RISE OF EROS

"Excuse me, what?" was what came out of Clarissa's mouth, as she couldn't understand Diana's words. It's logical, as hearing her say that they would destroy one of the oldest and most powerful noble families in the kingdom was not something the queen should say.

Diana didn't care about Clarissa's question, as she seemed to understand Clarissa's thoughts and with a somewhat melancholic smile she began to tell her the reason why she wanted to destroy the Vilotti family.

The Vilotti family is one of the oldest noble families and although it is not one of the founding families of the kingdom, it was quite close. It can be said that after the royal family and the 3 founding families, the Vilotti family is the oldest.

It cannot be denied that they contributed a lot to the development of the country, which is why they earned the status they have today. At first, they were like any noble family, working for the well-being of the country.

However, at some point in history, they stopped making sacrifices for the country and focused on strengthening themselves. The number of experts they have at their disposal was not intended to protect, but to usurp the country.

The Vilotti family began to marry their young people to different wealthy and powerful families, with the aim of gaining power and they succeeded. However, since they were still a powerful asset to the country, no one noticed their elusive movements.

That was true until the Listroff family noticed something strange. Luna's family is one of the founding families of the kingdom, so they are loyal to death since both they and the other two founding families built this country together with the royal family of Dunnas.

Dunnas despite having a mostly desert territory, is not always peaceful, to be more exact they have quite a few enemies, because although there is desert, there is also a lot of water, which is a rather strange contrast.

In ancient times they had problems with the barbarians, something they have managed to solve in recent decades, and now they have a friendship with them, however, Dunnas also borders the kingdom of Galicia.

If Dunnas' territory is problematic, Galicia's is even more so. Sharing a border with Dunnas, part of its territory is desert and the other part is mountainous, but its mountains are rocky, which creates a deficiency when it comes to producing food.

Thanks to its rocky mountains, it has many mineral resources, such as iron, copper, and other metals, but its land is not suitable for agriculture, so it depends on trade for most of its food.

Although its desert terrain is similar to Dunnas's and there are many oases and rivers, this region is small and impossible to develop as a granary for the country as Dunnas does with its different oases and rivers.

In addition, being located on the border is not the right place to have the country's granary. For this reason, they have always tried to invade Dunnas and secure resources to solve their crisis.

The reason they prefer to attack Dunnas is because the only other country they share a border with is the Anus Empire, which has a force comparable to the Cannaris Empire.

In addition, the border they share with Annus is a rocky mountain range that makes any military operation difficult, so the only option they really have is to attack Dunnas.

This confrontation has lasted for centuries and many men have died in this war. Although they are not large-scale fights, there have always been skirmishes between the two countries.

Not even once has a truce or peace treaty been raised. The Vilotti family was one of the most active in defending the border, but a few decades ago some changes began to be seen.

Somehow, the experts sent by the Vilotti family always suffered considerably lower casualties than the other families. At first, everyone thought that since they were improving their strength, their warriors were more resistant and therefore could avoid losses, but that was not the case. Continue reading on empire

The Listroff family began to suspect that something was wrong because although the Vilotti family had become stronger, it was not to the level that they always came out unscathed. Then, the Listroff family found the problem.

Daphne's husband and Diana's father died in battle, and so did Diana's husband. This is not unusual, as in war anyone can die, especially with warriors like Dunnas who defend their manhood through battle.

There is no such thing as queens' husbands staying behind the lines protected by others, so their deaths were not rare, but it was rare that they, who were the most promising warriors, died and the weaker experts of the Vilotti family survived.

The Listroff family slowly infiltrated the Vilotti family and discovered that they had allied themselves with Galicia, to assassinate Daphne's and Diana's husband, the two most promising warriors of the last decades of Dunnas.

Not only had they colluded with the enemies to assassinate two of the most promising warriors, but they also began to dismantle different noble families in order to gain power.

Their plan was simple, they would destroy Dunnas from within and Galicia from without. When the Listroff family found out about this, they immediately communicated it to the royal family and the other two founding families.

At that moment, they were seething with anger and wanted to destroy the Vilotti family, but it was not possible, because with Galicia pressuring them and with their forces weakened they would suffer a loss, so they decided to wait.

The Vilottis were resting and accumulating strength, while the royal family and the three founding families were losing strength. That is why they had to play a long game.

Many believe that the Listroff family, as well as the other two founding families, had lost their strength, as they had disappeared from the political scene and had lost many experts in war, but that is not the case.

Daphne who was the queen at the time came up with a plan to destroy the Vilotti family. She made the three founding families leave the main plane as if they were falling into decline, but in reality, they were regaining their strength.

Luna who is the current Marchioness of the Listroff family did not actually reside in the capital, none of the founding families do and she was not in the capital just to attend Victoria's engagement party.

She had come to report that the founding families were ready to move and coincidentally the engagement party happened, and seeing what had happened, she decided to inform the queen, as it was the perfect excuse to start the cleanup.

This was the problem with the nobles. Even though they were known to be traitors, they couldn't be destroyed without a cause, as the other nobles would start to believe that they could be next, leading the situation to a civil war, something that no one wanted.

And that was where Andrew's fight with the Marchioness Vilotti came into play in this political game. In short, they would use Andrew as a sword, to cut down their enemies.

Obviously, the royal family couldn't side with Andrew and eliminate the Vilotti family under that excuse, because to the public the Vilotti family had contributed a lot to the country over the years, so abandoning them for a stranger would still cause discontent, but that changed if Andrew generated contributions.

Andrew's massages are heavenly, but don't think that women as intelligent and experienced as Daphne and Diana would give him shares in the mall just for that, it was all part of this plan.

Now everyone knew that Andrew was the one who proposed this idea that is bearing fruit. It was also promoted that the new shopping mall was his proposal, which is true, but the propaganda sent out is for the purpose of making it known so that people see that he has contributed.

People have short memories and will prefer a person who offers fruits now to those who did so in previous times that they did not even know or live.

Although they still had to discuss it with Andrew, their last card is to reveal that Andrew possessed demigod-level strength with him and with these three factors, it was more than enough for the royal family to side with him.

Just think about it, would there be discontent if the royal family chose Andrew over the Vilotti family after they boosted the economy and had a demigod-like powerhouse who could help the kingdom?

The answer is "No", and even if there was, the Vilotti family had put the final nail in their coffin by acting so arrogantly and overbearingly in recent years, which was already causing discomfort among some nobles and citizens.

The older members of the Vilotti family had created this plan, but the younger ones were ignorant and acted arrogantly, a mistake that now had them in check.

When Clarissa heard everything Diana said, she was beyond shocked. She couldn't believe that all of this was happening in the country, without her knowing about it, but it wasn't strange, as the Caltu family was also part of the plan.

The Caltu family is very close to the royal family despite not being an old family like the Vilotti. They had political power and connections, but suddenly they focused on business and lost everything else.

Clarissa didn't know about this, but Victoria's mother thought it was strange and that's how she found out that her ancestors were helping the royal family and the founding families with this movement.

For this reason, Victoria's mother continued the efforts of her predecessors, but unfortunately, she was killed by the Vilotti family. When Clarissa heard this, anger began to run through her body.

She always thought that her sister had died in an accident and in fact, everyone in the family thought that, but it was not true, she was killed so that Victoria would rise to power and the Vilotti family could marry her and take her resources. that is why they where border when Andrew engaged with her. It was all a web of intrinsic tricks from side to side trying to outdo each other.