The Lancastrian Kingdom was located in the southeast of Zijin City. It was located at the lower half of Route 123. It had a land area of about 1.2 million square kilometers and a population of nearly a million.
The Lancastrian Kingdom was mainly hilly and low-lying. It had a large forest area and a long and narrow coastline. Therefore, the domestic forestry and fishing industries were very developed.
However, due to the policies of the previous kings, the Lancastrian Kingdom was relatively isolated. It had been in a state of isolation for the past hundred years. Therefore, the country was relatively backward. Although the people's standard of living was not to the extent of starvation, it was still very ordinary.
In the past decade or so, the new king, Bakuk, who had returned from studying abroad, ascended the throne. He made up his mind to carry out reforms and signed an alliance and mutual assistance treaty with the Alliance. Only then did the Lancastrian Kingdom gradually connect with the rest of the world, and the country began to gradually prosper.
However, in the past month, Bakuk Lance, who was over 60 years old, suddenly died in an accident. This country, which had just started to improve, suddenly fell into a storm. The open and secret struggle between the old and new forces became more and more intense.
Just as Kaede Sato and Princess Raina met, in the central castle of Bamil, the second largest city in the Lancastrian Kingdom, a middle-aged man dressed in luxurious clothes was being protected by many soldiers in modern military uniforms. He passed through the many checkpoints in the castle and entered a modern room.
At this time, an old man stood in front of the window of the room. The old man's hair and beard were all white. He had very high cheekbones and a pair of monocle on his thin face. He wore a top-notch suit that was ironed without a single wrinkle. He held a gold-rimmed jeweled cane in both hands, and an Aurora Meow Boss was lying by his feet.
After the middle-aged man entered the room alone, he stood quietly at the door. He did not take the initiative to disturb the old man who was looking at the whole city through the window.
"How is my dear niece now?" asked Madame.
After a few minutes, Phil's eyes seemed to be tired. He took off his monocle and wiped it with a silk handkerchief in his pocket while speaking in a dignified tone with his back to the middle-aged man.
"The Black Shark Pirates failed. I heard that a powerful trainer with a Legendary Lightning Bird appeared halfway through the battle. That person defeated the Black Shark Pirates single-handedly and remained unscathed in front of Princess Raina."
The middle-aged man was an important confidant of Fizke. As soon as he heard the old man's question, he immediately lowered his head and answered respectfully.
"Did you find out who did it?"
When the old man heard the news, he immediately showed a trace of displeasure on his face, but he quickly restrained it. He put on the monocle again, then turned around and said to the middle-aged man expressionlessly.
"Unfortunately, the informant died in this attack, so we still don't know who did it."
The middle-aged man did not dare to look directly at the old man. He seemed to feel that the old man was dissatisfied with him at this time. He immediately buried his head even lower and answered hesitantly.
"Go and find out. She shouldn't have come back. Don't let me down again. If you fail again, you'll have to step down."
When the old man heard this, he suddenly slammed his crutch hard and said coldly.
"Yes!"
In the next second, a fine layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on the middle-aged man's forehead. He then gritted his teeth and answered loudly.
"In the end, I still can't let it go. Forgive me, brother. This country can't be handed over to a woman, especially a soft-hearted woman."
After watching his confidant who specialized in handling his dirty work leave, the old man turned around and looked down at the city through the window again. After a long time, he sighed slightly.
The old man's name was Fizke Lance. He was Bakuk's half-brother. However, his background was not as good as Bakuk's, and he was not born by the queen. Because he was not the eldest son of the first wife and various other reasons, he was eventually defeated in the battle for the throne.
However, the old man was very skillful. Even though he was defeated, he still managed to escape unscathed. Not only did he become a prince with real power, but he also controlled a prosperous duchy. With the help of the old nobles, he finally became the ruler of the second legion of the Lancastrian Kingdom.
At the same time, he was now the biggest source of turmoil in the Lancastrian Kingdom.
In the current Lancastrian Kingdom, apart from the deceased King Bakuk, he was currently the most powerful person.
More than ten years ago, the incomparably powerful King Bakuk's bold and decisive reforms changed the Lancastrian Kingdom. However, in fact, the reforms were not thorough. At that time, in order to prevent a civil war, Bakuk finally made some concessions to the feudal forces in the country.
Therefore, even though the Lancastrian Kingdom had been reformed for more than ten years, the feudal forces in the country were still very strong. Many conservative great nobles even occupied many wealthy cities in the Lancastrian Kingdom.
Now, with the unexpected death of King Bakuk, the mountain that had been suppressing the conservative forces suddenly collapsed. In addition, Bakuk had few children, and Raina was his only daughter.
Although there were times in the history of the Lancastrian Kingdom where a queen ruled, there was no doubt that many people did not want the Lancastrian Kingdom to have another queen.
Therefore, with Fizke as the leader, the feudal forces immediately emerged.
The reason why Fizke was not in a hurry to enter the capital, Augure, to be crowned as king was because the Lancastrian Kingdom's First Legion Commander Kaja and Prime Minister Marcus had been mainly supporting Raina to become the queen.
Because of this, Raina was now a thorn in Fizke's side. The series of assassinations on Raina's way back to the kingdom were planned by Fizke.
However, it was as if fate had played a big joke on him. This time, the assassination that was supposed to be in the bag was unexpectedly successful, and Raina once again escaped danger.
On the other side, after the conversation between Fizke and the middle-aged man ended, the conversation between Kaede Sato and Raina also gradually came to an end.
"That is to say, the forces that you can use now are only a dozen trainers. On the way back, you will encounter more attacks than the Black Shark Pirates, so you want me, an unexpected intruder, to help you."
After listening to Raina's words, Kaede Sato suddenly frowned and said.
Things were really out of Kaede Sato's expectations. The blonde beauty in front of him named Raina was indeed the legitimate heir of the Lancastrian Kingdom.
However, because the late King Bakuk did not intend to let Raina inherit the throne in the first place, she had always been raised by Bakuk like a flower in a greenhouse. She did not have any rights as a crown prince at all, so naturally, she did not develop her own set of political forces in the kingdom.
In other words, other than the dozen or so loyal guards that her father arranged for her, Raina had no other forces that she could use.
If there was any force that she could use, it would be that she was rich, a super rich woman.
Her father, Bakuk, was very generous. When she completed her coming of age ceremony, he directly waved his hand and gave her a relatively wealthy port city in the country as her coming of age ceremony gift.
Over the years, although she had been spending money extravagantly, there was still a lot of surplus from the taxes collected from the territory. In addition to the various pocket money that her father gave her every year, the funds that she could use at the moment were as high as tens of billions of Alliance dollars.
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