The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 182: The Calamity In Eastaria Continent (End)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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The royal guards rushed and summon the prime minister, Allomere by the king’s command. And without wasting any time, Allomere heed the call and entered the castle’s royal dining room.

“Allomere, we need to discuss it now,” said The Galhala King.

The Galhala King stares at his wife and gives her a sign.

“Charnia, Claria, let’s leave the boys here to have some talk, shall we?” said The Galhala Queen.

“Heee~ Why, mom? I still want to talk with Ren~” said Charnia as she clings herself to Druid Oz.

“Charnia, it’s an adult’s matter. Let’s go,” said the Galhala Queen.

Tap!

“I’ll play with you later, girl. I promise, now go follow your mother’s words. Child who doesn’t listen to their parents’ words will get eaten by the spirit of darkness, you know?” (Druid Oz)

“Really!? It’s a promise, okay? If you break it, I’ll make sure my father will smack you!” Threatened Charnia.

“Yes, girl. Now go,” (Druid Oz)

“Claria,” (The Galhala Queen)

“Me too? But I’m a general-” (Claria)

“Now, just come,” (The Galhala Queen)

“Fine…” Replied Claria as she is obviously didn’t want to leave the discussion.

Looking at how close the royal family of the Galhala Kingdom towards each other made Druid Oz felt warm inside of his chest.

(So there is still some feeling remaining inside my chest, huh…? How assuring to know that…) (Druid Oz)

“So? Why did you call me here?” Asked the prime minister, Allomere as he takes a seat.

“It’s about the guardians,” (The Galhala King)

The Galhala King explained about Druid Oz’s deduction and that he has the same thought as what the prime minister had thought before. And just like how the Galhala King reacts, the prime minister, Allomere, is also surprised with how fast and accurate Druid Oz’s deduction is.

“You’re really are surprising, Lord Ren. You and I might be able to get along more than this stupid king and I,” (The Prime Minister, Allomere)

“W-What? Stop mocking me as a fool, Allomere,” (The Galhala King)

“But you are. You’re the reason why I retire and become your prime minister so that you won’t get fooled by other kingdoms, after all,” said Allomere as he crossed his arms.

“U-Ugh…” (The Galhala King)

“Well, getting back to the topic, what you just thought is true, Lord Ren. I also thought the same thing, but there is not enough evidence despite I’ve been investigating it for months,” (Allomere)

“It will be easier for me to gather evidence and complete the puzzle if I could go and search for it myself, but there is so much that I need to do as the prime minister since I can’t let depend on the king, so all I could depend is on my subordinates,” (Allomere)

“But one by one, my subordinates that had gone closer to the truth about the case disappeared as if they got swallowed by the earth. One by one, my subordinates died despite being an elite warrior, to the point that I stopped the investigation,” (Allomere)

“Indeed… It’s too risky to lose them too…” (Druid Oz)

“But because of the appearance of that demon just now, we now have a valid reason to send our warriors to seek the help of the guardians. We could also continue the investigation there, and if we use the power of that flower of yours, Lord Ren. We will be able to capture the culprit sooner. May I ask for your assistance for this?” Asked the prime minister Allomere as his manner towards Druid Oz had become to change.

(He had become more friendly to me, huh… What a good piece of news…) (Druid Oz)

“I will try my best to help. One of my reason for going to this continent is to investigate whether there is also a demon appeared on the Eastaria continent or not and to fend the demons off if I could,” said Druid Oz.

“Good! Then we’ll send our warriors tomorrow!” Stated the Galhala King.

“Now that we finished about that topic, you came from the Ablux continent, aren’t you, Lord Ren? And since you’re an emperor of the empire located in the legendary magical forest of Everdeen, it means that you’re not an Owlfolk, aren’t you?” Asked the prime minister, Allomere.

“Ah… Indeed… Actually, *Flick!*” Druid Oz flicked his hands and the owl ears above his head disappeared.

“I am not an Owlfolk, I am a druid. But this body is just a clone, my original body is a human. So you believe my story, prime minister?” (Druid Oz)

“It’s hardly believable, but you have no reason to lie so I decided to believe in your story. And besides that, your strength, charisma, and intellect had proved your ability as an emperor, so I guess that is enough. But you’re a human? Did you make a human kingdom inside the magical forest?” Asked the prime minister Allomere.

“No, it’s an empire filled with demihuman and beastmen race. I believe that it won’t be a good idea to have a human kingdom inside the magical forest considering how greedy humans are despite being a human myself. Does Owlfolks have a bad history with humans?” Asked Druid Oz.

“Almost all races did, but I personally didn’t hold any enmity against humans since every race has their own shares on greedy bastards. But to think that you, a human, could rule the demihumans and the beastmen who constantly have war with each other is another unbelievable story. But somehow, hearing it from you made it sound very believable,” (Allomere)

“True! If I heard that story from someone else, Lord Ren, I would definitely think that he’s crazy! HAHAHAHA!” (The Galhala King)

“The both of you think too highly of me,” Replied Druid Oz.

“Well, since we can’t help but wait until our messengers bring back the reply from the guardians to organize our plans. How about you tell us your stories at the Ablux continent, Lord Ren?” Suggest the Galhala king.

“Hm… I’m also interested…” said the prime minister.

“It’s not that interesting, though…” Replied Druid Oz with a wry smile.

“Hearing a tale from a human emperor who rules demihumans and beastmen at the magical forest of Everdeen, even the old stories about the heroes will pale in comparison, Lord Ren,” said the prime minister, Allomere.

(Ugh… Smart-ass’s words are indeed filled with pressure, huh…) (Druid Oz)

“Well, then from where should we start,” (Druid Oz)

Clap! Clap!

“Bring us our wines!” The Galhala King clapped his hands and ordered his servants.

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Time goes by, and in the morning, the Galhala KIng officially made the order and picked some of his elite warriors to travel to convey the royal message towards the guardians. He carefully picked those and make a balanced team that should be able to face any unpredicted danger.

As time flows, Druid Oz got closer to Charnia, Claria, The Galhala King, Prime Minister Allomere, and the Galhala Queen. As he’s placed before, he’s placed at the late general’s house.

Each day, Charnia will come to have fun and ask Druid Oz to play with her, Claria will come and discuss military tactics and lots of other things together with Druid Oz.

Not only his daughters, but the Galhala King also occasionally visits Druid Oz together with prime minister Allomere to discuss the kingdom, the continent, and drink together.

The journey to the guardians’ secret hideout is far, it’s said that it will need more than 1 week for the warriors to reach there. So it will be about three weeks for them to arrive back at the kingdom to give the reply from the guardians.

At the time being, Druid Oz summoned all his beasts and let them roam around inside his huge temporary house, and continue research his nature magics and about the continent.

Druid Oz gathers all of the legends, tales, and reports that might consist of a hint about the location of the demon emperor’s seal.

(The heroes surrender their lives to seal the demon emperor and split it up to make sure that he will not survive even he got free from the seal, huh… It’s a plausible strategy indeed… The demons have no idea where the seals are because it’s hidden all over the world, but once they found out about it…) (Druid Oz)

“Well, there’s no use of thinking about it. All I could do now is try my best to research the seal that got hidden in the Eastaria continent and find it. Sorry, Slime. But this is all I could report for now,” Muttered Druid Oz as he sent his familiar to carry a scroll to deliver his message towards the Tarot empire.

Time once again goes by, but unlike the Galhala King’s hopes, the reply he’s hoping to come did not come as he hoped…

Not a reply filled with the hope of saving the Eastaria continent together with the guardians.

The news that arrived could be said as the clear fact, that the Eastaria continent is in great danger…