Chapter 210: The Tin Knight and The Forest of Deception (4)
The name Rognir once meant the most noble bloodline in a country called Aeolia.
Once, it was so.
The rulers were noble and pure simply because they were rulers.
The blood flowing in their veins gave them the qualification to rule, and it was a “natural thing” that needed no reason.
However, war changed everything.
Countries devoured countries, and victors made the defeated kneel.
Aeolia was no exception to this trend.
It didn’t matter whether they started eating because they were hungry or started eating to avoid being eaten.
What mattered was that they too were caught up in the flow of turbulent times, and to overcome these times, they needed power.
In that sense, magic was an easy-to-understand power. Mages were easy-to-understand strong ones.
The royal family, which at first treated mages merely as convenient military strength, soon realized that the people’s respect and fear were directed at the mages, not themselves. They also realized that the mages’ military power and authority had grown too large to cut off.
To avoid being pushed out of the ruler’s position, the royal family chose to become mages themselves.