Chapter 430 - Fall of Mayers 1 (1/2)
“Your Majesty is awake!”
“Oh, oh!”
From that very morning, the camp of Milton Kingdom was noisy with cheers and talks. Mayers had woken exactly after 3 days just as the medic said.
Sleeping as if he was dead, yet better than before. He didn’t have any nightmares in the past three day’s sleep.
‘Bazzo, are you finally giving up now and leaving me for good?’
Indeed, the ghost was appearing in the dreams of the other people like the guards and knights, but Mayers didn’t know about it because they were all strictly forbidden from using the word ‘ghost’.
At any rate, Mayers was delighted that the nightmare ended for him.
And that day, he decided to treat all his servants generously.
“Your Majesty, there were torpedo…”
When Reynold spoke about the meeting room, Mayers shook his hand.
“Enough of that. You still haven’t attacked Batern? I felt like I pushed you too hard and felt sorry for that.”
“…”
“Let’s think slowly and steadily now. Soon we will get 50 Knight class Gigants. Wouldn’t it be possible to break off their defenses with that?”
At the question of Mayers, all the nobles who were attending the meeting, including Reynold, remained silent.
It was as if a group of students had made a huge mistake and just got noticed.
Seeing the air around him, Mayers could feel an ominous feeling.
“Why is no one answering me? Did something else happen?”
Everyone was hesitant at the question from Mayers, and it only increased the vague atmosphere further.
That was when Reynold decided to speak on behalf of everyone, “Those 50 Gigants aren’t coming, Your Majesty. It is our assumption that the Gigants were stolen during transportation.”
“W-what?!”
Reynold began to give more details to Mayers who was shocked.
“As the scheduled time arrived, no transport arrived and a nearby defensive troops led the soldiers to search for them. All they found were the traces of fire and the pieces of used scrolls.”
“T-that was a special transport! What the hell happened?!”
“We found traces of our soldiers buried, and the rest of them are on their way. We don’t know if the remaining ones are dead, have run away, or were taken in by the enemy.”
The reason why the Milton army wasn’t able to get the full information of the situation was mainly because of Baron Lovett, the captain of the transportation.
After Luke left, he woke up, and with the fear that he would be executed for failing the mission, he ran away. Soon, his knights and men were scattered too.
And thus there was no one who could inform the Milton army what the exact situation was.
“T-this… cough!”
“Your Majesty!”
Mayers, who jumped up from his seat in anger, quickly grabbed the table and sat back down.
Fortunately, he didn’t fall and become unconscious like the last time.
However, the shock of having his Gigants taken away wasn’t easily shaken off.
“Kuek! Release our troops right now and order them to find the Gigants! I need to know what happened over there!”
At the orders of Mayers, Reynold sighed and answered,
“Unfortunately, we cannot pull out the troops from here, and we can’t ask for the troops from the kingdom either. They already have very little troops to defend themselves from the monsters.”
“I ordered them to draft the young men. Why don’t they have any troops yet!?” Shouted Mayers.
“Well, just suppressing the riots in the Brandon city itself is turning into trouble.”
At the answer from Reynold, Mayers face went pale.
“R-riots? There are riots happening in the royal city?”
“Yes, while Your Majesty was asleep, those who were dissatisfied with the drafting had called for a riot.”
Though they were all referring to it as riots, it was actually a revolt.
The nobles, who were dissatisfied with the war, instigated their people to riot and who was behind them.
“At first, it was at a level where people didn’t respond to conscription and training, but in the process of suppressing the men, the soldiers caused casualties, and later, it turned impossible to ask them to stop.”
With the uprisings of the royal city, the residencies of the nobles, their main halls and other buildings belonging to the nobles were plundered and burned.
Viscount Mager tried to suppress them. However, he lacked the troops.
And the defensive troops that were left behind had no artillery to use either apart from the soldiers.
And what was more, instead of fighting properly, the troops either fled or sided with the rebels.
“The news spread and the number of deserters in our army have increased significantly. General soldiers, as well as junior officers and even knights, have begun to run away.”
‘This makes no sense, none at all. How could all this happen in just…’
Less than a month after starting the fight with Marquis Rakan.
Hordes of monsters were suddenly showing up. The absence of policing broke out bandits and mobs, but never did Mayers think that his nation would be shook so easily.
But all this happened because Mayers only thought about himself and not the others.
He had been preparing for independence for a year by then.
In order to confront the Baroque Empire, he stockpiled the military forces, he attracted talented men and negotiated with domestic and foreign forces.
It was needless to say that such process needed tremendous resources.
The problem was that he raised the amount of taxes, and the classes who had to pay the taxes weren’t the nobles or the rich families but the people with low income and had no power.