Chapter 287 The Foreigners. 2

"Calm down, Lady Sylvia; This is the last delivery for this month. We have no choice but to do this as the planet welcomes newcomers." Rude, who remained silent from the beginning, could not keep his calm mood after seeing Sylvia lose her mind.

'When I came here, I found Lucie nervous in front of the door, but I didn't expect her to be in this state because of Lady Sylvia. Even if no one knows about her relationship with the king, there are too many rumors about her. Some even say that she is the concubine of our king and that she also has incredible power! Offending her could end badly for us, even if we are only ordinary employees who carry out a mission given by superiors.' Rude, still stagnant in front of the door like lake water, whispered these words with a frown.

As one of the employees who worked in the palace, their statutes were naturally at the same level as the nobles. But despite everything, they were far inferior to those who lived in the palace. Currently, apart from the councilors, Sylvia, Ashia, Sabrina, Alvine's generals, and his personal maids, there were no other palace residents.

Naturally, Lilliana, Alvine's queen, was one of those people.

"To calm me?! Do you think I'm upset now?! You would already be dead if that were the case!" Sylvia's angry tone resonated once again, making both of them speechless.

"..."

"Sigh, I should never have returned to this planet in the first place. It's all my fault. But I swear to make this bastard pay for his insolence towards me." She whispered once again, continuing her work as if nothing had happened.

'... Who is she exactly talking about?' That was the only question the two asked themselves when they heard her insults against Alvine.

But as Sylvia was a complete mystery to the residents of the palace, only a few privileged people knew the relationship she had with Alvine, Which is also not true since she is not Alvine's wife like Lilliana and the aristocracy in question imagine themselves.

After seeing her ignore them, Lucie bows slightly to her and leaves the second after.

As for Rude, he stealthily picks up the piles of sparkling coins as if he were a thief who did not want to be noticed by Sylvia. He didn't even bother to categorize the parts in a specific storage ring, as he used to do.

Even if they did not know Sylvia's rank, the white aura they saw earlier was not the aura of someone they could afford to offend.

Thus, after the departure of these two employees, Sylvia let out a big distant sigh while looking at the room, which was almost full of wealth.

"And me who told me that I had almost finished this task. Tsk, Tsk, I have no choice but to send reinforcements to watch this old man's back."

While retorting these words with a bitter smile, she brought out a golden parchment in her primordial dimension to order the bodies of armies of the palace.

[Your Highness, the second royal general, waiting for your orders; what can I do for you?]

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Meanwhile, Vandel, who was already in the forest five hundred kilometers from the kingdom, stopped in his race with a dark expression.

"What are these strange creatures? Magical beasts? No, I don't feel any energy emanating from them. And according to the divine succubus's report, the creatures that killed our guards must be thousands of kilometers from the kingdom. And they are certainly not beasts." He whispers to himself by looking at thousands of strange creatures that look more like mystical beasts than he only saw in imaginary tales.

In place of ordinary beasts, these creatures had different appearances. They had different attributes not only among them but also among all the magical beasts Vandel had seen during thousands of years of existence.

At a glance, even a newbie could tell what affinity these creatures had just by seeing their appearances only.

The creatures all had, without exception, four legs and a lion's mane around their necks, but their bodies were so thin that we could see their ribs.

The reason why Vandel could guess the attributes of these strange creatures, who had wolf heads and shark teeth, was due to two factors, the color of their coats and the attributes that were constantly manifested on their mane.

Some had a flamboyant mane and scarlet red fur, snow-white fur and a mane of the same color that gave off an icy cold, and so on.

Noting this detail and guessing he would cross the path of these creatures heading towards the kingdom, he once again used his mist of blood that masked his body and presence at the same time.

He then threw an arrow of wind at one of the black creatures who seemed to be endowed with attributes of darkness.

-Awwuuu!

When Vandel's wind arrow touched the strange creature, he shredded his body without opposing any difficulty.

'Hm? Are these creatures weak in the face of magic?' He frowned while nonchalantly caressing his beard and watched the horde of beasts continue on their paths without noticing his presence.

Wanting to confirm this theory, he created three other arrows with his other affinities, including fire, water, and blood.

"Let's see if this old man was right." While calmly pronouncing these words, he shoots the three low-rank arrows at three strange creatures he had chosen randomly.

-Plouf! Plouf! Plouf!

Not surprisingly, the three creatures who received his attack died instantly.

"Well, now that I have confirmation that even the emperor mages can kill these strange creatures without too much effort, I leave them to the guards."

Following this statement, he continued his journey and no longer turned to look at the strange creatures. But he did not forget to inform Sylvia of this new encounter with creatures with a communication parchment.

...

After twenty minutes of flying at full speed to the ghost town, Vandel stopped in the air three kilometers from the location of the mysterious city with incredulous eyes.

Three kilometers from him, he could now clearly see the large strange constructions that looked, for him, like mirages.

In front of him was a city larger than theirs, as the explorer team had described. But not only enormous, but its architectural construction was also more refined and beautiful than Alvine's kingdom.

"It's probably the most beautiful city I've ever seen so far. Sigh, I would never have thought I would see a city even more beautiful than our current city." He whispers for himself in his contemplation from heaven.

But the next moment, he frowns when he notices people running around the city.

"Humans? No,...what kind of species is that? Decidedly, this old man leaves from surprise to surprise. First, creatures that look like magical beasts but are different from them, a gigantic deserted city, and now, creatures with a hole instead of their eyes?!"

"And just like the mysterious creatures I met instead, they don't also have mana in them. But I always manage to see a core of energy in them, even if I don't understand their methods and the energy they cultivate. Are they... residents of this city?" He said to himself, slowly approaching while keeping his camouflage around him.

But when he arrived a kilometer from the city, he stopped, frowning when he saw a strange phenomenon.

The creatures patrolled around the city but remained outside. Looking more closely, Vandel also noticed a translucent barrier similar to the barrier that surrounded the kingdom of Alvine.

"So they are not residents of this city, Huh? If so, where do they come from? It's--!"

Before he finished his sentence, he instantly found the answer to his question, following a bloody red light that illuminated the surroundings. The next moment, Vandel's expression darkens when he sees the number of strange creatures increase by ten, who has just appeared on a round red crystalline platform.

But among them, two creatures were different from the others, whether their bodies (210cm~) or their clothing that were clothes of the golden monks; unlike the others who had human sizes and the same clothing styles that left their torsos naked, making them look like prehistoric beings.

"So Lady Sylvia was right; these creatures do not come from the ghost town but probably on another planet." He whispered these words by taking out another golden parchment in his space bag to communicate the news he had just learned.

At that moment, one of two mysterious creatures who had just appeared on the platform looked above him, more precisely, where Vandel was, with the hole in the middle of his face that shone with a golden glow!

".......?! Y-Yes, this is the first time I have seen such a species. They don't have the same energy as us, neither--!" Vandel, who was communicating with Sylvia, stopped suddenly, noticing the creature smiling at him with his red teeth.

[Are you all right?!]

"Uh, don't worry, I thought I had been located, but it wasn't. Well, I will continue to survey their movements to guess their intentions." He whispers these words with frown eyebrows watching strangers discuss with each other as if nothing had happened.

'Is that my imagination?' He then wondered in his thoughts by watching strangers with mistrust.

[Good, but be careful. And don't forget that you are an irreplaceable pillar for the master.]

"Hohoho~, I know, I know." He then whispers by sending his last report to Sylvia.

"!" But when he looked at the foreigners again, he realized that three people were missing!