The Lord Of Blood Hill

Chapter 587: A Fatal Past

What is written in those documents?Of course, it is an old matter from years ago. In the past, it would not have meant much. But now that it has been brought out, it is enough to put a knife to Lumir's throat.

This matter has to begin with the Grand Princess, back when she was sent to her maternal uncle's family in Lumir in a semi-exiled manner.

At that time, the old king of Ika had already betrothed this calamitous daughter to a Lumir noble.

Later, the Grand Princess, still in the prime of her youth, did indeed spend some time together with that noble.

Just when the two of them were about to marry, that noble happened to run into the preliminaries for the War of the Six Kings.

Then, unfortunately, he was badly wounded on the battlefield.

He returned and spent a long time recovering before he finally improved somewhat.

But good fortune did not last long. Just as his wounds began to improve, he went riding with the Grand Princess.

Then they unfortunately ran into a thunderstorm. Even more unfortunately, this fellow hid under a tree to avoid the rain and was struck by lightning.

His earlier wounds had not fully healed to begin with. Now, after being hit by lightning as well, even though he was a knight, there was no saving him.

At most, this only added another reputation as a woman of misfortune to the Grand Princess. They could simply change the marriage partner.

However, at that time, the Grand Princess was already pregnant with that noble's child. They had originally planned to marry immediately, but who could have known that he would fail to withstand the misfortune around her?

This made the situation troublesome. The Grand Princess could not become a widow before even getting married.

Even less could she have a child before marriage.

But the Grand Princess was already showing. With the primitive medical skill of this era, safely ending the pregnancy was clearly difficult.

So half a year later, the Grand Princess secretly gave birth to the child.

The child was adopted by the Grand Princess's uncle, Count Lierul, the head of the Dienbos family in northern Lumir.

Nominally, she was Count Lierul's youngest daughter and the Grand Princess's younger cousin.

In reality, that girl was the Grand Princess's child and Count Lierul's granddaughter by generation.

To hide it from others, they later deliberately blurred the girl's age and told the outside world she was two years older.

Afterward, the Grand Princess stayed by the girl's side as she grew up.

That lasted until the War of the Six Kings broke out and Fred, the later Mercenary King, took the Grand Princess away.

That girl was named Monica. Later, she married Lumir's Fourth Prince.

Perhaps she inherited the Grand Princess's misfortune, because the Fourth Prince died of illness not long afterward.

The matter is still normal up to this point. It is nothing more than a melodramatic story about an illegitimate child, the sort that nobles often have.

But the story that follows is different.

One important fact is that Monica died very early.

Less than a year after the marriage, she was already dead.

Most important is the cause of death. That pitiful girl was killed by the Fourth Prince.

The Fourth Prince had no cultivation talent and not much ability of his own.

Semson's original intent was to arrange a strong backer for this most useless son of his.

But no one expected that this Fourth Prince named Hanni Jorkson would want to become an extraordinary professional. No one knew where he had learned some evil rituals.

He actually killed his newlywed wife and offered her as a sacrifice.

Such a mad act obviously could not be hidden from everyone.

So while Semson blocked the news, he also tried to clean up the aftermath.

He selected the personal maid most familiar with Monica and used extraordinary methods to alter her appearance and pass her off as Miss Monica.

He wanted to muddle through that way. At the same time, he planned to change Hanni Jorkson's territory and move him farther away from the Dienbos family.

But just as everything was proceeding quietly, the Fourth Prince died.

His death was pathetic. He was poisoned to death by Monica's substitute maid.

By this point, Semson could only secretly find Count Lierul and discuss how to calm the matter down.

From Semson's point of view, his son was dead, and Lierul's daughter was also dead. Neither side should pursue blame, and the matter should pass just like that.

At the same time, in order to appease the Dienbos family, Semson also yielded quite a few benefits.

Thus, the story became the version everyone knows now.

But now that this matter has been placed on the table, especially in front of the two envoys of the Western Federation, its meaning is completely different.

A member of the Ika Kingdom royal family was sacrificed in an evil ritual, and it was done by a member of Lumir's royal family.

Ika Kingdom has the right to pursue this matter. Whether it is the Empire or the Church, neither side can block it.

They may even have to stand on Ika Kingdom's side.

Because both the Empire and the Holy Spirit Church strictly forbid such evil rituals.

Trying to communicate with evil gods from other planes is an especially blasphemous act. The entire family must be punished for it.

What makes things even more troublesome for the two envoys is that this law was proposed by the Western Federation itself, and all countries are required to obey it.

If violated, it may even result in the stripping away of the glory of the imperial bloodline.

Notice this. This is not the royal bloodline, but the imperial bloodline.

It refers to the glory of the imperial bloodline originating from the Groias Empire.

Translated plainly, it means stripping them of their legal right to rule.

Originally, many matters could still be discussed as long as they stayed beneath the table.

But now that Ika Kingdom has brought it out, the two envoys of the Western Federation cannot pretend not to hear.

They can only stare hard at King Semson, wanting him to provide a solution.

Their focus has now shifted to where the Fourth Prince obtained that evil sacrificial ritual.

To put it more bluntly, they need to know whether any other members of Lumir's royal family have committed such blasphemous acts.

As for Henwell, he is wearing a wicked little smile, looking as if he is concentrating entirely on enjoying the drama.

Does Henwell truly not know these secrets?

Of course he knows.

Back when he passed through Lumir and met Monica's substitute maid, Henwell had already started paying attention.

Later, the foothold he had planted there transmitted this extremely secret information to him.

At the time, Henwell did not interfere too much. He only filed it away.

It was not until Henwell discovered that the Grand Princess was the Veil's Lady of Calamity, a top Iron Rank assassin, that he dug out this sealed file again and began making arrangements.

Later still, when Peace Haven was about to be attacked, Henwell contacted the Grand Princess and proposed his idea.

The Grand Princess has always hated the Lumir royal family. After all, they brutally murdered her eldest daughter.

But because of the relationship between the two countries, and for the sake of the king who was both elder brother and father figure to her, she could only temporarily suppress the hatred in her heart.

More importantly, she had already killed the chief culprit.

The story afterward is Henwell's private part of the story.

In the story above, one person's shadow has always been missing. That person is the Grand Princess.

The death of that unlucky noble made the Grand Princess hate her own misfortune, so she began seeking an extraordinary path to solve the problem.

The brutal death of her eldest daughter enraged the Grand Princess. To investigate the murderer and everyone connected to him, she entered the Veil Organization.