Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

They were slaves even though they said they were no longer slaves.

‘That’s probably why Rachel chose them.’

To beings who are made to feel happiness because of their master’s existence, to feel happiness by following their master’s will, and to feel anxious every moment they do not serve their master.

Rachel gave me a master named Edar.

Belief in me as a means to forget the pain.

Serve me as your master and always consider yourself serving.

So that you don’t feel the anxiety and pain caused by your twisted nature.

‘It’s like a painkiller.’

It is like giving addictive painkillers to those suffering from an incurable disease in order to make them forget the pain because it cannot be cured.

‘Did they say that religion is opium?’

I remembered a phrase.

‘The family deserves to hate her.’

Even if you leave it alone, it is a being that is loyal to me, the owner.

Because it adds faith and makes me more deeply worshiped.

How will it look to her family members who have a different point of view than hers?

‘It’s not because Rachel considered humans as tools.’

She also sees humans as equals to herself.

However, the problem is that it is too wide.

It was a problem to believe that following me was a good thing, and that it was my job to spread that good thing to the people around me.

‘I need to suppress my personality.’

poison with poison

However, there is a degree.

To keep the poison from making me unclean.

Rachel needs to be taught to control her temper.

‘That’s why I accompanied him on this journey.’

How will she react when she sees the wolf god and the followers of that false god?

Could she learn something?

I smiled and stroked my chin.

“Edar.”

Calliope called me quietly.

I was worried because I read my thoughts.

I smiled and reassured her.

“It’s nothing.”

“…”

Calliope shook her head.

Behind her, Rachel smiled the same way.

“Looks like everything has arrived.”

While I was lost in thought for a while, the fortress became busy.

Soldiers filled the empty seats on the wall one by one.

They were not garrison soldiers wearing cloth clothes and holding a spearhead.

It was a well-armed and well-disciplined regular army.

flutter—

A command post above the gate, a flag was placed on the gate tower.

The flag symbolizing the Marquis of Loisene fluttered in the wind.

The atmosphere of the fortress came to life and the heat boiled over as if a battle was about to take place.

“Are you thinking of fighting?”

“Well, we will avoid all-out war.”

“What about all-out war?”

I didn’t answer the tilted Rachel.

He took out a new cigarette, put it in his mouth, and looked at Munru.

A woman came up to the gatehouse.

“——.”

“———.”

After talking with the lord, she looked at me.

His haughty expression changed when our eyes met.

He narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand to slightly block his vision.

As if the eyes were exposed to sunlight.

But it didn’t last long.

He immediately lowered his hands and opened his eyes to look at me.

“…”

I smiled and lightly bowed my head diagonally.

Then she opened her mouth to say something to me,

“Edar!”

The man next to him screamed.

Rachel, who happened to be lighting a fire at the beginning of the year, frowned.

“Who dares to name my father arbitrarily…”

I took a long sip of tobacco and exhaled the smoke.

“It’s Haral. Haral Sudret.”

“A sudlet?”

“He is the second son of the Duke of Sudret and Ibella.”

Isabella, the wife of the Duke of Sudret.

It was her second son who tried to kill me.

He’s 3 years younger than me, so if you have to argue, he’s my younger brother.

“Your father’s brother?”

“He’s my half-brother.”

“You don’t look alike at all.”

Rachel narrowed her eyes and looked at the boy.

Normal physique with normal features.

Her hair is blonde, her eyes are blue.

Baby downy mustache on the philtrum.

“Are you really brothers?”

“maybe.”

I laughed lightly as I threw a joke.

No wonder she couldn’t believe it.

I’m quite tall, and my hair and eyes are all black.

There was nothing in common in looks between him and me.

“Unless Ibela, the wife of Jeongcheo, met another man, he and I are half brothers. Because I look exactly like the duke in his youth.”

Right before I was banished from my family, all sorts of rumors circulated.

Among the rumors was that I was the child of an affair man.

But no one would actually believe it.

Even Ibella, who created the rumor, must have thought it was nonsense.

‘The answer comes out when you look at the portrait in the mansion.’

The portrait you see when you pass the entrance of the mansion and climb the stairs in the center of the hall.

The portrait depicts Svein, Duke of Sudret, in his youth.

However, people who don’t know the duke will ask if I drew it.

I resembled the peacock’s appearance so much.

‘It’s because of his ability that rumors spread about whether he’s a duke or not.’

What if they look the same?

The ability is not even a speck of dust.

It was more of a problem because they had the same looks but poor abilities.

The duke loathed the incompetence of his son who resembled him.

‘Disappointment turned into disgust because of the resemblance.’

The hate was pretty big.

Even though he was an illegitimate child, he did not commit any particular crime.

Isolation, expulsion, and reckless murder were to the point.

“I don’t know why he’s over there.”

From what I remember, it had nothing to do with the Marquis of Loisene?

“Edar!”

【Lv. 46]

Unlike me, Ybela’s children were gifted.

He was so talented that he could be ignored for looks.

He reached level 46 when he was only 20 years old.

‘Even Duke Majenkin, who was the strongest of Wallochian humans, would be called a genius if he were in front of him.’

It is 5 levels lower than Count Hugo, who was degenerated into a servant of a blood relative.

On the other hand, I was younger than 20 years old.

The guy’s talent was truly amazing.

‘That’s why he must be so arrogant.’

“Edar! How dare you, the son of a prostitute, ignore my words!”

Rachel gritted her teeth and glared at him.

“That blasphemous bastard…!”

“done. There is nothing to be angry about.”

I patted her and walked to the gate.

“It’s been a while. Haral.”

“Don’t call me by name! A vulgar thing!”

“Then what should I call you? little brother?”

“Shut up! Who do you consider your brother!”

When asked in a kind tone, the boy wrinkled his face.

“You say you have the same noble blood as mine? In front of whom are you telling lies! If even one drop of our blood had flowed in you, would your father have driven you out?”

The boy raised his nose and shouted proudly.

“Thank you for not killing you on the spot! Where are you going to come back? And lead an army!”

The more he talked, the more his face turned red.

“Walochia, that small country, I don’t think you’re proud of yourself just because you used your strength in that kind of place! Put your head on the ground and bow your head right now before I punish your arrogance!”

“well.”

I exhaled a long smoke from the beginning of the year and said.

“I understand the other words. It is difficult to understand that you have not received the seed.”

“what?”

“Brother. If you look at my father’s portrait, shouldn’t you be more concerned about me?”

The boy shuddered violently.

His face was ripe like a bomb about to explode.

“shut up!”

Unable to suppress his growing emotions, he snatched the soldier’s spear and threw it at me.

“…”

Kwap!

The spear, full of murderous intent, flew towards me and then stopped.

With my breasts an inch in front of me, Calliope’s hand grabbed me and stopped.

“Edar.”

Her thoughts fluctuated violently and her eyes cooled.

Even though there was no expression, I read extreme anger.

I said with a smile.

“Yes, give it back.”

She grabbed the spear upside down and threw it.

I didn’t see her hand behind her shoulder.

As if the frames of the video were cut into chunks.

I only watched after the spear disappeared from her hand.

“Quaaagh!”

After a brief period, screams broke out.

The scream, of course, belonged to my brother, Haral.

It got stuck in the right hand that threw the spear at me.

“A stupid thing.”

Munru’s soldiers urgently surrounded him.

The appearance of being wary of whether Calliope will continue the attack.

The soldiers who were vigilant on the wall also carried arrows to the string.

Thousands of arrowheads were aimed at me.

“If I wanted to take the fort, I did it in the evening. Do you think one of these forts will protect you? If you look down on us, do you really think you are above us?”

I raised my fisted right hand.

At that moment, several startled soldiers let go of the demonstration.

There were dozens out of thousands, and when dozens of arrows were directed at me, the other soldiers reflexively released their hands and fired their arrows.

“Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!”

The commanding officer’s urgent cry was useless.

It was after countless arrows had already reached me.

“…”

Calliope lowered her sword, which glowed blue in the sunlight.

The arrow was crushed by her blade before it even reached me.

Countless arrows flew in front of her and me.

“Impossible…”

Someone took a deep breath.

Her gaze swept over the castle wall once.

Shockingly, everyone who looked at them trembled.

Then she sheathed her sword and stepped behind me.

“Rachel.”

I raised the corner of my mouth slightly and smiled.

Rachel swung her raised hand round and round.

thud! thud!

The soldiers standing behind me clashed their weapons and made noise.

The sound was sharper than the sound of drums and louder than the sound of drums.

The soldiers took one step forward each time they bumped their weapons.

thud! thud!

“stop.”

The army stopped just a few steps away from me.

I raised my open right hand and squeezed it tightly.

bang-!

An explosion sounded.

Bang, bang, quaang—!

Explosions followed one after another.

It was the sound of a bronze cannon made by Pasimea.

Gunpowder that has been exploded so that it does not explode and only makes a loud sound.

“Magic! It’s magic!”

“Prepare for shock!”

Humans who did not even know the existence of gunpowder shrank in admiration.

Hearing only the sound, it was judged that a great shock would come to the wall.

However, when there was no shock following the sound, he panicked.

I couldn’t feel a handful of magic power, but I heard acrid smoke spreading and a deafening roar, so I couldn’t find my way and was startled.

Regardless of whether they were on the wall or the soldiers, they looked around, jumped, and shouted, not knowing what to do.

“stop!”

The sound cut off in my high voice.

Hitting weapons and shooting cannons.

The cluttered and tumultuous wall of Wido also stopped moving.

“Where did the momentum from a moment ago go?”

“…”

“Why, where did the momentum of throwing spears and shooting arrows at me go and only fear remained?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to me in silence.

“Or did you realize it too late? how stupid are you That wall, no matter how high and how many people there were, they would be scattered like dust with just one knife. That is your level.”

I spread my arms out to the sides and raised my voice.

“If you still want war, shoot! Shoot me if you want to end my life yourself! If not, open the door and welcome us.”

Hesitation spread over the ramparts.

The hesitation led to a high voice and then to a brief silence.

And soon the castle gate opened and the lord of the castle came out with his master.

The owner’s name is Julia Roesene, my ex-fiancee.

She looked at me in disbelief.

preparation

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“If you still want war, shoot! Shoot me if you want to end my life yourself! If not, open the door and welcome us.”

Edar spread his arms and said calmly.

Kung, Kung, the soldiers lined up behind him hit their weapons again.

The bodies of the soldiers looking down on them from the top of the wall trembled.

There was not a single word of courage in his eyes that had been filled up a moment ago.

Even though there were obviously more of them, they got discouraged and lowered their tails.

“Shoot!”

Haral Sudret roared.

He grabbed his wrist and clenched his teeth.

“Uhhhhh!”

There was a hole in the middle of his right hand.

Blood continued to flow from the pierced hole.

It was a wound from a spear thrown by Edar’s escort.

His face was contorted in pain and his eyes were bloodshot.

“Shoot again!”

The anger welling up in his chest rang out loud.

But no one followed his advice.

Those on the wall noticed a woman.

“…”

Her name was Julia, the only daughter of the Marquis of Loisene.

She was also the former fiancée of Edar, the outcast at the gates.

‘Nonsense.’

She paid no attention to the stares that were directed at her.

No, I didn’t even know I was getting attention.

I couldn’t afford to because I was so surprised.

‘Is that person Edar?’

Julia Rozene covered her mouth with her hand.

It was clear that if I didn’t cover my mouth, the words would leak out inadvertently.

She was so shocked that she couldn’t contain herself.

‘No way···.’

I blinked several times and looked at Edar.

The last time she saw him was last summer.

It’s been almost a year since I’ve seen it again, but it’s so different.

He at that time and now he was to the point where I could really think of him as a stranger.

‘He’s right, but…’

The appearance has changed, it was not such a problem.

Rather, there was little change in appearance from before.

They are dressed more plainly, the difference in degree.

Therefore, the reason why I thought I was a stranger was not because of my appearance.

‘Mood, action. It’s changed so much.’

She recalled the Edar in her memory.

Edar in my memories was a person who lacked confidence.

I tried not to make eye contact with the other person when I was talking, I stuttered one letter at a time when I was talking, my back was bent forward, and my shoulders were also shrunken.