Edmonte's Story by Kazen II Kad (easy books to read in english .txt) 📕

to the remaining candidate and to know more about him. After asking around, I found the viscount was at the knight training ground, supervising knight trainees in weapon training.

“It’s good to finally meet you, Master Edmonte. I’m surprise to see how young you are with all the things I heard about you. Or is this part of the necromancy spell?” The black-haired and brown eyes man, who seemed to be in his mid thirties, said frankly when we were only a pace away. He held out his right hand for a handshake.

“No, I’m really just nineteen years old,” I said as I shook his hand. “I heard you’re one of the candidates for the Magus Association chancellor seat, and you’re not a mage, so I want to meet you.”

“And I guess you also want to know my reason for it,” the man said.

“If it’s no trouble,” I said.

“Well..., to put it simply...I want to be a primary niche for the general public to interact with the Magus Association,” Viscount Graham explained briefly. Nevertheless, I could see the underlying truth within the reason. I had no idea how it was in Soparto, but in Estrey unless a normal person really need the skill of a mage or that he had a friendly relationship with a mage, you did not see much interaction between mages and normal people. This seemed to an issue that I, as a mage, did not see.

“Well, that’s an eye-opener,” I admitted. “I’m glad that you’ve mention it, Sir.”

“I’m happy to elaborate more on the subject.”

After that Viscount Graham spent closed to an hour talking about the things he would do for Magus Association if he got selected as the chancellor. The more I hear about it, the more I thought that his candidacy was not a mere stunt by the Council of Advisors to disrupt Magus Association, the more that I like him (in a non-romantic kind of way). When we parted way, I thought that his presence would bring positive changes in the association as a whole.

That night, I drafted a report, stating all the facts that I found about Magus Association, an excerpt about each candidates from my views – the advantages and disadvantages of appointing each candidates, and the recommendations to improve Magus Association, and finally the proposal to tackle this chancellor issue. I drafted the report with my capacity as Advisor of Magus Association. I made four copies of the report, and by morning of the next day, it was dispatched to King Salvatore, Arch mage Irving, Mistress Thora and Viscount Graham. The day after that, I got summoned by the king.

I was quite nervous as I walked to the Summon Hall in my full necromancer robe. It would be the first time I meet a king and I hope to a good impression on our first meeting. I also expected a small group to be presented when I entered the Summon Hall so I was quite surprised to see other than the people I sent the report to, the rest of the Councils of Advisor and a heads of department from the Magus Association institute also there when the door was open to let me in. Moreover, I was surprised to see that the king was the man that I met in front of the late Arch mage Hisrcher’s grave that day.

“Master Edmonte, we are grateful to have you presence here amongst us,” King Salvatore said.

“Your Majesty, let me first apologize for the inconvenience I caused for the few days,” I said as I bowed towards him. “I’m also grateful for the opportunity to be in your presence, Your Majesty.”

“Now, can you relate to us of your proposal about for the chancellor of Magus Association issue?” the king asked straight to the point.

“Certainly, Your Majesty,” I answered before I went into details. The initial proposal was to have one person chosen from the candidates nominated as the chancellor of Magus Association. My proposal was no different from that. The only differences was to have four more people appointed as the upper echelon of Magus Association – two vice-chancellors to head each institute, one security director, and one public relation director. The chancellor and the vice chancellor had to be mages, security director need to be a knight or a person of military background, while the public relation director could be anyone other than mages or military. I also had some of the name of the people to be instated in each position; me as Chancellor, Mistress Thora as Vice Chancellor of Magus Institute in Islandville, Master Zhou as Vice Chancellor of Magus Institute in Joarna, and Viscount Graham as Director of Public Relation. “For now, the Director of Security position is open to any knight or military personnel who are interested in taking the responsibility,” I concluded. “Any question?” Silent greeted me back. I wondered if my explanation was not clear enough as I looked at the king and the rest of the attendees. “No question?” I asked again.

“That’s an excellent proposal, Master Edmonte,” the king said he smiled. Then he faced the rest of his audience. “Now you’ve seen the person; heard him and give no objection to his proposal – I assumed there are no objections to Master Edmonte’s appointment as the Chancellor of Magus Association.”

Someone on the front row stood up, bowed towards the king before he said, “Yes, Your Majesty. We have no further objection to the appointment.”

“Excellent! By the power bestowed to me as Ruler of Soparto Kingdom, I hereby decree Master Edmonte ascension as the Chancellor of Magus Association to be effective by today,” King Salvatore called out, and afterwards most of the attendees stood up and cheered. All the while I was confused by the display, thinking there was some underlying conspiracy on the work.

I was played well; that was the conclusion I got hearing the explanation from King Salvatore, Master Irving, Mistress Thora and Viscount Graham in a private meeting a few hours after that. As explained by Master Zhou, I was the sole heir to the chancellor position nominated by the late Arch mage Hirscher, but nobody knew about me except for those in the Magus Association, and even so there were some skeptics who did not believe a necromancer was good enough to be a chancellor. Moreover, the late Arch mage Hirscher also warned them of how stubborn I could. Therefore, Master Irving and Mistress seek the king’s help to find a way to steer me into accepting the position, while convincing my skeptics to accept me. That where Viscount Graham, as a closed aide to the king, came up with the election façade. I should be made over this, and yet, I did not. It was my own fault to not see the whole picture and now I had to accept the consequences.

You reap what you sow...

Afterword

This is the end of Trealm Cycle: Edmonte's Story.
I hope you readers enjoy reading my work.

Thank you. (^0^)/

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Text: Me, myself and I
Publication Date: 08-30-2012

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