I Became the Master of the Empress

66 – Episode 66

Golden Knights.

If the triple wall that protects the empire is the shield of the empire, then the Golden Knights are the sword of the empire that slays the enemies of the empire.

It is the strongest knight corps in the empire, and each knight is a strong man who has reached the rank of sword expert.

The Golden Knights are considered to be inferior to even the Grand Duchy’s proud Giant Legion in close combat.

Philip falls into despair when he sees such a group of monster knights appearing and running toward his rear.

“You… Such a crazy archduke… How dare you move the emperor’s soldiers into the territory?!”

Manipulating the emperor’s military according to one’s own wishes is a serious act of exceeding authority, even if Devian possesses the emperor’s power.

No emperor in the past has ever supported one side in a territorial war and provided support with money, but there have only been a few instances in the long history of an empire where such support was provided with troops, and they usually remained in history under the name of tyrants.

Therefore, although it is not written in law, the emperor nominally advocates neutrality.

Debian’s current behavior crosses a line that no noble can tolerate.

The emperor and his vassals have a strict contractual relationship, and for the emperor to intervene in a war in which there are mutual justifications and a war in which a noble god directly chooses the winner is an act that all nobles in the empire would do.

But I feel deep anger at the Archduke’s foolish and nonchalant actions.

‘You despicable bastard! ‘Do not think that the imperial faction and the neutral faction will remain silent.’

“Damn… But there are mercenaries in the rear…”

Philip, who has been in war for a long time, knows how hard it is to trust his mercenaries, but at this moment, he places his hope on them.

“Reserves! Everyone, protect the wizard in the rear!”

There is a bit of distance between the reserve force and the magician in the rear, but Philip hopes that if the mercenaries give him a little time, he will be able to hold out to some extent…

“hahahaha…”

I grit my teeth as I watch the mercenaries leave the battlefield.

***

“Look over there! Leader.”

Hearing those words, the man holding the halberd looks behind him.

“Is that… The Golden Knights?”

The Halberd mercenaries, known for their bravery on the battlefield, click their tongues when they see the knights wearing fancy armor.

“Tsk tsk… Why are they here?”

“Really? “What should I do?”

The leader of the Halberd mercenaries is lost in thought.

‘What is it? I was planning to stay on the opposing principality’s side for a while and then withdraw if I felt like I was going to lose.’

However, he changed his plan when he saw that the opposing principality was doing better than expected and thought that he could sack the large city of Win.

“What can I do, I have to jump out.”

“Is that so? Actually, it doesn’t make sense to fight against human weapons.”

The captain nods his head at those words.

“It’s a little unfortunate that my credibility is falling, but life is still more precious.”

The vice-captain nodded at those words.

“That’s right. Still, I’m glad. “Because I took a lot.”

When they are actually hired, they receive a down payment and weekly settlement, so they have earned a lot of money and are thinking about leaving without any hesitation.

“That’s right. “Let’s take a break until the rumors that we jumped out subside.”

Hearing those words, the vice-captain nods his head and shouts in a loud voice.

“Come on! “The entire army retreats!”

At those words, the infantry guarding the rear began to break away from the line.

Halberd mercenaries retreating like that.

***

Philip watches in fascination as the mercenaries in the rear retreat and falls into despair.

Philip hurriedly looks at the front lines as he sees the magic troops starting to run away in fear and the Golden Knights chasing and killing them.

“Damn it! What are the cavalry at the front doing? Have we still not defeated our enemies?!”

At that time, several cavalry units on the front line rushed to Philip’s camp.

“Commander, Excellency, this is an order from General Goering to report the war situation and receive new orders.”

Philip shows anger at those words.

“What do you get for new orders?! “Shouldn’t we attack right away and destroy the enemies?!”

When Philip, who normally has a gentle personality, speaks angrily, the messenger speaks as if he is afraid.

“Well… Well… There are so many spearmen in the enemy’s rear, so it’s really okay to attack…”

At those words, Philip feels again the feeling of being hit on the head with a hammer.

‘Could it be… that they were aiming for this… and intentionally exposing their weakness?’

In order to gain momentum, all units that can move have been deployed.

Originally, we would have used the reserve force to respond, but now the reserve force is…

We are putting all our efforts into stopping the Golden Knights.

‘Wait…what are the reserves doing now?’

Looking to the rear, the Golden Knights are mercilessly slaughtering our magicians and quickly running towards our cavalry and spearmen to the east, avoiding our reserves.

“hahahaha… damn it…”

Allied spearmen begin to run away one by one due to the overwhelming force of the Golden Knights.

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The cavalry tries to stop the knights, but it seems that the empire’s strongest knights are not fake.

Easily breaks down friendly spearmen and begins to crush them.

‘What should I do? If this happens, the enemy’s cavalry will soon be free.’

Philip realized that if time wasted, the rear of his army would be cut to pieces by the enemy and the battle line would collapse. He thought of a way to overcome this situation, but…

‘There is no way.’

Close your eyes and try to figure out where you went wrong.

If he had fought in the Franciscan Cloister, he might have suffered less damage.

Although they were at a disadvantage and could not maintain their numerical superiority in the narrow corridor, they would have responded appropriately since they could observe all of the enemy’s actions at a glance in the narrow space.

‘Or, if we hadn’t fallen for the enemy’s plan…’

Furthermore, the enemy’s cavalry attacked us in an attempt to prevent our cavalry and spearmen from moving.

The real attack was the Golden Knights.

‘Should we have expected the Golden Knights to move since the Archduke is holding the Emperor hostage?’

But even all the nobles of the empire before the war would not have expected it.

What Debian did was crazy.

Because only a tyrant can personally wield the sword that protects the empire.

Philip is worried as he watches his allies begin to run away.

‘We must give an order to retreat even now.’

-Ugh…

“Retreat!, Retreat!”

When Philip gives the command, soon a large horn fills the battlefield.

“Retreat!”

When you fall into such vain defeat and despair.

The Golden Knights are heading here.

“Everyone get on the horses! Everyone get on your horse!”

The anti-communist generals hurried to speak like that.

At that time… Everyone became confused as they saw a knight riding a horse holding a long spear in one hand.

A short woman with flowing red hair.

She approaches here at high speed, slaughtering her friendly cavalry.

“Meh…Princess Mary?!”

“Why… Why is that monster here?!”

Everyone falls into despair upon learning of Princess Mary’s overwhelming inaction.

***

A letter from the Grand Duchy.

When the results come slowly.

When you carefully lift the letter, you can see Mary’s seal.

I guess…You didn’t lose, right?

If you lose, you might lose everything. It is a grand duchy and has enormous debt.

“Whoa…”

With a slightly trembling heart, I opened the envelope and read the letter.

-Sreuk… Tak!

Upon hearing the contents of the letter, without realizing it, she got up from her seat and stretched both her hands high into the sky.

“I won!, I won!”

An overwhelming victory.

“As expected, Agrippa! “I believed you, Slave No. 2!”

I knew it in my head, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried until now.

“Puhahahahaha! “I won!”

– Shake it off.

When you sit down and cheer like that.

-Slap!

“Honey, why are you smiling so frivolously? “What’s going on?”

I feel very welcome today when Theodora walks through the door of my office.

-Flutter!

“It’s a letter from Win! “We won!”

Theodora opened her eyes wide in surprise at my words, but then smiled brightly.

“Of course! “You are amazing!”

“hehehe! This is thanks to Agrippa and you!”

I truly believe that it is thanks to Theodora who moved the great general Agrippa and the Golden Knight leader William.

“hahahaha! “Now we can solve fertilizers, information departments, and investment funds all at once!”

This time, there is no choice but to reap huge profits from the financial circles of the Empire, United Kingdom, and Babylonian Empire.

“Now then, shall we make a plan? “Go and see Lucius and ask him to call Ka, because I have a serious matter to discuss with him right now.”

Theodora nods her head with a gentle smile at my words.

“Yes.”

***

The victory of the Grand Duchy.

As the news begins to spread, financial markets around the world fluctuate.

-Oops! sh*t!

-The opposing principality faction clearly won!

-This life is ruined. I guess I’ll have to go to the Tiber River…

Numerous investors and institutions have purchased anti-duchy bonds so far.

Among them, investment companies and financial companies that sold call options fell into despair with no solution.

-What should we do with the call option we sold this time?

-G… Buy the Grand Duchy bonds on the market right now, no matter what the price is! Hurry!

Panic…

In order to resolve the call options sold by panicked financial institutions, they began to purchase the Grand Duchy’s bonds in circulation.

It is natural for them.

High prices began to be set to somehow purchase bonds in line with the call option contracts purchased by Pieta Company.

-No… A 1 million gold bond is worth over 2 million gold?!

The price of the Grand Duchy’s bonds, which were skyrocketing day by day, began to rise without realizing that they were sky high.

And before you know it…

Financial companies fell into despair after seeing the 1 million gold bond increase to 3 million gold.

-Damn it… I’m broke!

-Who on earth is buying a 1 million gold bond for 3 million gold? Are you crazy?

-Yeon… I heard that the United Kingdom now has over 3 million gold!

The financial sector is in despair.

A huge financial institution that is scrambling to prevent contract default and bankruptcy by purchasing bonds at ridiculous prices.

On the other hand, small financial institutions that tried to make a lot of money through Pieta Company’s brazen actions cannot do anything.

Because there is already a shortage of Grand Duchy bonds circulating in the market.

Because we do not have the financial power to compete with large financial institutions.

Financial institutions that fail to keep their contracts… Must pay huge compensation.

-hahahaha… Our company is now ruined.

-Same goes for us.

If there were financial institutions in despair, those like the Pieta Company who trusted and invested in the Grand Duchy until the end earned astronomical amounts of money.

In less than a month, bond prices have tripled.

They scream with happiness and are now happy to sell all their bonds on the day before Pieta Corporation exercises its rights as the contract expires.

Some people are in despair, others are happy.

But they don’t know anyone.

Pieta Company led all of this.

The owner of the Pieta Company is Devian Ryan.