Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226 (End)
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Completed, Fantasy, Seinen Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 226
Estimated words: 331215 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1656(@200wpm)___ 1325(@250wpm)___ 1104(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 331215 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1656(@200wpm)___ 1325(@250wpm)___ 1104(@300wpm)
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Chapter 18: Clash
Sian looked at Celine who was walking silently next to him.
“Are you okay? Wasn’t one of the men from the Royalist Faction?”
“Huh? What about it?”
“I mean… You are from the Knight Guard… and the Kiraine Family is a Royalist and all… I was just worried if you felt bad about it.”
Celine eyed Sian with a weird look on her face.
“Didn’t you learn politics or the basic history of the kingdom?”
“I did. Uh, sort of!” Sian mumbled embarrassingly. Celine remembered what she heard from Rian, that all teachers who tried to teach Sian were worried because he gave up so quickly.
‘Maybe God is fair after all.’
Celine sighed and decided to give an explanation. He needed to know what was going on to make better decisions on the job.
“Look. The Knight Guard works for Tian’s Royal Family.”
“Right.”
“Yes, it means we do not care who the king or who his family is. We protect them from foreign enemies and solve Tian’s problems.”
Celine explained it, but Sian didn’t seem to grasp the concept yet. She felt she needed to elaborate and remembered how she explained it to her eight-year-old nephew a while ago, which seemed adequate for Sian.
“Hmm… You do know who the current king is, right?”
“Yes. Uhh… Craden Qun Tian… the Third?”
Celine looked at Sian as if he had made a grave mistake while speaking to the public and continued, “Second. Anyway, don’t you find it interesting? That Tian has four hundred years of history, but the king is only part of the second generation?”
“Oh, that’s right. Why is that?”
“It’s because anyone who can take over the throne can become a king in this country. The current king is very good, considering the fact that it continued into the second generation.”
“I see. So he rebelled to become a king?”
“Be careful. You might get arrested for saying that out loud. He did not rebel. It was a… transfer.”
Celine stopped for a moment, drank some water, and continued, “Have you heard the phrase, ‘The King must prove himself’? The throne is a position that is highly sought after. But it comes with heavy responsibility. We have the Taran Kingdom from the west and the Kharan Kingdom from the east. We also have to keep the diplomatic relationship with the Con Kingdom across the Kuradan Canyon.”
Celine explained further, “No ordinary man can do this easily. You have the military, diplomatic issues arising from all sides outside the country, and inner conflicts. The king is given the authority to rule, but he needs power to fulfill his responsibility. If not, the kingdom will not survive. We will be torn apart by the three kingdoms I mentioned.”
“Oh… then…”
“Yeah, the family that proved themselves worthy for the task is chosen to be on the throne. If they can’t prove themselves or if there’s another family that can prove to do it, then they will have to relinquish the throne and transfer the seat over. That’s what is happening right now. The Succession War. The current Royalist needs to prove itself worthy as it did before to take the previous Royalists’ place.”
It had continued for years and helped the Tian Kingdom survive. The faction that was overthrown accepted it quietly since they could always try to reclaim the throne later. But there were always those who hated to give up on what they had and were executed. These were the same concerns that Count Kerbel had also.
“But I don’t quite understand it yet. Isn’t the Knight Guard there to protect the Royal family?”
“Yes, but we do not care who it is. We only make a move when the kingdom is in crisis. We cannot interfere with internal conflicts. Besides, the stronger faction taking over the throne is good for the kingdom. So the three warrior families, the seven military groups, Tian Kingdom’s Magical Priest Council, and the Knight Guards do not interfere with the factions. We only intervene when the problem gets out of hand.”
Sian finally understood why his father joined the Knight Guard even though he insisted on staying neutral. This was, in fact, the most efficient way to stay neutral.
Celine looked at Sian who finally had a look of understanding and thought she should educate him well. He was too strong and it was dangerous for him to act without proper knowledge.
‘I can’t grasp how strong he is. Has he overcome the wall?’
She wasn’t sure, but part of her had already made up her mind.
It was highly probably that Sian was the blessed great one, Grand Bander.
If it wasn’t true, then it was impossible to make Kial and Karan fall unconscious in one hit. It was a fight between Masters, and even a Master at the same level probably would not be able to stop the fight.
Most people who came back from the Wall became Masters. The total number of Masters within the Tian Kingdom was ninety-seven. Out of those, there were seventeen Royalists and twenty-six Nobles that joined the war. This was all the power that each faction could muster as other the Masters were divided up among the other neutral factions.
Rian and Celine herself were ranked lower than those Masters. Celine was probably the one of the lowest and Rian was probably at about the seventieth rank. There were a few reasons that allowed Celine and Rian to become captain and the lieutenant captain of the Knight Guard.
First, a lot of other Masters had filled up the other positions. They were stationed along the outer perimeter and important stations as commanders and generals to protect and fight against the Kharan Kingdom.
Second, unlike the 1st or 2nd Knight Guards that moved around the entire kingdom, the 3rd Knight Guard only stayed within the capital to keep the peace. As such, it did not require powerful warriors at its disposal.
With the above reasons, there were no Masters left to spare for the 3rd Knight Guard. So including Rian and Celine, the number of Masters in the 3rd Knight Guard was only three.
But third and the last reason was the most important.
Third was that Rian was promised to become a Grand Bander, given his lineage. He needed experience as a captain to become the Commander of the Knight Guard once he became Grand Bander.
Many loved Rian and respected him, but there were some who despised him.
There were a lot of people who barely became Masters at age of forty. The Bander users grew in power as they got older, but it wasn’t enough for them to become Grand Banders. Out of a hundred Masters, only three would become Grand Banders.
But Rian was sure to become one, as all of the Roman family did in the past.
This was why he was the captain of the 3rd Knight Guard.
This was also why Celine hated to admit that the man next to her was already a Grand Bander.
Total Chapters in book: 226
Estimated words: 331215 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1656(@200wpm)___ 1325(@250wpm)___ 1104(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 331215 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1656(@200wpm)___ 1325(@250wpm)___ 1104(@300wpm)
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