Emperor of Steel Chapter 691 – Arsene’s Suffering 4

Arsene’s Suffering 4

“Your Majesty, the King of Castia Kingdom has said that he is very grateful to you.”

“Woohoo. Of course, he should be.”

At the report from Hans, Luke smiled.

“But did he accept the offer that I made for him?”

“Yes, he said that he is going to attend the magic video conference that Your Majesty has proposed.”

Cartago was directly under the management of the royal family of Castia.

It was a place that supported the royal family’s living by giving them great financial power, the same place where the Libiya spies, and the warlocks tried to attack and wreak havoc.

Of course, as the King of Castia, he had no choice but to go all out in protecting that place.

“Are the other Kings too attending the magic video conference?”

“Yes, Miss Reina of the Holy Empire, or Her Holiness was the first to confirm, and President Vladimir of the Volga Republic and King Charles of the Irea Kingdom too has agreed to it.”

Immediately after dealing with the monster legion and the Grenada pirates, Luke was thinking about how he should deal with the coming future instead of holding a victory banquet.

He opposes Arsene, and Arsene would also strike back, and surely it would be a very huge blow.

That was when he thought of meeting up with the various rulers of the nations in the Rhodesia continent.

He wanted to meet them up in person, but it was very time consuming and complicated.

So he thought of a magic video conference.

The main aspect of the video conference was going against the Libiya and Baroque who have joined hands with the Veritas warlocks.

In the meantime, the various nations on the Rhodesia continent were all hostile against Baroque which stood with Veritas for their own reason, yet they stood on standby all the time.

However, once the Libiya Kingdom joined hands with the Veritas warlocks, the disasters called upon the nations would be too huge to just stand by and look.

It was because they knew that if they neglected the warlocks who were expanding their power, their own nations would end up being in danger.

“Four days later, it would be nice if we could form a military alliance.”

This time, Luke was planning on joining hands with the other kingdoms of Rhodesia and subdue the enemies—which were the Baroque Empire and the Libiya Kingdom which was under the control of Arsene.

It seemed like it was the time to hit the North once again.

In reality, the two nations couldn’t be punished with the current power of the Symphonia Kingdom alone, but if the other nations helped, punishing the northern nations seemed possible.

“What do you think the allies of the Southern Continent will do?”

At Han’s question, Luke replied in a normal tone.

“Of course, they will participate.”

When a military alliance would be formed four days from now, they would be asked to take part by sending in troops.

“If the Yemaek and the Song Empire participate in the war, it will be huge. Even if the scale is huge, the enemies are too strong.”

There was a reason why Hans was being too cautious.

The Baroque Empire was a great nation, but it still had potential, even though it has been destroyed in recent times.

In addition, the Libiya Kingdom had slowed down recently, however, the military power had been enhanced since the founding.

In particular, the Libiya Kingdom was in a state where it had the Dragonian power of Shaikan and the warlocks of the Veritas magic tower, it seemed inevitable that there was going to be a huge sacrifice.

Of course, it wasn’t like Luke didn’t think of that.

“It will be difficult to do things like that. So I have prepared another thing for the Libiya Kingdom. The trick to weaken their military power.”

“A secret plan?”

“Kukku, you will be shocked when you see it later.”

Luke smiled as if he was the owner of a magic trick that was hidden behind the curtains.

“Are you talking about swaying the economy of the Libiya Kingdom?”

Hans knew that Luke used Sebastian to put the Libiya Kingdom’s economy in trouble.

However, he didn’t know that Luke had given orders to Belfair apart from Sebastian.

‘What Belfair did will cause huge serious problems later on, than what Sebastian did.’

While the Libiya Kingdom was shaken with the economic hardships, Belfair turned the major military munition suppliers into his men.

And they used them to play with weapons and food delivery.

All the aspects seemed fine on the outside, but the cheap swords and shields were being given, wheat and barley were being mixed with sand to deceive the weight.

He even ordered the magic stones which enter the weapons, such as Gigants to be made of lowest leveled ones.

‘There aren’t many that Belfair can turn into his own slaves, but even a few hundred of them can cause huge damage.’

When the upper water turns muddy, so would the lower water.

If an unjust act from the higher ones has been witnessed by the lower ones, even the lower ones will try to do the same thing.

And such acts would turn into revolts and inefficient outcomes.

However, if a war was being waged, all these stuff would be contributed greatly to eroding the power and morale of the Libiya soldiers.

‘Of course, we should also prepare for that.’

Just as a well-made bread could grow mold when left alone, corruption could occur anywhere.

And the Symphonia Kingdom was no exception.

When the Storm Break operation was being held in the Pamire mountains against the monster legion, there was a problem where the magic circles and the magic stones didn’t work.

And Aslan had to jump into the mess and gave up his life for it, but Marquis Rogers had no intention of leaving that aspect alone.

He began to investigate why the magic circles installed didn’t work, as a result, it was found out that some of the magic stones used in the heat wave magic circles were of low quality.

And the related War Mages and the magic stone suppliers were punished immediately.

It wasn’t just the problem on land, even those on the navy faced problems.

During the battle happening on Gregg, some battleships’ men had to eat mold bread because the supplier of the navy didn’t dry the goods and place them in appropriate containers.

Water tanks containing clean drinking water were made poorly, causing water to leak out of it.

Because of that, before Luke could reach the port, the men ran away.

Even then, the rebels who were encouraged by the Libiya Kingdom were being searched and punished, at the same time, intensive audits were being done in each department in the kingdom.

“By the way, did you find out where the Undead moved from Hells Island were taken to?”

“Well, Baron Hudson is looking for them with everyone in the agency placed on it, but no clear answer as of now.”

As a result of reading Zehart’s memory, Luke found out that half of the undead from Hells Island were transferred to Libiya Kingdom.

However, Zehart didn’t know where the undead had been taken to from the coast of Libiya.

There should have been a clue somewhere, but the things were done way too perfectly, so it turned tough to find out.

Each Undead was a very strong one.

And if hundreds of such undead were released at once, the disturbance they would cause was too much for even the troops of the alliance to deal with.

“And the reason for not being able to find them?”

“Well, the Libiya Kingdom is very thorough in hiding the traces, so it isn’t very easy to investigate….”

“Uhm… if any possible area comes up, report it to me. I’ll take it from there.”

“Understood.”

Luke talked a little more with Duke Hans and then headed down to the training center which was solely for him.

Sooner or later, he would have to fight against Arsene, and there was a need for him to prepare for that confrontation.