Book 4: Chapter 46
“Good evening, your majesty.”
I turned around to see Freya who was dressed in simplistic clothing. She wore a very simple long-white dress as if there was no pattern on there. It was virtually like a maid’s uniform. She looked at me and then saluted me gracefully. She then raised her head up to look at me. After having a fulfilling meal and a good rest, her face looks much more radiant like a pearl that had the dust covering it cleaned off.
I looked at her, smiled and asked: “Good evening, Freya. How are you feeling now?”
“I have recovered. Thank you for asking, your majesty. Now, if you do not intend to rest now, I shall explain to you my plan.”
She bowed and then walked up to me. I shook my head with a smile and stood up. I looked toward the inner court and said: “While I really want to go to Castor and stab that kid to death, her majesty’s birthday is coming up. I don’t have the time to go to Castor. What the church and Castor did made me very angry, but mom is the most important to me. This is the first time I’m celebrating her birthday. I don’t want to miss it.”
“Her majesty’s birthday.” She repeated what I said and then nodded. She then continued, “Yes, that is very important, very, very important. However your majesty, my plan does not require you to personally go there. Instead, you just have to wait for Castor’s regent to take the initiative to come and beg you. If it is quick, a week is sufficient.”
I turned to face her with shock. I looked at her. Her blue eyes were calm and collected. She looked at me as she said: “It is actually quite simple. We do not have any evidence to get Castor’s regent to admit to her crimes, but we know that she committed them, and that is enough. While we cannot scare her, she can scare herself. Since she relies on the church for her operations, we just need to cause in-fighting between them.”
She walked up to my table and said: “We will be able to hand down our judgement to this incident very soon. When the time comes, the people will become furious when they discover that they tried to poison them. They will hate them when they discover that they were trafficking people, and they will get angry when they discover that they were robbed. They will be elated after receiving our money. And thus, the church will lose the hearts of the people. We then give two ambiguous orders. We can ask the churches in various places to publicise their finances, thereby leading to the masses losing trust with the church. When the time is ripe, we can instigate the people, and they will vandalise the church. The reason the church is fearless is because they are the source of the people’s faith and the people trust them. Once they lose their trust, they will naturally be powerless. At the same time, we will come down on businesses with an iron-fist. Therefore, businesses will not donate to the church any further. After losing the trust of the people and their source of income, the church will be powerless to fight against the royal family. That is when the church will admit defeat and surrender. Then I require what you have, your majesty.”
“What I have?”