Chapter 151: The Last Gasp (5)
More days passed by.
The people of the capital’s loyalty towards their queen was now at a fever pitch, in the last couple of days Julius had, the Queen provided an update to the people of the capital, as she sat on the prebuilt palanquin.
The people were informed that the rebellion that happened in the capital had also happened across the country as they had fallen into a civil war.
This shocked many but the crowd easily accepted her words as truth.
Nobles were known to be power-hungry to the commoners, and with the king dead without an heir, they would not be surprised to see many nobles scramble for the right to crown themselves king.
Following her announcement town criers likewise spread the news further.
While at night Julius and Zeff took action sowing dissent in the capital by sabotaging key city sectors.
The blame for this was placed on spies captured by the home guard.
This was the true cause for Serena’s popularity, her telling the people the "truth" and then revealing that even though she’d indicated her willingness to stay out of the war, the other parties seemed hellbent on dragging them into it.
The damage done by the saboteurs was not deadly but a few granaries were burned to the ground along with quite a large amount of foodstuff, and forges were tampered with preventing proper equipment creation and repair.
Every other hour the town criers would change their cries to another exposed plot.