Young God Divine Armaments Chapter 25

Chapter 25 – To The Other Capital and The God’s Anguish

Renya party agrees to accept the prince request unanimously. They use the last of their time in the capital preparing for their long trip to the neighborhood kingdom capital.

Especially so for Therese as this will going to be her first long trip. But because she had experience in doing fieldwork all three years in the academy, she should be fine with it and preparation gets done without much trouble.

In between the long trip preparations, Therese and her friends finally had their graduation ceremony and successfully graduate. The season is now spring. It was a perfectly fit season for sending out the young chicks out from their nest.

After the graduation, Doris and Rudy went to the warrior guild to become an apprentice there while Russel went to the alchemist guild. Of course, he would become an apprentice too.

By using the guild network, the three friends promise to each other to keep in contact and to come flying by immediately if Therese had troubles in the future.

With a bit tears welling up her eyes, Therese can only says thank you to her friend kindness. Her smile that blossomed happily made Renya feel all warm inside.

“It simple you know? The one who wants me dead surely wants to start a war. Well, killing me now on the way like this then spread bullshit might calls for animosity but right now there are no one in Sirkaberia that highly support war so it might end differently from the way those warmonger wants. If they going to do it then they will do it in a way that will 100% cause a war. Of course if it was failed then it would be meaningless so they also want it to have a high possibility to success too. Thinking about it that way, having me inside Rugartis Capital is like a god send to them. They even can fabricate truth into something like: because the princess decided to cut the engagement, the stupid prince then went crazy and killed the princess. See? It was easy right? That’s why they would not attack now”

“Renya, you really have a well-diversified harem line up there. What kind of thing did you do to enable you to get them all to accept you? I really find it amazing you know? My opinion about you just keeps getting higher and higher!”

“How about you prince? Don’t you also need concubines to solve the matter regarding to your heir to the throne? But why I never hear about one?”

“Well then if it was about my heir then I only need to do my best until they born. That is all there is for me. This is private but the girl that I fallen for is totally cute but is also a bit complex you know. If I were to start taking in concubines she might logically understand that it was one of our duty as a royalty. But even if she understands that with her head, she will definitely be angry and pout all the time from jealousy for at least half a year. In which of course, will make me as her main target to vent her anger so I have to be prepared for that. If I can have one wish, I definitely would ask for my 1st child to be a boy so my troubles regarding my heir can be cleared soon”

“Don’t you worry about me. When things get wrapped up nicely and peace comes at last, I can at last focus all my mind and work hard so I can have my successor quickly. By the way, Renya, what about your proficiency related to the ‘sword’ that is used at night?”

“You stupid! Being able to see the girls’ blushing face from this kind of indecent talk is like a reward to keep us spirited in this kind of dangerous situation. Am I wrong!?”

Renya and Gerard, this two stupid people are again exchange strong handshake with each other. With this pathetic side of Renya which 100% agrees with what Gerard says just earlier, Floria keep smiling brightly, Elvira keep her gentle smile, Therese tilted her head because she don’t understand, and Brenda can only heaves a sigh. It is too bad but in Renya party, there aren’t any innocent hearted girls who will blush her face out with such indecent talk.

With that kind of calm atmosphere keep on enveloping their caravan, their travel continues smoothly without meeting any attacks.

But even if they don’t get any attacks from human, there are still monster that block their path from time to time. The reason is unclear but the monster in Rugartis Kingdom is more ferocious that those that in Sirkaberia Kingdom. Rugartis Kingdom also has wide mountainous area which make beast type monster appears often. Their caravan which consists of several human is only seen as a heap of food in those monsters eye.

A pack of giant wolf type monster attacks the caravan several times but all of those monster attacks were splendidly countered back. Renya party also takes a big role in countering the monster.

Floria with her martial arts.

Elvira with her halberd.

It has a function to enchant the bullet with elemental power by means of magic.

Etc, etc.

Renya was surprised when he first hear about Therese gun. It was already something that no normal mere student could achieve. In fact, the sight of the small bodied Therese with that silver gun in one hand is already weird, the sight of her repulsing monsters with that gun from a safe distance is too surreal. Witnessing such surreal sight made Renya realize that the fact of Therese and Doris fight the Ordought sect raid together until their last is not a made up story at all.

And above it all,

Therese happily expressed her thankfulness while rubbing her cheeks to her gun. That sigh made some people shrink back due to its weirdness but to Renya, he found that Therese’s mecha-fetish as cute and just let it slide like that. Renya that can feel such thing really is ‘as to be expected’.

Their travel until the capital only had that kind of troubles so they somehow felt disappointed. Under that feeling they easily pass the gate and set foot in Rugartis Kingdom’s capital, Rugartia.

Rugartis Kingdom capital city, Rugartia.

Compared to Sirkaberia’s capital city Beriand, Rugartia have more blacksmith and armory stores lined up in the area that seems to be their business district. Another difference is that while Beriand was built by making the royal castle as it center and spread out evenly in a circular form, Rugartia was built in a fan shaped form with royal castle as the base. Behind the royal castle is a mountain range that serves as a natural fortress for the city. Because of the shape of the city, Rugartia only have two city gates to manage the influx of people coming and going from the capital city. Those two gates is the front gate and the west gate.

The west gate was built because it leads to an important port city. Thanks to that port city, Rugartis Kingdom can actively export their mineral product and armaments that their industries yield off. Because of that, the amount of goods flowing from other country is not something to be compared with Sirkaberia. It might also be the reason why the business district was made to be that wide and fully packed with different kinds of stores.

Looking at such scenery, Renya suddenly have the urges to go on an adventure to look around the capital city. But he held back that urge because he is now the prince’s hidden ace. He can’t just move around as he pleases. From today, the conference that will discuss about the future of both kingdoms will be held for a few days. Everyone in the party knows that something that try to foils that conference would definitely happen.

Then again, only assuming the wait and see tactic and get the first move taken by the enemy could mean fatal. Anticipating that, before entering the capital city, Renya had made some few secret arrangements with Gerard.

While saying that, Renya gives a simple purple rock pendant to Gerard.

In truth, that pendant real function is [those who wear this pendant, when that people wish to, can have their thought be heard by the gods (in this case Renya)] if one have to write instruction manual for it. It was a divine armament created with haste on the spot by Renya but, that was a fact that Gerard will never know.

If he receives ‘contact’ from Gerard, Renya can just reply it with his own ability to do telepathy.

There is a magic item that let you talk with a far away person using magic principle. But they aren’t that effective and their range is very limited making them hard to use. This kind of magic still need a lot of improvement before it can be applied commonly.

Making a kind of telephone with the magic technology is an interesting idea but there are not really any needs for creating one so it would be wasted in the end.

Of course, Gerard who receives that over technology item is shocked when Renya casually handed it over to him but he seems to understand Renya’s intention and silently accept that.

“Yeah, please do so”

“Haha then I accept is as a compliment. Oh and is there any other detailed instruction prince Gerard? ”

“The possibility of war not erupting is?”

“And that person is?”

The prince who wished for a bloodless revolution to put war into a full stop and the opposing faction who wished for a revolution full of bloodshed that will drag all the population into misery.

It was really a war plot that overflows with royal road fantasy taste in it.

Renya unintentionally psyched himself. He doesn’t have any intention to keep helping him forever but he is more than willing to help Gerard bring his scheme out successfully now that Renya already pokes his nose inside this case this deep.

“Humph, I know that I challenged a den of thieves that filled with enraged vengeful spirit. But I have the girl with whom I vow to spend the rest of my life in my side. So I will try my best not to show my pathetic side ever! The only thing that I will get is victory only! And for that sake I don’t sit cross-legged and wait for a miracle to come only. I have do many things and endure many hardship to prepare for this so I won’t let anybody come out suddenly and steal it from me without any fight. But I know I am just a mere mortal so when I’m in danger, I expect you to give me a hand at that time. I expect a lot from you you know?”

The bedding, blanket, and pillow are all first rated class. It can be felt from how soft it texture is when touching it. The furniture also created from a high quality wood. On top of it, there is also, eventhough small, a bathtub installed in this room. It is really room created for luxury purpose.

As expected from a job received from the royalty, they don’t mind splurging a little bit like this. Being able to stay in a place like this for a few days is already a great reward for them. Everyone in Renya party quietly say their thanks to the prince.

After they finish checking their room, they start walking around the capital with the city map in one hand… is what a normal people would do. Renya and Floria hide their appearance using their divine power, strengthening their legs and manage to sightseeing the majority of the capital city. If done normally, the capital city is just too big for one to be able to finish walking all around the city in just one day but Renya was able to finish it within just a few hours.

Not stopping at that, Renya also uses his divine power to check for hidden path and shortcut within the city.

He also checks the opposite, whether there any passage to escape from the castle secretly to the outside.

“What a disappointment”

Renya comes back to his room with a frank dejected look with a dropped shoulder. Brenda rebukes back at him with a tired expression.

“In the past history, there is a king that reversely get assassinated because of that kind of secret passage. Those assassins use that secret passage to get close to the king and escapes without anyone noticed. So because of that, it was a common sense nowadays to not create that kind of secret passage”

“If it was a high ranked magician then making a magic item to transfer one person is possible but it can only be used to teleport form one similar magic item to another. To transfer oneself to a specific place is still an impossible feat for now”

(…… a large room eh, I have to hold myself back for a while if things continue like this……)

For a man, this situation is indeed a grave anguish.

Author note: even for a god, painful thing is still painful.

Eros note: that pain of unable to have a private time for oneself... IYKWIM