readx;? Just as rats that sensed the danger before an earthquake or a volcanic eruption began to flee in large numbers, farmers in southern Yavenella have been trying to flock to the north more frequently since February. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Naturally, the lords and nobles of the southern and central regions would not allow this to happen, and they issued various notices to send their knights and sergeants to patrol every once in a while. But the authority of the lord was no match for the determination of the lords with their feet, and the more frequent such border patrols and blockades, the more desperate they flocked to the north.

Rumors began to circulate among the people, and people sensed the crisis and evacuated to a safer and more prosperous place where word of mouth was spreading. But the peasants of the northern region shared the same fears, as we mentioned earlier, that war was such a thing as equality for all, and that the civilians of this era suffered greatly. Although they revered Prince Edward, it was precisely because of the great battle with Sivalier that they had experienced more than a year earlier, that they had sharpened the mentality that young people might have to regard war as an adventure, and understood how cold and cruel the real battlefield was, that they were more careful and cautious about everything involved.

The southern and central parts of the region have long been the center of power in Avenella, and the total number of dukedoms and royal palaces there is much stronger than that of the northern region - although the size and number of noble knights may not be comparable to the original West Valier cavalry, but given the home field advantage, the existence of the forced soldiers and the castle, unlike the West Valier cavalry, which can take advantage of the terrain to attack them, it is not easy to defeat them with all the forces in the north at present.

It's hard enough to just win, but it's after the victory that doubles the difficulty.

-- It is absolutely not advisable to win a disastrous victory or lose both, and Avenella must maintain a sufficient army in order to be able to form a certain degree of deterrence against the surrounding countries, and if the vitality is greatly damaged by civil war, the result will not be avoidable. Ottolo and Padrosi were both extremely sensitive and dangerous empires, and although the neighboring Sivalier was now in the midst of civil strife, if a few nobles could unite to seize the period when Avenella was powerless to resist, they could take advantage of it.

This is something that must be avoided in any case, otherwise there is no point in starting a war. In addition to the emotional factor, there is also such a reason why Edward has always wanted to solve it through negotiations, and it is true that it is the best thing to be able to change the inherent structure of the country for two centuries without bloodshed, but considering these deep-rooted concepts that have been passed down from generation to generation among the great nobles, even if Edward is already a king at this time, I am afraid that there will be many obstacles to implementation, not to mention that he has the biggest trouble with Ashbourne II.

If he could, he would have wanted to wait for Ahibon II to take the throne, but Avenella was running out of time in the current situation of an imminent threat from the south. If he couldn't pick himself up and make this decision, when the unified church state of Soradin came to fight, even with the help of the Ottolons, maybe the land could still be preserved, and maybe the people would still be able to survive, but at that time, Avenella -

Whose Avenella is again?

The Ottolo army, which was stationed in the name of defense, developed its own power in the local area, and the status of the Ottolo soldiers and Ottolo merchants sent over rose to the top, and the Avennella people were reduced to second-class citizens. And Padrossi, who is unwilling to sit idly by and watch Otolo extend his tentacles to the west coast, in order to curb the expansion of the other side, will inevitably use the south of the west coast to unite the church state and constantly fight with Avenella - Soladin and Avenella are like puppets manipulated by two empires, fighting a power struggle between the empires thousands of miles away in the territory of the West Coast people - at that time, Avenella, whose Avenella is it?

The relationship between allies is complex, and the same is true for the relationship between enemies.

What the sage said to His Majesty the Emperor in Ottolo was not unreasonable, if it was possible, Ottolo would not tear his skin and officially send his army to the front line of the struggle. But in order to do so, Avenella must first prove his strength, and in the same way, if Avenella can single-handedly withstand the offensive of the northern states of Soladin, the agent instructed by Paderossi, the vast empire will have to reconsider whether to conflict with both Avenella and the secretly threatening Otolo.

At best, the Padrosis cared about whether the Ottoros' tentacles would enter the West Coast and threaten them, and the Ottoros were no different, fearing that this ally who was too weak would fall to the other side like grass on the wall or do something bad for Ottoro's interests, so they chose to intervene in the shadows to help the manipulative King Ahibern II - and all of this, if Avenella could maintain sovereignty and have a strong enough army, could be suppressed and defused.

The real enemies of Padrosi and Ottolo are each other, but Avenella is in a strange position, and if handled properly, it can even be on par with the two empires as a small kingdom on the West Coast - only on the premise of Prince Edward's victory, which is not a precondition for a crushing victory.

In the case that the means of verbal communication and communication have been unilaterally blocked, and if he wants to avoid a crushing victory and become unprepared, Edward's only option is to make Ahibon II and the archdukes who support him realize the gap and surrender with absolute superiority.

And to achieve all this, he alone could not have done it.

What is he can do.

What is he supposed to do.

His Royal Highness had come to his senses from hearing Henry's words more than a year ago, and at this moment he had not yet realized how much impact his present and future actions would have on the West Coast and the whole world. Edward, convinced that he was like the best lord a people could imagine, and with great passion and the power of action, on this day of March, he stood on the top of a makeshift platform on the plains of Acasta, and began to speak to the people who had been summoned to some extent aware of the impending eventuality by means of the amplification of the hired wizards.

The field was filled with all kinds of people, and people spread the word of mouth, and people of all nationalities stayed below.

The people in the front row quickly noticed the prince's presence, but it was the people standing next to the prince who attracted their attention even more than that.

In this era, people identified themselves by their standing position, and in addition to the nobles who were guarding them, there were two young girls standing at the forefront, which meant equal status to him, along with the prince.

The girl on the left had black hair and wore a robe with a violet insignia - an article that only the royal family of Sivalier could use, and the one on the right, was it a Roan?

"I think you all know, people of Avenella. Edward spoke, and the Roans, who had been born and bred in Avenella, and the peasants who had fled from the south, understood for a moment that it was their prince who was speaking, and their brief fear of the unknown was quickly replaced by surprise.

"He really spoke the dialect of Avenella, as people say. The intimacy with a prince speaking the same language was very profound, and the vast plains were crowded with people, and many who had not received the news stopped for curiosity, and Edward stood on a makeshift log platform and continued: "Yes, the country is about to face war. ”

"Whoa—" The noisy discussion began to erupt, panicked expressions began to appear on the faces of the people, the merchants clutched their hats and purses, which were about to fall because of the crowd, and the peasants began to panic, and many of them, mainly from the south, tried to flee, but they all stopped again after a few steps.

Where to flee?

Further north of Avenella there is only Sivalier in the midst of civil strife, and what is the situation of Sivalier now, just look at the refugees, then it is Otolo, and even further north to Maximilian - although the world is big, the Avenella people have nowhere to go.

They stopped, partly because they had nowhere else to go, but more often than not, the northern Avenella, who were also peasants but didn't even move much.

You can easily tell the difference between the northern and southern Avenella peasants from the spirit, and the northern Avenella with their longbows and their heads up are staring directly at their Etlin, and the southern peasants can't help but look sideways with such a pretentious expression.

And then they heard it.

All the Loans, and the Sivaliers, and the Avenellas.

They heard it.

Although almost all of them were illiterate, nor did they know what kind of elegant words they used, the emotion that seemed to burst from the deepest part of their hearts was so intense that it reached every inch of their skin through their veins.

Let people's blood boil.

"I know you don't want war, and I don't want either, but when war is a last resort, we have no choice. ”

"Avenella, you have fought a war for too long that is not your own. Fight another lord for one lord, fight another king for one king, or even fight another god for one god. ”

"You bleed and fell to the ground, dying in obscurity. ”

"I'm not going to say I understand your pain, because it's a sign of arrogance, and the only thing I can tell you is. ”

"I am honored to be born as a royal family of this country, and I am honored that I have this opportunity to meet you West Coast, nay, the toughest, most hard-working, kindest, bravest people in the whole world, I am honored that I am an Arvenella, I am honored that I am a nobleman of Avenella, therefore—"

"In the name of Edward Ettling Shulfaga—" Edward shouted, and the people who heard the words unique to the Arvenella dialect boiled over, and many of the archers who had fought alongside Edward raised their bows and arrows and shouted "Ettling", and Edward then shouted, "I declare that Avenella has abolished slavery, and that the peasants are no longer the property of the lords and nobles!"

"No one else can have this country!"

Like a lightning strike, this phrase, which no peasant had ever expected, befell them in an instant, so that many of the people who had worked so hard to escape from the swords of the southern nobles from the swords of the blockade soldiers turned their heads to look at their companions and asked what "slavery" and "property" meant—not that they did not understand, but they could not believe that such a scenario could happen in reality.

"No one, including me, no longer owns you, and no one can take another living person as his own personal property, no matter what the circumstances. He looked at the people below, many of whom might have turned away, but in any case, it was something that Edward felt he should have put into practice a long time ago, and he paused, regrouped his words, and then continued:

"Your freedom is something that no one can plunder, just as birds are born to fly and fish are born to swim, and human beings are born to be free, and no one can have anyone else, so this war - I will not command you to fight for me in the name of the royal family. ”

"But I beg you—" he said word for word, "O people of Avenella!"

"As an Avenella, I implore you. ”

"For yourself. ”

"For the family. ”

"For the homeland. ”

"And fight. ”

"In the name of the dignity of the human race, not the property of the lords, in the name of the man of Avenella, who stands up to the heavens and the earth, no matter what nationality you are, you were born in this land, you grew up in this land, this is your home. ”

"Do you want a good life, do you want to keep the home where you have lived for generations, do you want to keep the good things that are now, do you want to protect your freedom as a human being!" he said, and Lena, dressed in a custom dress, stepped forward a little nervously, and a large crowd of Roans on the plain noticed the white-haired man—who she was, and why she was standing next to the prince— They vaguely guessed something, but twenty-one years of hard life had made it impossible for these people to believe that anything good could happen.

"It doesn't matter if you're an Avenella, a Loan, or even a Sivalier. ”

"This can be your home, as long as you are willing to fight for it. ”

"In the name of living humanity, in the name of Avenella—" Edward glanced at Lena, and Her Royal Highness the Princess walked over, and the two of them raised their hands together.

"In Loan's name—"

Tears flowed.

This is the first time that many people have been in the mood for twenty-one years, or since birth, in a state of ignorance, or after a long absence.

I felt the fact that I was still alive.

"For tomorrow. ”

"For our Avenella. ”

"Our United Kingdom of Avenella and Loan—"

"Follow me, and I will fight alongside you. ”

"In the name of humanity. Lena walked over and said the words aloud in the Royan language.

She threw down an iron shackle, symbolizing that the ownership that had plagued the poor people had finally been broken at this moment.

"Ahh

......

"The unshackled eagle may be scarred, but it can fly to the other side of the sky. ”

"The possibilities are endless. ”

"Your Royal Highness. Henry listened to the cheers outside the window, took a sip of spruce tea, and continued.

"You have given them more than any nobleman can do with power or gold or silver. ”

"What you give them is dignity as human beings. ”

"And both dangerous, and intoxicatingly beautiful. ”

"Hope—"

......

Over time, the speech, known to later generations as the March Declaration, quickly spread around the world through the hands of travelers and merchants.

Edward's announcement of the abolition of slavery was met with a very high public outcry, but it was also completely torn apart from the Grand Duke and some big slave merchants in the South.

It is unclear whether the young king, who chose to turn his back on the aristocracy from which he came from and blended in with the people, is now wise and will bring a future to the country.

The only thing we know is.

On this day, the country was given a new lease of life.

It's like a caterpillar that has undergone a painful metamorphosis and finally turned into a butterfly.

It's like a sprout sprouting out of the cracks of an old rock castle.

It may not end anything, and it may take a long, long time to achieve the vision that the hearts of the cheering people on the plains of Acasta are looking forward to at this moment.

It may face a very, very much darker future.

But just as the dawn will come, no matter how dark the night may be, the concept that Edward implanted in the hearts of the people is, as our sage put it, "a dangerous and beautiful hope."

It.

It will change the whole world of Rigal.

March is coming to an end.

The beginning of April.

Later known as the "Avenella Civil War", it broke out in the southern part of the Acasta Plain.

This is the first cry of a newborn empire. (To be continued.) )