CH 30 ~ The Duke's Decision
"She has holy powers of the saintess. Everyone saw how powerful her healing capabilities are!"
One noble from the imperial fraction pointed out, where the nobles on the noble fraction scoffed.
"Nothing is confirmed yet! We must call the high priest and the people from Arndell to confirm it!!"
Marquise Preston says as he opposed the idea of the crown princess being the lady of the prophecy.
It was already bad that a girl with such strong magical powers were born and that to at the imperial fraction's side.
The power of the nobles fraction is at disadvantaged as the union between the crown prince and the lady Dalton made the imperial fraction to get more power.
Now she is even suspected to be a saintess and this would make everyone look up at her!
There is no way that the emperor would let her be after this.
He will either make her the next empress to help his son to maintain the power, or he will make her the next duke of Dalton to keep her powers in check and help his son to grow more powerful.
Either way, it was bad for the noble fraction.
'We should have killed her at that time too!'
'We shouldn't have focused on the duke!'
Marquise Preston grits his teeth as he clenches his fist under the table as he suddenly realized something.
All this time, they were focusing on the duke so much that they forgot about the crown princess!
Her childish behaviour of following her father around and the duke treating her coldly mislead them into thinking she won't be a threat for them and could be removed at any time!
'We have miscalculated the whole process!'
Marquise Preston side glances at Duke Raven beside him, who didn't said a single thing during this whole meeting.
He just sit straight and listened to everyone's word, just like Duke Dalton.
This calmness didn't fit right with Marquise Preston and then the emperor cleared his throat to get attention.
"The high priest is currently not here to confirm the news, but I think the confirmation of the magic tower should be enough for now."
As soon as the emperor spoke, a proud look appears on Noah's face as he fidgets a little to sit up straight so that people can notice him.
Maybe he had lived a carefree life in the modern timeline that he no longer feels trapped like before.
His personality changed and he actually started to act like his age.
Duke Hertz narrows his grey eyes with a frown as he watches his attention seeker son.
What happened to him?
Didn't he used to dislike attention?
But the proud look on Noah's face crushes down as Duke Raven finally decides to speak.
"But isn't trusting the words of a ten year old little kid too much, your majesty?"
"I mean... this is such a huge matter, concerning our empire's future."
Duke Raven speaks and Marquise Preston immediately joins him.
"Yes, your majesty. What does a little kid know- mmmphhhhh!!! mmmppphhh!!!"
Everyone looks at Marquise Preston with shock, where the marquise's ivory eyes were widened wide as he tries to speak but fails.
He touches his mouth as he tries to open his lips, tears almost fills up his eyes as his voice couldn't come out.
Then everyone looks at the little Noah with disbelief in their eyes; he was sitting like he didn't gave a damn care to whatever was happening.
"Why are all looking at me like this?"
"This old man was just too noisy so I shut him up."
Noah says with an uninterested tone and Marquise Rosalie wanted to hug Noah tightly with happiness.
Finally someone teach those bastards a lesson!
'But how come such a lovely child is this boring man's son?'
Marquise Rosalie throws a questioning look at Duke Hertz, who had covered his face with his hands as he curses his son under his breathe.
'This brat... I shouldn't have bought him today!'
Duke Raven's light brown eyes narrows as he stares at Noah, who appeared all of a sudden.
Why is everything messing up?
Noah De Kieran Hertz was never a problem as he stayed at the magic tower quietly.
But now not only he suddenly came out, he is also messing up with their plans!
'We have to remove him too... We can't let him get more powerful.'
But Cedrick Raven's light green eyes were full of amusement as he glances at Noah.
He is so young but he can already do such high grade magic move!
And unlike him... Noah is full of confidence and power. This makes him lower his head with disappointment on himself.
He can't even speak to his father let alone speaking lik Noah in front of everyone.
He is really a weakling as his father said.
But then Duke Dalton's deep voice attracts everyone's attention as he starts to speak while looking down.
"I don't care either she is the saintess or not."
He paused for a brief moment before he continued to speak.
"As long as she isn't an adult, as her legal gurdian I have the right to make decision."
And then finally he looks up and his jewel blue eyes meets numerous gaze of different emotions.
"Either she is a saintess, the crown princess or something else, she will always love and help our empire... so her status is not an issue as loyalty for the imperial family runs in our blood."
The Crown prince's lips parts a little as he could sense that whatever the duke was going to say next would create a chaos for sure.
The duke's last sentence made him feel like that.
He was talking about the blood oath which every duke of Dalton takes and gets a wish from the imperial family in return.
His heart starts to beat faster with nervousness as he prays to not hear something bad.
The emperor was also looking at Duke Dalton with a curious gaze as he wonder what decision can the duke possibly make to keep his daughter away from this power struggle.
No matter how much you try, one will come sooner or later where they belong.
And Eleanora was born to face this and Alexander can't keep her hidden anymore to protect her.
Where, everyone shifts their focus on Duke Dalton as he pauses on his sentence and finally looks at everyone as he stoods up.
"Therefore, I declare my will to train and prepare her as the next head of Dalton..."
"Annul the engagement between her and and the crown prince!"