The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1403

Chapter 1403: Suspicious Intent

Crown Prince Lukas was immediately suspicious of Karl’s intentions. It didn’t take a genius to realize that he knew more than he was willing to share, so now that he was pushing for Rue to be made Crown Princess, his motives were definitely suspect.

Could it be that Karl wanted her to take over his position?

Or did he just think that Rue would make a good Queen?

The third possibility was the one that was truly disturbing, though. What if the Chaos Dragon had foreseen something that made it necessary for Rue to be Queen? Could there be some catastrophe headed their way that would be averted with certain people in just the right role?

Having the right person doing the job when things went wrong was the most foolproof method of saving citizens in a disaster.

But the not knowing was killing him.

"I will need to think about the best options, both for the Kingdom and for Rue. I get that political marriages are different, but I can’t condemn her to a life like the Queen has with my father, a loveless political union, if there is a better option." He relented after a moment. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Karl shrugged. "It’s up to you. Do what you think needs to be done, and I will go along with it. I’m sure you already know that I’m not allowed to tell you the future that has been foreseen, but don’t let it stress you out too much.

What needs to be, will be. And I believe that we’ve already averted the very worst of it.

Probably."

Now that he thought of it, there was still an excellent chance that Rue could turn down the dark path if another attack like this was successful, and she lost one of the few friends that she had managed to gain.

The loss of Mildred would have been devastating to her, and she would have never forgiven the Queen for setting up the attack, even if whatever "royal investigation" they did was to produce evidence to implicate someone else.

It didn’t take a genius to gather that there was likely to be a cover-up to protect whoever had enough power to set that explosion.

In short, Misty had set him up. There was no easy way to ensure that Rue was going to take the light path instead of the dark unless he did something drastic that would put her so far from danger, or so far above her peers, that it would become impossible for anyone to act against her.

Before Lukas could answer, a strange training technique caught his attention. Cara was teaching Rue melee combat styles, but the current technique involved sliding forward on her knees and attacking with an uppercut. Only it was done with the hand open and claws extended.

"Is the badger teaching her to ..."

Karl shrugged. "Almost certainly, yes. Cara does not believe in off limits attacks when it comes to self-defence. I seem to recall that you asked her about vital zones before."

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