Peace Offering To The Cursed Prince

The head of the bandit worked with the king of Sham, so he knew a few of the details. The four kings did not meet all these years to avoid raising any suspicion. They relied on using the soldiers who disguise as bandits to communicate. 

The prince usually found out all his pry knows when he swallow up their soul. "should we return to Avalo and make a visit some other time?" prince Sébastien asked his mother.

Now that the prince found out about the kingdom of vemus having hidden soldiers, he did not feel it was wise to go into that territory without enough preparation.

"No," the Queen shook her head.  She already knew that these four kingdoms will plan something a long time ago. So she had a placed her own eyes and ears. Although she did not ask them to report back to her she was sure they would help her into the venus royal palace without being noticed.

"Do you know why I picked today as the day we visit the king of verums," she asked her son because she noticed he was not confident of her decision.

"no," prince Sébastien shook his head. He was not aware of his mother's reason. He thought she just randomly pick the day.

"The royal council meeting will hold today. Do you not want to attend the meeting. After all the four kingdoms have prepared an Army for you. It is only right that you collect it today," Queen magret smile. Her smile was so beautiful that it could make the heart of anyone that saw it become sweet.

" What do you have in mind?" prince Sébastien asked. He knew that his mother will not smile so much unless she managed to cook up a plan.

"The annual Royal council meeting in verums, is also a festival. Usually, delegates from Sham, Greenland, and Gushon will attend this feast, since the kingdoms were friends. This has been their best way of communicating over the last five years without raising suspicion," Queen magret said.

" So you wanted us to attend this feast, reveal yourself as the Queen of Avalo and a member of the royal family of verums. You wanted the other three kingdoms to find out about this. You are trying to use your identity to protect me. You knew that they would try to fight back, " Prince Sébastien read his mother's thought.

" yes, you are right, but after finding out their plans, I doubt we can still follow my plan of a happy reunion. We have to use plan B, "force." The Quen emphasized the word. "We need to break the wings that they have grown. I asked you not to touch any member of the royal family of verums because of this plan. but I guess times have changed. I doubt my brother still cares about blood ties, " Queen magret shook her head.

" Send for backup,"  she said. Queen magret did not mind causing trouble for her kingdom. Anyone who has plans to hurt her son is an enemy to her.

Prince Sébastien was still not fully sure of his mother's plans but he followed his mother's instructions and send a message to Jeffery to lead an Army down to verums.

... 

At the crown prince Quarte, Avalo. 

Jeffery had woken up that morning, just before the first sunlight. He was aware of the prince going on a short journey with his mother. So this morning he was already aware that he would be responsible for training the soldiers that morning. After washing his face, he got ready to meet the soldiers who should already be waiting at the training field when he got the first message from the prince. 

The message was strange. The prince had asked him to disguise himself and go into his bed-chamber. Ensure to make a little noise to wake the princess up and then leave before the princess is fully awake or ask him any questions. 

"strange," Jeffery muttered under his voice but he was certain that the message was from the prince so he decided to do as was instructed.

He immediately disguise himself as the prince, when he walked into the chamber her saw the book that was left half over on the table and the princess who was sleeping. 

He walked to the foot of the bed and stared at her intensely. He was not sure of what sound to make that will be enough to wake her up. 

After he thought about it for some time, he decided to leave the room. As he walked towards the door, he deliberately made his step noise. Then he closed the door with a bang. 

If his steps did not wake her up, he was certain the door will. When he came out of the prince's chamber, he returned to his room and change his outfit before heading to the training ground. 

He was halfway to the training ground when he got another message from the crown prince. He was reluctant to check it afraid that it might be a strange request again but he had no choice. 

When he saw the new message to match the soldiers to verums as secretly as possible, Jeffrey knew things could not be so simple. The twenty already left with the prince so he had to arrange everything by himself.

Jeffrey was not sure of the situation, it was impossible to move at least ten thousand men quietly, so he did the exact opposite of the prince's words and moved out twenty thousand instead. He did not move them quietly.

He made sure everyone in Avalo knew he was taking the men out of the kingdom. But instead of making it known that they were headed towards verums, he made even the soldiers believe that they were going to attack Pontus one of the three kingdoms that attacked Avalo recently. 

He chose Pontus because it shared bandry with verums, which will make getting into verums easy. That way the kingdom of Verums will not be alert.

He also made sure that an error was made concerning the number of men he moved with. 

Everyone including king Roderick thought he took ten thousand men with him. They also thought that it was the crown prince that led the men.

King Roderick was a bit angry that his son did not pre-inform him before making such a move but since he trusted prince Sébastien's judgment, he decided not to stop him. 

After all, the person to benefit the most from this fight was him. This did not mean he would not scold him when he returned.. He was still the king and he could not just stand by and watch the brat make all the decisions without informing him.