Chapter 94: A King and his General (7)
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News that the crown prince had slapped the imperial princess like some servant spread throughout the entire castle in an instant.
The imperial castle of Habsburg was on the small side. The castle garden could accommodate, at most, a thousand people, but if you consider the amount of territory and prestige the empire has, that was definitely lacking. The current emperor had attempted to expand the castle several times now. However, the nobles would always refuse to invest money into the imperial family and the imperial family didn’t have enough spare funding to try and renovate the castle with their own money.
Absolute monarchy has collapsed. ……Imperial Princess Elizabeth stopped. She had stopped in the middle of a marble corridor that sparkled like glass and stared at the scenery between two pillars. The sun was setting on the city. An amber glow was flowing into every alleyway. For a moment, the world became surreal as the serenity and the splendor of the setting sun opened like curtains in the distance.
Imperial Princess Elizabeth muttered.
“They say that there is something that glows brighter as the world gets dark……was it not the empire?”
The nation that once boasted absolute fame a hundred fifty years ago was now gone. The empire was falling into ruin in the most unsightly way. She had deliberately taunted Rudolf the Crown Prince, but she didn’t think he would have such a short temper. He was a foolish man. These rumors won’t benefit him at all.
All the people of the empire will know that the imperial princess wished to go to battle, but Rudolf the Crown Prince had firmly refused from his side. In other words, he had sealed the possibility of rumors going around saying that the imperial princess intentionally held her troops back so that the crown prince would fail.
The empire is in need of surgery. Its flesh must be cut open and the rotten parts must be torn out firmly. There is a chance that the patient might die due to the scale of the surgery. Most importantly, the 50,000 soldiers mobilized for the expedition led by the margraves and the crown prince will be sacrificed……. This is most likely a responsibility the doctor must carry. This thought went through the 17-year-old imperial princess’ head as she stared down at the city lit by the setting sun.