Border Guardian Hal Akircius

East Photographic Empire West Side State/Salt Side, Western Government Building

"An alliance?

"Yes."

Siluha's messenger, wrapped in white long coats on shallow black skin, replied with a compelling smile to Li Shengbing, who spoke a barbaric voice.

A magnificent messenger wrapped a cloth around his head and accumulated plenty of black mustaches in his mouth and jaw.

Its body and clothing, as opposed to the Le Seung Bang, which was dressed in red front-loaded East Photographic clothing, were full of traveling dust, but made it feel strong.

However, without being influenced by its persecution, Li Shengbing, angry at the way it answered, makes a rare and angry voice.

"... probably because of the joke"

"I'm not kidding. But at that time, we need to review the relationship between the Western Prefecture and the Silentium Alliance."

But the messenger carries on the words with a smile, not through the wrath of Li Shengbing.

In response to that word, calmness returned to the Le Seong row.

"Well... something, then, does Siluha attack the Western Empire?

"I can't say anything yet... but anyway, I want the Western Province to have Cilentium in tow. As for the Great East Photo, 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers will be gathered immediately."

"Hmm, what in return?

Siluha's messenger opens his mouth with a deeper smile on the Le Seong row, which shows a bare gesture in response to his demands.

"It depends on the resumption of the deal with my Siluha and the triumph of the land controlled by the Silentium Alliance"

"Well, that's not lavish!

"No, just a small thank you."

It was a leisheng row that rounded his eyes to the words of the messenger, but his eyes did not laugh at all.

That was the same with the envoy of Siluha, who returned the words as he stared into the eyes of Li Shengbing with a cold smile.

In the first place, it was Siluha who broke the trade, such as the food embargo, and it was too good a condition for insects, given that it was also Siluha's side who was wearing the profit-sharing of the traded goods that caused it.

Besides, it is not even conditional that the dominion of the Silentium Alliance, which is completely unaffected by Siluha, may be occupied.

It is not a division bargain in the occupied territories.

However, it is not even detrimental to just say that we will return the deal we are making with Silentium to Siluha, which, although profitable for Siluha, has nothing to gain for East Photography, but rather to a deal that has gripped our previous weakness of food supply.

But while it's easy to chase the messenger back when you're making a fool of yourself here, Le Seung-bak, who wants to grasp Siluha's intention to send the messenger to East Photograph, which is deliberately offended by such lopsided negotiating material, decided to put a stop to it.

Li Shengbang deliberately shows a slight hesitation in his answer, and when he deposits his body on his back, he pronounces himself with a roar.

"Uhm, well... I can't get back to you right away. Because it has to be open to the country."

"Really... how long will we wait?

"Oh my... are you going to wait here?

"Yes, I have to ask Governor Lidu to do something about it."

Li Shengbing did not miss the glimmer and the eyes of the messenger shined sharply, but returned the words as if they were strangers.

"Um, okay, will you wait about three weeks? At least that's how long it takes to get a response from home countries."

"... OK, I'll be at the salt inn, so I won't speak up"

"Um, who's calling?"

Li Shengbing nodding to eagles in the voice of the apostle.

The messenger also indicated his willingness to back off if he was finally convinced with it.

"Yes, thank you very much…"

And the messenger said so, and called the men of his subordination, and laid down a large box before the Le Sen row.

When the messenger's men opened it with all due respect, the glowing sand was packed in a box.

"... what is that?

"Thank you. I'll sit down."

"... or are you sure someone's here?"

There was a lot of laughter, and Li Shengbang called officials to arrange a substitute souvenir.

"No, we don't have to open it up to our own country. For a while, we turned down our offer and forcibly broke off the deal negotiations and intimidated them. If they started getting along with Cilentium, they would start sending us any food. Those evil sauces in the south are licking the eagles with the old country, and they'll show it to your eyes!

As soon as the messenger leaves the room, the Le Seung-bak becomes sudden as if he had a seizure.

"So... how do you do it?

"Oh, I don't care! Let Sosei of Cilentium know as soon as possible that Siluha is willing to attack the Empire and is preparing for it as soon as possible."

I guess I couldn't sit on my stomach long enough, and Li Shengbing lifts up his chin to the words of the officials and gives instructions.

"What will the messenger do?

When another official asked, Li Shengbang immediately returned the words.

"Whoa, keep an eye on him and hold him back, just the outfit that he's negotiating from there. Who did you use to make it look like you flew a fast horse on horseback! Make the soldiers you gather as prominent as you can, and make them think you're on board with Siluha."

"But if the empire loses, it will be a new spark, shouldn't we keep it on a winning horse here?

Yet another official voiced his opinion, Le Seung Bang showered his anger at the official after looking to heaven with a shuddering look.

"You and more! What Siluha wants is to attack the Silentium Alliance while saying it depends on the cut. You think you can handle the Northern Legion soldiers and that neighborhood guard decently and cut off the land? On the other hand, they can do it, but it's falling... Cilentium may be grateful or in-laws in the first place, but I don't know what it means to turn them around!

"... ah, but..."

To the uttering official, Li Shengbing can cover his words with a toothpick.

"We can't have a foundation for roughly cutting, so we can gather our troops together in the first place, at most 40,000, and the Cilentium Alliance is over 100,000, right? I'm glad you figured that out, but I'm not expecting you to say no from the end!

"So?"

When the first speaking official finished acknowledging the book to Sukedaisheng, to whom he had been instructed, Li Shengbing put an awesome grin on his face.

"Definitely! What Siluha wants to do is just buy time for stability behind him. If the eagles move their troops to Siluha in colour, they will not be attacked by the Empire. Even if it's only 40,000, it's a hassle for Siluha to empty the country. If you want me to ask you to go to Higashikai's home country or let you get lost and nail it, I won't eat your hands! resentment over the last few years, it clears me up"

Qiuruyuan Succession Mansion, Qiuruyuan Village, Xinliang Province, Empire

Early in the morning, Qiu Ruyuan Succession woke up.

Having said that, it is not the usual wake up, but because the swordsman of the night visited the room of the source succession.

I felt signs of people from before that, and I woke up naturally. A swordsman makes an astonishing report to the source succession.

"... OK, I'll be right there, you wake up all the people in the mansion, and when it's done, go wake up the villagers"

The source inheritance, which exited the futon at the same time as the swordsman, who lowered his head in silence, quickly changed from his bedding to his featherweight regular clothing, turned to the front door with the knife resting on his pillow at his waist.

When the source inheritance arrived at the front door, there were numerous wounded Imperial soldiers there.

"This is...!

"Lord Murakami, I'm sorry, but I'd like to give the soldiers some rest. Is there a building you can vacate?

To the surprise of the source succession, the general and the thinker hung a faint voice.

If you look, you're wrapping a bandage full of blood and mud around half your face, losing one arm.

But the footsteps were definite, and I got the impression that the blue and white complexion was terrible.

"... wait a while"

"I'm sorry, I was the commander of the Seventeenth Corps of the Imperial Army, a man named Primus Laberius... whose ship was wrecked and made it to the coast ahead, I'll take care of it"

The source successor supported Labelius's shoulder, fluttered as he nodded silently, and decided to lead him to the hall of the mansion.

Later soldiers should be housed in a building that serves as a rally area for the village.

Order the families who have been in a hurry to prepare water, water and medicinal herbs, and even tell them to boil the bath as soon as possible.

When the villagers awakened by the swordsmen came with swords, the perimeter of the mansion became noisy at once.

source inheritance asks as he forcefully carries Labelius.

"Commander of the Legion, is there only one ship that has flown in?

"No... I don't know..."

"Do you mind if I report it to the Grand Master and get the numbers out?

"... thank you very much."

Labelius answering powerlessly to the words of the source succession, perhaps exhausted, because of the injury, but also because of the appearance of heat.

And where I could see the hall, Source Succession asked the last question.

"... what happened to the war?"

"Ha, as you can see, village chief, we lost a lot. Now the three remaining Legion Chiefs are stuck... until what time... and as you can see, I was useless and evacuated."

Words of self-derision. Finally, Labelius' body slowly lost its power.

The injury was terrible, but the treatment was appropriate. I can't help my arm and eyes, but it doesn't seem to have much sequelae.

As the source successor laid Labelius down into the great hall, he ordered the rushing medic to treat him, and he hurried himself to the remote office.

The source successor who arrived in the room took out the brush and paper and started because he wrote quickly.

And on the way, I whistled my fingers.

"Are you calling, contemporary"

Hand over the written letter to the shady man who appeared in a short time and tell the matter in a voice where the source inheritance contained a rush.

"Hurry, deliver this letter to Sunny and Maple. Don't hesitate to send it through transmission stone communication, just hurry."

"… Acknowledged"

Soon he dropped off the disappearing shady man into the darkness, and the source successor sighed.

"Absolutely, how come all these challenges come..."

Source Successor then began to write a letter to the Autumn Capital family of the Grand Master, who is also an imperial nobleman, requesting support.

Imperial Territory Western and Althea City, Naval Base

Althea, the central city of the Western continent where Western civilization originated, is a city boasting an ancient history that also appears in mythology.

It was the first city opened by western nations who moved from the western shores of the western continent, and then became the mother city of western nations cities on the coast of the Setria Inland Sea, but came under its control about a hundred years ago after losing it to the Empire in a war of hegemony.

But the prosperity and glory of what was once a central city have not yet been lost, and weigh in as the second city after the imperial capital, even on the coast of the Setria Inland Sea.

The atmosphere is very bright, as the city is sometimes made of pale yellow marble as building materials and is originally a city open to the sea.

Many religious and public establishments have rich Western city characteristics, but a very comfortable city with a good blend of streets, streets, water supply and other infrastructure facilities that have been in place since the time of the Empire.

Sometimes the majority of citizens live in Western countries whose faces are almost the same as those of the Imperial people, and this is a very comfortable city for the Imperial people.

Because it is a teasing and dry zone, the human temperament is similar and refreshing.

"What do you say we fix it?

"Yes, sir, it's going well, Your Majesty."

The western fleet and the guerrilla fleet led by Julianus took the form of pinching without attempting to target a group of pirates, defeating the confused pirates and winning big.

And the sweep operation came with a paragraph, and Julianus, who completed a pirate crusade in the western waters, merged the two fleets and decided to stop first in the nearest city of Althea to replenish and maintain them.

The city of Althea has a day longer for shipbuilding and ship manoeuvring than other cities because it has a long history of prospering as a central city for maritime transactions and as a mother city for Western countries cities on the coast of the Inland Sea of Setria.

Without moving to the large number of battleships of the Imperial Fleet led by Julianus, who entered the port quickly, the administrative office of the city of Althea has immediately designated a berth and provided good offices for the shipyard.

"Then do me a favor later"

"Ha."

Julianus entrusted the captains with the supervision of the repairs, and he decided to head to the City Hall of Althea.

Few, but not all, pirates have been arrested and held there, and naval soldiers who have now become Julianus' men are being questioned.

The connection between Senior Viceroy Wiolens and the pirates had already become apparent, but as Julianus, he wanted to prove at any cost the illegality of the aristocratic nobility, and it was important to know whether there were other fellow pirates and those involved.

City of Altea, City Hall/Magistrate's Office

"Hey! What's up!

"... Hmm, what more can I say now?

"I don't know how you guys got so big."

"... I don't know"

"You...!

In the room dedicated to the investigation of the stuffing, officers of the Navy soldiers repeatedly exchanged with the pirate and the man in their thoughts.

A naval general who doesn't even notice Julianus peeking and is putting blood on his head.

When Julianus puts his hand on its shoulder, he throws a question to a man with a bandage all over his body with a surprising naval officer in his room.

"Then let's change the question… where were you guys lowering the loot?

………

To the man who remained corrupt, a blue muscle appeared again on the forehead of the naval officer, but Julianus stopped him from trying to yell and repeated the question.

"Isn't that Zide City? Cartos, the accountant, did the official quit?

Julianus' face, who is called by name and sees a stunned pirate, is extremely calm, and his quiet tone remains unchanged; but the pirate accidentally dwelt in that gaze, which increased his awesomeness.

"Cartos, what you looted was taken down to the Free City of Zeed on your ship, which made it look like an imperial transport ship, and from there it was sold via Siluha... no?

……

Now to Cartos, who does not break his mouth whether he has decided to shut up, Julianus says in a voice that once he leaves with a sigh he hears deliberately outside the private room.

"... well, I wouldn't mind torturing an ex-officio... or dying in pain, for a moment."

"Ha, then..."

"Oh, get ready"

"Wow, okay, say, talk, so..."

Cartos, who was frightened by the conversation outside the room, finally complains pitifully to the Navy General.

I'm not a natural ignorant or evil man.

The operation fitted beautifully, although it was only a threat to Julianus' mouth, who had found that the man who formerly worked as a good official did not have the courage to endure torture.

Julianus came back to his room, leaving a naval soldier in the operation outside with a laugh.

"You were the accountant, weren't you? I wonder why such a person is in a pirate... but even if he was a pirate, his body would be luxurious."

Cartos nodded disappointingly when Julianus looked at Cartos' face wonderfully and then said it as he indicated the fineness of his body and his skin that was not tanned.

"... I didn't know Your Highness would remember me..."

Julianus, whom Cartos deemed to have noticed, began the question.

"So, why are you in the pirates?

"... at first I was introduced to it as a good job. It wasn't long before I found out that was the calculation and tallying of pirate loot… my family was there, and I couldn't quit because I paid well"

"By the way, why did you fire an official?

"... I pointed out a deficiency in my books. Then it was for the embezzled money of the aristocracy, and I was fired by being brought that book on top of my sins."

I sigh unexpectedly, Julianus.

The Empire had once again lost an excellent accounting officer to aristocratic tyranny and injustice.

Even worse this time, that brilliant talent had spilled over to the enemy side.

"... well, so you were a pirate accountant"

"Yes, Your Highness is right, it was my job to aggregate the pirate loot to oversee the shipment and hand it over to the Siluha side in the Free City of Zeed. At first it was just tally, but after a while I was admitted to a serious job… and many other former officials, merchants and citizens in situations like mine worked in pirates. I was also entrusted with its control."

………

"Right..."

Unspoken naval officer and Julianus in the dialogue of the former official Cartos.

A former official was dismissed for unreasonable reasons and invited to the path of evil for his life.

Even though I knew it was evil, I couldn't escape for my life, for my family, ex-officio cartos.

Sometimes your senses will be paralyzed because you work for evil and evil, but not for evil on the front.

And the irony is that the accounting abilities that should have been demonstrated in the empire have become more than common enough in an unreliable group called the Pirate Group.

If the corruption of the empire proceeds by allowing the tyranny of the aristocracy to continue like this, there will certainly be more like Cartos in the future.

Cartos, however, continues his pale conversation with Julianus' grit topped and subtracted to the margin.

"I also had the other role of receiving information from the Siluha side, communicating that information to pirates and communicating requests from Siluha. I usually stayed here in Althea or Peron... I'll tell you where my office is later"

"Okay... but why were you with the pirates this time?

"I just conveyed a request from the Siluha side to the pirates, and the Imperial fleet arrived… and left the port."

sighs so much. Julianus overlaps the question with Cartos.

"Please… were the other pirates coming to Zide to hear that later?

"I was coming. The Orans of the island, the pirates of the north, and the pirates of the east and south also made various deals in the city of Zied. I'm pretty sure it's connected to Siluha just like we are."

"It's spectacular... anti-imperial maritime force build-up..."

To the big story that came out again, Julianus leaked his sigh.

Moreover, it is the Kingdom of Siluha that is pulling the thread behind it, he said.

"Is there anything else you know about rumors?

"I've heard stories about the connection between Siluha and the Imperial nobility, and that's why information about the Imperial Navy is missing from Siluha and our pirates. In fact, I've been on a pirate ship a few times too… this is the first time I've seen the Imperial Navy"

That's best known to Julianus himself, who knows that Violence, the senior admiral of the Imperial Navy, has been circulating information.

Cartos' story made it possible to verify the facts.

Then tell me what you asked for.

"... Siluha asked me suddenly. He rammed in the west and asked me to attract the navy of the Empire... this time a few pirates from the south were in, and the Orans from the island and the pirates from the north seemed to have been asked to do the same."

"Why?

"I don't know, that's it..."

When Cartos said that, a naval general rushed in.

"Your Majesty the Vice Emperor...!

"What's up?

"Anyway, come here"

To the surprise of Julianus, the naval officer asks him to go outside the private room in a hurry.

As Julianus stepped out of the private room with a strange look on his face and was invited by its naval officer, he turned to the back of the stuffing room, and when that naval officer looked around and made sure there was no one else to listen to their conversation, he began to speak out of breath.

"The Imperial Army Southern Dispatch has been destroyed..."

"What!?

"Literally a huge defeat, I hear."

"Shit, this is it!?