"What do you mean?" Everyone turned to look at the gray-robed elder.
"Have you forgotten how Grand General King died?"
Everyone froze.
"But... all of us 'rebels' know he died because he was worried about the Worthy Crown Prince. Now that both the Worthy Crown Prince and Grand General King are gone, why would he still obstruct the Idle Prince?"
"Let me ask you this: if His Highness the Idle Prince took Champion City, with that invincible Idle Prince Army at his command, and you were sitting in the highest seat, would your backside feel prickly?"
"That's true... If he were a brilliant and broad-minded ruler, perhaps there really would be no problem. The Idle Prince is a Fate Arts Master. He has no obsession with power or position; he only wants to serve the country and the people. He doesn't conflict with that seat at all."
"The problem is, think carefully. Going back three thousand years, how many emperors truly acted for the entire Human Race rather than for themselves, their thrones, their descendants, and their whole families?"
"Now that you mention it, apart from a handful of founding emperors and restorers of fallen dynasties, there really haven't been many emperors willing to forsake the imperial family for the Human Race. Add them all together throughout history, and there were probably fewer than five."
"So what makes you think that seat does not conflict with the Idle Prince? That it does not conflict with what the common people of the world desire? Does the current one rank among history's top five?"
"This..."
For a moment, no one knew how to refute him.
"Let me ask you again. If the Champion King repeated his old tricks and produced another fake Worthy Crown Prince to threaten him, would he stop the