Chapter 409 - War Clouds From South 4 (1/2)

Count Bazzo, who got pushed out by Luke, immediately reported that Luke’s recruitment had failed through magic communication.

Whatever the result, Mayers had asked to be reported as soon as possible.

Upon receiving the communication from Bazzo, Mayers yelled.

“Huh, make a big decision? I did expect him to refuse, but that cheeky bastard!”

“Your Majesty, did you know that he would refuse, then why intend to recruit him?”

The Iron Fist knight Reynold glanced through the conversation as he couldn’t understand.

After the last victory banquet, their king had been secretly gathering military personnel and announced his intention to invade into the Rakan estates.

And after that, the military was preparing for war and increased the military exchanges with the Grenada kingdom.

But after a while, he sent Count Bazzo as an envoy to Luke.

“Why I sent the offer? If he accepted out the offer, we would absorb the Rakan estates without any loss.”

“But didn’t you think that there was a high probability of rejection?” Asked Bazzo.

“I did. Failure couldn’t be a bad thing. We have a cause for invasion.”

“Standing up for rejecting a proposal?”

“It is surely difficult. But if we move in the right direction, we can do it.”

‘No way…’

Reynold, whose head was never dull was able to predict what His Majesty meant.

“Your Majesty, you don’t…”

“Shh! If you know more, you will get hurt. Stop talking. The opening isn’t far so train the knights well.”

“Understood, Your Majesty.”

Reynold politely bowed his head and stepped back.

But once he reached to a place where no one was there, he spits at the knowledge of war.

“Sh*t! Greedy humans…”

Sneaky, greedy, and mean people.

Even though he knew well about them, he couldn’t help but get back to them.

No matter what kind of people the humans were, half of their blood and his brother Reynard had human blood flow.

A few days after Count Bazzo left, Luke was hearing a series of reports from Sebastian and Belfair.

“Rudolf lost the battle against Libiya Kingdom?”

“Yes, Master. It was said that he took in more damage than expected.”

The Imperial Intelligence agency remained dominated by the two demons.

Pretending to follow the Emperor and took in the information.

“Hm, lost a lot… was it because of Shaikan?”

Shaikan had turned into the King of the self-declared Libiya Kingdom.

Luke knew that he was a Dragonian.

However, when he heard that he was Reichard de Baroque, the third crown prince of Baroque Empire, he was shocked.

‘Was that why he told me that he had a debt to pay back to the Baroque Empire?’

He mentioned that Luke could be his fellow on the same path.

Either way, the plan of Shaikan was helping Luke.

“The Dragonian king didn’t go out in the battle.”

“Shaikan didn’t play? Even then, Rudolf lost?”

Luke couldn’t believe it.

Although the Emperor had been injured because of the high ranking demon, Rudolf was in a Sword Emperor class.

Who could stop such a strong man?

“That.. the supply line was blocked.”

According to Belfair’s description, the monster corps of Shaikan attacked the Imperial army and burned the warehouse ammunition and supplies were stored.

Rudolf did plan on driving the Gigant unit and blow away the rebels, but he was unable to fight properly because the number of units weren’t available.

And no matter how brave the knights were, they couldn’t fight without food and water, and even the most powerful Gigant of all cannot be operated without proper timely maintenance.

“The battle between the two armies took place in the border area and was very minimal. However, Rudolf had retreated because he would have taken in severe damage if he hadn’t retreated the moment his supplies were short.”

“When I witnessed it, the battle seemed to be a draw.”

“But the results, since subduing Libiya Kingdom failed, everyone considered the Baroque to had been defeated. Which is why the Baroque Empire is in trouble.”

Emperor Rudolf wasn’t defeated in a direct battle.

Even the demon in the capital got defeated by him.

The Emperor, a strong man, was defeated, and such public statements were made up.

“Currently, the Emperor is placing power in Marquis Vanden. Even everyone expects the supply and the units to stabilize and then go back to subdue them again.”

“So he won’t be caring about this for a while.”