Chapters Chapter 200: The start of the war (pt. 1) (1/2)
-M… Minerva…
Albrecht Vilhelm murmured, as if he couldn’t believe what he just saw.
No, rather than being unable to believe it, he didn’t want to believe what he saw.
Minerva was Albrecht Vilhelm’s favorite and most trusted subordinate.
The marriage with Fei Mei and the deal with Alex Rothschild to open up the dungeon gates within Seoul was done by her.
But now, she was dead.
As if showing that she didn’t die very long ago, a shocked expression could clearly be seen on her face, and warm blood was still flowing down from her neck.
It was obvious that not even 10 minutes had passed since she had died.
-How could you treat the envoy of another territory like…?
“This is my answer to what you did to me, Albrecht Vilhelm. Did you honestly think that I would succ.u.mb to your stupid little tricks?” Kang Chul-In said with a cold voice.
-...
Albrecht Vilhelm kept his silence.
Even though he was burning up inside, he couldn’t express his anger outwardly now that Kang Chul-In had shown him the evidence.
-Looks like I don’t have any more excuses.
Finally, Albrecht Vilhelm gave up.
-About the dungeon gates… I give my condolences.
“...You what?” Kang Chul-In snorted.
-I’m an Overlord. You don’t expect me to apologize and say sorry to you, right? I am also fighting for the throne…
“Shut up.”
-...
“You should stop acting like a king already. You dare to call yourself an Overlord and say things like that, while you kill the innocent civilians of Seoul?”
The only reason Kang Chul-In was angry was that the civilians of Seoul had been endangered due to the dungeons.
Even in the past, when Kang Chul-In had been 10 times more ruthless and violent than he was now, he didn’t like touching civilians. Now that they had just done that, it was obvious why Kang Chul-In had gotten angry.
“Don’t try to act like it’s okay just because you’re a Lord.”
-Isn’t that a little harsh?
“No, I’m not being harsh enough.”
-I’m sure that you’ll regret your words.
Albrecht Vilhelm said, showing his true personality. Just like Kang Chul-In, he wasn’t able to take insults sitting down.
-Anyway, I’ll consider this a statement that we will no longer communicate.
“I’m so scared that my legs are shivering.”
-Let’s see how long you can last as 1st place on the rankings.
“Well, I’m looking forward to it.” Kang Chul-In said, laughing.
Pzzt, pzzt!
After that, the call ended, and the hologram of Albrecht Vilhelm disappeared.
Soon after, angry voices could be heard in the Lord’s hall of the Laputa territory.
“T-That bastard…!”
“How dare he threaten our Lord…!?”
Even though he was overly aggressive in killing Minerva, the officials were angered by Albrecht Vilhelm’s behavior that seemed to belittle Kang Chul-In.
“Milord! We need to show that arrogant Vilhelm bastard our strength!!” Lucia shouted, her eyes filled with killing intent.
“Please send me to the front lines, Milord! This Drakan will bring back the head of that stupid Albrecht Vilhelm!!” Drakan also shouted, his golden eyes shining ferociously.
“Milord! I will also fight on the front lines, just like against Baruk Al-Yusuf!!”
As if the money that Kang Chul-In had given him had helped, James spoke. His socks were no longer damaged.
Nilus and Podolski also joined in, asking to take Albrecht Vilhelm down.
The only one remaining cool-headed in this situation was Kwak-Jung.
“M-Milord…” Kwak-Jung cautiously spoke.
“Speak.”
“This might seem a little rude, but you do know that it’s impossible for us to…”
As he was Kwak-Jung was speaking,
“Shut up! Don’t speak like that to our majesty!”
With Nilus’s shout as a spark, the other officials of Laputa started to curse towards Kwak-Jung.
“Is that something to say, Strategist Kwak!?”
“Strategist Kwak, I’m disappointed!”
“...I’m telling you, we shouldn’t do that…” Kwak-Jung murmured, depressed.