Chapter 207 - Volume 9 (1/2)

Editor Jestersurge

“Uncle, it’s not a good idea to settle for death. I also heard from Yurushia that ‘his country’ was involved.”

“Yes, it may be to the benefit of ‘his country’ if uncle chooses to die.”

Christopher painfully distorted his mouth when the Crown Prince and Folt said so.

Sylber Nation.

Several small countries away from the Saint Country, located south across the Great Plains, they have a “queen system”. The royal family there have announced that they were God descendants with the Church State and their religion worshipping the queen as “Goddess” for generations. There’s also a history of excluding other religions.

Taterudo, a religious kingdom but one that has allowed the freedom to freely worship numerous gods, has been pressured to convert to the goddess of Sylber many times in the past. The Saint Country and the Church Nation have even fought each other at times because Saint Country had rejected their demands on each occasion.

For the past hundred years or so, it had been limited to political interference in internal affairs. However, ever since the battle with the Demon King, it seemed that in the southern part of the Saint Country, some people have begun to go around preaching to the people that there will be peace if they only abandon all military force and believe in the Goddess of the Church Nation.

When Christopher found out that the Sylber Nation had been funding and engineering Clement and the others from behind the scenes, he tried to go to the capital to apologize to the King with his son and the Duke of Bellrose. On the contrary, he was instead captured and imprisoned. Luckily he managed to escape from his imprisonment with the help of a rational noble family.

“There were those who, at the instigation of the hand of the Church Nation, truly believed that if this rebellion was successful, there would be peace. Some were preaching in the streets that if the wealth of the royal family and the nobles who followed them were given to other countries, there would be no more sources of conflict.”

“This is ridiculous! They’re treating us as the enemy!”

“That’s the way of the Church Nation these days. We can’t let this horrible, evil thing happen to us.”

The creation of chimera made with spirits, demons and humans was provided by the Church Nation.

The spirits were seen as the angels of God and they believed that the only God is the goddess of the Church and yet, the Church Nation who claimed to be the descendants of God dabbled in such taboo and forbidden techniques.

Chimera, using brainwashed Saint Country citizens, were still being steadily produced, although the success and stability rate was still low.

The King, who had been listening to those matters in silence, exhaled slowly.

“I thought that I should wait until all my grandchildren had grown up, but I guess it’s about time.”

“Brother…?”

“From now on, I, the King, and Christopher, the Royal Brother, take responsibility for the disturbance and abdicate the throne to the Crown Prince.”

“Your Majesty!”

“Father…”

“Folt, from now on, you will be the Royal Brother to support your brother.”

The King of Taterudo still had no physical problems, but he was over sixty years old already.

The marriage of Timothy, the King’s grandchild, was near anyway and he was already a proper adult. The Crown Prince and Folt who had already expected it were on their knees in front of their father, and Christopher stepped quietly in front of his brother.

If a new king were to be crowned, the neutral aristocrats would be forced to choose and the morale of the already upset rebel army would suffer.

“Brother……”