Translator: Yang_Wenli
Riding on Sir Weissenasche’s arcanotech vehicle, the missionaries from the Demon Realm finally arrived before the Farucci’s Mansion.
“Teacher... is this the place we’ll be staying at?”
After Prophet closed the vehicle door, her apprentices that got out ahead of her were once again exclaiming in admiration.
Prophet did not immediately answer to her apprentice. She examined the building before her. The building was constructed in a clearly Farucci-style. Even the window sill were meticulously sculpted.
Guards bearing swords were standing before the mansion with stern expressions. From their expressions, one cannot imagine that they were here to receive guests. Instead, it seemed like they were guarding against potential enemy attacks.
“This is the building for Farucci’s envoys. Ciri, are you certain this is the place?”
Prophet had made ample preparations before coming to Norland. She had studied the city of Norland by reading over the few books about Norland that were present in the Demon Realm’s library. The knowledge she obtained from those books served somewhat like a ‘tour guidebook’ to her.
She learned that the central district of Norland was the place where the consulates and diplomatic missions from various countries were located. This was a place that ordinary citizens would not be allowed to rashly intrude upon.
“Don’t worry, this is most definitely the place. I wouldn’t lie to you all.”
Ciri patted her barren chest to make a guarantee. Then, she walked into the Farucci’s Mansion that was currently in a state of emergency.
Seeing the mage lady’s rash behavior, Prophet hesitated for a brief moment. But, in the end, she chose to follow her ‘tour guide.’
Sir Weissenasche finished parking his car on the street and came over to follow the missionaries from the Demon Realm into the Farucci’s Mansion.
It was as Ciri said, they were able to move through the Farucci’s Mansion completely unhindered. It was as if this place was this mage lady’s home. All the attendants and maids would show great respect toward Ciri whenever they saw her.
Instead, it was Sir Weissenasche that caused some maids to immediately move aside in fear the moment they saw him. Then, they would point at him and start whispering among themselves.
“It must be because Sir Weissenasche has played the character Stainsfield,” whispered a quick-witted apprentice.
Prophet did not bother to concern herself with the comments of her apprentice. Her focus was fixed on examining the inside of the Farucci’s Mansion.
In terms of being artistic, this build constructed by the people from the Nation of Farucci was especially exquisite. Prophet was not very familiar with human art. Nevertheless, she noticed that the majority of the oil paintings on the walls of the hallway were scenes people performing on stage. She remembered that humans called them ‘stage plays.’
“Ciri, could you tell me how His Highness Joshua managed to reach an agreement with this Grand Duchess? Through what means did he use and what sort of bargaining chip does he have?”
Prophet walked over to the mage lady and patiently asked her about the details about Joshua and Madam Schroder’s alliance.
After coming to this human city, Joshua not only managed to completely destroy the ‘supreme’ image of the Nation of the Holy Church in the hearts of the citizens here, he even managed to enter an alliance with a major noble lady from Farucci.
Prophet felt like either one of those accomplishments could be said to be a ‘magnificent feat’ enough to put one’s name into the demon realm’s annals.
In fact, when she writes the history of the Demon Realm in the future, she could very well write ‘Prince Joshua Annerlaude founded the first demon-human alliance in the history of the Demon Realm.’
“The bargaining chip is naturally movies. Not long after the movie ‘Beauty and the Demon’ started screening, the number of audiences coming to the Weissenasche Theater to watch it surpassed the audience watching the performance of the Black Swan Theatrical Troupe. Oh... that Black Swan Theatrical Troupe seemed to be one of the most outstanding theatrical troupes in Farucci. It is also owned by this Grand Duchess.”
As Ciri continued walking, she arrived at the only ‘picture’ that was not an oil painting. Embedded inside an enormous picture frame was an enormous ‘Léon: The Demon’ poster.
Madam Schroder believed that poser was comparable in value to the countless art pieces in the Farucci’s Mansion.
“That Grand Duchess soon found your prince. After that, the members of the Black Swan Theatrical Troupe ended up filming ‘Léon: The Demon.’ The actress who played Mathilda in the movie is the daughter of that Grand Duchess, Gallolie.”
“So it’s because of mutual benefits?” Prophet raised her head to look at the enormous poster. She pondered about what the Grand Duchess was thinking, “The appearance of movies will definitely bring about an enormous impact to the stage play industry. One could either attempt to extinguish this newly emerged industry or... to accept it... and...”
Prophet turned to look at her apprentices behind her. They were still discussing the plot of the movie ‘Léon: The Demon.’ After letting out a sigh, she was once again made known of the frightening propagation ability and interesting nature of movies.
“If I’m not mistaken, when that ‘Beauty and the Demon’ started screening, it was no longer an infant in early stages of development. Instead, it is a fully armed army enough to cause a revolution.”
“Eh... I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. But, personally, I think movies are more interesting than stage plays.”
Prophet wanted to learn more about the details between the alliance. But, before she could say anything, her heartbeat suddenly started accelerating.
It was not only her, practically everyone in Farucci’s Mansion felt that indescribable sensation.
Something... terrifying had appeared in the mansion.
“It’s in the center of the mansion!” Prophet immediately determined the location of that ‘terrifying existence.’
In an instant, her heart grew completely tensed. It was very possible that an accident occurred to their prince.
But, before she could even take small steps to rush toward the central region, Ciri shot forth from beside her like a white wolf. In a blink of an eye, Ciri had disappeared from her line of sight.
Runes had shot forth from Ciri’s hand. Her magic runes instantly destroyed the entrance to the indoor garden.
“Joshua!”
She shouted out the name of the demon prince the instant she destroyed the entrance. Tightly holding her staff, she looked all around searching for Joshua.
But, there was a green magic formation sealing off the garden. Ciri was unable to see through it, unable to determine what was happening inside.
“Exactly... what happened here?”
Prophet arrived at the indoor garden. Ciri did not answer her. She was focused on constructing a seemingly enormously destructive magic.
“A barrier that seals magic and rune inscriptions that I’ve never seen before,” Prophet looked at the magic formation worriedly.
Could it be that a Sage in Norland finally realized that it was wrong for demons to stay in a human city and decided to personally come to eliminate them?
“Step back.”
Prophet’s worries did not last for long before a large amount of light white magic power gathered at the tip of Ciri’s staff.
While preparing her destructive magic, Ciri was also typing on the forum asking Joshua what his situation is.
‘I’m fine. Ciri, don’t act recklessly.’
‘Really?! Are you sure you’re not tied up and being offered as a sacrifice by those Blackwood Elves?’
‘The Blackwood Elves do not possess a tradition of sacrificing living people or demons... it’s the ogres or some pirates that do that.’
After being dissuaded by Joshua, Ciri finally calmed down. The magic power gathered on her staff also started to gradually dissipate.
“What happened...? Why would there be such a high level magic barrier here?”
Prophet was still panting. After seeing the barrier that enveloped the entire garden, she felt that her premonition was actually happening.
“It’s fine,” Ciri chose to believe in Joshua’s words.
At this moment, a large amount of cracks started appearing on the green magic formation barrier. After a couple seconds, the entire magic formation barrier shattered and dissipated into thin air.
Inside the shattered magic formation, Prophet saw an existence far more terrifying than the Sages of Norland...
The Duke of Bones who should be in the Demon Realm’s Forest of Twilight’s Shadow!
What was this again? One of the most dangerous existence in the Demon Realm might’ve descended upon the human world!
If Prophet didn’t come to Norland for an exchange out of goodwill, she might think that the Demon Realm was planning to officially invade the human world and this Duke of Bones and her endless army of undeads shall be the vanguard in the invasion!
This was no joke. The Prophet was certain that the Duke of Bones would be able to match the Sages of Norland. As long as her undead army was powerful enough, she would be able to stop the Sages and spread the undead plague to destroy the city.
This time around, Joshua had truly brought a nuclear warhead to Norland!