Chapter 85: The Tin Knight and The City of Struggle (4)
The Iron Blood Emperor was one of the most renowned wise rulers among the Empire’s historical monarchs.
He possessed exceptional political acumen and the ability to employ talented individuals, and contrary to his title of “Iron Blood,” he didn’t easily shed blood, however, once he drew his sword, he never failed to strike down his target.
Reviving the Adventurers Guild was just one of his many accomplishments.
Yet, even such an emperor had one worry—his misfortune with children.
His firstborn son with the empress didn’t live past his first birthday, and the second and third sons also lost their lives to a fall from a horse and illness, respectively.
When the Iron Blood Emperor himself passed away at the relatively young age of fifty, only two princesses and the youngest prince remained among the children between him and the empress.
The Empire had no precedent of an empress regnant, and it was impossible for the young prince, not yet ten years old, to perform the emperor’s duties.
Naturally, the Empire’s power was divided into two factions.
Those who followed Duke Lennart, the Guardian Lord of the State, and those who followed the empress.
In this political climate, the influence of the Haidern Marquis family, which was the empress’ birth family, grew by the day.
Likewise, the arrogance of Maximilian Egir Haidern, the second son of the marquis family and nephew of the empress, also increased by the day.