Chapter 213.2
“Clara was the first to be attacked. At first, I thought that the royal family and those related to them were targeted and that the crime was committed by the noble faction, but that is too shortsighted.”
Everyone nodded quietly as Elena began to explain.
The noble faction had acted in what seemed like short-sighted ways in the past, such as kidnapping Elena, but their goal was to gain profits from foreign trade, not to eliminate the royal family itself and reduce the power of the country. If the nation itself becomes too weak, it would be disadvantaged in negotiations with foreign countries.
Then, who would benefit from killing the royal family and those associated with it?
Neighboring countries would not be so foolish. Although there may be conflicts over issues such as conduit mining rights, if the Kingdom of Cleydale declined, the Kingdom of Kanhar in the north and the Khalfaan Empire, which were now friendly nations, would reach out to this region.
It was possible that those powers could be behind this, but if we think that far, we would have to suspect all of them.
But even before that, there must be something else we could do if we could summon and use a high-level demon. Even without going to the trouble of using the crude means of assassination, there were plenty of ways to manipulate the upper echelons of the local government or to reduce the power of the country.
Therefore, Elena thought it was meaningful to attack Clara first.
It was a short-sighted, childish act of eliminating Clara and replacing her with the Crown Prince.
However, there was no young lady in the Duke’s family who was old enough to be a match for the Crown Prince. There might be a Marquis or an Earl, who were also senior nobles, but Elena said that no senior noble family would think of such a thing when they see the Crown Prince now and his position was threatened by Elena.
“So, childish, not?”