The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family, Pegaz [learn to read books txt] 📗

take that woman into custody and make quite a scene about it. When the man in question returns home, he’ll be told that Bahan knights took his daughter away. When he can’t find us in town or around the area, he will go straight to the capital to raise hell, maybe even kill the royal family for me.

“Even if it doesn’t work the way I hoped, your death will be put on that man. Since this entourage had a fight with his daughter earlier today, the townspeople will assume it was that man’s revenge and that information will eventually reach your father, causing a civil war. Well, the start of the civil war might be slow, since we both know your father will send the knights to massacre the townspeople to cover up the truth. Even if he doesn’t come up with the idea himself, I have people who can give him the advice.

“Eventually, other knights and towns will get involved when they hear about the awful things happening as my men will make sure they’ll get all the information. They’ll revolt and the kingdom’s defence will worsen.

“When all is said and done, and the civil war ends, I’ll send an army to conquer the Bahan Kingdom.”

Carola broke out into a cold sweat. She could imagine everything he was telling her, and she knew it wouldn’t go well for her father. If the knights and citizens weren’t happy with the king, they’d turn on him and the kingdom.

“Why would you do this?” Carola said with tear-filled eyes. “Our kingdoms were making progress. We were on the verge of peace!”

“That peace will never be eternal!” the prince snapped. “Do you know what would be eternal? One kingdom ruling the world. Gralux is a smaller kingdom, and while we’ve lasted against Bahan in wars, we will eventually lose.

“The only reason Bahan doesn’t wipe us out is because they deemed it too costly, but if that ever changed then even with a political marriage, Gralux is doomed.”

As he finished speaking, a knight wearing Bahan armour asked for permission to enter and the prince granted it.

“Your Highness, everything is prepared. We’re ready to set off at a moment’s notice.”

The prince nodded his head. “Let’s go.”

Once they were outside of the tent, the knight hesitated before speaking again. “Your Highness?”

The prince turned towards him with a raised brow.

“It would be a shame to let the princess die like that. Why not let me and some of the men have some fun?”

Smack!

The prince’s hand throbbed as he stared at the knight’s face which was turning red.

He started shouting to help ease the pain. “I told you the plan only a few hours ago! You remember it, right? We need to make the princess’ death look like an act of vengeance brought on by the knight instructor!

“Put yourself in his shoes! He came to rescue his daughter and killed the princess in the process. Would he perform such a heinous act in front of his daughter and then kill the royal, too?

“The princess’ death will be investigated and if they find out that she was assaulted before she died, that would blow the whole cover wide open! If there’s even a tiny shred of doubt, the two kingdoms could possibly go to war if we can’t prove we didn’t kill her!

“Now tell me, is your fifteen seconds of fun worth the Gralux Kingdom’s destruction?”

The knight’s face grew beet-red from embarrassment.

“I didn’t think so!” The prince pushed the knight out of his way. “Get out of my sight and follow the plan without any hiccups!”

The knight scrambled to his horse and lit a glass lantern without another word. Soon after, he mounted his steed and rode off in the dark towards town.

The other five knights were laughing at that knight’s misery, but when the prince looked at them, three of them rushed to mount their horses and followed the knight that just left.

Looking at the two remaining knights, the prince spoke again. “When they come back with that woman, your job will be to protect us both. We need to treat her like a princess in case this plan doesn’t work and her father finds us before we reach the capital.”

Both knights bowed. “Yes, Your Highness.”

Chapter 20: Admit Defeat

Inside the jungle, John and Sarah sat atop a large tree branch. They had been watching the initial chaos ever since John sent down a bolt of lightning to strike the unsuspecting knight.

When the princess recognised the golden eagle badge, they knew they’d be in for a whirlwind of questions soon enough.

“Cat’s out of the bag now,” Sarah said with a sigh. “Kelly will find out the truth soon.”

John smiled. “She had to find out eventually. After all these years, I’m looking forward to hearing about her system and seeing it in action. It wasn’t easy deceiving us for over two decades, so I admit defeat.”

“Oh?” Sarah was surprised. “I thought you hated to lose.”

A burst of laughter exploded from John.  It took him a few minutes to calm himself, but when he did, he owned up to his statement. “I do hate to lose! Even if she’s my daughter, it’s still hard for me to admit defeat.

“I honestly have no idea what her system is and I’ve even tried spying on her when she went hunting in the jungle. I still had no luck.”

Leaning back against the tree, John recalled two times when he was forced to lose due to the circumstances. The first time was against Jeremy May and the second time was against Keket, the beastman Sider. He couldn’t kill either of them at the time and they both had an army backing them up.

Since he couldn’t win, he made sure they couldn’t say they won either. Jeremy May became the sect master of the Rogue Sect, so John robbed the sect and taunted him with a letter. For the beastman, they couldn’t win the war either thanks to the black,