Chapter 591 - Fallen Dragon 2 (1/2)

After all the urgent work and reports were done in Brandon, Luke had returned to Anbury city.

It was to direct the reconstruction of the city, where more than half of the structures were destroyed and burned during the battle with Arsene.

Honestly, he didn’t do all that.

However, unintentionally, he ended up volunteering to increase the morale of the people who were in a slump after the sudden battle, so he wanted to help to wash away their feelings.

Tak! Tak! Tak!

Pull! Kang! Kang! Kang!

Many people, from all over the kingdom had come to volunteer.

The number of fairies too were huge, and the dwarves, in particular, boasted their construction skills.

Volunteers, like regular people, diligently helped in rebuilding the city.

Building the broken houses, the buildings, rework on the pavements on roads, everyone moved with no rest.

Luke too used his magic to clean up the places which were filled with rubble.

And if the King of the nation was using his own hands and helping his people, there was no way that the Central Army Knights would stand still.

A number of knights pulled out their Gigants to help with the construction.

As a result, the construction speed had increased several times.

It was when Luke was smiling.

A knight went close to him and announced.

“Your Majesty, Count Joon, and three other nobles have applied for an audience.”

“Huh? Count Joon?”

Count Joon was a former Milton Kingdom noble, he was an influential noble with a manor near Brandon.

After the Rakan invaded the Mayers’ estates, he was reluctant to serve Rakan and resigned from his post with an excuse of being ill, which allowed him to maintain his power and his position along with the estate.

Of course, because of the recent military reform placed by Luke, the military power of his estate was greatly reduced.

The rest of the nobles who had asked for the audience with the King were either rich or influential.

“Would they like to have a meeting with me?”

Why did they have to come all the way there and ask for a meeting with the King?

Luke, who was curious, accepted their request.

“Bring them to the city hall.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Luke headed to the city hall’s meeting room, which was being used as his temporary office.

And after a while, he was able to meet the nobles.

“Your Majesty, you must have been through a lot.”

“There would never be any leader who would work on the reconstruction of the city for the sake of the people, I guess only Your Majesty can do that.”

At the words of the nobles, Luke only shrugged his shoulders.

“Could what I have been through be worse than the people who have lost their homes and lives? For what reason did you come here and ask for me?”

The Count took out a box of jewelry which was in his hands and pushed it forwards.

“I and the other nobles too have been collecting the money. To help rebuild the city.”

The gold was changed to reduced sizes to increase the volume.

‘Oh ho, so these were the ones.’

Luke was told by Sebastian the other day that a few nobles were raising the money for the sake of the Kingdom.

But, it looked like it was Count Joon and the other nobles.

“Uh, thank you. I won’t forget your help.”

Thankfully, Count Joon who came to Luke and handed the box, added a word.

“But, Your Majesty. If you can listen to my ideas, we are willing to pay more.”

“Huh? Ideas?”

“Yes.”

“Fine, I’m listening.”

When Luke was listening, Count Joon gulped and opened his mouth.

“It was always the nobles who have sustained the nations by helping out the Monarchs who had their own wills. There were countless nations which ran like that, including the past Libiya Kingdom, even the Republicans.”

The noble system of the Volga Republic was a little different from the other nations.

If the nobles supported their principles of republican aims, those nobles weren’t deprived of their titles or positions.

However, they weren’t given any independent military power, and very few nobles were given any privileges.

The nobles who rebelled and tried for more power were punished, and their positions were immediately deprived.

However, Luke didn’t point out the details.

“So? Could you get to the point?”