ARCHDEUS

ALLIANCE(4)

Started early this summer. A group of soldiers walked hordes through rows of trees and rock climbs.

The loud sounds of clashing metal and the sound of blows from the war drums are the soundtrack that continues to fill the time this summer.

Ravouille, the capital of the County of Otilia has been filled with panic for weeks.

The fall of Lyouse City into the hands of the enemy was a sign that a great disaster was about to come to the county capital.

Since then, the flow of traders and tourists has continued to decrease causing a slowdown in regional economic growth in the County of Otilia. Traders stop selling so that there is scarcity in the market which causes an increase in prices. Reduced injection of funds for aggregative investment led to massive PHK due to factory closures.

Even if Otilia could win the fief war, they would face an economic recession so if they failed at this, it could end in chaos.

In one of the tall towers that became the watchtower, a group of people with expensive war equipment gathered.

Their leader, a woman with full silver armor was looking at the group of enemy soldiers outside the city fortress.

The woman was Eugenie de'Pauline Otilia, the Countess of Otilia.

On his waist, hung a sword that became a hereditary weapon of his dynasty. The weapon is also a symbol of the countess who is currently in power.

As an eques, Eugenie can use distance vision magic.

With that magic, he can see not only the enemy soldiers of the March of Candia, even the soldiers of his rebellious son, Peter, he can also know just by looking at the flags raised.

Although she was almost middle-aged, her face was still beautiful even though there were wrinkles on her forehead due to her anger.

"My Lady, my Viscount of Breakssex reports that all children and women have been taken to the refuge safely."

"Well, back to your post."

Eugenie answered without averted her eyes.

"Ready, Mistress."

The city of Ravouille was different from the cities that had been conquered before. It is a large city that hosts more than 50% of the county's population. So it could be said that all the county defenses were concentrated here. When the capital fell, the destruction of the dynasty was confirmed.

But of course it won't be easy.

This attack is different from the lightning attacks that have been carried out in the City of Lyouse and the City of Lenastronople.

The enemy prefers the strategy of siege of the city.

They want the city to run out of food before attacking.

This strategy can be considered good but can also be considered bad.

The advantage of this strategy is that it is likely to reduce unnecessary casualties for the enemy as the Otilians are already in a state of weakness and starvation.

But the bad thing is the time of conquest takes a long time so the attackers need a lot of logistics and it also means that Otilia can be better prepared in the face of a war that will explode because it has been given time.

In essence, the enemy during the initial siege only gave the attack in the form of a magic cannon shot that casts level 4 magic.

This weapon can be said to be a comparative advantage on the part of Canadia and Peter because their enemy, Otilia only has a magic cannon that can only issue level 3 magic.

However, an attack from a magic cannon alone was not enough to destroy a city.

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

As magic level 4: [Explosion]\, [Falling Storm]\,[Wind Chain] [Frozenburst]\, and [Earthshocker] continue to be shot by the opponent's magic cannon. Surely the Otilia magic cannon that was on top of the fortress also retaliated with tier 3 magic attacks like [Fireball]\, [Lightning]\, [Windburst]\, [Shooting Ice] and [Wallbreaker]. But unfortunately Otilia's magic cannon attacks have a smaller range than the enemy's magic cannon causing many attacks that miss.

In contrast, the attacks from Canadia and Peter still managed to have a destructive effect on the city walls.

The attack continued, especially at night.

Where over time the soldiers Otilia many affected insomnia due to not being able to sleep because it continues to be rained by attacks and the sound of magic cannon shots.

Eugenie can't do anything.

They can only survive.

Opening the gate is like committing suicide. Moreover, when they got reports that the enemy soldiers were much more massive than before in the attacks on Lenastronople City and Lyouse City, the number of enemy soldiers was said to number at least 12,000, he said, on this attack this time amounted to almost 3 times.

The most dominant cause was the large number of recruits from conquered regions.

People in the era of monarchy tend not to have a love for the country. Most of them only had a fear of the ruler. So when they are invited to overthrow the ruler by being tempted to get a decent life or a big prize, many of them will participate. Especially for the long-standing Otilian Dynasty who became a scapegoat politically, socially, religiously, to economically.

Politically, the countess was unable to appear in parliament because she was a woman. Socially, the misandry and matriarchal views of the countess caused her to be hated by society. In the religious views represented by temples, countesses and temples often experience discrepancies. Even on the economic side as a result he always gave positions of civil office to women regardless of their classification, causing many economic policies especially macro instruments such as taxation/tribute that is considered wrong it causes the businessmen also not too fond of the countess.

So you could say there is no reason to defend the Otilian dynasty any longer.

In the meeting room that was still inside the mansion, a huge pile of paper had filled the table.

Reports ranging from food stock reports to enemy movements were reported to the countess.

It's been more than 18 days that they've been surrounded like this.

The enemy had built a camp not far from the city.

Eugenie can't sleep. Now her ever-beautiful face changes with her panda eyes and tangled hair.

A man who seemed to be quite young at around 20 years of age knelt down while giving a report.

This man was Gerald Firenze Arlouise, the eldest son of Lambert Lu'Cois Arlouise who now held the title of Viscount of Arlouise.

"Is that ... and did anyone survive?"

"No, Madam."

Eugenie did not answer. He has received many of the same reports.

Now she knew that her dynasty's hopes were completely up to her husband who had suddenly recovered and had gone to the capital and her daughter who was seeking help.

"My Lady!!"

This time a woman ran frantically towards Eugenie.

She was named Helga Lieben Hackshield with her class as a knight .

Eugenie once attempted to make Helga one of the commanders of the war, but he was ultimately unable to do so.

Because the military position is always held by nobles, especially for nobles who have peerage such as barons and viscount who are men, especially for nobles who have peerage, eugenie's chosen men, who were women regardless of noble status or commoners, could not have a military career as smooth as a career in civil service. In the end Helga can only be one of the assistant countess.

"Mrs, Report! There was a riot in the market and the town square!"

The news shook everyone in the room.

One of them saw the situation outside the window.

He was shocked when he saw that there was light from the blazing fire.

"Oh my goodness! Isn't that the market?"

"There is also!"

Other than the place the person saw, there were still some fire points that could be seen from this window. Although the distance is quite far, but the fire they can still see clearly.

Eugenie walked from his place towards the window. Look at the chaos outside.

He pensively momentarily.

Subconsciously, he stared at his own reflection from the window glass reflected from the light of the magic lamp inside the mansion.

Eugenie then strengthened her resolve.

She is a countess. There was no reason for him not to defend his territory.

He would do anything to defend his title and dynasty. Even though the whole world is his opponent.

***

The sounds of panic and anger continued to resound accompanying this dark night.

A group of people were seen looting and burning various buildings.

They're everywhere.

They ran and continued to burn buildings while shouting 'Countess is heresy’ or there are also some people who do anarchism by making graffiti that says 'Stop Matriarchy!'

The market area is a crowded place. Even though the flow of trade transactions has long been declining due to the evacuation of some residents, still the market has a lot of flammable goods. Call it all stalls built using wood and roofed cloth. Or even there are a variety of flammable products such as woven and clothing.

While the chaos has been unfolding, on the roof of a temple tower, a dark-amor woman stands and observes the chaos that lies below.

Because of his dark armor, he was impressed to have fused with the darkness of the night.

The woman just stood silently watching the hundreds of burning buildings.

The demonstrators, mostly men, were clashing with the soldiers.

"Quick! Hurry along!"

The cry of an old man who was at the door of the temple distracted him.

Although the old man only wore a robe with a headscarf, the woman suspected that the man was a priest.

Sure enough, it did not last long a group of men with hoods covering his head came out of the temple. But just a few steps, they suddenly jumped and some were running at incredible speed.

Looking at the abilities of those people, they were most likely role users. And subjectively based on where the men came out, the woman felt they were paladins.

Unfortunately, these people look weak. It was proved by their inability to detect a woman standing on the roof of a tower not far from them.

"It seems Mr. Peter's plan is quite interesting."

Previously, the woman had received a task from Peter.

His job was to kill the countess.

But of course the security of the countess is quite tight and what is not expected of the woman is Peter turned out to have cooperated with most internal parties in the government of Otilia.

The cooperation included an understanding with the temple to collusion with the great merchants. However, the war can be said to be a large enough business land for the owners of commodities such as drugs, food, to the owner of transportation.

So under these circumstances, he only needed to kill the countess.