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Chapter 54 The Kingdom Situation
"Being a king, that's what it is"

Ronan shook his head, returning to his bedroom with constant emotion.

At the same time, he kneaded his temples with his fingers to relieve the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

He originally thought that the knights of the Northern Lion Principality pretended to be robbers, invaded the western plains of the kingdom, and plundered food was outrageous and bold enough.

I didn't expect the reality to be even more exaggerated than this.

As the ruler of the northern lion, the gatekeeper of the death mountain, the strongest of the empire.

The Duke of Angry Lion actually went into battle in person and led troops to invade the kingdom.

You must know that once the identity of Duke Nushi is exposed, the nature of this border battle will change drastically in an instant.

The fig leaf of so-called robber raids will be shredded and turned into a full-blown ducal rebellion.

At that time, whether it is to maintain its own dominance, maintain its deterrence and authority over other nobles, or for its own face and dignity, the kingdom will need to send out a large army to counter the rebellion, and return the North Lion Principality with blood and violence.

If it is humiliated like this, the Kingdom side has no powerful means of retaliation.

Then the authority of the emperor of the empire will become a joke, which in turn will affect the emperor's right to rule the major nobles in the territory.

At that time, not to mention how the other six countries in the empire would view the emperor, even the Adovician Kingdom itself would be in turmoil.

Fortunately, this duke is very self-conscious and conceals his identity very well, even his body size has shrunk a bit.

It's fine if it's just the Duke of Nushi's invasion.

What made Ronan even more headache was what the other party said to his brother Edson.

Want to be king?

No, what do you mean? Is this a question of whether you want to or not.

The current imperial emperor, King Wilson II of the Ordovician Kingdom, is in his prime of life, and he has at least 30 to [-] years to live.

No matter how bad he is, even if something goes wrong with him, there is still the eldest son, Prince Colt, who is willing to take over at any time.

If you really want to count, even the fourth princess Isa's succession right is higher than Edson's.

Although Isa's mother was the emperor's second wife, she seemed to belong to the church.

There is no strong family support behind them, but they are also the emperor's own children.

Unless all the people above died unexpectedly and the emperor's family died, it would be the turn of other members of the Ordosius family to compete for the throne.

Can't it?Ronan thought about it, and began to feel uneasy.

If it really develops into that situation, his brother Edson's chances are not small.

With the Northern Lion Principality and the Orange family on the mother's side, if they get the support of the church, Edson really hopes to be able to overwhelm other candidates.

But there is a huge problem with this premise.

Let the emperor's family die in Triumph City?
As far as Ronan can know, there are at least a thousand royal guards patrolling and guarding the Central Palace of Triumph City at all times.

And in the most central palace, there are more than one hundred second-tier royal knights under strict guard.

This is just a guard on the surface.

Others include the mysterious power possessed by the church and the guardian force hidden around the emperor. Ronan is not clear about these, but there is definitely a fourth-order power among them.

That is, the most powerful holy knight in the mainland.

Assassination?Growing up so big, Ronan had never heard that some of the high-ranking nobles in the Central Palace of Triumph City were killed by assassins, and the environment here did not allow assassins to survive.

It's impossible for the Duke of Nushi to lead his troops in and kill the entire emperor's family, right?

If you have this ability, you can enter Triumph City and become the emperor yourself, so why bother.

"The Black Death is rampant, the power of the royalist party in the Western Great Plains and the Southern Great Plains has been frustrated, businessmen spread the word that the Emperor was condemned by the Emperor, the Principality of the Northern Lions invaded, and the two factions of the Holy Water Archbishop and the Fundamentalist Bishop are fiercely disputed."

Originally thinking that the kingdom's environment would soon be peaceful, Ronan felt more and more wrong.

Now, with the retreat of the Northern Lion Knights, instead of restoring peace to the kingdom, the conflicts are showing signs of intensification.

It's just that the visible soldier's war has changed into an invisible political struggle.

"I don't know what role the Orange family behind my father and mother plays here."

To be honest, Ronan doesn't care how the upper-level situation in the kingdom develops.

But now the question is, he has to care.

As a member of the royal family, the second son of Earl Grant and Edson's younger brother.

Regardless of the future development of Triumph City, whether Edson can ascend to the throne with the help of the Duke of Nushi, will completely affect Ronan in the distance.

Of course everyone is happy if he succeeds, and he has become the emperor's younger brother with a distinguished status.

Numerous lower-ranking nobles will come flocking to respect him as their master, eager to share a bit of the glory of the royal family.

If he fails, it will be cool, he will become an accomplice of the rebels with a high probability, and will be suppressed by the army.

Either way is not what Ronan wants, but the reality and the general trend will never change because of one person.

At least for now, he has not been able to change the general situation.

Things have come to this point, all he can do is to go upstream and try to make the ending match the result he hoped for.

Rather than waiting, he hopes to hold the possibility of the future in his own hands.

"The key to the core lies in Triumph City."

Ronan recalled the capital of the kingdom where he had lived for 16 years, where prosperity and backwardness coexisted, barbarism and civilization intertwined.

Now that he has been away from Triumph City for less than half a year, he thought he had bid farewell there completely and would never go back again.

But now, it's time to go back.

Ronan was thinking about the next plan in his heart. Although he was going to return to Triumph City, he would not leave now.

With his current strength, he can lead the cavalry to hurry.

The speed and time spent on the distance are far from what they could compare with a group of untrained militiamen when they came.

Before leaving, he needs to make arrangements for the development of Cold Wind Territory and Black Rock City.

By the way, solve the last problem after inheriting the acting lord of Black Rock City.

Ronan picked up a white letter on the table with a violet flower stamped on it.

This was transferred to him by Aldrich, the financial foreign minister of Black Rock City, a day ago.

The sender of the envelope was the ruler of the northern province, the lord of Ziquan City, and Earl Drake.

Ziquan City is the most prosperous central city in the northern province, and the other party is the nominal lord of the Pecks family.

In the letter, he was deeply saddened by the experience of the Pecks family being attacked by vampires.

He also said that he had sent his children to Black Rock City to express condolences to the current Viscount Cassana of Pex and Ronan, the acting city lord.

Ronan did the math, and according to the time in the letter, the children of Earl Drake would arrive in Black Rock City in three days.

"Ruler of the North, Violet Family, Earl Drake."

After reading the contents of the envelope, Ronan recalled the news about the Earl.

The King of the Odovician Kingdom will be honored as the Emperor of the Empire due to the oath document signed at the time of the Seven Nations Alliance 300 years ago.

Except for the elf kingdom which is self-contained and the sanctuary of the church has a special status, the rulers of the other four countries will receive the title of Eternal Grand Duke.

In order to show respect for these four Eternal Grand Dukes, the emperor will no longer confer dukes from now on.

Therefore, the earl is already the highest nobleman in the kingdom except the emperor.

Among the earls in the kingdom, the Earls of Cobo and Alder, who occupy the western and southern Great Plains, are the backbone of the Royalist Party and have the highest status.

The second is the ruler of the north, Earl Drake.

(End of this chapter)