Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 887 Familiar Names on the Kill List

The glory and clamor of the morning still echoed in his ears, and in the afternoon, Leon issued his first bloody royal decree since his formal coronation without hesitation.

If the successor fails to ascend the throne, even if the king chooses to settle scores, the crimes will be much less severe.

After all, a new successor needs to be considered.

But when the murdered prince actually became king, everything done against him could be classified as treason.

The kings of fantasy worlds, especially the kings of this world who control the entire country with magic arrays, can truly be described as 'living with the nation'.

Leon has already forgiven many people and shown his magnanimity, so now it is only natural that he should show his authority.

Sitting on the grand throne, Leon issued one decree after another for the extermination of clans without expression... Although it seemed that only the ringleaders were executed, the weak who had lost their status and protection could hardly move an inch in this society.

There will certainly be people who choose to abandon each other when disaster strikes, but this is rare.

Such a do-or-die choice must be a decision made by an alliance, not a momentary madness of a particular family.

It's not that they have any bottom line... it's just that this is the rule that the nobles tacitly agree to.

In-laws are an alliance; they may scheme against each other and torment each other, but they must never be kept in the dark when committing acts of treason.

The capital offense must be clearly explained first.

The most common kind of chaos in aristocratic society is the Montes family's case... they overcalculated and included several families in the calculations.

Instead of being completely unaware that their own wife's or husband's family was engaging in a business reversal.

Otherwise, even if the offended king spared their family's orphans and widows, the nobles would not hesitate to join forces and completely eradicate their bloodline.

Collateral relatives and illegitimate children who will never be acknowledged will all be found and executed.

The matter will not be considered closed until that family, which has crossed the line of the entire aristocracy, is completely eliminated in a substantial sense.

No nobleman from any country would protect such a person.

No matter how great the benefit, it won't work.

Therefore, when a family is punished for treason, its close relatives by marriage will usually perish as well.

This means that with each kill order issued by Leon, dozens or even hundreds of children may be left destitute and stranded in foreign lands.

After all, even if these people had some brains and left some wealth for the children... without protection and having offended the king, this wealth became the source of wealth for those below them.

The number of children will only increase, not decrease.

This is the only way that madmen might leave behind a bloodline.

At this point, illegitimate children actually have a greater chance of survival than children with official status.

As long as they don't flaunt their background beforehand, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Even the most stern king would not kill a child under the age of eight... The majesty of the monarchy is not built upon the lives of the innocent and ignorant.

The things that truly lead to the death of an entire family are basically those involving the struggle for divine authority.

It's not that gods would kill people directly; their methods of solving problems have always been simple and brutal, involving a direct weakening of the soul that no one can withstand.

With that one thought, it became impossible for any professional to emerge from the entire family again.

This would be a catastrophe for any nobleman.

Therefore, in the struggle for royal power, there is still a glimmer of hope for a comeback.

Under divine authority, one can only eke out a living.

The Schröder family's desperate measures were not out of fear of retribution from the King of the North.

And this is still without him ever betraying the Lord of Storms!

Leon certainly wouldn't sympathize with these children.

Their fate was not ruined by the decision they made at that moment.

They can only blame their parents for being so reckless and their families for knowing all this, yet still throwing them out as bargaining chips for the sake of so-called family continuity.

However, upon seeing one name, Leon couldn't maintain his composure: "Yuri..."

These documents would inevitably pass through Yuri's hands before reaching him.

Leon understood that Yuri definitely knew everything, but he was still a little... at a loss.

"What's wrong?" Yuri, who was engrossed in the financial report, looked up wearily... The grand ceremony in the square was still in progress, and perhaps because Travis's departure had made these people too sad, their spirits were unusually high.

In short, they got very drunk.

This makes the already insufficient fiscal budget even worse.

It's not that the national treasury is short of money.

However, knowing that there will be huge changes in the next hundred years, Yuri will certainly try to minimize unnecessary waste.

The ceremonies and celebrations suggested by the nobles sounded wonderful, but Yuri thought the reason of sharing the joy with the people was better.

Although the consumption of alcohol was unexpectedly higher, it was only a fraction of the cost of hiring five white dragons to circle the royal city with dazzling fireworks.

Those nobles knew the national treasury was overflowing, so they treated Leon like a fool and squandered it.

Yuri knew the reason. Leon's past experiences were too complicated: a life of rejection, a life of poverty as an adventurer, and even a life as an earl completely confined to a noble status, all of which could have made him overly vain.

For example, he wants the whole world to know that he is successful.

Unfortunately, Leon may not be the kind of person who is content with a simple life, but he would never spend his own money on waste.

Moreover, he ascended the throne legitimately, appointed by the previous king, having passed the tests of the royal family's lower ranks.

They didn't climb the ladder through underhanded means or by resorting to shady tactics, so they don't need to do anything superficial to prove their existence.

But Leon wasn't angry.

This has always been the proper way between royalty and nobility: testing the waters before anything even begins.

The fact that these nobles handled things so carelessly was essentially setting a precedent for Leon.

This gives him a chance to retaliate and get back on track, while also testing whether the new king, like Travis, likes to use his power to intimidate others and completely ignores the unspoken rules.

Currently, Leon is still in the process of exposing the other party's conspiracy and has not yet begun to retaliate... Just because they want something doesn't mean Leon has to do it, right?
He has been traveling for decades to return to the Northern Royal Palace!

Waiting a year or two is the outcome the nobles should accept.

But all this 'waiting', when put together, turned into Yuri's incredibly busy work.

Fortunately, he was able to multitask, and with the help of the palace's magic array, he could complete almost all the calculations with ease; otherwise, Yuri would probably have gone crazy every day.

So even when facing Leon, he would at most be a little more amiable, but he would never speak as gently as he used to.

In just six months, he had almost forgotten how he used to charm pretty girls... Now, he could poison himself with just a lick of his lips.

Leon sighed: "This involves your mother's clan, you should know that, right?"

The fact that it ended up in Leon's hands so early is because the whole family worked together to make a list.

Some families are quite sensible, and even go so far as to make all their children illegitimate.

Although this means the complete extinction of the family line, even if some descendants can rise to a high position again, they will not be able to restore the original family name and inherit the family's bloodline power, but at least the children can live well.

Of course, for families without descendants, all their property will inevitably be confiscated by the state... This is another way of begging for mercy.

I am willing to give up all my assets, hoping only to leave us a bloodline.

However, such families are usually passively drawn into it... If the head of the family is caught with some kind of leverage, the whole family will be doomed if they don't go along with the other side.

Therefore, because they are unsure of the outcome, they will do things more thoroughly.

Those who truly risk their entire family's lives on the gambling table will never believe they are destined to lose.

Travis's performance did indeed give them the illusion that if they could suppress or even kill Leon, then they might have a chance to follow the prince they wanted.

The White Dragon King's cunning in this regard is no less than that of the real White Dragon King.

A vague statement alone led a group of fools to gamble with their entire families' lives.

Yuri's mother's family was clearly the type that was forcibly dragged into the situation.

The person with the title should be Yuri's nephew.

He only has one son in his forties, but this heir has never married or had children.

Actually, you can tell that he doesn't really not have it.

Children don't just appear out of thin air. If they frequently appear in a certain place and take money out of their own pockets, something unusual will inevitably be noticed.

The idea of ​​"living like a commoner" in the eyes of nobles is just as ridiculous as those who think, "I have several houses, millions in savings, and a decent car, so I'm just a commoner at the bottom of society."

If you want to look it up, you can find out anything.

While the national magic array may appear to be activated only for major events, it is actually present everywhere.

In other words, although this family was also an important vassal of the traitors, they could not be considered the ringleaders.

Absolutely...

Yuri, without looking up, said, "I don't believe you can't see it; this is also a test for you."

If Leon were to pardon those convicted of treason for Yuri's sake, Yuri could guarantee that most of the future noble criminals would be his and Miriam's relatives.

How could he possibly abandon Leon's interests for these people?
But Yuri also understood that if this were Leon's relative, he would definitely kill him on the spot.

What made Leon hesitate was not Yuri's own will.

Having spent so much time together, how could I not understand this?

But this does indeed concern Yuri's future.

Leon and Yuri are too close.

The closer you are, the easier it is to overlook the other person's feelings.

Family members are always the most blunt with each other.

Similarly, the most inconspicuous and common occurrence is when family members sacrifice their own interests for each other.

But if it's always the same person giving in in this family... the string will eventually break.

(End of this chapter)