Shar looked at Hill's expression, which plainly said, Heavens, that was possible? Her blue-violet eyes curved slightly. "Otherwise, how could Andru, who had been locked in solitary confinement, suddenly have gained so much freedom?
His king brother probably felt that his foolish younger brother could actually be quite useful sometimes.
Though it would hurt himself as well, it would disgust hostile forces even more... especially in Amn, where the political system was already tangled to a bizarre degree.
Don't forget: in Amn, the capable were called kings; the incapable were called speakers.
If you were the councilor in charge of the navy, would you swallow that insult after seeing this?
Andru originally... had dozens of houses!
How had he so accurately ended up at the one with a pair of beautiful twin daughters? And gotten straight to business?
A lot of people could guess there was a conspiracy behind it, but... most of them overlooked that king because of Andru's tragic ending.
Andru might have been stupid, but he had survived Amn Kingdom's incredibly complicated political struggles and had even become Mulan's ruler... fools naturally had their own ways of surviving.
Otherwise, he would never have maintained his 'Adamantine' status instead of being demoted to Mithril. Ah, you should know how Amn distinguished social rank, right?
Andru might have been a pig, but he was a pig with a foundation. He would not believe just anyone's words. So naturally... the King of Amn must have meddled in this as well. He had simply made one wrong move and lost to the councilor behind that navy.
But if the king who controlled Amn's entire economy had lost so badly, how much funding do you think the Amn Navy had received over the past few years?
They had probably been driven mad