The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

No one noticed while I switched places with doppelgangers of myself, Precia, Jade, and Sophia.

Even the holy knight Dailhorg, renowned as a Sword Saint’s teacher and transcendent, only narrowed his eyes and looked around at the strange sense of incongruity but didn’t immediately notice.

It seems I have also become quite skilled in spirit techniques.

I handed over the control of the dolls to Abassael with satisfaction, and Abassael controlled the dolls.

Although he couldn’t handle them as skillfully as Silua or I, who inherited Geor’s puppetry, he could still make them move.

However, because he was unable to control them naturally, the dolls began to march in unison like soldiers.

Hmm, I shouldn’t be away from my position for too long.

When a staircase leading down in two directions appeared after passing through a straight corridor, I gave instructions to Abassael.

-Guide them to go left.

Abassael, who nodded, spoke to the deputy leader of the Izel Expedition Team, and I took Precia, Jade, and Sophia and went down the right path.

At that moment, I saw Yard quickly stop Dailhorg, who felt something strange and tried to spread his spirit.

“What a sharp old man.”

I dispelled the invisibility after fully descending the stairs.

Undead don’t perceive the world with their eyes anyway, so turning invisible was just a waste of mana.

“But considering he didn’t notice until we separated from our companions, isn’t he amazing? That old man is famous for his outstanding transcendent abilities and divine power.”

At Sophia’s admiration, I lightly shrugged my shoulders.

“He’s probably not used to spirits. When you get used to it, it’s easy to sense the power of spirits.”

At my words, Precia and Jade simultaneously shook their heads.

“That’s not it.”

“It’s not easy to sense at all for us, unlike for Yuan.”

I was surprised by their denial.

“Huh? Really?”

Saying you can’t sense a power that’s so easy to feel? It’s just randomly there and not there all around?

When I was startled, Jade looked at me as if it was absurd.

“If the power of spirits was easy to sense, there wouldn’t be so few spirit mages, right?”

“Ah, when you put it that way, it does seem like that.”

Come to think of it, it was a convincing argument. Although I can’t empathize.

“So judging by how we sneaked out like this, you’re trying to secure the treasures first, right?”

At Sophia’s question, I grinned.

“Of course. Navi has identified all the secret rooms, so while the people who went left are drawing aggro, we’ll quickly loot.”

Undead have the characteristic of being attracted to divine power and life force.

Even if they have reason, it is said that they feel the desire to come into contact with divine power, so if they don’t have reason, undead are truly like moths to a flame.

Fortunately, while the other side was using capable holy knights and even holy water, this side could conceal their power with sacred objects that hide divine power.

“Is that why you gave holy water to the Izel Expedition Team?”

I nodded at Sophia’s question.

“Then why would I just give away precious holy water?”

Holy water was basically contained in magically treated bottles to prevent leakage of divine power, so undead weren’t easily attracted to it.

However, once the seal of the holy water is broken and applied to weapons or affected areas, undead will swarm like bees attracted to sugar water.

I deliberately broke the seal of the high-grade holy water before giving it to them, so they could expect good results.

At my answer, Sophia laughed while holding her belly.

“Puhahahaha! You’re really mean!”

“So you don’t like it?”

“No, I like it even more.”

When I looked at her as if it was unexpected, Sophia showed a delightful yet sacred smile.

“You don’t need to look at me that way. If you had only given them trials and taken profits for yourself, I wouldn’t have liked it this much either. But you not only gave them what they wanted but also provided the necessary help for them to overcome the trials, right? The experience here will be a great asset for them too.”

Sophia’s eyes shone with thick divine power.

Help, how did she know? Is this transcendent intuition?

Before entering the royal tomb, I had instructed Abassael about the really dangerous sections and how to avoid them.

If Abassael was there, they would struggle but there wouldn’t be any casualties. Probably.

“Tsk, it’s no fun teasing you.”

But seeing how thick the divine power was yet it didn’t feel like that at all, I could sense how powerful the gloves Sophia was wearing were as sacred objects.

Considering she deliberately let it flow subtly when praying, can she control emitting it outside her body?

At my grumbling, Sophia stuck out her chest as if showing off.

“Hohoho, you’re far from being able to tease this big sister.”

“What are you saying? I was born in January and you in April. If we’re being precise, I’m the older brother.”

Sophia and I were the same age. If we counted the age of our souls, I was naturally older.

“Hmph hmph, youngster. It’s better to be older.”

Sophia laughed playfully.

“So, how are we going to move? I’ve longed for this! A thrilling adventure! Like the Eldorado Adventure!”

She was excited, her eyes sparkling.

That was only natural since her life was far from adventure.

Saints usually couldn’t accompany the adventures of heroes or warriors like in old tales.

Because, of course, it was dangerous.

If the Pope was the symbol of secular faith, the Saint was the symbol that God bestowed upon humans, so they were bound to be treated like a fragile glass bowl that might break.

Of course, that wasn’t always the case, and if you look through history, there were occasional cases of running away, like Saint Daliana of the Earth who adventured with the founding ancestor.

According to Aquila’s diary, Daliana played a prank of removing the Pope’s wig during a public mass conducted by the Pope, was disciplined, and then escaped, right?

At her innocent question, I walked ahead and answered.

“Before explaining how we’ll move, let me explain that this druid king’s royal tomb is the tomb of the renowned ‘Chilling’ king from the Mythical Era.”

“…Chilling?!”

Sophia looked at me in surprise.

The druid king, Chilling. He was a powerful conquering monarch of ancient times and also an apostle of the Goddess of the Earth at the time.

As such, this place contained the items he used during his lifetime, so it was full of items that could be helpful to Sophia.

Originally, I was going to use them later when enticing the little future Saint as a companion, but now it would be better to give them to Sophia.

“By the way, the thirteen statues standing outside the royal tomb were erected to honor the king’s direct warriors together. First, we’ll stop by where the thirteen are sleeping to obtain the key to enter the burial chamber where the king sleeps.”

Of course, I was also planning to take the burial goods of the warriors together.

“Ah, don’t step on that brick. If you step on it, arrows will shoot out from there.”

As Navi explored, we passed through the maze-like corridors without hesitation, avoiding traps, and not a single undead that should have come out to greet the intruders appeared.

Using the power of Eunha, I interfered with the fake spirits floating in the air and observed the opposite path, where they were fiercely fighting traps and undead.

They’re like a swarm of cockroaches.

There were so many undead swarming that it seemed there were more skeletons being crushed by being pushed and trampled by other bones than those being shattered in combat.

Thanks to that, it became convenient for me.

“Is it around here?”

Creak-!

When I pressed the brick, the wall shook and soon collapsed, revealing a secret door.

“Wow! How did you know there was a door like this?”

“No matter how solidly it’s made, with ancient technology, it’s impossible to block without leaving a single air gap.”

-Meow~!

As if agreeing with my words, Navi raised its head and cried happily.

I tickled Navi’s chin with my finger and nodded to Sophia.

“Blow divine power into this door, short and strong, so that undead won’t be attracted.”

At my instruction, Sophia placed her ungloved hand on the door and blew divine power into it.

Then the door opened easily.

“Huh? Is this it?”

As it was a royal tomb where an apostle of the Goddess of the Earth was sleeping, Sophia’s divine power was literally a master key.

Even if she wasn’t here, I had prepared a way to open the door, but it would be foolish not to use an easy and simple method when it’s available, right?

“It’s not the standard method, but if we had opened it the standard way, the mummy guarding the room would have woken up and we would have had to fight.”

On the walls of the room were golden crowns in the shape of beastmen lined up.

“It seems to be gold, wouldn’t it be expensive?”

“Those crowns are fakes created by the ruins. Of course, there are also burial goods that got caught in the space-time distortion when this place was created, so let’s take those.”

In the center of the burial chamber was a coffin containing the mummy of a holy knight who followed King Chilling, and next to the coffin were many treasure chests.

“Should we take all the treasures here?”

I shook my head at Jade’s question.

“No, most of them are too heavy and fake.”

“Then what should we do?”

“What do you mean? We have Sophia, don’t we? We’ll only take what Sophia is drawn to.”

At my words, Sophia raised both hands as if lacking confidence.

“I don’t know even if I pick the fakes.”

“Don’t worry. You’ll be able to feel it as you choose.”

Sophia’s successor, the future Saint, found them well.

So Sophia should be able to know sufficiently too.

Especially since she possesses transcendent intuition that even the future Saint doesn’t have, right?

At my words, Sophia overturned the treasure chests one by one and rummaged through ancient gold coins and splendid treasures.

“Hmm, this ring and this bracelet seem nice too. Oh! This gem is pretty! But I’m not drawn to it. This golden laurel crown is good too.”

It’s not like I knew all the treasures Sophia was choosing.

Most of the treasures obtained here, except for a few, were only mentioned as ‘obtained’ and didn’t really reappear.

Maybe the little Saint later used most of them as wealth to draw the power of the Goddess of the Earth from the divine realm to the earth?

Still, among them, there were treasures that were mentioned in the novel and used usefully.

One of them was the ‘Golden Laurel Crown of Gromit’.

The owner of this burial chamber, the druid king’s wisdom pouch and the eyes of Chilling, the sage Gromit Aukunsway.

It is said that before his death, he created a laurel crown containing all his knowledge and dedicated it to the king.

As if that record was true, wearing that crown allowed one to learn druid magic.

In other words, it was like a grimoire from the Mythical Era.

And that golden laurel crown had one more function besides being a grimoire.

“Did you choose everything?”

“Hmm~ I think I chose everything?”

The relics in Sophia’s hands totaled sixteen.

Five rings, one laurel crown, three short magic wands, two bracelets, four magic-imbued gemstones, and one scroll bamboo book.

Three more than in the novel?

Well, the more the better.

If we compare the little Saint and the transcendent intuition Saint, the latter was more trustworthy in terms of senses.

“Good job.”

I took the rolled-up bamboo book and the golden laurel crown, and put the rest in the bag Precia was wearing.

Then I picked up a gemstone among the treasures scattered on the ground that contained strong mana.

“These gemstones and treasures are good to use right away.”

I put on the golden laurel crown and blew mana into the gemstone to activate the gemstone’s mana.

The magic recorded in the golden laurel crown by Gromit appeared before my eyes, but I consciously pushed it aside and shouted,

“Arise, my eyes!”

I controlled the mana spreading in all directions and blew it into the golden coffin containing Gromit’s mummy.

“The king has descended upon this land once again! Arise! My eyes!”

Then the golden coffin opened wide, and a terrible aura of death and killing intent spewed out.

-Who dares to impersonate my king.