My cousin is becoming a legend.

Chapter 73 The Curse of the Monarch's Sword

"A second-tier transcendent?"

Lynn was taken aback.

"Wait, Violet, didn't you just say these nobles need the Queen's protection?"

Violet nodded helplessly.

"Do you remember that night I told you about the Sun King?"

Lynn nodded in confusion.

"Didn't I say before that the Sun King disappeared inexplicably?"

Yes, he himself disappeared without a trace, but he left something behind.

After that great explosion, the Farik nobles on the Old World gradually became interested in finding out what had happened.

They sent another group of men to Osink Island, but this time the spies were not killed; instead, they returned to the mainland with terrifying news.

The Sun King is gone, and Osink Island is gone too!

The nobles of Gufalik were extremely shocked and immediately sent their strongest members to investigate.

The thirteen families that had long been secretly plotting to establish themselves were the quickest to act.

Their later rise to become the thirteenth rulers of the Kingdom of Areca was also thanks to this salvage operation.

At this point, Violet's eyes held a complex expression.

"They found some treasures left behind by the Sun King on the sunken island of Osink. We don't know what those treasures are, but we are certain that they are all highly lethal weapons."

After acquiring these brutal weapons, the thirteen families quickly realized that if they fought each other, it would only lead to their deaths and allow other nobles to benefit.

So they reached a compromise, and the Kingdom of Areca was born.

A new method of power transfer was also created, which they called elective monarchy. This meant that the king was chosen by a vote of every citizen in the kingdom. And a king's term of office was one century.

From then on, the thirteen families became thirteen monarchs, each of whom could produce a king of Areca, and those weapons were henceforth known as the Monarchs' Swords.

The decision was met with jubilation by all the common people, for this was the first time they had been granted the power to influence the future of the kingdom.

Violet's eyes flashed with a mocking look.

"Some foolish historians call the Kingdom of Areca the freest and brightest dawn of human civilization, but little do they know that this is just an excuse for the thirteen monarchs to further exploit the nobility."

They never cared about the rights of the common people; they only wanted to further strip the nobles of their power.

The election of the king requires the vote of every citizen, so naturally polling stations and armies must be set up in the territory of each nobleman to protect the fairness and security of the vote.

And that's exactly what they wanted: to subtly insert their influence into every corner of the kingdom without bloodshed.

In fact, they ultimately succeeded. The Thirteen Monarchs were no different from the Sun King, except that the Sun King was divided into thirteen parts.

From beginning to end, no one ever cared about the lower classes, nor did anyone care about the unjust crimes committed by the nobles!

At this point, Violet became visibly agitated.

She took a deep breath and quickly calmed down.

"Sorry, I've gone a bit off-topic."

What I want to tell you is that the royal family of our Kingdom of Siernus, the Iportu family, was once one of the thirteen monarchs.

However, for some reason, the Iportu family voluntarily left the Kingdom of Areca.

King Iportu VI moved his followers and subjects to the sparsely populated southern peninsula of the mainland, which is now the Iportu Peninsula.

They brought advanced alchemy techniques and artistic culture, and it was from that time that our national identity as Iporto began to take shape.

Thus the Kingdom of Sirnus was established, its name meaning "Land of Eternal Peace".

Generation after generation of Iportu people have continuously built up the Iportu Peninsula, gradually transforming this once barren peninsula into a place that rivals the Kingdom of Areca.

But the good times didn't last long...and internal strife began.

The unexpected death of Iportu X left his successors with differing opinions.

Their only consensus was that whoever seized the monarch's sword first would become king.

So they fought each other to seize the Monarch's Sword.

Finally, Iportu X's youngest son was the first to obtain the monarch's sword.

And this was also the first time the Monarch's Sword displayed its power to the world.

Violet let out a long sigh.

"Iportu XI was the least talented of Iportu X's five sons, but he seemed to have an exceptionally high aptitude for the Monarch's Sword."

After absorbing it, he didn't hesitate to use the Monarch's Sword on his brothers. All the heirs were killed in an instant, but it wasn't over yet.

Although Iportu XI was able to use the Monarch's Sword, he had no real control over it.

The Monarch's Sword has gone out of control...

This terrifying energy not only killed all his brothers, but also destroyed eight major cities in the vicinity.

The area was transformed into a desolate wasteland, leaving no trace of any city. Even more terrifying, the violent energy seemed to have ignited the magma hidden underground, causing countless volcanoes to erupt from the ground, their density resembling a thicket of thorns. From then on, apart from a few special monsters and beasts, no life could survive there.

The kingdom's internal strife was thus quelled, but at the same time, it lost its most prosperous city.

From that point on, Sirnus never recovered, and Iportu XI also fell seriously ill from overuse of the Monarch's Sword and soon died.

It was during this time that the Uma Kingdom of the southern continent crossed the sea and invaded. The weakened Sylnus retreated again and again, and the people of Iportu in the south were almost completely slaughtered.

"If it weren't for King Iportu XII sacrificing his own life to forcibly draw the monarch's sword and perish together with the then Pope of the Spratly Islands, we Iportuians would probably have been wiped out long ago."

Violet sighed almost imperceptibly.

"So now you understand, right? The Monarch's Sword is incredibly terrifying, but using it comes at the cost of your life."

Even so, neither the Uma Kingdom in the south nor the Areka Kingdom in the north dared to take the risk of launching another large-scale invasion. They could only use salami-slicing tactics to constantly test this disaster-ridden land.

Meanwhile, the nobles in the country seized the opportunity to become bolder. Relying on the fact that the Iport royal family would not dare to easily attack them, they united to put pressure on the royal family step by step, constantly weakening its power and gradually turning the royal family into a victim who only wielded the monarch's sword.

That's why Queen Eleanor is so... strapped for cash now.

Lynn frowned as he processed this information.

He was a little puzzled.

"Wait a minute, does that mean the Iportu royal family is just going to be slaughtered like this? Can't their powerful members intimidate those nobles simply by using their strength, without even wielding the Monarch's Sword?"

Violet remained silent for a moment.

"Unfortunately, the Iportu royal family has not produced any exceptionally talented individuals since Iportu XI."

This is probably because it inherited the weak bloodline of the eleventh generation.

However, another version of the story is also circulating among the people.

They say these might be the souls of the millions of innocent people who died unjustly...

An eternal curse upon the royal family of Iporto.