Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 636: Relationship Issue

Loyalty was a tricky affair in the Austine Empire.

As the country propagating the infamous Pure Bloodline Theory, the Austine Empire placed high importance on bloodlines. In fact, the Ackermanns’ mandate to rule was based on their bloodline.

Years of reinforcing this justification had cast a halo on the imperial family, but ironically, it had also undermined the emperor’s authority.

While the emperor had the right to rule as one bearing the noblest bloodline, he was not the only one with the qualification. Other members of the imperial family would fit the criterion too, so they, theoretically, could claim their right to the throne.

Unless the emperor had a strong base of supporters, the other members of the imperial family could overthrow him at any moment as soon as they amassed sufficient power.

On top of that, the Austine Empire, in a bid to avoid religious influences from undermining imperial power, had embraced secularism, which meant that the emperor couldn’t claim to have the mandate of higher beings.

This contrasted with the Saint Mesit Theocracy, where the Holy Eminence further consolidated their position via religious influence.

It was not easy to be an emperor of the Austine Empire.

However, the Ackermanns, in their long history, had stumbled upon a convenient way to resolve this issue—fratricide.

If I eliminate everyone else with the mandate to rule, all of the nobles would have no one but me to pledge their loyalty to.

This logic had motivated countless incidents of bloodshed among the Ackermanns in the last thousand years. Most emperors of the Austine Empire had stained their hands with the blood of their siblings.

This damned tradition was the reason Lilian was disgusted with her own clan.

From a young age, she had already seen through the bootlicking and coaxing of those around her, and she knew that this was her fate as a member of the imperial family. She quickly learned how to maintain her poker face around hypocrisy and vileness.

Even so, she couldn’t understand hostility among fa

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