Chapters Chapter 142. Kwak-Jung’s Foresight (2/2)
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After returning to Laputa, Kang Chul-In immediately started the preparations to move.
He made sure that the political marriage was kept a secret, in order to keep the misunderstanding that he had gone and hooked up with another woman while he ran away from Skadi.
While Kang Chul-In was gone, the internal affairs of the Laputa territory were going smoother than he had expected.
The new city ‘Balnibarbi’ was extremely beautiful and large. Since this was only the 1st construction project finished, Kang Chul-In was excited to see how it would develop.
And since the population had also increased, they were now at 20,000.
“Not bad.”
Looking down at his own territory from the balcony, Kang Chul-In smiled.
This was enough to start his plans.
“Milord.”
Kwak-Jung called.
“You’ve come?”
Kang Chul-In looked behind him.
“It seems like you have something to say.”
“Yes, milord.”
Kwak-Jung started fretting, as if something were wrong.
It seems like he doesn’t have the most confidence.
Looking at him, Kang Chul-In laughed.
Dammit, how do I start?
“Kwak-Jung.”
Looking at how Kwak-Jung was struggling to start speaking, Kang Chul-In called out.
“If you have something you want to say, just speak. No one will laugh at you even if you say something wrong here. I’m the one who appointed you into the position as the tactician. If I laugh at you, I would only be laughing at myself.”
“I-Is that so?”
“Confidence maketh man. Be proud when you talk.”
As Kang Chul-In encouraged him, Kwak-Jung took a pause, before starting to speak.
“Milord.”
Kwak-Jung’s voice turned extremely serious.
“Do we really need to move?”
It was a somewhat mysterious thing to say.
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Kang Chul-In took Kwak-Jung, and moved elsewhere to have a better conversation.
“So, what’s the reason you said that?”
“Take a look at this map.”
Kwak-Jung pointed at the map, where the Valhalla territory was located.
“This was going to be our destination, right?”
“Yes.”
“On the right, we have the Overlord Aleister’s territory, and we have our ally Hecate’s territory to the left. If milord is able to ally with these two Overlords, it is possible to create a massive power that threatens Pangaea.”
Even though Kang Chul-In had never explained this before, Kwak-Jung somehow thought of the Ishtar Coalition. This meant that he had potential, and that Kang Chul-In wasn’t wrong.
“You’re right.”
Kang Chul-In nodded his head.
“But still, it’s somewhat unstable.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
Kwak-Jung started to explain.
“We need at least 2 years in order to gain the full support of Hecate. It’s not like people marry as soon as they get to meet with someone of the opposite s.e.x. It’ll take, let’s say… maybe 2 years for a Pangaean couple to get married. Don’t you think that even at the very least, we should wait a year or a year and a half before expecting the full support and backing of Hecate?”
“Oh!”
At Kwak-Jung’s foresight and thoughts, Kang Chul-In started to think that this former gangster was finally doing what he had brought him here for.
“Our alliance with Hecate isn’t that strong yet, and that crazy Aleister is someone… who can’t be trusted.”
“You’re saying that if we rush to move, we might get backstabbed by Aleister and Hecate?”
“That’s not true.”
This time, Kwak-Jung shook his head.
“If Hecate was going to betray us, she wouldn’t have gone through all of this. As for that crazy necrophiliac…”
Kwak-Jung pointed towards where Aleister’s territory was located.
“General Drakan has told me that milord already crushed that creepy bastard’s army. I doubt that he would go into battle anytime soon after that.”
“Then why are you saying no to this?”
“It’s this person here.”
Kwak-Jung pointed towards the territory that was located to the north of Valhalla.
“...Baruk Al Yusuf?”
“Yes, that stupid psychopath is the problem here. What can we do if he decides to invade our territory?”
“...It will be a tiring fight.”
Answering Kwak-jung’s question, Kang Chul-In realised that he hadn’t thought of this, yet.
In truth, Kang Chul-In had never thought about Baruk Al Yusuf.
Why?
Because he thought that he would be hunted down by the other Lords anyway.
In the past, that was what had happened to Baruk Al Yusuf.
And even before he had been hunted down, Baruk had never shown any interest in the Ishtar region, and hadn’t shown his face there.
“Do you have any guarantee that Baruk Al Yusuf will come south and try to invade us? I don’t think that there’s a clear reason for why he would do that.”
“I guarantee that a psychopath like him would definitely come. I have heard from Secretary Lucia about the kind of man he is. He has such an ego, even when ranked at just 2nd, so I’m sure that he wouldn’t be able to stand the man ranked higher than him near his territory.”
“So?”
“But, if we just leave him be for the time being, he’s going to die after getting hunted down anyway. I haven’t seen a man like him being able to survive for long.”
“Hoo…”
Once again, Kang Chul-In was surprised.
He had felt that Kwak-Jung was starting to turn his potential into real ability.
“Milord.”
Kwak-Jung started to speak again.
“I think we should delay this move. It isn’t worth moving there right now, since others would reap the benefits without doing anything.”
“So you’re telling me to wait…”
And Kang Chul-In’s answer to that was…