124 Episode 124: Prime Minister Exploration (1/2)

”Alright, gate opening to the King Dragonian capital!

When the Golems sent me to King's Capital in Dragonia contacted me that the marker installation of the transfer gate was complete, I just opened the gate and came to King's Capital.

The gate is set up in an inconspicuous place outside the King's Capital, as ordered, with no one around it.

”Then I'll ask the masterminds to leave.”

The reason I sent Golem to King's Capital is not the main reason I set up a gate.

This is only to facilitate the movement of the two towns.

In this case, the anti-dragon emperor flipped the anti-flag against the dragon emperor.

If that's all it is, we leave it as a problem between the nobles in the country, but trying to hold the people of our own country hostage for that reason can't be overlooked by boulders.

If you let it go, there's a good chance more people will die.

That's why I came to detain Princess Ryu so that the anti-Dragon Emperors could not do evil until her ritual had been successfully completed and Mr. Lune had revealed his own identity.

Golems without contents don't have to worry about putting someone at risk in case they catch them.

Besides, Mr. Bakin has confirmed who the members of the Dragon Emperor are, so we don't have to worry about the Golems inadvertently capturing the aristocrats on our side.

Well, I also tell the Golems not to do anything but minimal counterattack, because it is possible to fight the knights defending the King's capital.

This is a precaution not to buy the knights' grudges when Mr. Lune regains power as royalty later on.

I thought the golems were pretty incapacitated because they were giving such instructions, but they're not surprisingly broken.

Did the knights defending the king's capital assume that there was no hostility to the actions of the golems?

Thinking about it, in fact, the knights may have been dragon emperors who didn't really think of the prime ministers' national domination.

That was how the control of the castle by the Golems was successfully completed and the nobles of the anti-Dragon Empire, who were the Lord, were successfully captured.

Just one, leave the prime minister who seems to be the main culprit.

”So, did you find out where the Chancellor was?

……

But when the golems shook their heads beside each other saying they hadn't found them yet, they bowed their heads to forgive me.

”I took control of the castle and there is no prime minister. So you mean after you've already run away?”

Neither the family nor the servants who were at the Chancellor's mansion know where the Chancellor is, and the Chancellor's whereabouts have been completely lost.

Um, I kept the exploration feature on the golem, too.

It was a disaster that I came here just to count the ingredients for something.

”And he's a terrible guy to abandon to his family and run away.”

The Chancellor is quick to make a decision as soon as he detects this raid and escapes.

That's what happened in previous lives, but these fast-fleeing villains do trouble later, right?

I just want to catch you as soon as possible though.

”I guess we had a hidden passage or a transfer device in the mansion.”

While the Golem is searching for an escape route, I will use exploratory magic to investigate the surrounding reactions.

If there is a reaction away from Wang Du at this time when Wang Du was raided, that would be a high probability anti-dragon imperial.

If that's a speeding carriage, it's almost certain.

”Is that it? I'm not responding.”

Unfortunately, however, no reaction could be detected to escape from the King's capital.

”Mmm, too bad”

I wonder if this escaped with a transfer device.

Then we need to find a stash of transporters to track it down.

”Running away from the King's capital and his people could be a big base somewhere.”

I thought you were just a rogue nobleman, but maybe you're a more troublesome opponent than I expected.

In the last life there were many executives of cult groups among the powerful, magic researchers who found ancient treasures and plotted world domination, and I wonder if the Chancellor was such a figure.

Speaking of which, I don't feel like seeing a villain possessed by such a desire to dominate since he was reincarnated in this era.

Maybe over time, the world is getting a little better.

Yeah, thinking about it, maybe it wasn't in vain that you've powdered yourself and fought in previous lives!

And that was the time.

Exploratory magic has shown that someone is coming to my place.

”Hmm? This reaction......”

As soon as I wrap Tiran's gear around him and hide my identity, I concentrate on perceiving the reaction.

Strangely, though, that reaction is approaching not from the road...

”Coming through the house?

Yes, the reaction was pushing straight through the residential area.

If you keep up with your reaction, you'll hit a house on the way.

”Could this be...”

When you take the golem and look for what lies ahead of the reaction, you discover a home of sorts.

It is strangely large for it to be on the outskirts of the Wang capital, then it is an old house halfway through.

”Yeah, it's a typical getaway house.”

I have seen it in previous life and in previous generations.

There's a hidden exit in a house like this for escape built by the powerful in their own mansion, right?

And the descendants of the then powerful men who pretended to be ordinary people live as administrators.

So, if a powerful man comes through a hidden passage at times of need, it's to help him escape.

When you enter the mansion grounds while confirming your exploratory magic reaction, you turn to the barn on the side ignoring the house where the residents react.

”Right here.”

The exploratory magic reaction is headed for this barn, not the house.

And when I looked inside the barn, there was a staircase descending into the basement at the corner of the indicative floor.

Down the stairs was a small warehouse with no appearance of use.

”Around here, I guess?

When I checked the basement walls, I knew there was a hidden door.

And if you open the door, there's a stretch of passage there, and there's signs of someone coming from behind.

”Could it be the Chancellor?