Chapter 304: Jude Bayer (3) (2/2)
He held hands with the Chancellor and the House of Lords to overthrow the emperor.
Elio must have likely thought that their current treason was a power struggle within the empire.
‘Anyway, it would be impossible for him to become the Lord President of the Privy Council since he tried to assassinate the emperor.’
That was it.
After Jude stopped his thoughts, he gasped again before staggering and sitting down.
“Jude!”
The surprised Cordelia quickly ran to him and squatted in front of Jude who unconsciously smiled.
“Why? Are you hurt? You vomited blood, right? Why are you smiling when you’re hurt?”
Jude smiled again at her concerned expression. It was a strange feeling. He had always seen Cordelia and was seeing her right now, but he felt like he hadn’t seen her for a long time. And that was why he missed her very lovely self so much.
He wanted to thank the world just for the fact that she was sitting right in front of him now.
“Jude?”
Instead of replying, Jude reached out and embraced Cordelia. Both of them were sitting, so their position was awkward, but he didn’t care about that.
“Jude? Are you crying?”
Cordelia was startled by what she said unconsciously, and she wanted to check Jude’s face, but that was impossible. Jude tightly hugged her in his arms, so she was unable to move.
As Cordelia had said, Jude was crying.
But Jude himself couldn’t figure out why.
Tears just flowed down his eyes.
[My successor, are you okay? Is there something wrong with the process of opening the seventh door?]
In response to the worried Valencia’s questions, Jude reflexively recalled several things.
The road leading to the horizon.
The man who stood in front of that road.
The female sage whom he saw after a long time and stretched out her hand as she passed some words to him.
What she had said.
Her words that he was Jude himself.
The sword’s inner essence.
The Sword of Wind.
“Jude. I’m fine. Everything’s okay. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere, okay?”
Cordelia hugged Jude back and warmly said.
She said something she did not exactly understand herself, and Jude was relieved at those words. Although he was afraid that the small and slender Cordelia would be crushed, he hugged her as tight as he could.
“I’m sorry, I’m going to sleep for a bit.”
Having felt fully relieved, Jude softly whispered and released Cordelia from his hug.
It was the aftermath of exploding the Yin and Yang energies that had caused the Black Sun to run wild.
The cost of using Wind and Lightning Flurry Strikes, which he shouldn’t originally be able to use yet, was not small.
“Okay. Leave it to me. I will take care of everything.”
Cordelia patted Jude on the back.
Hearing those words that he trusted so much, Jude smiled and closed his eyes. He fell asleep quickly.
“Haa…”
And Cordelia let out a small sigh.
He was very tall and thus was incredibly heavy, but she thought that he was over a hundred kilos in weight, so she carefully laid Jude down and stretched out her shoulders.
[They’ve retreated, but we do not know what they will do since their leader was caught. So we should quickly run away.]
Melissa’s words were right.
Cordelia stroked Jude’s face for a moment before she nodded and stood up.
“All right, where should we go?”
Cordelia tapped her foot on the ground before she used her telekinetic powers to carefully lift Jude up. She then approached Elio who had fainted.
“Did he really pass out?”
She poked his face with her foot, but there was no response. It didn’t seem like he was pretending to have fainted.
‘Still, you never know.’
Cordelia firmly tied him with magic and even paralyzed him before lifting Elio with her telekinesis.
Melissa who was silently watching then said.
[Which way are you planning to go now? The Red Gate? The Orange Gate?]
It seemed like they could move either way if they took Elio as a hostage.
“Hmm…”
If there was a variable, it was the high-ranking demonic humans who appeared in the Red Gate.
Those demonic humans had not appeared yet.
Perhaps they went to catch Lucas and Kajsa.
‘If the two of them are together, maybe they can fight a high-ranking demonic human.’
There was the Moon Crystal on the emperor’s side, so it was very likely that they had somehow escaped to the agreed upon place.
“Let’s go to the Orange Gate.”
[The Orange Gate?]
“Yes, Jude is defenseless right now. To be honest, I used a lot of mana to help Lucas and the others escape earlier, and I tried too hard to shake off the interruption magic.”
Since Cordelia had archwizard-level mana, she clearly had enough mana to fight, but she didn’t want to risk it in the slightest as Jude was defenseless now.
“The Red Gate is dangerous.”
Because they didn’t know what else was hiding.
“Besides, they originally planned to kill us and the emperor at the Red Gate, right? I’m sure the defense there would be much tighter than the Orange Gate.”
And perhaps the Orange Gate’s forces were completely unaware of the incident.
[Then we use him as a hostage to cross the Orange Gate?]
“We can do that, or use Elio to threaten those who are beyond the Orange Gate… Like those true elves? The good elves? Anyway, we can call the elves who live in the Yellow Gate. The point is to inform the non-traitorous elves about Elio’s treason and get their cooperation.”
It would be better if the emperor’s side also joined them there.
[Wow.]
“Why? Are you admiring me?”
[Yes, because you could actually think for yourself? You could actually do it, but you did not. It’s not that you could not do it!]
“Hey, should I break this?
[Eh? Ah, this…eh?]
While Melissa was confused, Cordelia clicked her tongue once before she lightly relaxed her hands and feet.
Cordelia always left the thinking to Jude because of her thinking ‘the right person for the right job’ but she herself was able to do some thinking too.
No, isn’t that obvious? There’s no way I can’t think for myself!
“I hate you, I hate you.”
[Cordelia?]
“I won’t talk to you for a while.”
Cordelia childishly stuck her tongue out and turned to the Orange Gate as she held Moonlight that had the complaining Melissa.
The elven realm.
This was the first time she had visited this place since she was reincarnated as Cordelia.
But strangely, she had a bizarre feeling.
She felt like she was going to meet someone she was very happy to be with.
‘I’ll find out when I get there.’
Cordelia stroked the fainted Jude’s cheek again and kissed him on the lips before using magic to head towards the Orange Gate.
And like always, Cordelia’s beastly intuition was not wrong this time.
The Orange Gate.
An unexpected person awaited her at what could be said as the beginning of the true Shadow Forest.
For those who didn’t get who the person that Jude saw in the road leading to the sword horizon, read along.
The person he saw there was Jude Bayer himself.
That was why the female sage said ‘Indeed, you are Jude himself.’ Or to be more exact, ‘Indeed, you (the present time Jude) are Jude himself (the Jude Bayer who stood in the sword horizon).’
That was why Jude cried and felt like he had not seen Cordelia for a long time. (He felt that Jude Bayer’s emotions.)
That was why Jude was able to use the Sword of Wind which he never properly learned in this life. (That Jude Bayer knew how to use the Sword of Wind.)
And finally, that was why this chapter is titled ‘Jude Bayer.’