The Peerless Kobold (WN)

The Kingdom of Graechia, which houses the holy capital Veritas Kwedam, flourishes ahead of a longitudinal stretch of the Valburg imperial territory, located southwest from the forests of Easteria.

Geographically, it is a peninsular state protruding into the vast inland sea, and therefore has a number of famous port towns, the Kingdom having its place as a centre of Oriental trade.

From there, if we traveled across the vast intercontinental sea by sea, there would have been a desert country, Athos, with a group of coastal cities and coastal plains in the western region and wilderness zones and mining cities in the eastern region.

However, the desert diaspora, which once united East and West civilizations, has divided into two countries and has become a symbol of East-West confrontation in the last few years.

In the garrison on that border line, Alphaz, the general of Zagat, a socialist state that practises Lunar Theism, was causing his expression to be induced.

"Gazari, may I ask you again?

"Don't ask me the same thing over and over again, moaning. They couldn't even recite the preamble of the Bible."

"So he jumped the neck of a dozen prisoners..."

"This will only be done if you act as a guide."

Against the commander of the Jihad Brigade, who said he had done a good deed, the mercenary-raised general quietly covered his face with one hand so that he could not see the expression of anger.

"Well, if there's nothing in particular to disagree with, then Noon's on his way. The time for prayer is near..."

"Yeah, make sure you do."

After responding with an extremely emotionally dampened voice, Alphaz leaves his body deep behind the back of a qualitative chair for a brief thought.

(If you take over the city at that rate, it's easy to imagine what all the fanatics involved will do.)

I'm sure they will run wild and kill and walk to show off the heathens and try to establish religious domination with force and fear.

Besides, the poor quality of things they do distort and interpret religious commandments and end up obsessed with expanding their own forces and powers.

Despite breaking the almedia in the first war, the fact that it loosened the hand of the invasion was not only due to rebuilding its posture due to human losses and replenishment of supplies, but was also a contributing factor.

"Why don't you just ignore them?"

There is also a history that continues from the Athos civil unrest, with radical forces of the Moon Divinity deeply engulfed in the heart of my country.

Not to mention the council that makes political decisions, a religious man who doesn't know the flux of the battlefield (the rabbit) even in the military led an independent armed organization, swinging a twisted law to his liking.

(I didn't like him, but was Baldstein's bastard creating a mercenary state?)

At the time, when the rebel forces, mainly the Lizard of Fire, invaded the former capital of King Athos, the mercenary forces took the lead in the revolution... The new king was nicknamed by the previous figures, which changed the tide.

While mutual distrust disrupted the footprint of the counter-institutionalists, radical religious forces emerged to form a militia group called Jihad Brigades.

Conveniently, military intervention from Western countries led by the Cathedral Church also overlaps, and the word jihad walks alone, making them gradually a major force among the counter-institutionalists.

At the corner (anyway), the status quo Zagato is breathless for the mercenaries who have fought through the civil unrest. Alphaz, who remained on one's curtain, was no exception, so he accidentally smiled with a self-derisive grin.

"... sounds like a good day, General"

"Oh, serum... just fine, I need surveillance of the Gazaris and the extremists"

"That's what I thought they'd say, and orders from my own country."

Instead, the young officer handed him a seal from the council and dropped his gaze on the vegetable paper (papyrus) in the contents. He gradually turned into a shuddering face and folded it gently and didn't see it.

Because of this, by the end of August (Shahburn) the Great Chapel of the Republic Capital is scheduled to be completed, the demand is that the King's Capital of Almedia be fallen and that the ceremony be accompanied by a report of victory.

"... so you dare to build a Dead Mountain Blood River? Why do the religious members of the Council move with emotion and lack reason?

"Well, religion is an emotionally-appealing thing, and when you calm down, you'll be white."

Religion is the mechanism for forcefully but emotionally stabilizing things that cannot be understood or explained in the first place, or irrational things that cannot be helped by oneself.

What I don't understand is that “God's cause", unknown natural disasters, etc. can be cleaned up by "God's will”.

"Well, it's also true that there are those who are saved by it..."

"Oh, of course, I have faith in myself."

It is better to say so publicly that in Zagato, where the religious colour is darker, it is easy to live… Alphaz, who leads the invading army, nodded in agreement with the distribution, while at the same time delaying his thoughts to attack the King's capital by ignoring the small cities and cities on the way to accompany the Council's intentions.

"In the end… enough time to prepare thoughtful supplies, equipment, and siege weapons to drop Edil, the king's capital, once and for all"

"Isn't that better because that doesn't seem like an extra pillage or anything?

In fact, since ancient times in Eastern countries, many roughnecks take off their wings, inspired by jihadist brigades who can do whatever they want, because they use ad hoc armies of mercenary subjects, and if they are forced to stop, there will be remorse (ikon) internally.

Now we've won the first battle well.

In contrast to Zagato, who is by no means a single rock, Almedia, where royalty has been established, has facilitated post-civil war reconstruction, and without the chaos of the King's collapse, there would have been no gap to penetrate.

The battle ahead is also a victory for our country if we look only at the results, but we cannot say that we are highly capable of continuing the battle in the present situation, where there are also unstable domestic problems and we lack human and material resources.

It has been more than three and a half months since the first battle, waiting for various preparations, such as conscription with the intention of compensating for human losses and enhancing them, minimal training, procurement of various supplies, siege weapons, etc., and the Council's discretion to dispute over rights entanglements looking ahead…

The start of the full-blown almedia re-invasion was about time the summer sun turned back on.