Clearing The World That's Inside A Novel

Chapter 51: The Sheer Insanity

Chapter 51: The Sheer Insanity (Aurelias Von Fergusa VI)

He descended from the throne, took the crown from his head and came forward towards me, and placed the rusted crown on me.

"Sure, crybaby." He said.

It irked me.

And I asked, "What do you intend to gain from this all?"

I still don't understand what he might gain from helping me.

"A dark mage becoming the new king? Why would I not sign up?"

Ah, so that's what his goal is.

"Besides, if things remain as they are it won't end on a good note for anyone, the kingdom will be ruined. Your brother is not king material, well, you aren't either but I will shape you up"

"The kingdom will be ruined?" I questioned, taken aback by his proclamation.

"Welp, you brother's gonna use dark mages to kill people in the kingdom to achieve immortality, not like he can, all he can do is just prolong his life but whatever, it is what it is and I gotta stop it. I mean, making you king, securing the stability of the kingdom, and changing the reputation of 'Dark Magicians' is also my job. Damn... so many things to do, how is it easy?"

What?

What!?

Immortality!? Killing the people of the kingdom!?

Just what is going through his head!?

Was my brother this deranged? How have I failed to notice it till now?

Frustration took root inside of me, as the unease began to build up.

"We will use this place as your castle, gather the dark magicians, have the souls whose voices you can hear-yeah, I know about your ability- help us out too keeping an eye on these dark magicians we will gather, use the other kingdoms to put a puppet king on the throne. What I mean is, that you are gonna make a comeback with the help of other kingdoms who want to see the doom of this kingdom. What's the context? Welp, you were swapped with someone else when you were a kid, so now you were brought by whichever kingdom wants to infiltrate the kingdom with your help. Of course, they won't know you are the real deal" He said as he started to leave the throne room, urging me to follow him with his hand gesture.

What in the heavens is he saying?

"I was switched? Do you think it's a joke?

"No, and switching stories would help garner sympathy towards you and the people won't talk anything about your competence at all. You will be in the spotlight. Change everything from there, somewhere in the castle, your fiance is trapped, you can't get her unless you go there and.." he paused before continuing "Your brother would be thrown off guard with the whole story, unable to know what to do, that is the time I will deal with the shit and as a Dark mage you will reveal yourself on grand stage set by your brother where you and other gathered dark mages will save everyone, improving the image of dark magicians" He said with his dead tone as he started moving towards a nearby chair and sat on it as I sat in front of him.

"Basically, use other kingdoms as puppets, you can just start working in some place in another kingdom, your familiar looks will make them suspicious, we will changes your face so you won't be questioned for being a twin or some shit, we will create a false past of yours and manipulate them, then enter back to this kingdom, use the other kingdom as shields and start creating ripples, find Rachael, become strong and deal with the upcoming large scale attack of you brother, simple. Just the first part is gonna be hard since you need to manipulate a whole other kingdom in about 3 months" He said brewing something, he took the materials out of thin air once again like that healing potion.

I realized something at that moment.

This guy is crazy.

No, crazy isn't enough.

This guy is out of his mind!

He is absolutely nuts!

"How is anyone going to believe in the story of swapping kids, that's absurd!"

I shouted

"Ah, about that, let me tell you about my escapade"

..Escapade?

With my confusion apparent on my face, he explained.

"You see when I was escaping, I took your baby brother as a hostage.."

And then he began to tell me about his breaking out of the prison, my heart lept out when I heard what he did with my newborn brother.

I felt hurt for the maid.

"And that is how I made it out. The maid wouldn't be able to tell the king that the baby was hers, if she did she would be punished for trying to save her own child and letting a criminal like me escape, stupid but it is what it is and now the baby has been swapped, I mean newborn looks all same, right?"

I remembered that dark mages are called evil and this person in front of me is absolutely evil.

"Tell me you are screwed in the head without telling me you are screwed in the head," I said, letting out a sigh as I scruffled through my hair.

He continued drinking whatever drink he made.

"Yeah, you are right. The plan would work. No, let me correct myself, 'I will make it work'"

I said firmly.

There are lots of points in his plan that would need a lot of reworking but I can do that much.

This was honestly the most evil and ridiculous plan I have ever heard which played with the emotions of various individuals, and used their desires, all for one's own needs.

But I wanted to see Rachel.

I wanted to hold her and tell her everything would be fine and for that, I was ready to do anything. I thought to myself, holding the paper ring delicately.

"You will need to do a lot of spy work, to manipulate a kingdom I need a lot of info"

"I know, that was supposed to be the easiest part but no longer is, I will do it and of course, it mainly depends on you, I will just rest most of the time, besides, I am a pro with that kinda stuff anyway. Also dark magic is such a stupid term, call it soul magic." He shruggingly said.

And so, that day became the start of the story that would be told for ages to come.

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(Third Person Pov)

Mihertm.

That was the kingdom Aurelias decided to go to, after all, their hatred for Serendill that they hid made them perfect to use but before going there he found himself a boy adept in the use of dark magic, a boy merely 12 years old, the perfect person he needed.

The boy knew how to manipulate the memories of people, that is how he had survived till now.

Of course, Noah led Aurelias to meet the boy, he knew how special the boy was because of the novel.

With his help, Aurelias forged a new identity, an orphan who grew up working in the stables, stables of none other than the Duke of the kingdom.

Manipulating the memories of all the households, they managed to get their past written.

Ah, yes.

How could we forget our protagonist and his little complaint?

"For the love of my sanity, that's not soul magic, manipulating memories is different shit, and must fall under myst, most probably which I don't know much about myself, regardless, guess dark magic here mean just bad stuff magic, doesn't change anything about the fact that I can't do it. My proficiency is lower than a kid.... this is not what I have been working hard for"

"Shut up, Noah. You were never sane" Aurelias replied while the boy clinging on to Aurelias, Aurelias patted his head "You did good, Greg", Greg smiled receiving the compliment.

It wasn't easy though, it took them about a month to just get to this point.

During this time, Aurelias also found Noah for all his craziness was a pretty diligent worker, he trained his body every day for long amounts of hours and practiced aura and mana, he and Greg were both shocked when they learned Noah could use both aura and mana, Noah also spend most of his time reading a book. It was none other than the book he took from Eliza for clearing the hidden dungeon.

Noah also spied on the palace workings, in less than a week, he dug every little dirty secret of every important figure.

Aurelias had told Noah "Would it kill you to sleep?"

Noah in turn said "Normally, I had the potion but I really do need rest, a natural one for my soul, so this was my last work, don't fuck up while I go away and sleep"

And then Aurelias didn't hear another word from him for a whole week!

Soon someone who recognized Aurelia appeared in the ducal house, Aurelias of course played the part of someone who had never met them while Noah harvested the seed he planted when he came to this world. The Serendill kingdom was going through a huge change when the baby switch was discovered and the Greywoods were becoming more aggressive in their

That caused Aurelias to laugh, even though he himself changed but Noah hadn't. He remained as he had been since the first time he met him.

Aurelias handed the book to Noah, it was a single book that had all the knowledge related to dark magic, Noah had asked for every information to be combined into one single thick book.

Noah didn't have much space left in his inventory, with this book his inventory showed 24/25.

It's about to be filled.

Welp, to be fair Noah had taken lots of things in his inventory that he will put in a simple dimensional storage ring later when he gets out of the hidden dungeon and a lot of crap that belongs in the trash can, who puts a coffee and water bottle in his inventory?

But it was okay, Noah had gotten everything that would help him survive the novel without much difficulty.

Even though that 'demon lord' is going to become more aggressive.

Noah jumped down the railing and disappeared while Aureliad stood up when he saw Rachel coming up.

"Is he gone?" She asked, she knew about Noah, during her lowest times Noah always brought her news about Aurelias and it made her happy, she didn't hold any ill feelings towards Noah for not helping her escape, she was grateful for simply being able to hear news about Aurelias.

"Yeah, he is" Aurelias replied, his eyes reflected solemnity for a moment, then he turned towards his soon-to-be wife "Let's go, everyone's waiting"

Rachel nodded.

Today was the day of their wedding ceremony.