Chapter 18: Archduke Montaner

Archduke Damien Ilizer of Montaner. He was the man who had ruled the empire for ten years in place of the dead emperor and the disappeared crown prince, and though he was called an archduke, he was essentially no different from an emperor. But in one more season, he would become emperor not only in reality but also in name. This was because it was the law of the Ruzensia imperial family that an heir missing for exactly ten years would be considered dead, and the throne would automatically be…