Chapter 386: Showdown
"The title of King of the East, it's nice to hear, but it's useless!" Stannis felt that a king who didn't even have a crown really couldn't be excited.
As Stannis said before the battle, when he returns, his prestige will resound throughout the Western Continent.
However, he never expected that things would take such a drastic turn, and no one praised him for his destruction of the Southern Alliance, but everyone was enthusiastically discussing his claim to be king.
Now he is not just at war with Duke Garcia, but openly challenging the authority of the empire, calling the king is the bottom line of the empire, and there have been other lords of the principality who have openly or privately claimed to be kings, and then they have been beaten to death by the empire like crazy.
But now that the world is in turmoil, it seems that no one cares about the king, and several of the princes who rule the city-state republic on the southern coast have jumped out to proclaim themselves kings, since the current royal family of the Condor Empire also relied on a rebellion from the southern city-states to overthrow the Holy Light Dynasty and become emperors, so why can't others follow suit?
Stannis waited for a few days and did not receive a letter from Uncle Seanbin, it seems that he was too busy with a fierce court struggle to write a letter to denounce Stannis for this transgression, and Charachi seems to have forgotten that she is actually a colonel of the Imperial Army, and devotes himself to playing the role of the commander of the Third Legion of Ziviny.
This embarrassing situation made Stannis at a loss, although the news of his claim to the king was full of excitement in the first few days, but it was quickly stolen by the news that the eldest son of the empire was assassinated, and within the principality, although the Garcia family openly pointed out that Stannis was launching a rebellion in the name of Duke Garcia, and called on the lords loyal to the Duke to send troops against him, but because the southern border had just experienced a crushing defeat, at least 20 small and medium-sized families and more than 100 knights declared their allegiance to the real Duke of Tanis and the King of the Eastern Mirrorγ Therefore, there is no thankless organization of the lord to organize a coalition to crusade against Stannis, unless the Garcia family personally sends troops, Stannis is not in any danger now, and the Worf family in the north of Zivini and the Frode family in the west have not made any moves, they are just quietly observing the next development of the situation.
The Garcia family, who are at the center of the vortex, remain surprisingly calm, except for issuing a pale accusation that Robert is a descendant of the Golden Griffon, and that he has no legal basis to claim the title of duke, and that Stannis's claim to the throne is illegal, as his lineage has no connection to the historical Tanis royal line.
When Garcia was still fighting for dominance, Stannis had already surrounded the castle of the Snake family in the south with the response of many leading parties, as Garcia's most important ally in the south, as long as he could force the Snake family to surrender, Stannis was tantamount to cutting off one of Garcia's wings.
After securing the allegiance of most of the families in the South, Stannis had an allied force of nearly 4,000 men in addition to three legions, and now a total of 7,000 troops surrounded Snake's main castle, Fort Ophia Hannah.
In the opinion of Commander Stonis, it was only a matter of time before the other side surrendered.
"Haha, radish, it's really good to borrow your name!"
The lord who commanded the superior forces to fight for the first time rode on his horse and breathed the warm wind of victory proudly, and sure enough, the war was still more comfortable to fight more and fight less.
Although he had been designated as the heir to the duke, Robert still looked like a child, and if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, other knights would have thought that he was just a vagrant wandering the city, writing bards and reading true idiots.
Although these two guys stood under the enemy's fire network and watched the progress of the siege like this, there were still people who were worried about their safety, such as Advisor Luo Meng on the side who personally pulled Stannis off his horse despite being hit by a stray arrow in his robe, "Your Excellency, why did you personally take such a big risk to come here, in case you unfortunately die in battle, the bloodline of the Red Dragon Family can be considered severe!"
To this day, this kind old man still regarded himself as the real Stamnis, but Chen Kai didn't want to pretend anymore, he shook off the hand of Advisor Romon and lost his temper like a spoiled bear child.
"Don't pretend anymore! You know I'm not really Stamnis!"
Advisor Romon was stunned for a moment, and then he glanced at Robert and Korodov behind him for help, only to find that both of them nodded sadly at him.
"You know everything?" asked the old man in a low voice.
"Nonsense!" Stannis gave him a blank look.
Unexpectedly, Advisor Luo Meng hurriedly shook the pot when he saw the wind, "Actually, I wanted to tell you for a long time that we already knew your true identity, but these two selfish young people have not allowed the old man to confide in him. β
"Come on, I didn't see you express your heart to me when I went to the school city alone with you. β
Advisor Luo Meng scratched his gray hair, and now the atmosphere between the four of them was awkward, since Chen Kai was not really Steanis, of course their oath of allegiance to the earl was invalidated, but the strange thing was that even if the status of the duke's bloodline had been restored, even if the enemy who killed his mother had been found, and even if the grudge between his classmates had been settled, none of the three people wanted to take the initiative to leave him.
And the traverser lord can't do without them, but now that everyone doesn't have to play on the spot, the four of them have to sit down and think about the most important things, such as why Chen Kaishi was dragged into this world, and where did the real Stannis go?
"I'm from another world. Stannis began to introduce himself, "A demon-free world completely different from here. β
Advisor Romon widened his eyes and smacked his tongue in disbelief, "No magic, then your world must be a desolate wasteland!"
Stannis gave him another look, and he was also a cultural person in the Western Continent, and he didn't know that the greatest magic of human beings was his own wisdom.
"Nonsense! My world is many times higher than here, but take the most common flush toilet, which flushes away excrement with a single pull, several levels higher than you open defecation savages. β
"At least we have the freedom to excrete everywhere!" said Robert, who was so cheeky.
Stannis didn't want to talk nonsense with these guys anymore, "Anyway, you have to make it clear that I don't envy your life here at all, I live a nourishing life in my world!"