Ch. 347 Uncertain future

With little more to do besides wait for the fragments of the Jade Princess to be painstakingly assembled in a similar fashion as a jigsaw puzzle, Queen Jade Thorn Rose was forced to deal with the fall out caused by the death of two kings. It was not so much that she was facing the risk of invasion from other kingdoms wanting to take advantage of the situation, but the grim reality that her lossed pregnancy caused the Ironskin City-state.

With no clear living heir to the throne of the City-state, the future of the tiny independent nation was uncertain. She could potentially make a claim to it as the wife of the late Crown Prince Wodon Ironskin, and serve as Queen Regent until a more permanent governance of the City-state could be determined. On the other hand Duar Ironskin's brother had an equal if not higher clame to the throne of the City-state, as that territory was originally part of his kingdom back when his father sat on the throne.