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Are you planning to use the power of your Sequence 4 saint to contend with someone almost stepping into the Secret Realm?

Or do you intend to persuade him to relinquish his spoils through the 'dignity' of the Victoria Royal Family?"

The silver-haired woman's voice wasn't loud, yet each word struck mercilessly, cutting off all possible retorts from Charles.

She leaned forward slightly, her gaze sharper: "The foundation of the royal family? Brother, have you forgotten? The true foundation of our Victoria Royal Family has never been the person sitting on the throne, but the King's Path itself!

It's the Extraordinary Path that this Scepter of Royal Authority represents!

As the saint of the Path, you should understand this better than me, who is merely Sequence 5.

Kings may change, but the inheritance and power of the Path are our true foothold!"

The silver-haired woman paused, giving Charles time to digest this harsh reality, then shifted her tone with a trace of cold decisiveness:

"Moreover, isn't reaching this point the result of father's own foolish decisions?

He tried to challenge His Highness, handed over the Scepter of Royal Authority to Prince Rein, and tacitly approved this doomed ambush, allowing the royal family's greatest treasure to fall into the hands of outsiders!

Since he made the mistake, he should bear the consequences and pay the price.

Even... to retrieve the Scepter of Royal Authority and quell His Highness's anger, wouldn't sacrificing some things be justified?"

Prince Charles's face turned from red to white, then from white to blue, looking extremely unsightly.

The words of the silver-haired woman were like cold blades, stripping away all semblance of warmth, revealing the bare logic of power and the harsh reality within the royal family.

He wanted to argue back, but found every word was so powerless.

In the face of absolute power and harsh reality, so-called dignity and anger became ridiculous luxuries.

As Charles wallowed in the mire of humiliation and struggle, the expression on the silver-haired woman's face suddenly softened, like a thin layer of warm sun covering icy ground, carrying a strange seductive power.

"Brother."

She took a step closer, lowering her voice, creating an atmosphere of a secretive conversation even though it was useless in front of Lu Yan.

"You are the most dazzling prodigy of the Victoria Royal Family in a hundred years, the recognized first in line to the throne.

Your talent, your potential, far exceeds father."

She paused, a flash of complex and inscrutable light gleaming in her lavender eyes, locking onto Charles's gaze:

"But father has held the throne for over a hundred years.

Even if he has no hope of advancing to Sequence 4 in this life, with the power of the Path, he has at least seventy more years of life..."

"Seventy years, brother!"

She gently uttered the number, as if it bore a thousand pounds of pressure in itself.

"With your talents, are you really willing to remain a prince in name only for those long seventy years?"

"You should know that if you cannot ascend the throne, you can never hope to enter Sequence 2 as Code Monarch in this life.

Could it be that you truly wish to spend such a long time, missing the opportunity to advance as Code Monarch?"

These words, like the most precise key, stabbed directly into the deepest part of Prince Charles's heart, the corner occupied by ambition and dissatisfaction.

Prince Charles sadly realized that he instinctively agreed with the silver-haired woman's words.

She was like a mirror, reflecting the desires and agitation deep in his heart that even he was unwilling to fully acknowledge.

The anger and humiliation on his face didn't fully disappear, but that last bit of reckless struggle silently collapsed as if the spine had been removed.

He suddenly averted his gaze, not daring to look again into the silver-haired woman's eyes that seemed to see through everything, his Adam's apple rolling with difficulty.

Finally, Prince Charles lowered his head, as if acknowledging reality.

Lu Yan quietly observed this dramatic scene unfold before him.

He had to admit, the drama playing out was far beyond his original expectations.

Initially proposing the "script" to depose the king was Lu Yan's critique of the royal family, as well as a probe on another level.

However, events progressed unusually smoothly; the silver-haired woman not only agreed to Lu Yan's conditions but also successfully incited the once-furious Prince Charles.

In her seemingly ordinary words, Lu Yan keenly detected traces of a hidden power.

By stirring the desires within, she subtly bewitched Prince Charles, making him accept the script of deposing the king.

It appeared that Prince Charles was showing ambition, wanting to inherit the throne with the flow.

But if you think carefully, after Prince Charles agreed to Lu Yan's conditions, would he definitely inherit the throne?

Though he is the nominal first heir with the royal family's most outstanding talent.

Yet the king still holds great power, and Charles is the king's son.

Even if internal balancing within the royal family tacitly accepts the king's abdication, Charles as the one who accepted Lu Yan's conditions would inevitably be implicated.

The king wouldn't wish for a son who betrayed him to become his successor, and other power holders within the royal family would not allow such an ambitious new king.

Perhaps because of his extraordinary talent, there will be a chance in the future for Charles to ascend the throne and attempt to challenge Sequence 2 as Code Monarch.

It is foreseeable that Prince Charles will undoubtedly fail this time.

If the king abdicates and Prince Charles cannot inherit the throne, who will be the biggest beneficiary?