Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 473 If I ask you to go, you go

The breakthrough was really successful!
The attendant had an amazing ability to recognize roads, and coupled with the fact that Richard had given him [Dark Vision], he was now speeding through the streets of the imperial capital, quickly approaching the palace.

With the reminder from Richard and Libby, the carriage carefully avoided the road where the rioters might travel and finally arrived safely at the outskirts of the palace.

"This is the carriage of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" the attendant shouted, pulling out the royal flag from inside his clothes, and it fluttered in the light of the torches.

"He couldn't have done that just now. What if the gendarmes surrounding the palace had rebelled?" The crown prince, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke.

The attendant in the car added: "You are right. He was reckless in an emergency just now, but the military police are absolutely loyal to you and the empire."

The Crown Prince did not comment, but just snorted coldly.

The group entered the palace safely. For the sake of concealment, it was normal for His Royal Highness and the guards to be in plain clothes. The only strange thing for the guards was that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince insisted on being accompanied by a young man holding a barefoot lady, and they were inseparable.

Only after entering the brightly lit hall did the Crown Prince relax and change into the clothes prepared by his servants.

Soon, he burst out again: "Where are the others? Gather all the nobles! I want all the nobles to roll over here."

"Your Highness, you should inform Chancellor Otto first."

The crown prince drew his knife and used the back of the knife to chop the person who made the suggestion: "Prime Minister? He must be the mastermind behind this! This man, this man."

Unexpectedly, the door of the hall opened, and another group of civil servants, led by Chancellor Otto, entered. Except for the neatly dressed Chancellor himself, most people only put on their coats hastily, revealing pajamas or social casual clothes underneath.

The prime minister had heard the crown prince's howling: "Your Highness, you have misunderstood. I was not aware of the riot tonight. You can accuse me of dereliction of duty, but I have no intention of usurping power."

The Crown Prince stared: "Really? The mastermind is..." He looked at Richard, and Richard naturally reported the information he had truthfully.

After hearing this, the Prime Minister groaned: "So it was mainly low-ranking officers who spontaneously rebelled, and their demands were simple, crude, and childish to the point of being unreasonable."

The military police reported that the imperial army had arrived at the square in front of the palace and was preparing to confront the military police. The cavalry and artillery regiments were now gathering.

However, the gendarmerie has to wait for orders as to whether to completely wipe out these rebel troops.

The Crown Prince's good friend, the current Field Marshal Helmut, also arrived at the palace. He first ignored the large group of civil servants and came in with senior military officials and reliable guards, his thick combat boots making a clattering sound on the marble floor.

"Your Highness, I'm sorry to have frightened you!" Helmut walked up to the Crown Prince and gave him a hug, then looked at his good friend with concern.

"I'm fine, thanks to the loyal and brave guards and Colonel Richard." The Crown Prince was very calm when he saw his friend. Helmut said bluntly: "You are the only one who can give orders here! As long as Your Highness nods, all the artillery and cavalry in place can stop the riot as quickly as possible."

"Don't fire in front of the palace!" The prime minister said decisively: "The motives of the imperial army officers' actions today are by no means sudden. If we suppress them violently, it will only make more officers waver and the army lose morale. By then, the war, the situation and the reform will be in great danger of collapse."

"First of all, there are only rebels outside, not any imperial soldiers. Secondly, reform, reform. Aren't your reforms the root cause of the unrest and chaos? I think it's because you guys have made people panic, which has caused the army to have ideological confusion that can be bewitched."

"Stop." The Crown Prince interrupted the dispute between the leaders of the civil and military forces. He came from the west gate where the mages were fighting fiercely, and was more concerned about a question: "Among the mages accompanying the army, some have remained rational and sober, and some have already joined the chaotic army. Now can you stop the spellcasters in the chaotic army from approaching and holding me hostage?" After saying that, he looked at Richard. Helmut no longer spoke easily, because he had only a weak control over the mages accompanying the army. Now the chief position of the spellcasters accompanying the army was vacant, and no strong man who could lead this force and was willing to obey the military appeared.

The prime minister quickly came up with a plan: "They are also human beings, and part of the military. I think their demands are the same as those of the other rebels. Therefore, we must quell the unrest of ordinary soldiers as soon as possible and make those radical spellcasters lose their basis for action."

The Crown Prince's eyes were red: "How can we calm it down?"

The chancellor did not give an answer immediately, but just stared at the other party. Instantly, the hall returned to silence, a suffocating silence, and Helmut and Otto both focused their eyes on the crown prince.

Libus's voice broke the silence: "Wouldn't it be better if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne? Don't those rebels want you to go? Then go ahead and leave them speechless."

Libus had been put down by Richard, whose arms were numb. She was now standing with her hands on her hips proudly. As she was blindfolded, she could only judge people's positions by listening to the voices, so she was actually talking to a marble pillar.

Richard did not correct her position, but just stood silently beside her with a serious face.

But everyone present heard her words.

After a long time, the crown prince spoke: "If the empire needs me to be the emperor at this time, then I have nothing to worry about." After saying this, he still looked at the prime minister unconsciously, as if the prince's father was standing behind this elderly and stern elder.

Although the emperor was ill in a sanatorium at that time.

The prime minister responded with a relieved smile. He said loudly and sincerely: "In this extraordinary moment, there is no need to be bound by red tape. All the officials in the court, civil and military officials, are here and are willing to offer their loyalty to our emperor!"

At this time, all ministers, generals and marshals, regardless of whether they were members of the Crown Prince's faction or not, knelt down and saluted: "Offer loyalty to our emperor!"

Then the crown prince, no, the new emperor William II was surprised to find that the late emperor had already prepared everything for him to ascend the throne. At the instruction of the chancellor, the ceremonial officer took out the crown and scepter. There was no bishop or God granting it. It was William II who held up the crown himself and put it on himself in front of his subjects.

As the night was about to dawn, the imperial soldiers who were confronting the gendarmes in the square did not wait for the army wizard to support them, but saw William II with a crown on his head on the windowsill of the palace.

He gave an impromptu speech, announcing that those involved in the operation were all loyal to the empire, but were deceived by spies from Valois. He then comforted the soldiers and promised that no one would be held accountable.

This means that some people will be let off the hook, and others will be dealt with secretly. In addition, in response to the general call, Chancellor Otto, who was primarily responsible for the problems in the empire, was ordered to resign voluntarily, and considering his past contributions to the empire, all his honors were retained, and he was allowed to enjoy his old age.

When the dome of the Imperial Parliament Building burned out and collapsed, the sunlight shone on the central axis of the imperial capital. Both the military police and the imperial soldiers laid down their weapons and shouted: "Long live the emperor!" "Long live the empire!"

"It's over," Richard, who had been standing behind the new emperor, whispered to Libby.

Libusi said nothing, at this moment she only had Richard in her eyes, or more precisely, his fate. The two were very close, and only his still chaotic mass was changing in the darkness.

"Richard of the Dalberg family, and..." The former chancellor appeared, his expression was both relaxed and extremely tired. The old man paused for a moment and looked at the blindfolded Libus, and soon the name in his memory matched successfully: "Miss Libus of Bomiya, I personally and the empire should thank you."

(End of this chapter)