Chapter 35 (1/2)
“Who’s that?”
When Navia asked, the boy flinched. The coachman replied.
“He is my assistant.”
“Really?”
Navia approached the boy and held his arm.
“But why are you covering your face like this?”
Pak!
When the boy shook off Navia’s arm violently, the coachman panicked and hurried to lie.
“Oh my, I apologize! The Lady is just so pretty that my assistant must have been surprised.”
“Yeah. It’s okay.”
Navia raised her hand and gave a shy smile.
‘I achieved my goal.’
Her cold eyes were on the black moon, dripping with mana.
Kate pulled Navia with a nervous expression.
“Miss, you will catch a cold if you get wet. Come under the umbrella.”
With a nervous expression, Wood, the boy who was said to be an assistant, watched Navia move away.
‘How dare a dirty commoner touch me.’
Wood grit his teeth and inadvertently swept his arm.
‘What was that feeling earlier?’
When Navia touched him earlier, it felt creepy. Maybe he was scared he got caught?
In the meantime, Navia got on the carriage and asked Kate.
“You’re not going?”
Kate smiled awkwardly.
“I have a lot of work to do.”
Navia nodded.
The door closed, and Kate was seen leaving with relief through the window.
‘It would have been better for you to leave the duchy with me.’
If you’re here, Nikan won’t leave you alone.
Soon, the carriage passed through the Agnes Duchy’s back gate. This road was the opposite of the Main Street and was headed towards Duke Eseled.
‘It’s a good place to do ugly things since only a lake and forest surrounds it.’
It was also a good place to ambush someone in a hurry.
Navia knew Wood much better than Nikan.
Using Charlotte, Navia whispered to Wood.
‘Make Lady Navia a slave.’
Slaves were prohibited under imperial law, but legal procedures existed.
Those who attacked and lost without declaring a territorial dispute, and criminals who caused more than a certain amount of property damage or casualties.
Up to this point, huge amounts of compensation had been covered up. But what about a commoner who harmed a noble? The imperial law was more severe on the common people, and Navia was just a commoner.
Wood was willing to expose the fact that Navia was a commoner to the world and attribute everything to Navia before the slave trial began.
Because Navia said so.
There was a loophole in this method.
‘It can be rendered useless when an attacked noble doesn’t regard it as an attack.’
Wood was at an age to understand the loopholes.
“Hire contractors who will do anything and pay for the carriage that will carry Lady Navia and go to Duke Eseled together.’
Then Navia, rather than Eseled’s foster daughter, will soon become a slave.
This technique was still too dangerous for a young boy,
‘Wood must be confident.’
When it rained like this, the power of a water wizard would be the strongest.
He may be counting on the fact that the rain can compensate for his lack of recovery.
‘Those calculations are mine too.’
Navia, who stole Wood’s magic, was also able to take advantage of the rainy weather.
Navia looked out the window. It was likely that they would reach Duke Eseled soon.
The tension dampened her palms.
Navia clenched her fist and caught sight of her badly damaged hands.
It was the scratches that occurred when she struggled hard with her fingernails stuck in the floor of the warehouse. The blood under her nails made her look unsightly. Will Duke Eseled listen to her so shabby self? Wouldn’t he kill her before she could negotiate?
Navia pulled her short sleeves down by force. It was to hide her dirty and unsightly appearance.
Then she laughed.
In the first place, she wasn’t trying to be a beloved foster daughter.
It was to benefit from Duke Eseled and negotiate her own safety.
The carriage stopped before she knew it. She heard someone leave from outside.
‘The coachman must be running away.’
She felt someone approach her this time. It would be the contractor hired by Wood.
Sure enough, Wood’s quiet whisper was heard dimly.
“It’s here.”
Navia counted with her eyes closed and pulled up her mana.
“Give the balance first.”
Three.
“Here. I’ll give a big tip when you’re done.”
Two.
“Kiki! Then we should deal with it more clearly.”
One.
Kwang-!
Navia burst a condensed spell when the voices gathered at the door.
“Keuah!”
The fragments of the bursted wagon stuck on the bodies of the contractors like a dagger.
In an instant, two of the three contractors died. Despite the murder, Navia stole Wood’s mana once more with a cold face.
Neigh-!
The horses, surprised by the explosion, began to run. Navia crawled from the horses seat in the carriage, which had flown all over.
She knew how to drive a carriage.
“Keut!”
Even if she were an adult, she wouldn’t have been able to handle the strength, but she was in the body of a skinny eight-year-old’s. Navia grit her teeth despite the pain of her arm breaking.
She could see a monster-like black mansion in front of her.
Kwang!
The carriage was completely broken by magic, and Navia rolled over the muddy water.
“Cough!”
‘An explosion wizard?’
The black moon didn’t absorb the explosion. Navia bit her lips tightly but ran forward without hesitation.
‘Even if I die, I have to die in the duchy.’
That way a definite weakness will be created for Agnes!
“Die!”
Wood followed her closely in the rain.
Navia was able to use her remaining power.
And like Wood, she stepped forward and moved in the rain water.
The places where Navia ran to quickly exploded.
Kwang!!