Byron's gambit had succeeded. As the fireworks from the explosion of the King Edward's Ammunition Depot rained down, the Mandate of Heaven associated with this Sacred Relic also descended upon him.
——Toying with emperors.
He needed to act like the two swindlers who crafted "The Emperor's New Clothes," tricking a king who held a kingly title and nailing him to the pillar of shameful incompetence.
Otherwise, he would suffer a backlash from this new attire.
Although the end of that story didn't record the fate of the two swindlers, everyone knew that even the most cowardly and incompetent king, if mocked in such a way, would have them hanged on the spot.
Mocking them was one thing, but the consequence of failed deception was losing one's own life.
