I’m Going to Destroy this Country

What the heck?

At Sapien’s expression, Isaac smiled as if everything was going according to plan.

Right. No ordinary method would be able to drag this one to the Holy Empire.

Can’t we use force to drag her?

It was obvious at a glance.

If we clash head-on, it’ll be difficult to even barely survive. I still only have a tiny fraction of my power compared to my prime.

And if I pit Shabnak against her, they’d be evenly matched so it would take more than 3 days.

So what else can I do?

‘I have to tempt her with words she’ll be interested in?’

Sure enough, the other side reacted immediately.

“That Imperial Family scum dares to hide the Skeleton King and meet him secretly?”

She didn’t just react, she properly took the bait.

Whisper seemed worried.

[Is this okay? Isn’t this fraud?]

Why is it fraud? I didn’t say anything wrong.

It’s true that the Crown Prince is secretly indulging in his hobby, and it’s true that he’s meeting me, the Skeleton King.

[That may be true… but can you handle this??]

I’ll think about that when the time comes.

For now, don’t I need to drag her to the Holy Empire for anything to be possible?

Well, if she doesn’t move with this, it might get a bit dangerous…

“Take me to the Crown Prince immediately.”

Great, she took the bait!!!

As Isaac inwardly chuckled, the half-dragon fainted.

“No, Leader! You can’t! How could you go to the country of our enemies! Have you forgotten about your uncle!”

However, Sapien rolled her eyes.

“Shut up! That maggot-like Imperial Family is hiding the Skeleton King and keeping him all to themselves! I’ll talk to uncle when I meet him in the afterlife!”

“Leadeeer!”

Puhuhehe. Good, very good.

This will stun that Pope bastard too?

“I need to go to the Holy Empire myself and see the Crown Prince.”

Kyaaah! I can see the nobles gaping. I can see the Imperial Family falling for me too! Kya, as expected of me!

“I’ll kill the Crown Prince and retrieve the Skeleton King.”

[Excuse me? A different problem has arisen???]

‘Eh… it’s fine. Even by teleportation, it’ll take time.’

I just need to persuade her until then.

‘It took quite some time coming with the half-dragon too.’

[Well, we did take quite a roundabout route.]

The continent has various places that interfere with magic, lands where magic can’t be used due to magnetic fields, etc. Because we have to consider such places, it takes more time than expected.

Even at top speed, it takes half a day.

So if I give advance notice to the Imperial Family in the meantime, that’s enough… Huh?

Isaac widened his eyes.

Someone had suddenly picked Isaac up.

“Huh??”

At the same time, a golden portal opened before his eyes.

‘What? A gate?’

Sapien had used gate magic while holding Isaac.

“This will be faster than teleportation since we can go directly.”

What the??

[Isn’t a gate an even more stable high-level transportation magic than teleportation?]

As expected of a leader-level, the level is different, shit!! How can you create a gate in just seconds to such a distant place!

Damn these silver spoon bastards!

“With this we can go to the Holy Empire’s Imperial Palace in one go.”

No! We don’t need to go in one go!

“There’s no worry about humans losing consciousness either.”

No! You don’t need to be considerate of that!

“It’ll be just the blink of an eye for humans.”

Damn! There won’t even be time to give advance notice to the Imperial Family!

At that moment, the half-dragon blocked the gate.

“Leader! I can’t let you go!”

No, it wasn’t just the half-dragon. As if they had summoned their kin in the meantime, unfamiliar blonde groups appeared.

“That’s right! You mustn’t go.”

Although interferers appeared in droves, Sapien frowned her fine brows deeply.

“Move aside. I’ll kill you if you interfere.”

“You can’t! Not until dirt enters our eyes…”

Bang!

At Sapien’s gesture, all the groups were buried in the sand.

“I’ve put dirt in your eyes, so I’m going.”

At that sight, Isaac blankly looked at the sky. Even Whisper was surprised.

[Wow, she’s super strong.]

…Yeah. Let’s absolutely not reveal that I’m the Skeleton King.

[I agree. Your body wouldn’t survive, Master.]

But just in case, I should say this in advance.

“Let me warn you, you can’t kill the Crown Prince.”

Sapien slightly frowned her brows.

What?

“The Skeleton King is very fond of the Crown Prince.”

Whaaat??

I don’t know why she’s getting angrier at these words, but-

“If you said you’ll marry the Skeleton King, you’d better follow this.”

“Then I just can’t kill him, right?”

“Also, you can’t disable him.”

Crack!

[The Crown Prince… isn’t he going to get grabbed by the collar as soon as they meet?]

How should I know? Anyway, it’s fine as long as she doesn’t kill him, right? If we sit them down, we should be able to clear up the misunderstanding.

Sapien immediately entered the gate.

In an instant, space folded and the view rapidly changed. From the Sacred Dragons’ nest, across the sea, leaping over plains.

How much time had passed like that.

When they were nearing the Holy Empire, Sapien said something unexpected.

“Priest.”

“Huh?”

“Is someone other than Sacred Dragons in charge of the Holy Empire’s barrier?”

“What are you talking about?”

Soon Sapien’s atmosphere changed.

“Then this is something you don’t know about either.”

“Huh?”

The two bodies stopped moving. It was because a strange magic formation was activating from the Empire’s barrier.

Whirrr!

And the barrier sucked in Sapien, the Sacred Dragon, and Isaac, the Blue successor.

* * *

Meanwhile, at the Imperial Palace.

Crown Prince Shablis was just looking out the window.

The nobles gathered at the palace stirred as they watched him.

“It’s already the second day. There’s no sign of Young Master Isaac returning.”

To be precise, they were watching the Crown Prince’s downfall. Along with surveillance of the Crown Prince and Imperial Princess.

Sure enough, the Pope’s faction smiled softly from behind.

“His Highness the Crown Prince seems quite anxious.”

“Well, he must be nervous since he’s waiting for Sacred Dragons that won’t return.”

“He probably didn’t think we’d be watching like this.”

“With His Majesty the Emperor showing no signs of waking up to help, it’s practically over. We can proceed with dethronement.”

The Pope’s mouth corners were subtly twisted.

“Isaac Eshua. He left so confidently, yet there’s not even word of him appearing near the Holy Empire.”

The Blue family head staying by the Crown Prince’s side couldn’t help but be anxious. Elai clicked his tongue, tsk, and looked at Benjamin.

“How’s the tracking going?”

He had already secretly attached Leia and Lilai to Isaac. But Benjamin bit his lip closely.

“Well… actually, he suddenly disappeared without a trace.”

Elai’s eyebrows rose.

“Disappeared?”

“We tracked him disappearing by teleportation, but the problem is what happened next. Isaac’s energy vanished near the Holy Empire.”

“What did you say?”

“Since it was right near the barrier, we can only think something happened there…”

The barrier?

At the same time, knights rushed to the Crown Prince and whispered. They were the investigation team he had sent personally. They all brought similar news.

“All traces of Young Master Isaac have been completely cut off.”

“Further tracking is impossible.”

“We can’t help but think he’s hiding because he couldn’t succeed…”

The Pope burst into laughter as if he had already heard that story.

“He must have run away.”

“!”

“He must have finally hidden because he wasn’t confident in bringing Sacred Dragons. Otherwise, there’s no way tracking would be impossible.”

The nobles stirred greatly.

“Hiding…!”

“He must know he’ll lose everything if he returns empty-handed. And there’s only one place on the continent where the Holy Empire can’t track.”

“!”

Everyone had one place that came to mind.

Sure enough, the Pope’s mocking gaze turned to Elai.

“Since he was close to the Magic Empire’s Prince, could he have gone there for asylum?”

“Kughk…!”

“With this, the Blue will lose its successor.”

Instead of answering, Elai glared at the Pope. He found the Pope extremely suspicious.

‘It was strange from when he made the bet.’

There’s no way the Pope would give up the right to approve imperial succession, which is the symbol of their power. It’s shaking their very foundation.

‘He must have done some work in advance.’

Just then, Benjamin, who seemed to have heard something, was startled and whispered carefully.

“Father. There’s a report of an anomaly in the barrier where Isaac disappeared.”

“What kind of anomaly?”

“It’s said to be connected to the flow of space-time.”

At those words, Elai let out a short sigh.

“Don’t tell me Isaac was sucked in there?”

“That’s all we can think…”

The Blue family head’s face hardened. Even so, the flow of space-time? Why would that barrier, which shouldn’t touch priests, do that?

At that point, someone burst into laughter.

It was the 3rd Prince. He approached the Crown Prince triumphantly.

“With this, all the lies have been exposed. Well, if Sacred Dragons could be brought so easily, the Papacy wouldn’t have gone through all this trouble.”

“!”

“So what will you do, brother? You’ll have to hand over the right to the throne now.”

“…!”

The 3rd Prince was certain of his victory.

In fact, he had already heard something.

‘Isaac Eshua won’t come back anyway. No, he’ll never return.’

Actually, he had tampered with the Holy Empire’s barrier.

‘The moment Isaac Eshua returns, the barrier will recognize him and send him flying far away. They said they’d make it look like he ran away with that.’

From the beginning, whether Isaac completed the mission or not, the plan was to prevent him from returning at all.

Well, by the time he luckily returns, everything would be over. He would become Emperor, and the Blue returning successor would be driven out by the new Emperor’s hand.

Of course, the 3rd Prince had someone who bothered him more than Isaac.

“Well, it’s not just brother who lied about the Empire’s barrier starting to collapse.”

“Not just His Highness?”

“Because the siblings are doubly cursed.”

“Siblings?”

The nobles who understood the 3rd Prince’s meaning stirred.

“Are you talking about Her Highness the Imperial Princess?”

Shablis’s eyes rose fiercely. This bastard, is he trying to touch the Imperial Princess here too?

“Why, don’t you believe it? Then we should check whether the Imperial Princess is cursed or not.”

The 3rd Prince extended his hand to the nobles. It was asking them to respond to his opinion. The nobles made an instant judgment.

“Even the Imperial Princess is like that?”

Shablis’s eyes turned fierce.

“Lucas!”

“What’s wrong? If it’s not true, show us proof, show us the Sacred Dragons! If you’re not cursed, you must have contracted with them!”

Suddenly the atmosphere changed. The controversy over the Crown Prince’s dethronement began to spread.

The Crown Prince gritted his teeth. In fact, he thought it couldn’t be helped even if Isaac ran away. He would have done the same.

‘Well, it’s enough that he tried to help until the end.’

It was enough just to comfort him that black hair wasn’t bad. He had a duty to prioritize his own family before keeping promises with the Imperial Family.

If the situation was like this, going to the Magic Empire would also be a wise decision…

But it was then.

“I see something over there!”

“Huh…? What’s that?”

A streak of light was cutting through the sky. Like a golden arrow shooting towards the Imperial Palace. The form of the beast said to be the most beautiful in the world.

Those who confirmed it in detail were shocked. Because there was only one thing in this world with that appearance.

“It-It’s a Sacred Dragon!!”

“Wh-What did you say?!”

At the knights’ shouts, not only the noble faction but even the Pope rarely showed a flustered look.

A Sacred Dragon?

“It’s carrying something on its head!”

What? Carrying?

For the proud dragons to put someone on their head? They would never carry anyone except the contracted Emperor?

Could it be carrying a beast or a baby dragon?

No, that wasn’t it.

“…The one riding is Isaac Eshua!”

…What did you say?!