episode_0227

“Haa… To have to be separated from Priscilla… This is so unfamiliar!”

A few days later, Eugene Schneider was on his way back to Helios, the capital of the Empire.

This was to respond to a formal investigation into the Drake subjugation.

Following him was the elf Priscilla,

The reason being that, as an Archer Seeker, she could sufficiently demonstrate strong power in unforeseen circumstances alongside Eugene, the Sword Seeker.

As Priscilla finished her preparations to leave, Marie almost burst into tears.

Since Priscilla joined the mercenary group, Marie had hardly ever been apart from Priscilla.

Didn’t they go together on the first business trip to Helios?

“Anyone would think I’m going away for months. It’s only a week at most, what’s with all this fuss?”

Pat! Pat! Pat!

The elf Priscilla rebuked Marie, who had tears welling up in her eyes, with a nonchalant expression.

However, Priscilla was definitely different from before,

Her hand was already on Marie’s shoulder, patting her.

Perhaps the young Priscilla of the past had considerable sexual frustration-induced hysteria from not having a partner for a long time.

“Well, honestly, I trust Servant Victoria, but Victoria can’t handle the entire Imperial Knights, so be especially careful. If you sense something is wrong, run away immediately.”

Jeanne watched Eugene and Priscilla standing together with her arms crossed and said quietly.

It was partly to show a dignified appearance to her departing comrades as a leader, but she was also speaking sincerely.

The Imperial Knights had such absolute power that it was impossible to guarantee how the inside would change.

“Haha! There’s an Expert here, so don’t worry, Captain!”

Eugene joked.

As he said this, Eugene Schneider glanced slightly at Priscilla,

Meaning that he was relieved because Archer Seeker Priscilla was with him.

However, it could be said that this confidence included himself as well.

“My partner is a very unique person.”

Soon, Priscilla and Eugene began heading to Helios.

They had left Pangea Castle,

When people were no longer visible around them, Priscilla opened her mouth with a subtle expression.

“What do you mean by that, Priscilla?”

Eugene asked with a puzzled expression.

He calls Priscilla by her name when they have sex, but Priscilla is clearly an elven princess and a woman around 200 years old.

Therefore, Eugene naturally uses honorifics like this in normal situations.

“I heard it. After the conversation with Vivian, you only talked to Jeanne separately. I heard your real name is Eugene Schneider and your father is Ulysses Schneider?”

The sharp-eared elf Priscilla had grasped Eugene’s most secret story.

“Ah, you heard that, Priscilla. Hmm… Honestly, I thought I would have to tell Priscilla someday.”

Eugene sighed slightly and nodded slowly, feeling that it was rather fortunate.

“It was too amazing. Even though my stats increased due to a strange synergy with you, a Sword Seeker at 21? Even among elves, that level would be called a genius. Just like me.”

Priscilla was amazed by Eugene’s rapid level increase and subtly praised herself.

“But to think it was because of the genes of the continent’s best Sword Master, then it makes sense.”

And Priscilla brought up the Ulysses keyword again.

The elf Priscilla, who wasn’t very interested in continental affairs,

But Ulysses was so great that even Priscilla knew his name.

How else would he have been given the title of Sword Saint?

“Did I make a mistake? Ulysses is a disgraceful figure according to the standards of these people.”

At that moment, Priscilla said as if probing Eugene slightly.

The noble and arrogant elf doesn’t care much about the trends of the continent.

So, the taboo nature of Ulysses Schneider is none of her business.

She brought it up very naturally because she had that kind of mindset, but she was entering a confirmation process because the conversation partner was Eugene.

“What mistake? I got over that a long time ago. That’s why I talked to Commander Jeanne like that. So, there’s no reason for me to think differently just because Priscilla said it.”

Eugene shrugged and replied.

As he said, he had largely overcome the trauma of the Sword Saint who walked the path of a heretic, Ulysses, the person erased from history.

He himself had become a very corrupt person, so who could he blame?

However,

‘Now it’s just a question. Besides my father, what kind of person was the human Ulysses Schneider?’

His curiosity grew even more.

‘I feel like I, his son, know my father the least.’

He felt that his father was still in the world in various ways. Through the Sophist, through Trake, and now through Victoria.

That’s why he felt frustrated and had the stubbornness to find out what he didn’t know.

“As expected, my partner has guts. Of course, he should, he’s the partner of an elf princess.”

Priscilla looked at Eugene, who was slightly lost in thought, and smiled subtly.

“Anyway, after learning that fact, I understood the actions of the magician Elizabeth last time.”

Then, she mentioned Eugene Schneider’s impudent younger sister, Elizabeth.

“What kind of actions??”

Eugene Schneider, who had many guilty feelings because she was a crazy sister, reacted with a feeling of being quite pricked.

“When I tried to talk about the sun god Avinus, she stopped me. When the three of us were together, I was going to talk about Avinus among the things Drake said.”

However, what Priscilla mentioned was not crazy at all, but very profound and weighty.

“Priscilla was going to mention Avinus?”

“Yes. I know about Avinus.”

It was a keyword that Eugene had not expected at all.

“Avinus is the god worshiped in Atlantis, which was called the Divine Kingdom. The sun god Avinus. I am an elf who has a longer history than those guys, so I can’t not know about it.”

The elf Priscilla knew the origin of the sun god Avinus.

‘Ah, so that’s why Elizabeth stopped me.’

Elizabeth also vaguely knew about it, and she blocked it in advance because it could be transferred to Ulysses’ keyword.

“Does my partner also know that there was a rumor that his father was from the Divine Kingdom?”

And as expected, Priscilla had even mastered the rumor that Ulysses Schneider was a descendant of the Divine Kingdom Atlantis in his lifetime.

“Well, I’ve heard it. But I think it’s a absurd. Atlantis disappeared 200 years ago, so it doesn’t make sense.”

For Eugene, it was a story that he had already judged with Jeanne,

Therefore, he answered in a tone that he didn’t give it much meaning.

“Well? As someone who knows the world of Atlantis best, I have a slightly different thought? Of course, I’m not trying to say that your father is an Atlantean, but Atlantis’s technology can never be measured by the standards of this continent. Do you know why there is a saying that God was angry and punished them?”

However, Priscilla shook her head.

The mysterious continent of Atlantis, it’s not just because it dramatically disappeared.

It’s because it had something overwhelming enough to be called the Divine Kingdom,

That’s why Priscilla said that you should never make a definitive statement.

“Do you have any specific technology that Priscilla knows?”

“No.”

“….”

She created a very serious atmosphere, so I thought there would be information that corresponded to it, but what came back was Priscilla’s blatant and curt answer.

“It’s nice to see you again, Captain Eugene, and Elf Priscilla.”

Since only Eugene and Priscilla rode horses and moved, rather than a large-scale movement, it took less time than the first business trip to Helios. They arrived in a day and a half.

Parnese had come out to meet the two of them in advance on the way into Helios,

As a result, an easier free pass was achieved than during the first visit to the Imperial Knights Arena.

That’s how Victoria and Eugene Schneider met again,

“Yes, it’s nice to see you in many ways, Victoria.”

There was a very meaningful exchange of glances between the two.

ㅡKuaaaaaaang!!!!

However, the first step for the two was to work together.

The public demonstration room inside the Imperial Knights Atelier,

There, Eugene wielded his greatsword and struck an enormous rock.

ㅡCrack crack crack crack crack!!

Eugene’s greatsword was full of sword energy.

The rock, half the height of Eugene, was split in two by the impact of the greatsword.

“Hoo… As I heard, the strike of a Sword Expert Greatsword Master is heavy and has great destructive power.”

Those wearing unique Imperial Knights uniforms watched the scene with undisguised admiration.

Their identity was the Imperial Knights Inspection Unit,

They were doing a detailed fact-checking regarding the Drake subjugation.

“As you can see. My other colleagues took away a lot of Drake’s mana, so I was able to put in this strike and finish it. There is nothing strange about the situation at all.”

Clack!

Eugene, who had split the rock in two, casually said as he rested his greatsword on his shoulder.

Looking only at the corpse, Drake was finished in one blow.

And the cut surface of the corpse was a greatsword, not a normal sword,

The Imperial Knights Inspection Unit had initially concluded that it was something a Sword Expert could not do.

Then Victoria refuted that opinion,

The basis for that was the defense mechanism of Drake.

A two-track system of a mana barrier and a hard shell,

In other words, ordinary sword Sword Experts with good mana utilization abilities broke the mana barrier, and Eugene, a greatsword master with excellent one-hit ability, finished off the hard shell in one blow.

Eugene had proven that.

“For 10 years! As expected, if you are proficient in one skill, it was a fact that its combat power cannot be easily estimated! To have devoted himself to the greatsword for so long, who would see him as being in his mid-thirties when he looks so young! Haha!”

“It’s a family trait. Not aging well is a family trait. Hehe…”

The reason why this logic worked was that Greatsword Master Sword Experts were a rare class.

Victoria testified that Eugene had hidden his age and obtained the ultimate one-hit kill Sword Expert,

The Imperial Knights Inspection Unit was completely fooled.

“Thank you, Victoria. Thanks to you, I was able to perfectly overcome this burdensome situation.”

Afterwards, Eugene thanked Victoria in a separate meeting.

“So, I’m thinking of accepting Victoria’s request as promised.”

Then, he tried to quickly settle the score between the two.

“Thinking?”

Victoria reacted, recognizing Eugene’s unusual nuance.

“I have to add an option. There’s something I’m curious about and I want you to answer it.”

In front of that reaction, Eugene Schneider was starting to take out his card,

“When you caught Drake, the sword you summoned from the weapon inventory, I’m curious about the identity of that sword.”

He directly brought up the mention of Victoria’s other sword, which was very familiar to him.