Chapter 1559: Maintaining Composure
“Damn it! How dare Orven pull something like this while I was away?!”
A roar of uncontrollable fury echoed through the Ashen Fortress.
Orven was Orric’s half-brother. For as long as he could remember, Orric believed he had always watched over his younger sibling.
He had patiently guided Orven whenever the latter struggled with the Ocean King’s royal secret techniques.
But Orven’s talent had always lagged behind Orric’s.
In terms of personality, Orven had always been timid and passive—the complete opposite of Orric’s bold, headstrong nature.
For that same younger brother he had trusted for years to suddenly pull something like this was beyond anything Orric could have expected.
Was this what they meant when they said the quietest dog bites the hardest?
What enraged Orric most was not that Orven had taken the throne.
It was the fact that his succession had plunged Aquaria into two decades of civil strife!
Though the turmoil had ended, one could only imagine the catastrophic toll those twenty years had exacted on Aquaria and its vassal worlds.
He had no idea who among Aquaria’s Rank Four and Rank Five beings, the ones who had always supported him, were still alive.