Frowned Upon as the Child of a Prostitute, the Seventh Prince Becomes the Strongest Wizard after Working Hard since Infancy - Chapter 11

‘Why was that incompetent invited to the kingdom? There must be some mistake!’

‘Yes, it is! It must be some kind of mistake!’

‘The beautiful Princess Elizabeth should never have been engaged to an incompetent trash who can’t even work magic.’

The Imperial Palace was in shambles that day.

The emperor’s concubines and the princes surrounded the chair in which the emperor sat, revealing their discontent with him.

The trigger was a letter that they received recently.

The letter, written by the king of the kingdom to the emperor, stated that he would like to invite a prince of the empire to the kingdom this time as a thank-you for Princess Elizabeth’s welcome.

It also stated that the prince to be invited was, according to Elizabeth’s strong wishes, the Seventh Prince, Lux.

As soon as word of this letter spread, it was the emperor’s concubines who became agitated.

They all did not doubt that their sons, the princes, should have been chosen by Elizabeth, and they were not convinced by the fact that Princess Elizabeth had chosen Seventh Prince Lux, who was the incompetent one among the bunch. (TL/N: Oh sweet summer children.)

The women surrounded the emperor and persuaded him, saying that there must be a mistake.

‘Sending out a prince like that will only result in the degradation of the Empire.’

‘Yes. Half of that prince’s body has the blood of a whore running through it……. How could such an unholy prince be betrothed to Princess Elizabeth?’

‘My Emperor… I implore you to do everything in your power to set everything right here. I can assure you that my son Dust is more suitable for Princess Elizabeth’s betrothed than such a magic-impaired prince.’

Among those more strongly opposed to sending Lux to the kingdom was the mother of the second prince, Dust.

She was the main culprit in harassing Lux and his mother Sonya in the rear court, and therefore could not accept the fact that Lux had been chosen by Elizabeth.

She was desperate to lobby the emperor to replace the prince he was sending to the kingdom with Dust instead of Lux.

‘Hey, Dust? You think so too, don’t you? Tell your father that you are more worthy of Princess Elizabeth than such a prince?”

The mother said this and pushed Dust back.

‘Uh… um…’

However, Dust’s usual confident demeanor was absent today, and he only nodded vaguely at his mother’s words.

‘Dust?’

‘Oh, I’m…’

“No more.”

The moment after the mother pushed Dust back again, the emperor raised his hand in repulsion.

The emperor squinted as if he knew something, looked at Dust and his mother, and then looked down at the letter from the king in his hand.

‘This is not a mistake as you call it. This letter, along with the kingdom’s imprint, definitely states that they want to invite Lux. It also states that this is a strong wish of Princess Elizabeth herself. Therefore, we have decided that Lux is the prince to be sent to the kingdom.”

In a grave tone of voice that brooked no objection, the emperor declared.

“”…””

The concubines were unhappy, but as might be expected, they did not dare defy the emperor’s decision.

Dust and his mother also took a step back with a bitter look on their faces.

“If you understand it, then leave.”

The emperor instructed his concubines to leave as if he were chasing away a winged insect.

The concubines leave the scene with the princes, albeit with a disgruntled look on their faces.

‘Oh dear…’

When the princes and their mother were out of sight, the emperor sighed, as if to say that it was ridiculous.

‘Are you sure?’

The emperor’s closest retainer asked this from behind him.

“What?”

‘Don’t they have a point? Master Lux is indeed your son. But it is also true that he has half of the whore’s blood running through his veins. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to send out the other venerable princes so that there are no corners to be crossed?’

‘Ha, rubbish.’

The emperor brushed off the squire’s proposal.

‘Blood, for example, doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you can win the fight. …… You already know that Lux is not just incompetent as those women say, don’t you?”

‘Yes,…… at least as far as magical prowess is concerned, it’s probably unrivaled by any other prince at the moment.’

‘That’s how it is. What is important is power. Not just simple combat power, but also the power to win …… power struggles. …… Kuku Kuku …… I never thought that the child born of that whore would turn out so well… I didn’t think that the child of that whore would turn out so well…”

The emperor was no fool.

Thanks to reports from his secret agents, the emperor knew everything that was going on in the rear palace and what Lux was doing.

‘That’s something I didn’t think possible from the initial magic measurements. …… I guess it means that he is a child with your blood in his veins after all.’

“I…, I don’t know. I don’t know …… why that child was able to become so strong, even I, here, don’t know why. But …… I will just give up the emperor’s throne to whoever wins this battle. That’s all there is to it. Only the one who has used his wiles, outwitted others, and won the power struggle will rise to the top of this country… kuku kuku…”

The emperor smiled darkly at the thought of Lux and Sonya, who did not show up here today.

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TL Talk: UH so it’s been a pretty long while since I last updated, I have been kinda sick and had my lab reports hounded me for the past few weeks. Thankfully I’m back to the regular upload schedule. Sorry for the wait :3.