Chapter 575 - Second Fight Against Arsene 1 (1/2)

In the capital, Bless, the story of Luke and the warlocks working together for the cure had spread.

In the capital of Symphonia Kingdom, a whole different rumor had been spreading around.

“Did you know that the Holy Sword Valiant was found?”

“Yah! Isn’t that a fake one?”

“No! All the prominent wizards and scholars including Marquis Albain have verified it, but it was told genuine!”

Rakan’s story of the Holy Sword Valiant was enough to excite the hearts of the young knights who admire him.

However, there was another shocking news.

“Rakan broke his sword before his death?”

“What?”

“According to a friend of mine in the Guard Knights, the Holy Sword had an engraved memorandum of his resentment against Karno de Baroque and Meister Arsene of Veritas Magic tower for deceiving him.”

“How did they manage to deceive Rakan? Was it about how he was beaten by Karno’s rebellion?”

“That was the one, and Saymon, who was taken down by Rakan’s own hands wasn’t a bad person according to him.”

“Really? If that turns true then it will be a huge shock to all, right?”

During all this time, the people in the Rhodesia continent would always curse out Saymon and called him the Devil.

However, suddenly he wasn’t considered a devil, there were confused about his identity.

Along with the rumors about the Holy Sword and Rakan’s memorandum, the contents of Saymon’s diary was known.

“He turned towards the darkness because of his fiancé’s death…”

“That was all Karno and Arsene’s fault.”

“Ah! Isn’t that so romantic? He went against the entire continent to get revenge for his loved one.”

While the young woman was falling head over heels for Saymon’s act of love, the young men who secretly followed republican teachings paid attention to Saymon’s ideas and policies.

“He must have been the Lord of Terror from the standpoint of high nobles and priests. It was said that their lands were snatched and distributed to the people…”

“If we look at how he had eliminated the nobles and distributed the land, he was a pioneer for a better future.”

“Maybe, him being a warlock was a lie? Even when we look at the official records of his, there wasn’t anything about him creating the undead?”

“He must have been framed. It is a common occurrence even to this day.”

“Yes.”

It was a common practice to frame or spread a lie to remove someone from society.

Most of the people who heard about the rumors were shocked and startled, however, there were those who weren’t.

They were the fairies and mixed races.

They had already heard it from their ancestors, and they couldn’t help but feel cynical when looking at the people’s reactions.

“Look there. What did I say? I told you that Warrior Rakan did a huge mistake. If not, why would he do all that before dying?”

At the words of a female elf employee who worked at the information guild, the other member scratched his head with embarrassment.

“Huh, it was because what we knew was…”

“Don’t make excuses, go to your home and do something else.”

However, not all the rumors which were spreading around were believed.

Unlike the general public, there were a few who didn’t believe the rumors.

Most of them were priests or those who thought of themselves to be knowledgeable.

They were narrow-minded and insisted that the diary of Saymon couldn’t be believed.

“Rather than huge opposition, it seems like most people are believing about it.”

At Hudson’s report, Luke asked for the reason.

“Why?”

“Because of the forced throne grabbing of Karno de Baroque, there has been a lot of support. In addition, with the case of Veritas Magic tower and Arsene, the Magic tower was recently suspected of using dark magic too.”

“Yes.”

When Luke understood, Hudson continued to speak.

“And the fairies, there have been those who always supported Saymon and criticized Rakan. On the other hand, there was a large movement of change in the nobles who are young intellectuals.”

In addition, over the recent times, people were showing interest in these new perspectives rather than the usual ones.

With the new technologies, knowledge, and civilization changes, there were developments in science, magic engineering and trading, each of those have influenced the minds of the people.

So the rumors about the past seemed more reliable to believe than the old reports and books.

“Here, the fall of the Baroque Empire, the emergence of the new nations such as Libiya Kingdom and our Symphonia Kingdom and the changed reforms of the Holy Empire changed the situation of our continent.”

‘Well, the perception of people is changing along with the changing world, maybe?’

In order to survive, in order to be a master for the new era, it was necessary to listen to different claims and ideas and make our own judgments.

The reason why the feudal system had been established on the continent was that the nobles and the knights would hold their swords and protect their own lands and people in case of violence.

‘But we are coming to the end of the feudal system, there is a lot of confusion, however, it isn’t lawlessness or violence.’

For the future, Luke predicted that those who hold knowledge and information would be able to capture the thoughts of the people as well as the land to move the world, and not with the help of swords.

‘Surely the world can’t change right away. But the future will surely show us such a world.’

Luke was over 500 years old.

Although he didn’t ask for it, thanks for the chance provided to him, he would be able to see the birth of a different age and a new culture.

‘Then, how would it be 500 years from now? The dark future which Karen witnessed had already come to an end…’

When Luke was lost in his train of thought, he felt something strange from the east.

The energy was colder and eerier than the mid-winter cold breeze, and it was enough to make his entire body shiver.

‘This gloomy evil energy must be…?!’