Chapter 58 - Blood Bath within The Royal Capital ( and a happy ending ) (1/2)

In a blink of an eye, four days have already gone by. During this four days, the city square of the of the royal capital of the Mulan kingdom had turned into an execution ground.

Every day, there would be a new head hung high up on a pole in the city square. Each one of them belonged to either a powerful noble or a high-ranking official within the royal court.

Furthermore, each of those high ranking officials was either found guilty of a crime so atrocious that the punishment was execution and seizure of properties while the others were spies of the Nicholas Empire.

As for the ten men that were plotting to kill Shad with the 2nd prince, they were the first one to be brutally killed. However, before they were killed, Shad had managed to get some information from them by using the brain-devouring insect. As such, he was able to discover quite a few rats who intended to cause some troubles to the Djage empire by allying themselves with the 3rd prince of the Nicholas empire.

However, his most important discovery was a slave trading ring within the royal capital of the Mulan Kingdom.

It's been more than fifty years since the Djage Empire had banned slavery. The imperial family had taken action and the slave trade had dried up. Many nobles families that were associated with slavery were destroyed and those who gained wealth from it became corpses the next day.

The imperial family was very strict when it comes to slavery and the policy remained even now, as such, Shad had used this policy to clean up the whole royal capital and get rid of any nobles that did not seem pleasing to the eye.

As for the assassination attempt orchestrated by the 2nd prince to get rid of the 4th imperial prince, It remained a secret from the populations except for some members of the royal family as well as some high court officials and nobles. Nobody knew that the 2nd prince had run away with his tail between his legs, leaving the Royal capital after trying to kill the 4th imperial prince.

Two days after the assassination attempt, the queen had suddenly disappeared as well. Even the king himself did not know where she went not to mention Shad.

However, how come the royal family could keep a lit on these events. On the fourth day, the news about these events got out and set many waves in the royal capital. The citizens of the royal capital finally knew why the 4th prince was going on a killing spree.

Most of the people that had suffered from the hands of those nobles that were executed were happy and loudly clamoring with the others regarding how God had answered their prayers by sending the 4th prince to kill those dirty nobles who fed on their commoners' status and abused them.

The people praised the 4th prince endlessly, while the officials, as well as the nobles, were all feeling restless. Even though they were just hunting down spies and traitors right now, but who knew when this little devil would start chopping down greedy nobles and officials who took bribes?

This was something no one could predict.

With them officials in general, including those from a different kingdom or empire, who could say that their ass was completely clean and never did some bad deeds? Who had never wiped their asses with their hands? Honesty, Integrity... are you kidding? Are there such good officials like that in this world, especially a world such as Eidrin where the strong feeds on the weak.

As they could do nothing about it or go against the 4th imperial prince, all the nobles and officials started to straighten up without any orders. Even the King did not dare to voice any complaint not to mention them. From what they heard, the king was enjoying the last days of his life by drinking wine and eats all sorts of delicacies, even the disappearance of the queen did not faze him or stopped him from enjoying his last days not to mention them who he wanted to get rid off a long time ago.

They just wanted to do good in front of the 4th imperial prince, some of them that possessed stores and restaurants within the royal capital started to give discounts to all the commoners that came to buy stuff from them. For those what had commoners working for them as servants, gardeners, or maids, they have all given them a raise.

Meanwhile, the commoners started to come up with all kind of phrases, praising the 4th imperial prince. One of the most popular phrases was. ” When the Son of Heaven set foot within the capital, all the nobles and crooked thieves became upright citizens and saints.” As for the nobles, the 4th imperial prince was nothing but a little devil incarnate.

As those words spread, everyone who heard it nodded in agreement. It was as if these words were an actual reflection of how they felt. Whether they were noble and commoners, they all felt that their description of the 4th imperial prince was spotted on.

Also, the biggest winner of all these events wasn't the 4th imperial prince but the crown prince Roman. After the 4th prince had executed all the traitorous nobles as well as high-rank officials, there was a huge vacancy left within the royal court. The crown prince had used this opportunity to strengthen his power within the capital as well as filling some of the vacancies with some of his own people.

He started holding control of the Mulan kingdom and his succession to the throne was a clear deal, especially after his little brother had disappeared. There was no one who could shake his position as the future king of the Mulan kingdom, except for this little devil, the 4th imperial prince. One word from him was enough to strip away everything.

Within the 4th imperial prince's mansion.

It was already night nighttime, Currently, Shad was sitting within a small hot spring in the backyard of his estate. the moonlight spilled onto the water making its bottom more visible to the naked eye.

The size of the small hot spring was about average, and the water was very clear due to the full moon hung high up on the midnight sky. You could even see the small rocks as well as the pebbles at the bottom just by standing near the hot spring.