Water Magician

Chapter 494: Grand Duchy Embassy

Editor: Tseirp

In front of the Atinjo Grand Duchy Embassy, a large crowd had gathered.

Among them, there were some people that Ryo and Abel had seen before.

“Is that the owner of ‘Happy Eats’?”

“Oh? Ah, it’s you guys. I’m sorry for earlier, even though you came by to eat at my restaurant again.”

The owner of ‘Happy Eats’ was there as well.

Upon closer inspection, the owner of ‘Eat-Till-You-Drop Restaurant’ and other chefs from various restaurants were present.

“We all came to ask them to stop hoarding ingredients…”

The requests from the gathered people were the same.

However…

“No one’s coming out, and there’s no explanation.”

“Well, that’s to be expected.”

People muttered explanations, but Abel understood why the embassy wasn’t saying anything.

The reason was simple.

They weren’t obliged to explain.

And the embassy wasn’t a place one could just walk into.

Even the city’s guard couldn’t enter—there was a custom like that.

This custom, which existed in all the Central and Western countries, seemed to also apply in the southern part of the Eastern countries.

Among the gathered crowd, some appeared to be from the city guard or similar groups, but the fact that they couldn’t take any action made that clear as well.

At that moment.

“Please open the gate!”

A loud voice echoed through the area.

Even Abel couldn’t immediately recognize who it was.

But after a moment, he understood…

“Ryo, I didn’t know you could project such a voice?”

His mutter went unheard by anyone.

For Ryo, who had practiced kendo, it was natural to be able to project his voice from the gut, but still…

There was no response from the embassy.

“If you want me to enter, please open the gate.”

The voice rang out again.

But the content was confusing.

No matter how one looked at it, the words didn’t match up with the first one.

Then, the next moment.

The embassy’s gate vanished.

Yes, almost everyone present recognized that the gate had ‘vanished’.

If anyone had been paying close attention, they might have noticed that the gate had been finely chopped into small pieces.

However, even those who noticed wouldn’t have been able to tell what had done the chopping.

“Ryo’s water jets, huh.”

Only Abel, who knew about , could have guessed.

In any case, the embassy’s gate was gone.

That was the same as it being opened.

“Magic to make the gate disappear is amazing! Thank you for opening the gate!”

Ryo’s voice rang out a third time.

The embassy staff were stunned.

Naturally so.

The gate had suddenly disappeared.

Of course, there was no magic mechanism to make the gate vanish.

In the first place, it wouldn’t have been opened.

Ryo confidently entered.

After he had said, “If you want me to enter, please open the gate”, and the gate was now… in a state where it could be interpreted as having been opened, he entered.

Believing he had been invited.

Later, he could claim that as his excuse.

Even if everyone knew it was a lie, if one maintained the right form, the right pretext, or at least followed the procedure, it could be accepted.

That was the essence of diplomacy.

Ryo had arranged the form with his own words.

And the situation had unfolded in line with those words.

So, he entered the embassy.

Diplomatically, there was no problem.

And here, in the heart of diplomacy, was the embassy.

It would be difficult to charge Ryo with illegal entry.

Of course, all of this was only possible because of ‘power’.

One should not forget that.

If they had no power, the other party would press them with force.

That too, was the essence of diplomacy.

“We’ll go and talk to them. You all stay here.”

Abel said, and the people gathered in front of the embassy nodded.

The gate had suddenly disappeared, and the magician entered after saying, “I’ll come in”, but it was too much to enter themselves.

They would do well to follow Abel’s instructions.

After confirming that no one else was going in, Abel followed after Ryo.

The Grand Duchy soldiers, who were supposed to protect the embassy, immediately began responding to the unexpected disappearance of the gate that was allowing entry.

As the soldiers tried to attack the robed magician who was walking from the gate, they…

Bang.

When they tried to approach the magician, they collided with an invisible barrier.

“What’s this?!”

“Is that a ?”

“It’s incredibly tough.”

They tried stabbing with swords and spears, but the barrier didn’t seem to budge.

“Ah, thank you for the welcome. But it’s fine. I understand where to go without needing a guide.”

Ryo said with a smile.

Abel, who knew Ryo well, felt cold sweat running down his back when he saw that smile.

“He’s really mad.”

He muttered.

When Ryo reached the building, the door of the embassy also disappeared.

It was instantly sliced into pieces by 2048 .

“Thank you for opening! That means I can come in, right?!”

As he had done with the gate, Ryo spoke loudly and formally.

He had to keep the formalities in order.

He had attended a garden party at the Suje Kingdom Embassy, so the Grand Duchy probably knew about it. Still, he didn’t want to cause too much trouble for the Suje Kingdom.

Still, considering they were planning to station an army in a free city and talking about annexing it… perhaps it was too late for that concern.

Ryo entered the building. With Abel following him.

Naturally, Grand Duchy soldiers lined up in front of them, trying to block their path…

(Ice Wall; Move)

“Whoa! I-I’m being pushed by an invisible wall…”

“What is this?”

“Hey, hold on a second!”

The Grand Duchy soldiers were shouting.

Some even said to wait, but of course, Ryo had no intention of stopping.

Ryo and Abel didn’t know where the room they were aiming for was located.

However, they did know that important people were usually not on the first floor.

The Grand Duchy Embassy was a spacious, two-story wooden building.

They could reasonably assume that their target would be on the second floor.

Ryo charged ahead.

So far, there had been no fighting whatsoever.

The soldiers were blocked by the and couldn’t touch Ryo or Abel, which was hardly surprising.

Ryo and Abel reached the second floor.

A hallway stretched out to the left and right, but they couldn’t tell which direction held their target.

“The most important room should be…”

Ryo muttered, in a casual tone, as he started walking to the right.

The soldiers blocking the path ahead looked determined.

Their resolve to defend against the magician, even at the risk of death, was evident.

“Hmm.”

Ryo murmured, then spun on his heel and started down the left hallway instead.

There were soldiers there as well, though… they didn’t seem as resolute as those on the right.

“On second thought, let’s go this way.”

He said loudly, turning again to charge right up the right hallway.

Clearing his way with .

“What the—damn it, what is this?”

“We can’t see it, but it’s pushing us…”

“This is too strong for a !”

The scene from the floor below repeated as they moved forward without engaging in any combat.

At the end of the hallway, they saw an impressive door.

Standing guard were soldiers holding spears.

Ryo took note of this.

“Found it.”

He murmured quietly.

“”

He chanted, and a layer of ice covered both him and Abel.

It was a nearly invisible ice armor, made originally for Queen Iliaja.

“We’re going to charge into the heart of the enemy.”

“Got it.”

He informed Abel.

Abel replied without hesitation.

At this point, he had no intention of stopping Ryo.

The guards at the door to the inner room were pushed aside by the invisible ice wall… as Ryo stepped in front of the door, it vanished just like the others.

The two entered the room.

At the far end sat a handsome man with a calm, confident expression.

Beside him stood another man, visibly furious, his face flushed red.

“Thank you for inviting us. Since you opened the door, we took the liberty of entering.”

Ryo said, offering a formal Central Countries-style bow.

A display of perfect etiquette.

After all, Ryo was the premier duke of the Kingdom of Knightley.

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