The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress-Chapter 356: Court chaos.

Before he could leap to conclusions about her having the ability to mess with his mind and recall all the old reasons as to why female mages were not allowed to marry royalty, she blurted out, "I saved one of her snake eyes. I think that I can figure out how to use its power."

He turned her down. "If I forget it all, I will have to forget how amazing you looked when you swung that hammer downwards with force and killed a giant serpent with a single blow." He kissed her on the cheek. "If you had been born a man Sigrid, you would have been a commander."

"Who says women cannot be commanders?"

"The military laws of Eldoria." freeweɓnovel~cѳm

"If female mages can go to war, then women can also join the army. It is time to change on the laws on the knighting of women, Roland."

Roland carried her to the large sofa and lay down with her. Even if it was just for an hour or two, he thought that it would be best if they got some sleep. "Can we talk about this another time?" He turned her over because he wanted to look at her face.

If her face was the last thing he saw in his sleep, he was sure that he would not dream of the serpent queen hovering over him. Or Lady Jane Fairfax!

He shuddered. Why was he thinking of a dead woman? Two dead women! Maybe he needed another bath to feel ghost free again.

Sigrid could fell unease settling into his bones so she channeled her magic into him to put him at ease. On some days or nights, magic alone was not enough and she had to add a lullaby, so she did.

Her gentle voice washed over him like a mother’s loving touch, soft, warm and steady. It carried whispers of a sweet dream that he wanted to see.

He drew even closer to her, unsure of what kind of warmth he was seeking in his arms. All he knew was that that was where he wanted to be. It was safe and he never wanted to leave.

His eyes closed and sleep embraced him. A minute after, Sigrid followed him into a world of slumber.

***

Come morning two things were ongoing. One, Akia Nithercott was frantically searching for her sister and she was demanding for entrance into the royal castle.

Even after she was told that her sister was not in the royal castle, she persisted on being allowed inside with her guards to conduct a personal search.

But the gates of the royal castle were firmly closed to her and Cosmos was sitting on the wall, drinking wine and tossing out lightning bolts casually each time she stepped closer to the gates.

The second thing which was happening was that the royal hall had been stormed by five dozen nobles and nearly all the ministers of Eldoria. What had drawn them out of the woods was Akia’s proposal.

Many of them had not been in attendance when Roland turned the divine messenger down. They had watched it on the news and read about it in the papers. At night Lord Cliff De-Kensington, Roland’s second grandfather had rallied a lot of nobles and expanded the matter.

He was claiming that for the good of the empire, the divine messenger of Medoris could not be turned away rudely. His bright idea was to have Sigrid apologize to Akia in the royal hall and then accept her as a concubine.

For those reasons, there was a lot of noise in the royal hall this morning. Most of those in the hall were sitting but Lord Cliff was standing.

"The divine messenger is not asking to be made an official wife, she is wiling to be a mistress. Why must the crown princess make a mess of this matter just because she is jealous."

Nathaniel was very displeased to hear this and he stood up. "My sister is the most beautiful woman in this empire and if that divine messenger is the most beautiful woman in Medoris, them my sister is the most beautiful woman in all two empires. She comes from a great family, she is a mage, she has wealth and she is the crown princess. What reason would she have to be jealous of someone lesser than her?"

"Young Lord Thorin makes a point." Lord Bailey concurred.

There was a lot of noise in the room suddenly, with everyone shouting their opinion. The royal hall was like a market place and all these great men were competing to be heard.

"But this is for the sake of peace between our empires."

"What if the princess of an empire comes seeking a union with us through marriage. Will the crown princess block her as well?"

"Eldoria is not in need of the peace treaty, Medoris is. Why should we lower ourselves and accept them?"

"We should be honest, Medoris’s divine messenger is just as beautiful and wealthy as our crown princess. And she is a mage too."

"Some of you are just pushing this agenda because the crown prince did not marry from your houses. You don’t care because it does not affect you."

"It is just one more woman to grace the bed of the crown prince, what is the trouble here?"

"Have you considered the consequences of this union? You want to put a mage of another empire in the bed of our crown prince! What if she bewitches the crown prince just like the dead consort Rina bewitched the king? You might as well change the name of our empire from Eldoria to Medoris."

With all that screaming, no idea was taking prevalence over the other. The royal hall just sunk into chaos and for some Lords, it was about to get physical.

Lord Nathaniel Thorin was already in the face of Lord Cliff De-Kensington. Both men had their fists clenched. None cared was one was a robust young man in his early forties and the other an older man approaching his eighties.

The side doors were opened, and the herald walked into the hall.

"Silence." he shouted.

In all that chaos, his voice just drowned in the sea of all those voices.

He still went ahead to pass on the message that he had brought. "The Crown prince will not be attending morning court today."

Without caring if they had heard him or not, he walked out just as the first punch was thrown.

It was not thrown by Nathaniel Thorin but the most calm and often most polite of all the nobles, Lord Bailey!

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