Chapter 45 (1/2)

Chapter 45 Conspiracy (Part 1)

During the night of the new moon, the silhouette of Gerald Wimbledon could be seen near the walls of the City of Graycastle

After his fewat Herht The long journey left hiilant of his surroundings He reined his horse to stop and o and inquire about the situation

If everything went as planned, the Scholar Ansger should have had all of the guards replaced with guards loyal to Gerald When his deputy gave the signal, the replaced guards would let down the side door of the drawbridge

Gerald ide-eyed, and was staring forward, out of fear that the guards would overlook the signal

The truth was that he hadn’t waited very long, but for Gerald it felt like time froze and he had to wait forever When his eyes had already ached to their breaking point, he finally saw a short flicker in the distance – two short flickers at the bottom of the wall, and then three ti was going as planned Gerald had to take a deep breath before giving his troops the signal to march forward

Seeing this, he already believed himself to be only a step away from the throne

Gerald rode shoulder to shoulder with his deputies through the side door in the wall

Behind hi him No one spoke a word, the only sound which could be heard was the pulling of the reins to move the horses slowly forward

The walls of the City were built out of stones froon Mountain Under the illumination of the torches, the brown and dark-red stoneswith blood The entire enty feet wide, and during the construction of the biggest wall in the world at that time, more than a thousand hard laborers, masons and slaves had to die

In the nable fortress, but now Gerald and histhe city with units from within Somehow, he had to think of the Church’s new Holy City; would their nable walls also fall due treachery from within?

“Your Highness, I have already waited a long tih the gates There, the scholar was already waiting for hier quickly dismounted and bent down to bow

Gerald pushed his distracting thoughts aside He was probably too excited,it impossible for hiination run wild, “You have done well! Did you also replaced all the palace guards?”

“I was going to, but then an unexpected problereed to help was unexpectedly transferred to the south exit three days ago Until noe haven’t had tiuards”

Gerald frowned, this meant that he could not taketwenty soldiers with him into the palace Gerald hiuards would never let this many armed people into the Royal Palace

“Let it pass, split the team into two parts and couard and don’t let any outsiders hinder me on my way,” he hesitated for a ed, the situation was still under his control Naturally at night guards would stand outside his father’s cha as someone could distract them for a moment, he was sure to cut them doith his sword

Inside the city

Everything looked the sa through the city at night, he was still able to recognize every street This was his territory, there existed no doubt Everyone jumped off their horses and marched rapidly forward in the direction of the palace When they arrived at the door, histo the new plan, lurking outside the palace It was just like Ansger had said, except the guards were surprised as to why the Prince wanted to speak with the King so late at night However, after hearing Gerald’s bluff about having to discuss important matters, they directly opened the door and let him enter

After all, he was the eldest son of the King and the first heir to the throne

Ansger and Gerald went together through the garden and the halls of the Palace In front of the Palace was the residence of Wier raised his torch and wavedside-to-side with it Iuard appeared out of the shadows and knelt on one knee, pleading, “Your Highness, please come with me”

Gerald became irritated, he smelled blood

Didn’t Ansger say that they had replaced all the palace guards? He looked through the shadows of the flaood view at the ht who supported Gerald in the fight for the throne This gave him a little peace of mind