One year had passed from the Metastasis Event, and circumstances would change.
No, circumstances had already changed.
In a place Sylphy couldn't know, and for a long time after the Metastasis.
This was the beginning of Lord Liston's thoughtless words.
He, who was taking advantage of the opportune chance, spread it around the nobility that it was likely the doings of the first prince.
At least, that was the reason given, who could think that a demon would appear in the royal palace if it wasn't guided in by someone?
And so, he laid the blame sufficiently well on the other party.
Even devising ways to treat innocent people as criminals.
However, when the story no longer required there to be a person to have led such a monster inside, the situation drastically changed.
To this person who was using the abhorrent natural disaster, contempt was shown.
This was an act most nobles have done.
However, Lord Liston mistook his opportunity.
Before the matter was settled as being a natural disaster, the fact of the other party having attacked had been delivered.
A chance was then shown.
First on the list of the prince group, High Minster Darius harshly criticized Lord Liston at just the right moment.
Lord Liston's authority sharply fell.
Since most of his territory was lost, he had then became a middle class noble.
With his loss, the Second Princess Faction, who even at their strongest was still weak, had received a further attack.
High Minister Darius severely weakened the nobles of the second princess Ariel's faction.
Influential nobles, in succession, had lost power, or betrayed the princess, causing the immediate collapse of the second princess faction.
By losing a person of influential backing, the reality for Ariel, was that the road to the crown was also becoming lost to her.
However, Ariel's charisma was extremely high.
Her popularity among the people was also high. If she lived, it was expected that she would become an obstacle in the future.
Darius advised the First Prince on this matter, and had sent an assassin to put an end to Ariel.
The influential nobles had been suppressed, so there were no longer any soldiers left to protect her.
The elder brother assassinates the younger sister.
To gain the throne of Asura Kingdom, it must be won in such a race to power.
Even the present king had done something similar to assume the throne.
The princess faction has no defensive strength.
And there is no way to stay an assassination by political means either.
Ariel's life was now in a precarious situation[3].
But, the assassination was prevented, by the hand of Sylphy alone.
She had managed to turn the tables on the assassin.
It was a desperate struggle.
If she was not the apprentice of Rudeus.
If she didn't know how to use high-speed movement by shockwave through the usage of chantless melded magic.
If she didn't see up close what Rudeus was doing, and ask for what reason it was being done.
If she didn't hear the theories and reasons behind it, and mimic it herself.
And if the enemy hadn't underestimated her because she was a child.
Sylphy would probably have lost her life to the attack she received.
The result however, was that Sylphy had survived.
Due to the poison the assassin used, she wandered between the worlds of life and death for 3 days, and fortunately for her, there were no traces of disabling after-affects.