"…Your Highness, claiming your birthright as the King is…"
Caedos tuned out the old Hellhound, General Urien repeated himself frequently, so he was missing nothing important.
He had begun to run out of patience but his handsome face showed nothing of it. He had managed to put off taking the throne for a few weeks but he was no closer to extricating himself from Avalan.
He could still tolerate it for now because things were still delicate, and retaliation wasn't completely out of the question. Even after they had regained their freedom, the Fiends could still choose to attack.
The only progress he had managed was strengthening the army. A large number of Hellhounds had been forced to be a part of the army for the sake of freedom, so it was easy to nudge them to keep training and growing their strength.
