I Inherited a Beautiful Wife and a Territory - Chapter 94

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Inheriting a Beautiful Wife and Estate Episode 094

94. Succession Struggle

The emergence of the Elimis Family and the failure to keep them in check.

Ospal’s rapid rise.

Due to this, Serpal’s status as a trading city had plummeted. However, an even more tremendous incident occurred.

“What are you saying right now… What do you mean by that!”

The Serpal Family’s knight order was put on high alert. A shocking incident that erupted not from outside, but from within the family itself.

The knights had little they could say in response to the elders who came to berate them.

“…We apologize. We are currently investigating the detailed circumstances ourselves.”

“Is this the time for such words! An incident of this magnitude has occurred and you’re only now investigating?”

“Huu. Let us calm down. They must be in a state of confusion as well.”

“Is this something to be calm about?”

Only after a heated argument broke out even among the elders did the situation calm down somewhat.

And the knight commander was able to report what he had ascertained.

“The lord seems to have… taken his own life in his room.”

There had been various incidents recently.

The family head’s heartbreak must have been great as well. However, the family nobles found it utterly unbelievable.

‘That family head?’

‘The person who just recently swore he would definitely crush Elimis?’

It was confusing.

But even amid this, there were those whose eyes began to gleam differently.

‘The baron’s son is too young. Wouldn’t it be too much for that young child to handle this chaotic family?’

‘This is for the family. For Serpal’s sake as well, an experienced and seasoned noble like myself should lead Serpal.’

‘This is a family crisis. Crisis creates heroes, after all.’

The eyes of the Serpal nobles gleaming with greed.

A figure in the shadows calmly observed them one by one. And from this moment, a silent war began in Serpal.

The family elder who had argued that the young son of Serpal Baron should be elevated as the next baron.

“…Kuk.”

He died after being struck by a dagger thrown by someone on the street.

And from this point on, the Serpal nobles began gathering their respective forces.

Chaotic Serpal.

Three or four nobles appeared claiming they alone could resolve this situation. And various assassinations and schemes began to run rampant among them.

It was truly utter chaos.

The shadow watching this spectacle quietly disappeared.

‘It has turned out as the lord desired. Now I won’t need to worry about this place for a while.’

Now even taking care of themselves would be difficult for Serpal.

Even if the war ended, it would be the same. By then, Serpal’s status would have already completely disappeared.

The civil war that broke out in Serpal.

Because of this, even the merchants who used to visit Serpal began turning away.

“Ku, kuhaha.”

Count Platice burst into hearty laughter.

It was because of a message that had come from his family. At this, Count Platice’s sons wore puzzled expressions.

‘Why?’

‘Has something good happened?’

Seeing their gazes, Count Platice raised the corners of his mouth.

“That unpleasant raccoon has committed suicide, they say.”

“Eh? Unpleasant raccoon… surely you don’t mean Serpal Baron?”

The sons who were initially shocked by the expression ‘suicide.’

The eldest son was the first to realize the identity of the raccoon Count Platice was referring to and widened his eyes. An unimaginable incident had occurred.

Count Platice grinned wickedly.

“That’s right. That very Serpal Baron is dead.”

“But how…”

“Huhu. Being gradually pushed back by us must have been quite frustrating for him.”

It wasn’t something Count Platice himself had orchestrated.

Count Platice, who had been chuckling, recalled a report that had come earlier.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t they recently dare to touch the main house’s adopted son in the main house’s territory?’

Perhaps even the failure of that had become the trigger.

With a slight smile, Count Platice thought.

‘Lately everything feels like it’s going smoothly.’

To be precise, it was from that time.

The decision made that day when he adopted Ellemis Baron.

‘Yes, that’s right. From that very moment, the main house’s affairs have been going extremely well.’

Truly unimaginable good news kept coming one after another. He had also achieved his dream of advancing to the central authority.

Though it might not have been sincere, even the Duke’s words had made him feel good.

The words saying that while it might be difficult for their generation and the generation of the children before him now, the next generation might see the Platice Family surpass the Duke’s house.

“Huhu. If I had known such good fortune would continue, staying on that peninsula wouldn’t have been bad either. Then I could have definitively crushed those Serpal bastards with this opportunity.”

Count Platice’s muttered words contained strong hostility toward Serpal.

Count Platice and the Serpal Family were bitter enemies to that extent. The misfortune of that bitter enemy was nothing short of good fortune for the Platice Family, just from the news alone.

The sons sharing this sentiment also had their lips twitching upward.

The second son spoke up.

“You’re right, Father. Just hearing this news feels as refreshing as if ten years of indigestion has been relieved.”

“But still, we shouldn’t show that we’re too pleased.”

As soon as the second son finished speaking, the eldest son’s warning followed.

Count Platice also nodded. He knew this as well.

“That’s right.”

Count Platice’s unit didn’t consist only of Platice forces.

Yusta Peninsula.

To be precise, the army sent from Serpal had also come under his command.

‘This is truly a precious gift from the Duke. Huhu. Should this also be considered the merit of my newly acquired son?’

A lucky charm.

The more he thought about it, the more such words came to mind.

However, the task at hand came first.

“We must achieve definitive military merit in this war with this momentum.”

Count Platice spoke in a resolute voice.

“Make sure this story doesn’t spread around the military camp. It might shake the army’s morale.”

The army sent by the Platice Family was fine.

But the Serpal forces were different. Since the Serpal Family was their employer, if they heard their employer had died, there was a possibility they might return.

‘The baron’s knights would definitely have their morale shaken as well…’

So let’s keep the information hidden for a while.

The Platice soldiers might rejoice, but that could provoke the Serpal soldiers who now had to fight together as one unit.

But something he hadn’t anticipated occurred.

Count Platice, who was part of the vanguard performing his duties.

For military merit, he had willingly stepped forward to the vanguard.

‘Good news has come as well, so this means God is with us.’

He was confident.

The tactic of using the soldiers sent from Serpal as shields in front, and achieving victory through elite troops trained in battles with goblins.

He had trained hard.

So he thought he would succeed. But once the fighting began, he realized.

“Th-that…!”

He should have united their hearts first. The bad blood between Platice and Serpal had been too deep from the beginning.

They had mixed them together in one unit, so problems were bound to arise. Count Platice was somewhat aware of this too.

‘But even so, how could they do such a thing…!’

A division that occurred at the moment battle broke out.

“For the Kingdom of Alpeo!”

“Strike down Platice’s dogs!”

It was betrayal.

And at the moment of battle, the entire front line had turned into enemies.

“Father!”

“Escort Father!”

Count Platice and his two sons were thrown into confusion.

They couldn’t even think of fighting due to Serpal’s betrayal. They never imagined that the Serpal family would side with the enemy nation.

‘We shouldn’t have accepted Serpal’s soldiers!’

Count Platice blamed himself.

He shouldn’t have trusted Serpal’s soldiers. They were originally from the Yusta Peninsula after all.

Though they belonged to the homeland, their sense of belonging was faint.

Such people had come under Count Platice’s command by homeland orders, despite being like sworn enemies. If Count Platice or his command had embraced them well, there would have been no problem, but they hadn’t done so either.

‘They’re looking down on us?’

‘No matter how much the Platice and Serpal families were bitter enemies, they should have maintained boundaries once they agreed to fight together.’

Platice soldiers thrown into confusion by the betrayal.

Conversely, hatred blazed in the eyes of Serpal’s soldiers.

These weren’t even originally from Serpal. They were slaves or mercenaries. So there was no reason to fight alongside allied forces (Platice army) who showed hostility toward them.

“Attack!”

“Die!”

“Guk!”

“Kraak!”

Pandemonium.

It was a chaotic battle.

In this situation, they couldn’t even fight.

Normally they could have suppressed the rebellion, but this was a battlefield.

“Kingdom of Alesia bastards. Are they having internal strife right in front of us?”

“Putting Yusta Peninsula forces at the front… It seems to be a coalition army too.”

The enemy mocked Count Platice’s forces.

The battle was already decided.

Their commander shouted.

“Attack!”

There was no need for a difficult fight. Just by their signaling to advance and marching forward, Count Platice’s army had collapsed.

They were already crumbling.

The Count’s forces, who had been gradually suppressing the rebels while somehow seeking survival, now had their morale completely broken.

“Run away!”

“Re, retreat!”

“Retreat!”

They couldn’t win.

Count Platice felt this too and fled.

At some point, he had become separated from his children. To be precise, he had already witnessed his sons dying at the hands of enemy knights.

‘What is this…?’

He thought everything was going well.

But why had things gone wrong at this final moment?

Where exactly had it all started to go wrong?

“There he is!”

“Shoot!”

Arrows rained down as if they had no intention of even capturing him alive.

“Guk.”

Count Platice’s body tumbled off his horse as an arrow struck his back.

That day’s battle ended in one side’s overwhelming victory.

News arrived.

Stories that came from Serpal.

“…We can ignore Serpal for a while now.”

The possibility of the Serpal family causing trouble had disappeared.

But even though the Serpal family had been shaken, there were those who remained.

“Whew.”

Cliff caught his breath.

He had grown considerably by now.

Magic control had been his strong suit even in the past when his magic capacity was low.

So he could easily learn magic that others found difficult.

‘To be precise… it’s the effect of skills and the staff.’

With the staff, he could use even magic that was said to be complex.

And if he received skill assistance within his domain, he could use even more diverse magic.

‘Multi-casting.’

Magic arrows forming in his hands.

With simple magic like this, he was confident he could create as many as needed.

“Domain Declaration.”

Through his expanded domain, he sensed the presence of those inside the tunnel.

‘Okay.’

Target acquisition complete.

The magic arrows Cliff shot flew into the tunnel one after another.

That wasn’t all.

“Kyaruk!”

“Keeek!”

Screams echoing from inside.

They were all goblins.

Cliff was currently attacking a goblin tunnel.

“…My lord!”

In the midst of this, someone came running from afar.

A soldier riding a black wolf.

He wasn’t alone. There was another knight beside him as well.

“Hmm?”

Keren.

But his face looked different from usual.

‘What’s wrong?’

Recently, he had always been bright-faced due to many good things happening. But now he was more serious than ever before.

And there was good reason for him to be so.

“…The lord has fallen in battle.”

“…?”

At first, he couldn’t comprehend what he had heard.

Count Platice had died in battle.

That alone might have been manageable.

The problem was what came next.

The Count’s eldest and second sons had also died in the war.

And…

“Now, among the Count’s grown sons, only you remain as an adult, Baron.”

He too was a count’s son.

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