After Being Betrayed by the Empire, I Decided to Support the Demon King

Having served the Empire for half of his life, Ela was decisively sold out. He intended to flee to another country but was nearly beaten to death during his escape before being saved by a dragon-gi...

Chapter Seventy-Six: Construction and Family

"Alright! Ready... Go!"

Yinla directed the liches, watching as buildings rose into the air and flew to their designated locations... Work in the Demon King's territory was suspended today; everything was for the sake of a better tomorrow.

However, many buildings on the ground were not started as planned.

This is quite normal. The so-called "Building Capture" spell is a spell in which Mana treats the entire building as the main body and moves it as a whole. It can only move buildings.

No living creatures are allowed inside the building, nor are any mana devices or mana storage devices permitted... The latter is easy to handle, as the Demon King's territory does not have the habit of using mana lamps.

Or rather, in this world, the use of oil lamps and luminous pearls for natural lighting is the mainstream method of illumination.

Manna lamps are special equipment, a luxury item used only when surrounded by precious flammable materials such as pine resin.

However, the former... the so-called living things do not only refer to intelligent beings.

Although bacteria, microorganisms, and spores are not included in the calculation, the presence of flies, mice, small insects, or even an insect egg can affect the use of magic.

It can even be used to identify the size of specific living things.

Those flying overhead, swaying but still moving, probably contain uncollected creatures like spiders or crawling insects.

Those that don't move at all are probably infested with rats or something.

At this point, a thorough cleanup is needed again, and the liches must be made to stop casting spells, otherwise their mana reserves will definitely not be enough.

Overall, the [Building Capture] spell was almost successfully renamed the [Movement] spell. Because it had no strategic significance, the combat magic school to which Yinla belonged disdained to learn this academic spell.

"Even though we know this is an advanced application of transformation magic, and that mastering it will help us learn many advanced transformation magic spells, we still haven't learned it."

As Yinla said this, Vera looked helpless. She looked at the building rising into the sky again and said, "I know, I know, why don't you just say 'I didn't memorize it'? ...Why are you nagging me so much?"

"Tsk..."

Yinla clicked her tongue in displeasure.

"Hey, hey, hey, you clicked your tongue, didn't you? You must have clicked your tongue just now!"

As Vera said this, she questioned Yinla, and then immediately put on a distraught look, crying very fakely: "Waaah, I'm so sad, why are you treating me so badly?"

"Shut up."

"oh."

Vera obediently shut her mouth, watching the Demon King's territory move as Yinra had planned. She couldn't help but speak again, saying, "Yinra, you know so much, but you're so annoying when you talk."

Yoonra glanced at her, then shook her head helplessly, saying, "It's just that I use words you don't understand, so it's a bit hard to comprehend... I'm used to it."

Imagine you're having a normal conversation with someone, saying something like, "Soak fried dough sticks in soy milk," but the other person doesn't understand what "soak" means or what "fried dough sticks" are.

You need to explain that "泡" means to soak, and that "油条" is a type of deep-fried food...

But over time, the other person will find you annoying, always talking nonsense and things they don't understand while you're just having soy milk, and you'll be in pain too... because you're using names that are commonplace to them.

There's nothing we can do about it.

"Where did this habit come from? You're the only one in the empire who talks like that, okay?"

Yinla didn't know how to respond to Vera's complaints.

So Yinla could only make things up, saying things she knew weren't very believable, saying, "It's a family custom, a custom of the Elkaras family... Is that not allowed?"

"..."

Vera thought back carefully. She hadn't had much contact with the Elcaras family, but she felt... it seemed, maybe, as if the Elcaras family was indeed like that.

"Yes, that seems to be the case."

Vera, arms crossed, commented as she looked at the drastically changed streets, "It's not so obvious with your parents and elders, but starting with your generation, it seems like everyone talks like this."

The so-called "like this" does not refer to the flowery and roundabout way of the imperial nobles. On the contrary, the people of the Elkaras family, like Illa, presented a lot of useful advice in a concise and clear manner.

It's just that he occasionally uses words that I don't understand.

"Of course, this is our family tradition."

As Yinla said this, although the so-called inheritance meant "influencing the entire clan from him," it didn't stop him from teasing Vera: "You wouldn't understand family heritage and all that."

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Vera couldn't hold back any longer and immediately retorted, "Hey! Even if we're talking about nobility, it's our [Yayirmenio Theiatos] family that has the most prestigious heritage!"

That is indeed the case. Although Vera's family has little heritage and is a pure nouveau riche noble family, in terms of heritage, it is still incomparable to noble families like the Elcaras family, which rose through the ranks due to war.

"Anyway, your noble glory is a thing of the past."

"Ira said."

"..."

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