The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“Did they fall into that trap?” Jade asked worriedly while controlling the reconnaissance dolls in my stead.

“That trap? Which trap?” I asked back, and Jade looked at me as if to say, what else could it be?

“The traps you made in preparation for Arcana, right?”

“So which trap? You said that trap. Mire? Golden Chains? Seven Deadly Sins? Backlash? Illusion? I laid down so many traps, you see.”

“Are those all different traps?”

Ah, does Jade not know the types of traps?

I only designed the traps, and Yekatrice made them. It seemed she didn’t receive help from her disciple during the production process.

Well, it made sense that it would be awkward after they fought.

Then the only ones who knew the contents of the traps would be me, the designer, and Yekatrice, the producer.

By the way, as expected of the sage, she easily created the trap structures I thought up.

Of course, they would be broken through since they were made in quite a rush.

“Not all of them, they’re divided into patterns. Many are also overlapped. Unless it’s unlikely, they would have fallen into any of the traps.”

I sprinkled the traps evenly so Arcana would get screwed whether they retreated or proceeded with the surprise attack.

That is, if they were lying in wait where I expected them to be hiding.

Perhaps there was also a chance they hadn’t arrived at the Bastille Mountains yet.

The information Dalanta relayed  was only that there might be an attack.

Even in that case, the traps laid out wouldn’t go to waste as they could be used someday.

“Then which trap is the worst among them?”

I did divide the eighteen types of traps into five patterns, but I made it so they would get screwed evenly since I didn’t know exactly how many and who would fall into them.

“Personally, the worst would be Mire. But Mire is difficult to make, so there aren’t many, you know? So unless you’re quite unlucky, there’s no way you’d step on that.”

It was quite difficult to construct an imperfect distorted space and to lay all sorts of traps inside it.

Of course, Yekatrice was the one who actually made it, so I don’t really know.

Mire was a place dangerous enough to force enormous mana consumption once caught and even send someone straight to the afterlife if done well.

It may not be something for me, the designer, to say, but it was a wicked trap that truly proved human malice was endless.

“Now, now, it’s time to focus on hunting ‘Mist’. We need to figure out its location before the sun sets when Mist is active.”

Since Mist was a giant bat, we were searching mainly large and long caves in Mist’s territory where sunlight didn’t reach.

According to the information in the novel, it wasn’t difficult to narrow down the range as it resided in a sulfur cave where stalactites grew.

“Yes, I underst… Oh? I think I found it.”

Jade discovered traces of Mist within the information sent by the dolls. Silua and I stuck close to Jade’s side and checked the information.

“Seems like it’s the one?”

“I think it’s the one!”

Good, the direction to move was set.

“Let’s go! Ice House version 4.7!”

Silua moved the ice golem carrying the party.

*****

The Arcana executives who fell into Yuan’s trap ‘Mire’ quickly walked in the direction Arisa pointed out.

In front of them, a skeleton summoned by Arisa for time reduction and safety moved in a zigzag at the lead.

Behind the skeleton, Rotulus, who had the most outstanding senses and abundant battlefield experience among the Arcana executives, stood at the front.

Kwajik!

Then, the skeleton moving in front was crushed by something and shattered.

“Gravity trap ahead! How many times is this already!”

It was a trap that would instantly kill Jarvan, whose body was fragile, let alone superhumans like Rotulus or the dwarf Bifleod.

Arisa warned while taking out a new skeleton from the shadows, and Rotulus gauged the size of the invisible trap.

“Judging by the range where mana is felt, it seems we need to make a detour of at least 30 meters with room to spare.”

The dizzying white space was like a transparent maze.

The moment you set foot outside the designated path, it was filled with traps that would instantly kill an ordinary person.

If it weren’t for the bonfires created by magic placed here and there, they might have had to wander in pitch-black darkness instead of a pure white space.

“Demon, were there also traps like this in the operation to create cracks in the seal blocking the holes to other worlds you mentioned before?”

At Rotulus’ question, Jeffries shook his head.

“No way. The Bastille Mountains and the barrier that is the Winter Wood Forest itself are already a natural fortress, so there’s no reason to deliberately make such miscellaneous and wicked traps.”

Yekatrice, assisted by the Winter Wood Forest, was a monster that all the executives here couldn’t defeat even if they pounced together.

That arrogant and merciful mage couldn’t possibly make such malicious traps.

At Jeffries’ explanation, Jarvan shrugged.

“Then isn’t it a trap made by the newly inherited Sage of the Winter Wood?”

At Jarvan’s speculation, Jeffries was lost in thought for a moment and tilted his head.

“Usually, disciples are chosen based on not only skills but also personality. Just as a child resembles their parents, a disciple also resembles their master, so to say her disciple made traps like ones a deranged person would make…”

Just as Jeffries was feeling suspicious about something, a magic formation surfaced under the feet of the skeleton walking at the very front and began spewing out smoke.

“It’s poison smoke! Everyone hold your breath and blow away the smoke!”

Jeffries warned after smelling the faint scent before the smoke spread. The executives each used their own methods to create wind to block the smoke and quickly detoured.

“Nyahahaha, at least we didn’t lose the skeleton this time.”

As soon as Arisa said that, the skeleton at the lead stepped on a trap and was sliced by blade winds, turning to powder.

“Ahahaha! Right as you said it! As expected, little bird, you also have the makings of a ‘jester’!”

Jarvan laughed while slapping his knee. At that laughter, Arisa kicked Jarvan’s butt.

“Shut up! You slimy old man! Tch! Whatever, it’s fine! We’ve almost arrived anyway!”

Although they were careful of various traps as they came, it didn’t take very long as the skills of those breaking through were quite something.

Of course, there was the sacrifice of dozens of skeletons that indicated the locations of the traps from the front.

But just reducing the time in this perilous place where it was unknown when it would collapse was well worth it.

“If we strongly attack there, the distorted space will be torn apart!”

“Okay, I’ll do it.”

Rotulus swung his sword wrapped in sword energy toward the part Arisa pointed to.

Kwaaaa-!

The space was ripped apart by Rotulus’ sword. They expected to come out to the original space and prepared for any possible interception.

However, the torn space healed again, and a piece of paper fluttered down from inside it.

Checking the paper that fell to the ground, it was written in elegant handwriting:

-Too bad! Better luck next time.

Reading those words, Arisa went into a frenzy, tearing the paper.

“Nyahahahaha! How dare you toy with me! I’ll kill you!”

“Calm down! Death! Weren’t you the one who said we don’t have time!”

At Rotulus’ shout, Arisa, who was scattering murderous energy like a veteran mercenary, brushed back her hair with eyes gleaming with madness.

“Right, now’s not the time to get excited.”

The distorted space was already shaking. Arisa searched for the next seam, considering it might be fake or a trap.

“But for some reason, I feel like I’m gradually getting out of breath. It feels like the air is thinning little by little.”

At the words of ‘The Hanged Man’, who wore his hood pulled down, Arisa turned pale as if realizing something.

“We need to put out the fire right now!”

At Arisa’s words, the other executives besides the dwarf Bifleod looked at her as if she was spouting nonsense.

How were they supposed to break through the invisible maze full of traps without the numerous bonfires located all around?

“Fire burns by consuming ‘air’! If we don’t put out the fire, we’ll suffocate to death in this confined space!”

Like a dwarf known as a race of craftsmen, Bifleod shouted, realizing what Arisa was trying to say.

No matter how strong a superhuman was, they would eventually die if they couldn’t breathe.

The bonfire itself that illuminated their vision was the most wicked and dangerous trap slowly closing in from outside their awareness.

Arisa tried to put out the bonfires by creating a whirlwind with magic.

However, Arisa’s magic collided with the traps lurking all around and disappeared without going far.

The three-dimensionally structured traps also prevented flying magic.

“Damn it, it wasn’t the time to save mana.”

“We’ll escape with full power!”

In addition to the collapse of the space, the risk of suffocation threatened them. They were already deeply sunk into the invisible Mire.

******

Yekatrice noticed the mana stones rapidly being consumed in the magic formation connected to the trap the Arcana executives suddenly fell into.

She brought a sack of mana stones and poured them into the mana stone container.

Then she leisurely looked out the window and savored her black tea.

“Should I drink the alcohol my benefactor left behind…?”

She was still deeply troubled because of her disciple.

******

Before long, we arrived at the cave where the great magic beast ‘Mist’ resided.

“Shall we go in?”

At Gilbert’s question, I shook my head.

“No, there’s no need to deliberately enter a space advantageous to the enemy.”

It seemed I summarized the operation explanation too much due to lack of time while fleshing out the plan to screw over Arcana and designing the traps.

“Besides, Precia won’t be able to fight properly if we go inside.”

At my words, Gilbert nodded as if he realized.

“Ah, that’s true.”

Jade giggled and lightly tapped his feet.

“I’d rather not get buried by mistake.”

“You’re the one who would make such a mistake.”

The two glanced at each other and then snorted, averting their gazes.

“Kuk kuk! I’m glad you two seem to get along.”

When I smiled mischievously, Precia and Jade simultaneously protested.

“We do not!”

“Where do you see that!”

Then they glared at each other again and turned their heads once more.

Rather than really hating each other, they seemed to view the other as a rival, which was fortunate.

Originally, people fight like that and grow fond of each other.

“Now, now, the sun hasn’t set yet, so I’ll explain the operation again.”

Terrain like caves was disadvantageous because the ultrasonic attacks Mist used would bounce around and rush in from all directions.

Therefore, we would lure it out of the cave to fight.

In particular, the cave Mist resided in was full of mana crystals and the magic metal ethersteel, so ultrasonic waves containing mana were amplified and echoed.

In the novel, Precia and Jade went without knowing that and suffered a major defeat.

Fortunately, the Jade in the novel blocked the entrance with magic while running away, so there was no incident of losing Mist.

“Mana crystals and ethersteel are buried there?!”

At my words, the mages Jade and Silua showed interest.

Mana crystals could be replaced with mana stones that were highly likely to be found in the bodies of mana-wielding monsters, so they weren’t very precious, but ethersteel was different.

Ethersteel was a metal as rare as mithril or adamantium.

“We’ll mine it after subjugating Mist.”

And it would be Silua’s dolls doing the mining, while we had to go catch ‘Lightning Steps‘ right away.

As the concrete and detailed operation explanation was coming to an end, the sun slowly began to set.

And the giant bat-type great magic beast ‘Mist’ came out of the cave to become active.

As soon as Mist came out, I immediately cast magic.

“Take this, eye-dazzler! Solar Sphere!”

“Kieeeek!”

In front of the fireball containing the energy of the bright sun, ‘Mist’, who inherited the blood of an ancient vampire, let out a scream.

TN: This man is EVIL lol