The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The sudden appearance of the dragon sent the entire city into chaos.

The sound of bells alerting an emergency rang out everywhere, and soldiers were urgently summoned with frightened faces.

“They’re better prepared than I thought.”

I checked the external situation projected in the air using Eunha’s power, humming a tune and hiding away.

The Count’s mansion was also in a state of chaos.

No, since the explosion occurred directly here, it was practically a scene of pandemonium.

Fortunately, as intended, there were no casualties from the explosion.

However, due to the shock, the security magic surrounding the mansion malfunctioned, causing flames and storms to rage here and there.

Experienced servants tried to suppress the fire that broke out as a result.

Young servants evacuated to the main entrance as if fleeing, only to faint upon seeing the dragon flying in the sky.

The knights tried to guide the Count’s family to the underground shelter, but after seeing the traces of the explosion, they seemed to have decided to urgently leave the mansion through a secret passage.

The Count, who was not just half-naked but fully naked, shivered in fear and hastily put on his underwear in a flurry.

Thanks to that, even the threatening knights and soldiers left the 3rd floor all at once to escort the Count’s family.

Now, not knowing when they’ll return, let’s quickly finish up and get out of here.

I climbed to the 3rd floor with light footsteps.

Among the three secret spaces on the 3rd floor, I headed to the Count’s room first.

The Count’s room seemed unaffected by the explosion.

“It was under the bed, right? Navi.”

-Meow~!

Navi blew the bed away with wind.

I removed the dusty carpet under the bed and broke open the locked door with magic.

In a small storage-like space, there was a safe, but this time it was a magic safe.

“Hmm, this type sends a signal directly to the owner when opened.”

If I opened the safe now, there was a risk that the fleeing owner would notice and return.

Since there was no location tracking magic, I decided to open it later and put the safe into my subspace for now.

The next target was the study.

In the study, books were strewn on the floor, probably due to the aftermath of the explosion.

“These are… grimoires? There are a lot of magic books too?”

Is the owner of this house a mage? Or just a collector?

Anyway, Jade and Silua will be very pleased.

I uncovered a secret space behind the bookshelf along with the books.

This time, it wasn’t something like a safe.

“Haha, is this why they told me to loot this house? Cunning dragon.”

What came out from behind the bookshelf was an altar of demon worshippers branded as heretics.

“Hey, Bahamut. Should I take this too? Or leave it to be discovered as is? I know you’re watching.”

As soon as the question ended, mana gathered in my ear and a voice filled with laughter was heard.

-Watching, that’s too much.

I felt something bothering me for a while, so you were indeed watching.

That hedonist wouldn’t miss an interesting spectacle.

“So, should I take this too? Honestly, I don’t really need it… Damn it, what rotten luck. Of all things, it’s the Dawn Star Cult?”

The Dawn Star Cult was one of the most prosperous demon worship cults, a bunch of lunatics following Lucifer, the Demon King of Pride.

Oddly enough, they followed the Demon King of Pride, but after they gobbled up a cult that followed the Demon King of Lust in the past, more than half of their core executives were reversely tainted by the worshippers of the Demon King of Lust.

If I’m unlucky, I might have to use the teddy bear doll I have stuffed in my subspace.

-Ahem~ While this advice ruins the bet… I’d prefer if you left that altar as is. My acquaintance is on standby.

As I thought, the purpose of the corruption ledger bet was to have me cause a commotion and have this discovered.

-You did better than I expected, it was dangerous. Actually, if you were going to take that too, I would have spoken up first.

Hmm, should I have just pretended to take it without saying anything?

Then I could have squeezed out quite a bit in return.

As if reading my thoughts, Bahamut laughed and said.

-I’ll give you a gift in exchange for not touching the altar. So obediently hide it back behind the bookshelf.

The demon worship altar probably needs to be discovered here to have legal effect as evidence.

“Alright. I’ll look forward to the gift.”

I obediently moved away from the altar and set the bookshelf upright.

Then I left the study and headed to the place with the last secret space.

The last secret space simply had a single magic safe placed without anything particularly special.

“Kieeeeek-!!”

Outside the window, the dragon illusion I created was flying around, avoiding the attacks of the Ziliville guards.

I roughly left the control of the illusion to Eunha, and she was moving it well on her own.

I felt like my mana was constantly draining even though I wasn’t doing anything.

It was a method that an ordinary illusion mage couldn’t even imagine.

An illusion created with illusion magic disappears, distorts, or at best stops moving when the caster’s concentration is dispersed.

But I was glad that I didn’t have to worry about that since I left it to the spirits.

Calculating the refractive index of light one by one and projecting it was hard labor for humans, but it was as simple as breathing for spirits.

“You can all stop now.”

At my command, Nuni and Navi stopped the lightning and roaring sounds that gave realism to the illusion.

Eunha distorted and erased the dragon’s appearance so that anyone could tell it was an illusion.

We could have naturally staged the dragon fleeing.

However, doing so risked dealing a real heavy blow to this trading city, so we visibly ended the commotion.

The scale of an actual dragon threatening the city and some eccentric creating an illusion was different.

“Well then, let’s get out of here now.”

There was still plenty of time until dawn when the bet would end.

As I quickly escaped the mansion, the Holy Knights bearing the emblem of the sun and the territory’s knights bearing the emblem of the local lord raided the mansion as if switching places with me.

It looked quite interesting, but there were also monsters that couldn’t be ignored, even if they weren’t quite superhuman.

I decided to give up on secretly hiding and watching.

When I returned to the inn with Precia and Jade, who were preparing to rush in if I was in danger outside, Gilbert, who was taking care of Silua, greeted me.

“You’re back. You’re not hurt anywhere, are you?”

“I’m fine. What’s with the worry as if I did something dangerous?”

I smiled and took out the safe I looted from the demon-worshipping Count’s mansion.

“Ah, I brought this along while looting.”

When I took out the grimoires and magic books I brought from the Count’s study, a broad smile bloomed on Jade’s face.

“Thank you. Wow! There’s a variety. Not only ordinary magic books but also hard-to-obtain necromancy books, curse books, and black magic books!”

Especially the black magic books were classified as grimoires.

Silua would have been delighted if she was awake, but she was currently fast asleep.

While life with us, her friends, was important, her time with family in the records room would also be important, so we didn’t deliberately wake her up.

“Come to think of it, you’re not saying anything?”

When I glanced at Precia and asked, she tilted her head as if she didn’t understand.

“What do you mean?”

“No, you know. I thought you’d say it was dangerous for me to bring in a dragon without saying anything.”

The real reason I didn’t tell them about buying the rights to the merchant ship was that I was afraid they would oppose it, saying it was dangerous.

At my words, Precia shook her head in bewilderment.

“How could that be? Even if it’s another dragon, it’s none other than the Purple Dragon Bahamut-nim!”

Ah, that stock manipulator was one of the main characters in the founding mythology.

The dragon emblem, which was the royal family’s crest, was also derived from Bahamut, so to speak, she was like a guardian dragon symbolizing the nation.

To be exact, she was only close to the founder and didn’t really act as a national guardian.

“If we return with Bahamut-nim, wow, ahem! We can flatten the noses of those who looked down on the young master!”

She seemed to have some resentment from being my exclusive guard knight in the royal palace, getting slightly excited.

Seeing her sparkling eyes, I couldn’t bring myself to say I had no intention of moving together with Bahamut.

“Uh… um, right. Navi, amplify the sound.”

I averted my gaze and touched the safe’s dial.

With the amplified sound and the sensation of my fingertips, I cracked the safe’s password.

Click, click, click, click… Clack!

Before long, the safe opened.

I thought I might fail since it had been a few years since I last touched a safe, but as expected, experience ingrained in the body doesn’t go anywhere.

No, is there a contradiction in saying experience ingrained in the body when the body has changed?

The safe was filled with cases containing expensive jewels with quality certificates attached.

“It’s a dud.”

If I were a thief, it would have been the jackpot of jackpots, but my goal was the corruption ledger.

But it’s still worth looting, right? Should I change jobs to a thief this time?

Click, click, click, click… Clack!

Click, click, click, click… Clack!

The subsequently opened safes contained jewelry cases and rare magic materials, small in volume but precious.

If large-volume gold bars and art pieces were in the basement, and small-volume valuables were on the 1st and 2nd floors, it meant the real deal was in the 3rd-floor safes.

Come to think of it, it was a natural result since only the 3rd-floor security was so formidable.

When I opened the safe on the 3rd floor, it was filled with jewels and magic stones brimming with dark magic and ominous energy, as well as magic tools.

They seemed to be materials used for demon summoning or rituals.

“These will be useful in their own way.”

In another safe, there were symbols and robes of the demon worship cult, as well as various documents that appeared to be corruption ledgers.

“Jackpot~!”

According to the documents, the ledgers related to the Dawn Star Cult and the ledgers of bribes received as a Count were separated. But it didn’t matter.

As long as they were the Count’s corruption ledgers, that was enough.

Clap clap clap clap!

At my cheers, Bahamut entered through the window and applauded.

“Wow~! That was fun. Good job, Yuan. There was even a death knight close to superhuman level in the Count’s mansion, so I thought you would fail, but I didn’t expect you to succeed in such a way.”

At Bahamut’s words, my expression hardened.

“Death knight?”

There was no such thing?

“Ah, the tattoo on the Count’s back is a summoning tattoo connected to a death knight. If the Count wishes, he can summon it at the cost of mana and lifespan.”

Come to think of it, there was a necromancer among the high-ranking executives of the Dawn Star Cult who could handle death knights.

That necromancer must have given the death knight to the Count as a bodyguard.

“If you knew that much, you’re a habitual offender.”

When I slightly glared at her, Bahamut answered with a giggle.

“If it was an easy task, I wouldn’t have made it a bet. Besides, even if I want to punish demon worshippers, I’m a dragon, so I shouldn’t interfere in the human world unless certain conditions are met.”

The one who shouldn’t interfere in the human world kidnapped merchant ships, caused them to drift, and manipulated stock prices?

What nonsense.

When I gave her a look of disbelief, she became flustered.

“It’s true! This is a rule imposed by the Seven Gods on the human world.”

Every rule has a loophole.

In other words, Bahamut was saying she used loopholes to make a fortune.

Perhaps that loophole was that the constraint was triggered only when it was perceived as a dragon interfering according to general social perception.

“You’re quite amazing.”

“Ahahaha! There’s no need for such praise.”

It’s not praise.

Bahamut, who was feeling embarrassed, smiled and handed over a piece of paper.

“The gift I mentioned in exchange for not touching the altar is this.”

The paper had ‘Exchange Ticket’ written on it.

“It’s the right to exchange for one of the treasures in my lair. I was going to give it to you directly, but I thought you’d prefer to choose yourself.”

It’s definitely nice.

The treasures in Bahamut’s lair were overflowing with items like Watson’s Mirror Shield, Dragon Heart Earrings, Crown of Glory, World Tree Branch Bow, and so on.

“By the way, you can enter the lair alone.”

At Bahamut’s words, I smiled bitterly.

Is this also a form of entertainment?

Knowing her personality, there were bound to be duds hidden in her treasure vault.

“Then this bet is my victory, right?”

When I held up the corruption ledger, Bahamut nodded.

“That’s right. You’re now my friend, Yuan. Feel free to be casual with me.”

As she reached out to take the corruption ledger, I avoided her hand and said.

“You say I can be casual, so I’ll speak casually. The condition of the bet was simply to bring the corruption ledger. There was no stipulation that I had to give the ledger to you, right?”

At my words, Bahamut was taken aback.

I looked at her and grinned.

“I get the first move.”

What a foolish dragon.

It’s a hundred years too early for you to use me.