Chapter 153: Age of Tyrants (3)
A curtain of silence fell over the generals.
They were all competent nobles. In other words, they were people who survived by stepping on the competition. It wouldn’t be hard to find someone among them who had also secretly killed their sibling for the sake of safely inheriting their peerage.
However, the peerage that was on the line for Elizabeth was emperor. It was obvious what she would do if you compared the stability of the empire with her little brother’s life. It’s a crime to kill one’s younger sibling; however, nobles don’t fear the act of committing crimes. They only fear having to make excuses for them.
Don’t make excuses and simply rush forward toward authority. This was the ideology of nobles. If you are unable to bear the blame after having committed numerous crimes during your process to acquire authority, then that would be your limit. If you cannot avoid it, then harbor it.
This was the same for Elizabeth von Habsburg.
“Why am I admitting to slaying my kin? You must all be thinking this. I declare here and now that I will continue to commit immoral deeds.”
She looked forward with a dark and placid gaze.
“Our Habsburg imperial army will raze the capital to the ground. However, I will not be the one to give this order. It will be His Majesty the Emperor.”
“The Emperor……? Has Your Highness perhaps suggested this plan to His Majesty the Emperor?”