The First Magic World War-Chapter 269 - : 262, Tacit War
Chapter 269: 262, Tacit War
One thought dominated Charlotte’s mind, “This is just too dark!”
The Fars Empire aimed to directly annex the Behemoth Duchy and the Southern Seraph Territory into its own territory and also intended to abolish those Knighthoods. Regardless of whether Brittany’s offensive had involved Byron, these two goals had been essentially achieved.
The South Ceraph Restoration Army was in Ferlanden, and the Knighthood of the Behemoth Duchy had been completely annihilated. It wasn’t just the noble’s Knighthoods that were gone, but even Baron Fabolais’ Knighthood had been utterly destroyed during Brittany’s offensive.
As for whether Baron Fabolais would go crying to his sister or something else, Charlotte could not care less.
In the following days, Kreel Brittany handed over the defenses one by one to Charlotte and also transferred several other Knighthoods to him. However, he requested and took with him The Spotted Deer, Gwen, and The Wind Wolf, Bankcroft, both Transcendents. Charlotte magnanimously agreed.
Charlotte naturally wouldn’t retain these Knighthoods. He disbanded them and reorganized them into the Westwind Knights. He also provided Anatasiya, Dobin, and Yellow Bear with eight hundred-man combat squads and specifically promoted the swift clerk Italo Calvino, and Sebalde from the South Ceraph Restoration Army, granting each of them two hundred-man combat squads.
Charlotte had planned that once Kreel Brittany’s Purple Goldfinch Knights and the Maple Leaf Knights withdrew, the Black Phoenix Dynasty would fiercely attack, and he had construed a strategy to fight while retreating. Yet to his surprise, after Kreel Brittany’s withdrawal, the main Knighthood of the Black Phoenix Dynasty also retreated, leaving only Chloe Hadrian, who had entangled with him for two months!
Chloe was mainly disgruntled, feeling played by Charlotte and determined to fight to the death against Charlotte Mecklen in Southern Seraph.
Upon learning that Chloe had stayed, Charlotte immediately sent a message suggesting that the war was far too horrifying. Instead, the two sides should cease hostilities and stay put until the war was over.
This was Charlotte’s true sentiment. Having tangled with Chloe for two months, he knew the man was formidable and his Knighthood was elite. Instead of committing a large number of soldiers and enduring daily casualties, it was better to engage in a tacit war.
When Chloe received this letter, he cursed Charlotte as a coward, cursing him from his maternal grandfather down to his great maternal grandfather, tearing apart two copies of “The Charlotte Chronicles”—the novel created by the swift clerk Italo Calvino—and also challenged Charlotte to a duel.
Charlotte certainly didn’t fear Chloe, but he truly had no interest in battle. So, he sent a reply mentioning that after numerous encounters with no decisive winner, it was pointless to engage in further duels. They should both train hard, and once someone had advanced beyond their current realm, they could then have their duel.
To Charlotte’s surprise, Chloe actually thought the suggestion was good and responded in the affirmative.
Although there were some complications, the war did indeed progress in the direction Charlotte had hoped for. Both armies were in a standoff, and both commanders were desperately cultivating. The situation was nearly identical to the “tacit war” Charlotte had envisioned.
Besides refining “Bloody Glory,” Charlotte actively spread “The Charlotte Chronicles” throughout the Southern Seraph region, even specially training hundreds of storytellers.
There were no storytellers as a profession on the Old Continent, usually just writers who moonlighted as storytellers, but only the nobility enjoyed such a luxury. This, then, was adding an entertainment option for the common people of the Fars Empire and a whole new job category.
With this nonsensical novel, Charlotte’s brainwashing of the people of Southern Seraph went extremely smoothly.
Especially since Charlotte proclaimed that the Southern Seraph Territory would levy no taxes in the future, coupled with many lenient economic policies, many Southern Seraph people gave up their resistance.
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In reality, Charlotte didn’t care about collecting taxes because war was the quickest way to accumulate wealth.
Krel Brittany and Ebner Sumei were uninterested in Southern Seraph, and the Empire had not yet had the chance to appoint officials to the area. With the collapse of the former administrative system of Southern Seraph, the entire region was now entirely at Charlotte’s discretion.
He had swallowed up countless lands, shops, houses, estates, and industries during the war, part of which he had promised to sell to the nobles of Behemoth Duchy. He had no intention of breaking his word, but aside from that, his war income was substantial enough to sustain the Westwind Knighthood.
Besides maintaining the Westwind Knighthood, Charles had no administrative expenses.
As for the future…
He was not the ruler of the South Serif, nor could he become its lord, so why worry about the future?
Two and a half months later, a delegation from Strasbourg arrived, giving him the same treatment as Behemoth, making him the civic official of the five largest cities in the South Serif.
Charles himself could not have imagined that after the appointment was announced, cheers erupted throughout the South Serif Territory. He, who had only governed the South Serif for a few months as a temporary official, had actually won the heartfelt affection of its people.
Along with the delegation came news that the Fars Empire and the Inglima Empire had finally formed an alliance to jointly confront Byron, the Black Phoenix Dynasty, and the Beastman tribes.
Although Charles had some complaints about the nearly half a year it took for the two countries to complete the alliance, he also breathed a sigh of relief, as this meant that Inglima’s troops might come across the sea to join the war and relieve the pressure on Fars.
After sending off the delegation, Charles thought he would have some peace, but the very next day, he received a high-profile visitor.
Princess May Guillermo, the Great Eldest Princess, made a grand visit to the South Serif.
Charles looked at the Great Eldest Princess of the Inglima Empire and was completely “nervous.”
No, he was shocked.
He could understand everything. Why wouldn’t the Great Princess stay in Strasbourg reading novels? What was she doing in South Serif?
Accompanying Princess May was Miss Aurora Sumei. Charles had almost forgotten that Miss Sumei was also part of the delegation.
Princess May and Aurora didn’t bring a delegation but a “mercenary army.” Calling it a mercenary army wasn’t quite accurate; although it was essentially a mercenary operation, it was actually a detective agency.
It just so happened to be the detectives from the Liemar Detective Agency.
This detective agency had escorted the foreign princess and the deputy envoy to the South Serif, and upon seeing Charles, they were all quite excited. They were better informed in Strasbourg than in Behemoth and the South Serif; they already knew that the new owner of the detective agency was thriving more than ever.
Especially this time, they knew that Mister Charles Mecklen was acquainted with the princess and countess of Inglima and were deeply grateful that the former president, Aubrey Barrington Atwood, had sold the detective agency, and they were equally thankful for their decision to stay.
Charles had no time to deal with the members of his detective agency. He arranged for Princess May and Aurora to stay at the residence of a noble from the South Serif and couldn’t help but ask, “Princess May, you and Aurora, why are you interested in coming to the front line?”
Princess May said indifferently, “In a few days, someone is going to the Silver Pigeon Fort. I have some personal grievances to resolve.”
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