Volume 4 Chapter 100 - Drake Duchy’s stance (1/2)

Volume 4 When the first big snowfall came, it took only a single morning to completely turn Sowell City white.

Count Sean watched the snow falling outside and he had a serious expression.

Her highness Seveni had already been back in the Lampuri Kingdom for a month.

It was very normal at first.

After her highness Seveni returned to Anvilmar City, she calmly participated in the funeral of King Eric, but she didn’t reveal any information about herself from beginning to end.

Everyone had thought that since her highness Seveni had given the throne to King Eric back then, she would keep supporting King Eric’s son Prince William in taking the throne.

But her highness Seveni didn’t reveal anything to everyone’s surprise, she even answered each question vaguely.

Count Sean felt a bit wary at this time.

This time, perhaps her highness Seveni would make a choice that would surprise everyone.

As expected, half a month later, after her highness Seveni attended King Eric’s funeral and led her private guards back to her territory, she suddenly announced that King Eric’s death was not normal and he was poisoned to death!

This news shocked the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

When her highness Seveni announced this news, she had pointed that spearhead at Duke Stagg!

Her highness Seveni declared that she already had enough evidence that Duke Eric had incited others to poison King Eric. With her identity as the princess and the status of the first successor to the throne, she announced that Duke Stagg had violated the greatest crime of treason by poisoning the king!

The Lampuri Kingdom exploded after that.

The Stagg Family had controlled the kingdom for two years now and Duke Stagg had great power. For her highness Seveni to indict him like this, it was clear that she could no longer co-exist with the Stagg Family.

Duke Stagg firmly denied these accusations, saying that her highness Seveni clearly wanted to take the throne after King Eric passed, so she made these accusations. She wanted to deny King William’s rightful inheritance to the throne and take the throne for herself.

There were many people who supported this rebuttal since her highness Seveni’s timing was just too coincidental, people had to doubt it.

The Lampuri Kingdom had fallen into sides that supported her highness Seveni and Duke Stagg, causing chaos in the kingdom.

To Count Sean, he knew that words don’t matter in this battle. He was also very clear that the final outcome would be the strength on both sides.

Count Sean’s greatest allegiance was to the benefits of the Lampuri Kingdom. According to his original intentions, it was best that the kingdom was peaceful and stable, so although he was disappointed when he heard that her highness Seveni was giving the throne to Eric, he was quite happy in his heart.

But now Seveni had announced this shocking news and she wanted to take the throne, but this was the most dangerous time for the Lampuri Kingdom.

However, Count Sean didn’t have any means to doubt Seveni since based on the information he received from his secret channels, King Eric had indeed died a questionable death.

Although it wasn’t strange that Eric set Prince William as his successor, it was very strange that he had set Duke Stagg as the regent.

Not only Count Sean, there were many nobles in the kingdom that knew that while King Eric relied on Duke Stagg initially and could have been considered to have followed Duke Stagg, since the first half of the year, King Eric had many differences in opinions with Duke Stagg. He even contradicted Duke Stagg and completely opposed Duke Stagg’s suggestions.

In this situation, how could he assign Duke Stagg as regent and control the country?

No matter how one looked at it, Count Sean had to agree with her highness Seveni’s accusations.

That’s right, it must be Duke Stagg seeing that King Eric wanted to take away his control, so he poisoned King Eric. Then he put Prince William who was only a child on the throne while his true intentions were to take over the Lampuri Kingdom.

Count Sean suddenly felt a bit of regret.

If he and the other nobles that supported her highness Seveni had pushed her more, even forcing her to struggle for the throne of his highness Eric, then if her highness Seveni could take the throne, what would the Lampuri Kingdom look like now?

Moreover, if her highness Seveni took the throne, she definitely would have supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. How could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have been forced out and the magic machine industry that was bringing prosperity to the kingdom have been taken over by those fellows led by the Stagg Family, causing no improvement at all.

In the current Lampuri Kingdom, there was only Sowell City that had a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s industries.

This was forcefully kept by Count Sean.

Although Duke Stagg had raised this question repeatedly, trying to seize these industries, Count Sean had firmly stopped him.

The most decisive role in this was the third army that Lampuri Thirteenth had sent to Sowell City that had to obey Count Sean’s orders before his death.

“Lord City Lord, Princess Caroline is here.” An officer of the City Lord Manor reported.