"It's ...... to be a king"

Ronan shook his head and returned to his bedroom with emotion.

At the same time, knead your temples with your fingers to ease the chaos in your head.

He originally thought that the knights of the Northern Lion Principality pretended to be robbers, invaded the great plains in the western part of the kingdom, and looted grain on a large scale It was outrageous and bold enough.

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

As the ruler of the Northern Lion, the gatekeeper of the Death Mountains, and the mighty of the Empire.

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

You must know that once the identity of the Duke of Fury Lion is revealed, then the nature of this battle on the border will change dramatically in an instant.

The fig leaf of the so-called robber raids will be torn apart and turned into a complete duke 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 side needs to send a large army to quell the rebellion, and pay tribute to the Northern Lion Principality with blood and violence.

If they were so humiliated, the kingdom would not have a powerful means of reciprocating.

Then the Emperor's authority will become a joke, which in turn will affect the Emperor's right to rule over the major nobles of the realm.

At that time, not to mention how the other six kingdoms in the empire view the emperor, even the Ordovician kingdom itself will be in turmoil.

Fortunately, this duke is very self-conscious, and he disguises his identity very well, and even his body size has shrunk.

If only it was just the Duke of Raging Lion's invasion.

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

Do you want to be a king?

No, what do you mean, it's a question of whether you want to or not.

The current emperor, King Wilson II of the Ordovician Kingdom, is in the prime of life, and he has twenty or thirty years to live.

No matter how bad it is, even if something goes wrong with him, there is still the eldest son Prince Colt below, who is popular and can take over at any time.

If you really want to calculate it, even the fourth princess Isa's succession to the throne is above Edson.

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

There is no strong family support behind it, but it is also the emperor's biological child.

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

Not really, right? Ronan thought about it, and his heart began to feel uneasy.

If it really develops into that situation, his brother Edson has a good chance.

With the Principality of the Northern Lion and the Orange family on his mother's side, if he gets the support of the church again, Edson really hopes to overpower the other candidates.

But there is a huge problem with this premise.

Let the emperor's family die in Triumph City?

As far as Ronan could know, there were at least a thousand royal guards patrolling the central palace of Triumph City.

And in the most central palace, there are more than a hundred second-order royal knights on guard.

And that's just the guards on the surface.

Others, including the mysterious power possessed by the church, the guardian power hidden by the emperor's side, these Ronan are not clear, but there is definitely a fourth-order power in it.

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

Assassination? Growing so big, Ronan had never heard of any of the high-ranking nobles in the Central Palace of Triumph City being killed by the Assassins, and the environment here simply did not allow the Assassins to survive.

It's impossible for Duke Angry Lion to lead his troops into it and kill the 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 was rampant, the pro-royal forces of the Western Great Plains and the Southern Great Plains were frustrated, the merchants spread the Emperor's Divine Curse, the Northern Lion Principality invaded, and the two factions of the Holy Water Archbishop and the Fundamentalist Bishop were in fierce dispute."

Ronan, who originally thought that the kingdom environment was about to be peaceful, felt that it was wrong the more he thought about it.

Now, with the retreat of the Northern Lion Knights, instead of restoring peace to the kingdom, the conflict is showing signs of intensifying.

It's just that the war of soldiers has changed from an invisible war to an invisible political struggle.

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

To be honest, Ronan didn't care how the upper echelons of the kingdom would develop.

But now the question is, he has to care.

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

Regardless of the future development of Triumph City, whether or not Edson can ascend to the throne with the help of Duke Raging Lion will completely affect Ronan in the distance.

Of course, everyone was happy when he succeeded, and he became the emperor's own brother with a noble status.

Countless lower-ranking nobles will flock to him, respecting him as the lord, eager to share a glimmer of royal glory.

If he fails, it will be cool, and he will most likely become an accomplice of the rebels, and he will be suppressed by the army.

Either one is not what Ronan wants, but reality and general trends never change because of one person.

At least for now, he doesn't have the power to change the tide.

At this point, all he could do was go with the flow and try to make the ending as good as possible for the outcome he wanted.

Rather than waiting, he wants to take the possibility of the future into his own hands.

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

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

Now that he had been away from Triumph City for half a year, he thought that he had said goodbye to it completely and would never go back.

But now, it's time to go back.

Ronan thought about his next plan, and although he was ready to return to Triumph City, he would not leave now.

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

The speed and time spent on the distance were far from what they were able to match with a group of untrained militiamen.

Before leaving, he needed to arrange the development of the Cold Wind Collar and Black Rock City.

By the way, the last problem after inheriting the acting lord of Blackstone City will be solved.

Ronan picked up a white letter on the table, with a violet printed on the fire paint.

This was transferred to him a day earlier by Adlich, the finance and foreign minister of Black Rock City.

The sender of the envelope was Count Draco, Ruler of the Northern Province, Lord of Purple Springs.

Purple Springs is the most prosperous central city in the northern provinces, and the other party is the titular feudal lord of the Pexx family.

In the letter, he was deeply saddened by the vampire attacks on the Pecks family.

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

Ronan calculated that according to the time in the letter, the children of this Count Draco would arrive in Blackstone City in three days.

"Rulers of the North, House Violet, Earl Draco."

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

Thanks to the oath signed during the Seven Nations Alliance three hundred years ago, the King of the Ordovician Kingdom will be honored as Emperor.

In addition to the Elven Kingdom, which is self-contained, and the Church Sanctuary has a special status, the rulers of the other four kingdoms will receive the title of Eternal Grand Duke.

As a sign of respect for these four eternal Grand Dukes, the Emperor will no longer be crowned dukes henceforth.

As a result, the Count was already the highest-ranking nobleman in the kingdom except for the Emperor.

Among the counts of the kingdom, the Counts of Cobow and Olde, who occupied the western and southern Great Plains, were the backbone of the pro-royal party and had the highest status.

Then there was the ruler of the north, Count Draco.