Novel Full Chapter 319: Breaking The Pocket Space (2nd Bonus)
At a corner of the broadcast screen, written statements began cycling rapidly, each one replacing the last.
It was a stream of formal withdrawals.
"We can no longer, in good faith, align ourselves with the current administration..."
"The kingdom’s leadership has failed to ensure stability and safety..."
"We hereby suspend all ties with the Crown until further notice..."
This news channel broadcast belonged to one of the corporate heads who had been present at the earlier meeting, and it was also one of the most widely viewed networks in the kingdom.
Alistair’s expression tightened slightly, but he said nothing.
Audrey watched the developments unfold with satisfaction.
"It’s happening," she murmured, then turned toward Alistair. "Prepare yourself. You’ll do it tonight. I’ve arranged for a few journalists to be here."
Alistair turned to her and gave a nod. Alistair turned to her and gave a nod. Then he turned to Leona, who had followed him from the hidden house, and spoke quietly to her.
She inclined her head in response and stepped back, returning to her position near the corner.
Leona, a former member of the King’s Imperial Guard, now served as his personal attendant.
The family withdrawals of alignment was only one part of Audrey’s plan. The second part was Alistair’s role.
Once the noble houses and corporate entities began publicly severing ties with House Tudor, he would step in with a narrative for the press that had already been invited into House Desdemona.
Alistair would announce his complete disassociation from his father.
He would then present a fake narrative.
That weeks prior, while still within the palace, he had uncovered evidence of sexual trafficking dealings between the King of Gritnia and an external house tied to the Demon Continent.
Alistair would claim the arrangement was intended to gradually allow more demons into the Western Continent through controlled interbreeding and political exchange.
Upon confronting his father, he and his siblings were forcibly removed from the palace; cast out in an attempt to silence dissent.
He would further state that the deal had gone wrong, just as they had warned before their expulsion. As a result, the foreign house turned hostile when the arrangement collapsed, triggering the chain of events that followed.
The recent deaths of multiple family leaders would be attributed to targeted strikes carried out by assassins originating from the Demon Continent.
Even the attempted missile attacks, he would say, were only narrowly intercepted by a private defensive operation he had quietly arranged with support from the Desdemona Family.
And once that narrative spread, the call for revolution would rise again.
By the following evening, when the pressure reached its peak, Audrey would move directly toward the palace itself; without subtlety nor hesitation.
All of this was ultimately engineered for one reason: a seamless transition after the coming battle in the palace within the next twenty-four hours.
Audrey did not want a situation where, even after victory, she would be forced into prolonged resistance from external powers—especially the Western Coalition.
By shaping the narrative early, isolating the kingdom diplomatically, and breaking trust in the current ruler, she was removing anything that could stand in the way of her taking control.
The Western Coalition was an international governing body formed from the states of the Western Continents, with Gritnia included as a member state.
One of its core and most heavily enforced objectives was the protection of the Western world from external influence and interference, particularly from powerful foreign regions such as the Demon Continent and the Dragon Continent.
Under normal circumstances, this mandate positioned the Coalition as the King’s strongest external support structure in times of political instability or war.
However, Audrey’s constructed narrative directly undermined that.
The war and forceful takeover would only look like a consequence of the King’s corruption tied to his illegal dealings with the Demon Continent.
And under Coalition doctrine, any member state suspected of covert collaboration with hostile external powers could no longer be guaranteed protection.
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Suddenly Anton’s expression changed
He waved his hand forward and a floating spherical construct appeared before him.
It looked like a small black orb, but this was one of his pocket dimension folded into a single point.
There were cracks running through its surface.
"unbelievable" he said, eyes widening in shock.
"What are you doing?" Audrey asked, looking puzzled at the suddenness of the whole thing.
Anton turned to give her an answer but before he could, the sphere vibrated, and another crack widened through it.
Now the pressure around it worsened as the sphere became even more unstable.
This was Ethan’s doing from within the pocket space, and he was successfully destroying that entire reality from within.
Anton didn’t give it another thought. He snapped his fingers, and the sphere vanished.
It reappeared far away at a pre-set location beyond inhabited borders; a vast region of pure ice on the other side of the world.
The moment it arrived, the sphere ruptured and interior world collapsed outward in full force.
Broken structures, sand, destroyed houses, and the remnants of cars all spilled into the frozen wasteland.
The impact was violent ln the landscape, leading for most of the icy ground to crack open, and sink under the sudden weight of the displaced world.
If Anton hadn’t sent the pocket space in that moment, all of that impact would have landed inside of House Desdemona instead.
However, Ethan was now hovering in air, staring down at the ruins with a glowing eyes of reddish-amber hue
He turned around for a second, realizing that he had no recollection of what this place was.
But that was not a problem regardless he couldn’t deal with.
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Percival and the others had only just stepped back into Stark Manor when Ethan’s voice suddenly returned to him.
[Perc, can you hear me?]
Percival froze, then exhaled in relief. "Finally man!. Where the hell have you been?"
Both Bella and Hayley looked at him with sudden brightness.
"I’ll explain later," Ethan replied. "I’m sending someone through."
Before Percival could respond, the Sigil on his shoulder glowed a purple light.
Right then, a matching magic circle formed beside him, and Joe, the hitman summon, appeared from it.
The others barely had time to register the sight of Joe before his body flickered out of view and was replaced by Ethan.
[Exchange Lv.1]
"You bloody bastard," Percival said with a grin, clasping Ethan’s hand and pulling him in for a brief shoulder bump.
Both Hayley and Bella brightened, moving toward him with excited expressions.
Neither the Sigil nor the Exchange skill could properly function from inside the pocket dimension, as the interference blocked Ethan’s connection to Percival.
And of course, Ethan had already canceled the summoning skill immediately, before Joe could be left behind in the frozen expanse.
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A/N:
Chapter 224 - Exchange Skill
Chapter 244 - Sigil Of The Spirit King