Regressor, Possessor, Reincarnator

Episode 50

Reinhardt’s family.

It is a family located in the western part of the Libre Kingdom, and it can be said that it is a prestigious family that has been handed down for dozens of generations and has a great influence in its own way.

‘in the past.’

Not now.

The family began to decline gradually from three generations ago.

The number of merchants heading to the estate decreased, and interaction with the surrounding nobles became less. The nobles who supported them as servants and maids almost disappeared, and the foodie who stayed in the mansion disappeared at some point.

The Reinhardt family was currently politically isolated.

‘It would be more accurate to say that it withered to death.’

To put it simply, if we go down a few more like this, it may collapse from the inside, leaving nothing but the name.

The reason may be due to the overlapping of various bad factors, but the biggest reason was related to the experiment conducted by the family three generations ago.

‘Experiment to use the divine tree.’

The divine tree is a special tree.

Just by being there, it makes surrounding plants grow healthy and forms a kind of safe zone where monsters cannot invade.

The elves communicated with the gods and cultivated the surrounding forest, producing a huge amount of food, and amassing enormous wealth based on it.

Reinhardt’s estate was close to the great forest with the Michelland Mountains as its neighbor, so we could see all of it.

‘I made a stupid choice.’

Is it not true that only elves can communicate with the gods is a lie?

Could it be that they too can become like that if they use the divine tree?

Maybe it’s all a trick to monopolize the divine tree.

Doubts and desires accumulated over the decades crossed a critical point at some point, and as soon as they made a plan, they stole the closest sacred tree.

And he tried to corrupt that deity.

himself would have been

I’ve been observing elves for hundreds of years, and since I’ve had secret research results, I’m sure you thought that was enough.

If the experiment was successful, he would have judged that he could break the phenomenon of being heavily dependent on the food of the elves. Success is coming right in front of you, but is public criticism a problem?

In fact, if the Reinhardt family had succeeded in manipulating the divine tree, they would have acquired enormous wealth and power in an instant.

The same goes for protests and threats from the elves.

If the experiment was successful, it was obvious that the Kingdom of Libre, which would share the benefit, would block it directly.

Even the elves would not be able to wage war on the fate of humans and races, so the predictions of their ancestors could be said to be quite accurate.

‘Yes, if the experiment was ‘successful’.’

The experiment failed.

Is there any chance that the research that started out of this greed will succeed safely?

Many people, including the wizard and the maid who participated in the study, were slaughtered in an accident during the experiment, and the divine tree was later retrieved by the arriving elves.

Since all the instigators who planned the extortion of the divine tree and the experiment were dead, the elves did not decide to retaliate, even risking worsening their relationship with humans.

However, the royal capital and surrounding nobility had already turned their backs on the family.

Since then, the family’s influence has gradually declined.

Obviously, there must be other reasons besides this.

‘But my father is hiding it.’

Maybe someday we’ll find out.

However, it cannot be denied that this event served as the beginning of the downfall.

“How do you think you should act?”

In a way, it was quite natural for the family to show such a reaction.

“The elf in question is in a state of fainting, leaving only a ‘request for support’. It’s an emergency, so it will take a week, if not more, to regain consciousness.”

If it had been a different family, it would not have been possible to take it so seriously.

“How do you think you should respond?”

Because it was the Reinhardt family.

The news of the arrival of the elves became an important issue enough to urgently move.

Gaiel’s serious eyes turned to Allen and Julius.

Allen had now moved to the mansion’s conference room.

Around them, the commander of the Knights, who boasted of his large size, had his eyes closed, and the butler, Gardel, kept his head down.

The situation was urgent to summon other vassals, so the meeting had no choice but to start with a small number of people.

Allen looked carefully at Gaiel’s expression.

‘Isn’t it something I knew in advance?’

Judging from his father’s previous reaction and his current attitude, it is highly likely that he was unaware of this incident.

‘Doesn’t the guys near my father know everything?’

No, maybe he just kept his mouth shut. Because important information is more valuable the less people know about it.

‘But you didn’t ask for your cooperation in advance in a situation like this?’

It would be easier to solve the situation if you had arranged the words beforehand.

Allen had so little information about them that it was difficult to estimate how huge they were or how powerful they were.

‘There is nothing wrong with me leading the situation.’

It was something I had planned since a few months ago, when I read the powers of the divine beast I had read in the Black Book.

The fact that information about them was not available at this time did not cause any problems with the plans I had made in advance.

Allen looked into the air blankly, and opened his mouth one step ahead of Julius, who was reading the quest.

“Father, first of all, we don’t know anything about the support they are talking about.”

‘Before, things were carried out with the strong insistence of Julius, but… .’ This time, it will be known that ‘Allen Reinhardt’ initiated and advocated first.

Gaiel’s gaze turned to Allen.

“What is that?”

“so that.”

Allen recalled in his mind a few lines of sentences that had made him decide to move, that had made him plan.

『──In the forest of young divine beasts lives a divine beast who grants wishes.”

『──A divine water that grants a chance to those who come to make your wishes come true.』

『——with the trials that were worthy of it.』

‘The divine beast that Julius called the hidden boss.’ I needed the power of that divine beast.

“You must accept this request for assistance.”

So Allen needed to be active in this work.

With the hope of finding out the whereabouts of his younger brother, he can trace his trace without even a clue.

plus it

“This case can be an opportunity.”

Because it can intercept what Julius did and prevent him from expanding his influence.

‘What did Julius say before the return?’

Did you say that if you help them first, the elves will repay you?

In the end, he laughed at the fact that it wasn’t much different from what he was claiming.

“… Why do you think so?”

Gaiel asked Allen’s intentions rather than giving an immediate answer to Allen’s confident answer.

“The place where the elves requested support is closer to the neutral zone than to the end of the territory, which is included in the territory. There may be some danger. But do you accept it?”

Gaiel stared at Allen with a strange face. Shouldn’t she have been the type of person to say such nonsense in the first place?

Allen laughed bitterly at his reaction.

‘If it were before.’

If he had not returned, and Julius had not been deprived of his body, he might not have made such a decision.

No, I would have refused without thinking.

Since his relationship with the elves had already deteriorated, he would have chosen to quietly observe the situation rather than provide unnecessary support.

Because it is a prudent and reasonable choice.

“Rather, they apply because they don’t know anything.”

“… Because I don’t know anything.”

The knight commander remained silent as if he was going to obey whatever he said, and his sharp gaze turned to Allen through Gardel’s wrinkled eyes.

“In other words, you support the elves without knowing anything.”

“Does a pun like that have any meaning?”

Gaiel was right.

It’s just a pun, no matter how you wrap it, the danger posed by this doesn’t change.

But if you know what will happen, if you know what dangers exist… .

‘Odds are a sure gamble.’

Allen nodded as if it was natural to Gaiel’s words.

“Yes, it makes sense.”

“What?”

“You can’t completely reverse the worst of the relationship. But it will be enough for the elves to see us again.”

Even the elves know that they are different from their family ancestors.

As a result, there will be some elves who take the threat into account even with unclear requests and have a favorable attitude towards the decision they made.

It’s a plausible, dreamy story.

It’s a sound that can only be made because you don’t know the reality.

Are you sure you even know the elf’s identity? Even if you applied, what if that person’s request for support? What do you do if you actually go to the application and get hit at the door?

‘All of that.’

It can be said that it is unclear and uncertain.

But if you know the future.

If there is any hope of finding out the whereabouts of the real brother there.

‘I.’

There is no reason to hesitate.

Allen faced Gaiel’s gaze confidently.

“This is going to have a huge impact. It is because the elf, who can be said to hate our family, directly requested support.”

Whether the situation is urgent enough to even call for assistance, or it takes time to draw troops from the great forest.

It meant that even the Reinhardt family, whom they had the worst relationship with, needed help.

But without any information from the family, they risk their lives?

“This is the beginning of a relationship with the elves, and it will give them room to improve.”

Gaiel listened silently to Allen’s argument.

“Without any information, we recklessly support the troops. This is clearly a stupid choice.”

Whether the enemy is strong, how many there are, what the situation is, and what happened.

I don’t know anything about it, so what do you believe in supporting the troops?

However, Gaiel said with a face that he was not very good at it.

“But is it worth taking a daring risk just to get ‘room’ to improve your relationship with the elves?”

Although he did not say anything, neither Gardel nor the Knights Commander saw Allen’s argument as somewhat dreamy and vain.

“Especially considering our relationship with the Elves, it might be better to wait for them to weaken. However.”

‘If there are no facts to support the evidence behind this, it will be no different from the one who used force to go out.’

“What if we could know to some extent what the situation is?”

Allen, like Julius, was not sloppy enough to force his work.

“If you know who the enemy is, if you can figure out what the situation is.”

Allen smiled coolly, savoring Julius’s enchanted expression.

“What would you do?”