hung on his mouth .
“B, but how could w, I, I mean us peasants dare……”
Bas, unable to do this or that, formed an awkward smile .
Roan, in a small voice, spoke as if to whisper .
“Whether some poor handyman, beggar, soldier, general, or a monarch…… I’m Roan . I haven’t become someone else . ”
He gently held Bas and Melly’s hands .
“I have always remembered your kindness . You not only took me, whose parents had passed away and became an orphan, into your family but also watched over and raised me up like your own . ”
It was a difficult world to live in .
It absolutely wasn’t something easy .
“You always worried about and awaited the kid who simply left his home one day . I came back home after so, so long a time, but……”
Roan couldn’t easily continue his words .
As much as his voice, his eyes watered up .
“You two were still waiting for me here . ”
That someone was waiting for him .
That someone was always looking at him with the same feeling in their hearts .
That someone loved and trusted him unconditionally .
There was nothing more that could make a person happier . Meanwhile, the village people that had ran from the monsters and hid began to gather in ones and twos .
Everyone had half-dumbfound expressions .
But their eyes at least were all looking clearly at Roan .
Roan stood in front of them and in a calm voice began to recount the events that had occurred up until now .
From the rank-and-file spearman of the Rose Troop to the moment he became the Amaranth Kingdom’s monarch, that grand and tortuous story continued without an end .
The people swung between and let out gasps and sighs .
“…… and like that, I became the monarch . ”
The story ended .
“Ah……”
The people let out quiet exclamations .
Not only them, but the members of the Amaranth Taemusa Troop filed behind him too couldn’t hold back exclamations at Roan’s story .
They had newly understood .
That a great existence that would leave a mark upon history was before them .
‘So he’s really a king?’
‘Ah……’
‘Just what did we……’
The faces of the few village people and the gang that followed Bekeil bleached blue .
Them having sneered at and deriding Roan all through the last night floated up in their minds .
Few girls exhaled deep sighs .
‘Ah, I could’ve become a queen if I’ve acted right just before……’
‘If I can marry Roan……’
‘Could I live a fabulous palace life?’
Each fully filled their heads with reddish and innocent delusions .
They were simple thoughts possible only because they were countryside girls .
Roan faintly smiled and looked at Bekeil .
Bekeil, still with a dazed expression, merely blinked his eyes .
“Bekeil . ”
A quietly calling sound .
Bekeil unconsciously shuddered abruptly .
Gulp .
His throat roughly moved up and down .
Roan quietly stared at Bekeil’s eyes .
“You touched my bag, no?”
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The instant his words ended .
“Gulp . ”
Bekeil began to hiccup .
Even his breaths turned rough .
A greatly panicked look .
That was also the same for the gang lined up behind him .
Their faces were now beyond blue to bleached white .
‘Bekeil . I have no thought of leaving you alone . ’
The light in Roan’s eyes sank down .
The betrayal he experienced in the last life .
He had resolved to definitely get revenge if met again .
But even so, he couldn’t simply cut off his head all of a sudden .
His betrayal was something that hadn’t yet happened .
If he were to kill Bekeil here, he and his gang as well as even the Lare Village’s people would form an unnecessary misunderstanding .
They would merely think that Bekeil’s head was cut off for touching Roan’s belongings .
It wasn’t quite a good look for a monarch of a kingdom .
Furthermore .
‘In the first place, I didn’t want to kill him that easily either . ’
Having his head cut off in an instant without knowing why was far too pleasant a death .
Roan wished to let Bekeil feel all of the dejection and pain that he had felt .
“Y, y, you are going to kill me? N, no I, are you going to kill me, sir?”
Bekeil sharply trembled his entire body .
It was miserable .
A look endlessly powerful before the weak and endlessly cowardly before the strong .
‘So this was Bekeil’s true appearance . ’
Something like the dominating look that spread fame as spear ghost in the last life simply couldn’t be found .
Roan slowly shook his head .
“There’s no need to unnecessarily touch blood with my hands . Since you……”
His voice quietly sank .
“Will soon die . ”
Boom .
Instantly, Bekeil kneeled down on the ground with a greatly shocked expression .
He sharply shuddered his entire body .
“D, die? W, what do you mean, sir?”
The look that poured sneers and derided Roan just until before couldn’t be found any longer .
Roan answered with a calm expression .
“There is poison on my belongings to prevent theft . ”
“P, poison?!”
Bekeil sharply raised his head and screamed .
The gang behind him lost strength in their legs and fell onto their bottoms .
For they too had stolen Roan’s belongings .
“P, poison……”
Bekeil looked down at his hands and whimpered .
Roan snorted .
“Did you really think that a monarch’s belongings are guarded so laxly?”
Those words were logical .
Bekeil kowtowed flat upon the ground and begged .
“S, save me! Please save me, sir!”
Following behind, the gang that stole his belongings together approached up next to Bekeil and dropped to the ground the same . (t/n: “the same” or “the same way”?)
“P, please save us!”
“We were wrong, sir!”
“I don’t want to die yet, sir!”
Already, few of them were bawling .
They rummaged through their clothes and took out shabby objects .
They were all Roan’s belongings .
“H, here it is, sir . ”
Bekeil too a moment behind took out an object .
Roan quietly looked at that sight and then extended out his right hand .
Spat!
Suddenly, the objects were sucked into his hand .
An amazing and awesome scene .
It was a type of psychokinesis using mana .
“The poison on these objects are so strong that only I can touch them . ”
The instant his words ended, a dark-red flame rode his hand and erupted .
The fire burned ferociously, but did not burn the objects .
Likewise an amazing and awesome sight .
Thanks to that, Bekeil and his gang came to believe Roan’s words like a stone .
“Please save us!”
“I’ll do anything at all if you save us!”
“Please forgive my immature, dumb, foolish actions of last night!”
“Please forgive me . I was a fool!”
The gang begged and begged until their hands turned into feet . Bekeil too was the same .
“I’ve dared to disturb your majesty’s mood without knowing my place! P, please forgive me! Save me!”
Desperate voices fully filled the clearing .
Roan quietly looked at that sight, then spat out a line .
“It isn’t that there absolutely is no way to live . ”
Instantly .
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“Eh?!”
“W, what is that way, sir?!”
“P, please teach us! I’ll do anything if you would just teach us!”
The gang including Bekeil cried with desperate expressions .
Roan waved his hand to calm them down, then spoke with a calm voice .
“There isn’t an antidote, but a medicine that could suppress the poison exists in the capital, Mediasis . If you consume that drug every thirty days, then you can live on no different from like until now . ”
“Ah……”
Everyone let out a sigh of relief .
A hope that they could live floated up fully on their faces .
Roan looked directly into their eyes and added on .
“I will send a man the moment I return to the capital to send the medicine . ”
The instant his words finished .
“Aaaaah!”
“T, thank you very much sir!”
“Truly thank you very much!”
Cheers burst out .
“But……”
Roan waved his hand and made them close their mouths .
“If your forms and actions are narrow-minded and base like today, then I will immediately stop that medicine . ”
“Ah……”
Bekeil and the gang that were greatly rejoicing let out exclamations with stiffly hardened faces .
A conditional time-limited life .
It meant that they could easily die if misstepped .
But in either case, there was no other way .
They could only follow Roan’s words if they didn’t wish to die .
“W, we’ll remember, sir . ”
“I’ll commit myself for the village people . ”
“I will be a good person . ”
“I’ll follow village head’s words properly . ”
Empty promises full of hot air overflowed .
“I’ll definitely become a good person like your majesty said . ”
Bekeil too raised his voice with a determined expression .
Roan looked straight into his eyes .
“Remember it well . If you renege on your promise……”
An edge rose up in his voice .
“You will soon die . ”
Gulp .
Bekeil and his gang dryly swallowed .
The presence and pressure exuding out of Roan’s body suffocated their breaths .
“Uuuuh . W, we understood, sir . ”
“We will definitely keep up our promise . ”
They all laboriously nodded their heads .
Roan only then pulled away his pressure and looked again at Bas and Melly .
“Should we share the rest of the story at home, Ms . Melly?”
“Y, yeah . Let’s do that . ”
Bas confusedly nodded his head .
Roan ordered the repair and guarding of the fences to the Amaranth Taemusa Troop’s members, and then returned to the house together with Bas and Melly .
The three people, in the old and small wooden hut, shared long and long stories until the day brightened .
After the day brightened, he gathered all the village people together and laid out his many fun and happy, sad and painful stories without restraint .
The people all immersed deep into Roan’s stories .
They especially reacted excitedly to the story of the newly founded Amaranth Kingdom .
Few village girls even openly flirted with Roan .
Roan, as if he had been waiting, took out the story of the most beautiful and lovely woman in the world, Aily .
In the end, the village girls that dreamt vain dreams could only turn back with dispirited expressions .
Roan stayed two more days in the Lare village .
He had stayed longer than the original plan .
“Roan . Even if often is difficult, do please come visit even occasionally, very occasionally at the very least . ”
“Don’t get hurt anywhere and be careful . Alright?”
Bas and Melly held Roan’s hands and repeatedly insisted and insisted again .
Even if Roan was a powerhouse counted among the best, he was no more than an endlessly young and frail child in their eyes .
Roan brushed the back of the two’s hands .
“Whenever there is time, I will absolutely come visit, Ms . Melly . ”
He didn’t say it just for the sake of it .
He turned his head and looked at the village people .
“And I will invite everyone to the capital soon . ”
At those words, few adults and children raised up their arms high and cheered .
Purely rejoicing and happy looks .
Roan felt his heart becoming pure .
He whispered in Bas and Melly’s ears in a small voice .
“The next time I come too……”
His voice was gentle .
“I’ll come again not as monarch Roan Lancephil but as countryside boy Roan again, Mr . Bas . ”
At those words, Bas and Melly faintly smiled and nodded their heads .
Proud, so proud, they simply couldn’t speak out any words . Roan lightly hugged such two people and then stepped back .
“Murray . ”
At the quietly calling sound, the Amaranth Taemusa Troop soldier that was standing nearby walked up .
It was one of the Taemusa Troop adjutants, Murray .
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“Yes . Your majesty . ”
Quiet but powerful voice .
Roan quietly looked at Murray and then spoke whisperingly in a small voice .
“You lead nine taemusas and protect the Lare Village for thirty days . At the same time, precisely and meticulously analyze the situation of the Grain Mountain’s monster . ”
The appearance of ten ogres and the assault of more than hundreds of goblins .
There was a need to grasp what kind of reason there was for the monsters’ abnormal actions .
“Yes sir . I will carry out the order . ”
Murray nodded his head with a solid expression .
However, that was not the end of Roan’s order .
“And……”
He, for a while, gave through a whisper a long order .
“Would they possible even go that far?”
When Murray asked back with an unbelieving expression .
“He is a bastard that will easily do more than that . ”
Roan formed a bitter smile .
At that look, Murray exhaled a short sigh .
“If he really act like that……”
A cold light flowed on his eyes .
“Then he would be digging his grave himself . ”
At those words, Roan wordlessly nodded his head .
‘The trap has been set . ’
Whether be caught, or not caught, was his choice .
If not caught, then he could preserve his life .
But .
‘If he were to betray like the last life……’
Then he would become caught in the snare and meet a horrible end .
Roan exhaled a long sigh .
Now really was a time to go back .
He waved his hand towards Bas, Melly, and the village people .
“Bye!”
“Take care on your way back!”
“Come again for sure!”
“Don’t forget to invite us to the capital!”
The village people too waved their hands and saw off Roan leaving .
Everyone were of happy and joyful expressions .
Of course, the expressions of Bekeil and the gang squeezed between them were stiffly hardened .
No, to be precise, they were forcibly smiling .
‘Damn it . What the hell is this!’
Bekeil looked at Roan leaving and bit his lower lip .
He felt wronged .
‘Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!’
If possible, he wanted to at the very least spit out curses until satisfied .
But because of the ten Amaranth Taemusa Troop members staying in the village, he couldn’t even act as he wished .
That day, Bekeil emptied his drink cup alone under the watchtower until deep into the night .
A gloomy night when neither the moon nor the stars rose up .
Without even thinking of going back home, he laid down in the dark and tempted sleep .
At that moment, Murray and one Taemusa Troop member quietly approached and stood below the fences .
‘What the?’
Bekeil tried to stand up throwing a fit, but abruptly stopped his movement .
Murray and the Taemusa Troop member, seeming not having discovered Bekeil, conversed in quiet voices .
“Did you passed it on exactly to the other members too?”
At Murray’s words, the Taemusa Troop member nodded his head with a slightly tense expression .
“Yes sir . I have passed it on . But is that really true? There……”
He specifically looked around their surroundings once, then cautiously added on .
“There really was nothing like poison in the first place?”
“Has it all been cleaned up?”
A quiet voice .
“Yes . For now, I’ve cleaned up just the necessary things . ”
Likewise a quiet voice .
A young man and a middle-aged man secretly conversed on with their heads together .
“But must we really do it even like this, master?”
The middle-aged man asked again with a powerless expression .
The young man nodded his head as if to show it cannot be helped .
“We cannot expand the business any further in here . ”
“But master, that sir isn’t known to be that obstinate a person……”
“I know . He’s definitely a magnanimous man among the magnanimous men . But we cannot view even all his subordinates as magnanimous men . ”
“That ‘s……”
The middle-aged man couldn’t continue his words any further .
Because he couldn’t find the words to fittingly counter the young man’s words .
“In the first place, we have to go to the Estia Empire if we want to do a really big business . Let’s instead think that a good opportunity has come . ”
The young man formed a bitter smile .
Although his words did say so, his mouth tasting bitter couldn’t be helped .
‘I thought at least my eyes for people was exact, but……’
One of the abilities that he himself prided in .
Because of that very ability, he couldn’t help but pack up the company he had grown his entire life .
“Huu . ”
A long sigh naturally flowed out .
The middle-aged man who was watching that sight laboriously formed a smile .
“Please don’t be so down, master . If it is Master Clyde’s ability, you will soon develop an even bigger company . ”
They weren’t words just for the sake of them .
An expression and voice full of certainty .
The young man, Clyde faintly smiled and nodded his head .
“Thanks, Goden . ”
Clyde and Goden .
The two people were the very Clyde Company’s owner Clyde and his right-hand man Goden .
Clyde funded and supported the Third Prince Kallum Rinse during the throne succession war .
He thought that among Simon Rinse, Tommy Rinse, and Kallum Rinse, the person could climb to the throne was only Kallum .
No, he was certain .
But in actuality, the one who ended the throne succession war and saved the imperiled kingdom was not the three princess but Roan Lancephil .
Roan, instead of the Rinse Kingdom that already had expired its time, had founded the Amaranth Kingdom and then climbed to the throne himself .
‘Receiving everyone’s support and cheer despite having brought down the originally serving kingdom and newly founding a kingdom, it was an unprecedented coronation . ’
But because of that, Clyde’s position instead become complicated .
By Roan’s personality, he wouldn’t get harassed nor hindered because he had supported, funded Kallum, but even so he couldn’t receive support either .
‘The Sale Company that had close relationship even before the throne succession war is endlessly rising and expanding its business . ’
Meaning it was impossible to fight for contracts against the Sale Company in the Amaranth Kingdom .
Furthermore, as said before, those among Roan’s subordinates with excessive loyalty could lay a wedge on the Clyde Company .
For various reasons, it was an uncomfortable situation to take a seat in the Amaranth Kingdom .
“Even so, it was fortunate that we laid connections on the Estia Empire and the Holy Palace’s side until now . ”
Goden formed a bright smile as he packed up .
At that very moment .
“It has been a while . ”
An unfamiliar voice pierced into the two’s ears .
“Huhph!”
Clyde and Goden swallowed empty air at the abruptly heard voice and moved back .
There definitely were just them in this large secret room .
The two people’s gazes dizzily swept the secret room’s inside .
At that moment, darkness at a corner of the room wavered and soon people deeply worn black robes showed up .
Their numbers were altogether three .
They were existences that whose presences, despite that they were looking clearly right in front of them, couldn’t be felt .
“Hm . ”
Clyde, who had momentarily panicked, quickly calmed his breath and regained his composure .
He had experienced all sorts of things while managing his company .
Through the countless experiences, he knew very well just how important it was to keep his heart steadfast .
“Who are you?”
Lowly sunken voice .
At those words, the one who was standing the most forwards took off his robe with his own hands .
The face that suddenly appeared .
“You are……?”
Clyde formed a slightly surprised expression .
The trespasser’s face was that of a well-familiar person .
Clyde once again calmed his breath and then passed his greeting with a calm voice .
“I haven’t ever imagined meeting at such a place, at such a manner . Troop Commander Sir Keep . ”
“To know my face and name, it’s as expected of Mr . Clyde . ”
A clear voice that plant into the edges of the ears .
He was in fact Tenebra Troop’s Troop Commander Keep .
Clyde made a bitter smile .
“Good eyes and memory are the absolute necessities for becoming a grand merchant, sir . ”
He deeply breathed in .
“What brings Troop Commander Keep of the so-called special forces, the Tenebra, here, sir?”
Clyde asked with the most composed and cool expression .
But in actuality, he was completely nervous .
‘Is he perhaps to harm……?’
The excessively loyal one among Roan’s subordinates that he had worried of could be Keep .
At that moment, Keep gently extended out his right hand .
“Mr . Clyde is absolutely needed in the Amaranth Kingdom, so I have come to escort you . ”
At those words, Clyde let out a laugh .
“Hahaha . I’m needed?”
A relaxed expression and movement .
They were actions to hide his completely tense insides .
“I’m merely a fallen merchant, sir . What kind of a help could such an I……”
The moment his words reached about that point, Keep faintly smiled and spat out single line .
“Holy Palace . ”
Instantly, Clyde’s expression stiffly hardened .
That was an expression knowing that the inevitable had finally come .
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