The Archmage’s Restaurant
Chapter 163

# 163

Chapter.36 Hibiren Flowers and Concert

The audience forgot to breathe and became so absorbed in the performance. That is the result.

Judging by the audience’s reaction, the winner was already decided. Even though their pride prevents them from expressing how surprised and absorbed they are.

Even though several minutes had passed since Verna’s performance ended, no one even opened their mouth.

Of course, L was also surprised.

‘It would have been better if I had known in advance that Verna could play at this level. Oh, isn’t that right?’

Even if that were the case, he would have hoped that Lurin would win based on his skills first. Because Lulin said he wanted to win. For L, Lurin’s win is the top priority.

Of course, the victory must be based on skill, but it is unfortunate. This time, El’s conclusion was that Verna’s victory was justified no matter who looked at it.

Elle got up and moved, leaving behind the Gray boy who was intoxicated by the powerful performance.

To give a fair result to this incredible performance.

After about two more minutes, the host finally comes to his senses and resumes the proceedings. However, to be honest, the participants’ performances after that were at a level that was not even listenable.

***

Verna returned to the waiting room after the performance. Of course, the sound of the performance can be heard even in the waiting room.

Loriana’s face turned red as she greeted Verna, who returned to the waiting room.

It’s like a volcano about to explode.

“What are you doing? “Take hold of that lowly thing’s hand and crush it right now!”

You can never admit that someone has greater skills than you. If you can’t admit it, you have to destroy it. That is the truth of the world.

The circuitry in Loriana Delian’s head worked only that way.

While Verna was playing, when the other participants glanced at her with surprised faces, she bit her nails and decided that she would never let that nobleman’s shame go unnoticed.

To alleviate the shame, the Duke’s bodyguards, who were originally outside, were brought into the waiting room.

The duchy’s guards swarmed around Berna.

“Crush it to pieces so you can never touch the keyboard again. How dare you disparage Duke Delian like that during the preliminaries!”

The knights grab Verna’s arms.

Then, Verna, who had remained silent despite being slapped with various insults, being pushed and rolling on the floor, and being subjected to all kinds of harsh situations that a noble would never experience, wrapped her hands around her and began to scream for the first time.

“No cow hands! “At least as much as a cow’s hand!”

I finally succeeded in playing. I don’t know yet whether the trauma of not being able to hit in front of my husband has healed.

However, the fact that his skills were recognized even by that woman proved that, as his son had said so well, he did not come in last place at past concerts because his skills were not enough.

Because now I know that.

I felt like I could hit it.

I thought I could let my husband play too. I played with all my heart in front of so many people. He poured out his entire life.

So, I am no longer obsessed with winning. You can hand it over. But never your hands. There is something I couldn’t do, at least with my hands.

Verna shouted that in her mind and tried to protect her hands.

However, the knights cruelly grabbed her arm, placed it on the floor, and fixed it so that it could not move.

It is absolutely impossible for Berna to overcome the power of the knights. The knights raised what looked like hammers. Verna’s face turned white.

“Nooooo!”

Scream. The knights looked at Loriana Delian. To receive final orders.

“What are you looking at? Turn around now! Mr. Riendal. “Please pretend not to know.”

“The buds must be pulled out. “I didn’t see anything.”

Loriana asked for understanding from Riendal of the same duchy and threatened the participants from other ordinary noble families, then began another struggle, her eyes burning.

Another person who insulted him, made him feel miserable, and even didn’t like his skills.

Instead, even more disgust poured out of that woman, so Loriana pointed her finger and gave orders to the knights.

“And catch that cheeky one too. I don’t know where the royal family is, but I can’t believe you’re so rude to the Duke of Delian, who is like a direct descendant of your distant cousin! “I can’t leave that alone!”

Normally, it would have been normal to relieve oneself while being ridiculed and booed by the audience. But rather than that, the two of them side by side upset him, and the warning the duke had given him completely disappeared from his mind.

But at this moment.

Lurin, the person whom Loriana Delian had dared to point a finger at, was already in a very bad mood.

Even before Loriana went crazy, she was biting her lip with a sullen expression.

The reason is because of Verna.

As Rurin learned to play, her listening ears also opened. Therefore, it is now possible to make a dispassionate evaluation of performance skills.

In a way, he has achieved the ability to make a more accurate evaluation than L, who is an outsider.

I had no intention of developing my skills in human culture or anything like that, but it ended up that way without me even realizing it.

That’s why I gritted my teeth after hearing Verna’s performance.

‘It’s crazy.’

‘lost! This body!’

Moreover, the moment Rurin heard Verna’s performance, she unconsciously fell into sentimental feelings, recalling past events.

In that part, Verna sublimated into a performance the moment when she first felt light in her messy life when she met Count Gray.

Lurin remembered the scene where she met L there.

My emotions moved. So I’m upset, but I lost! That was Lurin’s condition, so she couldn’t have been in a good mood.

The knights ‘dared’ to run towards Lulin and try to grab his hand.

Lulin didn’t say anything.

He simply radiated fear at the knights who dared to touch him. I’m already so angry. How dare you do something?

Being able to touch yourself in this world.

It goes without saying that there is only one person.

It is a crime so severe that even touching the tip of a finger without permission would turn other beings into dust.

At that pier, all the knights collapsed on the spot. The intense weight of the peer!

The piers that usually appear are so subtle that they cause a slight sense of fear when you make eye contact with them.

But now, it was openly emitting intense fear, and the knights had difficulty breathing and began to pant.

“And you. It’s been so noisy since a while ago! I hate bugs! Because it’s so loud!”

“What is this…” what!”

Lurin threw a flying kick at Lorinaa’s body just as she kicked Serena.

Whoa whoa!

Loriana’s body was thrown over the chair by a kick she had received for the first time in her life.

If El hadn’t told me not to kill him, I would have already killed him and silenced him. To Lulin, noisy humans are no different from buzzing flies.

Treating humans like insects was Lurin’s attitude towards ordinary humans and the ordinary thinking of a dragon.

Rurin trudged over to Verna. The knights who were holding Verna’s hand were all rolling on the floor now.

Lurin took her eyes off Verna and stared at her quietly. I do not like it. However, he told Rurin that she was El’s wife. And in Lurin’s opinion, the Gray boy was El’s subordinate.

So, it’s something that even one’s subordinates can do.

“Lu Lulin… ?”

Verna, who could not understand the situation but understood that it was similar to El’s magic, called out to Lurin with a surprised face.

Lulin poured out his feelings to Verna. Without any filtering.

“I don’t like you either.”

“I’m sorry.”

“But it’s not that bad over there, so let’s look at it. And I will win next time. I will win with my skills! There is nothing this body can’t do! Ugh! Annoying!”

While saying that, I kicked the floor and walked out of the waiting room to go to L.

L had told her to stay in the waiting room until the winner was chosen, so she was in an incredibly frustrating place, but the waiting room no longer meant anything to Rurin, who had admitted to losing.

***

“You definitely don’t plan on giving the Gray family the benefit of winning, do you? your majesty? Isn’t it a facade to select people based on ability anyway? Want to keep things in check? Then, all you have to do is select a great being as the winner.”

After all the participants had finished playing, the emperor moved to a special room in the performance hall, saying he would make a choice to select the winner. Then all four dukes, including Duke Delian, followed the emperor into the room.

And on behalf of the duke, Duke Delian was persuading the emperor.

That damn thing. The championship should not be acknowledged to such an aristocratic figure.

The Duke of Delian was very uncomfortable because he had never expected that this would result from the preliminaries being made so that he could be ridiculed.

But that’s it. I could never do anything like win. Giving Great City tax exemption is something that is absolutely unacceptable.

“That’s troublesome. It is absolutely impossible for the emperor to change his words, as he has already declared to everyone that he will be selected strictly based on merit. Don’t you know well, Delian? Based on skill, it is clear that the winner is clear. “Are you telling me to pretend it never happened?”

“your majesty! Since when have your interests been so clear! “The situation in this competition itself has changed because of the participation of a great being. In that case, it is normal to give the championship to the great being who showed such skill and put an end to this strange competition.”

When the Emperor shook his head at Duke Delian’s words, the Duke did not back down and insisted.

The Gray boy’s cockiness is a separate matter. The income from Gray City is enormous, but if it receives tax exemption benefits, its wealth will go out of control. It is absolutely unavoidable for that wealth to have a negative impact on the empire.

Especially in situations where I don’t like the Gray boy’s tendencies.

“Your Majesty, please compromise at this point. “If you want our dukes to agree to other policies, you should elect a neutral great being.”

“you!”

The Emperor and the Duke of Delian started a snowball fight. Duke Ilen, Duke Sergei, and Duke Taemuran also had the same thought, so the emperor was now fighting four to one.

“And how long do you plan on giving such absurd benefits to Great City? Empires have imperial laws. Now reap the benefits and incorporate Great City into its original location!”

“That is difficult.”

It was not the emperor who answered the duke’s words. A much younger voice than that.

It was L’s voice.

El, who broke through the special room door and entered, slowly approached the emperor. The eyes of the dukes and the emperor were all focused on El.

The door to the room where the emperor was was kicked in, but no one pointed out that fact.

Even though I looked at the knights lying in front of the room, there was no one.

“I made it clear. They say you should be selected solely based on ability. So, why don’t you just go talk nonsense to Ubauri? “It feels like my hearing ears will rot.”

El glared at the dukes.

“Your Majesty will explain again about Great City here. Your Majesty, stop hiding and tell the dukes. And I hope you dukes will stop talking nonsense. “Unless you talk carelessly like that and the entire duchy gets blown away.”

After saying just those words, L turned his back and walked out of the special room. The dukes just blinked and then closed their mouths.

It’s different from talking among themselves.

The man who passed before my eyes was a man who could outwit even dragons.

They all saw that in the Dragon War. With both eyes. That incredible scene.

A person outside the standard.

That powerful magic that wiped out dozens of dragons at the same time that El showed when she was truly angry.

Considering that magic, I had no choice but to shut up.

That was the power of absolute power.