This Emperor Is Running a Marriage Scam - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59

 

Camen immediately disguised himself as a protruding stone and tripped the soldiers who had spoken rudely to her, then pretended it was an accident while filling their mouths with stones to silence them.

 

As a result, the soldiers were thoroughly beaten up. They would be uncomfortable for a while due to the feeling of sand in their mouths.

 

Hailey, who had turned away after appealing about the danger, didn’t see the soldiers’ miserable state.

 

Even after coming home, Hailey worried all evening that someone might fall victim to the monsters.

 

‘A mere commoner fell asleep pondering how to contact the Imperial Palace, so that says it all.’

 

Having recalled this much, Bloden called out Camen, who would be pulling weeds in the field.

 

Soon, with a slight vibration, Camen revealed himself. He still held small weed sprouts in his hands.

 

“Check if there are other gates besides the one at the coastline.”

 

Camen dropped the weeds in his hands and burrowed into the ground. Soon, the vibrations shaking the earth quickly faded into the distance.

 

* * *

 

Before long, the roar of monsters could be heard, and Camen returned.

 

Making the sound of stones clashing together, Camen stood before Bloden and pointed toward the inland direction.

 

“Is there only one monster?”

 

If it was a newly formed gate, the passage would be narrow, so usually only one monster would barely squeeze through.

 

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

 

But the sound of stones clashing was four times. That meant four monsters.

 

Bloden and Raven’s brows furrowed deeply.

 

‘Does this make sense?’

 

That many meant the gate’s passage was quite large, which also meant the derivative gate was properly connected to the main gate.

 

“Your Majesty, it seems we need to block the passage and then fill it with mana to close it.”

 

In such cases, they had to handle it as Raven suggested. The problem was that only Bloden could close this type of gate.

 

The larger the derivative gate, the exponentially more mana would be consumed.

 

Moreover, his original form would be one thing, but in his current state of recovering mana, it would be too much strain even for Bloden to handle.

 

“The derivative gate will keep growing larger, so this is troublesome. We might even need to respond at the level of managing the Northern Gate.”

 

“Sigh. If that happens, it would be the worst outcome for Your Majesty.”

 

As Raven worried, this situation could become a politically fatal threat to Bloden.

 

No problem could take priority over protecting the Empire.

 

Moreover, this wasn’t even the first gate they’d seen in this place. In other words, there was every possibility that more gates that couldn’t be explained by existing knowledge would occur.

 

‘If luck runs out, Anna might end up as regent for life. Isn’t there a way to solve this?’

 

While pondering, Bloden recalled that Hailey’s food had helped with mana recovery.

 

‘Should I cancel all spirit summons and focus only on mana recovery? If the gate is still small, I might be able to handle it.’

 

Even if this exposed his identity to Hailey, it couldn’t be helped.

 

Bloden first asked Camen to confirm the exact facts.

 

“What’s the gate size? How big is it?”

 

Camen rolled stones to express the gate’s size.

 

About 1.6M vertically, about 1.3M horizontally.

 

“Ah…”

 

Bloden couldn’t hide his sigh. For his current seven-year-old appearance, it was a size difficult to handle immediately.

 

“What on earth is this situation?”

 

Raven also let out a deep sigh.

 

“Gates occurring consecutively, and… today’s events are strangely sudden. Moreover, this is the first time I’ve seen a case of such rapid growth without any warning signs.”

 

Raven was right.

 

For a gate to expand to that level would normally take a very long time.

 

Usually, before that happened, the monster that created the derivative gate would catch someone’s eye, or at least a dungeon rabbit would emerge first and a report would reach the Imperial Palace.

 

But now wasn’t the time to think deeply about that. They had to deal with the monsters before Hailey’s concerns became reality.

 

“If we’re going to leave it anyway, there’s no need for me to step in directly. Camen, guide us to the exact location. Kimarise. Follow and sweep them away. Even if I can’t close the gate immediately, we can at least reduce casualties.”

 

“I receive your command, my master.”

 

Camen began moving quickly, and Kimarise started following.

 

Immediately, Kimarise’s vision was shared with Bloden.

 

A Mantis Sickle Fox that had been prowling in the inland forest charged at Kimarise as soon as it saw him.

 

But the moment Kimarise and the Mantis Sickle Fox’s eyes met.

 

Whine-!

 

The Mantis Sickle Fox cowered in terror, suffocated, and died.

 

The other Mantis Sickle Foxes that followed began tucking their tails and fleeing as soon as their eyes met Kimarise’s, but Kimarise unleashed his aura and cut off the monsters’ breath one by one.

 

Right after that, a report came in.

 

-My lord. I’ve found the derivative gate.

 

Kimarise bent his waist and entered the gate. Bloden’s vision also showed the situation inside the gate.

 

The gate wasn’t yet large enough for people to move freely and engage in combat.

 

But it seemed different for monsters, as several Mantis Sickle Foxes could be seen approaching from the other side.

 

-Deal with them.

 

At Bloden’s command, Kimarise shot his aura toward where the monsters were.

 

The monsters’ screams that had been echoing through the dungeon instantly fell silent.

 

-I’ve dealt with everything in sight. But more seem like they’ll swarm soon.

 

-First, assess the surrounding geography.

 

Kimarise leaped out of the forest. All the scenery he saw was transmitted directly to Bloden.

 

Before his eyes spread a wide wheat field ready for harvest. The small log cabin visible in the middle was a farmhouse, and the large manor visible at the far end belonged to the lord.

 

“Raven, did you happen to see who owns that wheat field and forest up there?”

 

“I checked everything when buying the land use rights. That area all belongs to the lord.”

 

Raven gauged the direction Kimarise and Camen had gone and nodded.

 

“If the lord had immediately followed legal procedures when receiving news of the gate, we would have moved nicely according to procedure as well…”

 

When the Imperial Palace receives a gate occurrence report from a lord, they immediately send a knight order to the scene. And the first thing the knight order does upon arriving at the scene is to completely clear the surrounding land.

 

This was to facilitate the upcoming battle and post-incident measures, and since the land couldn’t be used during this time, appropriate compensation was given to the owner.

 

However, cases where monsters devastated the surroundings first were different.

 

This was simply an accident, so the lord had to handle it himself.

 

Raven smiled coldly.

 

“Since the Imperial Palace doesn’t know, there’s no need to consider compensation at all.”

 

Bloden also nodded and instructed Kimarise.

 

-Clear the surroundings.

 

-I receive your command, my master.

 

“Salamander.”

 

“Peep.”

 

At Bloden’s call, a small fire lizard appeared as if it had been waiting and chirped.

 

“Support Kimarise.”

 

Soon, crashing sounds echoed from the forest over there. Kimarise had cut down all the trees between where the gate was located and the wheat field.

 

“Peep.”

 

Salamander quickly headed toward where Kimarise was.

 

Bloden left the inland derivative gate handling to those two and headed to the place he had gone with Hailey during the day.

 

Finding the derivative gate at the coastline full of large, rugged rocks was quick.

 

“Over there is the space Nuna said she uses.”

 

After hearing the explanation, Raven quickly checked the cliff terrain conditions and returned.

 

“The foundation of the space she uses is very solid. The gate is also small, so doing it the usual way shouldn’t affect anything.”

 

If so, that was fortunate.

 

“Deal with it.”

 

As soon as Bloden’s command fell, black smoke began rising from Raven’s body. Black flames flickered across his entire body, and Raven began filling the small derivative gate with his mana.

 

Soon, with vibrations, the gate’s entrance distorted and then burst with a loud noise.

 

Raven, who had returned to his original form, bowed politely to Bloden.

 

“The situation is concluded on this side, Your Majesty.”

 

Bloden nodded and turned his steps around.

 

Now all that remained was to slowly return home and check on Kimarise’s situation.

 

Salamander, who had just arrived at Kimarise’s location, enlarged his body and entered inside the Gate. Then the Gate entrance turned red and flames burst out.

 

Salamander had burned the inside of the Gate to temporarily block the monsters’ approach.

 

The Salamander that emerged from outside the Gate afterward was not in the form of a small, cute lizard.

 

Salamander, who had grown his body length to about 2 meters like a large monitor lizard, spat fire toward the trees that Kimarise had cut down.

 

The moisture in the trees dried up instantly and began to burn.

 

As the forest began to blaze, the sky turned red and became bright.

 

Light appeared at the window of the farmhouse that was quite far away. The farm manager had detected something unusual.

 

Now all that was left for them was to withdraw quietly and swiftly.

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