I Didn’t Tame The Beastly Duke!

Even though there was carpet on the floor, it hurt when she fell on it. Because she fell right from the height of the ceiling.

“Agh!”

As soon as she fell, the man bent over her and stared in fear at Celia, who was in pain.

“What?”

Celia raised her head, startled, and looked at her opponent.

Perhaps it is an empty mansion. There is an owner, but all the furniture is covered with white cloth, probably because it is not currently in use.

The man dressed in the grey robe quavered and took a few steps backward. With the hood down, the man’s face could not be seen because the whole part of his face was in darkness.

She was only judged by his voice.

But Celia knew as soon as she landed in this space. It would have been correct to say that she could feel it.

The one who did it was a member of destruction.

‘Why would someone like that……’

It had this peculiar aura that she could sense even from a distance. Celia had never encountered anyone else who possessed an aura that was comparable to hers but distinct from her own.

Even the person seemed to be very afraid of Celia.

‘Why-Why is his power….’

Celia’s butt hurt a lot, but she was able to regain her composure. He was surprised when she fell, but as long as he was a member of the Goddess of Destruction, he could have Celia do as he pleased.

In these modern times, it was as if a director working directly under the chairman of the company met a section manager working in a department far below him. Even the daughter of the director is the granddaughter of the chairman.

Celia got up, looking at the face in the hood, which apparently was causing a pupil tremor.

But before she could do anything, she screamed at him and tried to strike first at him.

“I, I signed a contract… Aww! Please forgive me!”

“What? Kyaaak!”

Another magic circle was engraved on the floor of the carpet where Celia fell. Unlike moving lightly to one side of the city within a city, it was a magic circle that opened a gate that connected the city and far away to the capital.

It was magic that was only possible because the followers of destruction intervened.

Celia fell back into another room with the entire carpet on the floor.  This time, it wasn’t the white-draped furniture-lined interior of the first floor; rather, it was somewhere in the basement of the building.

As she lay down, she stared at the ceiling. Even though the gate was still wide open, the wizard who had been there earlier was nowhere to be seen. It was clear that he had run away in surprise when he saw Celia.

‘He was a member of Destruction!’

She thought that if they met again, she wouldn’t let him go, but judging from the reaction just a moment ago, she also thought that they would never see each other again. Maybe he left the empire and fled outside the continent?

“……Long time no see. Celia.”

Roar! A black flame burned in the darkness. It was obviously a black flame, but it seemed strange to scatter blue light around it.

Celia turned her head, and her face turned pale.

“Michael, Prince.”

A sneer appeared on Michael’s face as he walked away. He was one of the most handsome men in the capital city, but every expression on his face was distorted and ugly due to his frustrated desire.

“Are you still calling me prince? That’s a very noble mindset.”

Celia swallowed her dry saliva at the blue eyes and the young maniac gaze. There was madness inside him, and she had the power to manipulate it in any way she wanted…

‘What should I do? I can do it if it’s just driving him crazy, but….. .’

If he goes crazy here, isn’t he attacking me randomly?

Her legitimate anxiety terrified Celia. Michael bent his head and looked at Celia’s face.

“Huh? Why? Aren’t you glad you met me?”

Celia’s gaze glanced at the ceiling. An ominous-looking gate with its doors wide open continued to glow in the ceiling nearly five metres above.

It would be nice if the divine beast noticed her and came here, but it was the divine beast that was later than the magician teleporting Celia.

I don’t know if he’ll find out in time.

Celia closed her eyes tight and let out her screams. She hopes it reaches someone.

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“The-The monster……”

This was not what he said to the overflowing monsters. That monster said to Leonis and the knights who were slaughtering without blinking an eye.

The dragon made of monsters moved even with its head cut off, but Leonis wasn’t surprised. He cut off the limbs with an expression of annoyance and made them unable to move, then found the monster’s core and blew it up.

And he cut down one after another monster he had never seen before.

Watching that scene made him wonder why Prince Michael did such a stupid thing.

The strength of a trained human being is so strong.

Rather, it seemed better to use the money to train skilled swordsmen.

Even if it is difficult to create a monster like the Duke of Cardian, he has high expectations that he will be able to create at least knights in blue armour who stand by him.

While Leonis and his knights slaughtered the monsters, the few remaining high-ranking nobles and the escort knights that were protecting them before were only defending themselves.

The Duke of Carta survived, but most of the great nobles of the south were dead. They showed up wearing armour that only looked good on the outside, saying they were marching on victory, and their masters were showing up not with talented knights but with children of nobles who were good at flattery or entrusted with outside requests.

The situation outside was the same; only the ground did not collapse. So it was judged that many of the high-ranking nobles involved in this victory procession must have died.

‘Even if they die, the signed contract doesn’t disappear.’

If something like that had happened, the family would have been completely responsible for it. Their families may be grieving, but as an empire, the biggest rotten root has been completely removed.

“Hey, can’t you say it right!”

Because he was beaten with a fist while wearing a gauntlet, the wizard’s teeth were hanging out of his mouth in a dangling position. He could say that it was a lot of watching at the point where his jawbone wasn’t broken.

He was the magician who was relaying the sight of Leonis fighting to Michael.

His telecommunications crystal ball had already been taken, and while the others fought, he was beating him to ask for Michael’s location.

The wizard let out a stream of tears and saliva, and he claimed that he had no idea, but he didn’t believe it. He would have run away if things went wrong, so he had to know where to gather.

The existence of a wizard who controls the monster is bound to be valuable if it is consumable to the monster. Before, he would have gotten away by lightly hitting and falling, but not anymore.

He had never thought he would lose because he had been fighting a fair fight up until now and had put all of his strength into it.

But Leonis was no longer under a curse, so he was more free than ever before to judge and fight.

No one expected that the difference would be this big. In the meantime, he was busy dismissing Leonis as a monster or a murderer.

“Cough, cough……”

A man wearing a robe embroidered with the Duke of Cardian’s coat of arms approached the wizard, who was swaying with his collar caught in the knight’s hand.

He was a wizard who was waiting outside the palace with the knights of Cardian. He was a bit late to come here because he had to deal with the monsters blocking his way. Zeppel greeted him with a smile.

“Welcome.”

“You’re referring to this situation, right? I’ll get started on it right away!

In the meantime, Michael would have run away.  When he lost contact with the communication crystal ball, he started to feel impatient because he thought Michael might have gotten away by that point.

When the knight lowered his hand slightly, the Cardian family wizard was able to easily grab the wizard’s head with his hand.

The enemy wizard seemed to realise what he was doing and struggled to get away from his hand. White light poured from his palm, and the other wizard’s eyes turned upside down.

“Keugh, Keu……”

The one casting the spell was searching his memory with his eyes closed. Seeing him sweat so profusely was a very trying experience for me.

“Heok!”

When he reaped his magic, the man caught had passed out. The area was also mostly cleaned up, and there was much less shouting.

“There is something in this guy’s arms that can track the owner. He was worried about being abandoned on his own. It is a necklace with hair in it.”

Saying that the eyes that looked at the person who fainted were black look. He seemed to have realised that he wasn’t a good person just by flashing his memory.

The knight skillfully searched the wizard’s arms and pulled out a pendant. He handed it to the wizard and he cast a spell on the pendant.

The pendant floated into the air and a transparent blue bird appeared. The bird nodded at the wizard, turned its back, and began to fly away.

Leonis and Zeppel were the first to follow, and the other knights also followed them.

The bird was heading for a secret passage underground.

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“His Majesty always said that until the Duke of Cardian asked to have you. If I become the emperor, I will have to take a girl from the Montague family as the empress or concubine… ”

Celia slowly backed away from Michael as he got close.

“At that time, I did not fully understand the Emperor’s words. Even though the Montague Marquis family has been around for a while, they don’t have much power, do they?”

Seeing Michael approaching quickly, Celia looked around as if looking for a place to escape. The surrounding area seemed to be a limestone cave with a high ceiling, but of course, she was not alone.

There are twelve regular knights, two monster knights, and three wizards. She could also see that a monster with a huge shape was breathing in a place shrouded in darkness.

‘Should I say that it’s better than waiting for Michael alone?’

Behind the knights, a group of wizards were chanting something. They weren’t the same as the wizards seen in other places. They were not a member of the Destruction.

So she thought she couldn’t manipulate or dominate them.

Celia still stepped back a little and looked at Michael.

“I have no idea why I’m here.”

“You really don’t know?”

Michael’s voice rose in an instant. Black energy shot up from his entire face, and black flames soared as if his body was on fire.