Hakai no Miko

The news that King Walius of Holmea had led the army to defeat the Romanian nation and left the King's capital had also been delivered to the Ethereal Horse.

In return, the Ethereal Horse first frowns and then asks Eladia.

"Have you had any contact from Holmeer country?

The female chief of the Elf, who has been entrusted with everything from the apostle's response to the compromise, answers immediately.

"A number of emissaries have come from the Gorges asking for dialogue, but we have yet to receive one from the Holmeer State"

To Eladia's answer, the Ethereal Horse thought Hmm.

Then order Eladia to spread the map of the Holmeer country on her desk. And he placed a pawn showing the Army of Holmea at the king's capital, Holmenia, and a pawn showing the Army of Romanian Nation between the eastern city of Holmea, Gatzen, and the king's capital, Holmenia, that it had been dropped by Romanian.

According to reports from Pipi, who went on reconnaissance, King Walius led almost all his troops to defeat the Romanian state.

The Ethereal Horse moved the pawn of the Holmeer National Army to face the pawn of the Romanian National Army all the way.

"I mean, is the king's capital almost empty..."

Just as no pawn is placed on the map, there is almost nothing in the Wang capital, Holmenia, that can be called a force of war.

Whatever you think of this, the Holmeer State is terminal.

It would be inconceivable, if not normal, not to strike a temporary truce or an alliance or other hand against ourselves in the West because of how much blood has gone up on our heads, and to lead all armies against the Romanian National Army to come to a showdown.

This is like being told to attack a vacant King's Capital.

After thinking that far, the Ethereal Horse noticed haha.

"Maybe an empty castle meter! As we broke through the castle gate, it was dropped into the pit, and the rain of arrows came from above the castle wall...!

Talking that far at once, Aoima notices Shemr's cold (sarcasm) gaze. Her eyes said silently, "Soma has mentioned something stupid again," she said.

The other day, out of my unnecessary concern, I had just lost sight of Alexius, the first heir to the throne, who was also the trump card for the negotiations because of his escape from the Holmeer National Army, which should have been able to destroy him.

When the pale horse remembered it blushed in shame, she had one cough to fix the spot.

"What do you mean, Mr. Pipi is scouting the king's capital from above, and I don't think he even thinks about it because of the number of soldiers who left"

You read too much of the Three Kingdoms, and the reflecting Ethereal Horse reconsiders and reanalyzes the current situation.

Then again, it seemed reasonable to think of this as King Walius' rampage.

It is no longer possible to expect a decent thought from King Walius.

As an Ethereal Horse, it is the truth that I do not want to relate to such an undecidable person. If this is a distant story somewhere, I can laugh and watch you destroy yourself on your own, but if what happens becomes a neighbor Holmeer, the story is different.

Somehow we were going to ask the Holmeer State to work hard as a buffer zone between their faction and the Romanian State. If King Walius' rampage eliminates the Holmea nation, they will be in direct contact with the Romanian nation that is gaining momentum.

Hopefully, that's what I wanted to avoid.

"Is there no possibility that the Holmeer country will win?

Yes, Shemr asks, but the Ethereal Horse lets him shake his neck to the side.

"With more than double the power difference, you hardly win. Not to mention King Walius, who commands it."

The Ethereal Horse plays the pawn of the Holmeer Country with his index finger placed on the map. The pawn of the Holmeer country rolled off the map with a sound of karakara.

Already among the Ethereal Horses, the defeat of the Holmeer Country is a given condition.

What was going to be a problem was dealing with the Romanian king Dordea, who defeated the Holmeer country.

"I guess that doesn't mean we're going home satisfied with King Walius."

The next action King Dordea will take when he does so is to march on the King's capital, Holmenia.

Probably split the army into several parts due to the food problem and head to the Wang Capital while looting everywhere to secure food. And after besieging and surrendering or overthrowing the King's capital with all his armies, he would intend to put Vritas in power to King Holmea to establish a Romanian puppet regime.

How should we deal with such a Romanian country?

The Ethereal Horse put his arms together and thought.

First of all, the easy part is working with Romanians.

Raid the National Army of Holmea heading east from the rear, or bring down the King's capital to merit. Then we ask ourselves to use that merit as a shield to secure the independence of the city of Bornis and the Plains of Sorbiant.

But I thought Ethereal Horse was a bad idea.

It is clear that King Dordea is burning with the ambitions of Western unity. They will necessarily ask us to be respectful. If only one of you could keep your independence just by bowing your head. If I was smart enough not to be such a big deal, the Ethereal Horse would have lowered it as much as he wanted.

But there is no way that King Dordea, possessed by the ambition of Western unity, can leave the barn zone of the Sorbiant plains, which is still growing, or the city of Bornis, which continues to develop at all. Once you acknowledge independence, every time you do, you will pluck into obfuscation and try to deprive the city of Sorbiant Plains and Bornis of its rights.

And if you go against that, it's repression by force. Even if we do not defy it, if we continue to accept the demands of King Dordea, we will not be far away from becoming famous innocent things such as independence.

In any case, a confrontation with King Dordea is inevitable.

"When that happens, when will we intervene in the battle between Holmea and Romanian?"

The Ethereal Horse thinks as he entertains with his fingertips a pawn showing himself placed in the city of L'Oma on the map.

As it stands, the Romanian State will conquer the majority of the Holmeer State to become the largest de facto western power. It's like strangling yourself just to watch your enemies become mighty that you know will face off one day.

Here we must either stand in the way of the Romanian State or multiply this confusion by cutting ourselves even further out of the Holmeer State.

When that happens, it is Holmenia, the king's capital of the Holmeer kingdom, who will first turn his eyes.

Holmenia is the heart of the Holmeer country, where only the King's capital gathers major streets and canals are maintained. If only we could hold this place down, we would be able to give the whole Holmeer nation a glimpse.

Moreover, fortunately, now its king capital, Holmenia, has few soldiers to defend it.

Then can we strike down the king's capital, Holmenia, while King Walius and King Dordea fight?

He was a pale horse who thought so, but he immediately dismisses it.

First of all, there are few soldiers who can move into their own hands.

Even though he absorbed the surrender soldiers who were crusaders and subjugated the lords of the western part of the Holmeer kingdom to take up the soldiers, the soldiers of the Ethereal Horse are less than 10,000.

However, in an attempt to increase the number of soldiers, I wanted to avoid extracting soldiers from the western part of the Holmeer country, which I had just subjugated, which could have caused unnecessary anxiety and confusion. On the contrary, it is a situation in which we must rather allocate our own forces in order to maintain security in the still volatile West.

The only soldiers who can move in this situation are between five and six thousand soldiers, mainly Zoan warriors who are scared by humans and unsuitable for policing.

No matter how much King Walius departed in all his armies, there would not have been just one soldier left from the king's capital. There should be a minimum of soldiers, such as guard soldiers to maintain the security of the King's capital and protect the families of the remaining royal marquis nobles. If those soldiers and the people of the king's capital are desperate to fight, even if there are five thousand Zoan warriors who are not good at siege warfare, it will take some time to drop this in the strong king's capital.

If King Dordea, who defeated King Walius in the meantime, arrives, we will now be sandwiched by the King's capital and the Romanian National Army.

If, in all likelihood, we were able to strike down once and for all to obtain the King's Capital, we must now rely on the dilapidated walls that we destroyed ourselves and welcome the Romanian National Army with the Holmese people, who until the other day were enemies. This is another unscrupulous story.

"When you do, do you think you can do better to sell your thanks to Holmea?

If we consider preventing the Romanian State from becoming mighty as a matter of the highest priority, we should work with the Holmeer State to oust the Romanian army.

Where both countries are fighting hard, they threaten the rear of the Romanian state to win the Holmeer state.

But it didn't seem very good to Ethereal Horse that King Walius would thank us and happily acknowledge our independence.

I feel more likely to get rid of the Romanian National Army and hit themselves hurt and tired, saying it was humiliating to be helped by all that.

Guessing from the words and actions of the numerous Warius kings we have learned so far, it seemed impossible for the Ethereal Horse to coexist with the Holmeer country, at least as long as King Warius is alive.

"After all, I wonder if the best thing would be for the Romanian state to fall together with the Holmeer state"

But we won't even be able to expect King Walius and the Holmeer National Army to compete with the Romanian National Army today.

Then we'll have to do it ourselves.

We beat the Romanian National Army, which was hurt and exhausted in the battle against the Holmeer country.

The Ethereal Horse played a pawn showing the Romanian National Army at his fingertips and flew it from the top of the map.

"Perhaps the best time for this is the moment when the King's capital, Holmenia, fell."

Formerly the capital of both the Holmeer and Romanian countries, Holmenia is also an ancient (albeit large) country. That defense is hard, and when it comes to the Romanian army, yes, it won't be that easy to drop.

However, in the Battle of Cage Castle, where rescue from the surrounding Hordes is not desired, one day even though it is the king's capital, Holmenia, will surely fall.

And it is then that we aim.

The Romanian National Army, which has fallen into an avalanche inside the walls, is going to help the people of the King's capital where they are being plundered and assaulted.

To ourselves kicking the brutal Romanian National Army, the people of the King's Capital will welcome us with cheer, not knowing it was their aim.

At the same time, we can also have the ruling class of the Holmeer country swept away by the Romanian National Army, which will be an obstacle to the subsequent rule of our own country. In some cases, you may kill a surviving nobleman under the guise of Romanian National Army assault.

This would be the best hand, given the later governance.

But the Ethereal Horse did not excuse himself.

It is a top priority for Ethereal Horse to save people who believe in themselves and follow them, creating a place where they can live in peace. To do so, I am ready to trump others and abandon them.

But this is not just abandonment. It's a despicable act of watching it sideways knowing that others will be hurt and unhappy, and saving people by looking like righteous allies who later and came too late.

As long as I do that, it would be better if I abandoned it from the beginning.

That's what the Ethereal Horse thought.

That's what people might call sweet. But that is the nature of the Ethereal Horse.

And because he was such a heartless, sweet person, Shemr recognized the Ethereal Horse as his own "you under the umbilical cord."

"Damn, it looks like you."

Shemr's tone even sounded rather proud.

"But if my 'you under the umbilical', can you think of a good hand?

The Ethereal Horse laughs bitterly at the shemle's sayings.

You always ask yourself to be the "you under the umbilical" that Shemr deserves to serve, for such things as devoting your body, mind and soul to serving. It is a burden for the Ethereal Horse, but it is also a matter of pride.

"I can't even think of a hand."

Actually, I was only coming up with one hand. Rather than the most obvious measure, it is a very natural negotiation.

But it was rather suspicious to say whether it would succeed by doing so.

I don't think it's ever a bad thing considering the damage alone. But what they think of it is a different story. People often give emotions priority over reason. Given our previous intransigence with the Holmeer State, I just couldn't seem to do it at all.

"But I probably can't..."

As the Ethereal Horse sighs, Shemr sighs again, too.

"Hmm. That's going to hurt a lot of people in Holmea."

The atmosphere sank dark for a while filled the tent.

But I get a quiet voice that doesn't read that air.

"When you're hungry, you don't even come up with a good idea. It's time, and why don't we have lunch?

It was Marco.

Totally this guy was a shy shemur, but if you ask me, it's a good time to have lunch. When the Ethereal Horse and Marco said it was best, they decided to take a break and have lunch.

"Dear Soma, I brought you a meal."

After a while, Marco came back with each of the basins with lunch on them in his hands. Arrange it in front of the Ethereal Horse and Shemr and I recommend "go ahead".

That's how he was a pale horse trying to have lunch placed in front of him, but he frowned.

On top of the basin that Marco brought, bread was placed instead of the usual wheat rice. Moreover, it is bread baked with butter mixed with soybean mittens, which Ethereal Horse calls the Way Out.

"Marco. This is a little..."

He was a pale horse showing difficulty in color, but for some reason Marco strongly recommends it.

"I just baked it, so eat it."

It was rare for Marco to recommend so much, knowing that the Ethereal Horse hated it. Besides, he was usually a sweet marco as a decoy, but tough only to leave food behind. Previously, when I happened to have no appetite and left a meal, etc., I started by talking about how farmers struggle to grow crops, and were swung hot valves for hours about the importance of food, such as what it feels like to be able to eat pigs and fish.

Just don't want to go through that again, Ethereal Horse, reluctantly, but I'll take a bite.

Then, surprisingly good.

The taste of butter's animal fat surprisingly matches the taste of mite, which is made of the breakdown of the vegetable protein of soybeans.

Marco, who sees it from the look of a pale horse, says well.

"Look, it's surprisingly tasty, isn't it?

I also had to admit that that's just the Ethereal Horse.

Marco tenses his chest when he is breading with the meaning of surrender.

"No, even if you don't think so, it's surprising."

Besides, the Ethereal Horse was hazy.

Marco isn't just talking about bread. He also talks about the attack on the King's capital, Holmenia, where the Ethereal Horse is troubled by it.

In retrospect, Marco is also formerly a human being in the Holmeer country. If you heard that your country was being invaded by violent invaders, you would still have some thoughts.

The Ethereal Horse had something in mind.

After a while, the pale horse accidentally pushes the remaining bread into his mouth all at once. And I poured all this into my stomach with non-transferable soy mite juice.

"Okay. I've made up my mind!

Having said that, the Ethereal Horse stood up for immediate action. Shemr then hurries to call off the Ethereal Horse as he tries to leave the tent.

"Soma, where are you going?

As he went out of the tent, the pale horse stopped and turned back to Shemr.

"Of course -"

And the Ethereal Horse smiled and showed it.

- I'm going to get Holmeer.