The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 123: "Aural Revolution"

After throwing all the items in the treasury into her inventory, Rare walked out into the hallway with a satisfied look on her face.

Since a magical key was placed on the door leading to the floor where the treasure vault is located, it cannot be opened. This applies whether it's from the inside or outside.

However, once you enter this floor, the doors inside don't seem to have significant security measures. The separation between items appraised and those not appraised probably serves only a classification purpose.

Thanks to leaving Kenzaki here, there was no difficulty in intrusion. It seems that magical keys don't have a barrier-like effect on the entire space.

The next challenge is to escape from this floor, but if entry is possible, escape should be easy.

In advance, Lyra has rare minions patrolling.

Kerry and the others have finished their job in the city of Connaitre.

Although this country is predominantly human, it's not entirely devoid of beast people. Knights are extremely rare, but not nonexistent. Besides, since they usually cover themselves entirely in armor, their original race is not apparent.

<Finished. How about your side?>

<Thanks. It's going quite smoothly. Hey, your subordinates are surprisingly competent. They might be better than my knights. Right now, they're coordinating with the attack squad I summoned earlier and searching for royalty and nobility within the castle. The one by my side is... Kerry, was it?>

<Understood. Then let's aim for Kerry.>

Rare gripped Kenzaki and activated [Camouflage] to hide her presence and cast [Summon].

They arrived in a spacious area with a luxurious red carpet laid out.

Seems like an audience chamber.

[Camouflage] doesn't completely hide the effects, and some people are looking in their direction.

But since nothing came out of the gate, their attention quickly returned to Lyra.

"...I thought you had summoned knights or something, but it seems to have failed."

A man sitting in the center of the audience chamber, looking like a king, spoke with contempt.

From the situation, he seems to be the king.

Knights stand at all entrances of the audience chamber, swords drawn, guarding the outside. About four nobles or royals are seated in the center of the room, surrounded by knights with drawn swords. The corpses on the floor are likely those who resisted.

<What about the four in the middle? Is one the king? What about the other three?>

<The others are probably his close aides. Prime minister, queen, and minister of agriculture, I think?>

<Isn't the queen part of the royal family? Huh, minister of agriculture? Why?>

<The queen doesn't have royal blood. As for why there's a minister of agriculture... I don't know, but it doesn't really matter.>

Considering the timing of the official site update and Lyra eliminating the royal family, it's clear that the nation of Hiers has ceased to exist. According to the official information, the royal family of Hiers has been proven to be completely wiped out. However, it's unlikely that only those directly related to the royal family hold the rights to the throne. Lyra and Rare speculate that it might be individuals recognized by the country as having the right to inherit the throne, regardless of blood lineage. If they manage to eliminate everyone with the right to inherit the throne of Aural, the coup should be complete.