It was easy to persuade people with power. It would take me some time to impress the princess, but impressing the dying old man next to her was a piece of cake. How he ruled the empire when he was still young, or what he had achieved throughout his rule was none of my business because I knew his current condition very well.

‘A lame duck.’

Since it seemed like it was about time they declared a new emperor, the word suited him. There were actually some talks about a successor and the people who originally served the emperor had either changed their master or were looking for a different path. This was a so-called power leak. Of course, the emperor in front of us was still powerful because the old man was still the emperor of this empire. He still had a fixed number of people supporting him, and he still had the power to decide on his successor. Basically, he could keep his position for another three to five years, but the problem was how he felt about it. Even if this wasn’t the case…

‘I’m sure he feels like his power is weakening.’

If that wasn’t the case, he wouldn’t have called us here. His nature was a Timid Man of Power and it suited him pretty well. Powerful people like him pretended...