The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

Jade fake coughed, as if embarrassed by his own words.

“Ahem! Last time, didn’t you say you would think together with me about a way to save my master when you gave me the liquor? That’s why I came.”

He nodded to himself and then slightly turned his gaze away.

He seemed to know that his logic was lacking even after saying it.

It probably wasn’t a lie.

It’s just that being drunk, he made a decision based on emotion rather than reason and ran to me without even checking, as I had foreseen his master’s death.

“Let’s just say you came with a highly developed magician’s intuition.”

“Ah! Yes, that’s exactly it!”

Even he, who affirmed my words, avoided eye contact again as if he knew he was being shameless.

I chuckled at that and filled a teacup with honey and boiling water, handing it to him.

“Drink, it’s good for sobering up.”

“Ah, thank you.”

“Your master’s determined death is probably from illness. If you know the cause of death, it’s possible to avoid it.”

Jade, who sat across from me, sipped the honeyed water and listened intently to my words.

“For Yekatrice to live, there is one prerequisite that must be fulfilled.”

“What is it?”

“Freedom. To be precise, she needs to be able to leave this land and get treatment for her illness. It’s difficult to summon a doctor here, so she has to go directly.”

If it’s the Cure Master Aladrine, she might be able to find a way to come here, but then there would be no one to take care of Gilbert’s sister.

It was worrisome with just Divet suffering from drug aftereffects or the weak Nedrian.

Anyway, both Divet and Aladrine were in a position to be chased by the Valley of Doctors(Dokwon aka Poison Institute).

“Do you know a doctor who can treat my master?”

“I do. Have you heard of the Valley of Doctors?”

The current Jade was likely to not know.

However, contrary to my expectation, Jade nodded his head.

“Yes, I heard from elder Dalanta. He said it’s a place where there’s no illness they can’t cure…”

“That’s an exaggeration. It’s not such an amazing place.”

Even they were human, so there were countless illnesses they couldn’t cure.

It’s just that thanks to kidnapping innocent people and conducting a lot of clinical trials, they had overwhelmingly more data compared to other doctors.

“However, it’s true that illnesses the Valley of Doctors can’t cure are difficult to treat in the first place without some kind of miracle.”

At my assessment, Jade became serious.

“I know a doctor from the Valley of Doctors. And a master-class doctor at that.”

In the Valley of Doctors, the title of master is conferred to only a very few.

Even including the expelled Divet and Aladrine, there were only five masters in the Valley of Doctors.

Although not well known to the world, those five were collectively called the Five Heavenly Doctors.

“Anyway, for treatment, it doesn’t change the fact that your master needs to be able to move freely.”

There were two ways for Yekatrice to escape the duty of guarding the seal.

One was to subjugate the great demons and completely close the hole to another world, fulfilling the duty.

The other was for Jade to inherit the position of the Sage of the Winter Tree, freeing her from the duty.

At my explanation, Jade’s expression darkened.

“The latter depends on your master’s will. If she judges that you’re not ready to inherit the position yet, there’s no way to forcibly inherit it.”

“Then we need to focus on subjugating the great demons.”

Jade nodded his head and resolved to participate more diligently in the subjugation.

“But my master said she had a little over a year left, and her condition isn’t serious yet. Then that means…”

“It means an event or trigger that will rapidly worsen her condition will occur soon.”

Or it could suddenly worsen without a trigger.

That’s how illnesses usually are.

Still, the mana of a magician of the level of a sage doesn’t easily allow death.

No matter how rapidly the condition deteriorates, she would be able to endure for a year, at least half a year at the minimum, without dying.

Just look at how the Sage of ten thousand soldiers, Geor, endured for nearly 10 years just by worrying about Silua.

“Could the attack of Arcana that Dalanta warned about be…?”

“It’s highly likely to be the trigger.”

At my affirmation, Jade jumped up.

“Then isn’t now not the time to subjugate the great demons?!”

At his words, I sighed.

“No, that’s precisely when you need to focus on subjugating the great demons. If you delay the subjugation and fail to prevent the worsening of her condition, do you think you’ll be able to properly participate in the subjugation?”

At my question, Jade shut his mouth.

Given his personality, rather than participating in the subjugation, he would definitely take care of his master and act on the duty of managing the seal in her stead.

He would definitely value spending the remaining time with a cherished one rather than wasting it clinging to an uncertain possibility.

It was a foolish act, but Jade was only sixteen years old.

No matter how trained, it’s an age where one can only judge based on emotion rather than reason.

Of course, in the novel, Jade was alone, but now we are together, so the situation is different.

I continued speaking before Jade could say he wouldn’t participate in the subjugation.

“We need to move while your master is still healthy. And I have my own guess as to why it will worsen, so I’ve prepared countermeasures, so don’t worry too much.”

As long as Yekatrice does well with my preparations, there won’t be an immediate crisis. Probably.

Jade bit his lip and lowered his head.

Judging by his clenched fists and trembling, he seemed to feel a sense of powerlessness, thinking there was nothing he could do.

“What you need to do now is subjugate the great demons as quickly as possible. The fastest way is to receive my help.”

To be precise, it should be called Precia’s help.

I’m just watching from afar, but at times like this, you need to take some credit to make it easier to exploit them.

“If you go out to subjugate this time, unless you’re seriously injured, we’ll deal with all the other great demons before returning. It will take a few days, so go pay your respects to your master and come back.”

It would be troublesome if we ran into Arcana while going in and out of the barrier.

Anyone else is fine, but I have a high possibility of becoming a hindrance, so it’s right to get me out of the way.

At my suggestion, Jade flinched and avoided my gaze.

“What’s wrong? You don’t want to pay your respects?”

“Ah, no. It’s not that I don’t want to…”

Fidgeting and crossing his legs, he looked exactly like a pubescent kid afraid of getting scolded by his parents.

He probably said things he shouldn’t have said, unable to control his emotions since it was the first time he drank, as he said.

I fully understand.

I understand, but…

“Sigh, my fate.”

To think I have to travel with such a greenhorn.

Should I recruit Yekatrice instead of Jade?

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Six people gathered in an ice cave near the Winter Tree Forest.

“Nyahahaha! I didn’t really think you’d come? ‘Strength’.”

When Arisa tried to pat the head of ‘Arcana 08, Strength’, the dwarf half her size roughly slapped her hand away.

Crunch!

Arisa held her hand that was hit by the dwarf, Carter Bifleod, and shed a few tears.

Despite his boyish small stature befitting a dwarf, his undeniable strength had broken her hand.

“Nyahahaha! It hurts.”

Black mana enveloped Arisa’s broken hand, and the broken bones found their places.

“Don’t act cocky, ‘Death’. You could die by my hands.”

Even at Bifleod’s murderous gaze, Arisa laughed with a giggle.

“Aw, how cute.”

Arisa tried to hug Bifleod, but Bifleod looked at her with contempt and took out a hammer larger than his own body size to threaten her.

When he held the hammer, it looked like a prop as if a very young boy was holding a hammer.

However, the hammer Bifleod was holding was not a toy-like prop but a genuine one made of solid adamantium.

Adamantium was the hardest and densest single metal in the world, so it was also very heavy.

“Disgusting. If I’m not needed, I’ll be leaving now.”

At Bifleod’s warning, Javan stepped in.

“Whoa! Whoa! Calm down! Our baby birdie, I’d appreciate it if you tone it down a bit. If you really want a hug, come into my arms. My arms are always open, you know?”

When Javan spread his arms, Arisa backed away, making a gagging noise as if she was nauseated.

“Hmph! If ‘The Fool hadn’t said he would hand over the ‘Courtesy Item’, I wouldn’t have participated in such an untimely matter. Just hand over the item.”

“Oh my, of course. Here it is.”

Javan took out a small container with ointment from his bosom and handed it to the dwarf.

“The effect is certain, right?”

“Well, it was definitely effective on fairies. I don’t know about dwarves.”

Bifleod made a doubtful face but put it in his subspace magic tool for now.

The dwarf momentarily stroked his smooth chin with a sorrowful expression.

“I hope it works.”

Then, a man wrapped in a black cloak and wearing a crow’s beak mask, ‘Arcana 15, Devil’ Malecob Jeffries, asked,

“More importantly, did you bring the key to use for the operation?”

At Jeffries’ question, Arisa took out a large magic staff from her shadow.

“Nyahahaha! Of course I brought it. If we stick this in the center of the seal, the seal will collapse and the hole to another world will open again.”

The jet-black magic staff was a specialized magic tool for breaking through the seal guarded by the Sage of the Winter Wood.

“Well, we’ve never managed to get through the Sage of the Winter Wood and reach it in all these years.”

“That doesn’t matter at all.”

Their goal wasn’t to break the seal, so it didn’t matter even if they couldn’t reach the seal.

The magic tool Arisa was holding would create cracks in the seal just by getting close to the sealing area and striking the ground.

Even just doing that, they could make the Sage of the Winter Wood unable to come out of the barrier to repair the seal, achieving their objective.

“The closer we get to the sealing area, the bigger the cracks will be, so how many will die trying to get as close as possible?”

The person wearing a deeply pulled hood, ‘Arcana 12, Hanged Man’, let out a small sigh.

The bigger the cracks created in the seal, the longer the Sage of the Winter Tree had to hold onto the seal.

At Hanged Man’s words, Jeffries leaned on his staff and let out a deep, murderous laugh.

“Kukukuk, don’t worry about that. I have a small disease I implanted in her body when I carried out an operation in my younger days.”

At Jeffries’ words, Javan showed interest.

“Ooh! Then can we even kill the Sage of the Winter Tree?”

At Jaban’s question, Arisa sneered.

“Nyahahaha, even if you implanted a disease, it’s meaningless unless it breaks out, right?”

“It’s fine. It’s already been 2 years since I heard the prophecy from Wheel that it broke out.”

At Jeffries’ affirmation, everyone gathered in the ice cave looked at Jeffries with expectant eyes.

Because if his words were true, the probability of surviving against the monster of the century, the Sage of the Winter Tree, would increase.

“To think it took 60 years to finally break out. I don’t know whether to lament that it took too long or be happy that it broke out before I died of old age.”

The elderly sorcerer had mixed feelings.

“Now, let’s start planning the operation…”

Just as Javan was about to speak, the executives gathered in the ice cave moved instinctively before even making a judgment due to an eerie sensation.

Kwa-gwang-gwang-gwang-!!

Hailstones the size of human bodies poured down from the sky, smashing the ice cave.

The first to move was Rotulus, the parrot beastman who had entered the realm of superhumans.

Rotulus cut and deflected the huge hailstones pouring down with his sword.

“Were we found out?!”

“How, in this vast mountain range?!”

They were startled, thinking their location had been discovered by the Sage of the Winter Tree.

But the sight revealed as the ice cave was shattered left them even more at a loss for words.

Yekatrice hadn’t targeted their location and poured down attacks.

She had simply devastated everything within a radius of ten kilometers centered around the barrier of the Winter Tree Forest.

“Aaaaah! Save me!”

Before the operation even began, hell had started.

TN: I stan Yekatrice so hard