The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 117
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Chapter 117
The Princess’s words were true. Theo was devastated.
[Saya, this country is rotten. I’ll avenge Father and return. Wait for me.]
For the past three years, I devoted everything to this organization with the sole desire to overthrow the royal family.
I didn’t join this place just to see this pathetic state, abandoning even my sister who remained alone.
What on earth have I been living for all this time?
“Down with Valdina! Fall, Royal Family!”
The hollow cries rang in my ears like hallucinations.
* * *
The flames of rebellion that started at Ashpalo Fortress spread uncontrollably.
Within days, news reached the Royal Palace that five of the eight cities surrounding the palace had fallen, throwing the interior into chaos.
“A rebellion! How can this happen so suddenly at a time like this?!”
It was an emergency. An urgent meeting was called.
“Did you hear? The rebels are so vicious, they stab the bellies of anyone still alive!”
“Why? For what reason? Things were getting a bit better now. Relief came so there’s less starvation, and the war seems like it’ll end soon.”
“Probably all the pent-up grievances finally exploded.”
“Still, it’s rather sudden…”
“This isn’t the time to worry about such things. They say the rebels are fiercely growing in strength, so we need to prepare too. Their momentum seems serious – what if they attack here?”
However, by the time vicious rumors about the rebels spread within the Royal Palace, it was already too late.
They had already drawn close long ago.
“We’ve finally arrived. Do you see it, comrades?! Inside there lies the corrupt Valdina Royal Family that ruined this country!”
Horolls pointed to the Royal Palace visible in the distance from atop his horse.
He turned to look at his comrades.
“While we starved and died, they laughed, drank, and reveled surrounded by gold – we’ll stab the bellies of that greedy royal family and offer their blood to this land!”
He also made eye contact with his real ‘subordinates’ planted among the rebels for agitation.
“Brothers! Let us cast off the shackles of bondage and reclaim our freedom!”
“Uaaaah! Die!”
“Down with Valdina! Down with the Royal Family!”
The black army with shadows at their backs began descending the mountain like a swarm of ants.
Until they reached the Royal Palace, no one stopped them.
The city walls were even peaceful. It seemed they hadn’t anticipated the possibility of civil war at all.
Horolls inwardly cheered with delight.
‘The Regent used his power! Indeed, impressive!’
From their first uprising in the central region until reaching this place, the Regent had completely cut off all communication channels to the Royal Palace so no news would arrive.
“When they see us, they’ll panic and come tumbling out. If we do well, we can capture it before tomorrow comes.”
Unprepared, confused soldiers would only become their prey. Horolls licked his lips.
“You break down the gates, you set up the ladders. Once you cross the walls, deal with the guards first. Theo, stay by my side. I need eyes to see the whole picture.”
“Yes, leader!”
Among the rebels answering enthusiastically, only Theo remained silent.
“Theo?”
“Yes, leader.”
Only then did a belated response flow out.
Horolls raised the flag. The orange flag signaling the rebels’ entry waved greatly.
“Charge!”
Just as the rebels rushed toward the walls in unison.
Whiz, whiz, whiz!
Arrows shot by soldiers hiding atop the walls pierced through the rebels charging at the front.
“What, what’s this!”
“Shoot!”
Great confusion arose among the rebels.
Who said they were still asleep?
Atop the walls, the Royal Palace soldiers had been fully prepared from the start, waiting for the rebels’ entry.
Oil-soaked arrows set fire to the wooden siege ladders.
Boom, flames erupted with acrid smoke from the ground surrounding the moat.
“Ahhh! My body’s on fire!”
“Uahhh! It’s gunpowder! There’s gunpowder on it!”
Splash, splash, the sounds of people falling into the moat could be heard everywhere.
They were flustered by the more thorough and stronger defense than expected. Among them, the most shocked was Horolls.
“Wh-what is this… The Royal Palace was supposed to be empty! Only a ragtag bunch!”
Horolls’s face crumpled like paper as he faced a reality different from the Regent’s words.
That skilled approach to siege warfare was definitely not that of amateurs.
“Uahhhhh!”
“Leader! Over there on the left!”
Someone pointed toward where the sun was rising.
A cavalry unit was charging to strike their flanks.
The momentum of drawing swords in unison and their undisturbed formation. Even without emitting sharp killing intent, it wasn’t difficult to recognize they were elite knights.
A booming old voice was heard!
“Retreat, you filthy scoundrels!”
“It’s Duke Gilliphos’s banner!”
Someone shouted. Horolls turned and was startled.
He recognized the old man charging at the very front of the cavalry, spinning his mace as he rode.
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“We’ve arrived, Your Excellency.”
The Regent, having reached the Royal Palace gates, stepped down from his carriage wearing armor.
“Horolls has reached the Royal Palace. If we do well, it can fall within half a day.”
“Good. You continue with the plan – set fires throughout District 4 and keep agitating. Make it look like there’s support for them from within the Royal Palace too. Understand?”
He intended to instill the fear that there were rebels within the Royal Palace as well.
“Samon, you wait at the walls first.”
“…”
There was no answer from Samon, who looked haggard.
Bloodshot eyes and sunken gaze. He even exuded an unpleasant gloominess.
“Don’t think of touching Mother in the confusion. The 4th Princess is off-limits too. We can’t handle the consequences right now.”
Besides the Queen Mother who had Samon flogged, the 4th Princess, thinking she had been deceived by Samon and Jason’s collaboration, sent knights to beat him thoroughly.
Because of that, his barely healed wounds reopened, and they had to pour all the remaining holy water from the Duke’s mansion into Samon.
“If you disrupt this grand plan for your revenge like you did with Etien last time, I will never forgive you.”
The Regent, knowing his son’s sinister nature of never forgetting enemies, warned again.
Even after suppressing the rebellion and his father becoming king, the Queen Mother had to remain alive for a while.
Both the old grandmother and Kazen’s 4th Princess would become living evidence to personally experience and prove their legitimacy.
“…”
The Regent patted his trembling son’s shoulder.
“Soon the time will come to vent your resentment. Wait just a little longer and the throne will be ours. When that time comes, I won’t stop whatever you do.”
“…I understand.”
Samon nodded and hid his cruelly gleaming eyes.
The curtain rose on the play prepared to shake the Royal Palace in coordination with the rebels’ entry.
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“Where is Medeia, where is Her Highness the Princess?”
The Regent burst into the Princess’s Palace with an agitated expression.
Sweat flowing down his handsome forehead and tension showing on his face. It was a completely different appearance from the always smooth and leisurely Regent.
“Th-the Princess is in the garden.”
“A rebellion has broken out, so you should all take shelter quickly. Time is of the essence.”
“What? A, a rebellion…!”
The Princess’s maids looked at each other in shock.
The unsettled atmosphere in the palace and the gray smoke that had been rising since earlier felt somehow ominous.
As if there was no time to comfort the frightened maids, the Regent strode toward the garden with a knight in tow.
Soon, he was able to spot his niece sitting alone under a tree.
“Medeia!”
“Uncle? What brings you here so suddenly? No, why are you dressed like that?”
Medeia looked at the Regent with slightly surprised eyes.
“This is terrible. A rebellion has broken out!”
The Regent grabbed her arm.
“The city gate has been breached. They’ll storm the Royal Palace in no time.”
“The city gate has been breached? That can’t be possible…”
Medeia asked back as if she couldn’t believe it.
The Regent, intoxicated by the urgent atmosphere he had created, failed to notice that his niece hadn’t been surprised by the mention of a rebellion.
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