Heavenly Inquisition Sword

Episode 1160. The empire is struggling?

the next morning.

Upon discovering Viscount Elio Lagoa, Fabian muttered with a surprised face.

“uh? Are you really on time?”

Elio woke up at the sound and opened his eyes.

“There’s something you don’t know, but I’ll go back like a knife to places I’ve been to once.”

“How amazing. It was late at night, so of course I thought you wouldn’t be able to find me.”

“Are you saying it’s amazing that you’ve only come here? What did you see me as?”

Elio mumbled and got off the bed and warmed himself up lightly.

My body was sore from running here and there all night.

Suddenly, he saw the empty bed of Count Omar in Larva.

“How about Count Omar?”

“You must have gone for a walk.”

“Can’t you see the knife?”

“Did you go out to practice swordsmanship?”

At Fabian’s self-talk, Elio clicked his tongue with a ‘tsk tsk’.

A sword beginner who is lazy than a sword master!

As the lord of Slash Land, I let out a sigh of relief.

“Why are you sighing?”

“Then why do you sigh?”

As Elio stared at him, Fabian made an excuse.

“I barely fell asleep at dawn while waiting for the Viscount. Count Omar fell asleep as soon as the Viscount left.”

“Who said what?”

“The Viscount’s eyes were like, ‘The sword master is also practicing swordsmanship, but why are you sleeping?’ I think you are asking.”

Just in time, Count Omar of Larva returned.

Seeing that his face was wet with sweat, it must have been intense swordsmanship training.

Fabian, shameless, made a fuss.

“Oops! Are you here, Count? If you become a sword master, you won’t be able to sleep in the morning, right?”

Count Omar of Larva ignored his words and paid homage to Viscount Elio Lagoa.

“Are you awake?”

“yes.”

“I knew you would come in the morning. I was quiet because I thought I was tired. Did you handle Count Escudo’s affairs well?”

“First of all, I took Mana’s oath to ‘stop talking about the northern nobility’. You can use a knife at any time.”

“Good job. There is no sword master in the Duchy of Pommernburg, so this matter will be passed quietly.”

“But Count Escudo’s eyes are so disrespectful… That kind of person always has an accident later on?”

“Then cut it off.”

Count Omar of Larva was adamant.

Because he thought that a knight who broke his oath deserved to die.

After a while, the village chief and villagers made breakfast.

It’s not a feast like last night’s, but it’s a great table setting – to the extent that it’s considered excessive compared to the size of the village.

Elio was grateful for the hospitality, but at the same time was curious.

‘what? Why are you so nice when we haven’t done anything for you?’

Parents are the only people in the world who give freely and generously.

It seems that there is something I am missing.

By the time the meal was over, Elio couldn’t stand it any longer and called for Fabian.

“Fabian.”

“yes?”

“Originally, when a knight visits a rural village, is he treated like this?”

“Which town is like that?”

“Isn’t it?”

“Of course not. We have to calculate all of this.”

“no wonder. shit. I’m a fool for thinking I’m a rural person and liking it.”

“Did you know it was free?”

“Rather than free… I thought they were treating me as an outside guest.”

It was obviously like that in Gangho.

The more remote the village, the more hospitable it was to the outside guests who came by chance.

I thought there was such romance in another world, but it’s disappointing that it isn’t.

“Did the Viscount sleep and feed guests for free in his hometown?”

“uh.”

“Yah! People are very nice. Or if the material is plentiful.”

“Here and there, people are all conceited. Not rich.”

“But you treat guests for free? How could that be?”

Fabian’s face was so unbelievable.

Count Omar of Larva spoke politely.

“It is not impossible if the morality of the village members is excellent.”

“Didn’t the Viscount say that people here and there are all gentle?”

“Ah…”

An exclamation flowed from the mouth of Count Larva Omar, who recalled the words belatedly.

What is it if not excellent morality?

When no suitable answer came to mind, the Count finished with a shrug.

After the meal, the village chief came to visit us like a ghost.

Elio and Count Omar of Larva left, leaving two men behind.

A quadruped wagon slowly pulled out of the wooden fence.

By the time the carriage started running down the road in earnest, Fabian grunted.

“Wow! Why do these poor villages charge so much for food? More expensive than a restaurant in a big city.”

“How much do you want?”

“3 silver for accommodation and 20 silver for food.”

“Crazy. That’s about the same as a high-end inn in the islands!”

Excited Elio wiggled his butt.

It feels like I was hit hard in the back of the head by saying that the accommodation fee at the musty and smelly town hall is the same as that of Fermosa Estella.

“Food is more expensive than Fermosa Estella. There is no such thing as complete gourd.”

“so? Did you give me everything you asked for?”

“No, I gave you 2 silver for lodging and 15 silver for food.”

“Wow! A lot of that.”

Elio jumped up and down as if he were going to go back at any moment.

“It made me shed tears even though it was small….

“it’s crazy. it’s crazy In some kind of village, you get 15 silver for two meals?”

“Still, the food was delicious, so please be satisfied with it.”

“can not! I will not! What kind of money do you spend like water! Do you become a beggar soon? What if you run out of money? Are you going to work as a mercenary?”

“With Count Ei here, what are you worried about? isn’t it? Count?”

When Viscount Elio Lagoa jumped up and down, Fabian drew in Larva Omar.

“Don’t worry about the guards around Lagoa. I can afford that much.”

Then Fabian reacted with displeasure.

“Did you hear? And this time, I wrote a rip-off, but there is no such thing as a small scale. If it is rumored to be expensive, everyone avoids it.”

that’s what he said

The more remote the small village, the more rip-offs were rampant.

They didn’t care about the town’s reputation, and when the opportunity presented itself, they ripped it out as much as possible.

Since outsiders do not come, they do it their own way.

In any case, after that day, Elio and the others rested in a large village.

If the village was small, I would rather be homeless.

Fortunately, other villages within the Principality of Malacia were not overcharged.

Unlike the kingdom, the prices of inns and restaurants were the same everywhere in the empire.

Thanks to that, the memory of being ripped off was soon forgotten.

War broke out between the Empire and the southern kingdoms, but the Principality of Malacia was quiet.

***

The carriage, which was running unstoppably on the straight road, suddenly slowed down.

Fabian pulled his head out and asked Harvey the coachman.

“Is there a problem!”

“The line in front of the checkpoint in the Principality of Aragon is a little behind. The roads are full of people waiting.”

When he got the answer he wanted, Fabian straightened up again.

“It seems that the inspection is severe. I heard the checkpoint was blocked?”

Elio frowned.

“The Principality of Aragon is far away from the islands. Malacia is also quiet, so why is that?”

“Iknow, right?”

Then Count Larva Omar, who was reading a book, said a word.

“As the war heats up, border checks become more difficult. It seems that the war with the southern kingdom is not going to be resolved easily.”

“The Empire is struggling?”

Elio widened his eyes.

If you hear such a sound when you are in the north, you must have thought it was because of it.

However, it is different now that we have come to know the size and power of the system to some extent.

It was shocking that the southern kingdoms fought on an equal footing with the imperial army.

“It was strange when it was said that the southern kingdoms controlled access to the Great Forest. There’s no way the Empire would accept that.”

‘What about that?’

Elio, tilting his head, waited for the Count’s next words.

“Looks like the Southern Kingdoms had weapons to fight the Empire.”

“A weapon? Are you saying there are other things besides the magic cannon and the magic gun?”

The magic cannon and magic gun are produced in the magic tower.

Mage towers are spread across the continent, but the empire’s mage tower has the most advanced technology.

That means that the Empire’s magic cannons and magic guns are the best.

“You said that the reason for controlling the Great Forest in the first place was the discovery of the Iron Golem, right?”

“Yes, I heard that.”

“The southern kingdoms may have fielded some of the iron golems. If it’s really because of that, sooner or later rumors will spread.”

“What do you think, Count?”

“I think there must be a reason why the name of the iron golem suddenly popped up. The treasures of the Abyss are famous for being in such good condition that they can be used right away.”

“Hmm…”

A quiet voice escaped from Elio’s mouth.

The Count seemed to think that the Imperial Army was being pushed back by the Iron Golem.

Fabian, who had been listening, interrupted.

“If you get hit directly by the magic cannon of the Empire, won’t the steel golem get smashed?”

“I haven’t tested it on steel golems, so I don’t know yet. But it won’t be easy.”

“Isn’t it easy? Do you think the destructive power of the magic cannon would tear even the steel golem’s exoskeleton? Shouldn’t it be steel?”

“The essence of the magic cannon is the power of condensed mana. If the golem’s exoskeleton has an anti-magic magic circle, the magic cannon won’t do its job.”

“Is there an anti-magic magic circle?”

“If I were a golem maker, I would have carved physical resistance and anti-magic magic circles first. Because no one wants the things they built to be destroyed. By the way, the magic tower’s stone golem has a physical resistance magic circle engraved on it.”

“Ah…”

Fabian nodded.

If so, it was clear that the steel golem had an anti-magic magic circle.

The carriage, which was gradually slowing down, went and stopped repeatedly.

In the meantime, people lined up at the back of the wagon.

Elio looked out the window and murmured.

“Looking ahead is frustrating, but looking back is proud.”

“Looking at things like this, the Empire is a bit strange. Aren’t there too many border checkpoints within the same empire?”

“What is too much? There are checkpoints in the kingdom between territories as well.”

“Oh, that’s right again.”

Fabian didn’t insist and immediately agreed.

As the conversation faded, the three looked out the window as if they had promised.

Maybe it was because it was a border checkpoint, not a territory, so I saw a lot of wagons.

Just then, a quadruped carriage with a noble family pattern on the door whizzed by.

‘Is it a great nobility?’

Elio looked at the pattern, but couldn’t tell who it belonged to.

His gaze inadvertently turned to Count Larva Omar across the street.

But thinking that he might not know, I turned my head out the window again.

“Didn’t something just pass by?”

Fabian looked back and forth between Viscount Helio Lagoa and Count Larva Omar with a face full of anger.

I stood in line at most, but when someone cut in line, I was moved.

To make matters worse, the wagon, which had been moving slowly and steadily, came to a complete stop.

Elio and the others pulled their heads out of the window and looked straight ahead.

Two people had collapsed in front of the carriage that had overtaken them earlier.

It seems that the impatient coachman had an accident.

“What are you looking at! pull it out! Charge the treatment fee to Count Paganus! Guards! Guards!”

A middle-aged man from a quadruped wagon yelled at the checkpoint.