Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 305 The Man on the Throne

The Northern Taxation Bureau and the secret passage were blown down, and Lilith had already escaped into the secret passage. This was totally unacceptable to Claire. She wanted to see the body alive or dead, so she immediately shouted angrily: "Blow it up!"

But at this time, the craftsmen of the palace advised: "Your Highness, if it is blown up, it may collapse more severely!"

"Then find other secret passage entrances. Go inside the secret passages and call back all the adventurers to find them!"

The secret passages in the palace are interconnected, and some of them even existed before the Augustine family came to power. The Northern Tax Bureau is also unable to build a separate secret passage in a short period of time. It is difficult to just plan to avoid the original secret passages, so when designing the secret passages of the Tax Bureau, they were also connected to the secret passages in the palace.

It would be troublesome if Lilith escaped into the secret passages that existed before the Augustine family came to power.

However, even Augustine was not familiar with those secret passages, and as long as the craftsmen of the palace were in Claire's hands, it would be difficult for Lilith to escape from the secret passages. Of course, this was under normal circumstances.

"Immediately send someone to guard the exits of each secret passage!"

"But Your Highness, we may not have enough manpower, and Your Majesty... the fake king has those strange holy light spells in his hands, and ordinary people have no way to deal with them."

The secret guards around Claire looked embarrassed. It seemed that the fake king was really protected by the holy light. He was a secret guard of the royal family, but he was stabbed to death by two spears.

"Just do it if I tell you to!"

Claire's expression was quite scary, but she quickly said, "Don't rush to do it. Can't you do surveillance or send a message?!"

The secret guards quickly took action, but Claire did not immediately announce her accession to the throne in the main hall of the palace as originally planned. Instead, she naively smashed and looted things in the Northern Tax Bureau, the institution built by Lilith.

"I asked you to be a queen, I asked you to reform, I asked you to be a saint!"

After the tax bureau was completely destroyed by Claire, the people around him dared to step forward cautiously and said, "Your Highness, the prime minister is still alive."

It seemed that thanks to the shield that Lilith gave her at the end, Nora's whole body was charred at this time, but she was still alive.

Claire violently stepped on the already dying Nora, twisted her feet twice, and seeing that so much time had passed, she said to the people around her: "Contact the demons and tell them that my business has been done, and prepare to negotiate with me."

"This man is keeping him alive. If the fake king is not dead, he will still be of some use."

With that, Claire finally waved her cloak and prepared to head towards the main hall.

At this time, the adventurers had completed their mission and began to gather around Claire. Some adventurers literally flattered Claire on the road, but seeing that Claire was not in a good mood, those adventurers did not dare to say much. Even Paul noticed something was wrong, but he only dared to follow Claire silently.

Along the way, more and more palace guards appeared on both sides in an orderly manner. Seeing this scene, Claire's mood finally improved and she asked, "Who arranged it? He did a good job. I can arrange a job for him in the palace."

But the people around Claire looked at each other in confusion. Is there anyone who can spare the time to control these palace guards?

Seeing that no one replied, Claire didn't care. She thought it must be the family members coming to welcome their new queen to the throne.

Because Lilith didn't like this luxurious and grand main hall, the main hall was not affected much and was still as majestic and solemn as before.

Claire has already thought about what she will say and do after ascending the throne, how to use the demons to deal with the church and balance the North, and even how to reward everyone.

But just as Claire stepped onto the steps in front of the main hall, she found something was wrong. Why didn't any of her Augustine family members come out to greet her?

Claire walked up the steps slowly and came to the main entrance of the main hall. The lights in the main hall were brightly on at this time, and it seemed that there were people inside. A group of palace guards and soldiers were lined up on both sides of the main hall. Among them were many soldiers of the Southwestern Frontier Army, who were looking at Claire with malicious eyes.

Claire felt frightened by being stared at, and the people behind her didn't even dare to breathe. When Claire raised her head, she found that someone was already sitting on the throne in the middle. The noble seat that should have belonged to her was now occupied by another person.

Claire's breathing even stopped for a moment, as if every breath became difficult to swallow. The princess glanced around the hall, trying to find a trace of illusion to tell herself that she was dreaming, trying to deny everything in front of her.

Paul immediately stood up, mustered up the courage to point at the person on the throne and shouted: "Who are you? Your Highness drove out the false king and saved the people from danger. This position should belong to Your Highness!"

The man sitting on the throne said nothing, only sighed deeply.

Finally, Claire opened her lips slightly, and asked in a trembling tone of disbelief, as if to confirm: "Brother?"

Cliff, sitting on the throne, was still as decadent as before. Without the crown, his middle-aged balding head was exposed to everyone without reservation, without any dignity at all.

Cliff had heavy bags under his eyes and seemed to have no energy at all. He slumped on the throne and kept sighing, but no one knew what he was lamenting about.

In contrast, Judith and Scott, the two Dukes of the Southwest, were standing on Cliff's left and right. Compared to the decadent Cliff, the two of them had a more powerful aura. At first glance, one might even think that the two Dukes were holding Cliff hostage to command the world.

Especially Judith, the look she gave Claire was hard to tell whether it was hatred or disgust, but she definitely wanted to eat Claire alive.

"elder brother!"

Claire knelt down in a daze, looking at the armies on both sides. She knew she had lost, but she didn't know how she lost. Wasn't Lilith her only opponent? Was it Judith who broke into the palace, captured her eldest brother, and drove him to the throne?

To outsiders, this was the most reasonable guess, but Claire knew that it would be impossible to capture the palace gate so quickly unless Judith had some special means.

Seeing Claire kneeling down, the people behind her also knelt down in panic.

Everything happened so fast that no one knew what was going on.

And Cliff, who was sitting on the throne, finally raised his eyelids amidst constant lamentations and looked at his most outstanding sister in the family.

"I...I really didn't want to do this, Claire, I'm sorry...When I came to my senses, it had already become like this."

Cliff continued to apologize, but looking at the empty look in her big brother's eyes, Claire felt uneasy.