Price of Management

Chapter 8. Collection

When I was summoned by the Orient King, I could see that the time had come for me to wait.

You have won, Emperor Kars.

If the Horn Empire had been defeated, they would not have summoned me. He must have communicated indirectly to someone else to refuse the alliance.

He calls me because he wants to hear my opinion of Emperor Kars again.

Emperor Kars probably defeated the Rebellion with a great strategy of deception.

The surprised Orion King must have been so wary of Emperor Kars that he summoned me. He may pretend to be extraordinary, but he's actually secretly a man with a new heart. The "Conquest of the Horn Empire Scenario" I described earlier will begin to amuse my mind again.

“Welcome. ”

The Office of the King of Orion.

Duke Britain and Earl Raymond. And then there were two others, Earl Ricardo and the Duke of Britain's third son, Raell, and five of them were sitting around a round table.

The Orient King's men were all together.

“I'm here to see the Lord of Orwen. ”

“Enough with the useless examples. ”

“Yes.”

I sat in an empty seat.

The Orient King looks up to Duke Britain. Duke Briton nods his head and looks at his son Rael.

Rael gets up from his seat and opens his mouth.

“A spy has arrived from the Horn Empire, which is……. ”

As expected, it was about you.

“Did Emperor Kars win? ”

I swiftly hit the fighter.

Everyone looked at me surprised.

All right, let's get this aircraft under control.

“We continue to defeat and make the nomadic Independent drunk in victory, drawing them to a short-term decision. It was a scenario I had anticipated from the beginning. So I stayed here, just waiting for the civil war to end. ”

“You expected this from the start? ”

The Orient King asked me a question, and I nodded.

“From the perspective of the Horn Empire, they would have wanted to settle as quickly as possible with minimal damage. That's the best way to do it. With the capabilities of Emperor Kars, it would have been feasible. We actually did.”

“ ……. ”

“The other day I explained to His Majesty the plot to conquer the continent of King Kars. It was never a bluff to give His Majesty awareness. I mean, really, Emperor Kars is a terrible person. And he has great ambition to think of himself as the rebirth of Duke Bezalius. ”

The heavy silence covered me again.

What's wrong with you people? Did I say something wrong?

Raell said to me, who didn't know the language.

“I have confidence in what Mr. Ligand has to say. Emperor Kars was incinerated, not sparing a single prisoner, just like the actions of his predecessor, Duke Crocente Bezalius. ”

Oh my...

That maniac really did that. It was like that in my past life!

Maybe he gave the order without emotion. You would have watched the burning prisoners with an expressionless gaze.

Kars Hornt. He was like that.

It reminded me of the obligation to stop his ambition. To do so, this alliance must be struck even further.

“With this civil war, Emperor Kars has gained control of the nomads. ”

The Orient King said:

“Yes, in fact, I have the power. ”

“How do you think you should react, then, little Ligand?" ”

“With a strong alliance between our two countries, security must coexist to suppress the Horn Empire's ambitions and revive through economic cooperation. ”

The Orient King saw me. I also faced that look directly.

Soon after, the Orient King asked Duke Britain.

“What do you think? ”

“It looks like the time has ripened. ”

“Earl Raymond? ”

“I agree."

Earl Raymond agreed.

The two key figures agreed, not to mention Raell and the Earl.

The Orient King saw me again.

“Very well. I will make an alliance with the House of Leaden. ”

Finally!

I smiled brightly, rejoicing at the rush of joy.

“I've been waiting for that. ”

After that, it was a thousand.

Of course, there was a bit of fishing.

There were so many issues to discuss with the Alliance, and every single one of them, Rica had to talk to the Earl.

The alliance negotiations ended after three days.

All that was left was for King Erik and King of Orion to meet in person and sign the alliance vows in person. Since the alliance was a national ambassador, it was rational for the king to join himself.

But after negotiating with Earl Ricardo, the Alliance vows that were written came into my hands.

He finally made an alliance with the Orient Kingdom he so desperately wanted. Of course, the alliance had not yet been established until the two kingdoms were united, but it was now confirmed.

The next day, I set out for the Kingdom of Leaden at once.

The king had nothing to do with Orwen now. I wish I could come here once, the best metropolitan city on the continent, but I'm tired of it for so long.

Here we go. Improvement!

* * *

The regime of the Kingdom of Leaden was utterly chaotic.

When Duke Duron fell into a real crisis, royal officials, as well as royal lords, began to follow Earl Clevius in the book of military records.

Especially when it was told that Emperor Kars had given up Balat Castle and started fleeing, his mansion was packed with guests who had come to him with gifts. Earl Clevius's fortune was born differently every day. I was hoping to see Count Clevius at the peak of his days.

However, soon after the spy sent back, the spies suddenly crashed into Earl Clevius' flying mind.

The rebels from the Horn Empire have taken Balat Castle.

Tyrant Tallack is a warrior to Earl Halstein. The rebels were wiped out, leaving no survivors.

The Horn Empire civil war, the victory of Emperor Kars.

Emperor Karth repeats his defeat, and in the blink of an eye, he turns the battle upside down. After all these years of defeat, I was as easily victorious as I was lying.

Earl Clevius was also a military register, so he was able to figure out what happened to him in English.

Totally fooled.

The rebels, the landscaping, and themselves were all fooled by the deception of Emperor Kars.

The insurgents, drunk with joy of victory, abandoned their initial strategy of winning a long time ago and tried to defeat the Emperor in no time. If we had kept the original principles, we would not have been deceived and destroyed in Balat Castle.

“Almost everyone seems to have won…… but I will soon have power……. ”

Earl Clevius is stunned.

I felt like I was going to fly away because I was happy until yesterday. It felt like the world was all his.

Sweet dreams disappeared like a mirage. There has never been such a sweet future.

“The ligand bird was right. Duke Duron was looking straight at the politics. Just me, or just us, like idiots.... ”

Everything was meaningless and dull.

All the days I've accumulated as a military merchant have felt like a hollow shell.

If it was just bad luck, it would have been better.

But it wasn't luck.

It was an inevitable result.

From the beginning, Emperor Kars knew the urgent nature of the great Tallac and planned to trick him into playing a short game. In addition, he tried to build a cause of war by posing as if he was immersed in centuries.

Baron Caroc Ligand read his mind and was not intruded by the intentions of Emperor Kars.

‘It wasn't a game I could play in the first place. ’

When a man is most miserable, his incompetence is revealed. Earl Clevius feels the same way.