The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“Ugh, my body aches.”

I groaned while receiving Sophia’s divine healing.

Judging by the blood I vomited, it seemed my ribs had broken and slightly pierced my lungs.

Fortunately, the ribs had broken cleanly and didn’t shift around much, so I was completely healed with a single dose of Sophia’s divine power.

As expected, it’s convenient to have a healer in the party.

“Tsk, with such a frail body. I have a long way to go.”

At my grumbling, Sophia chuckled.

“If you only broke one bone after taking that mana shockwave, you’re not frail.”

“No way, even you, a priest, and Jade, a mage, only had a slight nosebleed.”

Precia was so physically strong that she didn’t even have a nosebleed.

Sophia and Jade looked at me as if absurd and tried to say something, but they sighed and shook their heads.

“What?”

“No, it’s nothing. On second thought, it doesn’t seem like a wrong thing to say.”

Tsk, I’m aware of it, but to even confirm it like that. I’m disappointed.

“By the way, that device is really cheating, right? The technique is so complex that it usually takes several hours for that magic.”

“Hehe! You’re right, aren’t you? I made it, but it’s a cheat item.”

The reason why magic takes a long time is usually one of two things.

Either it requires a hell of a lot of mana, or the technique is absurdly complex.

Usually, if it requires a lot of mana, the power is strong, and if the technique is complex, it’s sturdy.

The magic Jade used while fighting earlier, ‘Whisper of Winter’, was the former type of magic, and the sealing magic I used was the latter type.

“Did Yuan make that?”

Sophia asked in surprise as she selected the king’s treasures, and I put the phone-sized device that fit nicely in my hand into my inner pocket.

“I only designed it, and a dwarf I know made it. Honestly, Belt did all the work.”

I found the treasures that Sophia had selected and could be taken out of King Chilling’s burial chamber, put them in my bag, took out parchment from the treasure pile, and had Eunha memorize the contents.

I couldn’t read it right away since it was written in an ancient language, but if I deciphered it, there might be information useful for spirit techniques.

Lastly, I picked up the sword of King Chilling’s direct warrior, the King’s Sword, Devamberve.

“This can also be taken out.”

At my words, Sophia examined the pitch-black sword.

“I don’t get any feeling from this sword though?”

“Well, that’s because this sword has nothing to do with the Goddess of the Earth or divine power.”

Rather, it was the exact opposite. This sword was the cursed sword that gave Devamberve the power and fame equivalent to the Seven War Gods in his lifetime, which would be the Ten Swords Under Heaven now.

Naturally, being a cursed sword, it was also an object that Sophia’s intuition didn’t work well with.

“Isn’t a cursed sword dangerous?”

At Precia’s worry, I waved my hand.

“It’s fine as long as you don’t draw it from the scabbard. Now, let’s go.”

I tied the sword to my waist belt, took the lead, and opened the burial chamber door.

Creak-

“Ah, darn it.”

Creak-

Then I closed the door again. Outside the burial chamber, undead swarmed, attracted by the divine power Sophia had unleashed while fighting.

I opened the door again and shouted,

“Sophia! I choose you! “

“Yay, yay.”

The undead massacre weapon Sophia was deployed.

******

The undead swarming like a horde of cockroaches quickly became piles of bones thanks to Sophia, who took the lead to deal with them.

Jade followed right behind Sophia and used magic to clear away the piles of bones strewn on the floor.

If they were completely purified or shattered, they would turn to powder and disappear, but due to the fatigue from fighting Chilling, he only used the minimum amount of divine power to erase the deathly energy that was a component of the undead.

The horde of skeletons without souls collapsed just from that.

Sophia glanced at Yuan, who was walking on the pleasant path cleared of bones from a distance, and asked Jade in a low voice,

“You know that mana storm earlier? What do you think would have happened if Yuan’s protection wasn’t there?”

At her question, Jade pondered for a moment and smiled bitterly.

“At our current level, we might have barely protected our heads and vital organs.”

He brushed it off simply, but the mana storm that squeezed from Chilling’s soul was truly his final struggle.

Jade thought that since they had summoned him in a state pushed to the physical and spiritual limits, they would have succeeded in sealing him somehow, but the process would have been gruesome.

“I think I would have barely avoided instant death. Well, I’m confident I can survive pretty much anything as long as it’s not instant death, but… But Yuan perfectly protected all of us?”

Sophia looked at Yuan as if he were a monster.

On the other hand, Jade smiled as if he had been complimented.

“He doesn’t seem to be aware of it himself. And he even got injured.”

“That’s also strange. Doesn’t that kind of protection instinctively protect oneself the strongest?”

“He did protect himself the strongest. Withh additional defensive magic tools wrapped around him alone under his clothes. I felt it because I was right next to him.”

At Jade’s answer, Sophia was surprised.

“What? Then…”

“Even while protecting with that strong power, he got injured. That’s why I said, on second thought, it doesn’t seem like a wrong thing to say.”

Sophia let out a chuckle.

“Haha! He was really frail?”

It was absurd yet intriguing that he was frail despite using such strong power.

“What, why are you whispering secretly? Talking behind my back?”

At Yuan’s playful question as he approached from behind at some point, Jade smiled brightly and changed the subject.

“We were talking about making medicine for Yuan to recover his health when we get out of the ruins.”

“Yeah? I hope it’s doesn’t have a nasty taste.”

“No matter how nasty we make it, it will be less nasty than the medicine Yuan takes, so don’t worry. It will only be a little bitter.”

The supplements Yuan took boasted an unimaginable nastiness.

“Then that’s a relief.”

“Ah, we’re almost there.”

Jade said, sensing Abassael’s mana, and Yuan hid his appearance with the power of the light spirit.

****

As soon as Jade finished speaking, members of the Izel Expedition Team appeared from around the corner.

“Looks like they fought hard.”

Seeing those fighting at the front, their leather armor was torn here and there, and they had minor injuries.

Fortunately, thanks to the holy water, there seemed to be no one who died or suffered major injuries.

We suppressed our presence, took a detour, and after the expedition team passed the passage, we naturally erased my illusory clone and joined them.

The old holy knight who noticed our return spoke to us first.

“Miss, are you injured anywhere?”

At Dailhorg’s worried question, Sophia gestured for him to lower his voice and answered,

“I’m not injured anywhere, so don’t worry.”

“I should just roughly…”

When the old holy knight glared at me fiercely, perhaps because I had taken Sophia away arbitrarily, Sophia stopped him.

“Please don’t do that. ‘Ian’ only did as promised.”

Being cunning like Sophia, she used my alias instead of my real name in case someone overheard and appeased the old holy knight.

“You mean the promise?”

The promise referred to the oracle given by the Goddess of the Earth.

“Yes, the promise. Besides what I gained, to be honest, I learned a lot. Although there was some danger, there was meaning in Mother directly telling me to do it. To the point where I think it’s fortunate that I ended up fulfilling the promise instead of the original target, the ‘younger sibling’.”

It would have been an important experience to closely observe how warriors who had risen to the rank of saints operated their souls and mana, and to experience the power of an apostle with her whole body, even if it was only a small fraction.

When Sophia spoke sincerely, even he had nothing to say and closed his mouth.

As Dailhorg quieted down, Abassael asked me with magic so that only I could hear.

-Did you accomplish everything you wanted? My lord.

At his question, I grinned.

-I looted it cleanly.

-That’s a relief. I will report to you what happened here while you were away.

While I took three people and left, the expedition team broke through the royal tomb while fighting the undead to the death.

Then they found out that this royal tomb was the tomb of the great king Chilling, who was known to have led the heyday of the legendary ancient kingdom, the Druid Kingdom.

The excited Izel Expedition Team discovered five burial chambers, including that of King Chilling’s right-hand man Illugald, which was hidden while fighting the undead, and collected treasures.

-And since we didn’t participate in the battle, the Izel Expedition Team demanded 65 percent of the treasure share.

-And?

Unless you knew which of the treasures were real relics, it was basic to take all the excavated treasures.

I had collected all the real relics that could be obtained from the burial chambers, but just in case.

There might have been relics that had escaped Sophia’s intuition.

-I thought it would feel awkward if we just handed them over, so I increased our share as much as possible without offending them. So we decided to take 38 percent and they would take 62 percent.

-Well done.

Although they were things that would disappear, while inside the Labyrinth of Constellations, Sophia and Dailhorg could extract and use the power contained within them.

And even though Abassael said he tried to increase our share, he agreed to receive less than 40 percent, not even half, so we could use this as an excuse to extort something more.

-Ah, out of my personal greed, I prioritized the distribution of magic-related items. Should I renegotiate?

-No, they will disappear anyway, so examine them well with Arudos’s magnifying glass.

Honestly, ancient magic was no different from being very slapdash in terms of technique.

It was because it was a period when magic as an academic discipline had just emerged, and development was slow since wielding strong power from bloodlines alone was powerful enough.

According to magic school textbooks, the prevailing theory in academia was that magic began to develop in earnest in the late Mythical Era, which was classified as ancient times, or later.

“This seems to be the end of the royal tomb.”

The deputy leader of the Izel Expedition Team, who entered the burial chamber at the end of the royal tomb, King Chilling’s burial chamber, skillfully dealt with the guardian mummies that woke up from their slumber and attacked.

“Fortunately, the undead are not strong, although there are many of them.”

At the words of the female expedition member with short brown hair, the deputy leader pushed away the mummy that had turned to powder and collapsed with his foot and answered,

“That’s the characteristic of this ruin. Undead can’t exert their living strength if they don’t have a soul. The original exploration difficulty of this royal tomb is probably at least special grade 2 or higher.”

“Is that so?”

At the deputy leader’s words, the members were surprised. The expedition teams divided the difficulty into nine levels.

Ruins were usually classified in the order of normal grades 1, 2, 3, dangerous grades 1, 2, 3, and special grades 1, 2, 3, with increasing difficulty.

Of course, the classification criteria varied for each expedition team, so what was special grade for a small expedition team might only be normal grade for the Izel Expedition Team.

It was difficult to establish absolute classification criteria because the market size of the exploration industry was small.

“The owner of this burial chamber is also missing.”

The deputy leader made an expression as if he had come up empty-handed and recorded the interior as much as possible.

In the meantime, Abassael and the Izel Expedition Team distributed the treasures while having various conversations.

“Unfortunately, we’ll have to do a detailed exploration next time. We don’t have the right equipment for this kind of royal tomb exploration, and we need to find related records.”

The deputy leader said that while gauging my and Abassael’s reactions.

The reason they were able to enter this place was thanks to me providing information, and they were openly riding on the back of the church, so it was only natural for them to be conscious of us.

“It can’t be helped. We also tried it once just to verify the information, so you don’t need to feel too indebted. We were simply unprepared.”

Of course, it was meant to make them feel indebted.

“Thank you for saying that.”

Deputy Leader Delevhem also seemed to feel that he owed a debt, as he slightly bowed his head to express gratitude.

There’s no need to thank me. Rather, I should thank you.

“Now that we’ve decided, let’s quickly get out of here.”

At my words, the Izel Expedition Team took the lead again and left the royal tomb.

After relying on the firefly-like spirit lights in the dark place and coming out to a bright place again, I was startled.

“Huh?!”

“Ian?!”

The Saint of the Sea Denomination was taking a break in front of the royal tomb with her holy knights.

TN: Yuan about to screw her over again lol