Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

Chapter 38

fast…

Hugo clenched his fists.

The duke snorted despite being stared at.

He did not know that the arena was a family business.

Also, Hugo thought that he did not know the relationship between Hugo and his blood relatives.

However, he knew for sure that the warriors in the arena had a deep relationship with Hugo, and that Agathon, who had died today, was a warrior comparable to a duke and had been called to check him.

‘Did you come to laugh at me!’

Pretending not to know the situation in the arena, pretending to be sorry for the death of the warrior, and gently scratching the humiliation, Hugo’s anger that he barely suppressed boils again.

“It must be heartbreaking, like losing an arm.”

Hugo trembled like an aspen tree.

Not because it’s scary and cold, but because it’s drenched in shame.

The duke patted Hugo’s shoulder with a laugh.

Then he took out a book from his pocket and put it in his hand.

“…?”

Hugo was about to throw away the book, but suddenly felt a sense of deja vu.

The seal stamped on the beeswax sealing the letter came into view.

I hurriedly opened the book and checked the contents.

“This···.”

“There is also this.”

The duke also handed over the blood relative’s signet ring.

Hugo realized that it was Agathon’s ring.

The imperial family’s signet ring that was removed when performing in public.

The moment I saw this, my red-sweet face turned pale.

“Uh, uh…”

His eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open.

I was so shocked that I even stopped shaking.

“How do you do this?”

Embarrassed, the words leaked out.

I had to pretend I didn’t know, but the situation was the situation.

I couldn’t keep my composure and my words came out in vain.

The Duke smiled.

‘It’s caught.’

The eye smile must have meant that.

‘Damn it…!’

Just like their opposite thoughts, their facial expressions were also opposite.

The corner of the duke’s mouth was torn, and Hugo made a tearful face.

The place where the two of them happened to be was an arena.

Among the crowd in the arena were nobles as well.

The nobles pricked their ears and looked at the two.

“Did you think I didn’t know?”

“Oh, misunderstood.”

Although he belatedly protested, the Duke’s smile did not subside.

“misunderstanding? Is it a misunderstanding that I wrote it by hand, saying that you have to kill me? The family seal is forged?”

“Of course! see, see Seals can be duplicated by anyone, and sometimes lost. How many seals do you have?”

“Even if it’s made of orichalcum?”

“Yes, yes!”

The Duke nodded his head broadly.

Hugo tried to be relieved by the positive expression…

“Do you see me as a hogu?”

I flinched when I saw the duke hardening his expression.

‘Damn stubborn old man!’

Once stubborn, he never backs down.

I knew it well because I had been in a relationship with the duke for a long time.

As long as you believe the letter is the truth, you will not back down.

‘All of a sudden, all of a sudden, you’re pretending to be with me right now?’

If it had been just a day ago, I would have just clicked my tongue.

He would have fought a battle while grumbling that the damage would be severe.

Hugo’s wings were now broken.

‘Agathon is dead. It’s too dangerous to hang out with an old man.’

In addition, the situation where Edar appeared as a variable.

Even one is daunting, but dealing with both at the same time was suicide.

‘You have to bend over. For now… I have to bow down to the old man and buy some time.’

His pride was cracked, but there was no choice.

Anyway, Edar will resign after attending the noble council.

It’s not too late to deal with Duke Mazenkin after that.

I thought so and opened my mouth.

– Hugo, step back.

Hugo was stunned and looked behind the duke.

He faced the audience who had been watching Hugo for a long time.

He was the servant who was aiming for Edar in the crowd.

‘what are you talking about?’

– The base is under simultaneous attack. It’s dangerous here too.

A servant who moves his mouth without speaking.

After reading the meaning with poisoning, Hugo widened his eyes.

If it was a base, surely it would be a safe zone for blood relatives to stay.

Not just one, but many? at the same time?

You dare attack a blood relative?

‘who? how?’

I looked at Edar and Mazenkin alternately.

Edar, who looked at him calmly,

Mazenkin smiles with anger in his eyes.

Lightning struck in my brain.

‘These guys…!’

At that moment, Hugo felt his throat tighten.

The arena, which was like my own home, felt like an execution stand.

He saw a servant hidden among the crowd.

I was dodging myself through a nearby doorway.

They also realized that this place is not safe.

“Keuugh….”

Grinding his teeth, Hugo ran away.

I pushed the peacock blocking my way and sprinted to the doorway.

Even though no one was chasing me, I ran as if an arrow was chasing me.

###

‘There is no gaze that can be felt inside the arena.’

Calliope reported to me with thoughts.

Gaze refers to the surveillance of a servant.

It seems that the servants left the arena with Hugo.

Scanning the crowd, she lowered her hand on her waist.

It was judged that there was no longer a threat in the vicinity.

right—-!

Hugo’s escape led to a long booing.

The duke smiled pleasantly as he listened to the boos.

“The kid has run away.”

I knew how to fight like this, I said.

“well? I thought so too, but he ran away.”

Why? Duke Mazenkin tilted his head.

Even so, Hugo’s attitude just now was strange.

To run away without protesting in a place where there are so many eyes?

If this happens, rumors will become true even if they are not true.

He laughed and clicked his tongue, saying that he did not look like a great nobleman.

‘reason? Of course, I was afraid that my life would be lost.’

I saw a kite perched on the railing.

The kite connected to Grif communicated to me through thought.

‘As instructed, we finished the retreat after setting fire to the base.’

‘What about the damage?’

‘The fight was a bit intense, so there are some minor injuries. Well, you’ll get well soon. I didn’t have blood relatives, so I only dealt with servants.’

There were only servants at the base.

After thinking for a moment, he nodded.

‘Shall we go back? Or should I wait?’

‘wait. Still, we don’t know who took the bait.’

‘All right.’

The kite raised its head and flew up.

‘This will intensify the fight between the duke and the count.’

The duke was sure that Hugo was trying to kill him.

Hugo lost his kinsman Agathon and several strongholds were burned.

Can we keep the same confrontation as before?

‘But fighting alone is second to none.’

He took out the tobacco pack from his pocket and opened it.

‘It’s best if all blood relatives and servants here in Sodomora die.’

The purpose of my visit to Sodomora was several.

One is to catch a blood relative rooted in Sodomora,

The two killed Duke Mazenkin to disturb the noble council,

The third is to induce a civil war by destroying the council of nobles.

The order to attend the Noble Council is just an apparent justification.

‘And hopefully…’

Thinking of another purpose, he smiled and shook his head.

‘No, that’s unlikely to be expected. I’ve prepared it.’

I sucked in the tobacco deeply.

The smoke entered his lungs and filled him.

Feeling a little forgotten, Nogon exhaled a long breath.

‘I will conquer Wallochia.’

Not only Wallochia, but all human nations will be conquered.

‘In this world, none of the human nations are normal.’

Look at the attitude of the people here.

Although it is exceptionally corrupted due to the involvement of blood relatives,

It wasn’t that different from here in any other city.

‘City of sin, country of sin.’

I saw a crowd booing and shouting.

‘I am a punishment. To you corrupt race, for your sins I have come here to punish you.’

The duke stepped onto the podium and raised his hands to the cheers of the crowd.

‘Let’s kill each other from now on.’

bite

###

“You kept a scary person by your side.”

The Duke muttered as he watched Pasimea return to my side.

I smiled.

Because Agathon was equal to him.

You’d be surprised that she killed such an opponent in one blow.

Even more so, isn’t the peacock one of the strongest among humans?

“What is the relationship? Are you really your vassal?”

The corner of her eyes was filled with the light of the boundary.

“You are my master.”

“teacher?”

The duke blinked and looked back and forth between Pasimea and me.

“I look younger than you.”

The duke stroked his beard with a muffled sound.

At the age of twenty or so, you beat a strong man equal to you?

Does anyone have such a talent?

Trouble was evident.

“Uh, uhm…”

He is a duke who has been called a genius since he was a toddler.

Even he has been training all his life to come this far.

An existence that overwhelms such effort and talent?

The gray-haired years will not admit it.

“Right. Forgive me for my rudeness.”

The duke lightly bowed to Pasimea.

He guessed that he was stronger than himself and older than himself.

In an instant, Pasimea’s face was grotesquely distorted, and thoughts vomited all kinds of emotions.

‘sorry.’

That was all I could say.

Calliope slightly raised the corner of her mouth with the index finger of her right hand.

Pasimea’s thoughts were so violently intertwined that it was hard to read.

“Duke, what are you going to do now?”

“Baby, no Hugo?”

I nodded.

“I don’t think the Count will step down like this.”

“hmm.”

The duke glared at the doorway from which Hugo had exited.

Had he bowed his pride and surrendered, the duke would have accepted.

It’s not that he’s stubborn, but he doesn’t have a strong personality, and he doesn’t even know how involved his blood relatives are in Wallochia.

He would have been satisfied with the fact that he had punished the rebellious young man.

But Hugo fled, unsubdued.

‘I thought that either I or the duke started an offensive, so I chose to run away, but the duke doesn’t know that.’

Hugo’s most powerful hand, the death of Agathon,

Duke Mazenkin showed a letter with Hugo’s assassination order written on it,

Even the clans’ hidden stronghold was attacked at the same time.

Would it be easy for Hugo to make a sober judgment?

‘It didn’t matter if I made a cool decision and surrendered. There are many alternatives.’

Clever rabbits dig multiple burrows, don’t they?

I patted the back of my hand with the tobacco and put it in my pocket.

‘Even if I swallowed the whole northern part and the number of my followers reached several hundred, I feel that it is not enough to conquer and maintain all of Wallochia.’

Most Wallochian nobles will survive, unless we use the Ironmist tribe to trigger an event on par with the literal annihilation of the northern Wallochian nobles.

Will the surviving nobles surrender meekly?

‘If I maintain the existing system and keep the lords as vassals, they will obey. However, I said I will dismantle the feudal system.’

My country doesn’t need nobility.

I will not put man above man.

For now, I am the lord, even if I reign as the king.

After all my achievements are over, I will come down from my throne.

‘In order to protect what they have, nobles have no choice but to resist desperately. Then, how is it different from the rebellion covering all of Wallochia?’

Pasimea sighed.

He seemed to have softened his anger a little.

‘Well, then we’ll have to hunt moles all day.’

Only a few hundred people must catch the nobles who are resisting from all sides.

The resistance is not normal, it will receive support from human countries including Germania, and it is clear that the representative system will also work behind the scenes.

Yellow egg status, the danger of layered eggs.

It is a situation where the weight has increased and reached the limit.

‘It would be foolish to hope for a fluke like Ugdash.’

Therefore, it is necessary to gnaw the power little by little or in a big way.

The confrontation between the duke and the count was a very good means.

‘Originally, a fight that Hugo should win. I overturned the fight in which Hugo, supported by the mosquitoes, had to defeat the duke, supported by the dwarves.’

To this end, they attacked and burned the stronghold of their clan.

Killing only Agathon is out of balance.

He tried to balance it by dealing with blood relatives and servants at the base.

‘How many people did you bring? How is Youngji doing? It’s enough to leave it to me or Carly.’

‘I said Agathon is the mosquito’s most prized offspring.’

Pasimea opened her mouth slightly.

‘Are you saying mosquitoes are coming?’

‘well.’

‘Is there a contract for the representative?’

Are blood relatives blood relatives for nothing?

A family that Vlad cherishes so much.

There was nothing strange about it even if I was swayed by emotions.

From noble mtl dot com

And looking at this situation, isn’t the agreement already meaningless?

‘The basis of Vlad is human. Even if you say that he abandoned humans and transcended humans, his fundamentals are humans. There is an emotional difference between a dwarf or a dwarf living a thousand years and a human living a thousand years.’

Long-lived species are insensitive to the flow of time, but humans feel a deep bond after only a few years or months, and sometimes decide on a lifelong mate.

Then, what about blood relatives who have been with Vlad for hundreds or thousands of years?

‘The reason blood relatives are more deeply rooted in the human world than other races is because Vlad is soft on his children.’

‘The child’s farming is ruined.’

In addition, Pasimea’s level is 90, but the fact that she is not a combat-specialized member of the family was the reason I mobilized other members of the family.

Dealing with many of her relatives at the base alone was risky.

‘joy.’

Pasimea frowned.

He wasn’t saying anything wrong, he just pouted his lips.

‘Yes, so I needed Grif and Gehard to hunt blood relatives and servants who were less powerful than Agathon but stronger than humans.’

The situation took a sharp turn for the duke.

There are only a handful of cards left for Hugo.

‘Now that the situation is leaning toward the duke, the duke will not miss the opportunity.’

Even if he didn’t know that he had destroyed the stronghold of his clan.

He knew that Agathon, who was equal to him, had died.

He must have known that the most important force for Hugo had disappeared.

He wouldn’t let go of a kid who dared to set his teeth on himself.