The Lord Of Blood Hill

After learning this, Henwell finally pieces together some of the abnormalities during The War of the Six Kings.

"After you learned that Berishi had been killed, you abandoned the battlefield advantage you had established and returned to Billie with a main legion."

At the time, Henwell was still serving beside Fabio as a young military adviser, helping him train the serf legion.

Because of his limited perspective, Henwell had not seen the full picture of many matters.

For example, the allied army had clearly held a major advantage.

So why had the battlefront suddenly worsened, causing several of Vorry's main legions to be pushed back?

Later, when Henwell investigated the history of that war, he discovered something unusual.

At the time, Billie's Sunflower Knights were pinning down Ika's Night Falcon Knights.

But suddenly, Billie withdrew five elite legions from the front line, including the Sunflower Knights, and rushed them all the way back to the Billie Kingdom.

Billie's answer was that several hard battles had caused severe losses and that the legions needed time to rest.

But that reason did not hold up at all.

If they needed rest, Vorry, as the allied army's forward logistics base, was naturally where they should have rested.

How could they have traveled all the way back to the Billie Kingdom?

And they had done it through a forced march.

Clearly, something had changed inside the kingdom. Connecting this with Queen Berishi's sudden illness and death, many people believed that Billie's political situation had changed at the time.

They believed the anti-war nobles in the country had tried to create trouble while the king was away.

That was what forced Ulysses to personally withdraw those elites from the battlefield.

But more people, Henwell included, believed another explanation.

Billie did not want the war to achieve a huge victory, and did not want Vorry to obtain more territory after the war.

After all, Vorry had planned its transformation for several generations.

No one wanted to see a powerful new kingdom appear.

After Ulysses withdrew the elites from that battlefront, the entire battlefield shifted.

Ika immediately noticed the opportunity and transferred the Night Falcon Knights away to force back Vorry's Blood Lion Knights.

At the same time, the kingdom's ace unit, the Second Guard Legion, was freed and placed in Kuka City.

This was also the main reason Kuka City could not be taken for so long, and why the allied army's rear was eventually cut off, setting off the first major rout.

After that came the battle of Fire Eyes City. Facing the new legion formed by Ika, Vorry's Silent Battle Axe Corps was scattered.

That was exactly when Henwell fled and saved Fabio.

Because of Ulysses's withdrawal, the entire war was reversed. In the end, Vorry obtained only the small Peace Haven.

Yet Ulysses's hurricane still affected many little butterflies.

For example, Baleqi, Ika's puppet king, who seized the chance to expand the results and stabilize the situation.

For example, Fabio, a mixed-blood noble who rose because of the war and forged the Iron Wall Legion.

For example, Jansen, the head of the Phoenix family, who had outstanding achievements and raised the acting king's son.

For example, Fred, the mercenary king who won the princess's heart.

For example, Obian, the Viscount of Menzuso, who fought his way up from commoner to noble.

And also Henwell, who went from commoner to prisoner, from prisoner to military adviser, from military adviser to slave, from slave to young killer, from killer to gladiator, and from gladiator to substitute.

In the end, he became the strongest knight lord, the most formidable professional of the younger generation, the Lord of Peace with a hundred thousand soldiers, and the lord of Blood Hill who sat on the continent's rankings.

Thinking of this, Henwell cannot help giving a bitter laugh. Fate really does enjoy toying with people.

No matter how he looked at it, he had never expected the changes in his life to begin because of the death of a queen thousands of miles away, someone he had never known.

If Berishi had not died, Ulysses would not have withdrawn his army, and the great rout at Wilderness City would not have begun.

Perhaps Henwell would have become Fabio's military adviser, slowly turned into a noble, and never walked his current path.

Yet all of it happened. Because of Berishi's death, Ulysses stirred up that hurricane.

Henwell drifted and swayed in the wind, finally transforming completely from the frail butterfly he had been into what he is now.

Now, Henwell is no longer a butterfly. He too is an existence capable of raising a hurricane.

The hurricane destroyed many butterflies, but it also created new hurricanes.

Ulysses does not notice Henwell's complicated expression and continues speaking on his own.

"After I returned, I immediately began investigating."

"The explanation the Veil gave me was very simple, or rather, rather perfunctory. They believed everything they had done was justified."

"There was not even the slightest apology."

"From that moment on, I understood that in the Veil's eyes, I was not a person, only a tool."

"But after having been human, I no longer wished to be a tool."

"So I began to want to become a true king."

"There was one thing the Veil never realized. They had never controlled a king."

"Or rather, their people had never been the ruler of a country."

"They had no idea how convenient it is for a king to do something when he truly wants to."

"The story afterward is not very interesting. I used the struggles among the nobles to purge many of the Veil's bases in Billie."

"I forced the Veil to rely more on me, and I also obtained a large amount of hidden resources from the process of building new bases for the Veil."

"I rebuilt the royal knight order. I established the royal guard legion. I reforged Billie's intelligence department, the Lightless Guard."

"Finally, I also established a secret guard organization of my own, named Ashes."

"They are the agents of my vengeance and anger. They helped me remove all obstacles, including the Veil Organization."

"I did not remain hidden for many years. Around ten years ago, after Duke Jansen bought you off, I was already exposed."

"Of course, only my betrayal of the Veil was exposed."

"After that, we tore off all pretense and fought completely. Although I did not have as many professionals here as the Veil did, I understood the Veil too well."

"More importantly, the Veil did not understand what a king could do."

"During the Marriage Alliance War, I borrowed Vorry's army to destroy many of the Veil's forces."

"By the way, let me remind you of one thing. Luon City, managed by your father-in-law Duke Marcus, and Yosui City, controlled by your good brother Arius, were originally territories controlled by the Veil."

"Although I have already cleaned them out, I suggest you investigate personally and confirm it yourself."

Henwell's mouth twitches. This Ulysses can actually be formidable to such a degree.

Billie lost a fair amount of land, but that land was poisoned.

Not only did it remove a malignant tumor for Billie, it also greatly weakened the Veil's power for Ulysses.

That brain, that planning, is terrifying.

Henwell thinks that if he had been inside Billie, he would almost certainly have been turned into a blade in this man's hand.