The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“That is…”

Amelia hesitated at Sophia’s request.

The holy token was not something that could be given away carelessly.

However, she could not hold Amelia accountable for her past mistakes since she had already sworn in the name of God to forgive all her sins.

Moreover, she had previously revealed herself as a member of the Earth Sect, inducing some guilt and implying that if Amelia refused, she would hand it over to the Saint of the Earth Sect instead of Amelia.

But she herself was the Saint of the Earth Sect.

Indeed, only a religious person should deal with another religious person.

It was a method I could never use.

Not because I couldn’t think of it, but because Amelia harbored negative feelings towards me personally after I had hit her on the back of the head, making such a deal impossible.

On the other hand, Sophia was able to win Amelia’s favor by approaching her as a devout priestess using the gimmick of hitting me on the back of the head.

After pondering, Amelia saw my still stern expression and seemed to have no choice but to take out the Sea Sect’s holy token from her pocket.

That’s when I said, “I can’t help it. Since Piboane is taking such a hard stance, I have to concede. In exchange, we want that monster’s magic crystal too. That way, we’ll have something to say to our superiors.”

“Hmm… so your offer to fulfill my goal and give it to me was a lie after all?”

When she picked at it, I laughed it off.

“Ahahaha, how could that be? I was just planning to pass it on to the Saint through my faction.”

I meant that I would use my faction to create a debt with Amelia and then deliver it.

It was clear that this debt would have to be paid at a much higher price than the holy token.

That is, if I were truly a member of Arcana.

At my words, Amelia looked at me with a “that’s how it is” expression.

Tsk tsk, so naive.

Of course, it wasn’t my place to criticize her for being so easily deceived.

“What if I refuse?”

To her rhetorical question, I took out the Sea Sect’s permit.

“Then how about exchanging it for this?”

Upon seeing the permit, Amelia’s expression froze.

“You, you, you! But didn’t you say no!”

“Did you believe me?”

As I pretended to be surprised and teased her, her face turned as red as a ripe persimmon.

Losing her words in anger, shame, and a sense of betrayal, she stuttered as I made a dejected expression and whispered, “After all the trouble of making a deal with the Archbishop of the Sea Domination and secretly taking it out for you, in the end, it was meaningless since you insisted on coming in.”

I pinned the blame for stealing the permit on the Archbishop.

Wouldn’t it be neater to settle this by sacrificing the head of a corrupt priest rather than unnecessarily creating a mess with the Twilight Association?

“…But don’t you need that permit to get out of the Constellation Labyrinth?”

To her suspicious question, I pointed at the half-broken puppet.

“Fortunately, since half of it is a puppet, the positioning magic doesn’t work, so it’s fine.”

“A puppet… I see.”

Gritting her teeth, Amelia seemed to have guessed the identity of my faction as her blazing gaze glared at me.

The faction she was thinking of would be ‘Arcana 01, Magician’, under whose command was ‘Arcana 16, Tower’ Puppet Master Nivel.

“Alright. I’ll give up on the magic crystal. So this orb is mine?”

“That’s right.”

Amelia simply took the ruins permit and the pair of orbs, giving up on Fenrir purely out of spite.

“Then I hope we meet again when there’s a chance.”

To my farewell, Amelia stuck her tongue out at me.

“Beh! I don’t want you to become one of my people!”

Was she sticking her tongue out at me because she thought I was from another faction? How cute.

Rotulus, being a mercenary, silently followed Amelia’s choice, and the Sea Domination headed out of the Constellation Labyrinth first after achieving their goal.

The Izel Exploration Team was also ready to leave like the Sea Domination.

“Aren’t you going in? You’re leaving?”

To my question, the deputy leader of the exploration team nodded.

“It’s much earlier than expected, but we’ve gained a lot. Thanks to you, we’ve gained a lot from the royal tomb, and we’ve even made connections with the Sea Domination. If we get a chance later, we’ll express our gratitude.”

“Wow! We’ll have to make sure we get a chance then.”

Laughing heartily at my words, Delevhem handed me the name tag of the Izel Exploration Team with his name on it.

“It’s not as good as a holy token, but even if I’m not around, you won’t be turned away when you visit the exploration team headquarters later.”

“I’ll gratefully accept it then.”

If I ever get involved with Izel again, I could use it to my advantage.

******

After seeing off the Sea Sect and the Izel Exploration Team, we slowly left the Corona Borealis area and arrived at the Ursa Minor area near the entrance of the relic.

Of course, on the way, the monsters of the relic were dealt with by Anastasia and Nayuta.

Although they had entered without a permit, they were registered under the Earth Sect’s permit, so the defense magic didn’t work on them.

As for Fenrir, the puppets naturally dragged it along, tied up with ropes.

If it were an ordinary beast, its hide would have been damaged, but Fenrir’s body, which barely scratched even the legendary sword masters’ sword energy, would not be damaged by being dragged on the ground.

“Alright, let’s disassemble this thing here.”

When I ordered the disassembly of Fenrir, Abassael skillfully extracted blood from the hole Anastasia had made with magic and asked, “My lord, wouldn’t it disappear on its own? Why do we need to disassemble it?”

In response to his question, I had Eunha memorize the magic books that came from the royal tomb.

“It won’t disappear. It’s not a fake created by the relic, but a real mythical relic that was mixed in when the relic was formed. In other words, it’s an artifact.”

Everyone looked at me in surprise at my words. Even Anastasia and Nayuta, who had been engaged in a subtle confrontation, turned their heads to look at me.

“…You’re saying this is real?”

“Of course. No matter how great this Constellation Labyrinth is, it can’t recreate a monster that even two transcendent Sword Masters couldn’t easily capture.”

In the novel, there were a few more mythical monsters similar to Fenrir in the deepest part of the labyrinth, but there was no information on their exact locations.

If I had known, the Sword Demon and the Sword Fairy could have hunted them down while they were together. It’s a pity.

“Then what about the Saint of the Sea Denomination?”

“She foolishly gave it up.”

Fenrir’s by-products were not something that could be obtained with money.

From her perspective, Fenrir’s magic crystal was an insignificant item compared to the Fallen Angel’s Horn.

But if it were the real thing, it would be a different story.

The Fallen Angel’s Horn and Fenrir’s by-products were treasures whose values could not be compared.

Ah, but from her perspective, the Fallen Angel’s Horn must have been the more valuable treasure.

Upon realizing that the monster before them was real, Silua, Jade, and Abassael’s eyes widened as they eagerly began the disassembly process.

“Lady Precia! Be careful when cutting! Not a single hair or drop of blood can be wasted!”

“I’ll instantly freeze the extracted blood with maximum power!”

“Magic stones! Magic stones! Wow! Magic stones of a divine beast!”

Under the intense demands of the three mages, Precia and Dailhorg broke out in cold sweat as they flayed Fenrir’s hide with their sword energy.

“Ahem! Kid, we went through a lot to catch that thing too. Don’t we get anything?”

Nayuta asked slyly, and Anastasia seemed interested too as she silently approached and nodded her head.

“How about a sword made from its fangs?”

They shook their heads at my offer.

“No, I have Aegym for swords, so it’s okay…”

“A fur cloak.”

“Yeah! A fur cloak would be nice!”

The two were so in sync, it was as if they were afraid of not being friends.

A cloak made from Fenrir’s hide and processed would be as good as a defensive gear comparable to my ‘Armor of Videl’.

I readily nodded at their request.

“Of course. I know a dwarven craftsman among my acquaintances who can process it, so if you give me their contact information, I’ll have one made and sent to you.”

It would not be easy for even the two of them to find a craftsman who could process Fenrir’s hide.

Belt, however, would be able to do so.

Or I could even have the chieftain and elders of the Bifleod clan, the former Sword Masters, help if needed.

By now, they should have gathered at my territory and found the mithril vein.

Since my disappearance had been prolonged, I would have been presumed dead, which would have nullified my status as a lord. So I had Abassael submit an order under my name to the Relic Management Office, demanding, or rather requesting, their cooperation.

Thanks to that, I was able to obtain a young vampire.

As I was lost in thought, Nayuta cheered at my offer to make them fur cloaks.

“Wow! Really?!”

Holding up two fingers to the rejoicing Nayuta, I said, “Ah, but there are two conditions.”

“What are they?”

“One, no fighting each other in my presence. And two, teach my escort knights a little.”

Precia might be fine with sparring, but Gilbert still had a long way to go in his training.

“Hmm, I’ll gladly teach them, but fighting…”

As Nayuta hesitated, I added another condition.

“In exchange, I’ll share some information I have about a magic sword.”

“Deal.”

As soon as Anastasia agreed, Nayuta shouted in protest, “Hey! Are you kidding me?!”

I smiled wryly at her outburst.

“Why? If you know about it, you can get ahead. The locations of the magic swords I know are all in places that are difficult to obtain.”

And they were all seeds of calamity that would cause massive casualties.

“And how long can you keep chasing after her? You have to get ahead some time, don’t you?”

My words seemed to pique Nayuta’s interest, and after a moment of contemplation, she shook my hand.

“Okay! Let’s do that then!”

On the other hand, Anastasia looked displeased as she stared at me intently, her expressionless face slightly furrowed between her brows.

About 0.1 millimeter change?

After observing her for a while, I was starting to be able to read her emotions to some extent.

“My lord, the disassembly of Fenrir is complete.”

The disassembly of Fenrir had just been completed. The blood had been separated and rapidly cooled, the hide had been flayed and magically flattened to prevent warping. The bones, muscles, and various organs and flesh had been separated and packed into bags.

“Yuan! We want to get out and preserve it before it loses freshness!”

“Hurry and get out, Yuan oppa!”

Driven by the three mages’ urgency, I smiled and nodded.

“Alright, let’s go out.”

Once outside, I could store everything in my sub-space except for the organs that required special treatment, so we could immediately put them in the sub-space.

As we headed out, I asked Sophia, “Oh, by the way, I’m curious about how you obtained that ‘fake orb’ you gave to the Saint of the Sea Sect?”

To deceive the eyes of a Saint like Amelia, it must have been no ordinary item.

To my question, Sophia grinned mischievously and took out a marble filled with the energy of the Fallen Angel’s Horn and the Apostles from her bag.

“I used this marble.”

She had divided the vast power of the Apostles into small portions and infused them into ordinary marbles.

The ability of the Fallen Angel’s Horn was essential for precisely controlling such immense Apostolic power.

“Puahahaha! To think you’d even betray a friend, you wicked villain!”

Genuinely impressed, I exclaimed, and Sophia giggled.

“But no matter how close a friend, I can’t just give away such a tempting treasure, can I?”

I extended my hand to her and asked for a handshake.

“I welcome you as a comrade.”

Sophia shook my hand while winking.

“I won’t let you regret taking me in.”

And so, I wholeheartedly accepted Sophia, the scammer, or rather the Saint of the Earth Sect, as my comrade.