Chapter 70 The End and Beginning of Everything...
Chapter 70
70.1
When King Lucinda said, "Since your goal is to overthrow all hereditary nobles, why don't you choose to overthrow the royal family and overthrow me?"
Lorenz suddenly breathed softly.
This was such a sharp question that even though the king asked it in a calm tone, the question seemed to carry the weight of thunder.
Lorenz unconsciously slowed down his breathing and looked at Olidesi, but there was no sign of nervousness on Olidesi's face.
She even smiled at Lorenz very easily: "Lorenz."
“…”
"Please give us a moment of privacy," said Euridice. "I would like to speak to His Majesty alone."
Lorenz paused and looked at Euridsi with some concern, but Euridsi signaled to him with her eyes: It's okay.
Lorenz had no choice but to stand up and say, "If you need me, I'm outside."
Lorenz closed the door to the room from the outside. King Lucinda smiled and winked at Euridice. "He can't live without you, can he?"
As the queen spoke, she casually placed the knight's sword in her hand on the small round table in the room, and walked to sit beside Olidesi's bed.
Euridsi smiled and said, "Lorenz can't live without me, just like Prince Rokolan can't live without you, Your Majesty."
"Okay," Lucinda Queen smiled, "let's not talk about them anymore. Let's talk about my problem."
"Oh," Euridice said calmly, "You mean, since my goal is to overthrow all hereditary nobles, then why don't I choose to overthrow the royal family and overthrow you, right?"
King Lucinda looked at her, and Oulidesi smiled and said, "If there were royal families like the Elton Kingdom and the Arat Kingdom before the Wanzeta Empire, of course, I might want to overthrow them."
The Queen raised an eyebrow. "Oh, 'that royal family'. What kind of royal family are they?"
Oledsi shrugged. "A royal family that relies on bloodline to determine the heir, and the heirs are all stupid, arrogant, and cruel bastards."
King Lucinda laughed.
"Oh, Miss Aquitus," she said, "how do you know that the heir to my house of Vanzeta will not be a foolish, arrogant, and cruel bastard?"
Olidisi also laughed.
"Of course I know," she said, "because, 'The Queen has no heir.'"
70.2
"The Queen has no heir."
King Lucinda never appointed any heir.
In the previous life, in the fight for the crown prince, Prince Richard was killed early by Prince Constance.
Prince Constance rebelled against the king and was eventually killed by the king's knights.
During the war, Princess Matilda disappeared and it was rumored that she died in the rebellion at Kaderinburg.
All of this was completely understood by Oledsi when she stood on the stake at the stake.
"You have failed to protect any of your heirs," she said.
At the stake, when the flames started, Euridice clearly heard Lorenz's screams—
Lorenz is not dead.
The news of his death was fake. He was not dead. There could only be one reason:
Death was a trick, he came back alive.
He won.
Then, Queen Lucinda must have won too.
Prince Constance rebelled against the king, and Queen Lucinda killed her last heir, Constance, during the rebellion.
"Your Majesty," Euridice said quietly, "you never intended to establish an heir. On the contrary, you wanted to eliminate them all."
Euridice said this, and Queen Lucinda finally smiled sincerely.
"Loklan and I have never had any children," the Queen said. "Richard, Constance, and Matilda are just three children with ice blue and gold hair that Loklan found in an orphanage."
Olidisi was startled and couldn't help showing a look of surprise.
King Lucinda smiled and said, "Look, even you believed it and didn't doubt their bloodline, right? This proves that we were very successful."
Oledsi sighed, "After all, with that unique ice-blue and golden hair color, who would doubt the purity of their bloodline?"
King Lucinda curled her lips. "If I didn't have an heir, my advisors would urge me to give birth to one. They said it was for the stability of the Void Continent. Of course, in a sense, they were not wrong. So, I can only give them three 'heirs' to let them see the ambition and malice of these 'heirs'. Then they will shut up and never mention the 'heir' again—"
As the emperor spoke, a cold glint flashed in his eyes: "I want everyone to remember firmly that 'the queen has no heir'."
"Yes," Euridice thought thoughtfully, "Richard's stupidity, Matilda's indifference, Constance's cruelty, people have seen in them: a wise emperor is not so easy to get."
King Lucinda nodded calmly. "Yes. I will use these three to declare to the world that the Crown Prince's ambition is a scourge, not a blessing, to the Ethereal Continent. I will show them the consequences of the Crown Prince's rebellion against me, and I will extinguish their ambition to gain power through the Crown Prince."
Euridice thought for a moment and said, "Actually, Richard, Constance, and Matilda, they all know it in their hearts. Whether your mother and father truly love you, a child knows it perfectly in his heart."
King Lucinda shrugged, "Maybe."
Eurydice pondered for a moment. "Perhaps this is Constance's unwillingness... Faced with the lack of love from her mother and father, Richard is timid, Matilda is indifferent, but only Constance is unwilling to accept it. She refuses to accept her fate as a predetermined tool, so she wants to rebel against her mother."
Queen Lucinda curled her lips and said, "I don't care what Constance thinks. I only know that he eventually became my enemy, while his sisters and brothers did not."
Oulidsi looked at her and said, "So, as an emperor, you really don't need an heir at all?"
Upon hearing this, King Lucinda smiled faintly and said, "Eurydesi Aquitas, your life's goal is very clear: to overthrow the hereditary aristocracy. So, would you like to hear about my life's goal?"
Euridice looked at this wise, kind, yet cruel and iron-fisted emperor and saw her smile slightly.
"My mother, a master alchemist named Rosalyn, once described two civilizations in her handwriting."
Olidisi was startled: "Your mother?"
"She is an alien soul brought to the ethereal continent by the magical opal stone," said King Lucinda. "Her handwriting describes the civilization of her homeland."
As the queen spoke, she tilted her head slightly, her eyes gradually becoming distant.
"The development of civilizations described in her handwriting all follow the same pattern: when people's production is extremely poor and difficult, the world is first ruled by monarchs because people need stability. Conflicts and wars will arise between monarchs, and power will constantly shift.
"As time passed and royal families rose and fell, the citizens' technology and ideas continued to develop. Until knowledge, production, and the spread of ideas developed to a certain level, the citizens would completely overthrow their monarchs.
"At that time, hereditary monarchs and royal families will no longer exist, and citizens will establish a 'republic' and elect the country's leaders through selection rather than inheritance through blood."
Euridice was fascinated by what she heard, and King Lucinda smiled at her. "As for me, when I was born, it wasn't realistic to establish a 'republic' immediately. Back then, the creatures on the Void Continent hadn't developed to that level. In fact, it still hasn't developed to that level now. Even now, the Void Continent still needs a 'monarch.'"
Oledsi murmured, "So, you chose to become a monarch."
"Yes, I have chosen to become a monarch," Lucinda said calmly. "My ultimate goal in becoming a monarch is not to maintain a long-term rule, but to continuously develop knowledge, technology, and productivity, ultimately to overthrow the hereditary monarchy from the Ethereal Continent. Only by becoming such a monarch can I ensure that everything goes smoothly when the monarchy is completely overthrown."
Ouliidesi looked at her in astonishment. "Is this what you're pursuing in life? You became a monarch so that one day you can be overthrown peacefully."
King Lucinda smiled silently. Euridice was speechless for a long while. After a long while, she said, "You are truly a strange person...with great aspirations."
"Perhaps." Queen Lucinda smiled. "My life is very long. I am confident that I will live until the day I am overthrown, until the day when the citizens wake up and finally realize that they no longer need me. Therefore,"
The emperor's smile betrayed a hint of coldness. "I will have no heirs, nor will I pass on any of my bloodline. As long as I have blood, people will use my name to restore my royal family. I must completely eliminate this possibility. I want everyone to have the fact that 'the queen has no heir' firmly etched in their minds."
Olidisi looked at her for a long time without saying a word.
After a long silence, she whispered, "I finally understand Grand Justice Ross Goode. You are an emperor who is both loved and feared."
King Lucinda didn't answer. Euridice curled her lips and said, "So, my judgment was correct. Your royal family is not a 'hereditary' royal family, nor is it a hereditary nobility. Royal families are inherited for the sake of stability, but you don't need it, Your Majesty. Your own existence is the greatest stability and peace."
Oledsi said, sighing softly.
"This is why our interests are so aligned: all hereditary nobility is slowly dying out. Power on the Hollow Continent is converging and concentrating on the royal family—the royal family was originally supposed to be hereditary, but it won't be in your case. You will live to see the day when the Hollow Continent no longer needs a monarch and establishes a republic; your royal family ends with you. As power converges on you, it converges on the future republic."
King Lucinda looked at her and suddenly smiled.
"You are exactly like his description," she said.
Euridice was stunned. King Lucinda smiled. "He said you must have the ability to completely change the fate of the nobles. You can win the battle against the nobles without bloodshed, at the lowest cost."
Olidisi was stunned, and a strange premonition rose from his heart: "Your Majesty..."
"Yes," King Lucinda said, "it was Lorenz who begged me to use the magical power of the White Opal Stone to bring your soul back from the burning place."
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