The God of War
Chapter 4 The Covert Intentions
After the attempted murder by the intruders, the entire palace became wary. The soldiers gathered around the palace, guarding all corners of the palace.
In the throne room, Prince Louis carried one of his intruders with both hands, he held the intruder with his left hand, while his right hand held Princess Mitia's hand.
“Ear!” said Prince.
“Prince Louis, it looks like you have managed to protect Princess Mitia”.
“Emperor! From your face, I know you must have known this assault incident was not!” prince Louis put the intruder down.
In the throne room there were no guards or servants, only Emperors and Queens. Previously the Emperor had already told the guards and servants to leave the throne room.
“You're right Louis!” the Emperor said with a serious look.
The atmosphere became silent, prince Louis was confused by this situation. He really did not understand what was going on, but surely his father had planned something behind his marriage to Princess Mitia, this marriage was not just a political relationship, just a political relationship, from the beginning the prince knew this.
“What does this mean Emperor!?” ask Queen.
“Relax, before hearing the explanation from Princess Mitia, try to open the face cover that is in the intruder” said the Emperor.
Prince Louis removed the intruder's face, surprised to see the face behind the mask.
“Who is this?” prince Louis said.
“Entah, try asking with Princess Mitia” said the Emperor with a wicked smile.
Princess Mitia was walking around backwards, she was sweating coldly, her face was pale. He did not believe that the intruder was his closest person.
“Who is she, Princess Mitia” Prince Louis said with anger.
“He is Olie, my personal keeper” said Princess Mitia with a pale face.
“What does this mean?! The Federation party wants to kill their own Princess? Well then, Princess Mitia is my wife now! No matter who attacks him, then I will not be disinclined by him, the Federation prepare to fight!” prince Luois.
“Wait for Louis, we must listen to the explanation of the situation from Princess Mitia, I'm sure she has the information we need” said the Emperor casually.
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Princess Mitia tells a story with Prince Louis, Queen and Emperor in a special room that is soundproofed. This room was tightly guarded by guards, not even a fly could enter this room.
After listening to the whole story from Princess Mitia, Prince Louis finally understood. The Emperor acted as if everything was within his control, it was only natural that he had predicted this would happen.
“What do you think Prince Louis?” the Emperor said while looking at the royal map.
“The story of Princess Mitia is, the Federation wants to fight with the Empire right? Of course I will answer the challenge of that war!” prince Louis said.
“True, they want to fight. But, this war will be the beginning of this world change, the countries in the western continent will start moving, what is your response Prince?” emperor Said.
“If they want to fight, then I will not hesitate” said the Prince seriously.
“Louis, countries in the western continent have formed alliances, do not be rash in acting” said the Queen.
“Take it easy, when it happens, I will advance at the very front and eradicate all the countries that disturb the peace of the Empire!” prince Louis said.
Princess Mitia admired Prince Louis so positively, she did not hesitate to fight to keep her country.
In Princess Mitia's story, the Federation has split into two factions. The first faction that supported joining the Empire and the other party rejected the proposal and wanted to go to war with the Empire. One of the 3 upper-class nobles in the Federation had led a faction that wanted to join the Empire, secretly members of the royal family even sided with this Faction.
Political turmoil in the Federation was being strained by the expanding Imperial Invasion. Princess Mitia had no idea who was attacking her, whether it was from the pro Empire Faction or not. But for sure this matter was already on the edge, because if word were heard that Princess Mitia died in the Imperial area then it would be a strong reason for the Federation to attack.
“So are we going to war with the Federation?” queen says.
“Don't ask me, I'll retire in a few years. Ask Prince Louis”, the Emperor said.
“Of course we're going to war! I will follow the game from the Federation” side Prince Louis said.
“What do you mean?” said Emperor.
“The empire that will declare war on the Federation” Prince Louis said.
“Hahaha, do you want to make the whole world go to war? Invasion without reason can make other countries become your enemies” said the Emperor.
“Rather than those who declare war because we have done something wrong, other countries can help, but if the empire itself wants to fight a war with the Federation no one will dare to help him blatantly” Prince Louis said.
Princess Mitia and the Queen did not expect Prince Louis to be so smart in terms of politics, what he said was indeed true, the Empire was currently the most powerful country on top of this continent, he said, if the discovery of a mistake on the Empire, it could be that the entire country on this continent would attack the Empire.
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The two infiltrators who were about to kill the Princess managed to escape from the palace, they disguised themselves as civilians and came out of the capital.
A few days later...
The intruders gave Princess Mitia's hair to someone in secret, meeting them in a narrow alley in the border town of the Federation and the Empire.
“Is Princess Mitia okay?” said someone mysterious.
“Yes, she's fine. There is prince Louis guarding her” said the intruder.
“With this hair proof we can start the fire of conflict between the Empire and Federated” said the mysterious person.
The intruder left and the mysterious person returned to the Federation, he hid Princess Mitia's hair inside his shirt, after passing the border city he relaxed for a moment, he wanted to rest for a while buying a drink.
Suddenly someone ran around throwing newspapers at people, news spreaders like this were common. The shopkeeper picked up the thrown newspaper and read it.
“I order one” coffee said the mysterious man.
“Alright, customer sir” reply shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper placed the newspaper on an empty table, visible on its big title.
Newspaper Title: Empire Starts Invasion of Federation.
“Uncle can I see the newspaper for a moment?” ask the mystery man.
“Please” says shopkeeper.
After reading the newspaper, the Mysterious man muttered.
“Prince Louis, it turns out he is smarter than what we expected!”
“Please coffee” said Shopkeeper, delivering black coffee orders of mysterious people.
The mysterious man had left his stool and the newspaper had disappeared, but some silver coins had been left to pay for the coffee of his order. The shopkeeper looked puzzled, but he was grateful that at least the person paid for his order.