Io Lancephil

Io Lancephil is one of the Rinse Kingdom's five Counts. He is the Lord of Lancephil County.

He appointed Roan as his successor of the Lancephil County and the title of Lancephil Count in chapter 162.

Personality
He is a just, respectable, and generous Lord. He treats his people very well which results in him being extremely popular amongst his people. Like Prince Simon Rinse and Baron Aaron Tate, and unlike most nobles, he cares more about a person's abilities and achievements than their background.

Background
Io Lancephil is a patriotic man and a brave general. He served the former king, Marubel Rinse, better known as the War King. During his career, he achieved many victories for the Rinse Kingdom. Due to his undying loyalty and bravery, the War King granted him one of his five rings which would allow him to obtain one thing from the future Rinse kings.

After a long and successful career, he retired to the Lancephil County which shared borders with both the Istel Kingdom and Byron Kingdom so that he may continue to serve his kingdom by guarding its borders. He fought for his kingdom since entire life such that he didn't even have the chance to have a family of his own, resulting in him having no blood heir.

Previous Timeline
He was betrayed by the captain of his knights, Kali Owells, who rebelled against him under the incitement of Count Jonathan Chase due to Io Lancephil not leaving him any part of his fiefdom. This was due to the fact that Io Lancephil always hated Kali Owells' bone-deep discriminatory nature and the way he mistreated the common people.

He was killed by Kali Owells who became the owner of the county.

Current Timeline
Io Lancephil met Roan when he heard the news that Viscount Reil Baker was visiting the Rose Troop to meet Roan. While on the way to Beno Castle, he met Roan who was fighting off a horde of monsters that attacked a small village. Impressed by Roan's skills despite his youthful appearance, he approached him. After learning that their destination was the same, he invited Roan to travel along with them. As soon as he met Reil Baker his attention was stuck on him due to his fondness for the latter's skills. However, after witnessing the spar between Roan and Reil Baker, his attention immediately drifted from Reil Baker to Roan. After discussing military tactics and strategies with Roan, he was further impressed by the young man's wisdom.

During the war against Istel Kingdom, Io Lancephil supported Roan and the 7th Corps by providing him with knights and mages when they were on the mission to destroy Istel's supply storage. He even bailed out Roan when he quickly obtained Benjamin Doyle's termination letter from Miller Castle. Due to this happening before Roan assaulted Benjamin Doyle, he was saved from being tried for assaulting a superior military officer which essentially saved him from being executed.

Io Lancephil was very fond of Roan and he was aware that his abilities would shine wherever he went. Thus, he changed his punishment to being exiled to the Tale region. There, he made Roan the commander of the Tale region in hopes of him subjugating monsters, attaining merit and being pardoned. However, even he had not expected that Roan would manage to transform the lawless and chaotic Tale region into a relatively safe region. Following the Poskein Exodus, Io Lancephil granted Roan the Tale region and some surrounding territories as his reward after Prince Simon Rinse bestowed upon the latter the title of a Baron.

Later, after Roan suppressed the rebel Elton Coat and obtained the Coat Barony and the neighboring Renard Barony, he gifted the Renard Barony to Io Lancephil to repay the latter for gifting him the Tale Barony. Io Lancephil reluctantly accepted the Barony after Roan's repeated words.

The next Spring, Io Lancephil was informed by Chris that Kali Owells had turned traitor and that most of the County's soldiers were with him. Thus, at his suggestion, Io Lancephil secretly escaped from Pavor Castle to a castle in Tale Barony. There, he learnt that Kali Owells had attacked intentionally attacked Count Jonathan Chase's County to start a fief war. In addition, the royal capital declared that the fief war would last for the duration of one month and that no other nobles outside of Chase County and Lancephil County were to participate in the fief war.

According to the plan, Io Lancephil was supposed to stay within Tale Barony until the end of the fief war and then counter-attack to take back his fief, however, due to Kali Owells suddenly giving the order to execute common citizens whom Io Lancephil considered his children, he rushed back into his County to save his citizens. Despite a few early victories, Io Lancephil's forces were repeatedly defeated due to Kali Owells using the citizens as shields. Seeing no hope of victory, Io Lancephil remembered Chris' words and went west towards Menoa Mountain. On the way, he met Roan who had been waiting for him. There, he appointed Roan as his successor and left for the royal capital to get approval for the transferrance. Through the use of his War King's Ring, he managed to gain the king's vote, Prince Simon Rinse naturally voted for him since they were allies while Prince Kallum Rinse was forced to vote for him after Roan blackmailed him using the letters he sent to Baron Elton Coat and Prince Reitas Pershion asking them to kill Prince Simon Rinse and Roan, respectively.

He was held in the Holy Palace as he went there by Simon orders because Simon needed the Holy Palace’s God’s Medicine.