I Became the Youngest Prince in the Novel

Chapter 23 - Succession Ceremony (4)

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Became the Youngest Prince in the Novel Episode 23

Succession Ceremony (4)

There are five palaces in the Imperial Castle that look like they surround the Baekseong Palace in the center.

Except for the Baekseong Palace where the emperor stays, the palaces are the most magnificent.

The top floor of Hyukseong Palace, which is the most famous among the palaces.

There, a man with dark gray hair hanging out casually was sipping a tea and looking out the window.

After much time has passed.

"The 'Night of Rest' is gone?"

The man opened his mouth to the wizard who had been standing behind him for some time and politely clasping his hands.

"......Yes. It was completely erased overnight."

The wizard bowed his head and answered.

"Except for the first, second, and third floors where guests stay, we couldn't find any traces of people upstairs. The strange thing is that there are traces of the battle, but there were no bloodstains at all."

"There were no bloodstains... did the Blood Tower get involved?"

"We're looking into it now."

"If they were the way they were, they should have been sent to this succession ceremony, right?"

"That's right."

The man tapped the window sill with his finger as if finding it annoying.

"I didn't expect to lose such a useful hand."

Night of Rest.

It was a hand that could be thrown at any time, but at least it was not a hand to lose now.

"Recently, the results of things related to that Zion guy aren't very good."

Zion Agnes.

The man's own half-brother.

He was just trying to get rid of him because he didn't know his place and was loathsome, but he was like a roach.

The man didn't like having someone else intervene on the board he had already made everything on.

Especially if he didn't even qualify.

Furthermore, if Zion passed the succession ceremony and officially became one of the emperor's candidates, an unknown variable may occur that would create changes due to his mother's family.

"Is he just lucky? Or is there really... something?"

The man muttered like that and looked out the window at the Baekseong Palace again.

"If you survive this succession ceremony, we may have to see each other again."

But the man thought it couldn't be.

The succession ceremony he had prepared this time could never have been escaped by luck alone.

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Degur.

In the supervisors' office, which was suddenly stained with silence, only the sound of the wizard's head rolling after being cut echoed through the room.