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Chapter 68 Interim Queen of Beastkin Dragonia

Chapter 68 Interim Queen of Beastkin Dragonia

With the announcement of Dracas declaring war on the Sylph Kingdom, everyone who was initially there to celebrate Rei's birthday felt too gloomy to continue to celebrate anymore. Everyone involved in this, The Imperial Family, me and my party, as well as Rei and King Henry moved to Marquis Richards estate in order to plan out our course of action.

"The best option would be to Find King Julien and return him to Dracas custody." Emperor Bantran states firmly

"Yeah, but we don't even know where he disappeared. I have had people searching for him for the last 2 weeks already." King Henry says back dejectedly

"Also Julien is a dragonkin that can fully transform himself into a Dragonoid. Not to mention his gold level combat type soul skill, anyone who could capture or kill him must be very powerful or at least very resourceful." Queen Theresa added

"Are there any hints as to how he disappeared?" Anne asks carefully

"No, A guardsman escaped back to Dracas, and he reported King Julien missing. When he led some of the Dracas royal guards back to the last known place King Julien was, there was no trace of where he could have gone. The last known place he was at is the Tri-lands close to all our borders, where Interim Beast Queen Dragonia is waiting with an army of at least 25,000 beastkin. That alone is a week's ride from here. It would be impossible to get there with a search party and still have enough time to find King Julien..." King Henry says dejectedly.

"So is that why Dracas asked for the Tri-lands part of Sylph so that they could search for King Julien's body?" Cara asks

"That is probably only part of the reason. The Tri-lands are also rich in natural soul energy, and precious magic metals like Mythril. Just taking The Sylph Kingdom's portion of these lands would help fuel an economic boom in Dracas, whereas Sylph will lose its two biggest industries. Mythril and Pre-behemoth parts. Surrendering that land would be akin to killing my entire country!" King Henry angrily explains

"What about the duel between you and Interim Queen Dragonia? You have a black-level soul skill, are you not confident that you could win?" Lilin asks plainly

"I don't know. I have heard that Dragonia is even more powerful than her father, though I have personally never met her. Also even though Dracas follows the rule of Strongest survive, many people would be dissatisfied and the relationship between Sylph, Dracas, and maybe even the Humana Empire would begin to fall apart..." King Henry begins to explain

"Something is still fishy about all this though." Queen Theresa speaks up

"What do you mean?" King Henry asks back confused

"Well, just how everything played out. Dragonia may be powerful but I heard she is still young and inexperienced. This kind of powerplay, the timing, the execution, it's all too calculated. Also where King Julien 'disappeared' from sets up a pretext for Dracas to reasonably seize assets that they have been known to want for a long time. I mean you are a young king as well that became King less than a year ago. It looks to me like a conspiracy to cripple Sylph, bolster Dracas all while avoiding the power of Humana. Dracas is playing out to be the victim that lost their King, but I feel like this is a conspiracy. The only thing I am trying to figure out is if the King and Dragonia are in on it or not." Queen Theresa explains coldly

"Uhh, why don't we just ask Interim Queen Dragonia? If it is a plot, and she is in on it we could reasonably arrest and question her, if she is not in on it we can offer protection while we capture the conspirators who are obviously not afraid to use the royalty." I chime in