Grand Duke of the Heibern House

＜Episode 38＞

The feudal lords of each family have hardened like people who have gone crazy.

However, only Ortega, who actually led them, kept his cool and glared at Ruin.

Odaebongsinga.

Nobles who ruled this land even before the Hibern family settled in the Montdelilla Mountains.

However, the archduke was trampling on that venerable authority and honor at once.

Nigen Iol Vissel Vern.

He was already a traitor condemned by Ga-ryul.

To appoint such a criminal as the commander, overtaking the heads of the five feudal lords.

It was an act of self-denial of the strong identity that Saja’s family had maintained for over a thousand years.

suffocating air.

Soon, Ortega’s thick voice broke through the suffocating silence.

“house owner.”

Ortega was staring at the seat of power rising in the distance.

“The head of the household I know is not someone who plays tricks like this.”

Lion King Kazen is the one who reigns.

It wasn’t an existence that entangled his vassals with such an obvious ploy.

“Drunk.”

Kazen licks his lips bitterly.

That Ortega was looking up at herself in an elegant tone that would only be spoken in private.

Thirty years later, such a gap of his own deeply pierced his heart.

“What of me did you feel like a trick?”

“Everything. Having the Grand Duke humiliate the lord of Podom. It is also the same with trying to test the vassals through the announcement of the Grand Duke.”

Even when he saw the Archduke kneel, Kazen completely stood by.

Moreover, it is impossible to appoint a key instigator of this treason case as a commander.

It was too obvious to look at the reaction of the Ohdae vassals, who were in fact cooperative with them.

“test?”

“Isn’t this an obvious trick? If you stand up for Lord Nizen’s being appointed commander, you will join us with the band of traitors. If he opposes, he will also be a traitor who denied the authority of the Archduke. This Ortega has no intention of falling for such a trick.”

A look of surprise passed over Ruin’s face as he watched.

It was the first time after returning.

To meet a human who can read even a part of her intentions.

He saw through his hidden intention to soften the resistance of his vassals and imprint the authority of the Heibern family.

‘It’s Ortega ball… … .’

He died in vain when the kingdom of Lemadel was engulfed in war.

Therefore, in Ruin’s memory, there was not much information about Podom’s Iron Blood, Ortega-dono.

That there’s not much you can do about it.

All he had to do was improvise and react promptly to Ortega’s reaction.

“If you’d rather be interrogated, I’d be happy to do so. This is not the lion’s way.”

Ortega suddenly stares at Ruin.

“Isn’t this too harsh even for an archduke?”

“Harsh?”

Ortega’s face stiffened even more at Kazen’s question.

“I appointed a high treason as commander. Even with the Grand Duke’s seal. He will now live with the disgrace of denying and overturning Hibern’s Gayul for the rest of his life. It is too cruel to use one’s own son as a discard. This is really not like a family head.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

Ortega’s cunning response made Ruin laugh out loud.

Truly an artful speech.

In front of all the knights of the lion war, he made himself a grand duke who denied the honor of Bern.

In addition, there is a strange nuance as if his father manipulated him.

He drove the Grand Duke into an idiot who didn’t even know Ga-yul’s authority, and made the head of the family into a cold-blooded man who didn’t care about his son’s honor.

Strangely, however, Louin was not angry.

Among the knights of a family united by ignorant convictions, he met a cunning politician for the first time.

What this family absolutely needed now was a resourceful strategist with such subtle hair.

Ruin had a satisfied face as if he were watching his grandson play tricks, but the words that came out of his mouth were no different from the blade.

“You were the one who played the trick first, Ortega.”

“What do you mean, Archduke?”

“Forcibly mobilized troops, splendid armaments that ignored efficiency, and numerous attendants.”

sh*t.

“Furthermore, those who gathered to bow their heads to the owner dared to hold their family flags in their hands. All of your appearances and behaviors are low-level tricks to scorn the authority of your family.”

It was a point that penetrated the intentions of the vassals, but Ortega did not waver as Ruin expected.

“Not worth it. Responding to Hibern’s call with the best knights and armaments is worthy of the devotion of a vassal. The family flag is also nothing more than a resolution that represents our beliefs. Do not mislead our upright hearts to defend the oath.”

Why do you like the old man who doesn’t blink an eye and teases his honeyed tongue so much?

Ortega frowned at Ruin’s warm smile and opened his mouth.

“okay. That is your limit.”

“What do you mean by my limits?”

Ruin shifted his gaze to the ranks.

“First, your tricks don’t go beyond justification. Even if you face the worst, you have a weak mind that wants to make a way out in advance.”

“What is that… … .”

Ruin looks at the flags of the Zakanga and Aeolitaga with a smile.

“There must have been no time for the urgent summons. In the end, you would have delivered your will to the vassals.”

“… … .”

“The punishment of traitors. In order to go beyond the strong justification and Gayul of the Bern family, they have no choice but to show off the power of the changed vassals. We can only live together if everyone participates. Without this opportunity, there is no way to save the blood relatives of the family imprisoned in the dungeon.”

“Guess! i never… … !”

Ruin cut off Ortega before he could protest.

“However, until the moment we arrived at the Lions Hall and joined the ranks, the family flags of Sauveur and Arlsshire were not visible. it would have been weird I’m sure they were desperate too.”

Ruin’s gaze scans the knights dressed as servants.

“In the end, you found some pivotal knights of the House of Sauveur and the House of Arlsshire. They couldn’t possibly understand why they were wearing servant’s uniforms. A family of old lions who lost all their teeth and could not even hunt. You could cook it easily, but why are you bound by an oath? They must have been pathetic.”

Judge of Dawn, Ortega’s eyes shake for the first time.

Ortega felt an unbearable sense of defeat in that filthy feeling, as if his essence had been penetrated.

“Do you still not know your limits?”

Ortega just silently glared at Ruin with burning eyes.

“Instead of such a show of force, you had to mobilize all your capabilities to encircle Lion City and engage in siege warfare. You should have been at least a wolf to bite the lion’s neck. No matter how much Hibern is a toothless lion, there’s no way he’ll be eaten by a peacock, right?”

Peacock.

An animal that exaggerates its size by spreading its colorful wings.

but.

Even so, in the eyes of the lion, it was just a bird with slightly longer feathers.

Such camouflage never worked on lions.

Dane, who had been listening from far away at Ruin’s perfect analogy, let out a small laugh.

“hahahaha.”

Ortega Ball.

The de facto headman who leads the five vassals.

His nickname of Judge of Dawn was the pride of the kingdom even before he was born.

However, the older brother overwhelms such a tremendous article with just words.

Truly, no one can stand against that ignorant speech.

“You can’t save your family with such weak determination, Ortega.”

Looking at Ruin’s smile, which seemed to be smiling happily, Ortega couldn’t stand it.

Ortega stubbornly endured the desire to pull out the sword right away.

Soon, a voice similar to a moan flowed from his jawline.

“… … The Archduke must have a really rich imagination.”

“well. The desire in your eyes is too shiny to be just my imagination.”

“What is desire?”

sh*t.

“The traitors have been slain. In the place where they were, a huge vacuum of power will surely bloom. Someone like you put up with it? dog sound.”

Ruin spoke with utmost determination, looking directly at Ortega as if declaring.

“If you have negotiated with the main family and reached an agreement on the release of the criminals, your position as the one who designed and promoted everything will be even stronger. Backed by the patronage of the five vassals, they will try to fill the vacancy of Soene, a criminal, with that power.”

shaking.

Ruin couldn’t stand it because he liked Ortega, who was constantly trembling.

Unmistakable gemstone.

A little bit of refinement will surely help the family.

‘Poetry, truly scary!’

‘How can such an enormous heart be developed at such a young age… … ?’

The heads of the vassal households were listening to the faintly audible argument between the Archduke and Prince Ortega from afar.

They were just staring blankly at Ruin with pale faces.

The grand duke of the Hibern family knew everything as if he had seen the letters they exchanged.

A boy who has just passed the age of majority.

However, the words that flowed out of such a boy’s mouth were more seasoned than those of politicians who rolled as they would in the palace.

The archduke’s reasoning was frighteningly meticulous, and it was hard to believe his age.

The Archduke’s voice echoed again coldly.

“By now there is probably only one question that powerfully dominates your mind. Since ancient times, the beacon of Ledeo has been a loyal family. You can admit that the Sauveurs did not respond to your reply. But the Jarlshire family is different.”

As Ruin looked at him and smiled, the head of the Arlshire family, Lord Cutlass, bowed even more to show his utmost courtesy.

“Bismund’s statutes. Cool cutlass ball. If he’s not sure, he never carelessly judges the general trend. What on earth did he see in the Heibern family that he bowed down like that?”

Ortega’s eyes trembled anxiously.

“Your second mistake was that you didn’t have too much information about this Ruin, Archduke.”

Ortega chewed his lips desperately at the Archduke’s cold voice that seemed to tighten his heart.

I had no choice but to admit it.

If I had known that the grand duke of Bern, Kazen’s son, was such a clever and cunning genius, I would have re-planned everything from scratch.

at that time.

coo coo coo coo-

A low vibration echoed through the floor of the Lion’s War.

Gradually, the vibration swallowed up all of the lions and spread throughout the castle.

Spiritual Power, or the unique wavelength of fighting spirit called the soul of a lion.

The state of overwhelming the material world with pure speculation is only possible for the king who controls this huge castle.

The lion king’s fighting spirit, his overwhelming roar, was a great power that made the knight’s blood boil.

Ortega raised his head in a daze and was looking at the ruler of the Montdelilla Mountains.

One step, two steps, every time he came down the red stairs, it felt like his heart was being squeezed.

The Lion King, who is watching the ranks with half-open eyes.

And then Ruin’s sharp blue voice.

“Ortega ball.”

Ruin kneels and offers the Grand Duke’s seal to Kazen.

Soon, his mouth twists in horror.

“A lion that started hunting no longer hides its savagery. That I did not realize the beginning of the hunt. This is your third mistake.”