Over the next two weeks, Ansu and Altina were both very busy.
With the divine will dissipated, Falco's conspiracy exposed and executed, and the Elven King Varian captured... the Elven Royal Court welcomed a new round of power transition, and the entire palace was shrouded in a stern and solemn atmosphere.
Ansu needed to help Altina secure her footing.
She was still too young, and even chosen as the God-Enlightened by the deity, she remained green. There were many things she could not do decisively, nor could she bring herself to execute that ruthless cruelty.
So, Ansu did some of the dirty work for her.
Following his conviction, Varian was swiftly executed, and his original faction was purged. Ansu killed his way through the Royal Court for a full week.
Of course, he did not truly transform into King Daxi; he simply focused on killing...
Those elven officials at the bottom who had merely followed orders and were now willing to submit were kept by him, allowed to redeem their merits through service and continue working for the Elven Royal Court.
Killing was never the goal; Ansu needed to leave Altina with a rebuilt framework.
Altina's mother and relatives had all been rescued.
Compared to her older cousins, her mother's health was worrisome. Over these past years, with her husband murdered, her homeland seized, and herself imprisoned in a sunless dungeon, her spirit had suffered brutal ravages, and her heart had long since turned to ash.
Ansu had specially visited her once. She was an aged woman who was completely unrecognizable, her gaze hollow, taking a long time to react even when her daughter walked to the bedside.
After a joint consultation with several doctors from the Royal Court, the conclusion they reached was: she was at the end of