Chapter 356 - Episode Three - A Certain Fire Country's Evil Omen (3)

So did Rimud of the Five Grand Masters know anything about Count Julem? Is there any fear that the Maharaun Kingdom will be taken in by Count Julem to launch an attack against the Dinrat Kingdom?

When the conversation returned from the list of threats to the worlds most important people to the war against the Maharaun Kingdom, I asked Peter the question I had been asking him from the beginning.

He smiled a little at me.

Rimud told me that he would never let that happen. He must be telling the truth about his dislike of war, so I think we can trust him. I think you can trust him, because he seems to have crossed a dangerous bridge to get in touch with me for the purpose of avoiding war. He didnt tell me anything meaningful about Count Julem, but he did tell me about the kind of anxiety he has.

Peter took out one of the five sheets of paper he had just taken out and pointed to it.

One of the Five Grand Masters, Zim. He used to be an extremist who went too far, but lately hes been saying and doing a lot of incoherent things, and I hear hes become a bit of an outsider. It is customary to choose the Five Grand Masters by bloodline, and since none of his parents or siblings are left, they have no choice but to leave this man as one of Five Grand Masters. It seems that Jeem has many enemies both inside and outside the country because he moves around and causes trouble. Hes claiming that we should use the resurrection of the god Kudor as an excuse to attack the Dinrat Kingdom.

The picture of Jeem in the description was an old man with a wrinkled round face.

According to the data, he is 130 centimeters, which is quite small.

Surprisingly, he is the type of person who fights with a body strengthening magic rather than magic.

The eyes that were wide open were so crazy that you could see them even from the picture.

Count Julem had been trying to control the Riveras Kingdom using the false god Med.

Based on that, he might be planning to incite the Maharaun Kingdom using Jeem this time.

By ranking order, its fifty-fifth minus three Peter-san. You are above the other three, but far inferior to Rimud of the Five Grand Masters.

As far as I can tell, he is not as popular as Rimud.

If he is not as good as Rimmed, I dont think the Maharaun Kingdom will change their mind and start attacking the Dinrat Kingdom just because Jeem did something.

I wont retort to that anymore. As for Jeem, I heard that Rimud is talking to the other Five Grand Masters and is preparing to assassinate him. Since hes just revealed it to me, they might have done it by now.

If so, the bloodline of the Five Grand Masters will be cut off Rimud may be forced into a situation where he cannot overlook Jeems strange behavior.

Of course, we cant deny the possibility that this is a plot by Rimud to frame Peter and strike a blow against the Dinrat kingdom, but Peter must have taken this into consideration.

Its not something I should interfere with.

If the problem of the Maharaun Kingdom is taken care of, then we must turn our attention to the rest of the four major nations that Count Julem has declared to be interfering, the Galshard Kingdom, which believes in the god of earth, and Alfheim, the Sky Country, which believes in the god of the sky.

If thats the case, is Peter-san now in the process of planning countermeasures for the remaining two nations?

To be honest, the Galshard Kingdom is an elusive place. Weve been doing this for a long time, putting peace first, and I dont see any signs of a major change in policy. Ive been trying to find out whats going on, but Ive had little success. As for Alfheim, the sky country, its almost impossible to infiltrate, so the most we can do at this stage is to look into ancient literature.

Its a backward move

As for me, it would be great if Abel-chan could quickly capture the Count before the two countries do

Thats easy for you to say

Peter pulls Penrath from the list and flicks it at me.

Damn you, you fifty-second. Doing such a sneaky thing !

As I gritted my teeth and glared at Peter, Mea picked up the list and began to happily roll it up.

I guess she was curious to see who else was in the ranking order. I also wanted to take a closer look at the list in a calm place.

Eh

Mea stopped her hand in mid-sentence and her expression became distorted.

Whats the matter, Mea?

Mea looked at me with troubled eyes and slowly unfolded a sheet of paper and showed it to me.

Her hand was trembling.

A-, Abel, this is

A stern, thick-bearded mans face was drawn all over the paper.

Gaston Gernand.

He was ranked thirty-third in the threat ranking order, and his name was inscribed as the strongest knight in the Dinrat Kingdom.

The-, they hadnt found out about it yet, huh

No, on the contrary, isnt he getting better treatment?

Brian, who defeated Gaston by sheer force of will, is listed, but hes placed in the latter half of the list.

I wonder if Gaston was so mentally overwhelmed after that that a miracle happened and he woke up, or if he just couldnt pull himself together and ended up lying about it.

Its Gaston, Princess Charlottes knight. Is there something wrong?

Peter, who was ranked fifty-two, asked me curiously.

I couldnt help but hold my mouth, stifle a smile, and look down to hide my face.