Making Trouble

"Enough! Move aside, Huo An, you worthless puppet!"

As soon as the King finished speaking, a grim-faced middle-aged man stepped out from among the splendid carriage procession and rudely called Huo An by name.

His tone brimmed with undisguised contempt. Clearly, the King on the platform was extraordinarily unpopular, and this arrogant noble was a prime example.

The middle-aged noble was named Roth Lyle. He was a Master Level professional and one of Hatak's few powerful great lords. The Lyle family could be called the strongest family in Hatak at present. Compared to this ambitious family, which wielded enormous influence in politics, commerce, and academia, the Hatak Royal Family, which knew only how to indulge in life without restraint, truly was a pack of useless parasites waiting to die.

In truth, the resources controlled by the Lyle family and its immense credibility among the nobility were far beyond what the Hatak family, which had made no progress for centuries, could compare to. However, none of those impressive advantages mattered, because the Protector expert of the Hatak Imperial Nation—the Legendary Mage Whisper of Destruction, Punk Saian—had designated the Hatak family as the "royal family." No matter how hard the Lyle family worked or how deeply its influence penetrated the nation, it could only obediently remain a "minor noble" forever beneath the Hatak family.

From this, one could imagine just how much fury and resentment filled Roth Lyle, the current head of the Lyle family. He was a Master Level knight. Usually, he had no choice but to show some respect to that useless King Huo An, but now, with disaster clearly about to descend, His Majesty the King—who had never touched so much as a dagger except to eat, sleep, and play with women—was still ordering all the nobles to turn