Chapter 161: My Magic is Superior to Yours!
[The next day, you wake up and run around everywhere. Soon, the people at the traveling palace discover that after becoming Emperor, you seem to have "turned into a monkey," just like Lucius did.]
[They call this the Curse of the Roman Emperor. Even Lucius comes to visit you once, only to leave with a look of deep suspicion on his face.]
[During this time, some people harbor treacherous intentions. However, the result is always the same: these individuals are either betrayed by their co-conspirators, or the plan fails due to other issues, leading to the death of the executors.]
[After several such incidents, all the officials in your territory have become well-behaved. They believe your current state is merely a facade.]
[Otherwise, they simply cannot believe that a Roman legion commander would decide to rebel one moment, only to go home that night and choke to death on a glass of water due to bad luck.]
[In fact, such things happen more than once. Some choke on water, others choke on food. The most ridiculous case is a legion commander whose cause of death was seeing a "413" bird dropping on his roof. He called for his servants twice, but when no one came, he got so angry he went up to clean it himself, only to accidentally slip and fall to his death. It's practically a joke.]
Seeing this, Noah couldn't hold it back anymore.
While he had anticipated that people might get restless if he suddenly became "feeble-minded" shortly after taking over Rome, he hadn't expected the boost from his luck to be this terrifying.
Choking on water, choking on food... and that last one was even scarier. He probably didn't even need to eat or drink! Just how incompetent were his subordinates that they would stand by and watch a legion commander fall to his death while cleaning a roof?
If Noah hadn't seen this through the simulation, he would definitely suspect the man had been assassinated.
[After that, your territory becomes completely stable.]
[Subsequently, you make a series of "blunders" while making decisions—moves that the ministers cannot understand at all. For example, relocating cities or setting aside a massive plot of land to create an artificial grassland.]
[But even though they don't understand you, they still carry out your orders.]
[The country is quite confused about your condition. However, after autumn arrives and Attila and the "City of the Huns" appear, you casually crush all the golems and even capture Attila alive. The domestic skepticism vanishes.]
[From then until the end of the following autumn, the Huns do not reappear, causing your prestige to reach a terrifying level.]
[Then, Magical Beasts suddenly crawl out from beneath the original sites of the relocated cities, and a meteor falls directly onto the cleared grassland.]
[All of your previous "blunders" seem to be vindicated. You weren't stupid; your wisdom was simply so far-sighted that others couldn't comprehend it.]
[Gradually, your people begin to spontaneously refer to you as—the King of Wisdom.]
The King of Wisdom...
Noah couldn't help but chuckle at this.
But thinking about it, it made sense. If it weren't for the trait he chose, he would probably think such a ruler couldn't possibly be a fool after experiencing these events.
It must be a case of "great wisdom appearing as folly"!
It definitely wasn't "great folly appearing as wisdom"!
[Soon after, Morgan discovers that the Magical Beasts emerging from the ground are guarding the ruins of an ancient civilization, and the materials harvested from those beasts are quite excellent.]
[The material of the meteor that fell from the sky far surpasses all currently known metals. Its toughness is unimaginable. If it weren't so small, it might have caused a cataclysmic disaster for Earth.]
[Following the discovery of these monsters and this metal, your kingdom undergoes another major innovation.]
[At this time, someone suddenly informs you that a person named Manaka Sajyou seeks an audience.]
[You choose to meet her, and Manaka Sajyou joins your kingdom, offering a second Excalibur as a tribute and requesting the position of an aide.]
[She then explains that during the time she was away, she actually went to the East.]
[The entire nation of Great Qin has ascended, but some things remain in its original ruins. She felt that the Excalibur alone wasn't enough of a tribute, as she hadn't contributed much to your conquest of Rome. So, she returned only after finding valuable intelligence in Great Qin to claim her position as an aide.]
[The intelligence reveals that the Huns do not come from the earth, but from the sky. They are the vanguards of the White Titan, an Incarnation from the Dawn of the Age of Gods. As long as the Starship remains, the vanguards within will eventually awaken.]
[Furthermore, Manaka Sajyou has already discovered the location of the White Titan's Starship—it is orbiting the planet.]
[She also says that the previous golems were created by that thing. However, she doesn't know why, but for some reason, the Starship seemed to stop those activities after Attila was captured.]
Seeing this, Noah frowned.
"It seems Attila really does have a connection to that thing... But come to think of it, whether it's Attila or Altera, whenever they attack me, they are covered in that black current. And the Starship's own activity patterns seem unusual..."
Noah remembered.
In his last simulation, although his two releases of the Excalibur seemed aimed at Attila and Altera, the true enemy in essence appeared to be that black current.
What exactly was that thing?
Sigh, if only that Starship could be shot down so I could study it...
What a pity—and with this trait, gaining fame in the simulation is useless! Finding materials in the simulation is also useless!
So much for 'Conqueror's Haki' luck; it doesn't seem that great. Give me some good stuff!
Just as Noah was thinking this, he saw the next passage.
[You are curious about the Starship and feel it would be great if it could be shot down to see what it's like.]
[Regarding your curiosity, Morgan and Mary both feel it is better to be cautious. Manaka Sajyou, however, immediately begins drafting a plan to head beyond the planet after hearing your words. But in the end, under the persuasion of Morgan and Mary, you drop the idea, and Manaka Sajyou mentions it no further.]
[However, when you were discussing this with Manaka Sajyou, you also mentioned that even without a plan, you had a premonition that you would see the Starship sooner or later.]
[Initially, Manaka Sajyou could not understand this.]
[Because that Starship has been flying outside Earth for many years, and they understand very little about it. It wouldn't be that easy to see.]
[But very soon, Manaka Sajyou understands.]
[Just one month after you said those words, a "second meteor" falls directly onto the massive grassland you specifically had built.]
[When Manaka Sajyou leads people to observe it, she makes some startling discoveries.]
[Even though she finds it impossible, after she reconstructs the situation based on the facts, she reaches a conclusion.]
[That is, the first small meteor that fell onto the grassland did not come alone. There were at least eighty pieces or more traveling together, and that piece was the smallest among them—possibly just a fragment that luckily fell to Earth. As for the other dozens of pieces made of the same material, just one or two massive meteors would be enough to destroy Earth... and as luck would have it, they all smashed into the Starship.]
[This perhaps began the year Attila was captured, which is why the Starship stopped deploying golems to collect energy.]
[Finally, the Starship was completely broken by what was likely the last meteor not long ago, and then it fell.]
[In an instant, all of Manaka Sajyou's doubts—having previously felt you were different from the King Arthur in stories and legends—were dispelled. She is convinced that this was your doing, and her admiration and love for you reach their absolute peak.]
"Huh!?"
Noah ignored the bit about Manaka Sajyou's admiration and love. He stared fixedly at the point where the Starship had been knocked down by meteors and sat up in shock, his eyes wide.
No way...
—Even this works!?