I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Isaac looked at the 3rd Prince as if he was detestable. The corners of his mouth curled up in a smile.

‘After all that, are you picking a fight over Sacred Dragons now?’

Well, I understand.

What kind of existence is a Sacred Dragon? They are the sword of the Imperial Family, the shield of the Empire, and the treasure of the nation.

Only the Emperor could contract with Sacred Dragons to generate the Empire’s barrier and command dragons.

Well, to that extent, Shablis who can’t even summon, let alone contract with Sacred Dragons, might look ridiculous, but-

‘What can I do? I already have them, you know?’

[Hey, don’t lie. Where does Master have Sacred Dragons?]

‘What are you saying? It’s correct that they’re mine since I’m about to get them soon.’

I already have bait to catch Sacred Dragons too.

‘I’ll catch Sacred Dragons and hand them over to Shablis. Kuhuhehe.’

It seems the Pope wants to choose an Emperor to his liking.

‘I’ll make the Emperor of my country myself.’

Moreover, if Sacred Dragons belong to the Imperial Family, I can gulp down their excellent abilities.

‘Puhihih. How tempting are dragons’ abilities.’

I always wanted to have them in my grasp, but unfortunately I’m wanted by dragons, so it’s impossible to form a direct connection!

But if I get dragons by forming a connection with the Imperial Family?

‘Right, if I just have dragons! I can even take down those numerous gods!’

Dragons were important allies of the gods. So I’ll break that alliance and use their power to strike down the gods.

Let alone a Lord-level dragon?

‘That’s already Demon King level.’

Anyway, it means dragons are a ve-ry important card in defeating the gods.

In that sense, Pope’s lapdog. You won’t do. You’re not someone who helps my plans.

And honestly, I don’t like it. Making young kids targets by branding them for their own rice bowls.

Sure enough, Isaac smiled while looking at the 3rd Prince.

“Well, go ahead and try to dethrone His Highness the Crown Prince if you can?”

At Isaac’s relaxed smile, Prince Lucas seemed rather flustered.

‘What’s this. Why is he so confident?’

Among the nobles, there are almost none who support Shablis. Although Shablis does have his loyal retainers, showing he’s not unpopular, already more than half are on the 3rd Prince and Pope’s side.

And even those loyal retainers are prepared to meet their fate with Shablis. Everyone sees Lucas as the next Emperor.

So what on earth is Isaac Eshua seeing to act like that?

Isaac chuckled.

“How will Prince Lucas become Emperor then?”

“!”

Did he read his mind? Lucas was startled, but Isaac approached Lucas with an eerie gaze.

“You need to contract with Sacred Dragons to qualify as Emperor, so how will you make that contract? Ahhh! Perhaps you’re planning to run to the Pope and beg him to make you contract with Sacred Dragons while clinging to his skirts?”

Sparks flew from Lucas’s eyes, who had been flustered.

“How rude to royalty!”

He glared at Isaac with a humiliated face.

“I clearly warned Eshua. That they’ll be exterminated if they stay with Shablis!”

“Prince Lucas!”

Lucas left the Imperial Palace while grinding his teeth. Isaac watched that huffing back figure and chuckled, kukuk, towards Shablis.

“With this, the bastard blocking Your Highness has been removed. Now you can slowly go see your father. Weren’t you going to deliver medicine?”

At the words that he had achieved his goal, Shablis blankly looked at Isaac. Was that the aim from the beginning?

The Imperial Princess was very grateful too. At the same time, she looked at Isaac worriedly.

“I’m grateful, but will you really be alright? Touching Prince Lucas means attacking the Pope. Won’t Eshua suffer damage too?”

“It doesn’t matter. If it was our Grandpa, he wouldn’t have even left any bones.”

“!”

Right. That’s right. It ended at this level because I’m Eshua’s only person of conscience and I’m so kind.

[Excuse me? Master? Where’s your conscience?]

If that bastard had run into Grandpa, he might have really died.

[You intentionally sent the 3rd Prince away, right? To irritate the Pope?]

Puhuhehe. Of course! Now that we’ve moved like this, that Pope bastard will move too.

We clearly have the Pope’s sacred relic too, it was unpleasant just staying still.

‘It’s a chance to examine the Pope’s true intentions.’

But whether he knew that inner thought or not, Shablis sighed.

“I’ll take care of the charge of insulting royalty. Well, there probably won’t be a big problem even without going that far. They probably didn’t expect the Supreme God card to be played.”

When it’s said to be a revelation from none other than the Supreme God, what can the Empress or Pope say? In a sense, it’s the strongest card.

But Isaac asked as if he really couldn’t understand.

“Well, let’s put aside this incident, but the 3rd Prince. What is that bastard to be so confident towards the Crown Prince? What, has he already contracted with Sacred Dragons?”

“Who knows. That kid also has royal blood, so he’ll contract soon.”

“Pardon my rudeness, but Your Highness has already contracted, right?”

Thud!

At Isaac’s casual question, everyone’s hearts dropped. Lilai and Shuri, even the servants, gaped.

For some reason, they all turned pale white and looked at the Crown Prince. It was because Isaac had said something he absolutely shouldn’t have.

‘Isaac, you idiot! Why bring up the taboo of all things!’

‘The Crown Prince’s contract is a forbidden topic!’

Indeed, at Isaac’s words, Shablis’s face color changed coldly.

Everyone there held their breath as if their necks might fly off, and Shuri grabbed Isaac with trembling hands as if he was crazy.

That’s because Shablis contracted with Sacred Dragons at the youngest age of 9.

But what does that matter? Sacred Dragons never responded to summons even once. Because of that, everyone whispered that he must have lied about the contract.

-Hoho, there’s no way a contract was possible at that age in the first place.

-Yes. And only the Emperor and Crown Prince participated in the contract ceremony according to imperial law, so outsiders have no way of knowing.

-They say His Majesty the Emperor lied to make the black-haired Prince the Crown Prince?

-Then does that mean the Imperial Family committed a huge fraud against the imperial citizens?

It was natural for the Imperial Family’s authority to fall.

Even when Shablis called for Sacred Dragons to the point of collapsing, even when the Empire’s barrier crumbled, Sacred Dragons never appeared.

-See, it was a lie after all.

No one believed the fact of Shablis’s contract.

But-

“Your Highness did contract, it’s just that the Sacred Dragons aren’t showing themselves, right?”

At those words without a hint of malice, Shablis looked as if it was unexpected. His frozen golden eyes thawed a little.

“…Do you believe that I contracted?”

“…Of course?”

Shablis bit his lip.

“…If you’re talking about the contract ceremony recorded in the imperial records…”

“No. I don’t trust documents.”

“!”

You think I’d trust such things?

Documents of the Holy Empire are just recorded by dirty priests. They even exaggerated all sorts of things about the Skeleton King in their records.

“I just know when I look at Your Highness. You’re a contractor with Sacred Dragons, aren’t you?”

Everyone flinched as if surprised.

Especially Shablis looked at Isaac as if he couldn’t believe it. Not a single noble had believed him.

At that gaze, Isaac sighed softly.

‘Well, there’s no need to look at documents.’

In fact, Isaac could really see it. The contract crest engraved on Shablis’s heart, that is. Since it was engraved with magic power, others might not know, but for someone like the Skeleton King, it was naturally visible.

‘That’s proof of contracting with dragons. You think I was nice to the Crown Prince for no reason?’

However, Shablis looked at Isaac with a slightly trembling air.

“It seems you’re the only noble who believed me without ulterior motives.”

“If that’s true, the other guys are blind idiots. They’re blind fools who can’t recognize the real thing.”

“!”

Isaac chuckled.

‘It’s troublesome for me if this guy can’t control Sacred Dragons.’

“Anyway, Your Highness. It’s just that the contracted dragon isn’t appearing, right? Do you know the reason?”

The first Emperor’s companion was a Sacred Dragon. In other words, the Imperial Family are descendants of Sacred Dragons, meaning Shablis is also of that bloodline.

If the contract is properly done, there should be no reason not to appear before a descendant.

However, Shablis smiled self-deprecatingly for some reason.

“Who knows. I guess even they think I’m cursed. Enough not to show their face even once to their contractor.”

“!”

It was an extremely hurt expression.

And seeing that expression, it seemed understandable. What kind of humiliation, contempt, and disdain he must have lived through all this time.

“Thank you for helping the Imperial Princess.”

As Shablis left with a bitter smile, the Imperial Princess grabbed Isaac’s hand.

“I wanted to ask you something about that matter anyway.”

“!”

“I hope you could help my brother a little.”

Imperial Princess Charlotte made a sad expression.

“Actually, it’s the same with the black hair. My brother practically gave up his blonde hair for me.”

“What do you mean?”

“I searched the entire continent and got a magic potion from a great magician. It was a potion to dye black hair blonde, but because the ingredients were unique in the world, it could only be used on one person.”

Isaac nodded his head as if he immediately understood, saying ‘Ah’.

‘Right. So they used that potion. I understand if it’s that. It’s difficult to obtain.’

It was an ingredient with only one drop in the world.

“Considering the throne, of course it would be right for my brother to use it, but thinking of my treatment, he used it on me without hesitation.”

He gave up the opportunity to erase his own weakness to his younger sister.

And Shablis still doesn’t regret giving it up to his sister. Even though there were times when he tried to summon Sacred Dragons by sacrificing his own life.

Charlotte pleaded with Isaac.

“I heard that Sacred Dragons cannot attack Melissa and the Sainesst’s bloodline.”

“!”

“Secondly, the Imperial Family is in danger because there are no Sacred Dragons, and even the barrier is in danger, causing innocent imperial citizens to die. We can’t postpone it any longer. If Young Master Isaac could just locate them, we plan to fight with our lives on the line to ask them to fulfill the contract.”

At those words, Isaac chuckled.

“No, Your Highness. You don’t need to do that.”

“Pardon?”

Even without saying it, I was planning to drag the Sacred Dragons back by their heads anyway.

‘It’s not a difficult task. I just need to use the captured Sacred Dragon to drag the leader back.’

At Isaac’s smile, Charlotte’s face brightened.

“If you resolve this matter, I’ll give you something very important and necessary for Young Master Isaac. To be precise, I’ll be able to give it to you.”

“What? To me?”

Is it money?

“It’s more important than money. I’m sure Young Master Isaac will like it very much?”

…What is it??