The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The day after defeating the Red Eye.

I set out with the subjugation unit led by Demiway to subjugate the monsters that had started their activities in the eastern part of the Bastille Mountains.

My companions were worried about me, but my body was surprisingly fine, considering how much I had overexerted myself.

The monster subjugation wasn’t very difficult.

It was easy to find the way as the rangers of the subjugation unit, including the special forces captain, acted as guides, and Silua, who had learned large-scale doll tactics from me, controlled the steel spider dolls, allowing us to spread out more widely and subjugate.

After the subjugation was over, Demiway, who had returned to the territory, called me and said,

“I have supported His Majesty in the matter of the Queen’s deposition, as per your opinion.”

Demiway was a prominent leader of the neutral faction.

His power was immense, as he possessed tremendous military power due to the geographical characteristics of being adjacent to the Bastille Mountains, and he also served as the overlord of the northern territories.

If he wanted, he could immediately unite the neutral faction and create a new political faction.

However, Demiway did not do so.

Creating his own faction meant gaining strength, but at the same time, it meant facing strong checks and balances.

As it would have been fatal for Demiway, who needed various support and couldn’t rashly leave his territory, he did not create or join a faction.

Nevertheless, it was true that he still held great power.

“You did well. Currently, the central political circles are likely tilting towards the aristocratic faction due to the imperial delegation. With the Commander’s support, it will become balanced again.”

The situation where many aristocrats, including the royal family, were tied up in the central political circles was a good thing for Demiway.

No matter how autonomous a high-ranking aristocrat’s territory was, there was still some control from the center, so it meant he would have more freedom.

Moreover, as the lords of the surrounding territories were also tied up in the capital, it was a golden opportunity for Demiway to increase his influence in the nearby territories.

Even if he didn’t create a faction, he could more easily secure support, so increasing his influence was necessary.

The situation was even better as he had passed this year’s ‘Spring of Blood’ without damage thanks to my help.

“But don’t let your guard down. Opportunity often comes with crisis, so you should be careful of places you don’t usually check.”

Demiway nodded at my warning.

What I was worried about was the movement of Arcana.

“I’ll be careful. It’s truly regrettable that I can’t hire you…”

Demiway sighed, being careful not to let the special forces captain, who was working as his aide right next to him, hear.

He was even more disappointed after hearing my tactical and political advice.

If he got me, Precia and Silua would come along as well, so it was enough to make him shed tears of regret.

“By the way, is there no way to use that mutual destruction tactic you used without you?”

I shook my head at his question.

“It’s difficult unless you’re prepared for many human casualties. It would be better to invest more in barriers and fortresses instead.”

My tactics required not only the organic movement of dolls but also reconnaissance dolls, so there were practically no people who could use them.

Moreover, connecting the information between dolls was my original magic, making it even more impossible.

“That’s a pity. If we could use it independently like this, we could save military expenses drastically.”

“Well, it’s impossible to do it like me, but there’s a way to use dolls better than before.”

I handed Demiway the pre-written doll maintenance method and doll unit tactical plan.

The tactical plan was nothing more than changing the form of the doll control unit I had created, where I controlled them remotely, to one where one operator was assigned to every ten dolls.

Demiway was puzzled after reading the tactical plan report.

“Even our unit’s magical engineering corps couldn’t handle the dolls, so will it be possible?”

“I made doll controllers while repairing them. Basically, it will be automatic combat, but through the controller, the operator will be able to choose the dolls’ positions and combat styles. Of course, training operators will be tricky.”

Even if we have operators, they won’t be as good as doll masters, but it will be better than just having the dolls fight based on the automatic combat program set up by Geor.

“No, it’s sufficiently worth investing in. But are you really okay with receiving only that much for repair costs and war merits?”

I smiled wryly at Demiway’s question.

What I had agreed to receive from Demiway was a small amount of prize money, various elixirs, and the mana stones and byproducts from this monster subjugation.

The byproducts here included those of the Red Eye.

Many regretted the Red Eye’s byproducts, but Demiway said they wouldn’t have been able to catch it without me, so I was able to receive all parts except the head, which was a symbol of the subjugation, and some for research purposes.

“Why? Are you asking me to cut it down?”

At my playful question, Demiway shamelessly turned his gaze away, pretending not to know.

“Well, it’s fine since I received many other things as well.”

In addition to material rewards, I also received several rights.

The most valuable among them was the right to mobilize Demiway personally five times if I wanted, or the entire Blantzbarg command just once.

I had received the right to privately use the Sword Demon five times, which was much more valuable than material things.

Additionally, I received other rights that were meaningless to others but held great significance to me, such as the right to freely roam the Bastille Mountains and the right to mine minerals as I pleased inside the mountains.

Now, whether I mined mithril or mana stones in the mountains, no one could say anything to me unless they wanted to make an enemy of Marquis Blantzbarg.

Of course, one could ask if I could secretly mine since there were no people there anyway, but originally, insurance is taken out just in case.

And I received a lot of other miscellaneous help as well.

“So you’re leaving now?”

I nodded at Demiway’s question.

“I have to, since I’ve repaired the dolls damaged from subjugating the Red Eye.”

I had stayed in one place for too long. I still had to maintain my missing status, so it was time to move.

******

“Master, the day is cold.”

At the words of the boy with deep gray hair and piercingly blue eyes, the black-haired beauty smiled.

“When is it not cold here?”

“That’s true, but haven’t you been coughing more lately?”

The woman answered the boy’s worried question as if it was nothing.

“The illness isn’t deep, so there’s no need to worry. Wouldn’t it be stranger for someone my age not to have a single minor illness?”

At his master’s words, the boy fell silent for a moment.

His master was one of the greatest magicians in the world, so there was no way she would cough from a trivial illness.

“I heard there’s a place called the Valley of Doctors at the foot of the mountain where famous doctors have gathered, so I’ll…”

“Jade!”

At his master’s shout, the gray-haired boy, Jade, flinched.

“Where did you hear about the Valley of Doctors… No, there can’t be anyone else besides that fellow Dalantha. Am I right?”

“…”

When Jade didn’t answer, she patted her disciple’s head.

“I know your concern well. But the doctors in the Valley of Doctors aren’t people you can meet just because you want to. And no matter how capable they are, they can’t make medicine without directly examining the patient.”

Jade also knew that his master couldn’t leave this land of bitter cold.

If she couldn’t leave, he thought about bringing a doctor, but the land where they were wasn’t a place anyone could enter.

“…Is that so?”

As the disciple became dejected, the master laughed lightly.

“Hahaha! You’ve been studying pharmacology lately, so it was for this master?”

“That’s… right.”

When Jade affirmed shyly, she nodded.

“There’s no harm in learning it, so work hard.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Good, go inside. This master will look at the stars for a bit and come in.”

As Jade went into the house, she looked up at the night sky.

“Fate is shaking. Perhaps even my short remaining life can be used preciously.”

One of the great Sages of the Four Seasons, the Sage of the Winter Wood, Yekatrice Heightfill, captured the star-filled night sky with her black eyes.

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“Phew-et-choo! Eek! It’s cold!”

Even though I wrapped my whole body in thick clothes made of monster hide, as I went deeper into the Bastille Mountains, the cold penetrated through the fur and invaded my body.

“Young master! I made an igloo with snow! Come in quickly!”

Precia had worked hard to make an igloo by breaking the frozen snow field with a shovel.

It looked more like a roughly made cave than an igloo, but it didn’t matter what it looked like as long as it could protect us from this cold.

“Rami, lightly sprinkle water to reinforce it.”

-Beep beep!

At my instruction, Rami lightly sprinkled water over the snow house.

The snow house where water was sprinkled instantly froze and became sturdy.

As soon as I went inside, I took out firewood from the ingredient warehouse that I had brought from Blantzbarg territory and lit a fire.

“Nuni, ignite it.”

-Boro-rong~!

Tap! Tap! Tap! Fwoosh!

Sparks flew from the firewood, and it caught fire.

Now I could use magic to some extent, but using the spirits’ power was overwhelmingly less wasteful of mana.

If the fire magic used to light a bonfire had a power of 10, it was about 0.001 when going through Nuni.

This was why, even though spirit magicians were extremely rare, I thought magicians still researched spirits.

“Rami, fill it with water.”

As Rama filled Dalanta’s magic kettle with water, the kettle consumed the mana stones’ mana and began to boil the water.

As the inside was heated with warm air, everyone’s stiff expressions relaxed.

“Ah, I’m alive.”

As Navi blocked the cold air coming in through the entrance, the inside quickly became warm.

“Spirit arts really seem to be the best.”

Silua looked at my spirits as if she was envious.

The dolls would be disappointed if they heard that.

They were dolls made by a sage, after all.

After catching my breath, I asked Gilbert,

“Did you finish writing the letter to your sister?”

“Ah, there’s a little left.”

“You’ll send another one later, so write it roughly. Precia?”

Precia took out the letter she was sending to Horazon and her family.

“I’m done.”

As Precia took out her letter, Gilbert hurriedly took out stationery and finished his letter.

I roughly read the finished letter, and besides his sister, he had asked about the well-being of his friends, and there were quite a few of them.

“Wow, Gilbert, you were popular.”

Just how many friends does he have?

It was no wonder it took him a long time to write the letter.

“Popular… you say?”

“Yeah, I mean you have a lot of friends. There doesn’t seem to be any information about your whereabouts, so I’ll send it as is.”

I put the letter in an envelope and took out a messenger doll.

The doll carrying the letters from me, Precia, and Gilbert flew towards the capital.

“Well, if we’re fast, we can receive a reply in about a week.”

Now was the time to discuss how we could go further inside.