Chapter 309 - The Ark Of The Kings' Victims

Finding Minwoo standing in the middle of the town's square with 500 bodies laying around wasn't her typical day of work. She was merely patrolling for the afternoon when she came across Minwoo's body count for the day.

"Sorry, darling. I made quite the mess," said Minwoo, smiling at the Valkyrie.

"Don't apologize to me, wait 'til Baldwin gets this. This is not amusing," replied Mavislin, shaking her head in disapproval.

And it wasn't funny when Minwoo got scolded upside-down by Baldwin for making such a commotion when the whole thing about the Five Kings was supposed to be under the radar. They were made to be called the Five Kings of the Underworld for a reason.

At that time, Vernice was still crawling around and playing with her toys. Her mother, the previous Duchess, was working with the Marquess of the Compania, Minwoo. Gab wasn't even in the picture and Yan had just been recruited by Ashley. Li Ling would only join after a month later.

When news about both Minwoo and Five Kings became the talk of the Domains, people came flocking in to apply to be one of the Kings. But, when they found out the Mages were a slight part of this, they backed out. One of them was Gab's father. He hated the Mages.

But when he saw how Mavislin handled playing with Gab as a young child, his heart opened up. But when tragedy struck, he endorsed Mavislin to take care of his heavily pregnant wife. That's why Mavislin felt that she had failed him. But Gab did not feel that way and joined the Five Kings.

After that, Yan came into the picture as an ȧssassin to kill off the Valkyrie. But after beef goulash and some happy Valkyrie vibes later, he got coaxed into joining the Five Kings as well. With the title of being the Earl to the Teuton Domain. This enraged Ashley and prompted the two to quarrel.

He was the main reason why the graveyard had to shift, he was the one who destroyed it. This incident overlaps with the rise of the experiments within the Albion Domain. Rie was one of the few Mages that was around, but she doesn't remember about that.

Rie could only recall when she was rounded up to do some experiments for a large sum of money. She had been wanting a job to sustain herself and still hide her powers. Minwoo accepted those kinds of people so she jumped onto the offer straight away.

She had no ties with the Kings, whatsoever. Thus, she did not who was Ashley as she was working as a bar girl in one of the brothels he damaged.

"But that wasn't a killing spree. All Minwoo did was knock them out. He was human but with good reflexes and the strength of an ox. He then handed them to us. His exact instructions were quite grim, not the cheerful fellow he is meant to be," said Rie, remembering what Minwoo declared.

His words were created quite a lasting impact on the preexisting members that worked in the facility. And he knew what his next move was before anyone could ȧssume. He seemed so... Misleading. His face would show kindness but his mouth spat out words of venom.

Rie remembered how it was her first day as she encountered Minwoo during that order. Then place was meant for prisoners, those who had committed crimes that were worthy of inhumane punishments. But these 500 were the first that Rie would experiment on.

And later, Minwoo treated the new members to a feast at the Campania.

"What did he declare?" asked Bryan, genuinely interested to hear such things about Minwoo.

He had always thought that the Korean White Rat was merciful. But that's because he wasn't very close to him. And Minwoo did die down on his toxicity by the time he meant Bryan, so there's that.

"He declared that those humans he brought to us were not humans anymore. He demanded us to treat them like nothing but bags of flesh and bones for the better of humanity. He wanted us to see them as test subjects. With each of their humanity stripped, we began experimenting."

"Until the new person took charge. Then, we switched to create the perfect counter serum for poisons. To be precise, the antidote for a plant is called 'Bella Donna'. He then focused on getting girls from the Red Light District to fund the experiment while asking the Masters for financial help."