Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 103 – TIUS PREOCCUPATION
“Master! There's news from Painfinn!”
Albert was seen running into Helios' office with a letter in his hand.
It was a letter from Curtiz informing him that Talia had just been attacked by a group of hitmen in Painfinn City even though the attack itself failed thanks to Alice risking her life.
As soon as Albert noticed, it appeared that Helios was pacing back and forth in his study.
“Master?”
“Yes, I already know that. But I have to how?”
Helios had known in advance of the attack even without news from Curtiz.
No, even he witnessed the incident himself through his ice bird familiars connected to his vision which he placed guard around the mansion.
Helios did not intervene at the time because judging this was a good opportunity for Alice to evolve and it turned out to be successful. Now Alice had managed to fight her trauma and had even reached the realm of magic swordsman.
However, Helios was hesitant in making a decision. Of course he was very worried about Talia and the baby she was carrying and wanted to rush to the city of Painfinn to ensure the safety of his wife and future baby.
But if he does so, it is absolute that anything should happen to his brother in the Kingdom of Cabalcus, Helios could no longer immediately take action since to fly from Painfinn City towards the capital of Cabalcus Kingdom until it reached the time of almost two days.
The further away he is from his familiar, although it does not greatly affect his observational performance as an observer, as a combat tool, the familiar will be weaker in his combat mode. If until her brother comes face to face with a high-class hitman, it would all be too late.
And the chances are not small it will happen since the most effective way to control the three kingdoms of the southern part of the continent, the last three kingdoms in the Continent of Ernoa that have not been controlled by the empire, the last three kingdoms in the continent, it is of course by stretching the cord of friendship between the three kingdoms.
Then the most effective way of all that is to destroy the diplomatic meetings of the three kingdoms themselves, for example by assasinating other royal envoys, including the Kingdom of Meglovia, for example, where Tius acts as his representative.
But then, as a father-to-be and as a husband, Helios could not resist his selfishness. He was far more concerned about the safety of his wife and future baby than the safety of his own brother.
“Alright, let's go. Call Yasmin, then we'll be home soon to Painfinn.” City
Helios made a decision.
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Meanwhile in the Kingdom of Cabalcus,
“The satisfaction is really strange huh lately, Your Highness.”
Swein fou Lambarg was able to immediately realize the gripping atmosphere in silence at each of the expressions of the audience at the diplomatic meeting recently held at the venue.
“Well, how else. The Crown Prince of the Vlonhard Empire, Albexus Star Vlonhard, whom we had been able to peacefully walk with was suddenly mysteriously killed. Not long after that, even the Monk Magnus Slafonn, the head of the sacred temple of the star-worshipping sect in Ignitia Kingdom also died mysteriously in which his entire body was mutilated. Everything went awry.”
Only to his loyal bodyguard and best friend, Tius Star Meglovia was able to express her opinion honestly without trying to maintain her wise image.
“Does it not allow us to pursue the path of peace, Your Majesty?”
“Or Your Majesty, maybe they are just afraid of the absolute power of Emperor Ethanus since their main foundation has collapsed, so they choose to be neutral since their position is no longer benefited?”
“Entah, I hope Duke Hugord van Litrum can still be invited to cooperate since he was the main supporter of Crown Prince Albexus before, he said, as well as the head of the northeast imperial noble faction which also has enough great power to suppress the emperor politically.”
“Hopefully so, Your Highness.”
“But what makes runyam even more, now circulating rumors in Ignitia that the reason Monk Magnus was killed was the unacceptance of the orthodox sacred temple against the black-haired races and the sacred temple sect that represented their existence.”
“And who was considered the mastermind of all that was the act of reforming the holy temple of the sun worshiping sect against the extermination movement of the western continent demon race through the unification of the continent within one control under the sentiment Monk Robell Zarkan by making Emperor Ethanus the representative of mankind.”
At Tius' explanation, Swein was seen tilting his head in confusion.
“I understand that it became the basis of justification Emperor Ethanus launched aggression against other kingdoms on the continent. But how could it be attributed to the death of the Monk Magnus, His Majesty?”
“You know for yourself right, recently on the continent is again the trend equating the black-haired races as the demon descendant race. Even King Ignitia, Uncle Algebra, was murdered in our kingdom because of that trend. Obviously it is not an amateur job, but something carefully planned by a certain syndicate.”
“With ease, the Kingdom of Ignitia can connect the mastermind behind all those events. Whether it was right or wrong, but everything was too coincidental because it became a trend right when Rahib Robell ran his reform.”
Swein is seen showing a tangled face over Tius' explanation. A moment later, he came back to his opinion.
“I just don't understand Emperor Ethanus' way of thinking. His thoughts were indeed good to unify the continent in order to face the resurrection prophecy of the demon lord that was about to arrive. But does it have to be war? Isn't everything talkable like how the union of these three southern kingdoms operates? The government does not have to be united, the important thing is to understand each other.”
Tius glanced at Swein as if his gaze contained a gesture, ‘how naive my friend this one’, before finally continuing his explanation.
“That's human greed. Rather than defeating the demon lord and eliminating the demon race forever in this world, the emperor was definitely more interested in ruling the world within his grasp.”
Long speechless, Swein then added another one of his comments,
“The emperor was not a foretold hero, but recklessly took on that role. Though everything was clear in the prophecy that when the chaos as a sign of the resurrection of the demon king was near, the hero would appear alone according to his signs. Ah, right, instead of based on prophecy, it should be Prince Helios who started a war like this to destroy the human world as an early sign of the emergence of heroes?”
“Swein!” Unknowingly, Swein finally let loose in speaking.
It was actually already common knowledge for adherents of any sacred temple in the part of the Ernoa Continent, but inwardly, Tius never confirmed it.
That was the reason Tius hated the existence of the holy temple so much that if he had not remembered his status as crown prince, he would have publicly displayed his hatred.
For the sake of the peace of the kingdom, Tius held back his hatred for the sacred temple that had already destroyed the future of his younger brother, Helios, treating him as an enemy of the future mankind, and the future of mankind, even when Helios was 5 years old and did not understand anything.
Whatever others say, no matter how Helios is blasphemed, Tius in his heart still believes that his younger brother will never make a future choice according to what was predicted for him.
To Tius, Helios was a kind and gentle brother who would never have seen a war raging that took the lives of many innocents.
Tius did not know that Helios was near in choosing the future according to what the holy temple foretold, and it was all about him.