The Max Level Hero Has Returned!

Chapter 33

Episode 33

Barris and Winley seemed upset because they had to return to their place soon, even though they wanted to follow me.

‘I guess I am finally leaving this damn palace.’

-I don’t think I’m leaving here forever, but I’m pretty excited for the future.

‘How miserable will it be?’

At my thoughts, she, sitting on my thigh as if riding a horse, turned her head and smiled.

-Isn’t it fun? I am curious about what you’re going to do.

I don’t know what to do with your high expectations.

“Majesty.”

I was quietly getting ready to leave the palace. As I lifted my head to the unanticipated voice, an elderly man slowly walked in under the guidance of Amy. His age was around 70 years old. However, compared to ordinary people of his age in this continent, he looked strong and gave an imposing appearance.

“I am Marquis Patelis, and it is an honor to see the little sun of the kingdom.”

“Please get up, Marquis of Patelis.”

Usually, I wouldn’t have said that, but he was different. There were only three swordmasters in the Al Rown kingdom, and among them, he had the best skills and experience. He was well respected by the knights of the Al Rown Kingdom, and countless knights on the continent showed their respect just upon hearing his name.

It wasn’t just that. He was also the most crucial candidate with who I chose to destroy the nobility. The swordmaster was a kind of strategic weapon. Although he didn’t have a large number of troops, he became a central pillar of the country only by his strength and the power of his long-established family.

Usually, he held a neutral stance and kept a distance from the nobles, but now he wouldn’t stay neutral anymore. A few days after stealing all the information from the information guilds, I snuck into Patelis’ bedroom and left him all the information the nobles wanted to hide. Since he was a man of enormous loyalty and self-discipline, he would soon begin to investigate the aristocracy as soon as he vetted the authenticity of the information.

“I heard you’re leaving.”

“It happened to be that way. Any adult royal family members must leave the palace unless they are the crowned prince.”

“In the future, you might become the crowned prince.”

“That is a matter of the future.”

As I smiled, he adjusted his monocle and smiled vainly.

“You have grown a lot. If the former queen were here, she would have been so proud of you.”

“To my mother, I am just a terrible son.”

He shook his head at my reply.

“If you say so, this old man who couldn’t protect the queen majesty should have already bitten his tongue and died.”

I smiled at his words. Unlike my father, who gave up everything after my mother’s death, he, who volunteered as my mother’s knight in the past, seemed to have secretly searched for evidence behind my mother’s assassination. I found it out when I snuck into his house, which made me feel grateful towards him.

‘So please, shake all the nobles who are eating up the country.’

When I saw him without speaking, he looked at me as if I was his grandson.

‘I will deliver the final blow.’

“If you are in trouble, please feel free to contact me. I’ll help you as much as I can.”

“As a person keeping a neutral stance, if you look after me, the nobles will be outraged. You don’t want this little boy to die, right?”

When I said jokingly, he laughed.

“If I don’t do that, the life and oath of this sinful old man will be a lie.”

He said bitterly as if whipping the guilt he held.

“I’m going to turn the land into a place where people live. It’s not difficult.”

“Your Majesty.”

-Was it a curse?

“I have to get rid of it. Rather, why do you have so many question marks like this in the status window of God’s will?”

I felt strange.

16. The lord is cleaning.

-I can’t answer your question.

“But it’s your ability.”

-I am only able to show. You probably know that the contents in the window aren’t mine but the will of a God with a cheap taste.

As a Demon King, she had no faith in God.

-So you don’t like them?

“Well...I am not in a position to say since I am borrowing the divine power of God, but I cannot deny that she is a God with a little peculiar taste.”

-By the way, as expected, it’s a curse, not something worse.

Ignoring Perserk’s joke, I quietly swept the cracked ground with my hands. This was the current situation shown in most of the Hines territory. Except for ten percent of the land, most areas were in the same situation as stated previously by the status window.

‘The curse that spread out the entire land...’

-I’m saying this because you might not understand. There is something called a spread-type curse in the curse tree, a vicious curse activated by an insignificant medium that spreads endlessly.

“I didn’t know there were still remnants of black magic left here.”

-Looks like one of the residents touched the medium.

It seemed that someone among the residents had triggered an unexploded mine. The Hines Manor had gone through that unfortunate event.

[Purification]

I laid my hand on the ground silently and raised my divine power. It was cleaning magic that was raised to the third rank.

Paaching!!

Even though it said removing the curse was possible in the status window, it seemed complicated.

“Look at this.”

A smile caught on the corner of my mouth. If I used the purification magic without any intention, it might seem that I wasn’t able to absorb the powerful repulsive force, which repelled my divine magic.

Fifth Tier [Purification]

The characteristic of purification magic, which boasted one axis of divine magic, could be used by first-class priests. And, depending on the individual’s capacity, they could rise to the eighth tier. If it didn’t work with the third-tier purification magic, I had to raise it a few steps.

Kaaching!!

Once again, you could hear the sound of something breaking. It seemed that the magic bounced back again, but the result was a little different.

Pushhkkk...

The colorless, odorless smoke slowly began to flow out of the area I had touched. The curse was scattered for a moment but recovered again.

-A curse that has been around for a long time cannot be removed so easily.

“That is true.”

I have to find the medium and destroy it; otherwise, I couldn’t remove the curse. Without doing that, it was like shoveling snow in the middle of heavy snowfall. I quietly returned to the carriage and leaned on the fluffy sofa, closing my eyes.

“This is how most of the land is like.”

Black magic, especially large-scale curses like this, mainly went extinct a long time ago. To be precise, we had very little information about the different species on the continent now, and it was safe to assume that a few black wizards once shook the continent.

-As it was in the past, the world has remained essentially unchanged.

As I listened to Perserk’s voice, I slowly closed my eyes.