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The construction of Ignis's mansion, mobilizing hundreds of professional architects and laborers, was completed before long.
The weekend after the construction was finished.
A grand banquet was prepared in the front yard of Ignis's mansion.
All sorts of rare and precious foods were arranged in a buffet style, and a magnificent stone table was placed in the center of the yard.
There were only three chairs.
The area around it was lavishly decorated with beautiful flowers from each region.
Hundreds of cooks and laborers were also mobilized for this banquet.
It was truly a scene of job creation and regional economic revitalization.
Insaenis and Davian entered through the front gate of Ignis's new mansion.
"Welcome."
"What... is all this?"
"What else? Now that the new house is finished, we have to have a housewarming party. It's a dragon tradition."
That was true.
There are only two times when all the dragons of the entire continent gather in one place: once when a hatchling is born, and again when that hatchling grows up and creates its own lair.
"Isn't that to celebrate the hatchling's growth into a fully-fledged dragon, rather than building a lair well? It's actually a time to celebrate having completely overcome the period when its life could be threatened by other living beings."
"Anyway. It's true that you invite people when the lair is finished, right?"
"So, did you invite other dragons too?"
"No. It's not like I built a dragon's lair or anything. I only invited you two."
Davian looked around and asked.
"Just us two? But what is all this food?"
"The more lavish and grand the party, the better."
It felt like an absurd waste.
But the other party is a dragon.
A race that collects pretty, cool, and expensive things for thousands of years.
Even humans who can't live for more than 100 years don't hesitate to hold such banquets when they gain money and power, so this is nothing to a dragon.
"Sit down. Servants will bring the food."
"Just tasting a little bit will make my stomach explode."
"You can digest it and eat again. The food won't get cold."
Come to think of it.
Underneath the pots containing warm food, there is a small flame.
A stable and constant flame that cannot be seen in nature.
"You're amazing. A dragon's flame to heat up buffet food."
"Thank you, Davian. I'll let you know later, so come anytime."
It's a race that's completely incomprehensible.
Reading thoughts from subtle changes that are revealed on the outside.
They don't even notice sarcastic remarks.
The three people, or rather two dragons and one person, sat at the table in the center of the yard and enjoyed a meal and conversation.
At first, they had a detailed conversation about Insaenis being released from his dragonification, and then the topic shifted to stories about impressive human friends the two dragons had met.
"It was really amazing. Angela was just a country girl with no power at all, but she blocked me with a rock in her hand to protect me. Humans are so amazing."
Insaenis, who was listening to Ignis's story about his human friend, asked.
"So. It was a bugbear that attacked you and that human girl friend while you were having a picnic in the forest, right?"
"Yeah. So I watched for a while to see if Angela had any hidden power. I mean, how could a girl who lived in the countryside picking herbs run at that terrifying bugbear with a rock? To protect me, whom she had only met five years ago."
"That was your doing, Ignis."
"What?"
"The bugbear went extinct."
Ignis made an awkward expression and twisted his hair with his right hand.
"Those bastards hurt Angela."
"It's not that she was strong and rushed in. You didn't know the heart of a human who sacrifices for a friend. You didn't understand humans at all back then."
"Oh, so Insaenis, who understands humans so well, became a dragon, right?"
Ahem.
Insaenis coughed.
"So what happened to that girl named Angela?"
"What happened? She lived happily for a few more years picking herbs and said she was going to marry a man from the village, so I gave her a few jewels that would be enough to buy the entire village and left. By the way..."
Ignis looked over the mansion to the top of the mountain.
"They're later than I thought."
"Did you invite them too? You said you only invited us two."
"I didn't invite them, but I thought they would come today."
"The smell of food reaches all the way here."
"That's right, boss. They seem to be having a very grand housewarming party."
"Good. Let's rob all the nobles who were invited to the housewarming party. We'll send them back to their hometowns naked."
Another subordinate asked.
"Boss, is that okay? If the returning nobles raise a subjugation force and come..."
The boss of the Gold King bandits, Karpa, created a flame with his left hand and drew the huge sword he was carrying on his back with his right hand.
"Subjugation? Who's going to subjugate whom? Who can dare to subjugate Gold King with me, Karpa?"
An amazing sight.
It's amazing to wield that huge sword with one hand.
He uses magic with his other hand.
"I said something unnecessary, boss."
"You're the luckiest people in your life to have come under me. I'm the man who will be the bandit king."
A little later.
"Boss! I can see the mansion down there."
"It's built so lavishly. How about we move the base to that mansion?"
"Isn't it too open a space to use as a bandit's base? What if the subjugation force attacks when you're not here, boss..."
Karpa nodded.
"I guess so. Then I'll have to use that as a villa with my newly acquired concubine."
The Gold King bandit group completely descended the mountain.
If they own such a large mansion, they must have a considerable guard or private army, so they brought all their troops down.
The number is as many as 80 people.
It's not a large number for a bandit group, but it's quite a large number considering that Gold King was formed less than two years ago.
"The lady of the house must be scared. She closed the gate tightly."
Whirr!
Karpa raised both hands above his head and a large fireball was created.
Whoosh.
As soon as he threw the fireball.
Kwaang!
The mansion gate exploded as it was.
"Gold King! Let's go in!"
"Waaaa!"
"Waaa!"
Even if no one can stand against the Gold King bandits in the mountains.
This is an area outside the mountains.
It is necessary to occupy the mansion as quickly as possible.
Before the troops, who would be unnecessarily scattered to stand guard here and there, gather in one place, they break through the main gate and defeat the guys individually.
That was the Gold King bandits' strategy for today.
"Waaaa!"
Everyone is big.
They have all kinds of large and viciously looking weapons.
They run at full speed, rolling their ferocious eyes here and there to cut down and crush anyone who rushes in.
"Waaaa!"
They pass through the main gate as it is.
"Huh?"
They ran for a while, but there was no collision.
Not only is there no collision, but there is no sign of an armed guard at all.
Karpa, feeling something was wrong, raised his right hand.
"Wait a minute!"
Karpa scanned the surroundings with sharp eyes.
Various foods are laid out around the yard, and dozens of servants are gathered here and there, looking terrified, looking this way and trembling.
And in the middle of the yard.
Three people are sitting and looking this way.
Two men and one woman.
'Is it a trap.'
No.
He trained both magic and inner strength and was able to gain great senses.
He can't feel any killing intent from anywhere in the mansion.
If armed troops were gathered somewhere and hiding, he would have noticed.
'Then...'
It means they really have no preparation.
"What is this? Did a wealthy noble family with flowers in their heads move in?"
Karpa finally looked at the faces of the three people sitting at the table.
A kid wearing something like a school uniform.
A man wearing clothes that look incredibly expensive.
And.
"Ooh."
A woman with otherworldly beauty, as the subordinate said.
She is even smiling and making eye contact with Karpa.
She was so pretty that he barely managed to endure almost losing his legs.
"What a windfall."
Karpa spread his right index finger and pointed left and right above his head.
The fairly trained bandits split to the left and right, surrounding the table where the three people were sitting.
Some of the guys are lusting after that woman with shining eyes.
'No way. That woman is mine. I can't find a woman more perfect than her as the first concubine of the bandit king.'
The man who will be the bandit king, Karpa, took a deep breath and operated his inner strength.
You could say it's a kind of suppressing the enemy.
"I am Karpa! The man who will be the bandit king."
Karpa's firm voice, filled with inner strength, echoed loudly in the mansion yard.
"Since this mansion was built in the territory of the Gold King bandits, we will take it over from today. The lady of the mansion, come forward."
Clang.
The lady of the mansion stood up, shaking her wavy, long red hair.
Then she walks towards Karpa, step by step.
'What... is this year? Did she know everything and build this mansion here? In order to recognize the person who will be the bandit king and offer wealth, villa, and body?'
What a commendable woman.
While Karpa was having absurd thoughts.
The lady of the mansion came and stood right in front of him.
"Are you the boss?"
Crack.
A tendon popped out on Karpa's temple.
"Are you...?"
"Yes, you."
Hahahaha.
Karpa laughed loudly.
"What a bold woman. Well, it's no wonder you have such beauty. All the men in the world must have held you up. But. I am different. The man who will be the bandit king. From now on, you will have to erase that bold personality and become a submissive woman."
"I'm in a good mood these days because I met a human I like quite a bit. So I'm going to give you two options."
The corners of Karpa's lips were pushed up.
'She met a human she likes these days. Isn't that about me? So she knew about my existence and built a mansion here.'
His messy front teeth were revealed.
Then he raised his index finger and brought it to the lady of the mansion's lips.
"I don't know where you found out about it, but. You instinctively have a style that is attracted to strong men."
Indeed.
That's understandable.
As many as 40 years.
He devoted himself to practicing inner strength and magic alone for as many as 40 years.
With his innate talent, he was able to handle all 4 elemental magic just by skimming through a few books.
His mana affinity was also high, so he could feel his inner strength and magic accumulating day by day.
If he continues like this, he will surely be able to do great things.
He could become a first-class warrior and roam the world, or he could enter the guard and protect the royal palace.
But.
Karpa's goal, born as a common bastard of a bandit group, was only one thing.
To become the bandit king.
At first, he planned to find his parents by doing so.
But.
As he got over 50, he was no longer interested in finding his parents.
They must have been living a wandering life in a bandit group, so they can't be alive until now.
However, Karpa's goal of becoming the bandit king became clearer.
More and more as inner strength and magic accumulated.
He secretly built up his strength alone so that no one would notice, and two years ago he came to this Alsace Forest and founded his own bandit group.
It's a dangerous forest with many monsters, but that was no problem for Karpa.
He was a magic swordsman who could use magic and swordsmanship, wasn't he?
Hehehehehe.
There was no way to stop the laughter from bursting out from deep within his energy center.
It's only been two years since he formed the bandit group.
Has the rumor of the magic swordsman who will become the bandit king already spread throughout the continent?
So this woman came to offer herself, knowing about me?
The more beautiful a woman is, the more she is attracted to a strong man.
I didn't know my value was this much.
At that time.
The lady of the mansion, tilting her head, opened her mouth.
"You are a human with very dirty thoughts? I'm canceling the options I was going to give you."
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