＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ About the Empire

About seven months ago in < Infinite Dendrogram > time, the Empire waged war on the kingdom.

The Empire stepped out of the war for three reasons, but the inner two were 'hunger' and 'crisis of aggression'.

The cause of 'hunger' is the decline in arable land.

A few years before the increase, the cultivated land of Drife had begun to wither slightly.

Originally in the north and unsuitable for agriculture, it is now in poor condition in a circle.

The land, which is unexplained, cannot be improved by studying fertilizers, and does not even sprout potatoes that are susceptible to growing on lean land, exceeded 30% of cultivated land.

Its scope continued to expand gradually, and the Empire's food self-sufficiency was no longer sufficient to keep its own people alive.

Nevertheless, imports from neighbouring countries such as the Kingdom and Cardina could be managed to bring about.

However, since the start of the increase in < Master >, Cardina began to squeeze out food exports for what she thought.

Even if diplomats negotiate tenaciously, they won't overshadow it.

Originally Cardina was a country that circulated products from other countries to third countries and benefited from brokered trade. That suddenly turned the goods into a "if you want, come to Cardina and buy them" stance.

But there is no know-how in the Empire for individuals to be able to transport food on a national scale in that demonic realm, the Cardina Desert.

I didn't want to give up on getting food from Cardina.

Still, it managed to withstand imports from the kingdom, even though a small number of starving dead were born to the people.

However... the alliance relationship was dissolved in the inter-state negotiations with the kingdom following the decision of the new king, and no food came from the kingdom either.

No longer had a moment of respite, it was only a matter of time before many citizens starved to death.

The second reason, the 'crisis of aggression', is also attributed to Cardina.

In our eastern neighbor, Cardina, there were signs of invasion of another country.

Cardina's movements after the increase were clearly different.

It is believed that keeping many supplies imported from other countries while not letting them flow is saving them for war.

Cardina has the largest wealth of the seven great nations, and there's nothing wrong with decades of continuing to buy it.

In addition, the Master's preference… was to secure what he wanted and continue to give.

Among the < masters >, inter-state mobility, which is also strong enough to go beyond the great desert of Cardina, is more likely to gather in Cardina.

That's because "Cardina can also get specialties from other countries in one country".

Yes, one of the reasons Cardina stopped flowing the product outside is to keep her country wanting to buy goods from various countries.

Realizing that, the Empire withheld the export of mechanical products, but it was still being sidelined by Cardina from somewhere.

And Cardina brought in enormous supplies in a few years, as well as a large number of < MASTERS > to be a force of war.

Obvious war preparation.

Neither could the Empire understand why Cardina, who had only traded so far, had cut the helm to war here.

Alternatively, some thought that the increase might have been the occasion, but the facts are uncertain.

In any case, it made no difference that Cardina became the most dangerous neighbor, so there was no point in thinking about how many reasons.

If we keep going, Cardina will attack other countries at a stage where she decides she is "ready".

Alter Kingdom, Legendary, Yellow River Empire. It was also possible to set up in those countries... but I stepped on the idea that my life would be an empire.

Because Cardina was the first to withhold exports to the Empire.

Although scarce and vulnerable to food resources, the Empire possesses the best science and technology in the seven major nations.

To hold it back, it's not hard to imagine Cardina attacking the Empire.

Then we must resist it in order to protect the country.

The Empire also had an abdominal proposal.

It is marriage by the emperor's next emperor and the first princess of the kingdom. And it's a united kingdom of empires and kingdoms.

A covenant that has been going on for thirty years. As long as we can do that, the imperial food shortage can be eliminated, and we can counter an external enemy named Cardina with one rock.

This is the only way, it was such a hand.

But as I said earlier, the inter-state negotiations following the new royal decision will even dissolve the alliance relationship between the United Kingdom on the contrary.

The isolated and helpless empire no longer stands alone against any invasion of Cardina.

There is no chance that the Empire can beat that country at the moment, which embraces many of the leading masters, including Super.

The Empire is aware of the power of the [Beast King] in the civil unrest of the succession of the earlier emperor and, among other things, < Super >.

Therefore, it was common sense in the upper echelons of the Empire that the coming war would depend on how good < master > he brought in.

Although the Empire has the strongest [Beast King] of the three western countries, Cardina has the strongest wide-area extermination type of the seven great nations, the [Goddess]. Even if these two were eligible, they had no prospect of defeating Cardina's other < super > with residual power, including [Demon General], and understood that the total war with Cardina was only waiting for defeat.

To avoid that, we must enhance and show the empire's power of war enough to make Cardina think, "You can't just put your hands on this one".

Convening and exaggeration of the forces of war. And even restore the food situation.

Besides, there was a country to the south of the Empire.

- It is the Kingdom of Alter.

There was fertile land, and the kingdom, which was heavily cut off in the [Gloria] incident six months before that, was the best opponent.

There were also many people who felt bitter inside the Empire, whereas they "dissolved their alliance during the empire's predicament and even stopped food exports". In addition, this had to do with certain events in the [Gloria] case, even before the war.

Note that details will be omitted here, but half of the cause of Alliance dissolution lies with the King. But that's a story that makes no sense to pursue inside the present empire. From the Empire in the first place, it can also be said that the King merely sought the fulfilment of prior arrangements (...).

This is how the first war begins.

There are no food resources in the Empire, but there are still plenty of them for money. They scattered it, hired many of the domestic and unaffiliated masters as a force of war, and invaded the kingdom.

Fortunately, it was easy to select an invasion route to the kingdom.

Because there is a land in the territory adjacent to the Empire that the inhabitants were wiped out in the [Gloria] incident, from which they were to invade.

It was Marshal Gifted Barbaros who made this route selection, for the reason that "there are no opponent's defense facilities or villages and they are the easiest to fight".

At the same time, it also means that there are no original cities or villages to be conquered during the invasion.

For the record, another route of invasion was from Barbaros territory, an imperial military stronghold, and adjacent Calcellatan territory.

That's how things go, the two countries fight, and the first war ends.

The kingdom mourned the top moving kings, [heavenly knights] and [great wise men], causing great damage to knights and soldiers alike.

In contrast, the Empire dominated an uninhabited area, which was an invasive route, obtaining partly but fertile cultivated land and, to a lesser extent, improving the food situation.

But everything didn't go as expected.

It was an invasion of the Empire at the end of the war, combined with restraint by Cardina.

The Empire had to restore its power of war, beginning with [the Beast King], in defense, and the original planned reign of the King's capital could not be achieved.

Cardina's intervention was at such an exquisite time that she was poked at the steep point of the Empire's plan.

The upper echelons of the Empire also look bitter in this.

The deserted zone alone cannot cover the food situation of the Empire.

And I couldn't control it, but I left a gap in Cardina.

This would not have happened if there had been no Cardina restraint and even a complete hold on the kingdom.

A complete annexation of the kingdom would have made it so untouchable in Cardina.

But now, the opposite is true, we are on the verge of a new predicament.

For example, in the future Cardina will say to the Kingdom, "Let's join hands and fight the Empire. It is no surprise that the kingdom will attack the stripped territory in alliance with the mainland of the Empire," he said.

If this is another country, it may be "we may be able to do this to Cardina with increased national power once that is done," but a kingdom set in distress may not be able to afford to take that much into account.

We are likely to get on with the proposal and move to reclaim the territory as Cardina moves.

As a result, it was supposed to break the state of affairs of the Empire falling into the schematic of Operation Two Fronts.

The trigger for this onslaught is the invasion of the empire's kingdom, but it can also be said that the empire was moved that way.

What Cardina was showing only the bare gestures of war preparation may have been waiting to be on this plate, and not knowing how much poison was planted in diplomacy and intelligence manipulation either.

The chairman of Cardina, also known as the Monster, or "The King of Toys" [King of Plays], one of < Super >, would read this future, and there would be no wonder if he led it.

In the future, there was a great risk that Cardina would use intertwined hands such as the joint front mentioned earlier… or hire a master at the expense of funds.

(ii) The Kingdom must be annexed at an early stage in order to dispel the concerns of the frontal operation.

However, the measures for this purpose divided opinions within the Empire.

"It is better that the annexation be formed by inter-state negotiations and small-scale operations that do not move the army," Prime Minister Vigoma's prime minister said, considering the burden on the national treasury and the barracks involved in troop contributions in the first invasion.

Gideon's incident a month before Franklin happened and assassinations in the upper realm. And the kingdom's nobility's tenderness.

In contrast, Marshal Barbaros' Marshals extrapolated "a re-invasion from the current occupied area to the Wang Capital".

The biggest one for more than one reason was "time". I am certain that Cardina will set something up in the future. The Prime Minister's proposal is that it will take too long to make it and create too much clearance for Cardina.

Instead, summon the Master again and now distribute the Super to Homeland Defense.

Marshal said the frontal breakthrough, which will plunge Wang Du into a breath on top of it, is somewhat better given the later situation.

In addition, "if the forces inside the kingdom split into belligerents and Kyoutis in the Prime Minister's proposal, it could be guerrilla warfare, mixed warfare throughout the kingdom, and the empire and kingdom would be in a muddy state," because it was his opinion.

It was a cracked empire of opinions, but eventually the king decided that "preparations for re-invasion are underway, as is the work of the Chancellor's faction".

As such, the preparations for the Empire continued - it was only a month before the discovery of the < ruins > in Calcheratan was possible to re-invade.

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■ - Mountain area

Time goes back to shortly after the invasion by [General Demon] began.

Marshal Gifted Barbaros was in the middle of a mountain away from the entrance to the. There are no enemy shadows around him, and only one doll to protect him.

What he stood in was a place with a panoramic view of the city of Calcellatan.

The city is bright, even though the morning sun is still not far from the eastern mountains.

That's because the calcherathans are lit everywhere.

In the confusion where black smoke rises, people's lives are also damaged by demonic raids.

…………

It was within the Marshal's assumptions from the outset that this would happen.

Logan and I have known each other quite a long time, and we are well aware that he doesn't think of Tian as a person. I said to the Chancellor, "The means are the same but not faction," or maybe that's why.

The Marshal's proposed invasion is in view of the current state of the Empire, because Logan's thoughts on it would have been sophisticated and to the point of "letting him know what he does".

Still, his power was very beneficial to the Empire, and at the same time he was honest only in the matter of "accomplishing the quest requested".

Or those actions may be due to the youthfulness of their real age, the Marshal thinks.

The marshal had spotted it by intuition that he had seen many humans, although he had never revealed it in person, "I wonder if the actual age will reach ten.

"… an indication,"

Even if [the Demon General] is beneficial and convenient for the Empire, something hostile to the Empire if turned... it is only a disaster for the Kingdom.

Now it is undoubtedly the work of [the Demon General] that the Calcheratan is burning, and the Marshal thinks it is on the Prime Minister, who requested his input, and on himself, who accepted it.

Formerly the son of the Earl of Calcellatan and now the Imperial Marshal, he said it was his own fault.

Marshal...... Emilio Calcellatan knows everything about his birth.

When he passed ten, his adoptive father, the predecessor Borderline Uncle, told me not to cover it up.

It was a serious secret, or it might have been forbidden by the emperor at the time, but my adoptive father nevertheless told me.

That was the night before he went on his first assignment, and my adoptive father would have told him with the thought, "If it's going to happen, you just have to go home where it should be".

But he didn't choose it.

He had decided to stay in the Barbaros family and live as a soldier.

That may be a favor raised since he was a baby, even though he was half kidnapped.

Or, in the lineage diagram, childhood tampering that hits my niece... could be a relationship with Mr. Ronald's daughter, who died helping him.

Above all, the biggest reason he himself knew he was raised in love in the Barbaros family.

His life was a tough day of training because of his history and the power he had.

Still, he knew the love directed at him was real.

Both his adoptive mother, the wife of the predecessor Borderline uncle, and Mr. Ronald's wife, had raised him like a true mother.

So, on the last night before he became a soldier, he chose to remain in the empire.

Because he himself thought he hadn't been able to return anything yet.

He lived more than twenty years as a soldier from that choice, and he had a lot to do.

In repeating his assignment, he became a special agent and gained a super position.

Within examining the coming history of [Edelbarsa], the starting point of his destiny, he also became an archaeologist.

A son born between the third prince and his sister-in-law… met a later king of kings and became a friend.

Married to a childhood maid and also had children.

He defeated the royal family of the old system with the present king and changed the empire.

During his adoptive father's time, he took over the status of Borderline Uncle.

And upon request from the present king, he was appointed Marshal.

That's how...... he has countless responsibilities and ties right now.

The name of Gifted Barbaros was no longer a false name, but a name that showed him more than the original Emilio Carcellatan.

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On his chest, which sees a burning city, it would be a lie if he said there was no remorse.

I was only there when I was a baby, and those days and the streets would change dramatically and there would be no landscape of memories.

Still, his remorse for the operation at the expense of the Carcellatan had accrued to him.

It is his own will that he came here.

When Prime Minister Vigoma asked me about the technical seizure of the site, I heard that the land was a carcellatan, and I strongly thought, "I have to go."

His being a Secret Service soldier, as well as being a scholar, was reasonable for a reason... but the real reason was because that's what his heart ordered.

All in all, to find a reason (...) to stop the operation in Calcellatan.

He dived into the Calcheratan and continued his investigation.

Previously on Civilization. There may be an equivalent weapon sleeping there as [Emperstand], a symbol of the brilliant Jade Dragon or Drife.

But there's no such thing, very boring. Then you don't even have to bother raiding.

Yes, if there is nothing (...)... the Empire will not raid the Kalceratan.

And he was the only one who could make that decision by means of a preliminary investigation, and who could decide to suspend the operation.

'I wish there were no weapons or anything,' he would have thought many times as he infiltrated as Mario.

But ruthlessly, all the findings suggested the existence of a weapon, which also suggested the existence of the greatest showdown weapon.

Power that would be too mighty to decide that it didn't.

If the kingdom acquires that power, the power of war will increase far, and the empire is strongly afraid that it will not be able to annex the kingdom.

In that case, without setting aside time, the Empire will be destroyed by Cardina.

It was at the end of it that Marshal Barbaros was unacceptable.

At any rate, the decisive weapon of < ruins > had to be seized or destroyed.

The Marshal... had already decided to sell his soul to the devil to avoid the end of the Empire's demise.

Therefore, he did not falsify the findings and, as prescribed in advance, began the operation with the aim of seizing or destroying the showdown weapon.

"... is the Count's residence safe?"

Yesterday, when he decided to prepare for the invasion of Calcellatan, he was turning around with a communications shut-off device planted in the city.

The fold, passed in front of the Count Calcellatan's residence.

A landscape of one's own home that is no longer remembered.

That might have dulled his resolve... but not enough to overturn.

Cookies handed to me by Ray Sterling last night...... even the taste of my mother he knew for the first time, it's the same.

Something to remember in vain.

Happy memories of wanting to eat it someday.

And someone's promise to someone.

When I mouthed the cookies, such sights and unspeakable grief poked my chest.

Still, he's already made a choice.

There was hesitation.

It was very heavy and there were thoughts that made me decide my mind.

Still, he does not overshadow what he protects.

He chose to hurt his hometown in order to protect his country, his family and his companions.

And he moved a thousand dolls, arguably his own.

"Invasion Phase 2… The annihilation of the internal kingdom's power begins. In addition, towards Phase 3...... [Faldreed], Stand by"

Next to him who uttered the word - a scarlet glowing metal doll rose.

To be continued