Chapter 701 - The Fight for Time 1 (1/2)

Shortly after the 200,000 troops left Sherwood Castle, the Symphonia and their allies declared war against the Baroque Empire.

Rudolf, who was watching over the restoration in the ruins, hurried up to his office when he received the report and confirmed with Count Voltas.

“What was that? Six nations along with Symphonia have declared war on us?”

“That is right. It was said that the Holy Arthenia Empire, Volga Republic, the Castia Kingdom, Irea Kingdom, and the Navarre Duchy have formed a military alliance.”

“Damn it! That Luke was quiet for a while. He must have been making up something like this!”

Rudolf never assumed that the six nations would snarl at the Baroque Empire. In addition, the subordinate Navarre Duchy too.

At best, Rudolf always thought that the Symphonia Kingdom or the Holy Empire, and if there was another nation that hated Baroque, it would be the Volga Republic.

“What on earth is their reason for this?”

If the six nations had declared war at the same time, there should have been a plausible reason for their decision.

It was because the justification of the act was very important when it came to forming an alliance.

“That… We were told to be secretly weaponizing Vers in our Empire, and we were asked to stop all the research on it, destroy the facilities and the personnel related to it, and to not touch the temples or sanctuaries.”

“What was that? We are weaponizing Vers?”

At one time, the Baroque Imperial Magic Tower did study Vers.

Well, they weren’t just researching it, but they had a plan to spray it on the border cities and forts of the Libiya Kingdom to cause confusion.

However, the operation was a huge fail, and Vers accidentally spread inside Nemesis causing great damage.

At that time, the number of people who died was huge, and the damage to the public sentiment and the human lives, which were all lost in the process of suppression, weren’t yet recovered.

As a result, the wizards, who were studying Vers, were either executed or banned from working and all the research facilities and documents were abandoned.

But when the reason came that the Baroque was still investing time on Vers, Rudolf couldn’t understand.

“It doesn’t matter if that is true or not. The problem is that they are already down for military action.”

“What? They have already entered into military action?”

“Yes, we are hurrying up and trying to gather the information, but we only know that the troops of Volga Republic, the Holy Empire, and the Symphonia are gathering in the forts and cities in the borders. It is clear that they will cross the border if we don’t accept their demands.”

“Yah! They think I am a coward!”

In the past few years, the power of the Baroque Empire had shrunk in half, but at one time, it was known to be the strongest nation in the Rhodesia Continent.