I Regret The Kindness I Gave You (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 78

“Don’t worry about that pathetic, whimpering wretch. He’s a fake—you’re the real one.”

“…What do you mean?”

“They said all his powers come from that relic, right? Then it’s the relic’s power, not his own. You’ve been trampling those god-beasts just fine without anything like that.”

Lud raised one eyebrow slightly, as if to ask whether his words weren’t perfectly reasonable.

And judging by how fluently the words poured out without a single pause, this was clearly a grievance he’d held inside for a long time.

“That prophecy from Widensia—or whatever it’s called—was made by the head of that family after they got their neck sliced open for making just one prophecy: that a king greater than the first would come. But that bastard? Greater, my ass. Isn’t he just borrowing the power of the first king, who died clutching some relic he didn’t even understand? How is that supposed to make him a greater king?”

Her muffled hearing gradually cleared, and Lud’s characteristically low, slightly raspy voice grew increasingly distinct.

At the same time, the fog that had clouded her mind lifted sharply.

“Anyone who just happens to have a relic becomes king, huh? Guess if I put on that damn red ring and laurel crown, I’d be a king too. What an absolutely magnificent monarch we have here.”

Though nearly half of it was mockery and the rest outright criticism, his words struck right at the core truth. He was right.

The prophecy of Widensia declared that the newly born king would surpass the founding monarch—a king even greater than King Iker.

But the relic of the late King Iker, along with the lingering traces of his power left within it, could never possibly exceed King Iker himself in life.

After all, a relic was nothing more than an artifact of the past.

Moreover, if his authority depended entirely on that relic, then his throne was no different from an old, crumbling tower—liable to collapse at any moment.

Exactly as Lud had said: anyone could become king just by possessing the relic. That couldn’t possibly be a king greater than the founding monarch.

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