Chapter 296: Forcing the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance to save him (1/2)

In Leo's opinion, that was a really shocking revelation. King Erskine, the King of Silver Kingdom, might actually just be a fake? If this was in the past, even if Ethan and Crown Prince Edward tried to persuade him to believe such information, he would definitely not believe it, really. After all, they don't have any concrete proof to present to him, like this battle going on right this moment.

Obviously, he doesn't know what King Erskine was like despite living in Silver Kingdom for almost 20 years. He had only interacted with him once in his life, though he had seen him a few dozens of times, especially during the gathering of Nobles, but it was still not enough for him to determine exactly what kind of person King Erskine is.

Nevertheless, he knows for the fact that King Erskine is a wise and kind King, considering the words that Princess Tiana had told him before about King Erskine secretly protecting him. For him, that was one of the wisest decisions he had ever heard in his entire life. Why? It's very simple; if King Erskine really choose to help him, then it might result in discord between the Silver royal family and the Skull Noble Household, and in return it wouldn't still be able to help Leo have his revenge in the end because they, of course, can't have war with one of the Five Major Noble Households, the most powerful one on top of that as well, just for him, right? Because comparing him and the Skull Noble Household, the latter is obviously more important for Silver Kingdom. But, if King Erskine also ignores him, then the Skull Noble Household would definitely not hold back in trying to kill him, no, at least not the entire Skull Noble Household, but only Richton Skull, because it was only that guy that desires to kill him from the depths of his dark heart. And choosing that decision also dishonor the friendship between his father and King Erskine.

Therefore, King Erskine choose to secretly protect him instead. By choosing to do this, no one will know aside from the real person behind Reinhart's death that the Silver royal family is secretly protecting him, which means no one will become unfavorable to the Silver royal family, not to mention this will also not result in discord with the Skull Noble Household. At the same time, this decision would also stop Richton from trying to kill him as well.

Just based on that thinking alone, assuming that King Erskine is wise and kind King is just reasonable.

However, using ordinary civilians to gather resources for making war weapons, using family members as tools for war, and the desperate measure of impregnating Veronica in order to make the Snow Noble Household their pawns; all of those choice doesn't show the wise and kind King Erskine that he had believed in the past. In fact, all of his actions were the actions of cowards!

”First brother, to be honest with you, I've also thought of that before. In fact, me and Leo had even discussed it when we were still coming up here.” Ethan paused as he slowly walked towards Crown Prince Edward, ”But to think of this also means that father is no longer our own father, but rather someone else dressed in his own skin. Would... would you really be able to bring yourself to believe that?”

”If that's indeed the truth, then what else can we believe?” Crown Prince Edward replied.

”Then this means we need to kill father...” Ethan said with a grave look on his face.

Hearing that, Crown Prince Edward can't make himself reply anymore. That would indeed be their next step of action if the man they are calling father now turns out to be a fake, they need to kill him, in order to serve justice to their dead original father. But the question now is, with those few pieces of evidence only, is it really worth believing that their father is fake? Maybe it's because this time the Silver Kingdom was in desperate times, that's why it also requires desperate measures to save it.

”I'll still say the same words I've said a while ago,” Leo suddenly interrupted, ”It's not worth assuming anything without enough proof. In order for us to know if this is the truth or not, we need to see it for ourselves. But, we would only be able to do that at a later time, so let's focus on our current mission first, to escape from this place alive!”

With that said, everyone else put those assumptions to the back of their minds for the moment as they quickly started walking down the secret tunnel to escape.

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Meanwhile, Queen Olivia, Queen Maria, Madam Silva, and Elder Rain have already arrived at Heart city while all the soldiers of the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance are currently traveling from hundreds or so kilometers away to Heart city to quickly follow behind them. After all, the 4 of them suddenly flew off towards Heart city, leaving every soldier to only wonder why, and since there was no one to tell them the answer to their question aside from the order that they need to go to Heart city, they all decided to run and follow after them, rather than simply march, as it might be because the Heart city is currently under attack. They didn't even think of taking a rest anymore in fear of being too late.

”Butler Xiao, where is Leo?” Queen Olivia immediately asked Leo's whereabouts the moment she saw Butler Xiao standing in front of the manor's main door, seemingly expecting them to arrive already.