Brando fell silent for a moment. Prince Leven Oneson's intention in asking him to recommend Antitina's ascension was actually to give the nobles of the north and south an opportunity to sit down again and discuss the future and prospects of the kingdom. Since Antitina was a lost descendant of the Xifah Royal Family, once Brando put forward this proposal, he would first have to prove her legitimacy to inherit the throne before the Noble Council. As a branch of the Xifah Royal Family, the northern nobles also had reason to participate in and witness everything, and they might even welcome a descendant of the Xifah Royal Family taking the throne of Eluin.
In this way, the nobles of the south and north might end Eluin's long-standing, interminable dispute, which had continued ever since Oberon VII's strange death, through the council rather than through war.
Prince Leven Oneson knew politicians' nature well. Once they sat down and began arguing, the possibility of resorting to arms would all but disappear.
But Brando had no intention of doing that.
He first repeated to Freya what the First Prince had written to them in the letter, then said, "Although the First Prince's method can avert civil war and division for the time being, Eluin would return to the era when Oberon VII was alive. The nobles who occupy their positions without doing their jobs would continue gnawing at the kingdom's foundations like vermin. No matter how well we patched up its surface, there was no guarantee that Eluin would always be lucky. If this continued, it would eventually collapse with a roar.
Freya nodded. As someone who had always pursued Princess Griffine's and Brando's ideals, she understood better than anyone what sort of Eluin the two of them envisioned. It might be far