Chapter 145: A Knight's Authority
Swish── swish──
Winter, when thick snowflakes had already begun to pile up.
"In all my years, I never thought I'd see......."
Chiron let out an empty laugh as he gazed out the window.
A small-scale war had erupted within the Imperial Palace. The root cause was the bombing attack that had targeted Reutern II.
Julius claimed it was a staged incident orchestrated by Reutern's side, and Reutern claimed it was the work of Julius's faction.
Both knew that the moment they backed down, it was over, and so the gap between them never closed. Suspicion became conviction, and conviction festered into hatred. In the end, bloodshed broke out between Julius and Reutern.
How many had died, no one could say for certain. He'd heard that assassinations and poisonings had run rampant.
The stench of blood, however, never leaked beyond the palace walls.