SWNOVELS Chapter 19
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Chapter 19: Chapter 19 “Ancestors” (Seeking for Chase Reading)
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“Since your mentor has told you this name, I will no longer hide it from you,” Earl Arthur began softly.
If he had harbored some doubts before, he was now certain that Milton Cheney was not lying.
That’s because the information about the Black Robe Seekers’ Club was not something Cheney could have obtained on his own.
Unless his mentor had told him. Otherwise, Earl Arthur couldn’t think of where else Cheney could have gotten this information.
However, he didn’t know that Cheney’s wizardly mentor was a fabrication.
The information about the Black Robe Seekers’ Club came from an external plugin.
“Actually, when you first informed me of the interception, I had already begun to suspect something. You, Vernon, have nothing
to do with this. The connection between the Golden Lion Family and the Black Robe Seekers’ Guild traces back a hundred
years.”
Sitting in his chair, Earl Arthur’s voice carried a hint of nostalgia.
Cheney sat quietly, listening attentively without uttering a word.
He realized that Earl Arthur was prepared to reveal everything to him.
“The story begins a hundred years ago when we had just lived through the War of the Lords. It was the Golden Lion Family’s
most prosperous era.
There were over ten thousand guards in the family alone, let alone the dozens of Official Knights.
The Golden Lion Family owned more than half of the territories in the East River Province.”
By now, Cheney had begun to understand certain things.
The Golden Lion Family currently only owns the Far East Territory, a mere fraction of the East River Province.
The drastic difference between the Golden Lion Family of today, with only three legitimate family members, and the Family from
a hundred years ago that Earl Arthur described was starkly evident.
Sure enough, the next moment, Earl Arthur’s voice rang out again.
“However, right after the War of the Lords, a wizard arrived in the Kingdom. And I don’t mean a mere Wizard Apprentice. He was
a real Level 1 Wizard!” At this point, a tremor crept into Earl Arthur’s voice.
Although he hadn’t met the wizard in person, Earl Arthur could never forget the fear and helplessness in his grandfather’s voice
when he was told about this.
“Vernon, you probably don’t understand what a Level 1 Wizard means. Let’s put it this way, this wizard could single-handedly
destroy the entire Frostwinter Kingdom. I’m not exaggerating.”
“This wizard needed young individuals with wizarding talent to be his experimental subjects, and naturally, the Kingdom had no
power to refuse.
The number of common people with wizarding talent was extremely limited, and after searching the entire Kingdom, only slightly
more than two hundred were found.
But the wizard demanded five hundred. Yes, five hundred young people with wizarding talent.”
At this point, Earl Arthur’s voice had returned to its calming timber, as if he were simply reciting a casual anecdote.
“The Kingdom demanded that each family contribute at least one person with wizarding talent, but the great aristocrats would
never agree.
As you might have guessed, the aristocrats turned the tables and war broke out!
But did it help?
The war undoubtedly had no effect. Instead, it prompted the wizard to make his move.
In front of a true wizard, what are aristocrats? What are families? They are as insignificant as insects.
No one knows how the wizard made his move. The aristocrats at the time seemed to avoid mentioning it.
In the end, the aristocrats agreed to the request, and each family contributed at least one person with wizarding talent.
The Golden Lion Family had only one person with wizarding talent – Carl Wesley, one of the legitimate descendants at the time.
No one knew what the wizard wanted with those five hundred people.
It seemed that it was for an experiment, and those five hundred individuals were his test subjects.
It was only twenty years later that seven of the original five hundred returned to the Kingdom alive.”
Carl Wesley of the Golden Lion Family was one of them!
Nobody knew what they had been through, but one thing was for sure; their attitudes changed drastically, causing upheavals
throughout the kingdom.
During these revolutions, twelve families were wiped out.
Yes, twelve noble families, even the weakest one was a viscount’s family, and the strongest one was a marquis’s family.
The Golden Lion Family was quite lucky. Despite heavy losses, it wasn’t exterminated, thanks to Carl Wesley’s mercy.
Of course, the kingdom was not defenseless. It secretly had a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice sponsoring them.
This revolution didn’t last for very long. In a matter of years, these seven meddlers disappeared into obscurity.
These surviving seven returned to the kingdom and established a dark wizard organization.”
At this point, Earl Arthur turned his gaze toward Milton Cheney.
Seeing the understanding in Milton’s eyes, he resumed:
“That’s right, this black wizard organization was indeed the [Black Robe Seekers Guild]!”
Hearing his father’s, Earl Arthur’s words, Milton now completely understood.
The secrets he had acquired from the simulator were now completely aligned with the realities.
Milton never expected that an official wizard could wield such power, forcing an entire kingdom to bow like a grandson before
them.
Precisely because the wizards were so powerful, Milton was resolved to never give up his exploration of the Wizard Path.
The knight was just a transition. Being a wizard was the actual pursuit behind Milton’s visit to this world.
“Father, does that mean the one challenging the Golden Lion Family now is Carl Wesley?”
“Impossible! If our ancestor truly intended to challenge the Golden Lion
Family, they would not have survived to this day. The founders of the Black Robe Seekers Guild had long left for the Wizard
Continent.”
“Then, who could it be?”
Listening to his father, Earl Arthur’s response, Milton Cheney continued to ask.
Albeit initially feigning ignorance, now he was genuinely curious.
If it’s not Carl Wesley, then who could it be? After all, if it is truly out of hatred, only Carl Wesley, who had been sacrificed by his
own family, would harbor such resentment.
“There are too many possibilities. Any member of the Black Robe Seekers Guild could be it. You might not know this, but none of
the twelve destroyed families actually belonged to those seven founders.”
Milton was not dull, he immediately comprehended Earl Arthur’s intention.
If not for hatred, then it must be for interest.
The only thing that could associate the Black Robe Seekers’ Guild with Golden Lion Family was that one of the founders, Carl
Wesley of the [Black Robe Seekers’ Guild].
Sure enough, Earl Arthur’s next sentence unveiled Milton’s doubts,
“During their stay in the kingdom, the families of the founders of the Black Robe Seekers Guild were still standing strong within
the kingdom, even though they were weaker compared to the past.
But as soon as they left for the Wizard Continent, these families began to disappear one after another.
Now only two families related to those founders remain in the kingdom. One is the royal family, and the other is our Golden Lion
Family.”
Hearing his father’s words, Milton understood the implications.
The families of the founders of Black Robe Seekers Guild disappearing after they left the continent indicates where the problem
lied.
Some members of the Black Robe Seekers Guild were obviously seeking something.
And they believed this “something” was related to the families of the founders.
Milton did not expect the situation to be like this.
It could be said that it was completely the opposite of what he imagined.
The matter is not only unrelated to their ancestor, but quite contrary, their ancestor was actually a potential protective umbrella
for the Golden Lion
Family..