System vs Rebirth

Chapter 1440: Prison

”!!!” Both Conrad and Evan couldn’t help but raise their heads, finding the king’s room’s balcony was open.

They hurriedly leaped toward it as if trying to see the victor. And the one coming out of the room was the third princess.

They could see a bruise on her neck, clearly she had been struggling earlier. However, they could see that the king had passed away in the room.

”Your Highness.” Duke Lorelei fell on one knee.

Conrad, on the other hand, remained standing. He didn’t greet her or anything. ”...”

”You’re not going to greet me, Marshal Conrad?” The third princess asked.

”Does Your Highness want me to bend my knees?” Conrad asked.

If Wendy was just power-hungry like her father, she would be delighted to confirm it. However, she had another intention in mind.

”No. It looks like something has happened inside the capital. What’s going on?”

Duke Lorelei shook his head. ”It’s not inside the city, Your Highness. It’s outside.”

”We are not sure about what’s going on or who they are. However, there are two spirit transcendence experts fighting outside. Looking at the situation, I’m sure that one of them is His Highness, the third prince.” Conrad explained.

This was the second reason Conrad did not greet the third princess like Duke Lorelei.

In terms of seniority, the one who was supposed to sit on that throne would be the third prince, because he was the king’s brother. Of course, it would have been different if the king had chosen the crown prince to sit there, but because the king was murdered, even Duke Lorelei still had to call her ’Your Highness’ instead of ’Your Majesty.’

Wendy understood their intention. The only reason Duke Lorelei greeted her that way was simply because he decided to support her, nothing else.

Wendy asked, ”Does it look dangerous? Do you need to check it personally?”

”...” Conrad fell silent. On the one hand, if he went there, and it turned out to be the third prince, he would have to cut the other down as treason. On the other hand, if he didn’t go there, the chance of it escalating to a huge problem was quite high.

Duke Lorelei, on the other hand, explained, ”I believe it can wait. Yes. The situation might look dire, but even so, it will last quite long. We still have enough time to do something else.”

Conrad glanced at Duke Lorelei. He mentioned something else, so what exactly did he try to do?

Wendy thought for a moment before saying, ”All right. If that’s your decision, Duke...”

Wendy turned around and waved her hand. ”Follow me. Are you coming, Marshal?”

Conrad was a bit hesitant. If he went along with her, it might cause some problems. At the same time, there was no one else who could control the royal family other than her.

There was also the crown prince, but the king hadn’t nominated a successor because of the situation. And the crown prince remained as a crown prince due to him messing up before. Crowning him right away would cause unrest.

And since the third prince was still outside, the oldest and the cleanest would be the third princess.

Besides, this would also be a good time to check whether Wendy was worth his loyalty or not. He didn’t wish to find another foolish royal on the throne.

After thirty seconds of thinking, Conrad nodded his head. ”I understand. I shall follow you. May I know where we are going, Your Highness?”

Wendy smiled. ”Where else? Prison.”

”!!!” Conrad dropped his jaw in shock, not expecting this answer.

Normally, he would be against such an idea because a prison would hold a huge number of criminals. And it wasn’t a place for the princess to visit.

However, the royal prison was different. There were a huge number of people who had been convicted simply because they had a different view from the king.

When the princess entered the prison with Duke Lorelei and Marshal Conrad behind her, the guards were in utter shock. She had only one command for them.

”What are you doing? Release all of them!”

The guards were confused, since it was the king’s order to put them inside the prison. But Duke Lorelei was the most upright noble in the kingdom, while the marshal had been protecting the royalty this whole time, so their loyalty shouldn’t be doubted. If she had come here with these two, the king might have approved it as well. In the end, the news about his death hadn’t reached another ear.

Although a bit hesitant, the guards opened the jails, letting out these ’criminals.’

They were not just random criminals. In one jail, there was a former vice minister of war. In another, a former minister of economy was locked up. There were also famous people with high ranks in the government being locked up here.

All of them were in the same situation. The former minister of economy believed that creating a road with the help of the Ardagan family would let the kingdom flourish, but the king couldn’t handle the truth and locked him up.

The vice minister of war, and all the people here, had a similar remark, as they were the most loyal people who just wanted to make the kingdom prosper instead of being the dogs of the royal family.

And for the past few years, once in a while, the third princess had visited them from time to time in the guise of seeing their faces so that she knew the faces of the people she had to observe on every mission the king gave.

Wendy waved her hand and shouted, ”The kingdom is in peril. I’m going to rebuild this kingdom and make it prosper again. Who is with me?”

All of them dropped to their knees at the same time and lowered their heads. ”Yes, Your Highness. We pledge our allegiance to you.”

With these strong people from the inside and the western lords from the outside, the remaining royal faction would be nothing to her.