Volume 7 Chapter 55 - Turbulent Continent (1/2)

Year 3800, the first year of the new century wasn’t a peaceful year.

Or it could be said that the second half of this year wasn’t peaceful.

As soon as July came, when it was so hot that one couldn’t resist the heat anymore, the first bit of turbulence happened in the southeast corner.

The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that had been peaceful for several years after invading their northern neighbours had suddenly started to wage war on their northern neighbours again.

This time, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom used the excuse of a very normal conflict at the northern border.

However, when the war started, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom didn’t try to resolve this small conflict, but rather they started an all out war.

With the large amount of military magic machines they had obtained from working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom’s army was the strongest among the surrounding countries.

Adding in the powerful finances that they had, in just a month and ten days, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom completely occupied two small duchies to the north. They also swallowed half of a kingdom that they had waged war on.

The two duchies dissolved themselves and the kingdom that had lost half their land had been greatly damaged and couldn’t recover.

At the same time, to the south of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Wales Duchy that was less than a thousand kilometers away didn’t stay still.

In the middle of July, the Wales Duchy didn’t even declare war as they invaded the Tomor Duchy to the east.

In half a month, the Tomor Duchy announced their dissipation and fell under the Wales Duchy’s name.

At the end of July, the Marlow empire gave the pretense of a border conflict to send an army to invade the Durain Kingdom to the southwest.

Although the Durain Kingdom was a country with a third grade magic machine industry according to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, having a large amount of military magic machines, they couldn’t compare to a large empire like the Marlow Empire.

After resisting with great difficulty for a month and a half, the Durain Kingdom surrendered to the Marlow Empire. They announced that they would cede one thousand and three hundred square kilometers of territory at the border to the Marlow Empire, while opening up all their domestic mineral resources to the Marlow Empire.

In mid August, the Candra Empire wasn’t willing to fall behind and started moving.

But the Candra Empire didn’t start a war. They announced to the public that the Norton Duchy would be integrated into the Candra Empire, becoming part of the Candra Empire’s southwest province.

When this news spread, it shocked the countries of the southwest corner.

Although the Norton Duchy was only a small duchy, it had a very special position. It was just between several countries and the Candra Empire.

If the countries of the southwest corner wanted to go east or north, they would either have to go over a thousand kilometers from the southern sea or go through the other two paths in the Norton Duchy.

Because of this, the Norton Duchy had been regarded as the gateway to the continent’s southwest by these countries. It was one of the main gates in stopping the Candra Empire from invading the southwest countries.

The other one was naturally the Rudson Kingdom.

After the Norton Duchy joined the Candra Empire, the most nervous was the Rudson Kingdom.

Because before this, the only border between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire was to the east of the Rudson Kingdom, which was a small part of the Candra Empire’s southwest region.

When the Candra Empire invaded the Rudson Kingdom twice before, although the main reason the Rudson Kingdom resisted this invasion was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, having many military magic machines to gain the advantage on the battlefield, the geography also played a very important role.

Now that the Norton Duchy had been annexed by the Candra Empire, it meant that the border between the Norton Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom had become the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom. It meant that the northern part of the Rudson Kingdom had been exposed to the Candra Empire.

Even if the Rudson Kingdom had the advantage when it came to military magic machines, it was already hard to resist an invasion from the Candra Empire before.

Now that the gate to the north had been opened, the Rudson Kingdom had lost their geographical advantage. Then with how the Candra Empire had also been working closely with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during the past few years, gaining quite a bit of military magic machines, the Rudson Kingdom’s advantage had grown much smaller.

So the news of the Norton Duchy joining the Candra Empire was very dangerous news for the Rudson Kingdom.

If the Candra Empire wanted to invade, with the Rudson Kingdom’s current strength, their fate would be troubling.