THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 53: THE DUKE'S ANSWER
The news of the 4th prince's victory finally arrived at the Royal Capital of Azeroth after a few days, it instantly made the entire kingdom in an uproar. However no one thought that the 4th prince would win, even his grandfather or mother thought that he must return with defeat, the king also did not think that the 4th prince could win because he sent Limo to kill the 4th prince secretly. Who would have thought that the 4th prince could win, therefore this news became a warm talk throughout the entire Azeroth Kingdom.
Several nobles, government officials and the military of Azeroth Kingdom began to rethink whether to side with the other princes or follow the 4th prince who managed to do great things.
But one thing was certain, almost everyone in Azeroth Kingdom was delighted at this news, with the exception of the other princes, all the inhabitants of the Azeroth Kingdom began to have a great feast for this victory.
As for the other princes, they became panicked and thought of a way to make the same feat as the 4th prince. After all since the 4th prince went to the Cavalry Kingdom then they were sure that the prince was dead, who would have thought that the 4th prince could still return while bringing victory?
On the other hand, the king felt that he should reassess the 4th prince. Previously he had thought of killing the 4th prince because he was the most useless prince, it seemed like he was wrong this time.
Perhaps due to his age that had become older, he misjudged the 4th prince.
Although he was old, King Azeroth V knew how strong the Cavalry Kingdom was, at least with the troops belonging to the 4th prince then he could not possibly win, he could not win, so the king was now very curious as to why the 4th prince could win this war.
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On the morning of the 5th day after the capture of most of the cities in the Cavalry Kingdom, Firhel had already gone to see Duke Gav since yesterday, news from him must have come shortly regarding Duke Gav's decision.
Myro wakes up early in the morning, when he leaves his tent, Myro finds Ren reading a book near Myro's tent.
Seeing that Myro had woken up, Ren stood up while saving his book again "For the lord, there was just a representative from the 4th prince who said that the prince had a message for the lord, sir, but since the master is still sleeping then the message was given to me. The message tells master that we are moving into Duke Gav's territory this afternoon, it looks like the war is over".
Myro was a little surprised to hear the words he immediately understood "You mean Duke Gav has given up?".
Ren nodded "As a person who has long sat in the position of the Royal Cavalry Duke, he is definitely not a fool. This Gav Duke already knew that there was no longer a chance for the Kingdom of the Cavalry to win, since the death of King Cavalry II then there was no longer anyone who could replace the position of the cavalry king. More precisely, the son of King Cavalry II was only 1 man and 1 woman. Unlike the previous Cavalry King II, his son who was the prince and crown prince of the Cavalry Kingdom did not have any talent at all, Duke Gav must have understood also that giving up was the best choice".
"Where do you know all that information?", asked Myro curious again, however he who has been 10 years in this world even though he does not know too much about the state of the Cavalry Kingdom, while Ren was here only a few days or months ago so Myro was a little surprised at his knowledge.
Ren smiled a little "Master, when you read a book there is so much you can know, among all those things then what I said just now was the information I got from the book about the Cavalry Kingdom".
Myro nodded, they didn't say much anymore and started breakfast.
They had already captured 7 cities which made the 4th prince at least have to put 100 troops in each of the cities they captured, this is done so that the city is not captured again or the occurrence of a population rebellion.
The problem was that for this reason, the 4th prince lost 700 of his troops to guard the city which made his army even fewer.
They passed through 4 small towns belonging to Duke Gav, there was absolutely nothing interesting in those small towns.
When they reached the main city of Gav City, they found a new 5-meter-high wall protecting the city.
Although not guarded by elite troops, but the hundreds of troops guarding the city walls seem to be well-trained soldiers, not armed residents.
Seeing the arrival of the 4th princely army, the gate of the stone wall in the city slowly opened, the soldiers above the city wall lowered their weapons indicating that they were surrendering.
From the open gates of Gav City, the figures of a woman who was none other than Firhel as well as a fat man in luxurious clothes rushed towards them wearing horses.
They arrived in front of the troops, then Firhel got off his horse and knelt in front of the 4th prince "Fortunately Firhel did not disappoint the master, Firhel successfully persuaded and led Duke Gav to surrender to the lord".
"Good work!" said the 4th prince while nodding, there was another reason why the 4th prince brought Firhel to this war because this woman was very skilled at discussing and profiting from others.
Therefore, the 4th prince was not too surprised that he could convince Duke Gav.
The Duke came down from his horse, he knelt in front of the 4th prince while sweating coldly, his whole body frightened.
Despite his fear, he still gritted his teeth and ventured to speak "Master 4th prince, I'm glad to see you here! I and the whole city are pleased to welcome you to this small town, we have prepared food and drink for you and the soldiers to rest after a long journey".
Hearing Duke Gav's words, the 4th prince was completely unaffected by "Duke Gav, I have no interest in wasting any more time, since you surrendered then you already know that you don't have to give up all 5 of your cities and 20 gold coins, do you mind?".
How could Duke Gav dare to refuse? Everyone around him was the 4th prince warrior, as long as he dared to resist then the soldiers behind this prince were ready to stab him at any time.
Therefore, Duke Gav chose to surrender without hesitation "Master prince, I give up! Whether it's the city or the money, I don't mind giving it to the prince!".