Chapter 588: 588

Chapter 588: After the Battle 3

Song Empire, the self-proclaimed nation in the Southern Continent .

The Imperial Family of the Song Empire had been covered in darkness for the past several months .

There were two main causes for it .

The first was, the Emperor had collapsed with an unknown health deterioration .

The officials knew it, and so did the entire nation .

For that, the tacticians from the Kang Ho clans and the wizards from the Northern continent were brought together, but everyone was in vain .

With the attempt to know something, officials brought together ancient monks in the nation to help the Emperor, but nothing had changed .

“What is this?”

“Huh, from what I see, I feel like it was because of the crown prince . All this while, His Majesty had lost a lot of energy because of him, right?”

“Well, the Empress too has grown old with anxiety…”

The Emperor had turned into a man in stasis, he spent his life the entire day in bed, while the great men of the palace were outside as they sighed deeply .

The second in the line of the Song Emperor was prince, Jo Won-ki .

Originally he was a drug addict, he had gone to the Arahan Sungjeong shrine and got himself treated for addiction .

But within one month of returning from the treatment, he once again touched opium .

No matter how much the Empress had begged, everything turned useless .

That soon enraged the Emperor .

After hearing that the Empress wasn’t able to rectify the prince, the Emperor had scolded her which made the Empress hang herself out of guilt .

Many people felt sorry for the lady as she had been struggling for a while trying to fix the child’s addiction .

Eventually, the Emperor had abandoned the prince and fell ill .

Due to that problem between the two, the Imperial palace of Taehwa and the family had a dark and gloomy atmosphere over them .

To the east side of the Imperial palace of Taehwa .

The voice of someone shouting at the people who were upset with the happenings in the palace made the people shocked .

“Yo-you, people! Are-aren’t you going to listen to my orders? I, I am the prince! The next ruler of the Song Empire! Won’t you go and bring me some opium?!”

With his addiction turning severe, Jo Won-ki had lost his sanity and yelled at the people with his hands and feet trembling from the withdrawal effect .

However, the workers and the court ladies, who were inside the prince’s chambers didn’t even make an eye contact with him .

If they passed opium to Jo Won-ki, they would never be treated the same .

“Ugh… you, you people are really!”

Where was the power he previously possessed?

Jo Won-ki rushed over to the court ladies, after overthrowing the table which had vases placed on it .

“Kyak!”

Startled and scared, the court ladies screamed and scattered everywhere . However, one lady, who was rather slow when compared to the others, got caught by Jo Won-ki .

“Hiik! Pl-please let me go, crown prince!”

Terrified, the court lady kept rubbing her hands and prayed to the man .

Jo Won-ki, who saw that laughed and spoke to the lady .

“Wh-who said that you would be killed? I-I’ll let you go if you give me some opium . ”

“Uh, I can’t . I don’t have it with me . ”

“What? You don’t have it? How can that be? Kuakk!”

The disappointment led to Jo Won-ki having a seizure .

He grabbed the small pale neck of the court lady and began to choke her .

“Kuakkk! Sa-save me…”

The court lady struggled while her other colleagues looked at her .

However, the workers and the court ladies hid behind the pillars of the room, and no one dared to step out .

Even if he killed the workers, and even if the Emperor had abandoned him, he was still the prince .

It was the moment when he was about the drain the life out of the lady, the body of the prince was wounded .

It wasn’t a deathly one, but still, it was still the prince’s body .

“Grrrr…!”

Eventually, the court lady dropped to the ground and coughed up trying to breathe again, surprisingly, the person who attacked Jo Won-ki was in the room .

“Prince, stop it now and let this all go . ”

The one who dared to touch the prince was Jo Won-gyun, the second prince .

With a broad shoulders and square chin .

Jo Won-gyun, who was almost like a foreigner, resembled his uncle Hwang Bo-kwang, the man always had a smile on his face .

“Gyun, is it Gyun?”

Jo Won-ki turned his head and looked over at his half-brother .

Jo Won-gyun looked at the man with a sad expression and nodded .

“You recognize your siblings? How did the crown prince, who was so intelligent when young, get ruined like this… this is so unfortunate . ”

“I, I am not ruined . Well, I am sick and I need the medicine to get cured!”

Jo Won-ki’s plea made the court ladies sigh .

Who would ever consider opium as a medicine?

Well, sometimes it was used as a medicine, that is, if a doctor prescribed it .

Jo Won-gyun, who clicked his tongue at the words of his brother, looked at the room .

He looked at the court lady who wasn’t able to survive, laid on the floor with her tongue out .

“This looks pitiful… get it out right away . ”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

Under the orders of Jo Won-gyun, the workers immediately moved the body .

They didn’t even look at Jo Won-ki .

It was because recently, Jo Won-gyun was more like the Imperial family head .

Before the Emperor fell, he had received the support from the higher officials, and once the Emperor fell ill, he was appointed as the regent .

Jo Won-rak—the 3rd prince—who was always considered to be the most prominent contender, fled abroad as a rebellious sinner for meeting with the opposition .

The rest of the princes were too young to know about the court rulings .

When the people carried out the dead body of the court lady, only the two brothers remained in the room .

That was when Jo Won-gyun revealed his true color .

The former good looking figure, who was looking sad while watching his brother tremble with withdrawal symptoms was no more, he was looking at his brother with a frown on his face .

Well, it didn’t stop there .

He started to stomp off the feet of his brother with the boots made of leather that was created with precious materials that flew from the North sea .

Stomp stomp! Stomp! Stomp!

“Kuak! Ugh! Gy-gyun! Why are you doing this? Don’t do this! Pl-please, let me go!”

Did he know that his life was more precious than opium?

Jo Won-ki begged by grabbing onto the feet of Jo Won-gyun .

Jo Won-gyun, who was stepping on his brother, smiled and said, “For someone who is a trash, the position of a crown prince is too much . Sooner or later, I am going to snatch that position, so live quietly with the opium provided . Don’t go around creating useless issues here . ”

“Ugh…!”

Honestly, Jo Won-gyun wanted to kill Jo Won-ki right away .

However, in a state where the Emperor was in stasis, if the crown prince—the one in line for the throne ended up dying with an unknown cause—then his reputation would tarnish a little .

In addition, the most troublesome person, the Red Dragon Lee Yong-mu was still in the military .

Which was why he was going to follow the procedures as closely as possible to expel Jo Won-ki from the royal family .

“Spat!”

He spit in the face of Jo Won-ki, who was shivering and went out of the crown prince’s room .

He soon headed to the Emperor’s quarters .

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