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

Chapter 313 Taking Over the Capital

Finally, Lind spoke, and Cliff was frightened. He wiped the throne and sat on it tremblingly.

And Reina rarely remembered some etiquette and wanted to bow, but as soon as Reina moved, Cliff took off directly.

"No, no, no, no! No need to salute, no need to salute! The situation is urgent now. Yes, the situation is urgent. All etiquette should be kept simple!"

Before Rena bent down, Cliff didn't even dare to sit down. He waved his hands to signal Rena not to salute, as if he would be beheaded if Rena performed this etiquette.

Reina looked at the new king with a strange expression, but stopped her movements. Cliff glanced at the Northern Governor and saw that his expression seemed to have eased a little. He touched his heart and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, for your safety, I will protect you from now on."

Lind glanced at the royal family members whose heads had shrunk, and then the soldiers behind Lind began to spread out and take over the palace.

"Ah this..."

To be honest, even Cliff felt somewhat hesitant when faced with this request, as it was tantamount to handing over the entire palace to someone else.

"Governor of the Northern Territory, please don't go too far! After all, this palace belongs to our Augustine family. What qualifications do you, an outsider, have to take over the palace?"

An Augustine stood up. Even the Demon King left a capital for the Augustines. How could this Governor of the North not even leave a palace for the Augustines? Although Cliff was the king in name only, without the palace, it was basically an empty shell.

Lind glanced at Augustine and stretched out his hand to an empty place. At this time, Lucanus appeared from the shadows and handed a stack of information to Lind.

"You were involved in Claire's coup, right?"

For a moment, Cliff wondered if the heating array in the hall was broken. Oh, it wasn't time to turn on the heating array yet. Cliff shrank his neck and stopped looking at the fellow who had just come forward.

"No...no...I'm not, I didn't..."

Augustine retreated in panic. He really didn't do that. He just handed his secret guard to Claire and turned a blind eye to the coup.

There may have been cooperation in blocking the palace gates, but that is no longer important.

No one expected that the first thing Lind did after arriving in the capital was to help Lilith with the reckoning, or no one expected that the reckoning would come so soon.

A qualified politician should use this handle to weigh and negotiate in exchange for more benefits, but all of this is meaningless to Lind. Lind has absolute violence in his hands and simply doesn't bother to argue with these guys.

"Drag him away. Take him and the coup makers into custody. Write up the charges and put him on trial."

Following Lind's order, two soldiers dragged Capet's royal family out of the main hall without any dignity.

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please save me! If the people from the North take control of the palace, Your Majesty will be finished!"

Facing this fellow tribesman who had no idea what was going on, Cliff, who had already reacted, cursed: "It is precisely because of insects like you that I need the Northern Governor to protect me even more!"

Augustine and others have been kept in captivity for too long, and talent is becoming increasingly scarce, so many people simply don’t understand what is going on now.

Thanks to Cliff's cooperation and Judith's accusation, Claire's scattered followers were brought under control one after another. The royal family, secret guards, and adventurers who participated in the coup were all arrested by Lind with the mentality of rather killing the innocent. For the first time, the nobles of the royal capital saw the claws of the North stretched out.

Seeing that Cliff was sensible, Linde did not go any further. Instead, he simply chatted with Cliff for a few words and then left with his men.

In any case, Lind has now recognized Cliff's status as king, which is enough for Cliff.

Cliff summed up his thoughts behind closed doors. Perhaps it was because he did not give up until the end and led his men to defend the capital, he still had some reputation, so the Governor of the North was willing to give him face. Otherwise, he would probably surpass his brother and become the shortest-reigning king in Capet's history.

But this does not mean that Cliff can sit on the throne of king smoothly.

After a moment of silence, Cliff called over his servant and said, "Come here, help me draft an edict."

......

On the other side, in the central church, the old Pope was sitting in the seat where he usually preached. The old Pope, who was already very old, was now dying. The several light curtains outside the city seemed to have exhausted the old Pope's last strength, so that now the old Pope seemed as if he would go to the kingdom of the goddess at any time.

The old Pope seemed to be inspired by something, and when he raised his eyelids, he saw a familiar figure.

"Your Majesty... I knew you would come back..."

"Your Holiness, I am no longer a king..."

Lilith stood in front of the old Pope and stroked the back of his hand, which was as dry as a pine tree.

"Oh yes, look at my memory. It's great that Your Majesty doesn't have to carry this country on his back anymore."

The old pope was happy for Lilith from the bottom of his heart, but at the same time he said, "But I'm sorry, Your Majesty...Saint Lilith, the church still needs you."

At this time, the nun beside him said: "Saint Lady, His Holiness the Pope should have gone to the Kingdom of God to meet the Goddess after using the last Aurora spell, but His Holiness the Pope still has a last wish that has not been explained..."

Before Lilith could speak, the old pope said, "Saint Lilith, the Holy See has decided to appoint you as the new cardinal. After I die, you will run for pope with other cardinals."

With Lilith's prestige, as long as the Holy See is willing to give Lilith the status of an election candidate, the so-called election will be just a formality. Lilith, who has just unloaded the burden of being a king, will immediately have to take up a new burden.

However, the old pope was very open-minded and said, "The world has changed, and the church must also change. Don't care about the church's previous rules. Join the Northern Church and don't tire yourself out."

The old pope used all his strength to gently grasp Lilith's hand. At this time, Lilith didn't dare to look up. She just sobbed and said, "Okay, Your Majesty."

"Also... I've read so many collections of essays and novels, and the Pope is always a bad guy in the end, but I hope that starting from me, the Pope will not be so bad..."

The old pope smiled bitterly, his voice getting smaller and smaller: "If you have such a work in the future... remember to bring it to me..."

The old Pope's eyes had begun to blur, and his voice seemed to be driven only by the last bit of strength in his body, until he finally ran out of breath.

"Okay, Your Majesty..."

On the first day after the capital was defended, nine solemn bells rang out from the Central Church.