Carl's scheme

Mary, Kaiser, and Jian stayed in the room for the whole night. None of them said even a single word. They were all looking at Theo.

Kaiser was thinking of something else. The physician's words were running through his mind. He was feeling burst of emotions. He wanted nothing but for the person responsible for this to kill him.

Jian who saw him trembling slightly and placed his hand on Kaiser's shoulder and shook his head.

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The next day, a rectangular stone was placed in the court hall. In the middle of the hall, on that stone, the body of the son of Mary was placed with flowers as a bed. The court hall was not huge and it had an open ceiling. On one side of the hall, they were several dragon heads engraved on it. They were the ancestors of the empire. The stone table was a place where they perform funeral rites. On the table, a layer of dark red roses was placed around Theo.

Everyone was paying their respects.

Mary was sitting on the throne. She had an expressionless face as she was staring at the stone. No one disturbed her.

Carl entered the hall and walked towards the stone. He had rather a slight smile on his face. As he walked, he attracted the attention of everyone. Behind him, they were several ministers of the court.

He walked past the stone and stood in front of Mary. She was still looking at her son's sleep from which he won't wake up, lying still on the stone with her dead eyes.

Carl then made his presence known slightly with a single heavy step on the ground. Although it looked like he just stepped forward, the impact created was like a wave that erupted the entire hall.

"Your majesty," Jian called out to Mary as he was standing beside her. Seeing that she was unaffected by the wave and was not even looking at the members present in front of her, he called her.

Carl didn't hide his intentions, he came here and obviously had no good intentions. And to declare that, the officials behind him were proof of that.

After being called out by Jian, Mary came out of the daze, and she saw Carl. Her killing intent rose like an erupted volcano. It was obvious that the reason for Theo's death was Carl. She knew that no one was capable enough to threaten the existence of the Imperial family except for him.

Not only did do such a despicable thing and show up here to mourn. Mary was not able to hold back any longer. Even though she hadn't loved her husband that much, he died, and not after long her son also died. She no longer cared about anything.

She glared at Carl with pure killing intent. Everyone was shocked to see Mary releasing such a heavy killing intent. Mary had not fought till now, she handled all the matters in the court and left the other fights to Blodig. So no one has seen her fight that much not to mention no one knew how powerful was she.

Carl didn't expect her to reveal herself and his reason for coming here was to take the throne.

"Well, I think it's no longer required for me to stay behind. Why don't give the throne to me and leave with your son's body?" Carl said to Mary. Not everyone was surprised by his words of Carl, it was like they expected this outcome. But they felt it was not the right time to discuss such things at a funeral.

Only a few individuals were shocked to hear those words, Jian and Kaiser. They didn't think that Carl would come here on a day like this. Kaiser was fuming with anger. Jian has told him about Carl and that he was the reason for Theo's death. Ever since he knew, he wanted to kill him and make peace with his brother but he was stopped by Jian.

Mary furrowed her eyebrows in disdain and stood up. Then a bright red light shone around her, and the next second she was transformed into a huge red dragon.

Her dragon was so fierce with red scales all over and the giant wings which spread on either side reached the end of the walls. She had black horns on her head with sharp teeth which can be seen. It was so ferocious and wild.

She was completely different from the human form she had. Her aura was domineering that made everyone present send chill down their spines. She was like scorching sun emitting a lot of heat waves.

Through her clenched teeth, hot steams were breathed out of her mouth at regular intervals.

ROOOOOOAAAAAARRRR!

She then pressed her claw on the floor and roared toward Carl. It was like a strong wind gale passed through the court hall. This made everyone shudder. But Carl stood without any disturbance.

Agreeing with Mary, Carl also transformed into a dragon. he had black scales all over his body. He was about the same height as that Mary.

Both of them were facing each other, occupying the entire hall. Everyone who was present in the hall ran out. Only Jian and Kaiser remained in the hall.

It was the first time Carl, revealed his dragon form. After a certain time, he was not even seen that much but as soon as Blodig died, he started raising his power through unknown means and was preparing to claim the throne.

Mary was a little bit startled upon seeing Carl turning. During their prime, Carl used to be good at fighting with his dragon form but soon after Blodig surpassed him. Then later in the hands of Blodig, he had tasted utter defeat countless times. This made Carl disappear and he has not appeared outside much.

Things progressed within a few seconds and both of them were now in their dragon form.