Chapter 494 - Truth Is Revealed 2 (1/2)

“Haa, what the hell was that?”

Hans exhaled as he got up the ground.

Everything was fine until someone who claimed to be another descendant of the warrior had arrived.

There were very few descendants of Rakan.

However, that man aimed his sword at the shinning king, who was a direct descendant, and turned into a monster that fluttered magi till he was killed.

The two men turned the royal palace into a wasteland, and Luke managed to overpower them, and even before the fake disappeared, he exploded.

If Luke’s Shield magic wasn’t done, then it would have turned into a devastating explosion, not just the Royal Palace but the Brandon city would’ve been wiped out.

“I’d rather wish everything was a dream.”

Three days have passed since the incident. However, it felt like it just happened.

Maron was in the temple. He was stuck with the thought of, ‘This must be a dream. This has to be a dream.’

‘Wow, even if I want to deny what happened, the scars the battle left are too huge.’

The palace was hit hard, enough for it to go under repair, and the other buildings close to the palace were broken with windows because of magi and aura.

But the serious damage was done in the palace backyard.

As the aftermath of the self-destruction, there was a huge pit that was in the size of the palace.

And because of that, repairing the palace was tough. Gigants were mobilized to close the pit, but the work wasn’t fast enough.

“Oh my, how do we make this right?”

Sebastian scratched his head in confusion.

He transformed back into a human because of Hiros’ doing.

However, no one seemed to be suspecting him as he claimed it to be a curse placed on him by Hiros, and it got lifted on his death.

Well, no one was in a state where they could even doubt another.

“Prime Minister, will this be okay”

“Well, won’t it turn into a huge lake once it rains?”

At Hans’ answer, Sebastian glanced at him.

“Do you really mean that?”

“It doesn’t look good at any angle. The kings of the other nations deliberately make things like those to enjoy royal bathing in the palace.”

Hans wanted to know what he was trying to say.

However, he was in severe emotional shock to even think about what he was talking about.

Honestly, the blow taken by Luke or the Symphonia Kingdom wasn’t as great as they thought.

Although the Royal palace was broken, fortunately, Luke and the others survived with few casualties like Auster and a few other knights.

And on the contrary, rumors spread that a dark magic user crept into Luke’s palace.

Rumors said that a man claiming to be the king’s kin turned into a monster who used dark magic.

Although Hans ordered for the rumors to be stopped, the incident was too large and loud to stop.

And since the rumors weren’t doing any damage to the king, they left them.

‘In the end, everything is fine, right?’

Hans’ heart couldn’t settle.

It wasn’t simply because of the shock or the damaged palace.

‘Hiros definitely used the Gold Sword, but it turned out that he was an evil monster filled with magi.’

Previously, the Gold auras were considered to be incompatible with magi.

But, Hiros broke the prejudice.

He used Gold aura and was hiding the Magi in his body!

Maron was shocked too at the realization.

Hans, who worshipped the warrior Rakan, was unable to comprehend that a monster made of magi was using the Gold Sword of Rakan.

‘If Hiros could do it, then His Majesty too…?’

Luke de Rakan learned dark magic.

Rumors like that have been passing around even before Luke became king.

However, Hans and the other retainers, who long supported the Rakan clan, considered it to be groundless rumors.

If Luke really learned dark magic, he couldn’t have mastered the Gold Sword.

But the prejudices were getting broken.

Once the doubt began to creep in, Luke’s past behavior began to turn questionable.

When he was dealing with the Devil King’s castle, Luke turned angry at the proposal of demolishing it and took down the statues of Rakan. He secretly went outside without letting the retainers know.

‘Does His Majesty really know dark magic? No, the Holy Empire wouldn’t treat us favorably if that was the case.’

If Reina loved Luke enough to ask for a wedding, she would have known the truth.