A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius - A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius chapter 350

350 – Golden Sun, Silver Moon (5)

[Late at night, on the walls of the second gateway to Gibraltar Gorge.]

The empire is not particularly dominated by a particular religion, but in a sense, it tends to be superstitious.

Should we call it folk magic, or should it be said to be a culture that flowed from the blood elves, the origins of the empire?

The theory that a certain energy flows through a ley line and that the flow is suppressed by using something from a foreign country.

The act of using something called a pressure stone to cut off the flow of good energy into the ground.

Although it is based on such superstition, the airship that is perched above the gate of the second gateway lands on the castle wall for strategic reasons.

The economic reason is that you cannot fly in the sky forever and consume magic stones.

If it rises straight away, it is a military reason to try to rise immediately above 50m.

The reason for the siege is that the airship on top of the castle wall itself is a bunker for the imperial army and a roof that prevents enemy knights from easily climbing up the castle wall.

Above all, the symbol of the Imperial forces controlling the Gibraltar Gorge was enough reason for the airship to climb over the canyon’s gate.

If there was one more reason.

“General. All preparations are complete. Moat, mines, and magic bombardment corps. All preparations we can are complete.”

“Hmm. Good.”

It is also for a group of officers huddled together in a conference room on an airship to hold a quiet meeting high up, away from the soldiers.

“General Barka. Has the Emperor said anything else yet?”

“…I see you were planning on completing the whole week.”

“Tsk.”

The generals gathered in the conference room clicked their tongues lightly.

“If you had given the order to advance, we would have attacked Gibraltar right away and taken over the castle first.”

“Are you saying that His Majesty’s judgment was wrong?”

“…Isn’t that right?”

“Prince Adolf!”

The mood of the other generals became tense at General Adolf’s words, but Adolf lightly shrugged his shoulders and played with his mustache.

“The Emperor has paved the way for himself. Now all we have to do is delegate the rest to our leaders. No matter how much Nostrum we occupy, isn’t the biggest contributor to this war your Majesty, the Emperor?”

“So now the emperor is greedy? He wants to return to the battlefield after recovering his mana?”

“I didn’t say it was greed. I said it was a wrong judgment, and I actually submitted a letter to His Majesty.”

General Adolf shook his head.

“The Emperor himself is giving the enemy a chance. As if he expects the enemy, Gibraltar, to overcome this adversity and win!”

“That’s harsh. Currently, the number of Imperial soldiers killed across Nostrum and Gibraltar is over 70,000. Most of them were killed by Gibraltar. We had an advantageous point, but Your Majesty took that advantage himself. Why did you put it down?”

The generals roughly tapped a photo of one of the conference materials on the desk with the back of their hand.

“Because of Gray Gibraltar, whom I love so much!”

“…”

“This is a battle of His Majesty’s pride. The battle to annihilate Nostrum itself is the Empire’s wish, but the inexplicable decisions that take place in this canyon are all for His Majesty’s purpose to crush Gray Gibraltar’s pride!”

“Can’t we do that?”

“What?!”

Among the generals present, the only female general laughed and refuted.

“Your Majesty is the one who opened the canyon. Your Majesty is the one who opened Crimson Gibraltar. Your Majesty is the one who occupied this canyon.”

“Ugh… ! So, what I’m saying is… !”

“There is a reason why His Majesty decided that way. His Majesty is not like Saint Geo.”

“Lord Marina!”

“Do I really want to stay still? I don’t want to just leave this airship here, but I want to advance through the canyon towards the capital of Nostrum!”

The generals’ dissatisfaction bursts out on the table.

“If His Majesty had just given the order to advance, we would have occupied Gibraltar Castle by now and advanced to Barcelona, Lembourg Gunther, and then to Toledo! That too, all the way to heaven!”

“Even after Gray Gibraltar, whom I love so much, gathered the knights in his territory, the front yard of the canyon would not have been taken away like this.”

“Damn… “

The generals sighed in frustration.

“How can His Majesty be so obsessed with Gray Gibraltar?”

“You know.”

“…Your Majesty, you really can’t say that, right? A homos*xual.”

“You who don’t have a son don’t understand.”

“You don’t understand His Majesty even though you have three sons.”

“…”

The generals’ sighs only deepened.

“That’s it. Luckily, Gibraltar has retreated now, so all we have to do is focus on defense for the rest of the day. Tomorrow… His Majesty, who went to the ecliptic, will probably return and take command again.”

“Ah. Okay. If we protect this place…Hehe.”

“Why are you doing that again?”

“Those guys called Master.”

General Adolf pointed to his heart with his thumb.

“Thanks to the castle given to us by His Majesty, we have become stronger to a certain level, but will we be able to stop it?”

“…”

“Your Majesty says that the seven Masters were willing to sacrifice themselves for you…”

“Stop.”

The atmosphere gradually subsides.

“Thanks to their sacrifice, His Majesty was able to clear the canyon and defeat Crimson Gibraltar. And thanks to them, we are able to advance to the front like this.”

“That’s right.”

“And what if there are no masters? There are not hundreds or thousands of masters over there, nor is there an archmage hero who created a huge trench in the Sirene Strait in the past.”

“Ah. That legendary…Meteor magic?”

Forcefully raises the sinking atmosphere.

“Well, if there was such a thing, it would have come and caught me long ago.”

“I don’t know anything else, but there is no way that master-level magic would suddenly appear in Nostrum. At least that much… The previous emperor thoroughly managed it.”

“Yes. You have dried up the wizard’s seed. All that is left are the swordsmen.”

“Not monsters with swords?”

“The era of monsters is over.”

The generals looked at each other and raised the glasses in front of them.

“War cannot forever be left to one individual.”

“Skilled elite soldiers, excellent command, and overwhelming magic engineering and technological prowess. Only by following Nostrum’s methods can it be said to be a true victory for the empire.”

“Drink your cup. For the victory of Thersian.”

The generals raised their glasses and stood up.

“Our victory is the victory of humanity, and the victory of His Majesty the Emperor.”

“The soldiers of the Empire will never be defeated by Nostrum or Gibraltar.”

Thump thump thump.

An urgent knock sounded.

“What’s going on?”

“Reporting! Currently, something shining golden has been spotted in the direction of Gibraltar!”

“Golden?!”

General Adolf was the first to shout in panic, and the generals immediately put down their glasses and ran out onto the deck of the airship.

“Are they those damn golden zombies again!?”

“Didn’t you say you were flying in the sky?”

“…It could be a drake army.”

The generals who took the telescopes from the soldiers on the deck bit their lips as they looked at something shining golden light between the canyons.

“Magic? No. No magic occurred.”

“Damn. It’s dark so I can’t see. Tell the people at the third gate to shoot the light!”

Pa-ah.

As soon as the news was delivered, something sparkling golden began to emit even more light.

“That is…”

“…Airship?”

Something shiny and golden started to grow in size.

And the moment its shape began to appear in the telescope, the generals immediately figured out its identity.

“No way, Gibraltar made that thing…!”

“It’s Gibraltar’s flagship! Damn it, launch the airship! We must not lose air superiority!”

A giant airship made of gold is flying.

Without slowing down, it flies through the night sky, blowing out a lot of wind from its flight seats as if it were passing through a canyon at full speed.

The moat, the mines, and the piles of oil and explosives placed under the castle walls are meaningless.

“Damn it, on the topic of Nostrum…!”

The generals were appalled that Gibraltar dared to fly to the same level as them, or even higher than them, and try to head to the empire.

“Are you trying to ignore us and go all the way to the imperial capital? Those foolish b*stards!”

“Let’s see!” Even if they are shot down and crash from hundreds of meters in the air, those brilliant masters and knights will be able to survive!”

“Prepare for magic bombardment–!!”

Clap, clap.

Next to the airship sitting on the castle wall, the cover opened and something pointed its gun at the sky.

“Prepare to charge the magic stone! Even if it means dropping into this canyon, we will definitely shoot them down!”

Correction.

A muzzle that is too large to be called a gun, and can fit a human head.

“Everyone, shelling-“

“Um, is that… ?”

A general was mesmerized while looking at the golden airship through a telescope.

“Hey, to the player… !”

“…Flag?”

Flap.

It was hard to see because it was dark, but the red color was subtly visible against the golden light.

Gray military uniform.

And a red coat that seems to be draped over the shoulders.

With the blood-red color fluttering like a cloak, the man with his feet on the bow of the golden ship was holding a spear with two flags on it.

Flag of Gibraltar.

And the flag of Nostrum fluttering beneath it.

The angle at which the flag flutters is soaring into the sky, not flying higher-

“Why is it getting lower…?”

It was slowly lowering its altitude, as if it was falling downward.

“Now, wait a minute. Who already set that off?!”

“Third Fleet! Report to the Third Fleet! What is that airship doing now…!”

[Avoid–!!]

The urgent voice transmitted through Magical Communications was filled with astonishment and fear.

[Hey, those guys aren’t slowing down! I feel like I’m going to fall…!]

Goo goo goo.

The airships at the third gateway hurriedly increase their altitude one by one.

It spewed mana downward with all its might and soared towards Gibraltar, but the generals were able to see it even more.

The golden airship falls at a gentle slope but seems to be slowly falling towards the rapidly rising imperial airship.

And on the deck of that airship, hundreds of knights with their bodies humbled and ready to jump at any time.

“No way…! If you did something like that, that airship…!”

“No way.”

Kwa-eu-ang!

“Airship, for assault… ?”

The golden airship crashed head-on into two airships that were trying to increase altitude and lowered its angle.

Gugu ㅡㅡㅡ!

As if a meteorite had fallen, it landed exactly on the wall of the second gateway.

On the walls being destroyed, the generals saw.

“The emperor.”

A man lands on a collapsing castle wall with very light steps.

“Where is it?”