The Youngest Prince Copies Skills with Skeleton Soldiers

Chapter 199 : Chapter 199

General Raymond knelt.The Youngest Son, who stood behind him, followed suit and knelt. He rested his left knee on the floor and bowed his head accordingly.

Even with his head bowed and his gaze directed at the floor, he could feel the emperor's gaze on his head.

“I will ask.”

The gaze contained suspicion and caution, and it came out of his open mouth.

“Was it all your doing?”

The Youngest Son smiled a smile that no one could see with his head bowed.

Currently, the west and the east were at war, and the Imperial Family with its strong national power was caught in the middle.

But the one who was no different from the reason for the war appeared as an envoy and came this far.

Originally, even as an envoy, one could not meet the emperor unless it was when the emperor wanted. Yet the Fifth Son was here.

He had broken through the numerous gateways from Millesdusk to the imperial capital in one go.

It began in the empire's airspace. There, he was accidentally caught by General Raymond and boarded the mothership.

Thus, he came directly to the imperial capital without any suspicion or inspection.

Raymond, who had ended up managing the Fifth Son, thought that the person of interest should disappear as soon as possible.

With such a heart, he pleaded, and the emperor had no choice but to accept.

The one who should have been blocked at the outskirts of the empire for a couple of months met the emperor within a day of arriving in the capital.

So the emperor sent a gaze full of suspicion.

“I will ask again. From the airspace until now. Was it all your scheme?”

The Youngest Son shook his head. But that was not a denial of the question.

“A scheme? I'm not sure what you're referring to.”

“A shallow lie will not work.”

“Then the answer you know must be correct. Although I don't know what you know.”

“...It seems that the envoys of the great families are fundamentally rude.”

The emperor sighed and took a step.

“You don't seem to have any intention of hiding it. The fact that Wisdom has been here.”

“Youngest Son. All words must be spoken by His Majesty first.”

At Raymond's restraint, the emperor gestured as if it was fine.

“Just leave him be. In the eyes of the great family blood relatives, these rules must seem less than a pebble.”

It was just inconvenient rather than a pebble, but I didn't bother to correct him. Instead, I continued.

“I believe you have heard all the details from General Raymond.”

“No. I still don't know the most important thing.”

The emperor, who was walking through the empty audience chamber, stopped near a window.

“The things you babbled to General Raymond. I do not know how Millesdusk learned of them.”

“The Millesdusk where I am can know anything it wants to know.”

“...The Millesdusk where you are?”

After asking back, he could not hold back a snort. The corners of his mouth, which had risen for the first time in a long time, were not because of joy, but because of the chick's absurdity.

“It's not worth listening to anymore. You may leave now.”

“If you are truly suspicious, you can check. The thing you want to know most right now. If you ask me that, I will find you the answer.”

“……”

“Whether you are satisfied with that answer or not is, of course, His Majesty's decision.”

“Are you proposing a bet with me? Then you must be willing to bet your life as well.”

“I have no choice.”

At the answer that followed without hesitation, the emperor also turned around. The sunlight coming in from the window shone on the corners of his raised mouth once again.

This time, in addition to the chick's absurdity, it was a smile that found the chick's spirit quite cute.

“Good. I will give you a question I have long held, so go ahead and find out.”

“Wait, I haven't decided on the reward for when I win yet.”

Does he really think he will win? It was beyond bold, it was arrogant.

“What do you want? For reference, breaking the contract with Wisdom and taking your side is impossible. You know the reason, I assume.”

It was because of the Elixir that would cure the crown prince's illness.

Just as one could not be full with the first spoonful, the Youngest Son also nodded.

“I do not wish for that much. I just hope that His Majesty will believe that Millesdusk also has a way to cure His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“Millesdusk's way. So there is such a thing.”

The emperor seemed to have little interest, but I succeeded in putting it in his head somehow.

Furthermore, I had no intention of leaving Wisdom's Elixir alone.

I had to do something to the Elixir that would be brought from Wisdom to the Imperial Family.

If I could even answer the emperor's subsequent questions, the difficulty would drop even further.

The emperor was still smiling. But the meaning behind the smile kept changing.

Now, his playful mouth slowly opened.

“Who is the greatest emperor? Find the answer to this question. The deadline is one week.”

“Understood.”

Even though he gave a deadline that had not been mentioned, there was no sign of being troubled or despairing.

The Youngest Son accepted everything and answered cleanly.

“I will return with the answer.”

“Until then, you must absolutely not be seen by me.”

“Of course.”

“...Raymond. Take the envoy and leave.”

“Yes.”

The emperor, on the contrary, ended the first meeting with the envoy with a rather unpleasant aftertaste.

Kuuuuung—

The heavy audience chamber door closed, and the emperor was alone again.

His wife was dead, his trusted son was sick, and his daughter was at an age of wandering.

In the midst of his growing sighs, he had found something interesting for the first time in a long time. At first, a faint anger had risen, but it soon turned into interest.

The chick who had come as an envoy had changed it.

“The Fifth Son of Millesdusk. His name was Dante Black Millesdusk, right?”

The emperor's voice spread throughout the audience chamber but disappeared before it could reach the far wall.

Nevertheless, one person was always listening to the emperor's voice.

“That is correct. Your Majesty.”

A knight appeared from behind a huge pillar erected in various places in the audience chamber.

He was a man the size of a bear, and his voice echoing from his helmet was also reminiscent of a demon from hell.

Nevertheless, the loyalty that filled the very edge of his brain was the reason why the knight could stand next to the emperor with a weapon.

“Leo. I've become more curious about that envoy. Investigate him.”

“...I will obey your command.”

His answer was a tad slower than usual. The emperor knew the reason well.

“To you, he must have looked like nothing but an arrogant brat.”

“...He was a weasel-like human who hides behind bushes and looks for others' weaknesses.”

“You're right. He was more of a politician than a sorcerer. He seemed to be more knowledgeable about politics than the weak-hearted crown prince.”

“Your Majesty. Please retract those words.”

The emperor, instead of answering, looked out the window with the smile he had when he saw the interesting chick a moment ago.

Raymond's carriage was just leaving along the road.

“He is a fellow who deliberately got caught, knowing that going through Raymond was the fastest way to meet me.”

“……”

“He's a different kind of weasel from the old weasels here in the imperial palace.”

“A weasel is a weasel, is there a classification for them?”

The emperor's golden eyes turned to his guard.

“You, Leo, and Raymond who was here are all three generals. But are you the same? If there is anything the same, tell me one thing.”

“...There is nothing.”

The emperor put his hands behind his back and moved away from the window. The red curtains closed on their own, and a deep shadow was cast in the audience chamber.

“I don't know about you, but my eyes are on that chick. It's been a long time since I've been interested in a human, so I hope you don't interfere.”

“Of course.”

The emperor passed by the knight's side.

He would go to the crown prince now. He would finish his state affairs before the sun set and always went to his son in his personal time.

In the audience chamber where the emperor had disappeared, his knight and one of the three generals, Leo, moved to carry out the order given by his lord.

Dante Black Millesdusk. The blood relative of the east who had entered the empire under the guise of an envoy.

“Someone who comes from a land full of snakes cannot be just an envoy.”

But before that, as the emperor had said, he had to learn about that weasel.

Whether he was a chick who was all talk. Or a cunning weasel.

Or a venomous snake who had come to the empire with an unknown poison.

***

The Head Maid changed her clothes.

The uniform from her time in the Intelligence Department was optimized for stealth, but she did not have it now.

Instead of the Head Maid's flowing formal attire, activewear that allowed her arms and legs to move freely was the best option.

She tied her hair into a bun with a string and breathed lightly.

“Hah.”

Her mind instantly calmed down, and her five senses became as sensitive as if they had spread to her fingertips.

Drrrk—

She opened the window of the private room she had been guided to by the attendant. Although there was a lock, it was as good as not having one.

The things to be concerned about were the mansion's guards and the fog, which was a barrier-type trap after going out.

But all of these could be solved with a single answer. Since Millesdusk's Intelligence Department had dealt with most of their problems with this.

[Spirit Sorcery]

[Full Body Spirit Form]

The foundation, the advanced stage, and the most beautiful flower of Spirit Sorcery.

Spirit Form was the first sorcery learned upon entering the Intelligence Department. It was learned first and consistently trained from a rookie to a Grade 1 agent.

Srrrrrk—

Treading on thin air, she passed through the locked window and the wall.

The ghost's body passed through the wall without any resistance and walked in the air, but there was a problem.

Because her head and even her eyes became spirits, she could not see in front.

The feeling of walking through a gray world really felt like she had become a ghost, not a human.

But the Head Maid had not opened her eyes from the beginning in preparation for this.

'From here. 456 steps forward.'

The Head Maid, who had set her direction through the entrance she had seen from the window, moved using her memory as a compass.

She didn't know when she had passed the main gate or when she had crossed the fog.

The constant stride that the Intelligence Department agents were trained in. She remembered only the number and direction and moved to the airship landing platform.

'The hangar where the ship is tied up is in the south direction from the landing platform.'

The entrance to the landing platform, which was the beginning of her memory and now the end. The spirit finally stopped walking.

'I have to move myself from here.'

The first thing to do was to grasp the surroundings.

She stepped on thin air as if climbing stairs. The height she had started from was about the 3rd floor, so she only moved her feet a few times.

Now was the time to gradually reduce the range of the Spirit Form that she had spread over her whole body.

Srrk—

An ear appeared far above people's line of sight. At the same time, her body sank as fast as the weight of one ear.

The given time was about 3 seconds.

The imperial capital was bustling with the sounds of people living, but this landing platform was an exception.

There were few who took the airships departing from the landing platform, and the sounds were also few.

The stiff footsteps of the guards could be clearly distinguished.

Srrrrrk—

Following the ear that had confirmed safety, her whole body was materialized as if being sucked out.

As she had checked several times with her ears, there were no people around. Not yet.

She didn't know when they would appear, so she quickly repeated Full Body Spirit Form and Partial Spirit Form until she reached the hangar.

It was an easy task in the empire, where there were almost no countermeasures against sorcerers. But easy tasks were mostly accompanied by annoyance.

She knew there was a ship in the hangar and she knew the direction, but there were not a few of them.

In the end, she went in and out of each one, avoiding the guards, and finally found the black ship.

'The rendezvous point is the bridge inside the black ship.'

Even if it was called a bridge, it was just an altar to place the ring on, but to the black ship, that was its helm.

The Head Maid had not contacted the Intelligence Department, and the Intelligence Department had not given any hint, but she moved without hesitation.

The senses of a Grade 1 agent told her it was here, and the Intelligence Department also trusted the former Grade 1 agent.

To be precise, the agent dispatched here trusted her.

“...Lubosch?”