Holy Emperor’s Grandson is a Necromancer - Chapter 143
Episode 143 〈 Succession Ceremony and Festival 〉
2 weeks after defeating Mist Calf.
At a point when the wave of death remained minimal, Ronia dispatched a search party.
About 500 people made up of convict soldiers.
They searched through the mud of the collapsed ice castle and dead Mist Calf.
-Retrieve Mist Calf’s heart. Obviously, upon death, one’s magical power would begin to dissipate. Still, it has strong energy, so it will be of great help later.
Following Hans’ words, the 7th Prince directly gave an order.
Retrieve the information about the warp in the ice castle and the heart.
One of the prisoners who was searching the ice castle’s face brightened.
“found!”
They found a torn luggage bag.
These are materials about [Warp].
“I also wanted to participate in the subjugation war.”
Grill, who was dispatched to the search party, ate his food with regret.
Grill thought of his adoptive daughter, Charlotte.
-It’s dangerous, so protect Ronia.
It was the daughter who raised her finger and pursed her eyebrows.
The expression was blunt, but to Grill, even that was nothing more than cuteness.
“Well, you have to have a daughter too.”
It was when Grill smiled a happy fatherly smile.
He found a sparkling red gem in the mud.
It is a red gem so large that it cannot be held in the palm of your hand.
Grill picked it up.
“Where does this help?”
Grill put a red gem in the bag he was carrying.
There were large pieces of jewels piled up in the bag.
“It’s not enough.”
Grill looked away.
Harman, who was in charge of command this time, looked around on Mist Calf’s corpse.
“What do you mean? Paladin.”
“Monk Han said it was a gem about 1m long. “It may have shattered and become smaller, but it is still too small.”
We searched among the rocks and in the mud for several days.
But what you see are small-sized gems.
It seems like the fragments of the heart made up of red gems about 1m long that Hans mentioned are a bit lacking.
“I can only hope it’s my mood.”
Harmon felt regret and shouted to the prisoners.
“The search ends!”
**
I boarded a carriage heading to the capital, Lorensis.
This is to clean up after Ronia and return to the imperial palace with Lord Gerald.
It was a carriage provided by the imperial palace, but it seemed cramped due to all the luggage.
There was a knock on the carriage door.
“Shall I open the door?”
Hans, who had piled up a pile of documents, spoke while holding them in both hands.
“Do you really need to see that here? “Before that, why did you get in the carriage I was in?”
Hans grinned, waving the Warp data I provided.
“You can’t help but look at these great materials! Besides, I wonder if the prince heard something from Count Timon.”
“He’s quite a warp lover.”
“It’s an alchemist’s long-standing dream.”
Thinking of Count Timon, I took out a book from the item window and threw it at Hans.
“Here, this.”
Hans received the book in an awkward posture.
His eyes widened.
Hans, who has a sharp eye, would know that the material of the book, the letters, etc., were unfamiliar even in this world.
“This is a material I have never seen before. What is it made of? Besides, ink and letters. Also, it’s concise and consistent…”
Hans’ expression, who had been pondering while holding his chin, hardened.
“…What era is this book from? What is the title and what kind of… I don’t know. Oh my… “There is an ancient script that I don’t know about!”
Knock.
I grabbed the door handle.
“That’s not a book of this world.”
Hans flinched.
His gaze fell on me, and I smiled mischievously and pointed to the novel with my finger.
“It’s a book from across dimensions.”
“yes?”
“It’s what you wanted. It’s a gift, so accept it.”
Hans’ pupils fluttered.
Just as he was about to say something, the door opened.
There was Harman on a horse.
“Oh! Harmon has joined us.”
I was on a search mission in the north and thought I would arrive late, but I joined them on time.
After a brief greeting, Harman looked back to see if he had anything to report.
Behind him, he saw a cart and red gems in a leather bag containing data collected from vampires.
“Data and mist. “It’s part of Kalf’s heart. I tried to retrieve it, but only a part of it existed.”
“okay?”
I made a gesture, and Harman moved some of the materials and jewelry into the carriage.
Hans accepted them and laid them on the floor.
The narrow carriage became even narrower.
Hans fidgeted with his hands as if he was
itchy. But he glanced at me
. “Prince, what on earth did you say that just now…”
Harman closed the door.
I glanced at Hans and said,
“Count Timon said that. I don’t know the details.”
“…”
Hans’ shoulders slumped as if he had lost strength.
It was probably because he knew that Count Timon had been eaten by Mist Calf.
As if to soothe his regret, Hans looked at the data Harman brought and fiddled with the red jewel. .
I piled up the materials and took out the jewels from the bag and started matching them.
“But is it okay to say that part of the heart is missing?”
“Oh, it’s okay. A zombie or other undead must have taken it. Since it is an item filled with magical power, even an egoless undead would have been instinctively drawn to it.”
“What is the possibility that a vampire took it?”
Hans said casually and piled up the jewels.
He put a lot of effort into carefully connecting the pieces.
“They might have tried to make a warp gate with the heart of a Jotun, but if it was broken into pieces like this, it would be close to impossible.”
“impossible?”
Hans nodded.
He looked at me and said,
“I don’t know if it’s Count Timon or something, but without him, no matter how genius he is, it will be difficult to realize warp.”
“Are you saying that it is possible to realize it?”
Hans’ movements stopped for a moment.
Looking at the piled up pieces of jewels, he smiled bitterly and said,
“What they are trying to create is not just a warp. It is not a world that connects purgatory or the giant world and the spirit world, but a world beyond that, reaching through the universe. “A completely different world. That’s what they were aiming for.”
Hans piled up the pieces of jewels again and said,
“That’s also a way for them to go there themselves, rather than summoning or sending a spirit-like entity. They must have been longing for that.”
That was the wish of the alchemists.
To reach another world they did not know about.
That is what they believe to be the truth.
“But Count Timon died, and the heart of the Jotun was completely shattered. Even his magic disappeared.”
Hans shrugged his shoulders,
“At this rate, the best we can do is open Purgatory and the Spirit World.”
“In the end, it is possible to open it.”
“Of course. However, unless you are someone like Count Timon who has studied it for thousands of years, it will be difficult to open it. Even if you open it, no living thing can come through. It is that bulky.”
Well, that’s a good thing.
Hans looked at the book I gave him to see if he still had any regrets.
He must have wanted to achieve his wish of moving between dimensions.
“That’s a novel.”
“yes?”
“The title is [The Ring Story].”
“Now wait a minute, prince? What is that…!”
“That’s all I know.”
“Didn’t you say that before?”
“Is it real?”
I burst out laughing as I looked at Hans, who was embarrassed.
**
It was a week since I left for Laurensis.
It was getting dark and night had come.
The carriage stopped and I prepared to camp.
I would arrive at the royal capital the next day.
I had the wind. I got off the carriage to get some fresh air.
“I will escort you.”
I lightly nodded my head at Charlotte’s words.
Elise was preparing the food at the place where the firewood was lit, and Harman had the soldiers pitching the tent. I
turned my gaze to the cart.
Before I knew it, Hans had put together the pieces of Mist Calf’s heart. It was almost restored.
In front of him, Hans was stroking his chin with a serious look on his face.
I approached Hans.
“What’s going on?”
Hans paused.
“Huh? No, that’s…” His
expression was complicated and subtle.
He wiped his face. After thinking about it, he looked at me and smiled and said,
“No. Probably not.”
Hans nodded with a confident expression,
“No problem.”
“…okay?”
Hans said that and looked at the large gem about 1 meter long.
There was an empty part the size of a large head.
The next day,
the carriage departed.
Morning passed and afternoon came.
There was a knock on the door and Charlotte’s voice. “We have arrived
at the royal capital, Lorensis. Prince.”
I opened the carriage door and stuck my head out.
A wide meadow spread out.
Numerous villages and roads in between them.
The large outer wall and outer gate connected to the road.
The royal road, Lorensis.
It was the moment I arrived home after a long time.
**
Dang… .. ding….
A loud bell rang.
Someone was scattering flower petals from the high walls of the castle and fluttering them.
My eyes were wide and I looked at the people seen through the open carriage doors.
Windows were opened in every house.
People were out on the streets. Hundreds of thousands of people cheer,
“It’s the prince!
”
“Prince!”
“Please look here!”
The paladins line up and control the people.
The paladins groaned and groaned at the rushing crowd.
Amid the cheers, I made a dazed expression.
“May Gaia’s blessings be with you…”
Some of them put their hands together and prayed. There were priests who held up the rites and ordinary people who followed them.
“May the god of death be with Judai…”
Beings wearing iron masks.
‘Necromancers’, Aslan’s subordinate gods, were also included.
“The Holy King.” He has come! We will worship Him and welcome Him!”
These are monks from the hostile Chaolium Church.
They are dressed in robes and are cheering wildly.
“It is a saint!”
“Thank you for saving us!”
“Saint-!”
Also, refugees from the Roman Kingdom also came a long way.
The prince of the Holy Imperial Family returned to the royal capital.
The cheers that followed were somewhat expected.
But something was strange.
Why? Why?
The long way to those from other countries. Did you come to visit?
“Charlotte.”
Charlotte flinched.
For the first time, she turned her head to avoid eye contact.
“Do you know anything?”
“I can’t mention it because I received orders from the leader…”
The only person Charlotte calls leader is Oscar the Sword King.
“What’s going on?”
Charlotte glanced at me.
And then he cautiously opened his mouth.
“…They say there will be a succession ceremony.”
“what?”
“The King’s Succession Ceremony.”
King Seong? Was there a title called Holy King?
I stroked my chin, thinking deeply.
“They say they are deciding on the successor to the first Holy Emperor.”
“Right.”
I nodded.
Could it be that that damned father, White, is going to be crowned as the Holy King?
From the looks of it, it seems like a hastily created position.
Since he was the one who abandoned the position of Seonghwang and ran away, the idea is to elevate him to Seongwang to calm the public and eliminate any resentment against him.
The reason he kept it a secret from me was probably because he didn’t look favorably on White and thought there would be a backlash.
If that’s the case, it’s understandable.
Is it because I wasn’t surprisingly surprised?
Charlotte asked in confusion.
“Did you know?”
“No, I just understood.”
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief.
“It looks like you have no complaints.”
“There are a lot of complaints. After all, it was a place before it became a success, right? “Is it okay to be a terrible person when your position is so high?”
“That’s not true. The prince is a great person!”
Why am I coming out there?
No, maybe the brothers of the Holy Emperor family will rise to the position of Holy King.
“Are you anxious?”
“of course.”
Charlotte looked at me with determination in her eyes,
“Don’t worry, I will support you.”
I tilted my head.
The conversation kept getting out of sync.
And I kept hearing the people shouting, ‘Your Majesty the Holy King!’
Now that I thought about it, the prisoners in Ronia territory also called me the Holy King…?
Anxiety came over me.
Something was wrong. “ Charlotte
.”
“Yes.”
Charlotte looked at me calmly.
Although her expression was blunt, she seemed to be happy with the sparkle in her eyes.
“Who is the heir to the Holy King?”
Charlotte expressed her confusion.
“That’s right…”
She tilted her head and confirmed it.
“7th Prince Allen Allfaults. Aren’t you the prince?”