Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 321: Chapter 122 Hill’s Biography Officially Published_2

”This isn’t some Saral Chronicle, why would we need to write a biography for some NPC?”

William actually went ahead and issued them an ISBN, allowing them to officially sell it!

This is unlike the books that the nobles or mages produce themselves.

William had already opened an official bookstore.

But except for the textbooks from the national academy, there weren’t any other books for sale.

William asked people from the Knowledge Church to gather books and recompile them, but there were no finished products yet.

Unexpectedly, the first book to come out apart from the textbooks was Hill’s biography.

When the Undead Tribe initially asked Hill if he could write it, he readily agreed.

List felt uneasy about it at the time, but he also thought that Melanie’s affairs were deeply hidden and not so easily uncovered.

Hill was completely oblivious, and not just because he was slow on the uptake.

Melanie was a woman who liked to feign innocence; she didn’t want others to think she wasn’t a good girl.

It must be some innate elf-like trait in her nature that made her care about her image.

So even though people suspected her close relationships with the princesses were problematic, very few caught her red-handed.

After all, those who could expose her wrongdoings weren’t likely to bother with such trivial matters.

With all the princesses who knew most of the secrets gone from Saral, how did the Undead Tribe dig up these matters?

The most knowledgeable, Lina, had to consider her children’s welfare and wouldn’t rashly offend Fran!

Speaking ill of a former master would certainly get her dismissed; she must have kept silent about Melanie’s affairs.

After all, Lily of the Valley’s branch kept an eye on her family! She just shared some fun stories from Hill’s childhood, nothing more!

List felt as if his core was about to stop working!

Old Cat, that damned creature, should have pretended not to know, but he even bought the book and especially brought it over!

But List still helplessly let the puppet place the book in the most conspicuous part of Hill’s desk.

Then he silently notified Diamant.

He also assigned a task to that dead cat to buy a few more copies and send them to Fran’s territory.

What does all this have to do with him, a mere Tower Spirit?

After all, keeping Hill in the dark was Fran’s idea, so he might as well soothe his own grandson, who was kept in the dark.

Hill saw the book that very night.

At first, he was quite happy.

Picking it up, he wanted to see how much of his past the Undead Tribe had uncovered.

Until he saw the title of the first volume: The Story of Hill’s Parents, Unknown Even to Himself.

The first half of the volume detailed the relationship between Count Pelast and Helen.

As the favorite daughter of the Kral Family and the first wife of Count Pelast, she was a woman greatly despised.

High in status and reasonably pretty, Charles had watched her grow up.

If it hadn’t been for her truly poor health, perhaps Charles would have married her if only she could have become a knight.

Her poor health had reasons; her elder brother, who married Helen, was that unfortunate soul.

When he died in a duel, their mother, a rare female Grand Knight, nearly let grief overwhelm her, had she not discovered she was pregnant, she might have tormented herself to death.

The birth of this daughter saved the Kral family at the time and brought her two remaining sons together around their mother.

But because of this, her health was the only one in the Kral family to be innately deficient.

To protect this daughter, they finally chose Count Pelast, whose lands were near the capital, as her husband.

Helen took action at that time.

Compared to the shy and pure Miss Kral, the famously glamorous Helen won the Count’s favor more.

He ignored the risks of the Kral Family finding out and became Helen’s secret lover.

So they hooked up that early!

Hill read with dismay as the Undead Tribe gleefully wrote: Before Miss Kral, who she greatly disliked, married the Count, Helen tested the Count’s mettle and even praised the Grand Knight’s stamina as very good.

When would the people of the Kral Clan see this book?

Would they go mad with rage?

Then there was the death of Lady Kral, and the Earl wished to find a wife who wouldn’t be oppressed by the Kral Clan.

He didn’t consider that if it weren’t for the death of this lady’s brother, who was a Sky Knight, it would have been impossible for her to marry him, an Earl with little power.

All he knew was that in recent years, his castle had almost become the property of the Kral Clan.

Fortunately, there was Helen, who was very willing to help, and the two of them already had a unique connection.

At that time, there was a famously beautiful woman in the court, not only the Archmage’s daughter but also a Mage herself.

An Archmage who completely disregarded Helen, whose daughter’s beauty kept the King’s gaze fixated on her.

If she truly became the King’s mistress, with the Court Archmage’s ability, Helen’s influence of over twenty years in the Royal Palace would be wiped out completely.

If Melanie truly wished to marry the Earl, it would be much more beneficial for him than marrying a daughter from a lesser noble family.

The daughter of the Archmage, officially not part of the noble hierarchy, fully respected his previous wife, yet the Kral Clan could not threaten or control her, allowing the Earl to use her to escape the complete control of the Kral Clan.

The two of them hit it off immediately, and Helen mobilized all her forces within the court, first by instigating Fran’s students.

These students were already fighting over Melanie, and just a little spark would push Melanie, favored on all sides, to make a necessary choice.

Upon reading this, Hill had an ominous premonition, what does being ’favored on all sides’ imply?

He felt reluctant to read on.

Placing the book on the desk, Hill stood up and walked around the study.

List remained silent as ever.

Hill sighed and picked up the book to continue reading.

Between a group of not-so-attractive Mages and the handsome, dashing Earl, Melanie unsurprisingly chose the Earl.

The Undead Tribe quipped rather sharply, ”Indeed, in the world of Mages, there are still dreams, preferring a good-looking noble over the so-called power of following a centuries-old King.”

Logically, that should have ended the matter, and the Earl counted as the victor.

However, a Grand Knight from the Kral Clan became a Sky Knight in the second year of his marriage to Melanie.

The Earl was filled with regret, as at that time he hadn’t yet joined Edward’s faction.

Helen had no interest yet in introducing one lover to another for service.

After all, the Old King was still healthy at that time.

Charles was clearly going to be the next King.

Back then, if the Kral Clan had killed him to make Manton succeed, the Earl would have been powerless.

Thus, the Earl completely handed over the power inside his castle to the servants that came from the Kral Clan.

Melanie was a Mage, backed by her father the Court Archmage.

Even if Fran didn’t favor this marriage, he wouldn’t let anyone who hurt her off easily.

But her desire to completely drive away these servants was suppressed by the Kral Clan.

When Fran decided to intervene, the Kral Clan made Charles’ Magister step in to stop him.

But they also didn’t allow Melanie to completely leave the Earl.

During this period, the Kral Clan feared that if this proud Female Mage, who disliked Manton, left, what would happen if the Earl married a woman from another faction.

However, not letting Fran intervene to help his daughter eliminate all the Kral Clan’s servants is one thing, not even letting him take his daughter back is something no Mage would be willing to assist with.

So they gave Melanie a large sum of money, sufficient to maintain her marriage.

Melanie accepted the money.

Hill pursed his lips, his heart sinking into despair.

He already knew what happened next; Hill simply flipped over those pages, which specifically described how the Earl reluctantly let both factions use him as a bargaining chip.

Then followed Melanie’s death from an experiment, and the Earl’s rushed marriage to the new Countess.

He reconnected with Helen that year when he took his wife to attend the New Year’s court banquet.

Seeing the interested look of the Cardinal from the Noble Church towards the new Countess, Edward, knowing about Helen’s former affair with the Earl, had Helen contact the Earl again.