After some time passed and the heightened emotions died down, Eugene explained the attack behind Black Lion Castle.0

Cyan had encountered the Death Knight in the Samar Rainforest. He reacted in shock at the mention of the Death Knight.0

"Wasn't that guy killed back then... Sir?" Cyan asked.2

"Why are you talking like that?" Eugene responded.0

"Ahem.... I keep getting distracted..." Cyan admitted, a bit embarrassed.0

"If it bothers you so much, maybe we should stop calling each other brothers," Eugene suggested half-jokingly.0

"That bastard. He was supposed to be dead, wasn't he?" Cyan blurted out, then suddenly realized the presence of Ancilla and Gilead in the room.2

Gilead didn't seem too bothered, but Ancilla shot a sharp look at Cyan the moment he spoke, making him shrink back. His mother was once more fearsome than anyone else, and her nature was not lost on him.2

"Death Knight...."0

Those who hadn't been in the forest; basically everyone apart from Cyan, were unaware of this entity. Eugene had previously asked for secrecy regarding this matter to avoid chaos in the main family.0

But even when the soul inside was a fake, the body itself belonged to Stupid Hamel. Revealing this to the main family would have only caused chaos, so keeping it a secret seemed a reasonable course of action to Cyan at the time.0

How could it be that the body of a great hero was desecrated and turned into a Death Knight?0

Furthermore, the Death Knight had turned into an existence close to a Demon King and attacked Black Lion Castle.0

It was a shocking and difficult truth to accept. Perhaps in an era of war, but in these times of peace, undead crafted from human corpses were virtually nonexistent.0

"Ahem..." Gilead cleared his throat while looking...0