Success Criteria:
- Beast Knight Rights Act fully implemented
- Civil war won with minimal casualties
- Economy stabilized post-transition
- Helena's family can live openly without fear
She worked late into the night, updating plans, calculating probabilities, preparing for a fight that wouldn't come for years but needed preparation now.
Outside, the palace complex slept.
But inside Duke Romian's estate, the Fourth Princess—the one everyone had dismissed as weak and irrelevant—was planning the most significant social reform in imperial history.
Not because she cared emotionally about justice.
Not because she felt compassion for the enslaved.
But because she'd calculated that freeing thirty thousand beast knights was the most efficient path to winning the succession battle and building a functional empire afterward.
And if that meant civil war?
Fine.
She'd plan for that too.
Efficiently.
Thoroughly.
Irreversibly.
Just like everything else she did.
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