Chapter 369: The New Monarch
With the crown now empty, now was the perfect time for Ahmed to make his next move. Queen Mineah was currently too busy trying to keep the kingdom together, and the constant pressure to find a new ruler was starting to get too much to keep at bay, there would be nothing stopping him from preparing Raul to be his puppet king with him behind the strings of it all.
"Is everything prepared for the inevitable takeover?" Ahmed casually asked Sage as he paced around a non-responsive Raul. "Do we have the support of the court?"
"They’ll support us whether they want to or not," Sage scoffed at him, her hands over her chest as she rolled her eyes. "It’s not like they have much of a choice with this idiot firmly in our control."
Ahmed couldn’t help but chuckle at that. Indeed, with Raul on their side, there was nothing anyone could do to fight against their claim. Well, technically, it was Raul’s claim, but they were the ones behind him pulling the strings at the moment, which technically meant that it was already their claim, to begin with.
"Have you refreshed your hold over him, at least?" Sage then asked back with a raised brow. "If I recall, that potion you gave him only lasts for so long."
"I’m already way ahead in that. No worries," Ahmed smirked, his hand dipping into his pockets to pull out the same potion bottle that he used to dose their idiot pawn from before. "I’m just about to give him another dose in fact."
"Good. I don’t want him slipping from our grasp," Sage hummed in satisfaction. "We’re too close now for either of us to screw things up."
"Mother, I know what I’m doing," he scoffed as he popped the lid off the bottle with his thumb. "I’ve already succeeded in killing off Nikolai, so anything beyond that should be easy enough."
It was pretty much a done deal that they’ve already won. The hardest part of their plan was to actually kill their king, and that part of the plan somehow miraculously happened without so much as a scar being inflicted on either him or his men.