Chapter 142 (1/2)

A month had passed since the war with the Volga Republic had ended.

During those days, the Torlot Fortress was busy with cleaning up their Fortress, the battlefield and repairing their walls.

“There are 78 Gigants and 125 enemy canons which we have recovered from the river. Other weapons and small weaponry were collected in 5892 bags, clothes, and all the kinds of usable munitions account to 36,201.”

Luke seemed very pleased with Alex’s report.

Rather than anything else, being able to gather 78 Gigants made his day.

The reason why he was able to get the Gigants was because the enemy had left them when the dam broke as they were very heavy.

In the process, there was a lot of sand and debris stuck in the joints and core engine parts of the Gigants.

“It is a bit troublesome, but go to the iron mages and ask them to clean the Gigants.”

“…”

Luke looked over at Erwin, who was next to him. However, she didn’t respond, like she was contemplating on something.

“Look here, are you listening, Erwin?”, Luke called out again.

When Luke spoke a little louder, she broke out from her thoughts.

“Ah… What did you just say?”

“I told, inform the Iron Mages to clean up the Gigants. Since we lack the manpower, you should go and help them,” Luke repeated himself.

“Understood.”

Erwin nodded and stepped out of Luke’s office. She then stepped into the Gigant maintenance room.

‘Saymon huh… maybe it really isn’t a lie, but the truth?’

Erwin was recalling what happened two weeks ago.

The Meister of Dark Moon had come to visit. The conversation she heard in the meet was something she couldn’t forget.

Luke said that he wanted to speak in private and dismissed his attendants.

Even the brightest red ears of the elves had trouble hearing from a certain distance. Erwin, who had always been better than her cousins at hearing, unintentionally listened to their conversation.

However, it sounded so absurd that she couldn’t get her mind around it.

The problem was that Johas was convinced!

He knelt in front of Luke, who identified himself as Saymon, and placed his head on the ground.

It was hard for Erwin to believe that the Meister threw away his esteem and pride in front of a man he never met.

“Ahhha, Meister has recognized Sir Luke as the keeper and guardian of the Magic Tower.”

Rob explained to them, but Erwin was suspicious.

Philip seemed convinced with Rob’s words, but Erwin couldn’t help but be confused about what she heard.

‘It is true that Viscount Luke has completeness in magic. He is a person with drive and inspiration. But Saymon being reborn… Will anyone really believe that?’

The lady wasn’t able to concentrate on her work or any other task allotted to her for the past two weeks because she couldn’t sleep well.

‘Does it have something to do with the weird words Master kept on saying?’

Erenes told her something the last time she saw him. The star, which fell 500 years ago, would come back to life once again.

Did the star coming back to life mean Saymon and his rebirth as Luke?

While she was in deep thought, flames suddenly burst in front of her eyes.

Puah?!

“Ah!”

“Ahh…”

Erwin and Anna fell back on the floor, rubbing their heads as they bumped into each other.

Erwin who got back up faster than Anna began to nag her.

“Where did you leave your mind!”

“So, sorry.”

The war had ended, and Anna was walking thinking that she would ask Luke for a personal training date.

Anna, anxious over her mistake, bowed and apologized, disappearing seconds later.

Erwin couldn’t help but just sigh at the situation.

She couldn’t say much about the girl who was walking while preoccupied with her thoughts as she was doing the same.

While Erwin was deep in her thoughts, Luke was looking over the report that Alex had left.

“Huhuhu, the Gigants we got should be useful enough when we decide to take down the emperor.”

To do that, he had to operate them and bring them back to their basic alignment structure.

He was going to talk with Alex and the other men later, but he had documents to write first.

‘I feel like an official attempting to commit corruption.’

Luke felt hesitant, but soon the feeling faded.

After all, it was his goal to overthrow the Baroque Empire.

In order to ruin the Empire, Luke thought that it was necessary for him to commit to a little corruption.

While he was doing the paperwork, Philip knocked on the door and entered.

“What is it?” Asked Luke

“Well, there are a lot of letters addressed to you. Most of them are the ones from Princess Reina.”

At the words from Philip, Luke jumped out of his seat.