
Castor and Blaze both grinned faintly when they saw the expression that Duke Curt showed.
The pale and shocked face was clearly visible on Duke Curt's normally calm and full of cunning thoughts.
"A-What do you mean? I can't possibly commit this kind of treason!" The Duke Curt.
The nobles began to show various reactions, but most of them were still on Duke Curt's side and denied the accusations from Crown Prince Castor and made Duke Curt secretly grin triumphantly.
"Then, can you explain with the identity of the people you have recruited who turned out to be a hit man, Duke?" Asked Blaze coldly.
Duke Curt immediately broke out in a cold sweat, for some reason the aura that belonged to Blaze right now was so heavy and so intimidating. All this time he knew Blaze was a stupid prince.
"Pa-Prince Blaze, I don't know their identity either! Da... They must have smuggled others who wanted to bring down the Empire by slandering me! Everyone also knew that I was the aide and right hand that His Majesty the Emperor trusted the most, I could not possibly commit this kind of cruel betrayal to the Empire!" The Duke Curt.
"That's right, Your Highness Prince Blaze. It was possible that there were indeed those who slandered Duke Curt and indeed wanted to create chaos in this Empire. Therefore, that person or they wanted to slander Duke Curt!" Timpal is a nobleman who is still on Duke Curt's side.
"I agree with the thing that His Highness Prince Blaze just now. This information might indeed intend to suspect Duke Curt. Your Highness the Crown Prince as well, please do not be consumed with this untrue information!" Add another nobleman.
The nobles immediately assumed the same as Duke Curt's supporters, so the room became so crowded.
Suddenly, Emperor Horus raised his right hand as a code for the nobles to be silent and sure enough, those who had been so crowded expressed their opinions simultaneously fell silent.
"Crown Prince Castor, Prince Blaze, we have to find out more about this. The sources and information should be clear, let alone this concerning an aide and my right hand. It could be that there are indeed those who intend to divide the Empire with this kind of false information" the Emperor said.
The nobles (minus Duke Allison and Duke Erickson who chose to remain silent) simultaneously agreed with the Emperor.
Castor snorted softly, "Information that can't be trusted huh.... But take a closer look at the paper you all hold. What's up there?"
The nobles compactly scrutinized the papers they held. And the first person to find out is Duke Erickson who looks immediately jolted.
"It's.... Guild Marks?!" Said Duke Erickson so surprised that it also made everyone in the Imperial Meeting back shocked.
They began to examine again carefully the paper that was the hold and sure enough, on the paper was faintly seen the abstract pattern of the Dandelion flower which was the emblem of the Guild Organization.
Who does not know about this organization? Guild Organizations were extremely famous for their mysteriousness, not even the Empire knew the exact number of members of this Guild Organization. They are the rulers of the underworld who rule the black market and also regulate it. They were also called as the 'Rulers behind the shadows' because they had information connections about the Empire that were overwhelming.
Many nobles also requested Guild services about the information they needed, but Guilds also liked to pick and choose their clients. If their clients were malicious and harming the Empire, they would instead openly reveal the crimes committed by the nobles.
Hence, this Guild Organization was so feared by the nobles.
BRAKKKK!!!!
Suddenly, the Emperor stood up and hit the front desk hard, his face so angry, "WHEN DID YOU COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE CROWN PRINCE'S GUILD?!"
Castor himself was still behaving calmly, while Blaze looked at the Emperor with a flat gaze, he clearly knew about the Emperor's hatred for this Organization because the Emperor thought that this Organization should be eradicated to its roots because they could have planned to destroy this Empire.
But it was clearly just the Emperor's prejudice, obviously, because in reality this organization itself was created by Emperor Soleil who was the Grandfather of Emperor Horus himself who ordered Duke Allison who was the Grandfather of Duke Allison who was now to oversee and govern the world bottom.
Surely the Duke Allison family knows this very secret. However, Emperor Horus did not know this because the late Emperor Grian had not been able to tell this to Emperor Horus because of his sudden death. Even Blaze knows this from Duke Allison himself because Duke Allison and Arthur trust Blaze very much. Therefore, only Blaze knew about this secret.
"It wasn't Castor's sister who made contact with His Majesty's Guild, it was me" Blaze's recalcitrant words shocked everyone. Fourteen-year-old Blaze is already in contact with the most powerful organization in the underworld.
"Try explaining..." The Emperor's frown stared intently at the Third Son.
Empress Ivona looked so anxious now, she was so worried about her two sons that she feared they would be punished by the Emperor that she knew the cruelty of hers.
"I accidentally came into contact with them, I had my first contact with them when I was thirteen which means it was a year ago. Back then, I was practicing teleportation magic and trying to experiment with combining teleportation magic and fantasy magic. I was thinking about a place that was so secret and knew I had even reached the room of the Guild Organization" Blaze said.
The nobles began to look at Blaze's story.
"Surely they were so suspicious of me that I was about to be killed. But luckily I volunteered to make a magic agreement to them not to divulge their secret place. And finally me and the Guild Leader made contact with the agreement and somehow we became friends just like that. Well... If you ask me to tell you about their location, I will not do so because it is bound by a magic contract. One day, he found this information and told me, so it was me who did not understand all this and told Castor. Brother Castor also began to establish contact with the Guild through me as their intermediary who obtained information related to all these matters" continued Blaze at length.
Arthur quietly snorted softly at the story that one hundred percent of the lies that Blaze was lying about. It was only fitting that while searching for other information about the crimes committed by the other Duke Curt, Reply suddenly asked Bria who was the real name of the Guild Leader to make a magic agreement. Their agreement also actually regarding all the information provided by these Guilds was indeed a fact and not a fabrication. So it can be made sure that all the information they get is fact.
The emperor scratched his forehead, somehow he suddenly got dizzy when he heard the story of Blaze who thought it was ridiculous because easily his Third Son believed in people he had just known and even befriended the Guild Leader.
"So... It could be that this information was indeed a lie perpetrated by a Guild right?" Said the Emperor who still did not want to trust the Guild.
"No. Your Majesty, all the information from the Guild is fact. So, the information we receive is a fact" said Duke Erickson who had been listening silently.
The nobles began to look on, those who initially supported Duke Curt began to hesitate. The reason being, all the information from these Guilds was indeed a fact.
"But... This means that someone tried to slander Duke Curt who committed this treason" the Emperor said.
"Yes Your Majesty! I can't possibly betray His Imperial Highness this Emperor and the Empire that I love so much!" Duke Curt said with an expression that looked delighted that the Emperor was siding with him.
Blaze grinned thinly, "Is that so? Then.... Can you explain this with all this?!"
The servants handed out new papers to everyone in the room.
Everyone immediately read it again feeling very surprised and not long after the door of the Imperial Meeting room opened wide and showed Sir Felix who was the right hand of Duke Allison and also one of the knights the strongest of this Empire entered into this room along with the many people behind it. Most of them were wearing waiter clothes.
Castor smiled sweetly at Duke Curt, "So, can you explain about the evasion of tax money in the North and also the customers that happened in your residence, Duke?"