Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 374 Post-event processing
The killing lasted for several hours, and the entire meeting hall of the Noble Council was almost a river of blood. When Perfecto finally walked out of the venue, her shoes were soaked with blood, and every step left a bright red bloody footprint.

But she did not think of changing shoes or avoiding it at that time. Instead, she silently let the blood cover her feet and soak her shoes.

Perfect didn't have any special hobbies, it was just to remind herself that she had killed so many people today.

Although the deaths of these nobles were just a way for her to vent her anger, and they did have their own ways of dying, every life should be respected, even if they were just a group of pigs.

If she killed them, she should remember them, because each of their deaths was caused by her.

If Perfect forgets these, or if she ignores the responsibility of killing a person, it means that she has lost her respect for life as a human being.

The possible consequences of that would be very serious. After all, Perfecto was the Lord of the North and the strongest alchemist in the empire. If she wanted to, she could easily slaughter countless lives.

If things develop to that extent, the world will probably be destroyed by her before it is destroyed in the apocalypse.

So in order to avoid this from happening, Perfect had to force herself to remember how many people she had killed today, who these people were, and why they died.

According to subsequent statistics, there were a total of ninety-two nobles massacred by Perfecto, including seven earls, twelve viscounts, twenty-six barons, and forty-seven other nobles such as knights and baronet.

Except for the old noble who committed suicide, a total of ninety-one people were killed by her knights.

They were slaughtered for standing in the way of Perfecto's efforts to save the world, and each of them had their share of death.

And Perfectoct watched each of them being killed in front of him, and they paid the price for the mistakes they had made with their lives.

The matter will end here, the empire will not disclose the real cause of their death, and their families will not be implicated.

Through this killing, Perfecto officially established her influence and deterrence in the empire, and formally digested the connections and political assets left to her by the old prince and made them her own.

Are you kidding? Even if it was the old prince himself, it would be impossible for him to massacre the Council of Nobles and get away with it.

Under such circumstances, the entire Langton and even the entire empire have understood what kind of status Perfecto holds in the empire and what privileges she enjoys.

Again, even if he was the Lord of the North, it was impossible for him to slaughter the Council of Nobles without paying the slightest price.

This also made everyone wonder what kind of special characteristics this Northern Earl had that allowed her to massacre the Council of Nobles without having to take any responsibility afterwards.

There were nearly a hundred noble councilors, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the seats in the entire Noble Council. They were all slaughtered, which had a huge impact on the Noble Council itself.

At least the Duke of Gloucester must find a way to select suitable nobles to fill the seats, so that the number of parliamentarians can be restored to at least half of the original number. After all, according to the imperial law, the Parliament of Nobles must maintain this number of parliamentarians, otherwise he, as the speaker, can only dissolve the parliament and then elect a new speaker to reorganize the parliament.

Of course, none of the truly influential members of the House of Nobles participated in the impeachment of Perfecto.

After all, they all have their own channels. Even if they don't know about the doomsday crisis, they can more or less understand that Perfecto is now of great importance to the entire empire, and she herself holds enormous power. No noble parliamentarian of any weight is willing to offend this powerful official of the empire for some trivial matter.

Yes, now Perfect is a well-deserved imperial minister, otherwise how can we explain her act of slaughtering the aristocratic parliament?
On the streets of Longton, Perfecto's actions were interpreted as exclusion of dissidents.

She didn't have any thoughts on this, nor did she mind others saying so, because this massacre could indeed be interpreted from another perspective as her exclusion of dissidents.

But unlike what most people think, she eliminated dissidents not to seize power at the center of the empire, but just to save the country.

In fact, if Perfecto really wanted power, both the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Anne would spare no effort to support her. After all, she could really save the empire.

If there were doubts about this matter before, the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Anne would never have delegated so much power to Perfectcott a year or two ago, but now with only a year left until the end of the world, Perfectcott has fully proved her correctness and her extraordinary abilities.

Under such circumstances, Princess Anne wished someone could take power for her and then concentrate all the strength of the empire to deal with the end of the world.

She was really exhausted physically and mentally by the endless social engagements and meetings. If it weren't for the constraints and restrictions of her status, she might have learned from Perfecto and drawn her sword against the Council of Nobles.

As the eldest princess who has now taken power, Anne has fully realized how irrelevant the members of the House of Nobles are and how damnable they are.

Even though the Duke of Gloucester immediately selected a group of imperial nobles whom he believed to be loyal and hardworking to fill the vacancies in the seats of parliamentarians, these newly added noble parliamentarians continued to nitpick on any proposals put forward by Princess Anne, just like before.

Even though Princess Anne understood that this was their duty and that they needed to exercise their power through this kind of behavior, it did not prevent her from being really unhappy.

Faced with this situation, the Duke of Gloucester could only pray that there were no fools or lunatics among these noble parliamentarians.

Otherwise, offending Princess Anne would be fine, but if Perfect was provoked, he would not be in the mood to let her massacre the Council of Nobles again.

If something like that were to happen, the Council of Nobles would no longer need to maintain any face, because they would in fact become a punching bag for others to kill.

The Duke of Gloucester does not want things to develop to this point. Even from the current perspective, even if Perfectocote does not massacre the Parliament of Nobles again, as she has already done it once, how long Princess Anne can tolerate the Parliament of Nobles is not a question that needs to be discussed.

(End of this chapter)