Chapter 184: A Dance Of Diplomacy And Rebellion
The audience upon arrival was for lack of a better word abysmal.
The visiting monarch was shunned by those thought to be his ally, alongside their own Princess.
Many in the palace were on the side of their King believing they needed to take a tough stance against this rising power to put them in their place and secure their own place in this new world since Lunan their former overlord had fallen.
The choices available were not grand.
They could bend the knee to Julius the conqueror of their former overlord, resist and be destroyed or buy for time until someone else came along and dealt with Julius.
None of these options were at all appealing to the Kingdom of Roserun
It’s lands had been ravaged, it’s people murdered or displaced, and now exploited by their nobility.
But the return of their Princess had brought hope back to the people, and better still she had brought home with her their savior the Grand Duke who rose from being a bumpkin country lord to ruling over territory thrice the size of their own kingdom, while stories of his heroics and that of his army continued to circulate in secret as the army would arrest and detain anyone caught spreading the rumors of Latinium as ordered by the king.
But the news could not be stopped the people living under such tyranny looked to a hero, one who’d already proven himself to them before.