Chapter 95: Northern Disturbance ① Outbreak of War (1/2)

–Aegir POV–

「To Viscount Hardlett-sama, a messenger from His Majesty calling for an urgent meeting!!」

A loud sound echoes at dawn. The man dashed into the city of Rafen while still on his horse and rode directly to the entrance of my mansion. Normally, it wouldn’t be strange for this sort of rude act to be met with a slap, but the man’s job is the only one that is permitted to do so…… the emergency express messenger sent directly from the king.

「So it’s here.」

「Aau……」

I pull my slippery dick out from Irijina’s crotch, leave the girl lying face down on the bed, sling on a robe and exit the room. After getting permission from the servants, without even going to the reception room, the messenger walks all the way up to me in the hallway.

「Sorry for intruding this morning!」

「Me too, looking like this.」

The strong smell of semen drifts through the air, and it’s clear that I came just after having sex with a woman, but the messenger doesn’t mind at all.

「The words from the King! ‘Our country has declared war on the kingdom of Treia, and Viscount Hardlett is to commence military action immediately. Show your loyalty to the kingdom.’ That’s all.」

「I understand. Please reply that I will definitely bring victory to Goldonia.」

「Yessir!! Then I’ll take my leave!」

The express messenger gets on his horse and leaves while standing on the stirrups, unlike how he came. I don’t think he needs to hurry to deliver my reply, but I guess that’s also a part of his job.

「So it’s finally come.」

「We’ll make preparations immediately.」

Leopolt, Celia and Luna are already awake and lining up. Irijina dons her armor, though my semen is dripping out from her crotch.

「The timing is slightly rushed, but everything is roughly going according to plans. Everyone ready?」

「「「Yessir.」」」

With a whoosh, everyone scatters off to take command of their respective units. Everyone is skilled, so they’ll get things ready without me having to check on them.

「Here you go.」

Mel, who once again has a slightly larger stomach1, Nonna and Carla brings me my armor.

「Thanks.」

The three of them help me equip my armor.

In my full-armored state, I open the door and look out from the entrance of my house to see the gathering of the soldiers; I can see soldiers rushing out from the brothels and bars, and the soldiers who own homes are kissing their wives before heading out.

From the simple tenement house built beside my own mansion, where the 150 women who I saved previously live for now……I can also see a few soldiers rushing out half-naked in a panic. For the sake of the women’s lifestyle from now on, I told them I didn’t mind if they brought men with them there. It seems the soldiers are quite popular with the women since their desire to be protected is strong. The 30 women that slept with me insist not to sleep with other men though.

When the women saw me, they all lowered their heads in a deep bow.

「This is for you.」

Rita leads Schwartz by the reins. Normally, she wouldn’t be handling horses, but Schwartz doesn’t resist when he gets led by a woman.

I jump on this arrogant horse, who doesn’t even bend over for my consideration, and head to the outside of the city. The women never stopped waving their hands to me.

「How are the preparations going?」

「Well, you’re talking about 5000 soldiers here. It’ll take a bit more time.」

I watch the soldiers gradually gather together outside the city as I listen to Celia’s report. I guess that’s natural. I can’t expect them to be ready immediately when I tell them to go. Then it might have been better to fuck either Nonna or Carla. Not being able to ejaculate in the morning makes my hips feel heavy.

「Uhm……」

I turn back at the sound of the soft voice to see Catherine watching in the tent’s shade. She probably came to greet me face-to-face by herself. This is perfect timing.

「Eh? What!? I wasn’t going to-……while your armor is still on!? No, it’s not that I don’t want to……in fact I’m happy- aagh!? I’ll masturbate while thinking of you while you’re not here too so…… be rougher. It’s fine even if my asshole tears so fuck me senseless……」

Although we are in the shade, having sex in the garrison allows the other soldiers to peep as well. The scene in which a beauty faints in agony from having a dick penetrate her seems to have helped the unmarried soldiers and those who don’t have the money to buy prostitutes empty their balls.

Right when Catherine’s asshole started gaping, the soldiers finish their preparations.

「Aegir-sama, the entire unit’s preparations are compl-……uwaah!!」

「Alright. Let’s depart.」

I entrust Catherine to one of the mansion’s servants that came to get me and then stand in front of the army.

「I won’t say much. Crush the enemy when you fight them. All troops, advance!!」

「「「「「Oooooooh—!!」」」」」

We depart as the residents of the city see us off. It’s been so long since I’ve battled with a human opponent, I’m looking forward to it.

After that, it takes us a whole day to march directly into Treia, heading south towards the border, and once we confirm that no one can see us and there is nothing around us in the wilderness, we divide the army.

「Then, we’ll continue further south from here! I pray for your good fortune!」

「You too, even if you suffer defeat, absolutely don’t die.」

I hug Irijina close and when I give her a kiss, I can smell the scent of the large amount of semen I had her drink last night.

Irijina takes a portion of the army with her – the entirety of the eastern army and the infantry unit of the private army – to go west to collide with Treia’s defensive camp. I entrust with her all the siege weapons I got from Erich as well, as she continues westward.

「The rest of the army will change course and head east.」

With only 1000 cavalry left in my squad, we cut off from the infantry and the sluggish siege weapons and head east.

「It wouldn’t have been such a hassle if we headed east right from the start.」

「It would seem suspicious if spies are monitoring the city.」

Leopolt reacts honestly.

「You finished cleaning up, right?」

Around the end of summer, a fire broke out during construction and several men died. It was an unfortunate accident, and although many people gathered, it was written off as a natural occurrence so it didn’t become anything major. The burnt corpses, that had cuts from a blade, were then buried in a graveyard without anyone knowing.

「There are no guarantees. If there are people who we don’t know about, we may have missed an opportunity. ……Actually, I’m more worried about the lives of the women we saved.」

There was a woman among the discovered spies, and after she got punished thoroughly as well as getting fucked until she’s crazy about men, she became a prostitute in the city and is now happily serving customers. I sent Christoph to check on her, but it seems she’s enjoying her job, becoming a popular prostitute where hardcore play, nettori2 and anything in between is allowed. She cracked due to her desire for my cock, so I was able to eliminate all of the spies, and moreover, I want her to be happy too.

「Even including the part where we disguise an attack in my calculations, it will take two days for us to enter the mountain nation’s territory. Luna-san went first, so we should be able to rendezvous with them soon.」

I told the mountain nation of the decisive battle and ordered them to have everyone who can be useful take part. All the warriors from the tribes that I conquered should be coming.

「It’s quite busy, running around here and there, but if things go well, it’ll become an interesting fight.」

「I’ll definitely make it work!」

「I don’t plan so that I can fail.」

Taking the occasional gamble isn’t bad either.

–Third Person/Irijina POV–

10 days later, Southern Border, Treian Army’s Defensive Camp

「Everyone, stop where they are!」

「The large ballista is coming through! If you don’t want your head plucked off, duck down!」

The commanders shout and the soldiers crouch down while lowering their heads. Right after that, a giant bolt soars through the air. That thing the ballista releases while positioned in the back strikes and destroys the fence in front and makes a dull sound as it sticks into the ground.

「The fence is broken! Charge through there!」

A rain of arrows pours down on the soldiers eager to rush through the gap. Half of them instantly get wiped out, and the remaining half do their utmost to retreat while propping up shields over their heads.

On the offense, the Goldonian army of 4200 under the command of Irijina is trying to penetrate the border, while the eastern Treian border defense army defends with around 3000. The attacking side has the slight upper hand in terms of military strength, but the defensive encampments dotted around the area erases that advantage.

The Goldonian archers loose their arrows, but none of them seem to have much impact. Sometimes a flaming rock flung by the catapult would fall on the fortress, causing yells and screams, but since it takes time to launch the attacks, the fire is snuffed out quickly, preventing it from being a decisive strike.

「Captain Irijina, our attacks are failing. The only thing we can do is concentrate our attacks on one spot to bring down the enemy camp, while retreating with the readiness to lose a few men.」

「No, there’s no need for that. Just try to keep the casualties to a minimum while sporadically targeting the places with fewer people!」

The commander who advised for a solution steps down with an unsatisfied look. That’s a natural reaction, since the strategy to aim for the less populated area with their attacks has already failed three times. The enemy camps are highly cooperative with each other and whenever there is an attack, the enemy would concentrate their forces immediately. An attack on horses would give the enemy less time to react, but there are moats and fences everywhere so the cavalry won’t be able to move freely.

「But the longspears-!」

Having the cavalry run circles around the Treian Kingdom last time taught them a lesson, and now they’re using super long spears that looked around 6 m in length. With those things lined up together, charging at them on horseback is suicidal.

「Have the fatigued soldiers take a break. Switch with the next squad and let them have a turn!」

Seeing the time pass without any progress in the attacks is a situation that would normally make one hold their head in resignation, but Irijina remains composed. In the first place, her objective wasn’t to breakthrough the enemy camps in a flashy manner. Of course, if she could, then she would try to, but from the looks of things, the current situation is clearly not a good one. She doesn’t even think she has the talent to smoothly lead the large army of 4000.

She only thought about the order received from her master to breakthrough this border line of the enemy and the strict command to limit as many casualties as possible and also not get injured herself.

「Don’t worry, the enemy will definitely crumble. We just have to continue attacking.」

The soldiers look anxious but Irijina’s face remains filled with confidence.

–Third Person/Treia POV–

Nation of Treia, Most Eastern Region, Pioneer Village

The sun is still high in the sky and the villagers are working hard tending their farms while two men are sitting around a table playing cards. One of them doesn’t look much older than 20 and the other one is a middle-aged man who looks close to 40.

「Seems like we’ve waged war against Goldonia.」

「Eeeh……the large nation of Goldonia, huh? Ain’t that bad?」

「Yeah, I agree, I travelled to the capital of Goldonia once when I was young and it was seriously cool. The path is all paved with stone and the houses are two-storey buildings so you can’t even see the dirt.」

「There it is again. That thing where you talk about the time you were young, like several decades ago, it has no relevance now.」

「Tch- this cheeky brat has learned how to talk……how’s this, my win!」

The middle-aged man throws his cards out and pockets the copper coins on the table.

「Damn! Again? You better not be cheating.」

「That’s what you call a sage’s wisdom, kid.」

This area is as remote as you can get where it’s near the mountain nation and only about 50 people live, and these two guards don’t even have to deal with barbarians and thieves. Their job consists of settling disputes between villagers, protecting the village from lone wolves and monsters, and when things get out of hand, all they need to do is seek help.

「Shit, it’s almost harvest time. I might go help out somewhere and earn a little change.」

「Oooh, go get ‘em. Do it for my alcohol too.」

The youngster grumbles as he exits the watchtower, and the idle middle-aged soldier lays sideways to try and nap. War is the last thing on their minds and when the enemy reaches such a remote place as this, the outcome would have already been decided.

「Go work your hardest. I’m going to sleep.」

Just as the man mumbles to himself and stretches his arms to lie in the shape of the ‘大’ character, the door swings violently open.

「This is baaad!! Wake up, old man! The barbarians are coming down here!!」

The middle-aged soldier springs up. The most frightening thing in this area is flood, followed by barbarians. He rushes over to the window and sticks his body over the ledge to look over at the mountains. After one long glance, he rubs his eyes, and when he looks a second time, the image didn’t change.

It isn’t several hundreds.

It isn’t a thousand either.

A large group of cavalry easily exceeding 5000 is charging forward as if they’re coming to swallow the village.

Both of them stare dumbfoundedly at the scene unfolding before their eyes. There’s pretty much nothing left they can do. That is what they’re thinking in their hearts.

「Old man……what do we do? Do we contact someone?」