Volume 8 Chapter 48: Origins Of The Philosopher Kingdom


    <span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 48: Origins Of The Philosopher Kingdom


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What?! Prince Oscar was the one who targeted my family?" While Alfia discussed things with the three girls, Keith conversed with Krystal. There was no point in hiding it from her.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"He didn''t actually say he was the one who caused it. However, he implied it much so." From how he talked, Oscar was definitely the one who tried to mess with the Rustchil family. And that guard watching over him. 7 out of 10, that had to be the cloaked person.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Why?" Krystal didn''t get it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"There''s no point in hiding it." With such a situation urring, there was no point in leaving any information.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"He''s trying to gain influence to be the next crown prince." This was such a clown show.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"You''re taking this calmly." Keith noticed how Krystal didn''t go into shock. He just dropped a bunch of information on her.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"It had to be one of them. Hearing this, I realized that the royal family was the only one capable of doing this." It was basically Keith''s family or Carolyn''s family who could mess with her household.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"This is basically an arms race between the two princes," Influence was crucial to victory. Felix knew he couldn''t obtain influence in his own kingdom that could match Oscar. That was why he decided to make a deal with the strongest military kingdom to gain their favor.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Then there was Oscar, who was taking the approach of unifying the entire Solis Kingdom under the royal family through any means necessary. Both of them would destroy the kingdom if they kept going like this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"And you guys need to be careful as well." Besides Krystal, Keith also asked Sarah, Jack, and Gabriel here. Lower families would get involved sooner orter in this dispute.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Especially for you, Gabriel. You should be the most wary." Gabriel''s family would definitely be targeted more so than the two. His family had created many sword masters throughout the generations. Even if he was a count, his family was influential.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I think my family is fine; they wouldn''t support either. They''re one of the rare neutral parties." Choosing a side was a gamble; if their side won, then they would reap the rewards that came with it. However, losing meant everything they owned would disappear. Staying neutral meant they would follow the side that won, no matter the oue.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That''s good."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"But are you going to be okay, Keith?" Sarah questioned.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?


    <span style="font-weight:400">"The way he said it, Oscar might try to kill you if you don''t follow him. And Felix hates you." Two princes were going after him. The one who was in the most trouble was him.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I''ll be fine. And if they really try to do something about me, I''ll beat them up." He had no qualms about doing that. Felix could adhere to that.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Krystal and the three gulped. You really say the scariest things. If anyone else had said it, they would have yed it off as a joke, but Keith was a whole different matter.


    <span style="font-weight:400">His track record speaks for itself.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I''m going to my room to do some research." Before he returned from the academy, he had gotten some books to check out. The four nodded as he left.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Is Carolyn going to be alright?" Hearing all of this, Sarah began to worry. Carolyn was clearly involved in this mess.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">“…” The others were silent as well.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Entering his room, the books appeared before his desk. One book was The Origins Of Kingdoms. What Helen said made him wary of the Philosopher Kingdom. That was why he grabbed any books they had about them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The Philosopher Kingdom. Initially, it was never a kingdom; it was created through a group of people banding together against a horde of monsters. Thend was filled with monsters, making it unlivable. However, through the efforts of the saintess, they overcame the might of those monsters!


    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith frowned. Saintess? He continued to read through it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The era of prosperity was short-lived, and a few yearster, the Philosopher nation was attacked by a neighboring kingdom. Seeing that her nation was being destroyed, the saintess used her magic to destroy the kingdom in one blow.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What?" Destroy a kingdom in one blow? Can you even do that? Continuing on,


    <span style="font-weight:400">With the saintess''s powers, she was able to create the kingdom now known as the Philosopher Kingdom.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"So that''s how the kingdom was created." Through bloodshed and warfare; that was how most kingdoms were made from. Yet that only caused Keith to frown even more.


    <span style="font-weight:400">What does this have to do with Carolyn?