ARCHDEUS

ALLIANCE(6)

All the chaos last night started from the commotion created by a group of people, until the sudden explosion that appeared in the middle of the city was more than enough to destroy the focus of the city defense.

Especially when they heard that the countess had suddenly disappeared.

Not only the countess, some viscounts and barons that were previously in the command system were now lost without a trace.

As a result of all that, the mentality of the entire army had fallen to its lowest point.

The next day, a massive attack took place.

After more than 20 days of siege, the enemy finally dared to make a move.

With a force of 35,000 soldiers, the enemy forces were split into three groups.

First is the main group. Consists of 20,000 people. They were mostly soldiers who had experienced in previous wars. In this group also most of the soldiers who have class are located. In addition 90% magic cannon is concentrated here. His leadership was directly led by the supreme commander, Peter.

Then the legion on the right wing, made up of 7,500 soldiers. They were all soldiers from the March of Canadia. Previously Canadia only sent less than 3,000 people but seeing from the success of the attack, they also added military assistance. The leadership of the legion was entrusted to a baron named Guilbert Lynn Ecdovia.

Lastly, the legion on the left wing, consisted of 7,500 soldiers. They were all equestrian warriors who had fast mobilization.  This legion will be a relief legion for the main group. The leadership of the legion rested on the authority of Sir Renaud Pierre Trendome.

The soldiers from the main group started moving.

With a shot from the archers and magic cannon as a protective shot.

The front row soldiers were knights and lancers. This reduced the death toll, Peter moving the skilled soldiers in the front row.

As expected, by using the aura power and magic items they had, they had no trouble dealing with the archer attacks. Well, maybe they were quite troubled by the shots of rangers like archers with marksman class, but that was not too influential because the magic cannon kept shooting at the walls of the fortress causing the focus of the Otilia archers to be chaotic.

Then the military group broke up into two. It was because a giant weapon was pushed to the front row.  The weapon was driven by more than 10 men. This weapon is called ram battering. But not the usual ram battering, because this weapon has a battering ram made of metal made of platinum.

the weapon continued to approach and finally arrived in front of the gate, then ....

Pue ... Pue ...!

The battering ram continued to break through the gate while the knights used their shields to protect the weapon from darting. It was fortunate that the ram battering had been in the blind zone of the magic cannon.

Pungs!

In the end with more than hundreds of swings of ram battering, the city walls were finally blown out.

Quickly all the soldiers of all the legions moved.

The soldiers entered the city.

The destruction of the city walls and city gates had been the beginning of the fall of Revouille City.

***

The Parteric Main Palace.

The Parteric Main Palace is the highest state palace as well as the residence of the king and his family. The palace was built with a very magnificent and beautiful and equipped with many rooms owned. One of the rooms is being occupied by two important people in the kingdom. They were discussing something critical and looked very serious. One of the two men was the third prince, Prince Albert Ferdinand Ignitius Augustus and another was the great nobleman, Marquess Beldon Ellison Hornwall.

Before discussing the main topic, Marquess Beldon informed King Theodore II of the present condition to Prince Albert.

"My Highness, I have a report that Our Lord's Beloved King has decided to remain on his throne. My Majestic has told His Royal Highness Prince William to punish the Kingdom of Ibeltia may gods curse them."

The prince remained silent and kept watching the marquess.

"Today security in the eastern and southeastern regions of our country has been at its highest security. Lords of all these territories except Lady Otilia and Lord Morhust have carried out the duty of feudal aid summons from His Majesty Our God-Given King."

"So now my beloved brother will have another achievement."

Albert simply replied lightly. But for Beldon, this is sarcastic.

"My Highness, the participation of His Royal Highness (William) is a request from Lord Sandwealth. I have tried to face Our Most Highness Our Most Merciful King so that this war is taken care of by the servant but His Majesty Our Most Wise King has given His Royal Highness a command to give His Royal Highness keep leading the war."

"I know, after all Sandwealth is a supporter of my beloved sister. Of course they would not let go of the circumstances that would give them as many achievements as they were today."

As Albert said, although war is very detrimental for both countries, but for some, it is an opportunist condition. If someone succeeds in winning the war and returns safely, of course, he will get many benefits ranging from status to wealth. The same is true with the current conditions, with the competition heating up succession to the throne between the three princes, namely William, Henry, and Albert consciously or not, the moral hazard[1] they have is increasing every day due to an increasingly competitive climate of succession. Over the age of the king who is now elderly but fortunately the temple took a neutral path and the competition between princes that occurred consisted of three equally strong camps. If the succession had only two camps, it was likely that the Kingdom of Artchania had fallen into civil war.

So you could say the state of war between the Kingdom of Artchania and the Kingdom of Ibeltia was a field of achievement for the three people.

But as expected, due to the war that erupted in the Duke Sandwealth, of course all war achievements have been successfully monopolized by Prince William.

"Puni servant, Your Majesty."

"Forget it, I didn't expect much from this war. Is there anything else you want to say?"

"My Highness, I get a report from the Grand Chamberlain[2] that Fertiphile and Morhust pleaded with His Majesty the God-Forsaken King to open a meeting of parliament."

"What's wrong? I didn't hear Fertiphile or Morhust have fief war."

"My Highness, their plea is to stop the fief war that happened to Otilia and Canadia."

"Otilia? Why did they not send a request but instead it was filed by Morhust and Fertiphile?"

Albert was confused by this. Normally, regions/counties that experience a fief war are the parties that handle parliamentary meetings. So in normal cases, it should have been granted by Otilia instead of other counties.

"I suspect it is very likely that Otilia is facing internal conflict. Especially the leadership of the county was led by a countess who was politically national was a dead product."

Albert touched his chin. Thinking with calculation.

"But still .. I know that the three counties have long formed a coalition but that does not mean that Otilia can be that easy to ask for their help. Moreover, this was filed by two counties at once while the parties involved did not send a similar request at all. Interestingly enough, it looks like Otilia has strong negotiation skills."

"As His Highness the Prince suspected."

Beldon hesitated to continue his remarks but after a short pause, he still asked the prince.

"Your Highness, I am sure that Our Highness the Most Merciful King will not ignore this proposal especially the request comes from two counties that have carried out the call of feudal aid [3]. I'm sure Our Lord's Most Highness The Lord will grant the opening of the parliament."

"So?"

"Your Highness, with such a position, what to do to Canadia?"

Albert understood Beldon's line of thought. The three marquesses, Hornwall, Canadia, and Whitesburg, came from the same coalition. In addition, the three are his strongest supporters as the successor to the throne. So it should be natural for them to support each other.

But Albert had other thoughts.

"Right now your position is the Prime Minister so it would be bad for you to side with the attackers. Moreover, Otilia's allies Fertiphile and Morhust had carried out feudal aid, so it would be difficult for Canadia to win in parliament. Unless another great noble like Duke Norchaster takes a stand."

Beldon understood that too. With his current position as prime minister, he could not be rash. If he missteps, this could end with his impeachment as prime minister and the fall of his cabinet.

"So you better not support Canadia blindly" Albert said.

"Okay, Your Majesty."

Note:

moral hazard[1]: a risk-taking action that is high enough to be borne that can cause others to also potentially bear the risk of the action. The term is widely used in the financial world to refer to the conditions where banks as creditors dare to take a high risk by lending during the financial crisis occurred in Southeast Asia in 1997-1998 (Krugman, Krugman, 1999).

Grand Chamberlain[2]: The regal treasurer is responsible for all aspects of household management to royal ceremonial processions.

feudal aid [3]: a feudal legal term that requires feudal subordinates/subjects (noblemen, priests, and commoners) to send assistance in the form of military obligations to the granting of property to their king/lord.