Chapter 32 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Frankly speaking, Rebecca did not know these things very well and she was still a little confused even though Gawain had explained it to her once. One thing she knew for sure was that her Lord Ancestor did not seem very pleased with the current king, Francis II.

“Although we do not need to antagonize the king, we need to be wary of him.” Gawain answered casually after hearing Rebecca’s queries, he then looked at Amber, who was standing at the side and said confidently: “The Second Dynasty, don’t forget that it’s the ‘Second Dynasty’, to the royals who did not get their positions in the proper way, the Cecil Clan are now people from the past even though they were the heroes who built this country… We may not have such concerns, but Francis II does and because of this, I have decided to be wary.”

“Are you going to find fault with His Majesty the King?” Rebecca blinked and asked.

“No, I don’t actually want to find fault with him.” Gawain shrugged his shoulders and added, “I just want to stir things up.”

Rebecca responded, “Ah?”

Gawain had difficulties explaining the issue with Rebecca hence he changed the topic. “Forget it, this is not important, let’s continue the previous topic. Amber…”

Amber raised both her hands to show that she understood before the instructions were given. “I know I know, go out and keep a look out right, haish, what a hard life…”

“No,” Gawain raised his brows and continued, “What I mean is that you can stand by the side but of course you can go back to your room and rest if you are bored. You must be tired after all the things that happened tonight?”

Amber looked at Gawain in disbelief. “Ah, why are you so kind all of a sudden?”

She shook her head immediately and moved to the study desk. “I’m not going to go back. I’m going to see what the two of you are going to do… don’t tell me that you are allocating your inheritance?”

Gawain shook his head and did not entertain the half-elf then placed that round platinum plate on the table once again.

“You mentioned that this is a key.” Rebecca still remembered what Gawain did not finish saying just now. “Is this the secret treasure of our clan?”

Amber immediately pricked her ears to listen and pretended to be looking around and her actions were extremely exaggerated.

Gawain laughed and said, “It is indeed a treasure and it is a hidden treasure-house located at the southern borders but it was initially prepared for King Anzu. Of course, to the current king, that is not considered a huge sum of wealth but to the king who escaped to this land to expand the country in the past, it was half of the wealth of the expeditionary army.”

Rebecca’s eyes widened.

“It used to be the first line of defense for the Anzu Kingdom because during those days, nobody knew what would happen the next day.” Gawain smiled and revealed the main purpose of this trip. “During that time, the pioneers escaped to the northern parts from the Gondor wastelands. We moved, categorized and congregated the survivors in the Gondor wastelands while collecting all kinds of resources. As a result, the team grew in size and became more conspicuous thus a huge team of monsters from the wastelands discovered us when we were passing through the Dark Mountain Range. The main army protected the civilians hence their speed was slower than that of the tireless monsters and a terrible battle broke out. We suffered heavy losses due to that battle and when we calculated our losses after the war, Charlie and I noticed one thing: those monsters would not stop and if we continued carrying all our assets with us, the entire team may die. Thus the two of us made a decision…

We left the assets which would slow down the team drastically behind and hid them deep within a fort located in the deserted border. At the same time, we created a powerful seal for the treasure and as a result, the entire team headed towards the north more easily.

You all know what happened subsequently. The pioneer team managed to get themselves established in the north and created a new centre for the country in between the Plains of the Holy Spirit and the northern mountain range. Charlie I built a city in the Soniel area but… the treasures remained in the south.”

Rebecca was curious and she asked, “Why didn’t you take them back?”

“Initially it was because the time was turbulent and it was costly to do so.” Gawain explained. “At that time, pollution was worsening and the monsters even expanded the decomposed zone to the northern parts of the Dark Mountain Range. Hence the place where we hid the treasures became a polluted area and sending a team there was not wise. More importantly, we found rich resources in the mountain ranges in the north and the Plains of Holy Spirit also produced a rich pool of wealth. These newly added wealth exceeded the resources left behind in the south not long after. Due to these two reasons, people started to forget about the treasures in the southern mountain range.”

Rebecca looked at the round platinum plate in Gawain’s hands, “But they haven’t been forgotten completely…”

“That’s right, the pioneers certainly remember where the treasures were hidden. Although those resources would be increasingly worthless in the future, they still remained as a ‘memento’ for that epic creation of the country. At that time, we had already expected the Dark Wave to recede and our descendents would be able to collect those treasures safely. Therefore, Charlie and I made an agreement: the two families would keep this secret and pass it down to our descendents, the Cecil and Moen clans would know about it and we would take the treasures out when the Dark Wave ended and the new kingdom needed this wealth. Think about it, Charlie would love a secret that had been passed on for hundreds of years, treasures of the royal family and the pioneers of the country and assets hidden in the mountains which could only be unlocked by an authentication object. ”

Amber sized up Gawain and said, “Did you two make that decision because the both of you were drunk?”

Gawain, “….You could say so.”

Rebecca looked at her Lord Ancestor in a daze and said after a while, “However, as the heir of the Cecil clan, I have never heard of this story…”