Chapter 103. The one who carries the magentano (1)
“What do you mean by saying that the entire eastern border will be swept away by a fire pit?”
The king sent a frowning glance.
Maybe it just sounds absurd.
But now is not the time to question that.
Lloyd boldly threw the fishing rod.
“It’s true, Your Highness.”
“Is it true?”
“It is.”
“Then ask me one thing. As far as Jim knows, the East Coast is calm now. No dispatch came, no war broke out. But since you are informing us of the danger in the eastern part of the country, how should Jim accept this?”
“Please take it as a mantra for the calamity that will soon happen.”
“Mantra? A disaster sooner or later?”
“It is.”
The king asked for bait.
A fishing hook pierced the roof of his mouth.
Now is the time to pull the fishing rod.
“I, Lloyd Frontera, dare to tell your Highness that within the next month the entire eastern province of Cremona will be reduced to ashes. Houses will be burned, people will bleed and die mercilessly, and all farmland will be razed to the ground.”
“The whole province of Cremona? Within a month?”
“It is, Your Highness.”
Lloyd shook his head.
Of course, what he just said may be true.
Maybe not.
It is possible that only the barony of Frontera will be devastated and the rest of Cremona will be fine.
But now is the time to inflate the case as much as possible and take it seriously.
Even so, he had to draw the king’s attention.
I had to get some support.
Did such an attempt work?
“Hmm, it can’t be.”
The king’s attitude was much more serious than before.
He no longer tilted his head or furrowed his eyebrows.
Instead, he said it with a straight face.
“Have you ever had a terrible dream? Ah, know first that this is not meant to insult you.”
“I know, Your Highness.”
“good. But why do you say such absurd mantras?”
“I don’t think it’s outrageous.”
“why? Eastern Cremona is calm today as well.”
“Not in a month.”
“Hmm, one month later. Are you wary of the sultanate across the eastern mountains and wastelands?”
sultanate?
Lloyd pricked up his ears.
King Alicia’s words continued.
“okay. Recently, the sultanate has carried out a large-scale military operation on its western border, the border area facing us. Jim cared about that too. However, there has not yet been any indication that it will pose a threat to us.”
“Are they not preparing for an invasion?”
“no.”
The king who just said it like cutting.
her words continued.
“According to our intelligence, their military activities were confined to our borders. It must have been the usual large-scale training. Even if they actually try to invade, the movement and stockpiling of huge supplies to be used for a large-scale expedition will be caught by spies first. But no such current was detected. Also-”
She looked down at Lloyd.
“There are two geographical barriers between the eastern sultanate and our borders. Are you familiar with it? The vast wasteland infested with giant monsters, and the rugged eastern mountains that were too high to move the military. So to say that the sultanate is attacking us through the east is nonsense. Wouldn’t it be better to be in the north, where the border is directly connected?”
He said it with confidence.
And King Alicia thought.
‘Lloyd Frontera. You got it wrong this time.’
In reality, Lloyd is only bowing his head.
It seemed that there was no reaction or refutation.
But nonetheless, King Alicia gave him a pleased look.
‘It must have been a mistake made with youthful blood.’
So far, he has shown quite a lot of wit and hidden abilities.
He was also the most coveted talent at the present time.
but that young
He was full of blood.
Because of that kind of blood, the will must have been ahead.
He must have heard ambiguous information somewhere and overinterpreted it and rushed to himself.
‘Maybe it’s a bit exhausting.’
It was a mistake made by combining loyalty and blood.
In times like these, we need to embrace and cover up our mistakes.
Instead of breaking the will, we must open the way for it to diverge in a better direction.
That must be the true tolerance and leadership that a ruler should show.
“Raise your head, Lloyd Frontera.”
Lloyd slowly raised his head.
However, his eyes were a little strange.
Eyes were shaking.
I was absorbed in deep thoughts and calculations.
In fact, Lloyd’s head was extremely busy.
Studying an excuse to bring out to the king from now on?
Or to try secondary fishing?
It wasn’t.
Some information I just heard from the King.
It was because he had already realized the cause of the coming catastrophe through it.
‘crazy. That was it.’
Massive military exercises in the Eastern Sultanate.
A wasteland full of monsters.
The moment I heard those two pieces of information, something in the novel Iron Blooded Knight came to my mind.
‘Monster Domino. Early Strategic Conservation Doctrine.’
It was a new military doctrine that the eastern sultanate would introduce.
when?
after two and a half years.
where?
It is a strategy that will be introduced by invading Magentano’s borders through the North.
But that time has come forward.
Even the place has changed.
right now.
East, not North.
‘why? why?’
I was curious about the Sultanate’s intentions.
The reason for the change of time and place was also full of questions.
However, no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t immediately guess.
However, I felt that I should inform the king about this now.
“Your Highness, I have something to tell you again.”
“Hmm, do you mean you still won’t give up on that claim?”
The King’s expression of perplexity.
A glance that said that the story had already ended.
But no.
It’s not over.
This is just the beginning.
Thinking so, Lloyd said.
“Because of that Sultanate’s large-scale military training that Your Highness just said, our eastern province of Cremona will be blown with blood.”
“…what?”
“It’s true, Your Highness.”
“Hmm, it’s true. How can you say so confidently? Is it possible that the Sultanate’s military exercises within its borders are causing bloodshed in our eastern side across the wasteland? Jim doesn’t understand.”
“It will be enough. Because it is still an unfamiliar and new military doctrine and strategy.”
“Tell me in detail.”
The king’s expression hardened.
Lloyd wet his lips.
“It’s a kind of butterfly effect.”
“Butterfly effect?”
“It is. When a butterfly flaps its wings here, it is a metaphor for a phenomenon in which a typhoon blows across the sea due to numerous causal links.”
“What a strange idea. But will such a phenomenon happen between the sultanate over there and our east?”
“yes. It is so, Your Highness. There will be a large-scale raid by monsters, not typhoons.”
“monster?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Details.”
“As your Highness is well aware, in the eastern wasteland, numerous monster colonies live in their own territory.”
“yes.”
“Those sultanates are going to use that. Stimulate and subdue the monster colony that borders their borders. We will force them to move westward.”
“if?”
“No matter how huge and powerful a monster is, it cannot withstand the strength of the army. Eventually, it will move its habitat. That is where the monster dominoes begin.”
“Domino?”
“It is. A monster that moves its habitat to the west for the first time. Because that monster will threaten the habitat of other monsters in the west.”
“Does this mean that a monster that forcibly moved its habitat, like a domino block knocking over the next block, disturbs the habitat of other monsters and causes them to move, and such a phenomenon will happen in a chain to the west where we are?”
“It is, Your Highness. In this way, the Sultanate will continue its military operations in the wasteland and continue to oppress the monster, and the aftermath will overtake our eastern province of Cremona.”
Just like what happened in the late history of Rome on Earth.
A Germanic people who fled westward from the Huns.
Just as the borders of the Roman Empire were wiped out by the migration of the Germanic tribes.
Something similar will happen to the east of here.
“Hmm.”
King Alicia’s eyes were locked in thought.
she asked
“If so, what are their benefits?”
“Comes with initial power conservation.”
answered without hesitation.
“While the borders on this side are ravaged by the monster domino phenomenon, they are able to preserve their strength without having to fight a single battle. And you will be able to see the liver on this side.”
“Look at the liver?”
“It is, Your Highness. If this side can’t properly block the monsters flocking like dominoes, they will try to invade with their fangs exposed.”
“What if this side blocks the monster properly?”
“At that time, you just need to defeat the military.”
“Hmm…I guess so. It can’t be questioned on our side. It’s probably because they didn’t invade us at that point.”
“That’s it, Your Highness. Even if we point out that fact, they will only show normal regret, and they may react with a blasphemy saying that they are involved in their country’s military training.”
“Do you mean that you will rebel by citing interference in internal affairs?”
“It is, Your Highness.”
“….”
Alicia was silent.
The story I just heard from Lloyd.
Thinking back, it made sense.
If the Sultanate really planned something like that, there was a possibility that the East would be hit hard.
So she was suspicious.
“But where did you get this information from?”
King Alicia’s gaze became strict.
“The things you just said are certainly logical enough. But that’s why I’m curious about Jim. How on earth did you get information that even our spies couldn’t know?”
I was really curious.
At the same time, I also had doubts.
Even if all those words were true.
It was information that spies dispatched from the Magentano royal family could not dig up.
Lloyd Frontera, who came to himself and said it calmly and raised a mantra.
There was no doubt.
However, Lloyd’s expression upon receiving his own question was still calm.
No, I answered calmly with an even more incomprehensible look.
“My friends from the eastern wasteland told me about it.”
“Friends of the wasteland? no way?”
“You guessed right.”
“Oak. You are referring to the Ironsand Tribe.”
“It is, Your Highness.”
Of course, this is a blatant lie.
I’ve never heard of such a thing from the Ironsand tribe.
However, if he replied, ‘I know this because I’ve read all the articles on Iron Blooded’, it’s obvious that he’ll be treated like a madman.
That’s why he lied even more calmly.
“His Highness is well aware of this. We, the Baron of Prontera, and the Ironsand Tribe have formed a blood alliance, and we have had frequent exchanges ever since. Those exchanges also included news from across the wasteland, I mean.”
“Hmm, did the Orcs come across the Sultanate’s new strategic doctrine and inform you, a blood ally?”
“It is.”
“If so, what is the rationale that the new strategy will be implemented within a month?”
“I have a feeling.”
“persimmon?”
“It is.”
Lloyd raised his head.
He looked straight into the king’s eyes.
He put confidence in his gaze.
“Recently, there has been an unsavory assassination attempt against His Highness the King. Because of that, the royal capital fell into temporary confusion, and some lords in each province must have had some doubts about your authority.”
“…So, will the Sultanate not miss this chaotic political situation?”
“That’s right, Your Highness.”
Lloyd bowed his head deeply.
“An old enemy of ours is coming. They must have planted spies in our royal family. There is no way that he is unaware of this unfortunate incident.”
“Hmm. So please believe me?”
“It is, Your Highness.”
“But there is only speculation that such a thing will happen, there is no physical evidence. Could it be that you are asking me to move the military to respond based only on speculation?”
“You have to believe, Your Highness.”
“If you believe me? What will you do for Jim?”
“I will widely publicize to the outside world that only Your Highness has foreseen and prepared for all the threats that will come this time.”
“Are you going to give all the credit for this work to Jim?”
“It is.”
“What if the situation you expect does not happen?”
“Please scold me.”
“under.”
Alicia laughed as if it were absurd.
But her eyes weren’t smiling.
The information Lloyd gave and the truth.
The benefits and harms of following Lloyd’s mantra.
All of them were carefully calculated and reviewed.
Meanwhile, Lloyd hung his head and waited.
Now it’s the yard where all the bait has been sprinkled.
It was a sweet bait that would be difficult for a king to refuse.
‘At least if you follow my mantra, the king has nothing to lose.’
The case of the attempted assassination of the king.
It has the effect of putting a new wind in the political situation that has been disturbed by the incident. Not only can confusion and agitation be settled at once, but it can also arouse public opinion and interest at home and abroad to the east.
From the king’s point of view, it was a complete flower viewing party.
‘And it’s absolutely necessary for me too.’
Youngji must be saved.
The physical crisis that seems to come after the financial crisis.
You have to protect your honey pot from the crisis.
To do so, the king’s support is absolutely necessary.
himself and Xaviel.
It would be much more effective to run with hundreds of thousands of soldiers supported by the king than running to the Baron’s Territory with only the two of them raising their eyebrows.
So it was.
Only the return to the barony was not rushed blindly.
The king came before we rushed.
A bold negotiation table was opened.
‘Now say yes. King. Sister, please!’
Lloyd waited for the King’s decision.
He pursed his lips and prayed earnestly.
It was at one point.
Ding dong.
[Your aspiration awakens a specific tribute you have.]
[The tribute < The One Who Carries Magentano > begins to exert a powerful influence on King Alicia.]
