The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

As I headed towards the Vahanad branch of the Sea Denomination, Yard, who had been following me, sighed.

“If you were planning to steal it anyway, couldn’t you have just declined the assistant branch manager’s request? Then you wouldn’t have had to move so hastily.”

At his question, I smiled brightly.

“Originally, timed attacks are more fun.”

“….”

“Just kidding. There’s no need to look at me like that.”

I felt slightly hurt by Yard’s indescribable expression.

“Please refrain from saying such things because they don’t sound like jokes when you say them, Yuan.”

Do I look like someone who would say such nonsense?

“Then is there a reason you accepted the assistant branch manager’s service?”

“There are a few reasons, but as I said earlier, the most important reason is that in the end, the Twilight Guild will have no choice but to protect us.”

If my crime is exposed, the one who gets screwed is not me, but the Vahanad branch of the Twilight Guild.

To be precise, the branch manager and assistant branch manager will be included in the Twilight Queen’s stuffed people collection, so they will risk their lives to hide me.

Or they will try to directly kill me to shut me up.

The risk is too high if the assassination fails, so they won’t attempt it unless it’s unavoidable, but I should prepare for it just in case.

“Then if you had told them in advance, they could have helped… No, in that case, they would have definitely interfered.”

“Of course. They would have even tried to stop me by killing me, right? Accepting the service was also to make them let their guard down so they couldn’t interfere.”

“While getting the ruins map, various gifts, and even discounts on item prices, right?”

I smiled brightly at Yard’s dumbfounded expression.

“The Twilight Guild has a motto that everyone from the queen to the lowest-ranking members cherishes like gold.”

“A motto, you say?”

“Yeah, a motto. It’s ‘the one who gets scammed is at fault’.”

The Twilight Guild was a huge group of thugs.

They didn’t ‘properly’ scam VIP targets or expensive items because it was likely to cause troublesome issues if they rashly touched the buyer.

However, they were the best at scamming low-grade customers or those who sold items to them.

At my words, Yard laughed cheerfully.

“Ahahaha! Truly, Yuan, you haven’t changed from the day you proposed the deal to me or now.”

Is he referring to when I dumped Abassael, who had lost his magic, using Javan’s information as bait in the capital?

“Come to think of it, it’s only been about half a year since then. It’s too short a time for a person to change.”

“That’s true.”

Yard nodded and asked.

“But even if you agreed to accept the assistant branch manager’s service, won’t the Twilight Guild investigate us?”

“Oh, they will. They were already tailing us when we left, you know?”

At my nonchalant answer, Yard was surprised.

“Is it okay to walk around with my face like this?”

“I shook them off, so it’s fine. Right now, they’re probably diligently chasing the illusion created by Eunha, right?”

As we approached near the Sea Denomination’s Vahanad Cathedral, I put on Yard’s mask of disguise.

“Do you need that mask, Yuan?”

It was a valid question since the disguise using spirit arts was far superior to the mask of disguise.

“Sometimes those born with proper divine power can see through falsehoods. When facing such people, it’s better to completely cover your face.”

To possess such a special ability, one had to be at least at the archbishop level or a saint.

Of course, there were exceptions.

“Indeed, that’s right. I guess that’s why the illusion magic didn’t work on a certain priest when performing in the circus before. I learned something new.”

Yard also put his mask of disguise back on, following me. Then, looking at the cathedral a short distance away, Yard asked.

“It seems there’s a divine power barrier in place. How do you plan to break through and infiltrate?”

I sent Nabi and Eunha to the cathedral.

As spirits that could pass through even a solid black magic barrier, it wasn’t difficult for them to sneak inside the cathedral.

As long as air and light could reach a place, I could see it as if I had seen it with my own eyes.

“It’s not a great barrier. It’s just at the level of an alarm, so if we find a weak spot, infiltration itself shouldn’t be difficult.”

When security is replaced with magic, physical security tends to be lax unless it’s exceptional, and that cathedral was exactly like that.

“But don’t you plan to call the other party members?”

“If we were going to cause a commotion, maybe, but if we’re just sneaking in and out, the two of us are enough.”

In a space filled with divine power like that, rashly using magic would rather increase the risk of being detected due to the sense of abnormality.

So Jade, Abassael, and Silua wouldn’t be of help.

None of the three were particularly good at using their bodies either.

Precia’s magic power had been fluctuating unstably from time to time, perhaps because she had realized something after witnessing Vermilion’s awakening, and Gilbert was clumsy when it came to covert tasks.

I used the power of Eunha, the spirit of light, to conceal our presence and the power of Navi, the spirit of wind, to erase sound.

The good thing about spirit arts was that they could imitate any form of magic power.

Because whatever magic power it was, it was ultimately a power that existed in “nature”.

“This way, follow me.”

Passing through the main gate open for believers and following the wall surrounding the cathedral to the backyard, we came to the back door for servants who did chores in the temple.

“Are we openly going in through the door?”

“What? Did you think we’d go in through the chimney?”

“Well, yes. Isn’t that usually the case when sneaking in?”

To Yard’s question, I lightly waved my finger.

“That’s the case for ordinary mansions, but there’s a security magic in place here. Such security magic is usually turned off near the entrance during the day.”

If the security magic were to activate and sound the alarm every time someone frequently came in and out, it would be troublesome for the security guards and startle the believers.

But there were too many priests and guards welcoming believers to go in through the main gate.

In a cathedral of this size, there were bound to be one or two people with high divine power near the main gate, so it was better to avoid them.

“When sneaking into a place like this, you have to strike where they are most off-guard.”

The kitchen connected to the back door was filled with dishes that needed to be washed after the meals provided to believers and the poor by the church.

The servants employed by the church were diligently washing the dishes, and Yard and I passed by them and proceeded to the corridor.

Arriving in front of the laundry room where the priests’ laundry was piled up, located near the back gate, I slightly opened the door and examined the interior.

There was no one in the laundry room as it was time for the priests to hold a service with the believers.

Entering inside, I climbed onto the table where the ironing board was placed and pried open the cover of the ventilation duct in the corner of the ceiling.

“Hup!”

Thanks to the hellish training I had been receiving from Precia, I was able to enter the ventilation duct more easily than expected, as if doing pull-ups.

Yard followed me in and closed the cover again.

“It’s so dark that I can’t see an inch ahead.”

As Yard said, the ventilation duct was extremely dark with not a single point of light coming in.

“Eunha.”

At my call, Eunha illuminated our surroundings.

Perhaps because it was an old cathedral, the duct was made of sturdy stone structure.

Even the southernmost city of Vahanad would precariously fall under the magic phenomenon of the rainy season zone, but considering that they didn’t renovate it by mixing wood despite the soft ground, it seemed the building was protected by divine power.

“No matter how much I think about it, I’m envious.”

At Yard’s sincere voice, I chuckled and said.

“I’ll check later if you can make a contract with a spirit. Yard, if it’s you, I think you might be able to contract with at least one.”

“Really?!”

At my words, Yard looked at me with expectant eyes.

If he was someone hated by Biam, the spirit of fire, like Abassael, a flame-type magician, there would be no hope.

But if it was Yard, who had achieved the desired result by requesting Eunha without even being a contractor, there seemed to be a possibility.

Ah, and Jade would also be possible. In the novel, he contracted with Navi.

I crawled quickly through the stone ventilation duct using applied crawling.

Right, straight, up one floor, back, right, straight, down three floors, straight again, straight, left, straight….

“Here it is.”

After moving for a while, we arrived at the “Valuables Storage” located on the 2nd basement floor of the cathedral, our destination.

Through the gap in the ventilation cover, the interior looked dark as if no one was there, but using Eunha’s power, I could clearly see the inside using the faint light coming through the gaps in the door.

The floor was densely covered with alarm magic, and traps were installed on the walls to shoot out arrows.

Is the vault also a multi-lock magic vault?

Clang!

I tied the ventilation cover with a rope so it wouldn’t fall to the floor and kicked it open.

Then I untied the rope attached to the cover and tied it around my waist.

It was fine to hide the body and block sound to a certain extent, but if I used enough magic power to levitate the body in the air, there was a risk of getting caught by the cathedral’s detection magic.

If I were as skilled in magic as a high-ranking magician, I could have concealed it, but it was impossible at my current level.

“Hold on tight and pull the rope when I signal you to pull.”

I measured the length of the rope and handed it to Yard.

“Understood. Be careful.”

I grabbed the rope as if rappelling and slowly descended.

This reminds me of my time in the military. The battalion commander, who was obsessed with promotion, had us do all sorts of training to look good to the regimental commander and brigade commander.

It was tough, but I could definitely feel that my strength had improved a lot.

At this point, I could probably be on par with an ordinary boy.

“Hup!”

I gave my body a rebound and stepped on the floor tile where the alarm magic wasn’t activated.

Looking closely, the alarm magic seemed possible to deactivate.

But I decided to leave it as it was because it would require divine power to restore it.

I couldn’t use precious holy water in a place like this.

“One, two, pull!”

As I shouted while running forward, Yard pulled the rope, lifting my body high.

I stepped on the wall to change direction and headed towards the vault, shouting to release.

“Good. Very good.”

I arrived safely in front of the large vault without triggering any traps or alarms.

“Can you open it? Should I come down too?”

“No, if you come down too, how am I supposed to go up?”

Although it was a sturdy magic vault with seven layers, the security magic on the drawer containing Old Man Geor’s research journal was more difficult.

I ran my hand over the huge vault door that was like a wall, feeling the magic lines inside.

I slightly flowed my magic power into those magic lines and adjusted the flow.

“Twist here.”

Clack!

“Pull here.”

Clack!

“Release it again and push here.”

Clack!

“And, hup! If I twist here!”

As I placed my hand on a spot barely within reach, a “clack!” sound rang out.

Rumble-.

Then the vault door slid upward, making a sound of walls rubbing against each other.

Seeing the vault door open without even touching the place to enter the vault password, Yard, who had poked his head out of the ventilation duct, exclaimed in admiration.

“Wow, amazing.”

“Right?”

I smiled and tried to enter the vault. But I had no choice but to stop in my tracks.

Because inside, some woman wearing a black mask was diligently sweeping up treasures.