Chapter 386: Murder (2/2)

The commanders of the herald brigade of [Wolf Teeth Legion] met up with the commanders of military forces in Dual-Flags City for the first time.

The invaders didn’t back away, and another siege could potentially happen at any time. The commanders of the two different groups had to have a meeting and get familiar with each other quick; that was the only way to make sure that they could coordinate well in battle and don’t handle over any opportunities to the enemies.

Fei didn’t participate in that meeting.

The first thing the king did was to use the [Horadric Cube] to transmute and create 20 Mid-tier Magic Gems. After he placed them inside the magic array [Earth’s Protection], he used the knowledge he learned from Priestess Akara and fixed a few locations in the array that were damaged by the enemies; this magic array was crucial to the defense, and Fei had to fix it first.

After this was done, one hour had already passed.

“Eh, 20 High-Tier Magic Gems…… they are the last bit of treasures the Royal Family of Chambord has. I used them all here to help with the defense of Dual-Flags City, and we need to make a note of it. We will send a message back to the Military Headquarter of Zenit and ask them to reimburse us. Oh, tell them that they could just send back gold coins of equivalent value. To show Chambord’s loyalty to the empire, tell them that we can give them a 20% discount. Remember, ask our comrades at Dual-Flags City to notarize our claims, so the officials at the Military Headquarter won’t think that we are scamming them.”

Fei clapped his hands and reminded Peter Cech who was beside him with an earnest expression.

Peter Cech nodded and even took out a piece of paper and a pen to write it down; it looked like everything was within reason.

A tall commander of forces in Dual-Flags City was shocked to hear this conversation; he was acting as the guide for Fei, and it was his first time hearing that someone dared to ask the empire for a reimbursement. It was strange because everything felt normal as the Deputy Commander of the reinforcement acted calmly after hearing those words.

“Is he really only the king of a little affiliated kingdom? It feels like he doesn’t even care about the opinions of the officials in the Military Headquarter……” that tall commander thought to himself and smiled.

Although he didn’t know what role this king played in the reinforcement, he knew that this king wasn’t an ordinary figure.

What Fei did next was normal; he chatted with this tall commander about all sorts of things. When the topic turned to the defensive battle today, that tall commander told them that Mayor Soroyov and the nobles in the city pulled back their personal soldiers and were planning to ditch the city.

Cech’s expression immediately changed after hearing that.

After being with the king for a while, Cech knew about Fei’s personality; he knew that the king was simple and hated nobles and officials who were corrupt and cowardly.

What surprised Cech was that the king didn’t get triggered; Fei continued to chat with this commander with a bright smile.

After a while, Fei and Cech had a good idea about what was going on at Dual-Flags City.

According to the structure of Zenit, there were two branches of power. Using Dual-Flags City as an example, the mayor was in charge of internal affairs while the head commander of military forces was in charge of defense and patrolling the area. The mayor and the head commander of military forces didn’t have the power to interfere with each other’s work.

However, there was one law that messed with this structure – During wars, the control of the city and the military forces would be placed in the hands of the person who had the highest nobility; didn’t matter if it was the mayor or the head commander of military forces, they both had to listen to this person; this would unite all powers in a city and make sure no chaos would occur.

This law had no issues; it gave flexibility and structure to a potentially chaotic situation.

However, it created a lot of issues for Dual-Flags City. The Mayor Soroyov was a level 2 hereditary noble and was the person who got that power. Soroyov was a useless yet timid man; he was just like other hereditary nobles who were corrupt to their souls.

At a time like this, the hereditary structure of Zenit showed its ugly face.

After Soroyov knew that the Jax Empire was going to attack his Dual-Flags City, he almost crapped his pants. He hid in his mansion every day and hoped that the invaders wouldn’t come. Although he was scared, he wasn’t willing to ditch the city and ditch the wealth and the status he accumulated over the years.

As soon as the first scout of Jax showed himself, the selfishness of this corrupted noble demonstrated itself.

Soroyov ordered the soldiers to close the gates; he didn’t allow anyone to come in or leave the city.

This order caused the civilians of Zenit, who lived closed to Dual-Flags City and didn’t have the time to escape, die under the blades of Jax, and this order caused the territory around Dual-Flags City to be controlled by the invaders of Jax entirely.