Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans - Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans chapter 68

“I am Eddar Lundlingen. A lord with a fairly large and fertile land.”

Mmm, Skadi nodded.

“And soon he will become the only emperor of mankind.”

Skadi, who nodded, narrowed her eyes.

“Then you will need me very much.”

“okay. I need you, Skadi.”

“Do you know where I want to be?”

Is there any other position that the Prime Minister of Iron wants besides the Prime Minister?

Skadi smiled softly.

“But I can’t give you that place in the first place.”

Because you don’t know everything she has just from the status window.

“sure.”

He pulled the chair closer and came in front of me.

“How am I going to prove myself to my father? If you feel burdened to entrust me with a big task, I will assist you with simple tasks. Affairs? law? finance? Leave anything to me.”

I shook my head.

“I don’t intend to be so crude. What I’m curious about is the knowledge and perspective you have. Whether you are the person who fits the role I want is what matters.”

The position that Skadi wants is Prime Minister.

They say they want a place above all people.

‘At first, I tried to make Grif the chancellor.’

Grif was one of my early followers, helped me a lot in the development of Olymus, and managed the entire Great Plains with ease.

It was judged that he had proven his ability among his followers and understood my will well.

‘But my arms are short.’

As far as the guy can reach.

I’ve been entrusted with work a few times, but the limits were clear.

He lacked coordination with high-ranking officials like Gehard and Pasimea.

‘Similarly, Gerhard is more suited to a field commander than a governor, rather than a military commander. Pasimea has a knack for administration, but she is not suitable for areas such as research and manufacturing, as is the nature of alchemy.’

I glanced at Calliope, who had been quietly behind me.

‘Kali… she doesn’t think about leaving me.’

Not to mention Rachel.

‘Therefore, it should be regarded that there is no one who can actually replace me.’

In a good way, it reduces the burden of work in each field.

‘I wonder if the Iron Chancellor has the ability I want.’

I put my clasped hands on the desk and said.

“I’ll ask you a few questions first.”

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The capital of a country does not change easily.

Even in a country ruled by several feudal aristocracy.

The capital is usually attached to the throne by convention.

In the case of Wallochia, the title of king is accompanied by the ownership of the city of Sodomora, and at the same time, the capital city Sodomora is obtained.

Some may object to this statement.

“It’s not? The capital of Germania changes every time?”

. . .

right. This is not absolute.

There may be several differences depending on the environment.

However, it is rare for a country with a deep history to move its capital.

It takes less time, cost, and effort to occupy a core area that has already been developed with the throne, rather than redesignating the capital and the core area around it just because the dynasty has changed.

“The capital of Germania? It is Olhus.”

“Olhus? Kirunaji!”

As I said before, Germania is a country that does not follow this method.

Dynasty changed? Then the capital also changed.

The reason was simple.

“You didn’t gain the throne by overthrowing the previous dynasty. It is a country in which noble tribes obtain the throne by whose hand they raise, but where is the eternal capital?”

So the capital of Germania changed every time.

When asked about the capital, it was common for people to say their hometown.

Officially, however, the capital of Germania was Orhus.

Orhus, the largest city of the Rosenberg Dynasty.

It was the capital of the time.

“Have you failed?”

A royal palace made by renovating a building that was once a permanent residence.

King Christian, sitting in the throne room of the palace, asked.

I looked down at an aristocrat who prostrated himself while blinking his eyes.

He was the heir to the title of Viscount as a court noble.

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“Tell me again.”

A tilted head, wondering if he had heard the wrong thing.

Even though I just asked, I’m not sure if I asked the right question.

The Viscount slammed Tung, Tung, and forehead on the floor and spoke again.

“According to reports, the magic created in Kiruna, the city of apostasy, has disappeared without much success. Therefore, the plan to exterminate Kiruna appears to have failed.”

“Say it again. How about Kiruna?”

Even after hearing it twice, the king could only blink his eyes.

Not because I couldn’t hear it, but because I didn’t understand it.

It was a reality that he could not dare to think of because of his deep faith.

Today, nobles from all over the country are gathering in the capital ahead of the National Foundation Day.

The news was that the atmosphere of the festival had completely disappeared.

gulp

Silence fell in the audience room.

Despite the fact that there were more than 20 court nobles and twice as many guards, there was no sound in the audience room other than breathing.

The story was so shocking, but it was all the more so because the eyes of the king sitting on the throne were gradually boiling with anger.

“…the magic cast in Kiruna failed, and it is presumed that the Duchy of Sudret passed to the apostate Edar Lundringen.”

Huh, a sigh.

mumbled in disbelief.

The silence in the audience room was replaced by a buzz in an instant.

“quiet!”

The nobles shut their mouths at the mana-filled roar.

“next? How did the apostate move?”

“We are absorbing the entire Duke of Sudret’s army and heading right here. Combined with the number previously mobilized from the Great Plains, it reaches nearly 60,000.”

“60,000!”

“oh my god···.”

The nobles murmured again.

“quiet! Did you hear what I said in vain!”

Christian glanced at the nobles with wide eyes.

They bowed their heads deeply at the king’s gaze.

deed deed…

Vibrations echoed around Christian.

Unable to control mana through passion, shed it.

“If you disobey my words one more time, you will not be able to leave the palace well!”

At his declaration, they bowed their heads even more deeply.

“…”

He gritted his teeth and leaned forward.

“Why? Why did you fail?”

“According to the news I heard…”

The viscount, who was talking, hurriedly shut his mouth.

A gaze directed at him from right next to the throne.

He recognized the cold gaze that pierced his heart.

The owner of the gaze was Cardinal Roland.

“…”

How sharp are the eyes.

The Viscount as well as other nobles swallowed their words.

No one knew what the cardinal’s attitude meant.

Asking and telling is itself disrespectful.

“Kuhmm…”

Christian frowned and sighed.

Suspicion still lingered in one side of his mind and stung him.

But he couldn’t ask for more.

Because the cardinal guarded his throne.

“… What is the summoning order? Are the forces gathering properly?”

“That is···.”

“That is?”

“The assembly is scheduled to take place before Sudret, but there are some people leaving.”

“leave? What do you mean?”

I raised my voice at the sudden sound.

“The news of Kiruna is spreading fast. Those who hear the news and hesitate and delay the gathering are appearing one after another. In the case of offering financial support instead of soldiers…”

“These impious people!”

Christian jumped to his feet, a blood band built up in his neck.

“Send dispatches to that ungodly tribe! Heresy is death! Tell them to reconsider which one is more important: the faith that arises in a crisis or the faith that arises after a crisis has passed!”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“and? Anything else to say?”

The viscount shut his mouth.

Christian motioned him away.

As soon as the viscount left, the remaining court nobles also noticed and left.

The only ones remaining by the king’s side are the royal guard and the cardinal.

“You were right. Roland.”

Christian muttered as he leaned back on the throne.

His voice was low and he had no energy.

Cardinal Roland slightly bowed his head.

“I didn’t know that I would be like this either. majesty.”

“Aren’t you the one who told me when the prostitute’s son first appeared on the border that it was after the throne, not the sudlet? If I hadn’t listened to you, I would have had to give up the throne like this.”

Of course, it’s still precarious.

He laughed and let go.

“I thought it was a sudlet. I thought I brought the army back to get revenge on my father who chased me. It would have been the same for the Duke of Sudret.”

Common sense would have thought who would dare to seek the throne.

It’s ridiculous that less than 10,000 soldiers are aiming for Sudlet.

Aiming for the throne that even the Duke of Sudret has not been able to sit on for the rest of his life?

Even when the cardinal warned me, I thought it was absurd.

“If you hadn’t firmly told me to issue a convocation order, if the church hadn’t said to take responsibility, it’s terrifying to think what I would have suffered.”

To him who was caught off guard, the cardinal suggested that the military be summoned in the name of the church state, and even offered to take financial responsibility if nothing happened to him who hesitated.

He just accepted it because he had nothing to lose.

“When I heard what it did in the Marquis of Loesene, I was horrified. How dare you plunder and destroy the temple? Sudret deserved to die. The sin of daring to give birth to such a thing, the sin of trying to hand over the family to such a thing.”

Christian heard the news of the Marquis of Loisene.

In addition to the fact that Sejak planted by Griff and Edar prevented Horvid’s punishment, rumors spread that the Werewolf Cult was spreading the emperor’s curse.

“To cover up that kind of thing, even spread dirty rumors.”

But he didn’t believe it.

Not only that, but many nobles did not believe it.

Would a target they’ve been loyal to for generations do that to them?

why? It’s not like they did anything wrong.

As the Church immediately designated Edar as a heretic, they accepted it simply and clearly.

he’s an apostate

Rumors are lies spread by apostates.

“It’s a pity that we couldn’t annihilate Kiruna. It would have been nice to have set an example by pruning heresy in the bud…”

“no. It’s not over yet. This is the beginning.”

“A start?”

“yes. It is a start.”

We met eyes.

A cold gaze that freezes the heart.

Christian had goosebumps all over.

“Should we hand over Germania to Ethan easily? We are already ready.”

“Are you ready?”

“His Holiness has ordered all believers in this land to rebel. All those who point their swords at Lord Horbid or hesitate to serve Lord Horbid will receive the wrath of their faith.”

“Huh.”

A slight relief appeared on his face.

Because there is no one in this land who does not believe in Horvid.

If the priest leads an uprising, there will be no one who will not be led.

“I will have to return the military to stop the uprising. Then the number of troops coming this way will be considerably reduced.”

Even so, the anxiety was still great.

Didn’t the opponent survive Horbid’s punishment?

Will the odds of winning increase significantly if some of the soldiers are bitten?

As if reading his thoughts, the cardinal said.

“In addition, the Churches have dispatched knights. We will arrive on the day Your Highness’ army gathers in the capital.”

“order? Knights, not knights?”

“Knights of the Golden Wolf, Knights of Iron, Knights of St. Hopen. Three knights have set out to help Your Highness.”

“Oh oh!”

A completely different reaction than before.

Christian held the Cardinal’s hand tightly.

Even so, the Knights of the Churches were special.

Each and every one of them directly received the protection of Horbid.

There were very few of them, but each had a skill comparable to that of the other races, so one knight was superior to dozens of ordinary knights.

“There are three knights in the Church that would never send out anything other than a holy war…”

The darkness on Christian’s face disappeared.

The cardinals smiled brightly as they held hands.

“Our estimate is that there will be at least a three-fold difference in troops. Wouldn’t this be enough?”

“Not enough. How could I not be enough?”

“This is a temple. Beyond saving Germania, a holy war to keep mankind from falling into the hands of evil. We will help Germania fight evil with all her might.”

“Thank you! Thank you so much!”

Christian was sure.

There can be no defeat in this fight.

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And when summer was over and the crops were harvested in autumn, the king’s army gathered in the field outside the eastern gate of Orhus, the capital city.

Their number reached almost 100,000, so it was the first time in history that such a huge army had gathered in one place.

The citizens of Orhus climbed the walls and wanted to see the sight.

wealth—-

The king’s armies were lined up, and soon another army emerged from the horizon and approached the city.

The army that reached the heart of Germania without delay, capturing eleven cities and fortresses, stopped at a distance from the king’s army that was waiting for them.

No one knew who the owner of the army was.

There was a man leading the crowd in front of the ranks.

He was Edar Sudret or Lundlingen, and his gaze turned to Orhus and his enemies.

you are cattle

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Blue sky without a single cloud.

Kiki—

A kite glided and looked at the ground.

Fields on the ground, where summer is gone and autumn is coming.

Trampling the rustling barley fields, the two armies confronted each other.

One side is the Germania Kingdom Army, the other side is the Sudret Duke Army.

A confrontation between the side trying to keep the throne and the side trying to usurp the throne.

One of them rode a horse up the hill.

“There are many.”

He wiped his chin and looked at the dukes.

The number of soldiers deployed in ranks seemed well over 40,000.

“Didn’t you say that the Wolf Bridge caused an uprising? The number should have decreased a lot, but it doesn’t look like it has decreased that much.”

He tilted his head and looked at the duke again.

No matter how many times it was leaked, the number did not change.

What was the estimated size in the first report?

‘60,000. It was said that the armies of the old and young Duke of Sudlet were combined without much conflict. If you combine the two, it must have reached 60,000 people.’

But, 60,000 to 40,000?

Since 20,000 people have decreased, if there are many, it means that we gave a lot.

If you look at the number of Wolf Cult believers, it hasn’t decreased by half.

Didn’t he fight several battles before even reaching the capital?

“It’s hard to believe even when I see it with my own eyes.”

Even if the Cardinals couldn’t do it, I boasted that the gap would be three times the number.

There were so many apostates that there were no deserters?

“Or maybe they killed all the priests who would lead the uprising.”

The vassal who followed and climbed the hill received the horse.

“If you do, you will be punished.”

“Hasn’t the punishment already fallen?”

He, Earl Tilly, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.

The punishment he was referring to was what happened in Kiruna.

Horvid tried to exterminate the citizens of Kiruna, but the young Duke Sudret stopped him.

“Horvid-nim doesn’t seem to be able to do anything about the author either.”

“Count, be careful what you say. There are many ears to hear.”

Tilly shrugged.

“Whether you hear it or not, it’s the truth.”

“Ugh···.”

At the vassal’s sigh, Tilly laughed.

“Avoiding God’s punishment? It’s definitely a feat. If the rumors are true, then you have accomplished the greatest feat a human can do.”

It was a world that even a mere priest could not easily touch by the great lord.

I’m afraid that the priest might borrow the name of the god and punish the lord.

But to go beyond the priest and be punished by God.

Is that not enough to overcome the punishment?

Is this really something humans can do?

“But that’s all. I don’t know how the punishment was prevented, but the punishment is not over. The ending was decided at the point of incurring the wrath of the gods.”

“Um, that’s right.”

Tilly saw the Germania kingdom army.

An army summoned by the king and cardinals to fight heresy.

Even at a cursory glance, the number was more than twice the Duke of Sudret’s army.

“That’s a lot. Did you say 90,000? I never thought in my life that so many would come together.”

“Considering that Sudret is also a vassal of Germania, it means that she mobilized over 130,000 troops purely with Germania’s capabilities.”

“The damage to the country must be enormous.”

Tilly shook her head.

“Both sides have gathered with a short-term decisive battle in mind, so the battle will end today… but casualties from battle are not a short-term matter.”

A significant number of humans with the ability to participate in war within the territory of Germania were all mobilized to wage a civil war out of nowhere.

Even if the kingdom’s army won a landslide, at least 40,000 casualties would occur.

From a national perspective, the damage is by no means insignificant.

“What the hell is the throne greedy for?”

The vassal muttered in an incomprehensible tone.

“I mean.”