The Last Resort

At daybreak, the Imperial Palace was thrown into an uproar.

In the Empire's three-hundred-year history, there had been exceedingly few precedents for an assassin infiltrating the Imperial Palace.

Worse still, the person who had ordered the assassination was of the imperial bloodline. It was utterly absurd.

First Prince Rubert desperately denied the charges against him, but no one believed him.

No one besides Rubert had both a grudge against Ivan and the means to secretly bring assassins into the Imperial Palace.

Rubert had considered the possibility that his crime would be exposed. He had merely regarded the bloodshed as a price worth paying to kill Ivan.

But the plan had failed spectacularly, and Rubert now had to face the backlash head-on, as he always had.

Even so, the losses were within the range he had anticipated. The balance had not yet been upset.

However, there was no guarantee that worldly affairs would always proceed as expected.

As though things were not already bad enough, yet another major misfortune came crashing down upon Rubert...