Chapter 91 (1/2)
Chapter 91 - Sleeping With the Enemy (4)
“Foolish!+ How can you be so foolish!+”
The Duke of Tiata stood up as he yelled out his wordsHe had witnessed someone spurn the alliance with another nation in favor of an individualHowever, when he turned to look, the king of Daitan had an extremely peaceful expression on his face
“What is foolish about it?I’ to lead our side to victory in this drawn out warI triedthis decision”
“Do you really believe his words!?”
“Do I believe him?Even our alliance wasn’t based on absolute trust eitherIsn’t that right?I think you are th entered into the clenched fists of the king of DaitanHe had remained calm as Artpe entered the barracksHeHowever, there was a slight heat in his voice now
“I only believe in one thingIbelieve in absolute powerIf I’icianIsn’t it an obvious choice even from your point of view?”
“He is Aedia’s······!”
“YesSince you brought up the subject of whether I believe his words or not, you still haven’t come up with an excuse yetWhat do you want from the Forest of Eternity?We’ve already coive so about it”
The Duke of Tiata struck the table as he refuted the king’s words
“I told you I have no connections to the Forest of Eternity!I won’t deny the fact that there are hostilities between the Elves and our peopleHowever, that’s a separate issue!We really are trying to fight for our own independence…!”
“If that is true, ere you trying discard this ician, and you kept nitpicking hi as him, there is no way he would be unknown to us!”
Actually, there was a ician that fit that exact description outside the barracksHowever, Artpe kept that to hiht as hi his allegiance to AediaHe was caught between a rock and a hard place
“That is······ That is…”
The Duke of Tiata was about to open his reat if he could pass this off with a likely excuse, but too ap in his story would only widen thebit fro he could do was to spit out blood
This hy he ith his re of Daitan needed himHis expression turned cold as he spoke
“Please think about it······!It would hard to hold the borders of Daitan if the soldiers of Tiata doesn’t give support!Who cares if one has the most powerful weapon if one doesn’t have a shi+eld?”
“HaA shi+eld…”
It see of Daitan had been trying to keep his cool until the end, but this enor patience!
“We can’t just maintain the status quo We’ve already held out for far too longIn the past fiveback and forth in an endless loop of retreating and chargingSince the pathway to the ocean is blocked by the Lunatic Wave, the plan was to bottle up Aedia from our side, and the side of TiataWe were supposed to weaken Aedia by raiding theh the fall and winterWe were supposed to make them use up all their resources, yet that hasn't happenedAedia seems to have felt no ill effectsInstead, !I have no choice, but to use special countermeasures!”
The attack on the port city of Belata was part of his special countermeasuresDaitan had reached its li their elite troops against BelataIt was a last ditch attempt to tilt the balance of war in their favor
Even if they were able to secure the upper hand in the war, it was as if all their problems would have been solvedDaitan was already seen as the invader, and now his country would have caused civilian deathsDaitan’s future was dark even if they had won the war
Despite this fact, the king of Daitan had pursued this course of actionIt was proof that Daitain was truly in a bad spot
Artpe asked him a question
“Who came up with this plan in the first place? Who ca Aedia to ested the plan, and I went along with itIn the end, it turned out like this”
The king of Daitan shook as he freely expressed his anger and a sense of powerlessnessWhen he heard those words, Artpe couldn’t help but s co power he possessed?Or did he put trust in the honor between men to establish the alliance?It didn’t matter what had occuredEither option had been endlessly foolish
“Let’s think this throughThe ocean is not passable right nowThe north and the western border was closedNo resources are able to enter into Aedia, so how are they able to hold out so well?Did they use their awesoic to transport supplies?”
“You are talking about transporting supplies to feed an enormous aricians like me, it is possibleHowever, if they were capable of such a feat, they would have just wiped out the capital of DaitanBasically, there is no way they could have received supplies from an outside source”
It was one of the skills he had needed as one of the Four Heavenly KingsIt was the skill to play one side against the other!Words flowed out of Artpe like water as heof Daitan’s eyes turned sharper as he looked towards the Duke of TiataSince there was no possible way Aedia could receive supply from an outside source, that only left the Dukedom of TiataThe Duke was supposed to be his ally!
“Bullshi+t!You and I ca of Daitan’s gaze was so intense that he felt a tingle all over his bodyThe Duke of Tiata straightened hi of Daitan nodded his head
“I did agree with your planHowever, five months have passed, and this is the result of that planIn your opinion, how do you think our eneain like before”
“Sir Zard······!”
This was the endThere was suspicion but no evidenceHowever, the ainst himHe wouldn’t be able to overturn this
The words spoken by the king of Daitan was the decisive factorLogic wasn’t iht nowIt was powerIt didn’tbelieved the Dukedo of Daitan had e frorinded his teeth
“Are you really going to look down on ret this later on!”
“I’h a rebellion I was afraid of the public unrest, so I rushed into a ith another nationNow retof Daitan wielded his words like a swordAt this point, his expression turned cold like a snow storo of the only rope available to et off this sinking shi+p, so I played out this aboh the three-act play to get to a resolutionI waited for itHowever, the shi+p sunk, and I was on a ghost shi+pI don't care if the rope is coated with shi+tI’ll hold onto it if it is newI haven’t lived this long by repeatedlyfoolish decisionsI will do as I’ve always done!”
“All rightI’ll show you that there is ret in this life!Even if you realize too late that youdecision, you won’t be able to take it back!”
“You dare!”