Yes, she managed to convince them!

Almost a whole week later in The New Hague, an emergency summit has been called among the members of the Supreme Noble Assembly regarding the Constitution secretly given to them by the Second Princess, who sent it by using one of her secret society's members as a messenger.

And due to the damages on their estates and the people under their employments kept leaving brought upon them as the results of both the violent suppression of the revolution on the King's order and the constant bombardments by a gang of pirates, they began the serious debate whether or not should the Constitution get approved or not.

However, the messenger also brought a message from Princess Sapphire for the members of the Supreme Noble Assembly to see as well. The message stated that with the King has all executive powers in his hands and is willing to resort to putting New Rotterdam under the military occupation after violently suppressing the revolt, the possibility of taking all lands belonged to the nobles back as the royal domains and then have them replaced with the Magistrates directly appointed by the King alone is there as well.

When the Supreme Noble Assembly's members heard the content inside the letter, their faces immediately go pale by the fears of the King might be willing to resort to such a thing. Obviously, not everyone will fall for this but driven by such fears, many of them voted to approve the Constitution to limit the executive powers of the King.

But they know that this is not the right moment to present an ultimatum to the King because they needed to wait until his royal authority is becoming more weakened than it already is first.

Back in New Rotterdam, Noseless Pete is finally done waiting after his demand kept getting rejected again and again. So he not only ordered another bombardment this time but also an actual raid to be carried out!

Due to the constant and heavy bombardments, the garrison's troops stationed at the harbor failed to stop the pirates from landing in time. So they resorted to clashing with them head on immediately as soon as they ran into them.

Some of them fired on the pirates but the pirates soon fired the shots back, creating casualties on both sides.

One her ship, Captain Quezada saw that the reinforcement from the barracks is arriving along with the officers from the law enforcement department.

"Aim all the guns at the harbor!" Bonita said as she's pointing her spyglass to the spot where the garrison's soldiers and the pirates are clashing against each other at the harbor.

"But Captain! Plenty of our men are there!" One of her crewmen warned her about the possibility of harming their own men.

"Then aim behind the enemy's line to deter the reinforcement!" Captain Quezada said as she keeps her eyes at the clash on the harbor.

"Understood!" The same crewman replied and leave to inform the men operating the cannons what they needed to do.

Soon, all cannons facing New Rotterdam on Bonita's armed galleon fire at the harbor!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Some of the shots caused explosion behind the enemy's line and deter the reinforcement from coming to aid their comrades while other shots hit the harbor itself and cause more damages such destroying some warehouses and the harbor itself.

Soon, the resistance is collapsed and the pirates managed to freely enter the city to begin the plunder! However, many of them are immediately faced by the officers from the law enforcement department and the reinforcement from the barracks of the garrison's soldiers, who immediately fired upon them and kill many of them!

Those who did not encounter the second line of resistance get to go further into the city and begin to loot whatever they desired from anyone that they can laid their hands on.

The second bloodbath is now occurring in New Rotterdam! And this time, the King appeared to be powerless to stop the carnage from keep going.

Having no other choice, the Magistrate of New Rotterdam and Colonel De Haas ordered the evacuation to the areas around the Azure Palace as they intended to secure the areas around the palace to prevent the pirates from coming too close to the royal family by creating the anti-cavalry wooden defense known as the chevaux de frise.

The evacuation will take time but when the survivors finally did leave to the secured areas around the Azure Palace, most of New Rotterdam is now completely left at the mercy of the pirates led by Noseless Pete!

From one of the balconies of the palace, you, still disguised as Francis Williams, is watching the flames and smokes rose within the city for the second time. Then, you refocused on the citizens from all fabrics of the society in New Rotterdam come and set up camps or live in all available buildings within the secured areas

Unable to handle such a sight, you turned away and go back inside the palace. As you are heading for the bedchamber of the Second Princess, you hear a lot of noises coming from the King's study and judging from the sounds of them, he is clearly not happy with the current situation.

Now wanting to know what he is doing in there, you resumed your journey to Princess Sapphire's bedchamber. When you did reach her room, you knocked the door a few times and she allowed you to enter.

"So... the pirates are now attacking just as you originally planned. So what's next?" You asked her after you closed the door behind you.

"Now, we waited until help arrive from The New Hague." Princess Sapphire said confidently as she looked at you.

"How can you be so sure that help will arrived from there?" You asked why she is so confident will there even be help at all.

"Because many nobles who have seats on the Supreme Noble Assembly in the capital have estates or businesses here and also because me and the rest of the royal family happened to be living here at the moment. So they will definitely authorized the military mobilization to come and relieve the city to come and rescue us and to also protect their interests." Sapphire said as she maintained her confident.

After that, there is nothing but a moment of silent between you and the Second Princess of the Kingdom of Utrecht.

"Well... let's just hope that help will arrived in time." You said grimly but also hoping that what she said will be correct.