Chapter 128 – Chapter 128 Five Princes
The City Alliance seemed to be thinking of making sure to establish a connection with Jason on this occasion.
If the fact that he was the youngest high-ranking thief was known to the outside world, he would struggle to get close to Jason here and there.
This was a first-come, first-served basis.
It was best to stick first.
Contrary to the contract, the pirates gathered to form a fleet.
He began to fight bravely against the warships he had gathered from the Palmo Empire.
Originally, Jason’s plan was to attack the ship the prince was on with the fastest ship, surprise him, kill the prince, and escape with magic.
The crown prince was a high-ranking crusader and had a high reputation in the empire.
He was the first of the emperor’s children to reach the upper ranks, and because of that, he was born as the third son, but he was able to become the crown prince.
It was certain that his reputation would plummet after such a crown prince was killed a few times by the pirates who covered his face.
Besides, if Prince Oh is succeeding in the Northern Expedition and the Crown Prince dies, the return will be huge.
Of course, in the empire, there would be a perception that Prince Oh might be more talented than the Crown Prince.
However, with the help of the city alliance, the image of the crown prince was further shattered.
No matter how powerful the Palmo Empire was, they couldn’t defeat the pirates of the City Alliance on the sea.
Many pirates died and many ships were sunk, but the warships of the empire suffered more damage than that.
On the sea that smelled of gunpowder, Jason’s pirate ship crashed into the prince’s warship.
Wow!!!
The pirates tied ropes to the prince’s warship and began to climb aboard.
Jason and his women also put on pirate-like hoods and went to the prince’s warship.
Crown Prince Sandyd Palmo was fighting hard, emitting holy light while holding a sword and shield.
Because it is a world where the strong are respected, he could not run away like a coward.
And Jason, who received invisibility magic, killed his steps and ran to the crown prince and made an assassination attack.
The Crusader was definitely strong.
The Crusader also had a skill to ignore poison with the blessing of the Goddess of Light.
However, even without poison, Jason had the skills to assassinate an adventurer of the same level.
His Venom Avenger had ice magic cast by Aliana.
Electricity or fire are better for damage, but ice is the most stealthy when it comes to assassination, so I liked it.
“It’s big?!”
It was hard for Sandide to come to his senses as the cold Venom Avenger suddenly stabbed him in the back.
As Sandide turned to strike the assassin with his shield, the assassin landed several more strikes in a warrior-like motion.
In the end, Sandide fell to his knees.
Even the most rugged crusaders did not die at all.
And Jason sneaked right in between the fighting pirates and the Palmo Imperial Navy.
Originally, thieves were usually in hiding, so Sandide quickly missed Jason’s whereabouts.
He hastily gathered the light of the goddess in his right hand and brought it to his wound.
His wounds were frozen and did not heal well.
Someone’s cry came from somewhere.
“The crown prince has fallen! A reward of 10,000 gold will be given to those who kill the crown prince!”
Ten thousand gold.
Now, it was mere pennies to Jason, but it was also such money that pirates had never touched in their lifetime.
In an instant, the pirates saw the prince kneeling on the bottom of the ship.
It was easy to tell if he was the crown prince or not because he was carrying the most gorgeous armor and shield.
Right now, it seemed that the prince would die if he was hit with one more sword.
All the pirates started attacking the prince.
Those nearer swung swords, those farther threw daggers or shot arrows.
The rare pirate wizards who knew how to use magic shot the most powerful magic they knew at the crown prince.
He didn’t care that there were allies around him.
And the soldiers of the Palmo Empire worked hard to protect the crown prince.
But right now, the prince was just a huge burden.
More sacrifices were made while protecting the crown prince.
Sandid saw a fireblast spell flying towards him.
The wizards aboard the warship seemed to have no one to stop that flame explosion, as if they were already countering other magic.
‘Damn. If only my body was fine… !’
Then it was a magic that could be bravely endured with a shield.
But now the condition was not good.
Sandide didn’t want himself to die from that spell right now.
He hated the stigma of having failed in the war more than the burning pain.
Sandide was burned to death.
And when the prince died, the morale of the soldiers of the Palmo Empire plummeted.
The war between the pirates and the Palmo Empire did not end with just this once.
Sandyd resurrected and chased the pirates again in anger.
That’s how Sandid died three times and lost three wars.
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The emperor of the Palmo Empire was now calling himself a back room old man.
He became a superman and an emperor, and in his youth he spent all his time making the empire rich and strong.
When he got older and his children grew up, he didn’t appoint an appropriate crown prince to run the country, but just to make sure he was doing well behind the scenes.
And Emperor Juthema attended an imperial palace meeting after a long time.
All the nobles present at the meeting had tense expressions on their faces.
The emperor’s attendance at the imperial palace meeting meant great upheaval within the empire.
Present at the palace meeting were Crown Prince Sandeed Palma, who claimed to have succeeded in eradicating pirates, and Idad Palmo, the third prince, who had successfully completed the Northern Expedition.
And Taleia Wolf, who attended the meeting on behalf of the dark ball in the Wolf family, was the most heart pounding.
She was all listening to her coming out of the capital now.
‘The prince said he succeeded in eradicating the pirates. Didn’t the pirates eventually disperse on their own? The prince couldn’t even dare to follow him to the deep sea.’
‘In comparison, the Three Princes had a really successful war. There was not much loss of her troops, and she killed a lot of barbarians in the north, weakening its power.’
Politically, her fiancé, the Third Prince, was on the rise.
The biggest political issue in the empire right now was the crown prince’s failure and the third prince’s success.
And anyway, the level of the two was the same.
The Third Prince stood proudly next to Thalia.
A number of nobles were already standing next to him.
It was a completely different look from before leaving for the Northern Expedition.
Thalaia was proud of the appearance of the Three Princes.
Emperor Juthema looked around at all his subjects and children.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in an official position, but the empire still didn’t shake.
It was because he, the strongest pillar, was holding on.
All that was left for Emperor Zhu Tema was to prepare a pillar to support the empire once the pillar called himself was gone.
The emperor opened his mouth slowly.
“The reason I dared to come to the meeting today is to change the seat of the crown prince.”
Everyone was expecting it, but it was a surprise.
Obviously, the prince made a big mistake.
And Prince Oh was a huge success.
However, the crown prince had been holding the crown prince’s position for a long time, and it seemed that his position would not change.
And the emperor made a quick decision.
The prince went to the center and knelt down in front of the emperor.
“Your majesty! What do you mean by that? Although I lost some of my naval forces, I succeeded in defeating the pirates. All the pirates left for the distant sea and did not dare to enter the sea of the Palmo Empire. We won. There is no law that took away the place of the son who came back after winning the war!”
Then the emperor glared at the prince.
The prince did not dare to bear the emperor’s gaze, so he lowered his head.
“Forty-one ships of the Navy broke and went into the sea. More than 15,000 soldiers died. How much money did you put in every time you resurrected? If you really had hair, you shouldn’t have said that.”
The emperor’s momentum put pressure on the crown prince.
He prevented the prince from committing even greater ugliness.
The prince had to sit on his knees trembling like a criminal.
“War. Winning doesn’t mean winning. There must be something to gain after winning! You must gain more than you lose!”
The emperor said something to the crown prince and then turned his gaze to the prince oh.
Prince Oh humbly bowed his head.
“Oh I appoint Prince Idad as her crown prince.”
“I will do my best not to disappoint Your Majesty.”
It was to change the crown prince of the empire.
However, no one objected to the emperor’s decision.
The power of Emperor Jutema was strong and strong.
The Emperor called Idad to his side.
He whispered to Idad.
“Can you see it?”
The emperor’s seat was at the top of the meeting room.
All nobles and royalty looked down.
And no one cast a suspicious glance at the emperor.
“Yes.”
“What do you see?”
“I see that everyone is following your father’s decision.”
“Okay. That’s why the Palmo Empire is so strong. When the emperor decides, everyone else follows. To become such an emperor, you too must be strong enough for everyone to follow. Even though your older brother couldn’t do it for so long and with so much support. You will not disappoint me.”
It was said that he had to become a superman.
Idad knew that sitting in the crown prince’s seat was a new beginning.
In order to train while running the empire, he would have to reduce his sleeping time in the future.
