Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 314 List of names

Lind did not choose to live in the palace. After all, according to Lilith, there were a lot of secret passages in the palace, including those built by Augustine before he usurped the throne by relying on his status as son-in-law, and those built by Augustine himself. It was definitely not a place to live in where a palace was built on a secret passage.

As for the mansion of the Grand Duke of the North, to be honest, Linde was not at ease living in such a noble mansion. There were so many secret passages in the royal palace, so would there be fewer secret passages in the mansion of the Grand Duke of the North? Especially since this mansion was not under the control of the Lars family for such a long time, but Linde still accompanied Lena back to this mansion.

At least now, both of Reina's dreams have come true, whether it is winning the War of Succession or returning to the capital, but the way of returning to the capital is something almost no one could have imagined.

As if she didn't want to recall any bad memories, Reina found the wedding dress she had talked about with Linde as soon as she entered the mansion.

“I didn’t expect it was still there.”

Rena's movements were rather casual, as she took the wedding dress directly off the hanger. Linde also followed slowly behind Rena.

Although the fabric is very exquisite, this wedding dress still looks very simple, which is more in line with the simple aesthetic of the North. Of course, it is also possible that this wedding dress itself is a semi-finished product.

But at least in Reina's opinion, she was very satisfied with this wedding dress. She excitedly held the wedding dress on herself and gestured casually: "Does it look good, Linde?"

Reina put the wedding dress on herself, turned around gracefully, and then muttered to herself: "It seems to be a little too small..."

"Then let the craftsmen modify it."

Linde waved his hand, and the maids came forward tacitly to measure Reina again. Although Reina had said it to Linde before, when the maids really measured her size, she blushed and muttered softly, "I hope it's not too different."

Although the atmosphere in the royal capital was filled with jubilation and everyone was encouraged by the recent victory, the demons were actually still watching the capital covetously not far away.

However, the people in the capital, which had just stabilized, had already begun to stir, and the nobles began to move around again.

Cliff was very sensible. He issued an edict to directly establish Lind's status. The specific content of this edict was that Lind did not need to perform formalities when facing Cliff and the royal family, could enter and leave the palace at will, and could meet Cliff with weapons. Either of these was an extraordinary level of treatment.

Even because of the absence of the prime minister, Cliff specially arranged a temporary prime minister position for Lind to ensure that Lind could legally control all resources in the royal capital, as well as military and administrative power, although these powers had been in Lind's hands since the moment the Northern Army entered the city.

But after all, everyone still has to save face. You can say that you are wearing the emperor's new clothes, but you cannot say that you are really running naked. You can pee in the swimming pool, but you cannot stand on the shore and pee into the pool. So Lind did not refuse Cliff's behavior that provided legitimacy for himself.

However, Lin De still felt mixed emotions when he saw the edict. He did not expect that the three-step plan would be arranged for him so quickly.

In contrast, Rena was overjoyed. She thought that the prime minister was already the highest official. She did not expect that Linde would become the prime minister, although it was temporary. At this time, Rena did not realize how much power she held in her hands.

Following Cliff's edict, more and more nobles in the city began to curry favor with Lind and sent him invitations. Although there was no precedent of usurping the throne in three steps in this world, the meaning of Cliff's edict was very clear. If it weren't for the age difference, they would probably have just worshipped Lind as their godfather.

The demons outside the city hadn't even withdrawn yet, but these nobles were already thinking about holding a ball.

There were also many bold nobles who began to sell their daughters to Lind. Due to the poor intelligence department of the royal capital, these nobles did not know much about the affairs in the North. In addition, Lind looked very unhappy when he entered the city. Moreover, these nobles and Augustines had already driven away Lena once before, so they wanted to use the same trick again.

However, this group of nobles were much smarter than those rough guys in the North. They did not directly praise how outstanding their daughters were. Instead, they carefully tested whether Linde wanted to hold a ball first to stabilize the hearts of the nobles in the city.

This group of nobles also thought that if Linde wanted to change the dynasty, he would definitely win over the nobles, take care of the elites, and make friends with them, just like the Augustine family did. So even though these nobles knew what Linde's attitude was towards the nobles in the North, they still had the illusion that they were more important than those nobles in the North and could bargain with Linde.

Looking at the letters from the nobles that came in like snowflakes, Lind snorted coldly, and this action made Marcel, who was sitting opposite Lind, shudder with fear.

"Are these the only ones left?"

Linde looked at the list handed over by Marcel and seemed a little dissatisfied, but Marcel was almost exhausted at this time and was completely forcing himself to talk to Linde.

The list even included two-thirds of the nobles in the royal capital, but Lind actually thought the list was not long enough.

"Yes, sir. There were so many nobles who did not attend the meeting..."

Putting aside his identity as the leader of the old party, both Cliff and Judith admitted that Marcel was a conservative who hated the demons, and he was still attending meetings to fight against the demons until the very end. This was enough. Linde did not want to kill all those nobles. He had to keep some useful guys to use to death.

Apart from these, especially those speculators and fence-sitters who did not attend the meeting, are all unstable factors in Lind's view. There is no place for these insects in the new royal capital. If these guys are alive, they will only make the price of food in the royal capital higher.

This coup will definitely not end with Claire going crazy. Those guys who helped in the dark will all pay the price for it. The darkness of the damn royal capital and the forces in the shadows will all be crushed under the tank tracks.

Looking at Marcel who was about to collapse, Lind nodded and said, "You can go now."

After returning home, Marcel quickly started to stay indoors, refused to meet anyone, and even put the entire family under martial law, which was even stricter than when he was tracking down the murderer who assassinated Clan.

Soon, a purge that was beyond everyone's expectations began. The governor did not seem satisfied with only arresting those who followed Claire's coup. Those who provided help in secret were also arrested one by one. Not only that, those who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to speculate were also all under control.

The Governor of the North seemed to not care at all about the demons still entrenched outside the city, and launched a bloody purge of the nobles and royal family in the capital. Someone had to be held responsible for this coup. Linde could investigate the entrenched aristocratic forces later, but it would definitely be right to kill all the surrenderists and speculators first.

Apart from the surrenderists, the most confused people were the adventurers who followed Claire to launch a coup.

Paul didn't understand what was happening until he was sent to the execution ground. Paul had already vaguely realized that he had been deceived. Claire was not some delicate princess waiting to be rescued by a knight, and Lilith was not the liar as Claire said. But Paul was still unwilling to accept the reality.

These adventurers received "special treatment" from Linde. They were pushed as the culprits of the rumors about Lilith in the royal capital and paraded through the outer city area. When the people in the outer city area saw that their respected queen was slandered by these people, they kept picking up stones from the roadside and angrily threw them at these adventurers.

Lind took this incident as a starting point and began to formulate policies regarding adventurers. In this world where magic really exists, such things as breaking the law with force must be controlled.

Outside the royal capital, Antipas, who was still frightened, received the latest intelligence from the royal capital. Linde set out in a hurry this time, and there were still many northern troops on the way, so some nobles took advantage of the chaotic purge to escape and defected to the demons.

"Does this mean that now is the best time to attack the capital?"

Antipas asked tentatively to the royal nobles and Monroe in front of him.

Monroe quickly replied: "Yes, humans are so ugly. Your Majesty, it's time to bring a new order to humans!"