I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 81

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 81

“Could you repeat that? Gideon and Aldo…”

Gloria suddenly stood up.

“No, wait a moment! Wait a moment! Why does this story suddenly come out of nowhere?”

“In short, I’m saying I have a weakness that I can hold over Gideon.”

Gloria stared at Gideon with a look of contempt.

“Ha! Seriously! Ha! This is unbelievable. Does Baron Sylvatil know about this?!”

“He knows. But it seems he has forgiven me.”

Gloria drank the water Caesar had prepared, just like someone who had just finished watching a trashy drama.

“How is this even supposed to work? Why are you telling me this?”

“You were the subject of a duel. So you need to know. And since we’re going to be close from now on, isn’t it right to know this much of a secret?”

“Me, get close to Sir Gideon? Why?!”

“You’re going to become my knight, and he’s going to teach you swordsmanship.”

“Are you telling me to learn swordsmanship from Sir Gideon?”

Gideon also looked surprised at Caesar, as if he hadn’t expected this.

“Are you saying I should teach Miss Gloria?”

“Yes. I only know how to swing an axe, not a sword. Since this girl is aiming to be a classic knight, teach her some decent swordsmanship.”

Gloria, seemingly highly agitated, pointed at Gideon.

“I should learn swordsmanship from this person?! This man tried to kill my master! Moreover, he even challenged me to a duel to steal Sir Caesar’s property. This doesn’t make any sense!”

“Why else would I have accepted Gideon? I accepted him to properly teach you.”

“Because of me? Then couldn’t Sir Caesar teach me?”

“If I could have taught you, I would have done so long ago. When have I ever taught you swordsmanship?”

“…So that’s why you’ve never even shown me swordsmanship?”

“That’s right. I don’t know much about swordsmanship.”

Gideon’s expression became subtle.

Caesar used psychometry on Gideon.

-He definitely must have learned swordsmanship in the Sylvatil family…

He had already expected to be met with this level of suspicion.

But Caesar decided not to persuade Gideon.

Because persuading him would surely result in being bound by those words.

“Gideon has served multiple lords and taught and faced many knights. There’s no easy way to hire a knight as experienced as Gideon anywhere in the world.”

Gloria took a deep breath.

She seemed intent on trying to persuade Caesar rationally by calming her excitement as much as possible.

“First, I acknowledge that Sir Gideon is an outstanding knight. But Sir Gideon is a knight who fueled Aldo Sylvatil’s greed and even volunteered for a dishonorable duel. How can I trust such a person?”

From Gloria’s perspective, this was understandable.

No matter what weakness was held over him, it was uncertain whether he would serve Caesar faithfully.

In the worst case, he might stab Caesar in the back.

Was it because of his mafia-like experience of often having knives stabbed in his back?

He was completely blocked by the thought that once an enemy, always an enemy.

Gideon’s firmly closed mouth opened.

“I understand that you do not trust me. That is why I have completely settled my relationship with Young Master Aldo.”

“What do you mean?”

Gideon took out a promissory note from his pocket and showed it.

“Young Master Aldo did not pay me a life fee during the duel with Sir Caesar. It is customary that when he does not properly pay the life fee like this time, he must pay me double my retirement pay. And since my right arm was permanently lost, I should also receive compensation for damages.”

Gloria checked the names of the creditor and debtor.

The creditor was Gideon, and the debtor was Aldo Sylvatil.

“My annual salary at the time was 410,000 Del. Because I served the Sylvatil Baron’s family for 10 years, Young Master Aldo had to give me 8.2 million Del as retirement pay. I estimated additional damage compensation at 500,000 Del. By simple arithmetic calculation, Young Master Aldo owes me 8.7 million Del.”

“…That doesn’t seem like an amount that can be paid back reasonably.”

“That’s why, with the mediation of Sir Joseph who was present at the time, we proceeded by creating a promissory note with an annual interest rate of 10%, to be fully repaid within 40 years.”

“Is this true?”

“Sir Joseph’s signature is on the notary section. If you go to Sir Joseph and ask, you’ll be sure.”

Gideon handed the promissory note to Caesar.

“With this, my relationship with Young Master Aldo is completely severed. We’ve become less than strangers.”

“Hmm… I didn’t want it to go this far.”

“But you must have had some doubts.”

With psychometry, he would have immediately noticed if Gideon was going to betray him anyway.

But if he resolves things this cleanly, there’s no problem.

“How are you going to handle the interest? From his perspective, the annual interest won’t be insignificant.”

“Young Master Eric will pay the interest to Young Master Aldo as compensation for serving him. This way, Young Master Eric can also trust and use Young Master Aldo.”

This would allow Eric to trust and use Aldo.

Of course, having to periodically pay Gideon about 870,000 Del annually would be a considerable burden.

But through this, he could avoid any more headaches from succession conflicts.

If things go wrong, he could send him on a one-way express train to ruin by making him a defaulter.

Gideon looked at Gloria and spoke.

“Now I have no reason to betray Sir Caesar. Because Young Master Aldo and I have become enemies. Is this enough to trust me?”

Gloria was speechless.

Thinking about what Aldo did to Caesar, she felt he deserved this punishment.

But from Gideon’s perspective, he became a mortal enemy of Aldo to save Aldo himself.

At this point, Gideon almost seemed pitiful.

“…Can you teach with your left arm without your right?”

“It might be impossible to wield a sword again, but I can teach. My eyes aren’t gone.”

“Well… I’ll ask you.”

“I’ll be sure to take good care of it.”

Caesar looked at Gideon as if in disbelief.

“What are you talking about now? You don’t have a right arm?”

Gideon and Gloria looked at Caesar with strange expressions.

“Master cut off my right arm. And it can’t be reattached.”

“In an era where you can get dentures if you have no teeth, and wigs if you have no hair, you can’t use a prosthetic arm just because you don’t have a right arm?”

“Oh.”

Caesar handed Gideon a company check.

“Go to Gale Magic tower and get a good prosthetic arm. Get something with the highest durability and responsiveness.”

“But…”

“This isn’t just being given to you. I’ll deduct some from your salary. So don’t save money, think of it as your life and get the best.”

Gideon looked down at the check for a moment before speaking.

“Understood.”

Gideon politely accepted the check.

“Now go and spar with each other. I should also see Gloria’s skills.”

“Oh, yes. Understood.”

Gloria tilted her head.

“What? Sir Gideon doesn’t have a right arm.”

“Does that mean he can’t fight? Honestly, you’ll be done in 5 seconds.”

Gideon glanced at Gloria and spoke.

“No. 3 seconds will be enough.”

Gloria, seemingly heated, stood up abruptly.

“What?! Me, in 3 seconds? Do you think I can’t win against a disabled person?”

… That’s a bit harsh.

A disabled person?

Gideon, seemingly a bit angry at being called disabled, immediately stood up.

“It seems you lack the eye to judge whether you can defeat your opponent. I’ll help you cultivate that first.”

“Ha, fine! Follow me to the backyard!”

A moment later.

Gloria spat out dirt and looked up at Gideon.

“This is cheating! How can you trip someone?!”

“I tripped you because I don’t have a right arm. And this is a very basic technique used in fights between knights.”

“Again… Ugh!”

Gideon looked at Gloria smugly and smiled.

“Oh, sorry. I thought we’d already started.”

“Damn, I’ll kill you!”

Caesar laughed as he watched Gloria and Gideon sparring.

“They’ll become closer faster than I thought.”

Indeed, knights become close quickly by fighting.

Gloria’s chainsaw sword vibrated.

Weeeeee!

“Die!”

Hmm…

They’re definitely going to become very close.

***

Peaceful time passed quickly.

Caesar put the last elixir in his mouth and meditated.

Since it was refined from a white tiger’s heart, he could feel a cool energy passing through his throat and into his stomach.

After meditating for a while and circulating his aura to spread the elixir evenly throughout his body, he opened his eyes.

Psst…

White frost fell from Caesar’s hair and skin.

“Phew, that’s refreshing.”

Caesar stood up.

There wasn’t a feeling of something drastically changing.

Just a sense that his aura had increased significantly.

The abilities of the elixir made from the white tiger’s heart were three:

Increasing physical strength, Increasing aura, and lastly, increasing cold resistance.

But except for aura, it was difficult to perceive changes in physical strength and cold resistance.

He’d need to increase training intensity or visit a snow-covered region to test it.

“It’s definitely winter.”

Caesar looked at the sky where snow had begun to fall.

Homigraph doesn’t have distinct four seasons.

It might be similar to Jeju Island in Korea.

Both in games and reality, Homigraph isn’t cold enough for snow in winter.

But now, snow was falling.

There was only one way to see snow in Homigraph:

The Demon King would die.

Caesar felt like an unavoidable future was approaching, just like the snow falling from the sky.

“Master! Harrison says to wash up quickly! The carriage will arrive soon!”

“Okay, I’m coming.”

Caesar shook off the frost and snow from his head.

Then he looked at the deep sea rainbow sitting on the rock.

As Atan said, when left outside the water, it had tired itself out and opened its shell wide.

Caesar picked it up.

“I was someone who couldn’t eat raw shellfish.”

Caesar cut out the deep sea rainbow with a knife and swallowed it in one bite.

***

Caesar wore an uncomfortable tuxedo and headed to the party venue.

Harrison, who was with him, said:

“Can I really not bring Miss Gloria?”

“If we appear together at such an official event, it will only complicate her future.”

Gloria doesn’t want to become someone’s wife, but wants to become a knight.

So he told her to train hard with Gideon.

The knight qualification exam was decided for early February next year, so less than three months remained now.

To pass the knight qualification exam on the first try, she would need to train intensively from now on.

“It’s fortunate that Sir Joseph is not attending this party.”

“That’s also why I’m not bringing her. Still, lately he hasn’t been telling me to become a sacred knight.”

“You don’t meet him often anyway, and you don’t go to church much either.”

“Oh, is that so?”

While chatting, they suddenly arrived at the library entrance.

“…This definitely feels like a library for real wizards.”

This was the Great Ark Library, the largest library within the imperial country and one of the most mysterious libraries.

If the Magic Tower made one feel majestic with its height, the Great Ark Library made one feel like they had entered a different world, even inducing a sense of fear.

No wonder, as the moonlight illuminating the Great Ark Library was bizarrely refracted.

Trees were floating in the sky.

Some street lamps were hanging upside down like bats, shining light from above.

It was confusing enough to make one wonder if they had accidentally entered Agatha’s shared dream world.

“Then I’ll come to pick you up right after the party ends.”

“Okay. By the way, aren’t you coming with me?”

Harrison thought for a moment before speaking:

“I don’t think I’m ready yet. And I’m not quite suitable for participating in a party of this scale.”

“You’re good at everything, but you lack confidence. How are you going to do big things like this?”

“I still feel my mind is not fully prepared.”

“Fine. I’ll go alone. Watch the house well.”

“Yes. Have a good time.”

Caesar headed towards the library entrance.

Perhaps because important people were present, the security guards were no less impressive.

The Dawn Knights, who protect the royal family, and the Blue Star Wizard Squad, who guard the Arch Duke’s family, were scanning each person one by one.

Caesar took out his invitation and handed it to a Dawn Knight he knew.

“Well, if it isn’t Sir Hudson.”

“Nice to meet you, Sir Caesar. It’s good to see you like this.”

Hudson glanced at the invitation and spoke:

“You’ve been invited by the head of the Miles family.”

“How else would a wizard district’s sheriff get into such a luxurious party?”

“Considering Sir Caesar’s reputation, it’s not strange at all.”

“If that were the case, I would have received a direct invitation from the Arch Duke. Isn’t that right?”

“…There must be a reason. The Duke is wise, after all.”

Hudson handed the invitation to the Blue Star Wizard Squad.

“It will take a little time to check the invitation. In the meantime, let me explain some precautions.”

Hudson handed Caesar a small note with precautions written on it.

“The Great Ark Library is a space intertwined with various magics, from gravity magic to spatial distortion magic. Even the librarians managing the Great Ark Library don’t know all the magics cast here.”

Hudson looked Caesar straight in the eye and continued:

“So absolutely do not wander alone in dark places. You could get lost or caught in security magic and suffer serious consequences.”

“Understood.”

“And whenever possible, seek the librarians’ help when touching items in the Great Ark Library. It’s so difficult to find non-artifacts here that you might experience strange incidents if you touch things carelessly.”

“At this point, I can’t understand why they would hold a party in such a dangerous place.”

“Isn’t that the mind of wizards? Trying to understand their peculiar and capricious nature would be a waste of time. And lastly…”

Hudson handed the invitation back to Caesar.

“Do not lose this invitation. It’s the only item that could save Sir Caesar if something goes wrong.”

“Understood.”

At Hudson’s gesture, the Dawn Knights opened the library doors.

“I wish you an enjoyable party.”

Caesar nodded and entered the library.

“Oh…”

An exclamation escaped him involuntarily.

He had felt it from outside, but the library seemed to have gravity working in bizarre ways.

People and various furniture were attached to the sky and walls.

In the empty space, there were islands made of bookshelves and strange creatures kept by wizards were flying around.

Yes, this is a wizard’s library.

‘Better than a game?’

In the game, this Great Ark Library was a special space only accessible when starting as a wizard by birth.

It was explained that the library itself was a special experimental and record-keeping space created by the first Arch Duke for wizards’ free research.

Therefore, depending on one’s magical level, one could find desired magic books or even conduct small magical experiments.

As the wizards of the Magic Tower had accumulated magic here for over 230 years, one could encounter special events, Easter eggs, and even find treasures hidden by previous wizards.

‘Since I’m here, I might as well find a treasure. It’s a space one can’t easily enter.’

Just as Caesar was about to move, someone called out to him.

“As expected, you also received an invitation.”

It was Gregory Walterwood.

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