Chapter 65: The Ones You Could Trust

Immediately after the perpetrators behind the Princess’s abduction surfaced, the nobles who had commissioned her assassination were swiftly apprehended all at once before they could attempt fleeing or resistance.

These masterminds, including Baron Clermont, hailed from the central aristocracy’s ranks – more specifically, the central faction who had consistently opposed the Crown Prince at every turn.

Naturally, the central faction took a heavy blow. With a considerable portion of their parliamentarians who held Trimuvirate assembly seats now eliminated, their legitimacy had been irreparably undermined alongside a substantive depletion of their actual influence.

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