18 There is no way back

"Father, please, tell us why we should not mess with them," said one of the middle-aged men, as he was not convinced that the consequences for poisoning the ninth concubine would be so disastrous.

The old man forced himself to calm down and faced his two useless children in the eyes and said "Reginald, William Listen, In the Webber house, the current Duke had three children" When they heard this Reginald and William were confused they could not believe what they were hearing but the old man did not give them a chance to speak "His eldest son Joseph Webber, His first daughter Helewise Weber, and his second daughter Anna Webber, As you know the first daughter married into royalty gaining the status of Queen in the Snow Kingdom, Apparently they were childhood friends married for love, because of that the King of the Snow Kingdom has not taken any other concubines. and to show their sincerity to the Kingdom of Alba as their allies they married the queen's sister to the king, even if it was with the status of concubine. But you know what is the status of the Eldest Son, Joseph Webber?"

"Isn't he just the Duke's successor?" The pair of brothers felt worse the more they heard, they had a bad premonition.

"you're an idiot, do you think my father would fear a successor to a Duke?" The old man was getting more and more angry with this pair of fools, he would have killed them if they were not his children "apart from being the duke's successor, has another identity as the Core Disciple in the James Clan"

"WHAT" the pair of idiots were in shock

"Also, it is known that this brother is very protective of his younger sisters, It is said that once a disciple of the Sea Palace tried to flirt with his younger sister Anna so he cut off his legs and left him crippled in his anger, after that no one in the region dared to misbehave with his sisters"

"The Sea Palace did nothing?" Reginald asked with a trembling voice.

"Do something?He is a core disciple while the person who was crippled was just an external disciple he not worth it for the sea palace to make an enemy of James clan, Now do you understand a core disciple has great value in the whole region, even if he killed an inner-court elder like my father, the Martial City would not do anything."(Vicent)

"But why is that even the king does not know anything regarding the background of the ninth concubine? "(William)

"The king never thought that his wife would have such a backer, He did not even investigate her background, We also blocked that information just in case he favors the ninth concubine more than the current queen, so the king is ignorant of this matters."(Vicent)

After saying that, the room was silent, no one wanted to speak anymore, The pair of brothers were feeling regretful for their actions, His father had told him not to do it and they disobeyed. while General Keer did not want to talk with this failure of sons.

"what if we killed her?" Reginald asked.

"Do you think that if we killed her and hide her body, our lives will be safe? You're too innocent, if we do that, The Snow Kingdom declares war on the Alba Kingdom, and than the spies of all the neighboring kingdomswill reveal what we have done all these years, When everyone knows what we did, no one will be by our side and Even my father cannot save us, After all, The current Lord of the Martial City is someone righteous and just. If he finds out what we have done, we don't know what awaits us."(Vicent)

Once again the three were silent. "The only solution is to leave the South Region as soon as possible and as far as possible," Vicent said as he sighed, all his work was thrown away by his foolish sons: "According to your grandfatherJoseph will be one to oversee this recruitment from James clan, but it is more of an excuse to see his dear sister, We have a month to organize everything, I will ask my father for help, I think he will also come with us, call your sister and tell her about this situation remember we have a month so in two weeks at the most we have to leave, as for Benedict let's leave him to Joseph to relieve his anger." When he finished saying that, he got up and left the room without looking back. following that, a deep sigh filled with sadness was heard.

The room fell silent leaving two men speechless. In their eyes you could see remorse, they could only close their eyes and accept the reality that they will have to live as fugitives.