Chapter 266: The Leftover Clean Up
While Aldrian meditating inside his room, ignoring all the commotion in the capital, the situation in the northeast region is in disarray. Most of the families inside of the grand duke Gouvard’s faction is in this region and many of their higher up follow infiltrating the capital. They are lost contact with the capital for some time before they finally received a news that make them terrified.
The coup plan has been compromised, and the imperial family is in the midst of purging traitors. These families know it’s only a matter of time before the imperial family passes judgment on them. Their only choices are to surrender or to fight against the imperial family. However, despite their large numbers, with most of their higher-ups apprehended by the imperial family in the capital, they are like foam in the ocean.
The choice was clear for the members of these families in their home bases: to surrender to the imperial family. There was no need to escalate the situation into an unnecessary civil war or fight a losing battle. As a result, they confined themselves to their own territories, hoping to avoid any misunderstanding with the imperial family. They intended to keep their families quiet and compliant, behaving like obedient dogs.
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Inside the Lucard family’s grand mansion, Danius Lucard, the young master of the Lucard family, sat in his seat in the meeting room. He was positioned near the right side of the central seat, which was traditionally reserved for the patriarch. However, in the patriarch’s absence, the family’s grand elder occupied the seat as the interim leader.
Inside the room, there were five other elders alongside the grand elder of the Lucard family. They appeared to have just concluded their discussion regarding the coup attempt.
"So, we have decided to hold our forces as the conclusion of this meeting," the grand elder declared.
He was Zakal Lucard, a middle-aged man with a brown mustache and short, sleek brown hair.
After he announced his decision, the others in the room could only sigh, their frustration evident on their faces. In truth, they had never been optimistic about the patriarch’s reckless plan to join forces with other families in the same faction to stage a coup. They couldn’t understand why their patriarch had acted so irrationally, but the only person in the room who knew the reason could only sigh in defeat.