The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress
Chapter 52: Are we all divine messengers!

Chapter 52: Are we all divine messengers!

Lysander Windrider put a hand on his father’s shoulder, calmly urging him not to overreact to what was a clear provocation from the duke and duchess of Thorin.

"Your grace," he smiled slyly as he stepped forward, "Surely even you know that what the crown princess and your family did is a crime. What your purpose in marrying a woman with magic into the royal family?"

The room erupted into chaos, the supporters of the Thorin’s and crown princess plus friends of the duke, neutral parties and even those who simply had an opinion wanted to share it.

Lysander’s carefully wrapped words almost made it seem as if the Thorin’s had other ambitions__treasonous ones.It worked because the king frowned and sat down, studying Sigrid carefully. His face was ashen, he gripped the armrests of his throne tightly.

"Silence." he raised a hand and commanded, his voice echoing through the room. "Crown princess, duke Thorin, can you explain yourselves?"

Duke Thorin nodded at Sigrid and she faced the king, standing tall besides Roland with her gaze unwavering as it met that of the king.

"Your highness, she said, her voice clear and resolute, "Lysander Windrider is a master of arts in manipulation using his words, please do not allow him to mislead you. It is true that I have magic but I assure you, I did not marry into the royal family with the gift.

It was awakened in me after I was already married, and only a month ago. Naturally I was very frightened just like miss Emmah over here." her hand swept out once over Emmah. "I immediately sent for the lord mage and told him what had happened to me and I voluntarily asked him to find a way to strip the magic.

I am not a fool, I did not share this with my family to save them from doom if I was found out before the magic could be stripped and I could not inform you, your highness for I was afraid that you would sentence me to death immediately.

If you doubt me, you can question the lord mage, I believe that he is present in this hall."

The people craned their necks and eyes, whispering as they searched for the lord mage, it was not necessary for her showed himself immediately.

"Your highness." he said calmly and bowed.

Lord mage Alden Ironhart was a tall man, hard to be missed by anyone in the hall and he walked up the steps to the throne with the permission of the king, standing just in front of a knight.

"Is it true what the crown princess says?" King Raff asked.

Everyone fell silent, waiting to hear the response of the lord mage which was immediate.

"It is true that the crown princess has magic and its also true that she came to me the moment she awakened the gift." he said, firm in his words.

The king put his hands together. "So why does she still have magic? Why haven’t you stripped it?"

Lord mage Alden shook his head, "It has proven impossible and deadly, three times in the process the crown princess almost lost her life, once I had to send for doctor Draven from the imperial hospital to revive her.

I have already given up on trying, magic is mysterious and ancient, we don’t know why it is bestowed on some and not others. It seeks to exist for a reason, which is why it is no longer appearing in girls at birth and choosing to show up when they have matured."

"Oh, are there more?" The queen asked.

Alden nodded slowly, "Three other cases that I have seen in this year alone, two in the last one and five the previous one. Unfortunately, two of them died when we tried to strip away their magic, one lost her mind completely. I made a decision to keep the rest on the mage estate until we figure out why things have changed.

From my observations, there will be more cases like this, I implore everyone not to act rashly. The laws governing mages are quiet different from those governing ordinary humans.

The crown princess and others like her will not be beheaded when they can be put to work for the kingdom. Their talents are a gift from God, we have already defied nature by stripping magic from infant girls, I am afraid of what will happen should we continue with the practice.

I fear that magic altogether mat disappear from Eldoria if we continue perverting the natural laws. If we lack magic while other kingdoms and empires have it, the consequences will be grave for us."

"Lord mage, are you sure that you are not working with the crown princess to fool us all?" Prime minister Windrider asked. "You have been in contact with her for a month, sharing this big secret, for all we know you are in cahoots, knights, arrest the crown princess."

"I will see who dares to touch my granddaughter." Duke Thorin exploded.

Immediately, chaos erupted again as if a switch had been flipped. Voices clashed, accusations flew and the nobles fractured into factions, some in support and others in condemnation. Sigrid who at the center of it all was calmly smiling as she watched them tear into each other.

The prime minister was not wrong, everything about the perversion of nature that the lord mage had talked about had been fed to him by Sigrid, he was now loyal to her one hundred percent but nobody needed to know that.

Her calculation had been simple, if she controlled the lord mage, she controlled every magic user in Eldoria. Emmah was too late to the party, if she had been the first and only woman in Eldoria with magic as it was written in the novel, she would have been able to secretly control the mages.

The yellowish halo on Emmah’s head dimmed slightly and a crack was formed in it, adding to three cracks that had already formed within.

"Enough!" King Raff yelled. "This matter will be handled by the mage estate and royal family. In the meantime, no woman that has awakened magic is allowed to use it until a decision is made."

The court settled down slowly, some people were even heaving as a result of verbal intense arguments.

"Lord mage, I have a question, does this mean that all women that have awakened magic are divine messengers?" Sigrid piped up, intruding on the calm which had just been restored.

"No, there is no such thing as divine messenger, simply different magical abilities. It is because magic has mostly been used for making and wielding swords that new knowledge is looked upon as divinity." The lord mage replied.

It was also another thing Sigrid had shared with him, he was simply parroting her words.

A crack formed in Emmah’s halo and she winced, she wondered why she was getting a headache and she glared at Sigrid. It was bound to be the crown princess, she had snatched her divine messenger title away, sending her back to the identity of a commoner.

King Raff was suddenly excited, "Haha, those fools in Medoris don’t even know this, it is a good thing that I am wise and saw through the lie."

It was a general consensus, the king was a fool, how was he wise when the lord mage was the one with the information? He had been ready to marry Emmah to the crown prince because he thought she was a divine messenger.

"Ask Emmah why she was in the land of mist?" Cosmos’s voice came in Sigrid’s mind.

She looked at Lysander Windrider and smiled, it looked like the moment to begin his destruction had arrived.