The ten months she had promised to Carson had already passed. She wanted to go to him without wavering, but her increasingly impatient heart made Ines feel small.
Although he should have risen to the highest point like the midday sun, it was also true that the more he did, the further he went from her, who always stayed at the bottom of the bottom.
“I hope that the sufferings of this time will not be compared to his glory in the future.”
Ines swallowed dryly and recited the Bible verse to calm her mind. She took a deep breath and stood up more proudly. She walked with a dignified and elegant posture and stood facing the window.
“If he forgives your sins, no one will hold you guilty anymore....”
Only in front of him, Ines was not a sinner.
So now was the time to prepare to face Grandel. To protect Carson and his people.
Ines braced herself not to think of anything else when faced with a mission that was like a mission.
Just a week before the Crown Prince’s coronation, Carson led his elite, one of his knights, and several leaders of the uprising to raid the Wolluming Castle inside the main palace.
In fact, the word raid was not appropriate. The Emperor willingly opened the gates of the main palace. And he had his knights personally guard the Wolluming Castle.
The Empress’s knights guarded the Empress’s palace day and night, but they did not even realize that there were intruders until five of the halls of the Wolluming Palace were empty.
He barely found Carson and his party and drew his sword, but he could not swing it carelessly.
Killing the Emperor’s knights who had not attacked first in the palace of the Keynes Empire meant treason.
Carson gathered perfect evidence to support the Empress’s atrocities.
In particular, the fist-sized diamond he received in return for capturing commoners and orphans and selling them into slavery in foreign countries angered even the noble knights who had nothing to do with it.
“It would be best if you leave now.”
The leaders of the rebellion had already seen the dazzling splendor of the Woluming. They now knew that the temple was not their enemy.
Carson nodded after looking around the palace.
“Wait a minute.”
Carson left the people where they were and went to the room where the first Emperor’s sword was that the Empress had shown him. Then he took it out without hesitation. When he took the sword out of its scabbard, the sharp blade flashed light.
The sword, sharp as if it had defied time, heated up his heart.
He walked straight to the portrait of the Empress and cut off four sides with his sword. The portrait of the Empress, separated from its gold frame, fell limply like a leaf in winter.
Carson picked it up himself and rolled it up into a scroll.
Now, all that was left was to ascend to the throne himself, not to be appointed by the Emperor.
News quickly spread throughout the capital that Woluming Castle had been attacked and all of the Empress’s belongings inside had been taken.
At the same time, a document was also made public, offering a portion of the diamond mining rights in exchange for handing over the young slaves. It was signed by Count Graham, but even a passing dog would know that the Empress was behind it.
Four days later, three days before Carson's investiture, he led a larger mob than before and headed to Jacohena Square himself.
As the sun began to set, Jacohena Square was packed with people.
The people gathered there all shouted loudly toward one place.
"The Empress, come out. Bow your heads to the people of the empire yourself!"
"The Empress who caused the people to suffer and indulged in luxury and pleasure, come out and pay the price for your crimes!"
"The one who caused the war, caused the country to be in chaos, and put the people of the empire in danger, come out and face the judgment of your crimes!"
"Bring back my daughter who died of the plague!"
Carson brought the high priest and the chief justice with him. The accused did not appear in the end, but the judges began to pass judgment on the crimes on the spot.
As the judge came out and began to list the crimes of the Empress, Jacohena Square became incredibly quiet.
When he presented the evidence that the slums had been burned to build a casino, the square was filled with the cries of those who had lost their precious family members.
Among them was the fact that the Empress had murdered members of the royal family. The Empress was the most important woman in Keynes and had spent nearly thirty years in the imperial court. If you include the distant collateral line, the number of people who had been revealed was well over thirty.
Carson's mother had also been poisoned by the Empress. He had thought he would never be able to hold the Empress guilty for that.
After the Empress's crimes were revealed in detail, one criminal was led to the platform where Carson stood. He was the Count Grandel, the Margrave who had wanted to make Duke Anthony the Crown Prince and become his father-in-law.
Count Grandel had been captured by Carson's knights and brought to the island after failing to attack Landhill a while ago.
The court sentenced Count Grandel to death before sentencing the Empress.
He had helped the Empress in the civil war and had mercilessly issued Sanvate under the pretext of purchasing weapons, causing great economic chaos in the Empire.
In the process, three members of the Imperial Family were killed by him, and many knights also lost their lives.
Finally, he attacked Landhill, which was not directly related to the civil war, without declaring war, causing great financial and personnel damage to the territory. He had even brought in mercenaries from other countries, which were considered illegal in the Empire.
"Execute."
Count Grandel was hanged on the spot.
Darkness had already fallen on Jacohena Square.
His death was enough to make the Empress and her family, who were already locked up in the palace and trembling with anxiety, anxious.
Grandel was the center of the war to make Duke Anthony the Crown Prince and the Empress's ultimate support.
When Count Grandel died, the people demanded more fiercely that the Empress be dragged out of the palace. However, the Empress did not show up at Jacohena Square until midnight.
Carson thought that he would end the situation with his own hands. If the people got more excited here, they would end up bleeding.
Just as Carson was preparing to enter the palace and drag the Empress out, an adjutant who appeared to be an Imperial Knight came to him in a hurry.
"I can't see the Empress."
Carson frowned at the unbelievable words.
"What do you mean?"
"She's not in the Empress's palace. I think she's escaped."
He looked around at the people. He felt that the imperial people were watching him at the sudden change in the situation. Carson tried to keep his face as calm as possible.
When Carson climbed to the highest point on the large platform he had set up in the square, the tumultuous voices of the people suddenly died down.
He took a deep breath and straightened up.
“I am Carson von Raymond, the eighth Prince of this country, the lord of Landhill, which was united with Lesonia, and the new Marquis and Count of Monstera.”
When Carson shouted loudly, everyone’s eyes lit up and focused on him. The royal family never used honorifics toward the commoners, no matter how many people were gathered.
“I am now standing on the highest point, but I have the feelings of the lowest.”
When he raised his voice to the people, sighs flowed out from here and there.
Carson was a war hero who had completely stopped the attacks of Puldufin, who had constantly threatened Monstera, and the only key to boosting the imperial economy through the railroad.
Furthermore, when Carson appeared, the civil wars that were killing each other stopped. He also distributed grain to the starving.
Although incompetent, he was the only Crown prince recognized by the benevolent Emperor, and he was a perfect son of a God protected by the temple.
Carson von Raymond was the Emperor that the people of the empire wanted the most at the moment.
“I almost lost my mother to the Empress, and my only full-blooded sister, the Princess. Also, many of my half-brothers were killed by the Empress.”
Carson reached out to Noah, who was standing behind him, and he handed Carson a long scroll as tall as a man.
He opened it without hesitation. It didn’t take long for the people to realize that the painting in Carson’s hand was a portrait of the Empress.
“The Empress fled before the demands and anger of all these people.”
The murmur grew louder at those words, and shouts of evil erupted here and there. Carson had the knights hold the painting he was holding on both sides.
Then he took out his sword from his belt and held it up in front of the people.
“This is the sword that the first Emperor held when he founded the Cain Empire.”
With those words, a long sword rose from the scabbard. The people looked at the double-edged sword that was nothing but an object, shining brightly and focused on Carson’s words again.
“Today, the Empress abandoned the castle and fled, but we will condemn all her crimes right here and now.”
Carson immediately raised the sword high and swung it at the portrait of the Empress.
The sound of the painting being torn in half resonated like the screams of those being beheaded.
At that very moment, Carson saw a familiar face between the torn portraits.
“Ines...?”
His words were like a whisper, and those standing nearby could not hear them. Soon, the familiar figure of the woman and the sound of the paper being torn disappeared into the cheers of the crowd.
Carson dismissed his vision and focused on this spot again.
He put the sword back on his side and straightened his clothes.
As he ran his hands through his hair and stretched out toward the crowd, the crowd began to chant his name in a loud voice.
“Carson, Carson, Carson!”
In response, Carson held out his hand to silence the crowd. After a moment, his golden eyes flashed and he assumed the face of a beast proclaiming himself Emperor.
“I, Carson von Raymond, hereby declare that I will, in the spirits of the previous Emperors, offer sacrifices at the Temple of Hecclesia while leading the empire.”
As soon as he declared this, the high priest stepped forward and knelt before him.
Although he should have risen to the highest point like the midday sun, it was also true that the more he did, the further he went from her, who always stayed at the bottom of the bottom.
“I hope that the sufferings of this time will not be compared to his glory in the future.”
Ines swallowed dryly and recited the Bible verse to calm her mind. She took a deep breath and stood up more proudly. She walked with a dignified and elegant posture and stood facing the window.
“If he forgives your sins, no one will hold you guilty anymore....”
Only in front of him, Ines was not a sinner.
So now was the time to prepare to face Grandel. To protect Carson and his people.
Ines braced herself not to think of anything else when faced with a mission that was like a mission.
***
Just a week before the Crown Prince’s coronation, Carson led his elite, one of his knights, and several leaders of the uprising to raid the Wolluming Castle inside the main palace.
In fact, the word raid was not appropriate. The Emperor willingly opened the gates of the main palace. And he had his knights personally guard the Wolluming Castle.
The Empress’s knights guarded the Empress’s palace day and night, but they did not even realize that there were intruders until five of the halls of the Wolluming Palace were empty.
He barely found Carson and his party and drew his sword, but he could not swing it carelessly.
Killing the Emperor’s knights who had not attacked first in the palace of the Keynes Empire meant treason.
Carson gathered perfect evidence to support the Empress’s atrocities.
In particular, the fist-sized diamond he received in return for capturing commoners and orphans and selling them into slavery in foreign countries angered even the noble knights who had nothing to do with it.
“It would be best if you leave now.”
The leaders of the rebellion had already seen the dazzling splendor of the Woluming. They now knew that the temple was not their enemy.
Carson nodded after looking around the palace.
“Wait a minute.”
Carson left the people where they were and went to the room where the first Emperor’s sword was that the Empress had shown him. Then he took it out without hesitation. When he took the sword out of its scabbard, the sharp blade flashed light.
The sword, sharp as if it had defied time, heated up his heart.
He walked straight to the portrait of the Empress and cut off four sides with his sword. The portrait of the Empress, separated from its gold frame, fell limply like a leaf in winter.
Carson picked it up himself and rolled it up into a scroll.
Now, all that was left was to ascend to the throne himself, not to be appointed by the Emperor.
News quickly spread throughout the capital that Woluming Castle had been attacked and all of the Empress’s belongings inside had been taken.
At the same time, a document was also made public, offering a portion of the diamond mining rights in exchange for handing over the young slaves. It was signed by Count Graham, but even a passing dog would know that the Empress was behind it.
Four days later, three days before Carson's investiture, he led a larger mob than before and headed to Jacohena Square himself.
As the sun began to set, Jacohena Square was packed with people.
The people gathered there all shouted loudly toward one place.
"The Empress, come out. Bow your heads to the people of the empire yourself!"
"The Empress who caused the people to suffer and indulged in luxury and pleasure, come out and pay the price for your crimes!"
"The one who caused the war, caused the country to be in chaos, and put the people of the empire in danger, come out and face the judgment of your crimes!"
"Bring back my daughter who died of the plague!"
Carson brought the high priest and the chief justice with him. The accused did not appear in the end, but the judges began to pass judgment on the crimes on the spot.
As the judge came out and began to list the crimes of the Empress, Jacohena Square became incredibly quiet.
When he presented the evidence that the slums had been burned to build a casino, the square was filled with the cries of those who had lost their precious family members.
Among them was the fact that the Empress had murdered members of the royal family. The Empress was the most important woman in Keynes and had spent nearly thirty years in the imperial court. If you include the distant collateral line, the number of people who had been revealed was well over thirty.
Carson's mother had also been poisoned by the Empress. He had thought he would never be able to hold the Empress guilty for that.
After the Empress's crimes were revealed in detail, one criminal was led to the platform where Carson stood. He was the Count Grandel, the Margrave who had wanted to make Duke Anthony the Crown Prince and become his father-in-law.
Count Grandel had been captured by Carson's knights and brought to the island after failing to attack Landhill a while ago.
The court sentenced Count Grandel to death before sentencing the Empress.
He had helped the Empress in the civil war and had mercilessly issued Sanvate under the pretext of purchasing weapons, causing great economic chaos in the Empire.
In the process, three members of the Imperial Family were killed by him, and many knights also lost their lives.
Finally, he attacked Landhill, which was not directly related to the civil war, without declaring war, causing great financial and personnel damage to the territory. He had even brought in mercenaries from other countries, which were considered illegal in the Empire.
"Execute."
Count Grandel was hanged on the spot.
Darkness had already fallen on Jacohena Square.
His death was enough to make the Empress and her family, who were already locked up in the palace and trembling with anxiety, anxious.
Grandel was the center of the war to make Duke Anthony the Crown Prince and the Empress's ultimate support.
When Count Grandel died, the people demanded more fiercely that the Empress be dragged out of the palace. However, the Empress did not show up at Jacohena Square until midnight.
Carson thought that he would end the situation with his own hands. If the people got more excited here, they would end up bleeding.
Just as Carson was preparing to enter the palace and drag the Empress out, an adjutant who appeared to be an Imperial Knight came to him in a hurry.
"I can't see the Empress."
Carson frowned at the unbelievable words.
"What do you mean?"
"She's not in the Empress's palace. I think she's escaped."
He looked around at the people. He felt that the imperial people were watching him at the sudden change in the situation. Carson tried to keep his face as calm as possible.
When Carson climbed to the highest point on the large platform he had set up in the square, the tumultuous voices of the people suddenly died down.
He took a deep breath and straightened up.
“I am Carson von Raymond, the eighth Prince of this country, the lord of Landhill, which was united with Lesonia, and the new Marquis and Count of Monstera.”
When Carson shouted loudly, everyone’s eyes lit up and focused on him. The royal family never used honorifics toward the commoners, no matter how many people were gathered.
“I am now standing on the highest point, but I have the feelings of the lowest.”
When he raised his voice to the people, sighs flowed out from here and there.
Carson was a war hero who had completely stopped the attacks of Puldufin, who had constantly threatened Monstera, and the only key to boosting the imperial economy through the railroad.
Furthermore, when Carson appeared, the civil wars that were killing each other stopped. He also distributed grain to the starving.
Although incompetent, he was the only Crown prince recognized by the benevolent Emperor, and he was a perfect son of a God protected by the temple.
Carson von Raymond was the Emperor that the people of the empire wanted the most at the moment.
“I almost lost my mother to the Empress, and my only full-blooded sister, the Princess. Also, many of my half-brothers were killed by the Empress.”
Carson reached out to Noah, who was standing behind him, and he handed Carson a long scroll as tall as a man.
He opened it without hesitation. It didn’t take long for the people to realize that the painting in Carson’s hand was a portrait of the Empress.
“The Empress fled before the demands and anger of all these people.”
The murmur grew louder at those words, and shouts of evil erupted here and there. Carson had the knights hold the painting he was holding on both sides.
Then he took out his sword from his belt and held it up in front of the people.
“This is the sword that the first Emperor held when he founded the Cain Empire.”
With those words, a long sword rose from the scabbard. The people looked at the double-edged sword that was nothing but an object, shining brightly and focused on Carson’s words again.
“Today, the Empress abandoned the castle and fled, but we will condemn all her crimes right here and now.”
Carson immediately raised the sword high and swung it at the portrait of the Empress.
The sound of the painting being torn in half resonated like the screams of those being beheaded.
At that very moment, Carson saw a familiar face between the torn portraits.
“Ines...?”
His words were like a whisper, and those standing nearby could not hear them. Soon, the familiar figure of the woman and the sound of the paper being torn disappeared into the cheers of the crowd.
Carson dismissed his vision and focused on this spot again.
He put the sword back on his side and straightened his clothes.
As he ran his hands through his hair and stretched out toward the crowd, the crowd began to chant his name in a loud voice.
“Carson, Carson, Carson!”
In response, Carson held out his hand to silence the crowd. After a moment, his golden eyes flashed and he assumed the face of a beast proclaiming himself Emperor.
“I, Carson von Raymond, hereby declare that I will, in the spirits of the previous Emperors, offer sacrifices at the Temple of Hecclesia while leading the empire.”
As soon as he declared this, the high priest stepped forward and knelt before him.
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