Running Away From The Hero!

# 107 Their Reason: The Reasons of the Kingdom of Mercia

“Aah!”

With a scream, a soldier falls beneath the wall. You were shot down by an arrow and fell.

“Stop him!"

Arrows are inevitable.

However, we must stop the huge flames that fly behind us.

One person dies if struck by an arrow, but hundreds die by magic.

No, even if the walls fall, the castle itself will fall.

“Wizards, intercept enemy magic! Come on!"

Bang!

As soon as I saw the enemy's magic attack, I tried to cast a defensive spell, but it was too late.

With a loud bang, the wall shakes and some cracks begin to crack.

“Damn it!”

The commander frowns at the threatened wall.

“Damn……. ”

A situation where profanity comes out.

It was a commander who still didn't understand why this was happening.

“Goddamn traitor! ”

You see a fluttering flag in his gaze.

The flag had the most historic family crest in the kingdom.

The Raisha crest!

[The Kingdom of Mercia abandoned our Lysha family who shared the history of the Kingdom...!]

“The word of a traitor! Ignore them all!”

However, the Raisha family crest was slightly different from before.

Grifon, who was put in charge of the protection of the kingdom, was a dragon, and two sacks of black skies that were also crossed to protect the kingdom.

It means to be a ruler, not a guardian.

[The Kingdom of Mercia is a kingdom that has abandoned its people! Come, all of you, to our kingdom of Leisha!]

“Kill them! They are traitors who abandoned their country at the peril of our country! ”

The commander shouts at the whale, but he can't stop the soldiers from shaking at Relligius' enchanted voice.

I had no choice.

Even yesterday, the hero of the realm was a traitor!

They are all Imperial tricks, and even the ones General Raisha told us couldn't possibly disapprove of Religious leading his own troops and attacking the Kingdom of Mercia.

Duke Laisha, no, Relligius is the enemy now!

“Here you go, General! The soldiers are shaking like crazy! ”

“You idiots! ”

Even if I admit it, nothing has changed.

Why did Relligius suddenly change his mind?

Why did you become our hero?

The great general who defended the Imperial army at the castle of Mebellis until the end!

As an answer to the questions of such soldiers, Religious amplifies his voice through magic so that everyone on the battlefield can hear it.

[The kingdom has abandoned us! We fight the Empire on the front lines! He turned us against each other, tried to take everything from us and kill us!]

He was a hero, even if he was a traitor.

He had established numerous majors and fought for the kingdom as best he could.

A hero like that was appealing with a voice full of tears.

“It's all a lie! You're lying! Don't let the enemy fool you! ”

The imperial commander shouts as red as his face, but the soldiers can feel more empathy for Religious's voice than his.

[You who truly care about the kingdom! Help us! Drive out corrupt royalty and nobles, and stop fighting with us. Why did you raise your sword? Why did he raise his spear and bow with the hand of a farming machine? It's because corrupt royalty and nobles waged war against the Empire.]

“What are you talking about? ”

The war started in the Kingdom of Madsen and the Kingdom of Helkas, and the war against the Empire was only fought by Religious.

It was absurd for those who knew all the facts to pass it on to the royals and nobles of the Kingdom of Mercia.

“Yes……. ”

“This is what happens to nobles to make a good living. ”

“When a country grows up, does it give us more land? ”

“More work will be done. ”

Those who knew nothing were slowly being persuaded.

[I ask you. If I were really a traitor, would over 100,000 soldiers follow me? Will the Longevity Lords who remained loyal to the kingdom follow me until yesterday? because everyone knows. The kingdom has abandoned us! That corrupt royals and nobles feared us and tried to kill us!]

The soldiers who were guarding the castle started leaning toward Religious.

The atmosphere in the castle changes.

The commander feels it, biting his lip and pulling out his sword.

“Fight! Fight the enemy! Enemies of the realm!”

Soldiers raise their weapons at his command, but their intentions are long gone.

“You bastards!”

“Huff!”

The commander slashes his head as he approaches the hesitant soldier nearby.

“What are you thinking? Do you believe the word of an invader who invaded the kingdom? You think the Kingdom of Mercia has abandoned you? ”

The commander pushes the corpse from the wall of the castle, his red eyes glaring at the soldiers.

“Where's your homeland?! Is it the Kingdom of Mercia or the Kingdom of Lycia? ”

“Mae, it's the Kingdom of Mercia! ”

The soldier facing him speaks in an urgent voice, and the commander nods and raises his sword.

“Our kingdom is the kingdom of Mercia! He's a traitor to his country! Those who are deceived by his words are only traitors! ”

The commander points his sword at Relligius.

“And death awaits only the traitor. Remember that.”

“I understand!”

The commander lets out a deep sigh of relief as he sees the soldiers calm down.

But...

[That's their logic. If you don't do what they say, you're a traitor! Enemies! We are not. The Reich has already made peace with the Empire!]

“Religious, you son of a bitch! ”

[Come to the peace-loving Laisha Kingdom! Together we will defeat the Kingdom of Mercia and lead the continent to peace!]

Bang!

As you focus on what Religious has to say, another massive ball of fire strikes the wall.

A rocking wall with a massive explosion.

The gold on the wall gets bigger and bigger, and soon a part of the wall breaks down with a loud sound.

“Peace? A peace-loving son of a bitch! ”

[Enemies have no mercy. That is the kingdom of Lycia.]

“Shhh! Kill him! Somebody kill that fucking traitor! ”

I was the commander who heard what Religious had to say, but the wall began to crumble gradually due to the ongoing magical attack.

Although there were many experienced wizards and mados who survived on the front lines in the Reich, in the case of the Kingdom of Mercia, there were very few wizards guarding the castle because they sent all the remaining wizards into battle with the Karean Imperial Army who were aiming for the heart of the kingdom.

No matter how protected the walls are, they cannot be defeated by overwhelming firepower.

Soldiers' morale began to collapse, just like the crumbling walls. Over time, more soldiers fled to the kingdom of Risa.

“Damn it!”

The commander tried to defend the castle until the last moment.

“That's it."

“The curse of the gods be upon the filthy traitors! Knng!”

In the end, the castle fell in three days without surviving the overwhelming number of Reisha royal troops.

* * *

“... Did you win again? ”

I was slightly surprised by the news of Risa's victory again.

“Good fight. ”

“Essentially, the soldiers have a bad spec. ”

“But the commander is Duke Laisha, isn't he? ”

Even if there is an outstanding army, it can turn into a mess depending on the commander.

And already you've taken down five castles.

“Was there a talent we didn't know about? ”

Though I was concerned about the alliance between the Empire and the Reich, I expected it to be difficult to break through because it was surviving in the castle.

It was more propaganda than I thought.

“Operation accomplished, Your Grace. ”

“What else have you done? ”

“I didn't say anything, Your Grace. ”

The Reisha Kingdom was born that it was nothing.

As I narrowed my eyes, Ast shifted away from my gaze with cold sweat.

“What? What? ”

I thought I had a dog the other day, and then I woke up and I said, "It wasn't a dog, it was a dog reality! ’One time in life is enough.

“Oh, that's no big deal... ”

An astronaut who said it was no big deal to have an independent kingdom by the warlords of the enemy nations.

“I want to be an Earl with nothing. ”

I brought the pen and paper next to me and started writing familiar sentences.

“I, Your Majesty! ”

Stubborn!

The Ast takes the paper in a pinch.

Thanks to this, the pen tore the paper in half.

“Hic!”

Ast whitens his face, looking at what was written on the shredded paper.

I immediately tore the paper apart and threw it into the sky.

“There's no need for this! ”

“It's okay, Ast. There's a lot of paper.”

Ast grabbed my hand when I took it back to a tall stack of paper on one side of my desk.

“Oh my! You know what happens when you hold a royal hand like that? ”

“I didn't do anything. The last time I saw him, he just wrote down a few lines and asked me to read them in the fight. ”

“For what?”

“Justification.”

Read the manifesto.

Is that the only way to win a war?

“Well, that should do it. ”

Soldiers who are professionally trained in the military exert great power when there are fewer troops like the Kingdom of Mercia and they are recruiting ordinary people.

There are peculiar species like Ast, but even the smallest of ordinary people feel great sin.

There is little reason for Ast to free the kingdom with a sole tongue.

You can't get over it.

“That's roughly what I expect. ”

Perhaps the kingdom of Mercia is wrong, and the Duke of Lydia is forced to build it.

“Isn't it getting too big? ”

While it is good for the Kingdom of Risa and the Kingdom of Mercia to fight, the winner should be the Kingdom of Mercia as a result.

As the war on the continents grows, the promises between countries are ignored, but it is not good to break them first.

I made a non-disclosure pact with the Kingdom of Laisha on the word of Ast. If the Kingdom of Laisha eats the Kingdom of Mercia like this, it will only make the Kingdom of Leisha better.

“It's all right, Your Grace. ”

Ast said he had nothing to worry about, as if he knew my worries.

“The opponent is Duke Laisha, or King Laisha. ”

“There are too many people who have lost to Raisha. ”

The kingdom of Mercia, the military empire, my brother, my brother.

“... I doubt the Karan Empire really was a small country. ”

One was considered to be a country that could withstand the Karean Empire, and the other two were considered to be the best among the Emperors.

What a great figure King Laisha is to defeat such a people!

“So you think you'll lose to King Lysha? ”

“No, not at all. ”

But Ast said I could answer right away.

King Laisha has defeated you?

It was unthinkable.

“Yes, Your Majesty. That's King Leisha. ”

“Is that so?"

“Yes, it is. No matter how popular they are... No, the better they are, the better they will be. King Laisha. ”

“Am I right?"

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Ast smiles brightly, saying that he has nothing to worry about.

“Perhaps next week, the Reisha kingdom will be half finished. ”

“Could it still be a week? ”

But as always.

Duke Laisha has shown us the power to surpass our expectations.

Yes, it is.

In a week.

“Your Majesty! The kingdom of Lycia has fallen! ”

“ ……. ”

“ ……. ”

I blew up the kingdom.