Fake Princess
Leon was deep in thought.
“The princess of the Millennium Empire suddenly asks for an engagement?”
Leon is now only 13 years old.
However, in this world, it was not uncommon to make a promise of a future marriage at a young age.
The problem was that she, who had the status of a princess of the Millennium Empire, asked for an engagement to Leon because she felt sorry for her.
Leon was, at best, only one bastard of the Marquis family.
Even the orthodox heir of the Marquis family is engaged to a bastard who is mingled with the blood of a true commoner, who will not be out of balance with the princess of the Millennium Empire.
Although it is said that this incident raised Leon’s succession rank to third place, there is still no vassal in the family who supports Leon.
“It’s not that strange.”
And Princess Ailee, who ran to Leon a month after hearing the news, said to Leon.
“You have established high-speed cultivation technology. In exchange for providing it to the Holy Empire, he even ascended to the status of a saint. In addition, it is not wrong to say that you are my closest confidant and, in fact, the head of the Philo Kingdom.”
In other words, if you marry Leon, you will have a link between the two kingdoms, the Holy Empire and the Philo Kingdom.
This was only a characteristic of Leon, who was not confined within the framework of the Holy Empire even as a saint.
“Besides, the Millennium Empire is also suffering from food shortages. If, by marrying you, the Millennium Empire can acquire the technology of high-speed cultivation, the Millennium Empire Ibrium will be able to increase its army explosively.”
When I think about it that way, it makes a little sense.
But Ailee continued that that wasn’t all there was to it.
“Actually, there is a lot of talk about Olivia Ibrium, the fourth princess of the Millennium Empire.”
“I heard rumors too. They are of the royal lineage and at the same time of the Yongin tribe. It is truly the best bloodline in the world.”
Dragon blood, dragon blood, is a kind of talent that can only bloom through magical mutations.
But, to inherit the bloodline of the imperial family and the bloodline of the dragon at the same time.
How the hell is that likely?
“From here on out, let it flow. This is a conclusion based on a combination of information from the royal secret service, but there is a possibility that Olivia Ibrium is not of royal blood.”
“Aren’t you a real princess?”
“The emperor adopted the Yongin people as adopted children. Now, in the Millennium Empire, there is a fierce power struggle between the Imperial Family and the Four Great magic towers. It is because the power of the imperial family, which had been strong for a thousand years, fell to the ground due to the evil of the previous emperor. Because of that, the current emperor took the Yongin tribe and raised them as princesses in order to bring the 4th Great Magic Tower under his control in order to restore the glory of the past.”
tower.
Wizard’s Tower.
It was none other than the Millennium Empire that first created the system.
However, as signs of change began to appear in the system that had been maintained for a thousand years, Leon had also heard of the construction of the fifth magic tower, which oversees the four towers in Ibrium, the Millennium Empire.
The emperor was pursuing a plan to rectify the authority of the imperial family by making Olivia the 4th princess as the leader of the 5th magic tower.
“But if that’s true, there’s no way you can sit still in the Imperial magic tower.”
No matter how great the Yongin people are, they can never become a legitimate royal family.
It was undoubtedly a fact that could not be easily accepted by the social conventions of this world that place great importance on lineage.
“That’s why the nickname given to her is the Fake Princess. Rumors that she is an adopted child are still being treated as rumors, but it is a nickname that was maliciously spread in the Imperial Tower to tarnish her reputation.”
And it worked better than expected.
Olivia Ibrium was of the Yongin tribe, and no matter how good a magician was, public opinion was hardly improved as the derogatory name of a fake princess followed like a tag.
“That’s why you asked me to be engaged.”
If public opinion within the Millennium Empire is not good, it is a strategy to attract external forces.
Leon is a close aide to Princess Ailee and has a strong influence in the Philo Kingdom, and at the same time, is a person who is officially recognized as a saint in the Holy Empire.
In the future, if it is possible to subordinate the kingdom of beasts normally, the kingdom of Philo will soon rise to the ranks of the empire.
In other words, if you bring in Leon, you can get support from both empires at the same time.
“Besides, you were also known as the Yongin people.”
Marriage of Yongin and Yongin.
It is definitely an unprecedented event.
Although Princess Olivia is now called a fake princess, maybe it will be a golden card that can overturn such domestic public opinion.
Of course, Leon wasn’t a real Yongin tribe, but in this case, people’s perception was more important than the truth.
“That’s why you sent me an engagement request directly, not through my family.”
What the royal family of the Millennium Empire wanted was the ability of Leon’s individual, not the lineage of the Marquis family.
Leon liked it and burst out laughing.
At least, the imperial family of the Millennium Empire valued Leon more highly than the Marquis family.
Of course, that’s not all, but he knew that Leon’s relationship with the family wasn’t that good, so he deliberately excluded the family’s intervention.
Ailee, who faced Leon’s smile like that, asked with an anxious expression for some reason.
“So, what will Leon do?”
“What do you think, sister?”
Ailee hesitated to answer that question.
Ailee was always pretending to be Taeyeon, but now her head is in a state of chaos.
His feelings, thoughts, and arguments were mixed and it took a while to sort them out.
“…at least I don’t think I have the right to stop you. The Millennium Empire is a powerhouse with the best military power in the world in name and reality. Even if there is a possibility of being an adopted child, I think that marriage with a magician who wants to become the main axis of power in the imperial family is an ideal condition for marriage by arrangement.”
He said so, but the words ‘But’ were written on Ailee’s face.
Leon stared blankly at Ailee’s face and waited for Ailee’s answer to follow, but Ailee refrained from answering any further as if she had said everything she could.
“…do you not think that my sister might lose me to the Empire?”
“that······!”
Combining the information obtained so far, the princess is not marrying Leon.
In any case, Princess Olivia is trying to take Leon as a kind of Daryl son-in-law in order to act as the ruler of the empire.
Of course, Leon’s field of activity will have to move from the Philo Kingdom to the Millennium Empire.
The contact between Ailee and Leon is cut off, and Ailee loses one of her closest associates.
In addition, Leon has handed over all political activities to Princess Ailee so far, but if she simply needs a political shield, Princess Olivia is far better than Princess Ailee.
Considering when Ailee will one day marry someone and leave the royal family, Leon needs someone to protect her politically on her behalf, so nothing is better than this.
But that’s just a story from Leon’s point of view.
From Ailee’s point of view, who will lose her closest confidant, this is by no means a good story.
If you think that way, you should be honest with yourself, but this good princess is not able to assert herself, thinking about what is best for Leon.
Leon smiled warmly and stroked Ailee’s head, who was exhausted.
Then, Ailee’s surprised face gradually turned red.
“Do not worry. sister. i like my sister I like the way of thinking of the older sister who pursues the happiness of the majority rather than for her own gain, or the older sister who can not only stop thinking but put it into action. There is no way that I will leave my older sister like that and go to the Empire in pursuit of power.”
Above all, marrying the princess was a burden for Leon as well.
Right now, at most, I can’t win over one of the kingdom’s marquis families, so there are restrictions on my actions.
This time, Leon’s freedom will be lost as the imperial family compels Olivia Ibrium’s help.
Ailee said while putting her head in Leon’s hand, puffing her cheeks out of dissatisfaction.
“Leon is sometimes, very rarely, but she’s not cute. I’m the older sister, but I feel like Leon treats me like a little brother. However······.”
So I could depend on it.
The only reason why he wasn’t cute was because Leon felt like a man.
Leon was merely analyzing the situation politically, but Ailee’s mind was mixed with her own emotions.
Although she didn’t speak to Leon, Ailee took this opportunity to gain immense power and broke up all of her existing engagements.
Ailee now has the authority to do so.
And he was refusing all marriages that kept coming in.
As Bitson said, Ailee must someday get married and leave the royal family.
At that time, if he could not protect Leon, he thought it would be better to marry Leon instead.
He had come to think that he could entrust his entire life to Leon, no, he wanted to entrust it to him.
However, while he was hesitating because he couldn’t understand Leon’s feelings for him, the incident exploded.
He never dreamed that the Imperial Princess would reach out to Leon before she did.
“But still, it is a waste to kick the opportunity that has come before me like this.”
“Leon…?”
“First of all, I want to meet you. Once we meet and talk, I can make a decision.”
* * *
Leon immediately requested an interview with Olivia Ibrium.
And at the same time, Olivia was visiting the Kingdom of Philo.
Rather than just the end, it must have been that Leon had come in advance to persuade Leon in case he would refuse the wedding.
Leon, who made an appointment by chartering an entire expensive restaurant, an aristocratic street in the royal capital of Philo, could see a woman walking in with the door wide open.
Although she had led 12 guardsmen one by one, their presence was emanating from the woman so much that they could not even be seen.
Leon’s hair, which is constantly talked about in social circles as a nobleman of the dawn, is often compared to a burning sunset.
Like the morning sunset that hints that the light will come soon.
Then, Olivia Ibrium’s hair is the evening glow that marks the end.
No, it was a forest fire to the extent that the evening sunset was fading.
A fire that will engulf the world.
Violent red seemed to contain a heat that no one could tamper with.
And the red dress that matched her hair accentuated her violent body as well.
Olivia’s eyes looking around the store meet Leon.
Olivia’s pupils were torn vertically like a dragon’s characteristic, sharpening her still violent impression.
She strode closer to Leon, glanced at Leon up and down, and then exhaled.
“what. You’re still a kid.”
Olivia Ibrium is a relatively tall woman of 170 centimeters.
By comparison, Leon was barely over 160 centimeters tall.
But Leon shrugged and answered.
“I am still 13 years old. Please look forward to the future.”
“Hmm, what’s good? therefore?”
“Yes?”
“You mean you’re going to accept my request for engagement?”
Hopefully I can get right to the point like this.
What was hot was not only his appearance, but also his personality.
If this is the case, it must also take appropriate measures.
“no? I hate it.”
An interesting, bloody smile appeared on Olivia’s face.