Episode 122
The Battle of Yeongji.
It’s simple.
The Battle of the Territory is a kind of game.
A word used unified by all countries on the continent.
The best and worst game that only original nobles with estates can play, not honorary nobles.
In the case of the Kingdom of Teslan, for example, a family wishing to engage in a territorial war would send an official document to the king.
He said he would fight a war of wits with whom.
The palace does not necessarily object unless there is a good reason.
The system of land warfare goes beyond the laws of the kingdom and is a system and opportunity exclusively for the nobles.
The palace stands as a guarantee, and the winner takes everything in the opponent’s territory.
In the present case, as soon as the royal letter is delivered to each family, Margrave Hermann and Margrave Valantier enter into war.
If the winner of that war is Margrave Hermann, Margrave Hermann will take everything from the Valantier family.
Territory, people, money.
And, beyond them all, first of all, Elizabeth Valantier.
The second is Peylon Valantier.
Jack Valantier, the youngest.
The winner, Marquis Hermann, ‘owns’ them.
Also, the wife of Marquis Valantier, Hystein Valantier, whose maiden name was Hystein Mantis, means that the Marchioness also belongs to Marquis Hermann.
That is the system called the land war, and the nobles engage in politics to avoid, utilize, and avoid being sacrificed to this system.
Clark Valantier’s mind was a labyrinthine mess.
no.
just.
It was complicated.
It’s unbelievable and ridiculous.
Why at this time of all times?
Why now of all times?
shit.
Perhaps you had already prepared this before.
‘Could it be that it was Marquis Hermann who annihilated our escort unit that was protecting the youngest child before?’
No, that can’t be.
The Marquis de Valantier’s eyes shift to the newspaper on the desk in his office.
It was written about Jack Valantier, who became the head of the Inspectorate and killed over 60 instructors at the Academy, was greatly favored by General Rommel, and became his puppet, dancing to General Rommel’s beck and call.
Clark Valantier’s accident didn’t make all this happen.
‘What on earth is going on?’
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The faculty killed by Jack Valantier.
Not only those who supported them, but also those who had various vested interests formed their own delegations, and all of them visited the Marquis of Valanti over the past few days.
I’m still on my way there.
Some were angry, some asked for restraint, some asked what we wanted, and some asked for cooperation.
Clark Valantier, who knew nothing, had little to say.
I tried to appease them somehow and send them out, but only one family.
Marquis Hermann was different.
He suddenly demanded fifty million gold.
No, fifty million gold isn’t just the name of a dog house. It’s a sum that far exceeds the annual budget of a kingdom. Are you asking me to give it to you all of a sudden?
This was a threat, it was coercion.
I naturally asked the reason, but for a moment I was dumbfounded by the messenger’s reply that they knew the reason better.
I waited a day to find out what was going on, but Marquis Hermann saw it differently and came to me with this offer.
Boom-!
“shit!”
Clark’s expression was distorted like a crumpled piece of paper as he slammed his fist on the desk.
And Gonzalez, who was staring blankly at the Marquis, even found this situation a little funny.
‘Is it really that bad?’
It wasn’t a question about Jack Valantier.
Clark Valantier.
As a Marquis, he was known to the world as a man with great political sense and a thoroughly calculating mind.
Gonzalez himself knew that too.
But it wasn’t.
“Daniel, bring Daniel.”
Daniel is one of the senior members of the Marquis de Valantier, a graduate of the Academy and a man who served as the Marquis de Valantier’s financial officer for 30 years.
but.
“My lord, Daniel hanged himself a while ago.”
“… … Damn it! Then Alan. Alan?”
“… … went missing a while ago.”
Boom-! Boom-!
Clark continued to pound his fist on the desk, unable to contain his anger.
That makes sense, since there were originally 14 elders who belonged to the family.
Four of them have ‘committed suicide’ in the past week, two have gone missing, and 15 of the roughly 70 administrators under them have also gone missing or committed suicide.
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The same was true of the Knights Templar.
Of the 520 Iron Knights currently remaining in the Marquis’ House, as many as 60 have deserted in just one day.
The Marquis of Valantier believes they fled in the night, but the truth is different.
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Because they are all buried in the back hill.
Not only that, but all of the soldiers belonging to the Marquis, including those who were known for their poor quality, and those who patrolled the territory and collected money under the pretext of protection, disappeared.
That number alone is a whopping 500 people.
It is still in progress, but the Marquis of Valanti does not know about this part.
Because the information was completely controlled.
Gonzalez knew who did it, he knew the whole story.
A man who came to see me as a posthumous writer a while ago.
He introduced himself as Aveiro and said he was working under Jack Balantier’s orders.
There was no room for doubt.
Because I knew about the black shackles.
Naturally, Gonzalez followed his orders and went about his business with about seven black-armored men by his side.
So, broadly speaking, all of this is Jack’s doing.
He also killed all of the Marquis’ soldiers in the mountain.
He also killed the elders and administrators within the Marquis family.
And, killing the knights.
“The youngest killed the Goseo Circle Mana user and even subdued the Magic Tower Master? That’s ridiculous. Damn it, I should have noticed it back then. This must have all been planned behind the scenes by General Rommel, that old man. Ha! Who are you trying to fool by putting on such a huge show… …!”
Gonzales waited silently for Marquis Valanti’s orders.
“General Rommel could not have done it alone; he must have enlisted the help of his family.”
Clark Valantier.
Whatever his temperament, the fact remains that he is a calculating man.
Thorough vested interests.
Clark smiled coldly, as if he had reached a conclusion.
“You dare to covet this Valanti territory? How shameful. General Rommel, you are so shameful.”
Gonzalez’s eyes, looking at the Marquis, contained a hint of sympathy.
In some ways, I can understand how they came to that conclusion.
Obviously, everything that was published in the newspaper is true.
The truth here is not that Jack was Rommel’s puppet, but that Jack went wild at the academy.
I just ignored the part about Rommel.
Gonzalez doesn’t know the specifics of what kind of person Jack is, but he just assumes that Jack Valantier is the one who set this all up.
Newspaper? General Rommel? He must have been boiled.
The image of Jack that was engraved in Gonzalez’s mind was simply that of a monster.
But Clark Valanti doesn’t know.
Because I thought that everything that was happening in the kingdom right now was happening because of the political power struggles.
Behind this was the conviction that the youngest, Jack Valantier, was still a retarded fool and simply a puppet of General Rommel.
Suddenly, Gonzalez had this thought.
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Information is this important.
The Marquis has no idea that the servant currently tending to the roses in the rose garden is a 9th circle mana user.
A frog in a well.
What makes people so narrow-minded when evidence continues to emerge that Jack Valantier has changed?
Next.
“Ha… … If the goal is the territory, then it’s easy. There are more than a few people I can mobilize… … Alright. Gonzales, you go ahead and go. I’ll try to somehow cover up the territory war… … .”
Clark Valantier, who had been shaking his head, quickly changed his words.
“Wait a minute. Just in case, figure out the number of Yeongjimin in preparation for conscription.”
“……insect!”
Gonzalez was convinced.
Clark Vallantier is a very poor man compared to Jack Vallantier.
“and.”
and?
“Make a passageway behind the Marquis’s main building that can accommodate one adult male who can sneak out.”
For a moment, Gonzalez thought he had misheard.
As soon as I raise my head, the low voice of the Marquis of Valanti rings in my ears.
“Very secretly… … Do you understand?”
I didn’t mishear.
You’re creating a corner to run to before the battle even starts?
oh my god.
Gonzalez could only now realize.
Why the Marquis de Valanti was known as a calculating man.
A man who only thinks about his own safety.
That’s Marquis Clark Valantier.
At that moment, the words of the man named ‘Aveiro’ came to Gonzalez’s mind.
{The Marquis of Valantie is very greedy. Given what he has done so far, this is nothing new. What you have to do is simple.}
{… … simple?}
{Ha, I’m not your friend, so why are you talking? Don’t talk and listen first. The lord said he would make you the commander of the Iron-Blooded Knights. Is that right?}
{That’s right… … right.}
{Confucius also told me to come visit him once every three months. Is that correct?}
{yes.}
{Then let’s do this. Sooner or later, Marquis Hermann will try to apply strong pressure.}
{pressure?}
{It could be a request for something, or it could be a case of requesting a territory war. The order doesn’t matter. What matters is that the Marquis currently has no one he can trust in the Valantie territory other than you. We killed them all. Later, the Marquis will naturally call you and give you various orders, but ignore them all. You should say this.}
Gonzalez’s mouth opens slowly.
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“My lord.”
The Marquis of Valanti turns his head.
He hears Gonzalez’s firm voice in his ear.
“I will try to stop Marquis Hermann’s estate war.”
Naturally, the Marquis’s brow furrowed.
“… … What? You’re going to stop me?”
“Yes. Just give me a week.”
“A week?”
“I’ll try to stop it within that time.”
The Marquis’ lips twitched.
“By what means?”
“Aren’t there two ways to prevent a war of attrition?”
“Two things… … .”
The Marquis’s brow furrows quietly.
Because I wasn’t stupid enough to not know what it was.
“Negotiating before a territorial war breaks out… … and the subject of the territorial war… … .”
Clark stopped talking and opened his eyes wide.
no way.
“… … Are you planning to assassinate Margrave Hermann?”
Gonzalez got down on one knee.
“I’ll try. Just leave it to me.”
“… … Don’t you know that I cherish you? Moreover, I can’t lose you, who just recently rose to the 8th circle, in such a vain way.”
