The kingdom of Rikaner, the new royal capital, the palace.

The young king woke up from his couch with a cold face. Ignoring the servants who had come to serve, he walked barefoot to the terrace.

Overlooking the new king in the night for a long time, until the Home Secretary walked into the bedroom.

"Am I doing badly?" Chloe said without looking back.

"Of course not. We stand firmly under the siege of demons and nezumi in a way that no other monarch can do! ”

"Then why does a little city lord dare to jump like a clown and point at my nose and scold?"

The Home Secretary knows who the King is talking about......

Who else but that person could make the king blow the wind on the terrace late at night without sleeping.

"Because they do not know your forbearance and your great plan......"

The Home Secretary, who was standing on the side, saw the corners of the young king's mouth curl somewhat.

"Go on."

"There are no fools in aristocrats and legends. And they are still on our side, which is enough to say about our future! ”

"Future ......"

The young king looked back. Compared with Annan's almost unchanged appearance, the two years of running around have made Chloe fade from the laziness of his succession to maturity and haggardness.

"You know what? He sat behind me in the Holy Council with only a small city! ”

The Home Secretary quickly found an excuse: "That's prejudice...... If the Divine Eye had been that useful, humanity would have wiped out the nezumi long ago. ”

"We can issue a newspaper to give confidence to the people."

Chloe waved his hand.

"You arrange it."

……

New Royal Capital, seaside restaurant.

It's the height of summer, but the rat-men, demons, and the new king, who is not treated by the human nation, are all full of late autumn-like gloom and coldness.

The lead-like sea is rippling, and a storm is coming. Pedestrians hurry, wrapping themselves tightly so as not to be targeted by pickpockets and burglars. The cries of seagulls are noisy and upset.

"The new issue of "Glory of Rikanre"! The king gives an important speech! ”

A newsboy in a brown hat who works for a certain gang runs through the street waving a newspaper.

The middle-aged man behind the window waved his hand, walked out of the restaurant and asked for a newspaper, tearing open the corner of the newspaper.

"We are invincible, our kingdom is strong and just, and our people are wise and calm, beware of the lies of the nezumen!"

A strong sea breeze blew suddenly, and a shadow passed between the man and the newsboy.

The seagull holding the newspaper landed on the eaves in two glances, looked down and pecked a hole in the newspaper, found that it was not food, and released its claws.

The newspaper fell, but another sea breeze blew, rolling it through the chimneys, over the crumbling walls and the ridges of roofs, and into the distance......

The shacks on the outskirts of the new royal capital stretch as far as the eye can see, and homeless homeless people wander here, and sewage flows everywhere, breeding rot and evil.

The city gates were opened, and several carriages drove out of the new royal capital, deep into the slums. The surrounding inhabitants couldn't help but follow, like nezumi, with a seemingly insatiable greed, following the wagon, and then, after unloading the garbage of the city people, they swarmed up.

The stench blew over a torn newspaper and drifted farther and farther with the sound of a speech......

"We are invincible, our kingdom is strong and just, and our people are ......"

The child standing at the foot of the garbage pile looked up, his broken eyes looking at the paper floating far under the gray sky.

Sheltered from the storm with its tone-shifting, hoarse, shabby newspaper, it was carried by the wind across the plains, over the mountains, and past a brand new lakeside estate.

A beautiful maid in the window pushes a dining cart through the hallway to the dining room where the guests are seated. The chef grabbed the knife, cut open the belly of the lamb, and pulled out the goose eggs inside and placed them on the plates of the guests......

"We are invincible, and our kingdom ......"

A faint sound drifted by, and the breeze that rippled the lake carried away the tattered newspapers.

The sky is getting darker, and the first drops of rain have fallen from the storm that signals the arrival of the rainy season.

The newspaper was wet, torn apart by the gradually fierce wind, and pushed into a lifeless land in the distance.

People wander here like walking corpses, violently coughing and shaking figures that breathe of death, untended corpses scattered everywhere, dead branches and hills covered with crows. Flies swirled, palm-sized rats scurrying around the ground.

The terrible plague spread here. The kingdom's attention is on the nezumi, demons, and the frontier, and the only scavengers who can deal with the plague were caught and executed by the kingdom of Rikar for treason before the war.

The wet newspaper flew lower and lower, and finally covered the face of a corpse with only one eyeball.

"We are invincible......"

The newspaper was completely dumb.

The culprit's crow landed next to it and lowered its head to peck out another eyeball of the corpse. A crow swept by, and the crow with its eyeballs raised its head vigilantly.

The cloudy, lustless eyeballs reflected the clouds and pus-filled earth in the distance.

……

Click-

Lightning and thunder streaked through the air almost simultaneously.

The people on the street hurried to shelter from the rain, and at this time the people who were still running outside were the people who were in a hurry to collect the clothes hanging in front of the windows and the brainless white dragon.

"Abby, let the guards tell Elder that the white dragon is out again."

Annan said.

Dragons hovering in the air all day are most likely to be struck by lightning, and the white dragons are too weak...... They're really badly injured when they're struck by lightning.

The rain began to fall, and the bay in the distance gradually faded.

Smelling the scent of the earth, Annan decided to give up on recruiting soldiers again.

Now Liberty City maintains that "one-eighth of the population is soldiers, barely benign, after all, Liberty City is mostly young. But converting one-sixth of the total population into soldiers is not only reckless, but also prone to chaos.

The lack of heritage is a disadvantage of Liberty City. Even if the school is full day and night, it takes at least a month for a thousand people to learn the basics.

Annan hit his ally, Grand Duke Giraldi, with his idea.

If you want to talk about uneasiness, the insecure Archduke Giraldi is even more uneasy than him. If the nezumi are coming from the north, the Duchy of Montabullock is the way to go.

Compared to Liberty City, the Duchy of Montabullrock has a lot of potential to improve ...... But the aid didn't come for nothing.

They have to exchange resources, minerals, and other things.

Francois has already passed with a contract.

Five small arcane cores arrived safely in Wilhelm, and Annan fulfilled his promise to send three more mountain essences when the arcane cores were sent there, so that the three legion leaders could become professionals.

In addition to this, Annan asked Olmedo to distribute the "Voice of Freedom" to the hinterland of the kingdom of Rikaner, free of charge. Add some more blocks to Chloe.

"Does that work?"

"If we expose the people of our enemies to our culture, then sooner or later we will be able to make them think the way we need them to think."

(End of chapter)