BXBX NOVEL Chapter 162 Royal Decision
Meanwhile, in the Rapidclaw kingdom things were pretty hectic as they heard the news about Julius losing the war. None of them heard the full of information of what happened but, the small misinformation was enough for them to panic as Julius losing meant, they have no heir for the future throne and the empire's next target will be the royal capital.
"Princess, where's the king? Why can't the highness even attend an important meeting like this?"
Most of the nobles in the capital gathered in the castle to discuss about the result. Some of them heard about how Julius got defeated and thought about using this as a chance to escape the kingdom. Some were foolish enough to think betraying the kingdom would benefit them but at this point, even if they betray the kingdom none of them could do anything.
"Calm down, everyone father is sick right now, he won't be able to take the decision, he will wake up, please be patient," Julie had no idea what to do.
She knew her father won't wake up suddenly like a miracle to support her and now her one and only brother is missing. She felt devastated. She felt sad.
Julie wanted to flee just like she promised but before that, she wanted to meet everyone in her kingdom. Deep down, she didn't want to abandon her people but breaking the last promise with her brother didn't sit right with her.
"This is bullshit!" While she was thinking all this suddenly one of the nobles shouted in anger.
"Marquess Pontiff, you're in front of the throne, be respectful," the Prime minister said in a serious voice. The last thing he wanted now was nobles going berserk and doing as they wanted.
"I understand your concern, but let's just wait for the official letter from our spies, we can't assume things just because of a rumour," Julie said, as she didn't want to believe this result.
Most of the nobels kept arguing until the official messenger from Velian's group entered the throne room without even breaching through the door.
"An assassin, capture her," All the nobles freaked out and Julie was surrounded by many royal guards but unlike what they expected, the messenger bowed showing respect to Julie while opening her mouth.
"Greetings, people from the Rapidclaw kingdom, I came here to deliver a message you all are waiting for," Her voice caught everyone's interest including Julie's.
"Who are you, woman? Don't think you can leave her alive after trespassing like this,"
As expected, they were angered by this sudden interest that they actually had no interest in listening to her.
"Fine with me, if I never leave this building, believe me, when I say your whole kingdom will regret it," Her words filed their anger even more as everyone took their swords including most of the nobels.
"Stop it," One who stopped all the conflict in the throne room was none other than Julie. She wanted to see why she was so confident as well as she wanted to know this danger.
"As expected from the sister of crown prince Julius, you have a brain inside your head unlike them," She showed respect while bowing.
This messenger was actually an assassin trained by Naomi and Velian. She had a normal power boost from Velian's skill which tremendously increased her performance.
She was originally a slave brought by them and raised to become an assassin but, she had no doubts because she enjoyed serving both of them. She already knew both of them were not saints to rescue her without expecting anything.
But unlike what she expected even though, both Velian and Naomi used her, they didn't treat her any differently because of her status. In fact, Naomi actually allowed her to call her sister as they had a rather close bond.
"I will serve my sister and her love, my master," She thought while looking at Julie expecting an answer.
"What? You know my brother, how's he?" Getting up from the throne like thunder, Jukie questioned as her heart started to beat so quickly.
She wanted to know whether the rumours were true.
"He's fine for now that is, we are the third party that attacked both empire and kingdom, and we have no intentions of keeping the crown prince or antagonising the kingdom,"
Everyone in the room gasped hearing her words.
"Some third-party defeated both kingdom and empire, impossible, we won't fall for your lies," Annoying nobles started to complain again which actually pissed off the assassin girl but, she held back for the sake of this job.
'Damn it, I will kill each and every one of them if they disturb my speech again'
She thought to herself while taking a letter from her pocket.
"You don't believe me? Then you can see it with your own eyes," She handed over the letter to the print minister, who took it back to Julie.
She read it for a few minutes going through different emotions. Her face changes from worried to relieved then again to worried, in just a matter of few seconds.
"No way, this is-" Without knowing how to deal with this, she handed over the letter to her mother's brother who was the prime minister.
He was a good uncle to both Julius and Julie so she had her full trust in him. He took the letter to see the content in it and his eyes widened in surprise.
"How?"
"No way, we can't do this,"
Others were curious about the content of the letter, but they patiently waited until the prime minister make an official statement.
"Well, my job here is done," The assassin gork looked at Julie one last time,
"Within a week if don't get answers, we will begin our attacks, believe me when I say with the current army of the kingdom, you won't even survive ten minutes, take your decision wisely," She warned Julie because her eyes looked like they were about to cry.
She was trying her best to hold back tears for the sake of being a royal and to protect her dignity.
*Sigh
"I guess even royals have their own conflicts," Thinking about what she saw, the assassin girl vanished from the throne room without even making a sound surprising everyone.
"What do we do? Please tell me, brother, what do I do," With a huge headache, Julie lay on the throne once again to rest a little until the decisive time approached.