THE WORLD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

154 Chapter

Erin was currently proud to return with 2 ships from her attack in the south with Duke Rose's Merchant fleet escorted by her navy. He was quite satisfied with his tactics in the relentless engagement in waves that ended up squeezing Rose's forces psychologically and assaulting them at just the right moment when they were resting. 

One of the subordinates asked Erin, his commander, “This time we will have one of the greatest victories in our memory, Lord Erin. Right?” 

“Yes, but I think Master will get a bigger win. This time we lost a lot of people in this attack if not for the pirates who bore the heaviest burden, we would have lost more than 10 ships and 1000 people. That's a good result. Anyway, get ready to return to the city of Laguna. “

looks like we should leave the war machine in full battle mode. “

John murmured, “I think I need to buy that cannon just to be one side safe. After all, after the first battle, we will spread our wings in terms of urban development. 

John looked at Blake and ordered,” Blake you can attack any ship from Fjord domain. It would be better if you can get their ship so that it will reduce our time and production cost. The battle report was good. We have a minimum number of casualties but it can still be reduced. I'll come to their funeral in person tomorrow morning. They will be given the highest honor of the country. ”

John looked at Taylor and asked,” Taylor, what is the status of the Clock tower? “

Taylor reported when she was familiar with most of the big projects in town, “Tuanku, had just finished and Tornwall had gone into full production mode for weapons and other projects. He was busy preparing for Team's departure while at the same time he was currently expanding the number of factories. In the meantime, because of your policies, there is an increase in business by ordinary people that improves everyone's daily life. While Count Casey is one of those men who is secretly trying to get in touch with us. This time he also rejected Duke Norman to let him use his land for the invasion quite bluntly. ” 

Taylor stopped and continued,” However there is one unsettling report. ” 

John furrowed his brows and asked,” What is it? ?

Taylor, “It's about Mr. Melanie and Miss Eva. Right now, one of his cousins named Dwight is here and trying to evict them from our domain. From my information, He is currently trying to get a formula for all the new types of medicines that we have created recently to counter the influence of the Radiant Church. The royal family was also quite enthusiastic about the drugs as it reduced much of the influence of the Radiant Church. So it was most likely that he was sent by the Royal Family. “

John smiled when he heard about it, “Hmm .. The poor soul had no idea that only I knew about the real formula of the drugs and Mr. Melanie had the formula just in his head. Today, all drugs are made by going through various processes that they cannot imagine to replicate. No need to worry about that fool. I just want to know how the Fjord will react after this loss. Report about this battle in the next paper. Take Eric's interview too if you need him a boy named Ealdron made a pretty inspiring work last time. Let him continue with the work this time. I hear he is quite famous among the residents these days. The entire domain should know about our achievements defeating Duke Fjord in the northeast. And yes spread this information on other domains as well. “

Taylor nodded and wrote it down in the memo. 

*** 

At the port of Laguna City, chaos ensued after people spotted Admiral Shannon's rough ships. 

One of the men at the port spoke after watching the ships arrive, “Didn't they just leave this morning? How could there be one 9 ships coming back this time with such conditions? Isn't there 50+ ships left? this morning?” 

One of the women shouted after failing to see the ships, “Why didn't I see my husband's ship? What happened to that ship?” 

Everyone present at the port understood what was going on after witnessing the low mood of all the sailors and knights in the Shannon fleet.

The women started crying in a hoarse voice after watching the results when she understood what was happening. 

The entire port of Laguna city was deserted after witnessing the arrival of the Armada. 

Shannon ordered his men and immediately went to the palace without saying anything to the crowd. The crowd was quickly controlled by Fjord's private knight army. The port was quickly closed to ordinary people so they could not see the ship. 

One of the men gossiped after seeing the failure, “It seems, finally the war has begun.” 

Another man nodded and agreed, “Only by looking at the state of the ship. I can guess there was a terrible battle in the ocean. “Only this terrible first battle, I'm sure a bigger battle will follow soon.”

An old man sighed and said, “Yes, from my experience, usually a war starts with a small battle that will become bigger and then such a battle will happen.” 

Lily was among the women waiting for their loved ones. As soon as he saw Juan, he was quite happy and full of tears after watching the state of the fleet. Lily is a tall woman with almost the same height as Juan with 5 feet 10 inches, she has green hair and wears glasses. Currently, she was wearing a white dress with a coat. 

Lily was quite surprised after seeing Juan's reaction for the first time because she was quite aware of Juan's personality.

Lily asked in a surprised tone, “Why the sudden change? I thought you'd be upset after losing so much and I had to convince you to leave the navy.” 

Juan had a firm look as he looked at Lily and spoke, “I think I grew up after watching this battle. Didn't you say, you want to travel and seek literature around the world? We'll go first thing after returning or we won't get a chance to leave We'll have a funeral for this old man and then leave. ” 

Lily saw the old man,” Who is this old man? “

Juan thought and gave his answer, “Someone who taught me what war is and saved my life.” 

Her partner from the ship joined Juan, “Hey, did you forget me? I'm also coming with you.” 

Lily nodded and followed Juan , she thought, “I think this battle was a pretty good experience for her. She has matured quite a lot.” 

*** 

Inside the Fjord court, there was a commotion going on among all the ministers after a huge loss, One of the ministers asked, saying, “How did we lose so many ships in the attack where we were the ones who ambushed him? I think we need a thorough investigation into this loss.”

Another minister broke through, “War is ongoing, what do you mean the investigation? Don't you believe the report given by Admiral Shannon? We really lost because of that Ballista. The arrival of the pirate Blake in the end only meant the final nail in the operating coffin. ” 

Fjord was quite angry after hearing about the loss, he almost had a heart attack hearing about the loss without success. “How will you explain this loss, Admiral Shannon?”

Shannon calmly replied, “Their weapons are on a completely different level coupled by the fact that Darius is disrupting the path of our order by giving his own orders and defying my orders. This was coupled with the fact that this time the weapon had a wider range and firepower compared to what was shown earlier. Apart from these things, I will take full responsibility for the failures in this mission. ” 

The minister thought after seeing Grim and Shannon, ‘Quite a shrewd man, he knew who was to blame and who was not. to blame . ‘

Darius looked at Shannon with a sly smile and replied to Duke about Shannon's accusation, “God, I only intend to save the lives of our people after seeing the firepower and the various ballads, which are, this is a battle where we will only lose without any chance to fight, I also anticipate that this is a trap set by Count John and that pirate, he said, after watching Ballistae's only proven weapon right after Blake appeared at the end with his men later when we were close to capturing one of the ships. Due to the stubbornness and ego of Admiral Shannon, we lost 5000 + people instead of only losing 500-700 just after the first attack. We had to reduce our losses at the beginning after the first attack. “

Fjord could not resist Darius' seemingly convincing explanation, he thought, ‘I cannot anger these two at the critical crossroads of war. God, why did I agree with Grim to send Darius on this mission? I can't be angry, I have to calm down and resolve this issue. ” 

Jonas comes near Fjord and advises him, ” Gods, Shannon's disciple has also been sent to attack Rose's ships this time. I think you should wait if you're going to give the punishment to Admiral Shannon. Right now, we are at war So I would advise against taking action against Shannon, I don't think you want a rebellion now or will just help Duke Rose and the rookies, either, while the Royal family was observing the blueprints of our ship like hungry wolves. “

Fjord sighed and gave the order, “Darius you will return to the ground knights and while Shannon will handle the Navy with the supervision of one of my men, she will not interfere with his decision. While you two won't interfere with each other. ” 

Shannon furrowed her brows slightly but did not mind after hearing the command. While Darius and Grim were quite happy because they were not involved due to previous failures.

Fjord continued with his words, “Fuck, This time is an insult to us all over the kingdom. We have never lost a war at sea and today we witnessed such a result while losing 5,000 of our men. We need that weapon whatever the risk or our victim will just go up. Do we really need to raid that eastern port? And why be the Pirate Blake of everyone? Does anyone have a solution? ”

Everyone was silent when talking about the ballad, 

Jonas gives advice after watching everyone keep quiet, “Speaking about Admiral Blake, I think we can protest against that tally in the royal court because he has hired a pirate wanted by the kingdom. With this, we can at least ensure that he will not get political protection from the royal family.

Fjord nodded, “Oke, we will go with your plan. Meanwhile, increase patrols and notify shipyards to increase ship production. This time I will consider selling our ship to the pirates. And also increased our naval recruitment. And also trying to make that balista, haven't you been given that ballad sketch from all angles to our craftsmen? ”

Jonas: “They're already working. However, it is quite difficult to make a prototype without a blueprint or one physical ballad.”