The corrupt officials wanted to run away, but the royal guards already surrounded the meeting hall.
Even Duke Fez' soldiers were on standby outside of the castle.
With Duke Fez's power in both politics and the military, the officials had no way to run from their punishment.
That morning, the corrupt officials' families were immediately arrested, their assets were taken away by the royal family, and the rest of the family members were all demoted to commoners.
Such a huge fuss alarmed the noble and aristocrats' circle, and all of them looked in the castle's direction with fear.
What is the tyrant doing this time? So many people are arrested, and their assets are taken away!
The nobles were frightened, but the commoners weren't affected at all.
In fact, Dike Fez even invited tons of commoners who were direct victims of those corrupt officials to attend the execution tomorrow.
He didn't explain what's the event would be, but with such a formal invitation, the ignorant commoners had no choice but to attend the event.
While Duke Fez was busy arresting people, the prime minister was busy facing the old staff who had now become the cabinet's supervisors.
The old staff took the chance to pressure the prime minister, bringing him to the court and other things.
In just a day, the prime minister would have to stop working for a few months, and another person would fill his position as the prime minister.
The prime minister was in a pinch. He's so busy dealing with this sudden 'attack' that he didn't have time to vent to his son, Kian.
Theo, in the body of Kian, took the chance to slip out of the meeting hall and went to explore the castle instead.
[Gary, tell me how many unfortunate children do we have in the original plotline?]
Since Theo had thought of farming bonus points, he would start with finding those unfortunate children.
[There were more than ten in the whole series. But there were only two, Isabella and Kian, in the first volume.]
Theo paused his steps and raised an eyebrow.
[Ten? So many! How come there are so many children sacrificed here? Are you sure it's not the no-name characters such as the disaster victims and such?]
A no-name character shouldn't be included in the mission list because there were just too many of them.
Saving them couldn't break the plotline either, so it's better to quickly break it and free these no-name characters from the world setting's binding power.
Gary hurriedly presented the text that told the story of the ten unfortunate children, including Isabella and Kian, as the biggest victims.
[The other eight victims are mostly the royal prince and princess! Other cannon fodders are around Lizeth's age or around Erick's age.]
The system didn't count children above ten years old in the protection program, and that's why there were only that many 'victims' recorded.
Most of the victims were indeed the princes and princesses in the late king's harem.
[When Lizeth became the queen, many royal concubines thought that their children could also become the new king/queen if such a lowly princess could do it.]
Gary let out a sigh as he presented the name of the 8 unfortunate children. There were 6 boys and 2 girls.
Most of the victims were boys because their mothers thought boys had a higher chance to become the ruler of the kingdom rather than girls.
But this world favoured girls because of the 'doting brothers, doting daddies, and doting male leads' setting.
Thus, most of the boys ended up with a tragic fate, including two princesses who were always jealous of Lizeth.
[There is one boy at the age of ten, two girls at the age of ten, the rest are around six to eight years old, ] Gary added.
The youngest victim is still Isabella, five years old.
[Hmmm, those victims, are they already at the designed age now? Or those ages are when they died in the original novel?]
If the victims were older than ten years old when they died in the novel, they wouldn't be counted as child victims, right?
[All of them are younger now. The boy is eight years old. The two girls are also eight years old. The others are around Isabella's age or older by one or two years.]
For the younger children, Theo didn't plan to approach them for the time being.
Maybe the host in charge of Isabella would reap the bonus points for those children.
His target...should be the eight-year-old boy and the two girls at the same age as the boy.
[Tell me their names. The older children's names.]
Theo's identity as the son of the prime minister was really suitable to approach these older children, especially the prince.
He could befriend the prince somehow and try to prevent him from meeting his early death.
[The boy is called Prince Willhem, and the girls are Princess Luviana and Valeria.]
[Got it. Check their positions. Start with Prince Willhem.]
Theo was a high-ranking host, and his guide system also had more functions and authority than other systems.
Tracking the characters' locations in this world was just a child play for Gary.
[Got it. Prince Wilhem is at the royal library right now. He's alone! Let's go, young master!]
While Gary and Kian were busy trying to farm bonus points while running away from the crazy prime minister, Mariella was currently facing an unexpected person.
She had just gone back to the throne room, about to wait for Duke Fez to come back before discussing more things when a maid suddenly entered the hall.
"Reporting, your majesty, P-princess Lizeth requests an audience…"
Mariella's eyes widened in surprise as she observed the kneeling maid.
Lizeth's maid?
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