Of course, it went without saying, but Lanièro had no intention of handing over the ‘useful’ Gloria to the beastkin.
Gloria was his daughter, so she was his from the beginning. The power that she had gained by contracting with the spirits of the World Tree, it had to be used for the Ainstern Kingdom and for himself as the king.
“Garick, are you there?”
“……Yes, Your Majesty.”
At Lanièro’s call, his loyal retainer, Garick, revealed himself from the darkness.
Since he was young, Garick, who was picked up by Lanièro and thoroughly trained as his servant, followed only Lanièro like a loyal hound.
So much so that Garick’s nickname was ‘Lanièro’s Dog’… it was a matter beyond words.
“Destroy the Inse Salvation Society’s facility as soon as dawn breaks tomorrow. You can set it on fire or use magic. I will tell Senak in advance.”
Senak was Lanièro’s direct magician, and like Garick, he was a very loyal servant to Lanièro.
His loyalty was almost pathological. If it was Lanièro’s command, even if it meant destroying the world, he would gladly carry it out.
“I will obey your command. Everything as Your Majesty wishes.”
“Yes, go and carry out your task now. And on your way out, call Lucy to come into the alreality.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
After Garick left, a woman opened a side door and entered the silent alreality left alone by Lanièro.
It was Lucy, full name Lucy Unswort. She was the founder and operator of the ‘Inse Salvation Society’.
“Did you call me, Your Majesty?”
“Yes. Have you heard the news?”
“Yes, one of the Inse Salvation Society’s facilities in Duke Salisbury’s territory has been exposed.”
At Lucy’s words, Lanièro clicked his tongue. Although he had ordered it to be burned, that facility was one of the largest that the Inse Salvation Society had operated.
He couldn’t help but feel regretful. Especially as it was a facility where even a Great Spirit had been captured…
“Everything has gone awry. My daughter, who had nothing but the royal blood flowing through her body, is now interfering with me.”
The Inse Salvation Society was founded by Lucy Unswort. The design of all the Inse Salvation Society’s facilities was Senak’s responsibility. The role of an intelligence agent was played by Garick.
But behind all these actions, there was King Lanièro of Ainstern.
“Astonishing, isn’t it? I never thought I’d be hindered by Gloria.”
“……Yes, it’s quite unexpected. There were rumors of Princess Gloria handling butterflyshaped spirits not long ago…”
“I only thought it was nonsense.”
Lanièro let out a disheartened laugh. His eyes, not looking at Lucy standing before him but at some distant place, shone with dark greed.
“All the experiments we’ve been trying with the beastkin children have failed. Drawing the spirit response from the body of a beastkin child and transferring it to a human… it seems impossible.”
“……Yes, unfortunately, that’s true.”
They had created the Inse Salvation Society, pretending to be a false religion on the surface while secretly committing crimes behind the scenes.
The experiments using beastkin children were part of it. The goal of those experiments was ‘transferring the spirit responsiveness of beastkin to humans.’
Since who knows when, the spirits, who did not respond to human wishes. Because of that, the spirit responders of Ainstern Kingdom drastically reduced, and ultimately, not a single human was able to contract with the spirits.
Even though Ainstern Kingdom’s magicians were strong, the lack of spirit magicians compared to Elowin Kingdom was an irrecoverable loss.
Even the existing spirit magicians were all from beastkin slaves… It didn’t satisfy Lanièro. Beastkin slaves were beneath his dignity.
‘I wanted to create a human nobleman as a spirit magician, to strengthen my political base and the support of my people…’
The experiment failed, the facility was exposed, and the Great Spirit that was hard to capture was lost.
However…
‘Gloria… I found out that she has contracted with the spirits of the World Tree.’
What more needs to be said? There was nothing to ponder. Laniéro had to call Gloria back to the Ainstern Kingdom.
She must erase the name of Salisbury attached to Gloria, and again, as her daughter and the princess of Ainstern, and―
‘I must let her live as evidence that the Ainstern royal family is blessed.’
Laniéro meticulously planned in her mind. First of all, the first thing is.
“Gloria must divorce Duke Salisbury.”
“……I thought you might be thinking that.”
Lucy smiled and nodded. As Laniéro’s strategist, she knew his ways better than anyone.
“Gloria may seem to get along with Duke Salisbury, but… Well, in the end, she will choose to return to the Ainstern palace. It’s much better to be admired as a princess and a saint than to be with a pack of wolves.”
(This is a time separator.)
“―Achoo!”
……Why this sudden sneeze? Is someone cursing me?
‘There must be countless people cursing this Gloria in the world…….’
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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