Chapter 338 Isabella
Duchy of Tis, Blood Harbor.
Galahad had been gone for several days, but the upper town was still not repaired.
When the Mother Goddess Church invaded here that day, they not only stole food, but also killed many nobles in anger. Before leaving, they set a fire. Although it was quickly put out, a prison and many mansions were still burned down. Now the whole upper city is in panic.
Fortunately, the prince quickly controlled the situation. In order to ensure safety, he announced that troops would be stationed in the upper city, and anyone entering or leaving would be subject to inspection and questioning.
At this moment, the prince was in the dungeon of his own mansion, quietly looking at the old man opposite him with an angry face.
"My butler, the prison has been burned down. I'm sorry to ask you to stay here for a while. Although the servants have been replaced by me, this is still a familiar house for you. You should be very happy~"
"Who are you? You are definitely not His Highness, Your Highness, where is Your Highness!?"
He glared at the prince fiercely. This master whom he had served for many years now made him feel like a stranger.
When he saw the prince returning from the Rhine, Juan felt something was wrong.
After hearing that the prince had successfully assassinated the queen, Youan couldn't help but burst into tears. He never believed that the child he had watched grow up was as despicable as others said.
He knew that His Highness would not surrender!
But everything that happened next slowly slid into the abyss.
After the prince returned, he did not reminisce with him as usual, but instead made him feel strange.
Euan had been with the prince for more than ten years and would notice any slight difference in detail, let alone two completely different people.
But at that time, Youan only thought that the prince's revenge was achieved, which was different from before.
When he finally sensed something was wrong, the "Prince" had already successfully sidelined him and arrested him easily.
Seeing the strange expression on that familiar face, Youan felt fear grip his heart.
"Where is His Royal Highness William? Is he still alive?"
The prince glanced at him with contempt, then reached out and tapped his forehead: "Use your brain! What value do you have to me?"
After saying that, he walked out of the room, leaving Youan shouting in fear: "You, who are you?"
Closing the door casually, the prince walked leisurely to his office, sat in the soft armchair, and opened the documents piled on the desk.
"Who am I?" he murmured. "You must know who I am, Your Highness the 'Prince'——"
There seemed to be a wave in the air, but if you look closely, it is empty, there is nothing.
But a voice suddenly appeared in the house.
"You devil who deserves to go to hell! Of course I know you, the Queen of the Saint Mir Empire, the monster who took my body, Isabella!"
"Oh, how can you be so sure it's me?" The prince leisurely took out a document from the documents, leaned back in the chair, and put his feet on the table.
"There's no point in talking any more. What on earth do you want to do?!"
"To save Blood Harbor, of course."
"Oh, don't you think I don't know? The chaos in Blood Harbor was caused by you. You withdrew the harbor guards before leaving the upper city, which led to the attack by those cultists!"
The voice in the air was getting more and more angry: "And then you clearly controlled the military camp, but you dragged your feet and didn't return, allowing the cultists to massacre the upper city! So many lives were killed in vain! "
Bang! The prince sitting at the table—no, it should be Isabella—threw the document in her hand onto the table.
The document was a casualty statistics for the Upper City of Blood Harbor, with the pages densely filled with names.
"You are right. This time, the Church of the Mother Goddess of Life killed a total of 175 people, including three earls, twelve viscounts, and various small nobles who were attached to them. They also killed dozens of prisoners in the prison. Tsk, tsk, it was a heavy casualties."
The air suddenly became quiet, and the prince seemed to sense something was wrong. After a while, he hesitated and said, "It's impossible. How could there be so many nobles?"
"It just so happened that they gathered at Blood Harbor and were massacred by the rebels. I am very sad about this."
This time the prince was silent for an exceptionally long time. After a long while, he spoke again with anger in his voice: "You, are you using the cultists to eliminate dissidents?!"
Isabella grinned. "What do you mean by eliminating dissidents? Are they worthy? Don't you know how many nobles there are in your territory? It's okay. It doesn't matter if you don't know. I tell you, little prince, I have wiped out all the nobles in your territory."
"Now, Blood Harbor will have only one lord, and Tis will have only one voice."
"How, how is it possible? The other nobles are not stupid. They will know what you are doing. You, you are courting your own destruction."
"You mean, those nobles will unite against me, just like they have been doing for the past ten years?"
"."The prince stopped talking. He seemed to have just realized that the one occupying his body was the empress who led the empire to its revival. She almost single-handedly suppressed the nobles of the entire empire so much that they could not raise their heads.
Her name represents the power of the empire.
"So, why did you take over my body? You obviously have such a vast land and such great power, why did you come to a small place like Blood Harbor, just to massacre these nobles?"
"Yes."
"I knew you wouldn't tell me. Wait, what did you say?"
"I came here to kill all those nobles." Isabella said coldly, "The empire has been established for hundreds of years. The nobles who were once the backbone of the empire are now parasites on the empire. If we don't get rid of them, the empire will never have hope. I can lead the empire forward, but I can't get rid of them - the nobles have now become a part of the empire, deeply buried in the flesh and blood."
"I killed countless nobles in the Rhine, and their blood covered the steps of the palace, but it was useless. The next noble who replaced him was still a parasite."
“An empire is a towering tree built on a false foundation. The more luxuriant it grows, the closer it is to fall.”
"Wait, don't try to trick me!" The prince suddenly said, "The royal family has completely taken control of the army. Almost all the nobles in the country have been sidelined by you. Rhine is completely under your control. If you really want to reform, can those nobles stop you?"
Isabella clicked her tongue.
"You are not completely hopeless. You are right. I can kill all the nobles, but the empire cannot survive without them."
"Why not?" the prince asked subconsciously, "Aren't they sucking the blood of the empire?"
“Because of the Vatican.”
(End of this chapter)
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