The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 283: A missing princess.

The arguments continued and no consensus was reached. After one hour of non stop back and forth, Akia decided that it was time for a break.

"It is a good sign that everyone is eager to rule our empire and lead it to greatness. I suggest that we all take a break now replenish ourselves. Food and drink has been provided in plenty."

As she suggested, so it happened. Not every guest ate, in fact half of them did not eat because they were worried that they would be poisoned. After what had happened to the king, their worries were not easily dismissed.

Musicians sang, jesters did their best to make the guests laugh, danced showed off their best moves. Some of the most recognized scholars recited poetry and Medoris’s best flutist soothed the men and women with his healing tunes.

And yet, that did not alleviate the tension in the hall. The nobles were anxious to continue with the matters which had brought them there. But, three hours later, as the day begun to fade, it continued to look more and more like that was not going to happen.

Akia, whose duty it was to manage the talks was laughing and making merry with a group of young ladies and lords as if the matters which for which she had called all these important people were of no concern.

Impatient, Malcom the fourth snapped, stood up and bellowed. "Enough! We have been here for six hours. Two were wasted on announcing who was attending this banquet. We spent only one talking about the next best noble Lord to lead our empire and three hours have been wasted on this food and drink celebration. May I remind you of what brought us here?"

The musicians stopped playing their music, the jesters quit with their antics and the hall was plunged into a mixture of silence and murmurs.

Lord Ridley had not spent that one hour comparing whose blood was more nobler than the others perhaps we would have seen

the banquet and they were shocking

fourth and Alexander Riley were vibrating in their seats. It sounded to their ears like Amelia was

words mean?" Akia was

but a gust of wind blew it back to the front. She ignored the hair and said, "Might I remind you all that the emperor has one more living child, his oldest

Alexander exclaimed and he

the throne? Times have

room, many men agreed with what

that a woman holding power is a thing to fear. They said that a woman could not rule a noble house and yet I defied all odds and did so. Today, Suncrest is a name mentioned with pride because of what I have

some of the noble lords and and yet they did not

female knights won wars for the late emperor, we even challenged the knights of this foreign church and killed many of them. We stopped their initial invasion of our land." She spoke with

knights puffed up their chests which pleased some male gazes that were admiring

golden throne will not be passed to a woman." Grand duke Ridley thundered. He stood up, fury marking his face. "I don’t think that there is anything to gain from this banquet and I must

their stomachs as empty as they had

rest were waiting for to depart as well. In forty minutes, the hall was emptied with the