Chapter 588: 588
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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