Chapter 76: The Tin Knight and The Land of Deep Green (6)
A renowned magic beast scholar of the Empire wrote the following in his book.
The Garden is like a nation in itself. It has territory, people, and lords ruling each region.
The reason I call them “lords” and not “kings” is simple. Kings do not serve kings.
Other scholars deny my opinion. They say the Garden is an arena of warring states where several powerful creatures check each other and struggle for power, not a unified nation. They say the leaders of the packs are masters who reign over their own areas, and there is no higher being ruling over them.
I know the people of the Garden. I have confirmed the lords of the Garden. I have clearly witnessed all of this with my own two eyes. The only thing I haven’t directly witnessed and can only infer is one thing: the existence of the monarch.
By the time this book circulates, I will have embarked on a new journey to the Garden. And I will return to announce the true ruler who governs the Garden.
Unfortunately, the magic beast scholar never got to prove his theory.
The military, seeing the scholar roaming around near the border each time with dozens, sometimes over a hundred people, requested the higher-ups to “stop that person before they unnecessarily provoke the Magic State.”
The upper echelons of the Empire accepted this request and issued a polite recommendation to the scholar, and when the scholar didn’t listen, they cut off his funding entirely.
If he had given up at this point, the scholar’s remaining years might have been relatively comfortable, but his passion refused to die out.
He finally forced through an exploration of the Garden with some of his disciples and became a meal for a young wolf.