Hilbert's sentence eased Herald's tension a little, then he turned towards Duke Zen and said "Duke Zen did you happened to have any relatives at your Duchy?"
Duke Zen narrowed his eyes at Hilbert before giving him a nod, Hilbert chuckled "I think your wife was still assuming your daughter will become the queen in the future?"
Duke Zen widens his eyes in shock as he pointed at Hilbert, Hilbert then confirmed his suspicion and said "your wife and her family were the said mole, this was orchestrated by my mother if I am right in about two hours her minions would request an urgent visit to my father"
Duke Zen leaned on the sofa weakly his straight posture crumbled after listening to Hilbert he remembered the talks his wife and family were always making at the dining table and his wife pressuring their daughter to study all queen etiquettes, he then looked at Hilbert in anger saying
"Even if the hell freezes over, I won't sacrifice, my daughter!!!"
Hilbert gave him a sincere smile and said "if it is an assurance to you I have only one wife, she will be my for the rest of my life"
Duke Cole snorted from the side and then turned to Duke Zen "I will have Nolan with shadow guards infiltrate their place for rescuing your daughter"
Hilbert then chimed in "grandfather that won't be necessary Zora Wiley is safe and the person they are holding hostage is your niece Duke Zen, they were manipulating you and your daughter was kept safe by them in the outskirts of the Village"
Duke Zen sprung up in disbelief "what are you saying? your highness, is it true?"
Hilbert nodded his head and as passed him a letter, he instantly recognized the handwriting, which was written by his daughter, Duke Zen's face eased a lot after reading the letter, he turned to Hilbert and said "your highness I owe you a huge favor, I can't thank you enough"
Hilbert chuckled a little "before thanking me why don't you let me complete my sentence"
"Your highness...?"
"Announce that your daughter is kicked out of the family for causing inconvenience to the royal family"
Herald & Duke Cole & Duke Zen "...."
Hilbert "I will explain this in detail later before that I have something to inform you, the other Kingdoms have sent us a warning for ignoring the death of princess Niente"
Duke Cole humped "Zyon kingdom is sure making their move fast huh! if the princess has traveled at a normal pace she would have reached today and would probably as a dead body"
Herald ".... they spread the news about her death to other kingdoms even before her journey as a peace treaty"
Hilbert interrupted them "The Zyon Kingdom sent us The Flag of War with the Zyon King's Familiar Eagle, it is funny that he mentioned he would be collecting his daughter's dead body along with ours to accompany her in the afterlife" saying he chuckled and then continued
"The said daughter announced her relationship with her father whom she is not even familiar with the so-called Father we are talking about"
Duke Cole snorted loudly "the princess is alive and will wake up soon we can stop the war"
Herald then replied to him coldly "that will be a death warrant we are giving to the princess, the intention of the Zyon Kingdom is clear from the start they want this Kingdom, either way, the War is evitable"
Hilbert nodded his head in agreeing he then smiled a little remembering something he turned to his father and said "What if the Princess is engaged to the General of our kingdom"
Duke Zen "that's impossible it's like we are forming the alliance in the form of marriage with the Zyon Kingdom that will give them the Opening" terrified
Herald "you are exactly like your mother huh she took the life of my niece by allying with the murder of her father, and here you are suggesting the princess who came to stop the horrific war get engaged to the person who led the war" he Snorted in anger,
Hilbert closed his eyes in pain the casual and gentle smile he maintained until now vanished with his father's words, enough to make him completely change his demeanor,
Duke Cole, who was listening to them "how is that gonna stop the war?" asked Hilbert with suspicion
Hilbert paused for a while before he became normal and replied " about that, you all just need to wait and see, and to reply to your concern Duke Zen, my kingdom is to form the alliance with the princess not with the Kingdom of Zyon"
Duke Cole retorted him loudly "as if that's gonna work? the princess would not agree to this"
Herald "leave the princess, I am against it?"
Duke Cole& Zen nodded their heard, Hilbert looking at the headstrong old man in front of him became speechless he then said to then gave them a provocative glance saying "what if the general and princess agree to my plan"
Herald narrowed his eyes at his in disdain as he threw the teacup in front of him straight to Hilbert's face, who in turn avoided it with an inch slide,
"Do you want to drive her and this kingdom to doom!!!"
Hilbert stood up and said with a cold and firm tone
"After the princess woke up, I will personally talk with her without the knowledge of my mother and also with General, don't forget Father I am the King now it doesn't matter even if you hate that Fact, also I came here not to discuss but to inform my decision to you all"
then he walked a little, and paused Suddenly he turned to Duke Zen "Duke Zen clean the duchy, the contact with your daughter will be informed to you later, she is safe so be strong and do finish the Deprived snakes at hand"
Duke Zen nodded his head as a reply, Herald gritted his teeth and said "Go Straight to the Duke Ryker's residence"
Hilbert smirked as he exited the study without replying to his father, Duke Cole slammed the table in anger as he pointed his finger at Herald saying "are you fucking kidding me? why should that ill-bred has to go to my mansion?!!!!"
Herald glanced at the slammed table and then at the enraged Duke before taking out the globe Darren sent them, he placed it in the middle of the table saying "for this"
When the globe started showing the recording, Herald, Duke Cole, and Duke Zen were petrified at the spot, the whole atmosphere around the turned solemn while the fear became evident in the eyes of both the duke's