302 The Three Great Heroes (1/2)
Yale went out of the room where he had been sleeping and started to walk by the Imperial Palace, but the area seemed empty.
Feeling the situation strange, Yale decided to use his Spiritual Sense to check the Imperial Palace, and he found that almost everyone was in the same area.
”Weird, why is everyone in that place?”
Yale didn't understand the situation well, but he decided that he had to go to that place to confirm what was happening.
However, he didn't have the chance to do it before Revgen appeared in front of him. In the same moment that Yale used his Spiritual Sense, Revgen noticed about it and teleported to Yale's side.
”You finally woke up, quite a good timing.”
Revgen knew that Yale would need to sleep for some time after the Origin link ended, but Liye didn't tell Revgen the exact time, so no one knew when Yale would awaken from his slumber.
”Why is a good timing?”
Revgen smiled before replying.
”Tomorrow will be the anniversary of our victory against the True Empire, and there will be a big celebration. You slept for almost a whole year.”
At that moment Yale also understood that all the members of the Imperial Family should have been busy preparing everything, so they were all near the area where the anniversary celebration would take place.
”Is that celebration so important?”
Yale understood that defeating the True Empire was crucial, but the open war lasted less than a day, so he felt that it shouldn't be too relevant for the masses as probably they didn't even know about it.
”It is. The news about the war against the True Empire and the treason of the Hyeran Clan are public, and everyone knew about it. After that, the respect of the commoners towards the imperial family and the noble clans increased a lot.”
The commoners weren't too smart from the start, so it wasn't difficult for them to believe everything and regard the noble clans and the imperial family as heroes who saved everyone. Fortunately, Revgen ordered that only the truth was told because even if they had lied probably the commoners would also believe it.
”Then, let's go to see how are going those preparations, I am curious about what are you planning to do for the celebration.”
After saying those words, Yale teleported to the area where the celebration was being prepared, and Revgen followed him. Both of them appeared in a high place where they could see the whole area easily.
The area was enormous, prepared to let a lot of people from outside to attend the celebration, and there was a huge statue in the middle, but the person in which that statue was based shocked Yale.
”Hyrk?”
Yale truly didn't expect to find a statue of Hyrk in that place.
”That is right; this statue is based on Hyrk. The statue will be shown to others for the first time tomorrow and will remain in the city as part of the story of the Revgen Empire. After the ceremony, we will move it to outside the Imperial Palace to let everyone admire it.”
Yale knew that Hyrk died and that Liye helped him in his last moments, so he didn't oppose to Hyrk having a statue, but he wondered if the commoners would like it since Hyrk was a member of the Hyeran Clan.
Revgen seemed to understand Yale's thoughts as he continued explaining.
”I ensured that Hyrk's story was told without any mistakes to the commoners. The story about how the only member of the Hyeran Clan loyal to the Revgen Empire battled while disregarding his own life for saving all the children kidnaped by the True Empire.”
Without Hyrk, more than ten thousand innocent children would have died, and it was only because he acted as bait that the others escaped successfully. Moreover, Hyrk was the one who told the Imperial Family about the Hyeran Clan treason, so Hyrk was truly deserved to be considered a hero.
”I am sure that Hyrk would be happy with this situation.”
Revgen nodded to Yale's words as he had heard from Nurvey about how much Hyrk valued his pride as a noble, and the act of risking everything to save so many innocent lives was something that anyone could feel proud. Even though the name of the Hyeran Clan had been tarnished for all the eternity, Hyrk's honor wouldn't be tainted, and he would be remembered as a hero by the next generations of people of the Revgen Empire.
”In fact, Lar was the one who asked me to honor Hyrk in this way, but personally I also feel that he deserved this kind of recognition. By the way, you also have a statue, but that it is just in the main plaza of the city just beside my statue.”
There wasn't any statue of Revgen before, but after he appeared in front of the noble clans in the war, everyone thought that he needed a statue, and since he was unable to say no, Revgen didn't lose time and dragged Yale with him. Needless to say, that neither of them liked things like statues of themselves being shown in public, it didn't fit their personalities.