We were situated in the royal capital of the Brune Kingdom, to be more precise in the royal palace. There, in the hall of ministers, an important meeting was taking place.
"We must strengthen our borders!"
"No, that's a waste of time! Attack! That's what we must do, attack the enemy before they attack us!"
"And where will we get the economic resource for that?"
"From taxes. The people must support in such cases."
"Years ago we had to spend on medicine to avoid the mysterious pandemic that hit us! The country doesn't have the economic resource to send who knows how long our soldiers!"
"So you're suggesting we wait for them to invade us?"
"No. What I'm saying is─"
For hours now, the ministers have been discussing an event overheard by the knights on the border.
"A spy from the principality was infiltrated from months ago."
That information reached the capital within hours, no matter if it is real or not, it is very dangerous just to mention it.
For that reason they have been discussing since before breakfast.
Servants have brought plates of food for them to eat in there, they even set tables for them to sit at.
Among them, in the center of it all, was the most important figure in the country.
On a beautiful golden throne, it was just a gold plated armchair.
His elegant white clothes with different colored jewels on his fingers and a golden scepter with a beautiful diamond in the center to go with it.
There was the king, Gilliam von Brune, a man who was just entering his forties, but thanks to his work as monarch, his natural hair had turned gray and his beautiful blue eyes had lost that gleam of ambition.
His hair reached his shoulders and if it weren't for his wife helping him shave, his beard would cover his entire face.
The king preferred that only those who are intimate with him call him Liam.
Liam thought as he watched them argue with the ministers.
(I don't know why they get into this argument again if it's going nowhere.)
(Since I've been on the throne, it's always the same, argument after argument that is pointless and just wastes time.)
(I understand the situation better than all of you.)
Liam began to reveal part of the background of the game unintentionally.
(Many years ago, this country was under the rule of a royal family named Frazier. The same ones from the principality since we kicked them off the throne.)
(They were not only corrupt, they did as they pleased, stole in the face of the people, used taxes for their over the top banquets and worse.)
(So two hundred years ago, my ancestors gathered enough courage to oppose the royal family).
(Back then we were a simple ducal family, as the nobles were independent, no one takes anything for granted, let alone support others.)
(To achieve our goal we needed help, large numbers of soldiers, that's where the four families were formed).
Liam's eyes moved to a man in glasses and a hood who stood with other men just like him in dress.
(The first of these was a landless earl family named Ashton, for helping us they would bestow upon us the title of chief court mage, in charge of all matters with magic in the palace.)
Again his eyes moved to another place, but one that was not present, such as the stall next to him.
(Next were two marquises new at the time, they had no influence, but resources. They were the Catley and Harvey family.)
(And finally... the other ducal family, the Redblades.)
(According to my father, I don't remember exactly what they asked for, but I only know that they went to live in the country and that they don't want to be involved in political matters, that's the only reason they accepted).
(After we reunited, we became the five founding families and kicked the Fraziers out of the country. My family became the new royal family and that's how the Brune Kingdom was born.)
(Everything should be happiness for a new beginning of the country... but the problems came just then.)
Liam's eyes started to look bad at all the ministers.
(From the first king to the third, this country has been sinking into debt after debt.)
(From what the fourth king, my father, told me, is that the Fraziers have been trying to recover what was lost and won't give up it seems.)
(For that reason, that instead of there being only one faction, the faction of the royal family, in this country there are four.)
(Starting with mine, the royal faction, followed by the religious faction, they want to get into political issues because they find it unfair that soldiers of the god of light are paying taxes and are not given benefits. But there they are wrong.)
(In our laws it says that religion is outside of politics, they have nothing to do with politics. That's why they are the most annoying faction but less numerous.)
(Then come they, the opposing faction to the royal family. The Calvinists. Their name lies with the current prince of the principality.)
The king gritted his teeth unseen.
(They are the most dangerous faction despite not being from this country because of the last faction, the radical faction.)
"Companions, I think you are being very exaggerated about this matter."
Said one man, he stood up and walked to the center.
He was a tall man, but very burly, he looked like an orc, his jowls equaled four fingers, and his stomach was bigger than a pregnant woman's.
His hair was falling out and just like his eyes were brown.
"We don't need war or to protect ourselves, we need peace."
"Peace?"
"Yes. Peace that will bring us if we enter into negotiations with them."
The king's eyebrow rose in anger.
"Why would we do that prime minister!"
This man was the prime minister, Darryn Harrisburg, that position is only given to the minister of foreign affairs, who deals with foreigners and is the voice of the lower ranking ministers or when there is a unanimous decision.
The king just looked at him angrily.
(Damn Harrisburg, originally that post belonged to Catley. That's why I don't believe the excuse that he said he was sick for years and gave that position to you.)
(Why do you want to enter into negotiations with them?)
(The answer is obvious. Because it would be to your advantage.)
(If a single soldier of the principality enters, thousands will.)
(Since you are the only one who will oversee the border with the principality, you will be able to let hundreds or thousands of soldiers enter.)
(The reason why the Calvinists have been for years being a real danger is because they have been given the reasons to invade us.)
(Bad deals with merchants, destroyed peace treaties, protesting farmers, knights abusing their power. All of that you've been in charge to try to fix and you've only made it worse.)
(I can't count on anyone here as I don't know who is a Calvinist or who is on your side in this).
(The knights and magicians of the court have sworn allegiance to their country, but they are not exempt from corruption. As we are going through an economic crisis, I would not be surprised if they reveal themselves).
(As a king, nothing saddens me more than to see my people suffer and my own vassals want to remove me from power for a few measly coins. Worst of all, I am sure that the kidnapping of my daughter at her birthday party was the work of the Calvinists.)
(But there is nothing I can do. Just pray that my son manages to get great allies now that he will enter the royal academy.)
The king closed his eyes, praying in his heart that help to change this country and defeat its enemies would come.
Accelerated footsteps were approaching straight to the room, the door was abruptly opened and an officer with a paper in his hand shouted.
"A new...... The ducal house of Redgrave has a new lord!"
"The heir of the family took the position from his father!"
The faces of all the ministers implied that they did not understand what the officer said.
The prime minister sat back in his seat and ordered something to drink to be brought to him as he replied.
"We are busy with something important, we don't have time for what a country noble says, besides that only His Majesty can declare when it is time to give the territory to a country noble, they have no right to choose new head without the permission of the palace."
"Y-You see... there is a letter that came with that news."
"A letter?"
"Y-Yes... it's addressed to all of you."
The officer took out the letter and panicked for a moment. The prime minister who drank all his wine said.
"Well, is it some nonsense or is he trying to convince us?"
"The letter says, in his own words..."
"I was told that only you could accept or not, my title as the new duke... huh? What the fuck is wrong with you useless old fucks! You want me to kick your ass? Fuck you all! I'm the new duke and that's it! If anyone wants to deal with me and try to remove me, go ahead, I'll cut off the head of that idiot and his son, then I'll burn your territories. To hell with you and your rules, a Cheat Lord does what he wants, so when I go to the capital I will personally kick your asses to see if you want to take what is mine. Greetings from the new Duke, Reidel Redblade."
"P.S. How was Rose?"
"Too bad, it's too horrible─ don't write that too───!"
"Th-That's what it says..."
The hall fell silent, the first to manifest a vein in his head and shout after standing up was the prime minister.
"That fucking brat! How dare he disrespect us!"
"This is rebellion! No, this is insubordination! We must execute him as soon as possible and put another member of the family as duke."
"Your Majesty, waste no time and send the magic cavalry after his head!"
The prime minister looked or gave the impression that he was giving orders to the king, but the king himself was trying to hold in his laughter.
"I... puh... I'm sure... puh..."
His cheeks were puffing out and his fingernails were clutching at the hand rest to keep from letting out his laughter.
(Hahahahahahahaha! It really was funny.)
(It certainly is as he says, he deserves the workout... but, if he had the courage to answer us that, it means he's not afraid of us.)
(A human being who is not afraid of punishment is either an idiot... or he is someone who is so confident in his strength that he does not hesitate to show it.)
(If it's the latter, and if he's not actually hostile... maybe he's the help Sig needs.)
The king finished laughing inwardly and replied to the prime minister.
"You are right prime minister."
"In that case..."
"But we will do as he said. That he will come to the capital, we will take it as a bet to see if he keeps his word."
"But His Majesty mocked us!"
"I said, Prime Minister, we'll wait for him to come."
An angry expression flooded his face, even when he showed his bows were very hostile.
The king smiled inwardly a little as the conversations returned to normal.
(If he really is a threat, I will send him to him to eliminate him, but if he turns out to be an ally, I will do my best to make him serve us.)
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On one of the balconies of the royal palace.
A beautiful girl was watching the scenery of the capital.
Birds were approaching her by her beautiful humming, a person came.
Her brother.
"Eli, mother sent for us. I came to fetch you."
The girl who was more beautiful than the setting sun turned around.
"Fine. Sig onii-sama."
She walked a little fast and entwined her arms with his.
"What does our mother want to talk about?"
"I think it has to do with the academy? Since we're going in soon."
"Are you scared?"
"No, because I know my prince will be there."
*Sigh*
"Eli, we're adults now, don't insist with your jokes about marrying me."
"I'm not talking about you brother, I'm talking about my real prince, the one from that day."
The princess smiled heartily.
"I'm sure he'll go with us too, I can feel it."
From that day, the prologue ended, and chapter one of three began.
"So they've been interrogating you for days now?""Yes. They're very irritable.""Even today I had to get up early just because Rose told me I had to."It has been a few days since Rei delivered various documents to Sigurd, which contained secret and detailed information about the corrupt people in the Kingdom and some Calvinists.Of course, the palace got wind of it and Rei has had to go several times to answer the knights' interrogation.Which of course, in trying to intimidate Rei or wanting to go over his head, ended up with some fractures.Rose lectured him and even threatened to deny him affection whenever he wants it.Just like a dog, Rose tamed Rei with what he likes the most.After leaving the palace a few minutes ago, he headed to the academy for lunch.At a free table he sat down to eat in peace, but after a while, Oliver and Isaac arrived to sit down without permission.In Oliver's case I get it, it se
At the royal palace, the prime minister was in his office pounding on his desk."Damn that son of a bitch!""With all that bullshit he's talking, he's hurting me more than I thought he would.""Worst of all, my own allies feel afraid about the evidence that came in, even those who are not responsible for some crime are afraid that it will incriminate them in some way."Sweat was pouring down his face, he bit a fingernail because of how irritated he was.As he was looking for a way out of this problem, footsteps approached his office."Daddy, help me!""What's wrong my son? What happened to your face!"Darrell arrived at his father's office with his face completely bruised, his eye was black, his nose was broken and swollen like his cheeks and his front teeth were in his pocket."Daddy, that bastard Redblade did this to me! The worst thing is that he killed Neil!""Neil? ... You're talking about Count Darlant's son
Today was special for two reasons.The first one was because today was the end of the first semester of the academy.Thanks to Rose extorting money from Rei, he managed to recover in time to not give supplementary exams.The second good reason is why we are in the palace.Thanks to what happened weeks ago with the prime minister.The palace was able to take action to detect the Calvinists and the corrupt.Many heads rolled.Many noble families of several generations were destroyed.But most of all, many events to strengthen the harem or conquer girls were again destroyed.That bothers me a lot.I want a body and to be able to enjoy my new life surrounded by many women and riches.But I'm a stone, thanks to that shitty god I'm stuck here forever.I don't know if after finishing the three chapters of the game I can disappear.I hate being a stone, I want to be a human being!"Master, you'
"I'm Ulysses the god of errors, a pleasure.""──Huh?"Kurono had been sent to his reincarnation.The god by the name of Ulysses burst out laughing."Hahahaha, I love it when they make that face!""I may be a fourth-rate god, but I'm not a failure.""Let's see..."The god was checking the world that had been created to send to the young man by the name of Kurono Ichiru."Umm, the time is just right, there seems to be some problems since it is impossible for many things to exist without living things intervening.""Now let's find him the family to send him to... oh, that family looks good and loving, plus it's near the territory of some Redblade, let's go──"A crack in the blank space formed.Just like a glass cracking it shattered."What is that!"A black space was in that hole.Out of it came a group of "people" with skin as white as a wall.They had a black mask over their eyes.
Rei and Rose arrived in the territory, April vacation started smoothly.Rei was walking around a bit upset.He managed to get Eli as his fiancé, the problem is that her mother denied her the trip to his fiancé's territory.Rei wanted to show Eli off to his parents.That's why he was in a bad mood.But there was someone who was in a bad mood."Chiiiiiii."It was Rose who was sending strange glances at Rei.Hours passed, and Rei's anger was replaced by hunger.So he decided to eat, but even there, Rose was still sneaking glances at him."Chiiiiiiii."Once he finished eating, Rei was heading to his room.Rose was still behind him to kiss him goodnight."Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"The sound she made at the sight of him was getting sharper and sharper like an alarm, Rei couldn't take it anymore and said."What's wrong with you that you're so angry! If you're upset because
It is a pleasure to write to you again, my dear readers, greetings from Siegburn the author.First of all, I want to thank you all for reading my novel.As you could see, the story is about a misunderstanding that ends up being a huge affair.But I'll be honest with you, don't expect to see that here, in fact, not even Kurono will know about it, since what was talked about in the interlude is about the general lore of my super universe.Which you will know about it when you read my novels since they are all somehow related or part of something big.Secondly, Rei's story as a psychopathic lunatic will continue in volume two.Where new enemies will emerge, new allies (if they are any useful) but most of all, a totally unexpected plot twist for which you will want to read volume 3 coming at some point.With nothing more to say, continue to support me and I hope you enjoyed this simple story of a reincarnated in an erotic game.In
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Greetings from Siegburn, your favorite author dear readers. It gives me great pleasure to officially inform you that the novel of Cheat Lord has reached the halfway point. That's right, half of the story has been reached! It's similar to Ixion where we also reached the halfway point of the story, only Re:Otome would be missing so that all my works would be halfway. Did you think that Kurono would remain a stone forever? Obviously I'm not a crappy author to do that XD. You guys after reading various things in my works that happened, you would have to have known that Kurono would have a body one day, but no one imagined that I would use a monster as a vessel XD. Could I have done it before? Yes. Why didn't I do it? I didn't want to do it, I wanted it to happen like this. Why a chimera? Because I wanted something crazy non-human for what Kurono will do. As you could see, we put aside R18 to focus on secondary and character development. Rei is growing up little by little, we are
A new morning has arrived already. I managed to get a body, it's not human, but I can make it look like one. I discovered this while fiddling around. First, keeping this form consumes approximate 40% of my powers, since even the smallest detail copied it from my original body from my memories. Second, I am never hungry. I can eat, but feel no interest in consuming food. Third, I do not need to sleep, but I can briefly disconnect my consciousness and appear to have slept for hours, it works like a stopwatch. And finally, I do not possess any limbs. That's right, I'm just like the dolls for little girls. Isn't this sad? I had to recreate everything, but it doesn't work. I want to cry, I have no use for a gun which not only doesn't have a bullet, it can't shoot either. As a man I am a failure, but well, I can't cry over spilled milk. After I got up, a maid knocked on the door. "Kurono-sama, please wake up, it's time for breakfast." Rei's bastard told everyone to call me Kuro
"... Well... do you have anything to say?" I was being lectured by Rei. How did this happen? Well it turns out that after I cast that huge magic power into the sky, a part of the palace was wiped out. I got so scared thinking that I could kill someone. I used the "invisibility" skill to check for injuries. I almost had a heart attack when I saw it... or I had one, but since this body is not human the heart attack could have happened and I didn't feel it. I was thinking of committing seppuku just like the samurai when I heard that all this was caused by a monster. I stayed all day at the palace gathering information. As night fell I heard how the palace would raise taxes to repair the castle. Then when almost everyone went to sleep, I knocked out some guards and used my powers to rebuild the place. After that I hid for three days in the forest, the knights were looking for traces of possible accomplices. I got so scared that I looked like a bear in its cave. After three day
After ending the chaos with what happened to Klyde, the servants, knights and ministers proceeded to search for wounded. The deceased would be given a burial and their families would be rewarded for their brave sacrifice. As Rei searched for injured people, he encountered someone unexpected. "Max!" He found his cousin trying to run away. He turned around and saw Rei. He ran out after seeing him, Rei went after him, after grabbing him, he choked him. "You... do you have any idea the trouble you've gotten yourself into?" "They're treating you as his accomplice! They're going to execute you if they find you." "... Fault." "...?" Rei heard a small murmur, Max lifted his face and looked at his cousin with a hate-filled gaze. "It's all your fault!" 'If you hadn't ruined my future! The duke's title that belonged to me! I wouldn't have gone near that guy!" "It's your fault it ended up like this!" *Punch* Rei slapped Max's cheek. He looked at him with a nasty expression. "I'll
Rei's plan to defeat Klyde's clones was simple. They would have the six copies fall into the water fountain, Sieghart is the one who would be in charge of grouping them, Darius would throw them with his spear and Rei would arrange for the water to wet them all and thus use a necessary skill to defeat them. It was dangerous because they could die. It was ridiculous because nothing was guaranteed to work. But for Rei, this was the only plan he could think of. Thanks to the past events of his fight against Calvin, Rei understood that sometimes his powers won't work to defeat impossible enemies. Sometimes it will be necessary to ask for help and rely on others. Unlike the past, where the first person he trusted was the one who taught him how to use the sword, and then betrayed him with the knowledge that he sold children, including a little Eli, he was filled with pure hatred for liars. Rei did not trust people because they lied, it was as if a part of him was still a child. But n
In the hall of ministers were the king and queen. They were scared, they heard that a monster came out from under the palace and is coming up screaming that it wants their heads. They could run away, but they had no idea if it might have allies waiting in hiding. Thanks to a servant shouting that Sieghart had arrived, they felt safe. But the queen looked at a certain person with a bad expression. "My dear, is Sieghart sure about not coming to defend us?" The king who understood why she said so answered her. "Olga, we need Sieg to take care of defeating the intruders. That's why you sent him to protect us in the meantime." "I understand that, but... him?" Said the queen pointing her nose at Bret who stood in the center of the place. Bret thought as he looked at the door and a booger ran down his nose. (Why does this always happen to me?) (For some reason they get me involved in something I can't handle and now that I thought I would be calm at the border they drag me to this
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"The first time I died, I was in a dark place." "There was nothing, just darkness." "I cried for help, I begged for rescue." "No one came to help me." "But at that moment... a warm light came right at me." "It was a dark light from which a woman in a black dress and skeleton-like appearance greeted me." "She said 'Your time has not come, but you are not someone normal either. I will not allow you to die until you have achieved your goal. Go on living and experiencing a life of joy to achieve your desire, I wish to see you one day and that you have achieved it'." "That's what she said." Klyde was telling strange things to the official who was taking down everything he said. He couldn't believe it. (This guy... he's completely insane!) He couldn't believe his ears. The official said. "Hey, we have to inform the king that this guy is crazy. I don't know if we can condemn someone in such a deranged state of mind." Despite the official saying that, Klyde didn't stop. "I knew
Dear readers, the day I had told you so much about has arrived. The big surprise, I don't want to say any more. Just that you enjoy it and that we are entering the final stretch of the volume. _____________ The next morning something unexpected happened. Rei took Ange-chan for a walk. After she got up, they went to have a bunch of pancakes for breakfast. After that they went horseback riding. Then they went beetle catching. It wasn't just today, this went on for quite a while. About a week. I kept asking Rei why he was doing this, but he wouldn't answer me. Now the two of them were eating ice cream again. Ange-chan was looking at her ice cream with a lost look. Rei asked her. "Is something wrong?" She was quiet and then asked him something disturbing. "Rei onii-chan. why are you being so nice to me for a while now?" "...Is it necessary for me to answer?" "Yes." Rei was thoughtful before answering. "I'm going to kill your dad tomorrow." "...!" Both Ange-chan and I