Two days later, sitting on the throne Nathan asks Halbert" how are things progressing".

Halbert says, according to our plan I have sent my men to take care of the families that are opposing or may oppose you and they have dealt with those families accordingly except for those two big families.

Nathan says, well I knew those families wouldn't surrender to me and it is very difficult to destroy them even though they were weak individually but because they are in the same city so they are fighting us together.

No matter the cost we have to destroy those families otherwise it would be very difficult for me to become the Duke.

Halbert says, I don't understand why you are adamant on destroying those families because already most of the families in our dukedom already surrendered to us .

Nathan asks,do you know why my brother ludwin didn't become Duke even after death of my father.

Halbert says,it's because emperor didn't want make ludwin the Duke.

Nathan says, no thats not it, he wanted to make my brother the Duke but he wanted to see what move his 4 children gonna make in that situation using those families that are not in favour to ludwin so he choose to wait.

Halbert says, wait do you meant to say is that emperor assigned those Dukedoms to each of his children to take over another Dukedoms.

Nathan says,you are half correct because you know our empire have 4 Dukedoms,so emperor assigned each dukedom to each of his children to test their children's abilities to develop and conquer others Dukedoms without major conflict or bloodshed.

So,all of those princes and princesses are trying to develop their own dukedom but to conquer other dukedom using tactics.

They won't use force atleast openly because emperor would never let that happen because after all he is the emperor so if he wanted he could easily stop all these games in a moment.

Nathan continuous by saying, you know our dukedom was assigned to 3rd prince and in his watch our dukedom didn't make any significant progress and also Duke also died so I think emperor may have seen this as incompotance and may give other children a chance to take over this dukedom using unsatisfied people or families.

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Halbert asks, so this means emperor wants to make another person Duke rather than a person from the grace family.

Nathan says,no no you might have misunderstood me because I already told you the emperor wanted to make Ludwin the Duke otherwise our dukedom will go into dissaray because there are many families that are loyal to grace family.

I don't think we have offended emperor by killing ludwin because he wanted to make the Duke from grace family,he probably won't care who it is,especially if ludwin's replacement is a 7th circle mage but we need to cautiously deal with emperor and his children.

Halbert says,Yes you are correct we need to be careful especially about first princess. I heard she is the strongest among 4 children but we not only need to be cautious about royal family but also about Alvina.

Nathan says,I almost forgot about her, isn't she the fiance of ludwin and also second daughter of Duke of sourthern dukedom. What about her, why is she even relavent because with the death of ludwin and my father, the engagement is automatically nullified.

Halbert says, it's not that simple because at first it was only political marriage but we recently found that they both fell for each other. Our shadow soldier just yesterday found out that after hearing the news about death of ludwin, Alvina fainted. After checking her,doctor confirmed ludwin's baby is growing inside her.

Nathan screams,shiiiiiit how could this be, how could misfortune loves me this much. After screaming for some time he calms down and says, Halbert I'll develop a plan against this unexpected situation.

Before that, I am gonna to deal with those 2 big families in the meantime you should stabilize the situation in our capital.

Halbert says, no problem I'll deal with that but how will deal with those 2 families because all of my soldiers went in disguise to destroy opposing families but if you directly destroy them then things going to get difficult for us.

Nathan, with a smile says, you don't need to worry about that because I am the FIRE PHANTOM. After saying that he rushes to outside towards dolria city where those 2 families are located.

Hearing the name fire phantom, Halbert was shocked and thinks that, how is this possible fire phantom is the most wanted assassin in our eastern and also in southern Dukedoms because he killed.....no he masecred thousands people.

If Nathan really is fire phantom then I also should be careful otherwise one day I would sleep and never wakeup.

After reaching dolria city,Nathan changes into his assassins clothes and waits for the nightfall. In the mid of night he directly goes to one of those 2 major families estate and he took a bag of coins with him.

Before attacking Nathan thinks, I thought don't need to be assassin anymore after death of those two bastards but these 2 families forced me to be fire phantom once more. For this I will definitely give them a gift.....a gift of 1000 copper coins.