I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 103

I Killed the Demon King. It was a mistake.

Chapter 103

The Homigraph Council was in an uproar over the Caesar issue.

“The wizards say there’s no problem! Then can’t we just create a bill and grant permission?!”

“There’s no precedent! A precedent! First, let’s hear the position of the Order that knows well about the pharmaceutical business…!”

“Do you think I don’t know you’re just trying to stall?! The malaria treatment is an innovative drug! Do you even know how many people are dying from malaria in the southern continent?!”

“So isn’t the Order running all pharmaceutical businesses within the continent?! If Sir Caesar would humbly accept the help of the Royder Order…!”

Gregory sighed while looking at the council members arguing and spitting words.

Those who took money from the Royder Order.

Those trying to look good to the wizards somehow.

It was ridiculous how members of the same party were sharply divided.

Moreover, the surviving Homi council members were taking the side of the Royder Order at this moment…

It seemed the bill’s creation would face difficulties.

At that moment, Councilman Asher Parker approached Gregory.

“Not only making this pharmaceutical bill is a problem, but passing it will be even more difficult.”

Gregory raised an eyebrow.

“Now the Parker family is trying to obstruct Caesar? I heard you were quite close?”

“Caesar slightly irritated the family head’s mood.”

Gregory barely held back a sigh.

Was that damn barbaric knight not satisfied with just the Royder Order?

Turning the Parker family into an enemy as well.

It seemed he would only be satisfied when he turned the entire world into his enemy.

Gregory opened his mouth with a seemingly unconcerned tone.

“Miles’s family head?”

“Yes. Looks like you’re hearing this for the first time?”

Asher seemed to feel superior, knowing something Gregory didn’t, and let out a sneer.

“Shall I tell you?”

“Listen, Councilman Asher. If you’re a pigeon, just deliver the message quickly without dragging it out.”

“What?”

“Anyway, the election is in three months. No matter how hard you struggle to create a bill right now, you absolutely can’t make it.”

Gregory stood up.

“The Parker family will hope that the council members will be sharply divided so that the Sapien Council collapses due to this bill. Since the Homi has already been damaged in image due to the Gilbert incident and completely disintegrated.”

“So instead, they’ll try to form a new party within the Sapien Council by making the counselors who support the Royder Order leave the party and listen well to the Parker family’s words. The method is so obvious that it’s rather infuriating.”

Gregory growled.

“Do you think I’ll just sit and watch that?”

Asher momentarily felt overwhelmed by Gregory’s gaze and felt ashamed.

Asher took a step closer to Gregory and whispered.

“Such a chatty weasel from a tiny piece of land. The Parker family influences the entire continent. The scale is completely different from the Walterwood family.”

“Such a filthy threat doesn’t work. So just deliver Miles’s message. If you’re delivering it to me instead of facing me directly, it must be a shameful proposal.”

Asher was boiling with humiliation but opened his mouth, grinding his teeth.

“Just hand over Caesar Sylvatil. Then we’ll stop splitting the Sapien Council.”

“Caesar?”

“Yes. What we’re aiming for is Caesar alone. Make Caesar kneel before the family head Miles. Then the next election will be a peaceful victory for Sapien.”

Asher threw those words and turned around.

“Think about it carefully.”

Gregory stared at Asher’s back of the head and fell into thought.

Why on earth is Miles targeting Caesar?

To humiliate him?

Because of pride?

Or is someone else behind this?

‘He’s really making this complicated.’

Gregory sat down on the chair with a sigh.

***

Felix met the archbishop of the Wizard Province.

The archbishop drank wine like water, as if his blood was drying.

“What is happening right now. Why are the wizards suddenly in an uproar!”

This pig-like archbishop seemed to think everything would end if he could just catch Caesar.

Honestly, Felix was also slightly surprised.

Over 5,000 wizards were supporting the production of the malaria treatment.

How did Caesar manage to cook and roast the wizards?

“Has there ever been a single time when wizards came out like this as a group? Never in history. How could this happen…”

“There have been events where they could act as a group.”

“What? Inquisitor Felix, are you saying you expected this situation?”

“Wizards are a group with severe individualism, so even when they try to unite, they scatter like grains of sand. But wasn’t there the Magical Realm War?”

Felix handed the archbishop a report.

“Over 90% of the wizards who supported the malaria treatment development participated in the Magical Realm War. For three years, they worked as soldiers under the orders of non-wizard superiors, and they realized through their bodies what the benefits of sticking together and acting as a group could be.”

The archbishop threw the wine glass.

“Heretic bastards! Immediately identify all those here as heretics and lock them up in the Order’s basement! All of them, right now! Hurry!”

“Currently, the number of wizards is not even 9,000. Many died during the war. Are you saying to designate more than half the wizards as heretics and imprison them? Who would allow that?”

“Then what do you want me to do!”

The archbishop pulled at his sparse hair.

“I was supposed to become a cardinal! But at the last moment, Cardinal Hijino passed away and the wizards are baring their teeth! This is impossible!”

Felix watched the archbishop’s mentality collapse and took a sip of tea.

“Think about it the other way around, Archbishop. If you handle this matter well, wouldn’t you show a good image to the existing cardinals?”

“H-How do you mean?”

“To be honest, this situation is not the archbishop’s fault. This situation is not anyone’s fault. The Royder Goddess is testing us.”

Life returned to the archbishop’s eyes for the first time.

“Is there a way?”

“We just need to kill Caesar.”

“Do you mean assassination?”

“Assassination is a last resort. We should thoroughly pressure Caesar from all directions and completely destroy him before killing him. That way, a second Caesar won’t emerge.”

“You mean to break him down completely so that no one will dare to defy the Royder Order again, where everyone can see?”

“Exactly.”

The archbishop thought for a moment before speaking.

“Do you have a method?”

Felix took a sip of tea.

“Preparations are already complete.”

***

Caesar looked at the numerous dueling challenges that had arrived and chuckled.

“Eventually, it comes to this.”

Harrison examined the names of those who had challenged him with a worried expression.

“They’re all renowned knights. They each have one or two nickname, having heard rumors of defeating Sir Gideon.”

“Of course. They know that most of them are no match for me.”

“What should we do?”

Caesar handed the dueling challenges to Gideon.

“What do you think, Gideon?”

Gideon examined the challenges and spoke.

“We must accept. You are a wandering knight.”

A wandering knight has no lord and is free, but can be challenged to a duel anywhere, anytime.

That is the doctrine of the Dre Order and the imperial law.

Gloria, who had been silently watching, tilted her head.

“Why are such disadvantageous conditions attached to a wandering knight?”

“Knights are not simple Aura users, but killing machines who have properly learned to use Aura. Imagine such people freely roaming the continent without a lord. From the Emperor’s or other nobles’ perspective, it would be very unsettling.”

“So if they were to gather and potentially start a rebellion?”

“Yes. Like the rebellion of the wandering knight Mion in the early days of the imperial era.”

The early imperial era was extremely chaotic, with the country just established and demons running rampant.

At that time, wandering knight ‘Mion’ led a rebellion due to resentment against the imperial government and nobles who did not protect them from demons.

During that time, Springfield province almost became Mion’s autonomous region, and if the Arch Duke hadn’t sent a wizard battalion to support, Goldmile province would have fallen as well.

“The empire learned from that. Oh, if Aura users band together and start a rebellion, it would be a big problem. So these regulations were created to mean that wandering knights should enter under some lord’s management.”

“Ah…”

“Of course, it’s almost useless now. At that time, there wasn’t much difference between wandering knights and regular knights, but now knights trained and supported under families are significantly stronger.”

“But Sir Caesar is different.”

“That’s why I’m extraordinary.”

Gloria mumbled softly, “How annoying.”

Caesar casually ignored Gloria’s words and looked at Gideon.

“So what do you think we should do?”

Gideon examined the challenges further and spoke.

“We must accept, but we can determine when, how, and where.”

“That’s right. Simultaneously, we can arrange to defeat the people most suitable to our taste.”

Gideon perfectly understood Caesar’s words.

“Then we’ll prioritize selecting and dueling those with notorious reputations.”

Everyone knows these knights are influenced by the Royder Order’s breath.

If all those challenging Caesar are knights with notorious reputations?

The Royder Order’s authority will be completely destroyed.

Harrison thought for a moment and spoke.

“Then the media will be crucial. To create an image of a righteous knight defeating notorious knights.”

“Right. For that, we’d need a nationwide media outlet with strong impact. And we happen to have something similar to such a media outlet.”

Caesar looked at Gideon.

“Contact our brother. I’ll make Knight Night break through the sky.”

“Will that be enough? Although Knight Night is quite famous among knights, it’s not a popular magazine among ordinary citizens.”

At that time, Harrison came holding two envelopes.

One was stationery symbolizing an imperial letter, and the other was a letter from Mitchell.

Caesar waved the stationery in front of Gideon and said,

“Well, my friends will take care of the lacking media firepower.”

***

Caesar, after receiving contact from Gregory, headed to Benjamin & Son.

When he opened the personal office door, Gregory was burning a cigar intensely.

Caesar sat in front of Gregory and said,

“You look like you have a lot on your mind.”

“You would never know how much contemplation I went through to come to this place.”

What’s with this sudden show-off?

“What’s the matter?”

“I had told you before. That in exchange for helping me, I want you to make just one person a heretic.”

Gregory took a sip of tea and said,

“Can’t you become the heretic?”

Caesar let out a wry laugh.

“Didn’t you mix too much whiskey in the black tea?”

“No, I’m serious.”

Caesar used psychometry.

“Unless you’re crazy, you wouldn’t tell me to become a heretic. Spill out your true intentions.”

“The Homigraph Council is currently in such a complicated situation that it’s hard to see even an inch ahead.”

– A division is occurring within the Sapien Council right now.

– Those who say there’s nothing good about confronting the Royder Order, and those who say they must support Caesar to the end since the wizards officially support him.

– This is beyond the level of a second Homi council emergence.

– With elections approaching, if not careful, a new party breaking away from Sapien Council could steal the majority.

– The Arch Duke shows no movement whatsoever…

Come to think of it, I’ve been neglecting the council recently due to my own affairs.

Although this is Wizard’s Land, to properly supply the legendary potion called Portion, support from the Royder Order is essential.

If the council officially sides with Caesar, the Portion supply to Homigraph and Sapientia could be completely cut off.

Therefore, Sapien Council is internally divided and unable to find its bearings.

“We must now determine our course.”

“So you want to make me the bad guy to unite Sapien Council?”

“Yes. Behind the Sapien Council representatives swayed by Homi council and Royder Order…”

“Miles will be there?”

“Did you already know?”

“I kind of expected it.”

That little Miles guy, I never thought he would quietly give up his initiative.

Miles hopes Caesar becomes close with the Redfield family, but not just the two of them becoming close, but close together with Miles.

If Miles doesn’t know what’s being discussed between Caesar and the Redfield family, it means Miles’ influence on the Redfield family and Caesar would decrease.

So Miles is shaking Caesar, even knowing the Redfield family would quite dislike it.

“Do you have a solution?”

“There’s one easy way and one difficult way.”

“What are they?”

“The easy way is to ask the Redfield family to stop Miles’ tyranny. Then Miles will tuck his tail and run away.”

“…Do you have connections with the Redfield family?”

“I’ve recently made some.”

Gregory’s gaze subtly changed. He became slightly wary of having a direct communication channel with the Redfield family. It’s similar to how Miles looks at Caesar.

“But I won’t choose that path. If I do, I’ll owe the Redfield family, and eventually, I’ll be manipulated by this matter.”

Gregory’s expression softened. At least he realized that Caesar has no immediate intention of getting close to the Redfield family.

“Then what’s the difficult way?”

“Just let the Royder Order and Miles stir things up as they please.”

“That would deal a significant blow to the election in three months. If not careful, Sapien Council could be divided.”

“No. This is an opportunity to filter out representatives and families who are being swayed by the Royder Order’s influence.”

Gregory’s gaze changed subtly again.

“You… Are you confident you can survive even after making the Royder Order an enemy? On what basis?”

“Watch the duel tomorrow.”

Caesar took a sip of tea.

“I’ll show you why the Royder Order can’t bring me down.”

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