"Why did they let that Mad King live?"
Arsene did not understand. "Was it really just because they didn't want him to become a god? Even if the Mad King ascended to the position of a Heavenly Sovereign, what would he do? Would he exile all the Children of the Moon?"
But during the Swan King's reign, the Children of the Moon had always kept a low profile.
There were simply too many nobles who did not behave like humans, to the point that even the Children of the Moon had begun to seem human.
At that time, the Swan King could not possibly have had such a strange need. In fact, the Children of the Moon and the Swan King had practically been on the same side—at the very least, they both needed to drive those nobles away. If the Children of the Moon took power, they would at least be willing to obey the Swan King's orders and would not openly assassinate him.
"At the very beginning, perhaps they simply wanted to prolong his life."
Iver guessed, "My guess is... perhaps they wanted to revive him, giving the Children of the Moon a chance to become part of the Iris Flower Kingdom's upper ranks. Since the three grand dukes didn't know the truth, they might also have believed that the Swan King's death was connected to the three grand dukes. They might have thought this was an opportunity.
"It's also possible that they simply wanted to forcibly transform the Swan King into a Child of the Moon. It wasn't an impossible feat... As long as the Swan King's head developed an affinity for the Path of Love, even if it only possessed First Level power, the Children of the Moon could use the 'corpse' of that head to