Chapter 25 (1/2)

Chapter 25: The Magi Crystals 3

Luke went into his room and threw himself onto his bed and went to sleep right away.

He was very tired since he had been traveling in a state where he couldn’t say that his body was good, yet he wasn’t able to sleep.

It was because he had to decide what to do in the future.

First, he succeeded in paying off the debt and defending the Gigant. However, two of the biggest things remained.

Overthrowing the Baroque Imperial and the Veritas Magic Tower.

‘Of all, I’ll never forgive the Veritas Magic Tower.’

It was what ruined the life that he and Katarina were supposed to have, and stole his work which pushed Saymon into studying dark magic for expanding his authority and power.

‘Even if the wizards of the Veritas Magic Tower aren’t relevant to the past, they are the ones who always commit huge sins by depriving people of basic necessities.’

The same was the case for the Baroque Imperial family.

They were enjoying building the empire with the help of the Veritas magic tower.

Shouldn’t that unjust power and actions be cleared?

‘To do that, I would need to have a stronger force.’

In order to have strong power, he would have to increase his power and his forces as well.

The estates had forces, and they could somehow be developed, but the problem was the body he was in possession of.

It was hard to grow properly in a normal manner because of a misleading dark magic curse that got placed without his knowledge.

‘I need something specific.’

Luke cleaned up his clothes and went out. He moved to the stable and brought out his horse.

“Young Lord, where are you going?”

The gatekeeper, who was guarding the main gate of the permanent mansion, moved to the front of Luke who was riding on the horse.

It wasn’t much since he had returned and he was off to somewhere, that too without his guardian. It would turn troublesome if he met people he wasn’t supposed to meet.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be back in a jiffy. If the retainers ask, tell them I went to the castle that is in front.”

“You can go, but your guardian…!”

Before the gatekeeper could complete, Luke ran out with the horse.

“Young Lord! Please wait, young Lord!”

The gatekeeper screamed and chased, but Luke just went ahead in the direction of the huge castle that was straight to him.

Hundreds of years had passed to form a dense forest of old trees, and an old giant structure made of black stone appeared.

The castle, with the steep tower in the middle, was the former home of Luke in the past, a place that people called ‘Devil King’s castle’.

Legend has it that the Devil King’s Castle was built by the Devil Saymon with the stones that he acquired from the devils. He was described to have caught and sacrificed thousands of human as dark sacrifices and ate them like beasts.

“Hng, if I wanted to make it look much more sophisticated, it would have been very costly for me, idiots!”

Luke scoffed at the sign that said the origin and the name of the castle.

Even if Saymon wanted, there was no devil for him to pamper.

All the summoned ones were beaten by Saymon and later used for absorbing their powers and abilities, and a few of them were used for experiments.

At the time of the reconstruction, a dwarf tribe had helped, and the black stone was the basalt rock obtained nearby.

Not thousands, and definitely not a dark sacrifice, but there were indeed a few humans.

But they were the hunters who sold off the poor tribes, they just paid for their sins.

And history was left to the point of view of the winner. And Warlock Saymon was remembered as a Devil King for future generations.

“Today’s business is done… ah, young Lord, what are you doing here?”

“Just felt like seeing.”

Luke passed the horse over to the janitor standing at the gate.

As the closing hour was nearing, there didn’t seem to be any visitors left. It was a good thing for Luke as he won’t have to face any hindrance.

He walked along the long corridor to see it all.

‘I was with Katarina at that time.’

Luke went along with the memory.

At that time, while traveling with Katarina, he sought a place to escape from the rain and found a ruined castle.

At first, they only went in to avoid getting wet in the rain, but the two adventurous humans wandered around the castle and ended up finding a book that was left behind by a warlock.