Episode 149
Episode 59. Drake Shortly thereafter, the empress held an official imperial conferment ceremony and directly praised Yuma and the Balaur messengers for their achievements.
There has been no official imperial congratulation on a larger scale in the last 10 years.
All important members of the imperial family, including the empress, participated, and representatives and core members of each nobility, as well as commoners, camped in the back and watched the conferment ceremony.
With the consideration of Hella and Duran, Pouang and other members of the upper ranks were able to sit on the chairs prepared at the bottom and watch Yuma.
All of these people had gathered to formally congratulate the mercenary, Xamatan, a mere commoner.
When the time came, the chief civil servant of the imperial family began to move Chi Xiamen.
“…His ardent inaction and the spirit of a warrior trained to the limit are not enough to raise the banner of the empire, and the reputation of commoner Yuma is that he once raged in the plains of Ahmad and Yonir in the past…
The imperial civil servant had already been reciting about the achievements made by Yuma and Zecca Malone for over an hour. The formal ceremony of the imperial family was always like this.
Endless boring praise and rhetoric.
It was a long-standing tradition of imperial privileges that the longer this rhetoric was, the bigger the reward the empress would receive. The longest record in history is 207 minutes by Changsin Sugar Rollmandy, and the current longest record is 185 minutes by Duran Jacques.
The nobles stood firm as stone statues while the civil servant raised the honor of the three. How the hell is there no sign of the end yet to give out a great reward.
While most of the aristocrats listened indifferently to the civil servant’s reading, the commoners were paying attention with their ears wide open.
“In addition, he raised the robustness of the empire’s defense to a higher level by exclusively supplying magic bombardment amplifiers to the imperial family in the body of a commoner, and successfully subdued the devil’s cave in the Anten region, which had been a long-time headache of the empire… “The wrath of the blue
dragon He condemned former Chancellor Hayes Rollmandy to protect the empire from the dragon’s wrath…
Another 30 minutes passed. An hour and a half has already passed. At this point, the aristocrats who had been listening to the reading with expressionless faces gradually became angry.
A reward phrase this long hadn’t come out in nearly 20 years. In the first place, the empress had set aside all her schedules and directly congratulated her for the first time in 10 years.
Yuma and Marlon Zecca maintained an immobile posture while wearing glittering decorative armor. In particular, Marlon was enduring this frustrating situation with superhuman concentration.
‘Ah, if I’m going to give you a prize, I can just give it to you. What are you doing!’
It was ostentatiousness that could never be experienced in a cool magic bullet. This cramped event was eating away at Marlon’s patience.
Fortunately, after another 10 minutes, the end of this long rhetoric was in sight.
“…so, based on the uniqueness of being a dragon messenger and the distinction as an existence connecting dragons and humans… the
right to use the imperial arsenal for the dragon messenger Jekka Din.
Five gold statues for Balaur messenger Marlon.
Lastly, I would like to bestow the surname ‘Drake’ on Yuma, the messenger of the Balaur.
This has a different attribute from the existing status system and is not hereditary to blood relatives, but the owner of the surname will have rights equivalent to that of a baron.
‘A castle…!?’
Yuma stopped breathing for a moment. It felt like my brain was turning white.
The people doubted their ears, and the nobles were on the verge of popping out of their eyes.
What a horrible story this is! A commoner owns a castle like a noble!
It was an unprecedented event in the history of the Kyle Empire. It was truly an unprecedented situation in which the backs of the nobles’ heads were pounded with a hammer.
The hall was agitated, and the eunuchs near the civil servants began to tidy up the scrolls that had fallen on the floor.
It was a scroll long enough to read 106 minutes non-stop. Now, this scroll will be kept in the collection of the imperial privilege almanac. As the 13th longest greeting in the history of the Kyle Empire.
‘Confused, confused.’
It was the heart of the central nobility. Unbelievable things were happening right in front of my eyes, but no one could step forward and remonstrate with the lady.
He is the one who cut the throat of the Chancellor of the Empire. The king of knights, Duran Jacques, and the ogre slayer, as well as the empress of the empire and the unknown blue dragon, are now under the protection of one body.
No matter how far out of common sense the situation was, I had to shut up at this point. Since they say that hereditary succession is not allowed anyway…
“Your Majesty aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Then a nobleman raised his hand. For an instant, all eyes in the hall were focused on him. He was a man from Hujinga.
Although somewhat incompetent, he couldn’t hide his blushing face like Jack Hue Jin, who first came to Yuma.
He was so emotional that he cried out for the empress, pouring down thick, hot tears.
“Speak.”
“your majesty! Let me tell you, Hwang Gong!
According to the strict laws of the empire, it is impossible to bestow a family name on a commoner… Keuuk!”
When the empress winked at him, the waiting imperial guards violently dragged him out and threw him into the crowd of commoners. I even stunned him by stepping on his chin to prevent him from shouting anything more.
The commoners moved his stunned body to the side of the road in a very polite gesture. Then, he left it on the side of the road.
It was fortunate that his neck did not fall. The reason Hyujinga survived was that he was a minor aristocrat without much power. If it was a central noble, the empress would not have finished it to this extent.
When the royal guards returned from leaving the nobility of Hujinga, the empress rose from her seat.
Everyone who was seated behind them stood up. While the Empress was standing, the rest could not sit. Only the winners, Yuma and Zecca Malone, were still on one knee.
“The ruler of the continent, the owner of all steel in the world, Rose’s name. The first person to gain the right to rule all people and all things. I will personally wish Jim Askar Rosé the best of luck on his future path.”
The Empress herself crowned Yuma with a golden laurel crown. Feeling bewildered, Yuma felt the touch of a laurel wreath digging through her hair.
‘I’m sure you’ll raise your status. It’s too unconventional.’
The reward given by the empress was something Yuma had never even imagined. At best, he thought he would end up with a famous sword and gold and silver treasures.
In that brief moment, Yuma understood what the Empress was thinking.
She judged that Yuma was easier to control when he was an aristocrat rather than a commoner. It was never because he liked Yuma so much that he gave him the castle without a fief.
“Get up, Baron Drake. And then the boys.”
It was true that it wasn’t too bad to hear whether it was a rise in status for control or whatever. Yuma smiled and stood up from her seat.
“Baron Drake. you know?
How unprecedented and unconventional this is.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
“You are intelligent, so don’t forget the weight of the meaning of ‘first’.”
“God Yuma. I will become the one who does the most brilliant work in the lowest place, Your Majesty.”
Even Duran hadn’t heard of Yuma’s rise in status beforehand. Duran, who was now the sole duke of the empire and was sitting in the highest seat as the commander-in-chief, felt his heart pounding and going crazy.
The disciple of the commoner himself, who was more like an aristocrat than any other aristocrat, was now reborn as a true aristocrat.
If there was a castle, it was a bongton or a lord’s castle, so it didn’t matter if there was no such thing. If he wanted to, it would be enough if he took some away from the Zach family. Or, Yuma could have played the ball himself and received a new one.
The empress slightly turned her head and met Duran’s eyes. It meant a surprise gift. Regardless of his intentions to control Yuma, it was clear that Duran would simply be delighted.
Duran lost his dignity and nodded like a child.
‘It’s best! your majesty!’
Now that the disciple has become a nobleman, there is one more way to put Yuma as the head of the Zach family.
How to adopt and how to marry Catherine. In the meantime, the latter hadn’t even thought about Yuma because he was a commoner. Starting today, I will order Catherine to bewitch Yuma!
Indeed, for the first time in a long time, it felt like my eyes were getting hot.
Looking at Yuma, Duran wondered what kind of blessing that lump of fortune he had visited in his later years was.
When Guinness died, life became boring without much meaning and was marked by a war for the family’s revival.
It’s okay to die in vain while gaining fame as a military man like this. Until he met Yuma, Duran felt that way.
However, after meeting Yuma, Duran has changed. A new vitality has been breathed into a dull life. Since losing his wife, Duran had never been as happy as he is today.
‘Drake, there could be no last name more fitting for him than this one!
Ha ha ha!’
While Duran was laughing in his heart, Yuma was receiving the flag symbolizing ‘Drake’ from Hella Rose. It was a flag with a blue dragon embroidered on a white background.
“Now I won’t be called crazy if I kiss your forehead, Baron Drake.”
flutter!
Yuma vigorously raised the flag.
“I can crave ogre blood more than before, sir.”
The two stood side by side and laughed.
The imperial orchestra played a hymn for Yuma and the rest of the heralds, and by the time the congratulations were over, the Rolmandigas’ funeral was over.
“How about becoming a noble? self. Oh, is it blasphemy to call you now?”
When night fell, Yuma looked for the morning star. As the owner of the rose society, she could not participate in the imperial privileges. The reason Yuma finally found her was because he was busy writing replies to numerous letters himself.
As soon as the privilege ended, letters rushed like crazy to the Puang Merchant Merchant. All the nobles in the capital sent congratulatory messages for the birth of a new noble.
“Yeah, it’s not blasphemy. Blasphemy in the Empire is a summary judgment.”
The two giggled and shared a pipe as they lay on the bed. The moonlight passed through the thick cigarette smoke and shone on the chest of the two.
It was a pleasant night.
“Drake suits you.”
“I didn’t even know that His Majesty would bestow a castle on me. Hmmm, it’s embarrassing.”
“what?”
“Now I am no longer a powerful commoner of the Puang Merchant, but a nobleman of the empire.”
“Why?”
“Then it becomes difficult to absorb rose hoe.”
“Ah, is this all about losing your reputation when you hang out with inferiors like us?”
Natalie said that even though she knew she didn’t mean it. It was, of course, a smiling face.
“I guess so? A noble person like me can’t pander to the forces of darkness like the Rose Society…
Just disappear, Natalie.”
“Only the girl will step down.”
“haha.”
Yuma, who was joking around, corrected his expression.
“Before we catch the black magician, we need to start by purging the Rose Society. Let’s cut the stiff ones properly and reorganize them into an institution that has some of my authority. I want it to be Drake’s rose society, not Haseo’s rose society anymore.”
“Oh, that sounds like you’re going to eat my power raw?”
Yuma and Natalie started discussing how to proceed with the purge of the Rose Society.
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