Chapter 980 - 502_2
Oyo III saw two Knights escorting a horse-drawn iron cage, inside which was a very strange-looking woman with three heads.
Oyo III waved his hand, "This... I won’t be needing your kindness. When I was about to seize the imperial throne, I had a witch prophesy for me. She said I would fail in a way I couldn’t imagine. I beheaded her on the spot to show that I didn’t believe in prophecy and that man is the master of his fate. Later, indeed, I obtained the throne."
"From this, one can see that knowing the future is not necessarily a good thing, and these prophecies may not even be true. In short, I don’t like dealing with such things. My good brother, there are other matters at hand that I plan to discuss with you."
Immediately, Oyo III recounted the problems he was facing to Duke Gugel.
Duke Gugel’s face froze upon hearing this. "Damn that Ivita, so cunning. No wonder I felt something was amiss the moment I stepped into your military camp."
"You ask me because you already have an idea in your heart."
"I think that in your youth, you would have followed your original intentions. Are you the kind of person who compromises? If it were for compromise, would you have wanted this imperial throne in the first place?"
Oyo III shuddered.
Indeed.
The reason he originally wanted the imperial throne was not only because of problems with the succession that ignited his ambition.
It was also because he realized that he kept failing in the power struggle between imperial authority and divine authority. He was eager to obtain the strongest secular power within the Magic Black Forest to fight against that divine authority.