310 THE STORM THAT IS COMING 3

Some argue that maybe the Vlad did something to the Chancellor and that forces the Chancellor to kill them. 

However, this theory was quickly shot down by the others scholars and anyone with a brain. The Vlad is known to be courteous in their manner and they are not the enemy of the Chancellor. 

Even if the Vlad family insulted the Chancellor, the Chancellor would also not be mad enough to massacre everyone inside the premise.

The case of the Vlad family murder was something of a mystery. What is more mysterious that there is no news about the Chancellor anywhere. 

It was like he disappeared suddenly.

This alone speaks volume of the ability of the Chancellor 

From what many people surmise, the Chancellor probably went to Vanheim. But one year had passed. The Chancellor is nowhere to be seen.

He did not return to the Six Council. To the minds of many people, as long as the Chancellor return to the Six Council, the truth would be revealed.

Some people said he was hiding. But this did not track at all. Because if the Chancellor really wanted to hide, he would at least return to Vanheim and assume his power in the Six Council and then he can hide even more effectively.

And this is a moot point. If he returns to Vanheim, he did not have to hide

He might not even have to hide if he returns to his residence in Vanheim. Yet, he was nowhere to be found. 

As one of the three Pillars, and consider to be the strongest of them three his disappearances causes a stir.

The Emperor was waiting for him and even urge these people screaming for justice for the Vlad family to wait until the Chancellor is back and could explain himself. 

The problem was no one knows where the Chancellor was.

Is he hiding? 

Or is he the victim of someone scheme? The Chancellor has many enemies. The fact that he is framed ranked high in the minds of many people. The more one knows the Chancellor the more they believe that the Chancellor is framed.

Some people thought he was guilty

Whatever the truth was, nothing could be known unless the Chancellor is found.

The Six Councils of the Empire still bickering among themselves and all of them is fighting for their own interest. 

There is the loyalist and the reformist in that muddy waters of the Six Councils. The loyalist did not refer to the loyalist of the Empire but to the Chancellor. 

The loyalist believes that the Chancellor was framed by foreign enemies to weaken the unity of the Six Councils and oust the Chancellor.

Then there was the reformist. 

The reformist did not say that the Chancellor was guilty. 

They even said, if the Chancellor is guilty it didn't matter in the scheme of things. After all, if the Chancellor was really guilty in killing the Vlad family he must have a reason. 

For a faction of the Six Councils to be so loyal to the empire, they believe that even if the Chancellor was guilty, he was probably doing it to protect the interest of the Empire. 

Of course, they did not say that the Chancellor was guilty because with the lack of witnesses, there is no one that could prove that the massacre was the doing of the Chancellor.

To them as long as the end result satisfy the Empire, they did not care what means is employed

The difference between them and the loyalist was that in the absence of the Chancellor, the Six Councils is divided. 

In this divided moment, even though the Six Councils could work interdependently from each other, this did not mean that they should.

The Six Councils is six body of the government to regulate the Empire and it held immense power to determine the future course of the Empire. 

During the Chancellor times, the Six Councils is like a well-oiled machine that could do amazing thing to prosper the Empire and to mobilize armies and creating policies and aiding the government.

With the disappearance of the Chancellor and without a head that could unify them all, there is a cog in that well-oiled machine.

And this machine is stuck and showing sign of crumbling and cracking under the pressure

And this is the difference between the loyalist and the reformist

The reformist believes that the control of the Six Council should be given to the Emperor temporarily until the Chancellor returns to maintain the stability of the Empire. 

The loyalist would not have it. it is clear that the Six Councils were never to be put under the Emperor. 

Many people do not understand the reason why the Six Councils is under the thumb of the Chancellor

Even the people inside the Six Council probably did not understand. 

But those high up in the chain knowns the reason why the Chancellor had never given any power to the Emperor.

There is the fact that he held the power to protect himself. And there is the other fact that is only known to the select few that the Six Council is an overseer of sorts. And who did the Six Councils oversee? 

The Emperor!

The Emperor have unlimited power of appointment of officials and the ability to fire anyone form their position if he so desires.

The reformist believes that the Six Councils should be under the jurisdiction of the Emperor. Yet at the same time, the former Emperor George, had left the Six Councils to the Chancellor.

But now with the disappearance of the Chancellor, things are not looking good

And each Council is now operating independently creating many mess. 

The reformist believes that if this were to keep going on, the very integrity and stability that the Chancellor had created would collapse like a castle of sand.

They believe that if the Emperor was to be put in charge of the Six Council temporarily it would stabilize the empire. 

On the other hand, the loyalist did not trust the Emperor. First, they felt that the Emperor is weak and ineffectual, lacking the bravery and charisma of his father.

He is also lacking in terms of strategy and in his talent on administrating the Empire. 

It is an open secret that the administration of the Empire, the many matters of the Empire laid on the shoulders of the Chancellor.

Some of the Councils in the Six Councils did not even bother to send reports to the Emperor and instead reported it to the Chancellor first before they send any written reports to the Emperor.

Secondly, they fear that the Emperor would do away with the Six Councils and if that happens, the Emperor probably would also scrape the Parliament