Trash of the Count’s Family

ckly turned into a smile.

“His name is Duke Huten?! I can rip that human into pieces! Kehehehe!”

Duke Huten had not taken part in the last battle of Maple Castle.
That meant that the Empire was being serious this time.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground started to shake.

It was not because of magic nor anything of the sort.

It was just that tens of thousands of soldiers were moving along with the cavalry behind them.

“…This is no joke.”

Rosalyn started to frown.

Sword master Huten.

It was not that she was afraid of him.

“…This is even more than the Paerun Kingdom.”

The three Northern Kingdoms.
Knights numbering close to the amount of knights from the land of soldiers and knights were currently raising their swords and spears toward Maple Castle.

However, there was something different about these knights than the knights of the North.

“The armors of the knights are all fortified with magic.
They all have at least a high-grade magic stone in them.”

Rosalyn informed the others on top of the tower.

The Empire.

Why was it called the Empire?

Rosalyn recalled the information she had learned about the Empire when she had been next in line for the throne.
Her teacher who had taught her about royal traditions and politics had stopped a lesson for a moment to tell her something.

‘An Empire must be better than average in all aspects.
It refers to a nation that is above all others when combining all aspects together.

You must remember that.’

The Roan Kingdom was above average in magic.

The Paerun Kingdom was above average with their knights.

There were many nations that were talented in one area.

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‘Above average magic, above average troops, above average strength of knights, and finally, the continent’s only home for alchemy.’

Rosalyn recalled the weight of the Empire that she had forgotten about.

‘They are scary because all of those aspects are gathered together.’

The Empire’s knights alone were not scary.

The Empire’s magic was fine to take on by itself.

Even the Empire’s alchemy could be handled if you were cautious enough.

However, her teacher had warned her.

‘You may hate me for saying something like this, however, I am telling you this because you are someone who is going to be a ruler.

The Empire is a nation where everything is above average.
A kingdom that is below average in any aspect would not be able to defeat the Empire.’

Her teacher had finished off by saying the following.

‘You will thoroughly realize that if you become the Empire’s enemy.’

The Empire that was actually serious this time had brought knights that were at the level of the Paerun Kingdom ’s knights with magic armors that had high-grade magic stones, something the Paerun Kingdom would not be able to do.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Then the Empire’s Mage Brigade appeared from behind the knights.

This Mage Brigade had a longer history than the Roan Kingdom ’s Mage Brigade.

Chief Harol let out a scoff.

‘They brought all this just to take back a castle?’

Harol could sort of understand the Whipper Kingdom’s king ’s fear.

Anybody would be scared after looking at these troops.

“They truly came, not just for Maple Castle, but to gobble up the entire Whipper Kingdom.”

Harol completely understood the Empire ’s true intentions.
He also realized that the Empire looked down upon the Whipper Kingdom and didn’t try very hard during the last battle.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

The sound of the Empire’s trumpets cut through the battlefield.

On the other hand, Maple Castle was completely silent.

Soldiers and warriors were already in formation at the castle wall since about an hour ago.

Their pupils shook and clouded over for a moment.

The venomous aura they had around them seemed to disappear a bit.

It was because of the large number of knights and mages led by Duke Huten.
They felt pressure that was incomparable to what they faced in the last battle for Maple Castle and the pillar of fire.

‘Fighting against that many mages alone would be hard enough, so can we win against them when they have so many knights as well?’

Some of them were having these kinds of thoughts.

It was at that moment.

“Ahhhhh!”

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
A shout that drowned out the trumpets could be heard.
At the same time, they could see their commander leaning over the ledge of the tower.

“Ahahahahahahaha!”

The commander was swinging the iron club in his hand while laughing.

His eyes seemed like those of a madman.

The soldiers all returned to their original gazes after seeing this.

That craziness in Toonka’s eyes was infecting the soldiers.

There was a way for the weak to defeat the strong.

The way to do that was to go crazy.

“There we go.”

Cale commented while looking at Toonka.
He then slowly walked toward his group.

Rosalyn started to speak.

“It looks like the Empire will march forward soon.
We will head to our stations now.”
“It looks like I should head to the chiefs as well.”

Harol quickly added on.

Cale calmly responded to the two of them.

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“Watch until the end first.”
“Excuse me?”

It was when Harol asked in confusion.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Another blaring of the trumpet could be heard, and the ground started to shake.

Harol looked toward the enemies in the distance.

Cale was looking at them as well.

‘There’s still one more left.’

Mages and knights.

That was not the end.

Cale recalled the palace that was falling because of the terrorist attack when he went to the Empire.

Cale’s shield had supported the large tower that was falling.

However, someone else took over in the middle in order to prevent it from crashing down.

Alchemists.

They had created a new pillar in the palace to support the roof.
Cale recalled that unique way of using alchemy.

That was why he had contemplated prior to this battle against the Empire.

‘Would the Empire want a short battle? Or would they try to drag it out?’

They would want it to be short if they were aiming for Maple Castle, but they would want it to be long if they were aiming for the Whipper Kingdom.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground started to shake.

Dirt pillars started to rise up from nothing, similar to the pillar that had supported the roof of that palace in the Empire.

One by one.

The combination of alchemists and mages that had supported the palace through Sir Rex ’s groups terrorist attack were revealing similar large and sturdy pillars into the world.

Rosalyn gasped as she commented on it.

“They are as tall as Maple Castle.”

These pillars had shot up as high as Maple Castle.
Alchemists and mages were standing on top of these pillars.
Knights and soldiers were gathered underneath each pillar as well.

Their formation seemed to be one that could take care of both long-range and short-range attacks.

Harol subconsciously started to mumble.

“It looks like another castle has appeared.”

This now became a battle between two castles.

He suddenly felt as if he could not breathe.

The Mogoru Empire was ahead of the rest of the Western continent in terms of military might, magic, and technology.
The true appearance of the Imperial Prince who had pretended to be a good person was finally revealed.

Cale started to speak at that moment.

“Good.
That’s what I wanted to see.”

He sounded as if he was waiting for the Empire to come out like this.

Harol, as well as everybody else on top of the tower, looked toward Cale.

However, Cale ignored their gazes and put his hand on the shoulder of someone wearing a robe.
This person was covering themselves completely in a robe similar to Mary.

Cale took off the hood that was covering the person ’s face.

A middle-aged man ’s shaking pupils appeared from underneath the hood and looked toward Cale.

Cale had prepared for this war against the Empire as much as he had prepared for the war against the Indomitable Alliance and their alliance of three kingdoms and two tribes.
It was even possible that he had prepared more for this war against the Empire than for the Indomitable Alliance.

Cale looked down at the middle-aged man in front of him.

“Now, do you understand why I called you here?”

Kanelle, the chief of the Flame Dwarf tribe.
He was looking up at Cale.

The Dwarf Chief Kanelle, felt chills while looking at the indifference on the priest’s face.
The cold commander in front of him did not even believe in a god, however, his pupils had no signs of fear.

He did not seem to fear the Empire nor the war.

The chief’s shaking voice started to speak.

“Do we have to destroy alchemy?”

The Flame Dwarf tribe ’s chief could see the priest smiling brightly as if he had said the answer.

It was so bright that it gave him chills.