BXBX NOVEL Chapter 669 Aftermath
Once Mrazivý was finished telling Marcus about her uncle who had caused the incident with the demons, he let out a long sigh.
‘This is just great. First it was that stupid giant worm. And now it is demon worshipers trying to bring about some sort of demon invasion.’
Still, bemoaning his situation was not going to get him anywhere, and with how mentally exhausted he was Marcus just wanted to turn his mind off and rest.
Luckily his ever-attentive fiancée caught onto this, and as she was tired herself, she was more than willing to go along with him.
“I know we are waiting here to until someone comes to take our statements, but I am sure that after what we went through, they can wait another day.” Mrazivý said as she stood up and walked to the door.
When she opened it they were greeted by a squadron of knights that were there to protect them.
One of them was Mrazivý’s guardian knight and he was relieved to see her since during the confusion of the battle he had lost track of her.
Mrazivý then convinced the knights to let them head to their rooms and rest, even though the leader knight put up some protest..
Still in perfect princess fashion Mrazivý used her authority and the fact that they had fought and beaten a number of demons as a reason for their need to rest.
“Thanks for handling that. I doubt I could have navigated that situation as well as you.” Marcus said once they had shut the door to her room.
Now that they were able to let themselves relax, both of them headed straight to bed and collapsed pretty much as soon as their heads hit the pillows.
The next day when they woke up, they went to the main dining room and had a quick breakfast, before they were led to a meeting with a number of the higher ups of the kingdom.
Surprisingly the king as well as Aria and Knight Commander Darius were among them.
They had left the summit of nations aligned with the adventurers guild and come back to address the situation here.
Staying as the representatives were Boreas and Gwyneira along with a few ministers, so Borealia was not represented.
“I already had one headache from the meeting at the guild’s headquarters, but this is far worse.” The king mumbled while reading reports of the incident.
The situation was impeccably bad for the kingdom, as his brother and sons were the instigators of the attack and summoning demons.
Not to mention that other nobles were found to be involved like Syver Krenston.
Eventually everyone that would be attending the meeting had gathered and it began.
To start the king gave his condolences to Marcus and Mrazivý for their engagement party being ruined and thanked them for fighting bravely to deal with the demons that appeared.
After that the king read off a list of who died, and it was quite the blow for the kingdom since a number of nobles that were well trusted had died.
“Now as for what they were after, we were able to get their plans out of Soith once we cured him of his insanity caused by the demonic essence.”
The king went onto say that the plan which was spearheaded by Vaughn had been to capture Frostine and Kalt and use their emergency permission to make Soith the king so that they could sacrifice the people of the capital to bring forth even more demons.
They had chosen the engagement party as the time to strike since they knew that Gwyneira, Aria, and Darius would be absent, and that Frostine and Kalt would be out of the castle.
“Would you mind explaining what this entails? I did not think it would be so easy to just give someone else the tittle of king.” Marcus asked.
It was not like in his old world where anyone could just be pronounced a king for whatever reasons.
On Mirrion it was a tangible title that came with a number of powers and was not something that should have been easily taken.
“Yes, I suppose that I will need to do that. However, those of you who do not wish to be sworn to secrecy via magic contract should leave now.” The king said.
Yet even under this stipulation not one of the forty people in attendance left.
“Very well, I will tell all of you the process by which the title of king can be transferred without my authority.” The king said with a despondent expression.
“This is an emergency measure that has been in place for centuries where the deputy king, along with the crown prince or princess and with three other members of the royal family can transfer the title. It is only supposed to be used in case a monarch of Borealia is ever captured by an enemy. In that situation it would be better to abandon the current ruler then to lose the integrity of the kingdom.”
When the king had finished explaining the process everyone sat there with grim expressions.
“And before any of you point out that Soith is was no longer a member of the royal family nor the crown price, I will say that with the authority given to Kalt and Vaughn as my brothers they could have reinstated his status and Frostine could have been forced to give over her title as my successor.”
With their plan and process for it explained, it now became clear that the kingdom of Borealia was very near falling once again.
A swarm of powerful demons could easily have killed or enslaved everyone in the kingdom, and if Vaughn was confident in getting away with it, he must have believed that the demon he was working for was strong enough to beat Gwyneira since he knew of her existence.
“This truly does not bode well. There have been others in the past that have dabbed in summoning demons, but nothing like this. I will have all of the royal investigators looking into others that might have been collaborating with Vaughn and Braylen. And I will search for those two myself.’ Alexandra the head of the royal investigators and one of Boreas’ original companions said.
“Good. your help will be invaluable in this. I will also ask Gwyneira when she returns to help as well. This is a grave threat to our kingdom that has been growing like a parasite unbeknownst to us.” The king said in response to Alexandra.
The meeting continued on as everyone who had been present gave their accounts of what happened, and others began speaking about the backlash of the events.
“Some have been calling for you majesty’s abdication, and even the removal of the titles from Princess Mrazivý and Prince Marcus. Many died in the tragedy, and they want someone to take responsibility.” One of the ministers said.
Plenty of nobles who had been caught up in the event or who had members of their families die wanted to blame the king as well as Marcus and Mrazivý for not having enough security for the party.
Of course, there was no way that anyone could have excepted such an attack to take place and for demons to be involved.
The party had hundreds of knights acting as security, and honestly it was a miracle that many more people did not die.
A demon over level seventy had appeared and it could have easily decimated the capital all on its own if it had not been stopped.
“Depending on the situation it may be necessary for me to abdicate. However, under no circumstances shall I be stripping Mrazivý or Marcus of their titles.” The king said sternly. “Now let us prepare for the coming storm this tragedy has created.”