The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 161: The Holy Empire’s Hero Party (2)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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“Dear hero king of the great Grandaria kingdom, once again, let me apologize on behalf of the rudeness of my comrade… Let me introduce myself. I am the saintess of the Holy Empire, Elvira Aloisia, it’s a great honor to meet you, your majesty,” The lady priestess kneeled before Peter graciously. Every move of her is captivating and elegant, giving the sense of innocence and pureness, but as a king, it is not something that Peter need to prove their worth

“It’s nice to meet you too, lady priestess. As you’ve known, my name is Chris Godwinston Grandaria. It’s a pleasure to be visited by the honorable priestess of the Holy Empire,” (Peter)

“The pleasure is mine, your majesty,” (Saintess Elvira)

“Now let’s not beat around the bush, shall we? Tell me, why did the hero party of the Holy Empire visit me?” Asked Peter fearlessly.

“As you’ve known, the world is under the danger of the invasion of the demons, dear hero king. And there is a prophecy, that I alone had seen in my dream, is the great invasion of the demonic army together with their demon kings, and the most dangerous thing is…” (Saintess Elvira)

“Is?” Asked Peter.

“The revival of the demon emperor,” The saintess answered with an expected question.

Yes.

Peter had expected the answer to came out from the saintess’s mouth. Peter had discussed the topic with Slime Tarot before, and not only Peter, most of the rulers of the kingdoms and empires had somehow foreseen the same possibility of danger.

It’s impossible for the demons to suddenly go on making destruction and attack Terra without any specific reason. Nobody will attack if they don’t have any chance of winning. According to history, the demons got a huge blow when the demon emperor got sealed by the heroes even though they pay the price with their lives.

After getting defeated in every battle they fought after having the demon emperor’s lost, the demons got even more disordered, resulting in their retreat towards their demonic realm. Then there is only one reason why they’re once again invading this world.

They must be confident with their strength, and one of the biggest possibilities of it is…

(The demonic emperor to free himself from the shackles of the old heroes’ seal…) (Peter)

“I agree with the demonic invasion since the Grandaria kingdom had just experienced the battle with the demons ourselves. But for the thing about the demonic emperor, without any disrespect, lady saintess, but as a ruler, I can’t blindly trust such a piece of important information with a dream as its source,” (Peter)

“It’s fine, your majesty. It’s a reasonable thing to do as a ruler, it’s as expected for a heroic king like you,” (Saintess Elvira)

“Indeed. Then what is your purpose in telling me this information? Don’t tell me that you came all the way here only to give me that information, dear Holy Empire’s hero party?” Asked Peter with sharp eyes.

“As you’ve known too, your majesty. Currently, there are lots of self-proclaimed heroes all over the world that the church doesn’t even know their names. We’re going to search and recruit all of the real heroes, not the self-proclaimed heroes. And coincidentally, the Grandaria kingdom has the most people that are listed as the real heroes inside the prophecy, your majesty,” (Lady Saintess)

“The prophecy, huh…” Peter muttered towards himself with a low voice as he starts to calculate the most beneficial outcome of this conversation.

“Yes, your majesty. Personally, the heroes I saw inside my dream are also the heroes from your kingdom, your majesty. I saw your face, the winter princess’s face, the magic god’s face, the samurai’s face, the bard’s face, the aloof darkness’s face, Hero Lian’s face, and a shadow,” (Saintess Elvira)

“A shadow?” Asked Peter.

“Yes, I couldn’t see his face, but somehow, all of us normally talked with him in a friendly manner inside my dream,” (Saintess Elvira)

(I see… A shadow, huh… Since the aloof darkness is obviously that Alfred, then it looks like the shadow is no other… Than Ren…) (Peter)

“Then I believe that the reason for your visit is to recruit us, ‘The heroes’ of the prophecy, no?” (Peter)

“Yes, you’re right, your majesty,” (Saintess Elvira)

“But as you’ve known, I am the king of this kingdom, I can’t easily leave this place. And my men that you asked are all precious to this kingdom, I can’t afford losing even if it’s only one of them,” (Peter)

“But, your majesty-” (Saintess Elvira)

“But tell me, what will you do after recruiting all of these ‘Real Heroes of The Church’, then I might reconsider sending my men,” Peter cut in saintess Elvira’s words.

“We’re going to destroy the seal according to the old ritual, your majesty. With the strength of all of the heroes, we’ll definitely able to destroy the seal together with the remains of the demon emperor before he could completely be revived,” (Saintess Elvira)

“We knew that the heroes must be very valuable to your kingdom, that’s why the church will give a compensation towards the Grandaria kingdom,” (Saintess Elvira)

“And that is?” Asked Peter.

The more Peter observes the saintess before him, the more he realizes how dangerous she is. Despite all of the pressure Peter gave her, she indifferently faces it without even flinched a little. The fact that she’s smart enough to answer every question that came out from Peter is impressive and praiseworthy.

“The first one is gold, I don’t know the exact number, but the Holy Empire will compensate the Grandaria kingdom with gold and ores,” (Saintess Elvira)

(Hm… That’s good enough) (Peter)

“And then, we’ll be deploying some holy knights to guard the Grandaria kingdom permanently-” (Saintess Elvira)

“No, we don’t need them,” Peter once again cut in.

“Eh?” Saintess Elvira couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

(So that could make her surprised, huh) (Peter)

Not only Saintess Elvira, even the Hero Lian, and the other heroes are shocked by Peter’s refusal. Everyone knows how strong and mighty a holy knight is, kingdoms could easily give lots of their treasures and golds in order to bribe the church to post some holy knights in their kingdom.

The holy knights are mighty enough that if an attacking kingdom heard the news of the kingdom they’re attacking possessed a holy knight guarding their kingdom, it will make them reconsider attacking the kingdom and might even cancel the war.

The fact that the Grandaria kingdom that just got attacked by the demons and have war with the Potterland kingdom rejected the offer of having some holy knights protecting their kingdom that should be at a vulnerable state shocked and confused Saintess Elvira and the others.

“I-If I may know the reason, your majesty?” (Saintess Elvira)

“Yes, I’ve lived inside this kingdom disguising myself for most of my lives, and all holy knights inside this kingdom I knew are so corrupted that they often extorted my people’s money. Since they’re strong and have the powerful church behind them, the people are too scared to retaliate, resulting in me to step in and fought with some holy knights of your church,” (Peter)

When Peter declared his first reason, he could saw Saintess Elvira pinching herself on her thigh. But despite pinching herself with that much power, her expression remains the same on the surface.

(I see… She must be regretting trying to trick a king that thinks about the people before anything else, huh…) (Peter)

“You…” Growled the holy knight inside the Holy Empire’s here party.

“So rather than having the holy knights here, I prefer for the compensation to be just focused on resources. You might think that it looked like a greedy decision for a king, but as you’ve known, my kingdom had just finished a war, and we’re currently in short of resources because of the attack from the demons,” (Peter)

That’s a lie.

The Grandaria kingdom is currently stable because of the help of the Tarot empire. They almost did not lose any of their soldiers in the war and all of the war needs and expenses are all covered by the Tarot empire. And the Grandaria kingdom even got the share from the Potterland kingdom’s loots, so the Grandaria kingdom is currently at a great surplus.

“And even if you want to say that if we’re in a pinch, we may ask the church for help, then you could just drop your offer. You might didn’t know this, but I’ve cut off the Grandaria kingdom’s relationship with the church,” (Peter)

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The members of the hero party were shocked when they heard the surprising news. Cutting off the relationship with the church is the same as declaring war with the church, and if the church had declared war towards a kingdom, the other kingdoms allied to it will follow suit in order to get some benefits.

“C-Cut off…?” (Saintess Elvira)

“I see… Seems like your prophecy didn’t tell you this, lady saintess,” (Peter)