Chapter 131: Overwhelmed (1/2)

Humans were surprisingly prone to be swept into a frenzy.

Most of the time, humans were always afraid of facing predators.

But once said predator showed the slightest sign of weakness…

They would swarm at it like a bunch of loci.

Gerald wasn't a careless man. In fact, he was very smart.

Be it in terms of power, skills, political prowess, and everything else, he was in no way inferior to the current Duke Highland and in some aspects, even surpassed them.

The only reason he had not been chosen to become Duke was that their father had judged that he wasn't fit for this position. For the simple reason that he was too emotional.

'Seems like father was right. I am really not fit for this kind of cold-blooded role.'

Briefly looking at the swarm of soldiers behind him composed not only of the old black knights but also of many nobles who had joined him, Gerald felt more guilt and disgust than pride.

Aside from his old friends who had loyally followed on the battlefield, all the others had been drawn in long ago by using their selfish motives.

Few people knew about the in and out of the kingdom more than him. Not even the crown's shadow was a secret to him. After all, he was still at the service of the king when he did his crazy experiments. Everything aside, from a few months ago, he had been constantly feeding secret information about the crown's shadow.

What's more, he had been observing the Kingdom since he had that much information only a few people had.

He knew about nobles who held dissatisfaction with Lilith.

He knew about nobles who wished to return to the time of the Puppet King.

He knew about nobles who only saw profit and held no loyalties.

Since the moment he had been contacted by the witch, Gerald gave birth to that idea.

What if he assembled all of them? What if in one moment, and one place, all the possible traitors were assembled and united?

And this was the current result.

'This kingdom was really full of cancerous tumors.'

Thanks to the works of Mars, and the previous king, the road of the capital and the space between each street was extremely wide.

This allowed for a fluid circulation in a time of peace, but in times like this, it could be more like a tumor.

Sighing a little, Gerald began to think about how his name would most likely go in the annals of history as one of the greatest traitors.

After all, in the great history of Lustburg, this night would without a doubt be recorded as the first-ever civil war.

'Hahaha, I guess this isn't so bad.'

He wasn't particularly hung up about how people would remember him.

After all, he would already be dead. Why should he care about how the future generation would view him when you wouldn't be there to see it anymore?

'Well, I guess it's time to move my old bones.'

Saying so, he looked at the horizon.

In front of him, three large banners rose in the sky, followed by countless smaller ones.

'Highland, Milaris and Travers.'

A large smile formed on his face. He had expected his brother to stand on his way, but he had to admit that the other two were somewhat of a surprise.

'You really became great, Sol.'

Thinking of the adorable little boy who had grown into such a fine man, his smile couldn't help but cramp a little. His smile completely vanished when he thought about his little nephew as well.

If only it was possible for the three of them to find happiness, he wouldn't mind sacrificing everything.

Raising his head, he could see a large silhouette fly in circles for a short while before rushing toward the center of the capital.

'A wyvern, huh. Soon, I guess we are going to face one scary monster.'

{Brother! Explain to me what is going on!!}

A roar of rage sounded directly in his ears. Gerald didn't need to lower his head to know that it was coming from his dear brother.

At their level, sending whispers from a few kilometers away wasn't that hard. Even more so since they could see each other.

Gerald sighed and said, {There's nothing for me to explain. It's as you can see.}

{You! Shame on you! Do you know how much your actions will affect the family?! All the hard work of the previous generation might be destroyed by you!}

Gerald's eyes closed for a short while before he opened them again,

{Talking more than this is useless. You may hate me now, you may keep on hating me forever, but so what? Get on the line, because no one hates me more than myself.'

On those words, he raised his arms before lowering it in the direction of the three Dukes, ”CHARGE!!!!”

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[Crown's Shadow hideout]

Currently, Ketia, Edgar, Berthold, and Aria were receiving reports after reports of the situation, forcing them to dispatch different agents to act as regulators and direct the civils.

Thankfully, most of the civilians were concentrated in the center of the capital, and as such, the panic hadn't had time to spread since the priestess and paladin were doing their best to calm everyone.

Ketia, who received another report about all the nobles who were rising in rebellion, though they swore that they were fighting for the liberation of the prince from the clutch of an evil queen, frowned a little bit before passing the list to Edgar.

”Don't you find it weird?”

Edgar, who had a hard time calming himself was about to scream in frustration, but since he knew what kind of woman Ketia was, he took a look at the list.

Suddenly, he stood up with an expression of shock before opening his drawer and fumbling with all the documents inside until he found what he was searching for.

Finally, as he read the second document, his hand began to tremble.

”They are nearly the same.”

On the first list, Ketia gave him were the names of the group of nobles who began to follow Gerald. Meanwhile, in the second list was the name of all the nobles they marked as potentially dangerous and that should be put under surveillance.

”But how is it possible?”