Age of Adventure

Kyle look around the area of the Plains while he rides his war horse. Bohdan him tens of thousands of soldiers marching in rhythm.

After a few weeks of journey, they finally arrived at the plain region

He sighed

’Aero what is it that you are planning?’ he muttered to himself.

Kyle had long known that Aero is in greater Veranis. But he did not tell the Emperor or King James about this information

Kyle had never been the most loyal of subjects. He is part of the Eagle faction, the military faction of the imperial court.

One might have thought then that his loyalty then must lie with the military faction.

But that is not it either.

Kyle have always been loyal to himself.

After being betrayed by his own king during his brief stint as a Vetten general, Kyle had never trust anyone promises especially promises of nobility and kings.

His cooperation with Aero is simply because he knows that in the Six Councils and in the Empire, true power rested in Aero hands.

Kyle had fought once with Aero and he lost terribly in his hand.

There is a little bit of resentment in his heart but what trumps the resentment is part fear and part admiration.

He knows since a year ago that there are weird moves by King Alexander but never in his wildest dreams that he thought King Alexander would move against the Empire.

But while he is rising general in Vanheim, he is just a small personage in the military factions of the Empire.

With the return of the adventurers, the former integral core members of the military faction also return like Marquis Dan, Countess Raina and other that is associated with Aero. It is their return that stabilizes the imperial power.

So it is not Kyle had a lot of chance to usurp the position of the core members of the military faction

In this one year, the secret battle between the two imperial brother is getting even more intense.

one even miss the days during the time of the Chancellor ruling the Six Councils

The Six Councils is the Six Councils and still possess great power in maintaining the policy of the Empire.

But, even they are wrecked by internal dispute between those who were loyal to the Chancellor and those who were loyal to the Emperor.

When Alexander announce his desire to fight against Vanheim, Kyle knew that Aero probably knows what had happened. And even before he left his residence to answer the summon of the Emperor, there is a letter inside his study.

Aero did not send three letters as Viola had thought.

He had sent a lot of letters. Some of them is written like a warning. Some are written like a kind advice.

And some of them is written to remind them. Kyle sighed as he looks at the opening of the forest.

’Aero is truly capable’ he said to himself.

This region of the Plain in the past is some backward part of the Empire at least it was in the past. The trade routes between Veranis and Vanheim did not pass this region.

The Chancellor in those years of peace improve many parts of the provinces of the Empire. This place is one of them.

To improve the province economic position, Aero expanded the production of the province gold mines and ordered the construction of dykes and irrigation projects around this region

All of this took considerable amount from the treasury but after it was complete it greatly reduced the surrounding area flood problems and expanded its agricultural output.

Externally, the Chancellor had always view the plains as the most ideal position to field armies to stop the invasion of a foreign enemies.

And while it could not be confirmed from the many research paper that he had read about the development of the plains region, Aero might have design on attacking Veranis.

During the time Kyle enter the Vanheim imperial court, even though he enters under the recommendation of Aero, he and Aero had never been close allies.

At times, they even oppose each other in the Parliament.

Probably because of that he is trusted by the Emperor and King of Niovar.

Kyle knew that if after this, news come out that he and the Chancellor had been in collusion since the beginning, the trust of the Emperor on him might erode.

But Kyle had already considered the pros and con

The Emperor is weak. And Kyle and the King of Niovar had a complicated relationship.

Kyle had never like King James that much. The two imperial brothers secret conflict in the imperial court has the potential to split the realm

But the one marinating tee ace so that their secret conflict did not tore the Empire apart was always the Chancellor.

And Kyle knew that the Chancellor is strong both in political side of the battle or the real battlefield of life and death

And Kyle had always backed the winning side. That way he would always remain victorious.

An army commander come near Kyle and Kyle slow down his horse.

’What is the matter?’ Kyle asked as he could see the hesitation of the commander.

The commander come closer with his horse and then whispers some words into Kyle ears. Kyle frowned and said

’Noted. I will inform the Capital of this’ The commander then return back to his unit as Kyle sighed.

The plains are in the area of many contentions in the past and the area is deemed unsafe by many people so there is no village around it

Even if there is, when the battle between borders happened, that village would be a collateral damage.

After the Fall of Gerad Stratocracy and Tian dynasty most of the civilians of these two countries become refuges and run away to this edges of the Empire border and created settlements and founded cities around the area.

When the East was settled and Greater Veranis and Karak become vassal kingdoms of Vanheim, the area around here experience peace.

The plains regions and its surrounding territory has always been empty in the past because of border skirmishes.

But after the peace that come, the people here began improving their lives and with the Chancellor development plan, the area prospers.

The Empire send a few of nobles here to take control and some of them are nobles that come from the fallen kingdoms.

Not all noble stubbornly wanted to revive the fallen kingdom. Some surrender during the initial conquest and these nobles of a fallen kingdom is not discriminated by the Chancellor as they were sent to rule over the refugees.

Of course, some of them maintain their noble houses only under the reign of the Empire

The Imperial Court did not discriminate against one background as long as one is capable and loyal to the Empire.

After all, one could describe the Imperial Court of Vanheim as a metropolitan court and diverse

To prevent the people being promoted into rebelling, the Emperor made a balancing plan among the local powers of the region.

It is for that reason the area around this plain is highly divided. And it so for that reason it takes weeks for his army to reach the Plain.

King Alexander had known the fact that region around the plain is greatly divided, with its lord holing no sway over any of the province many feuding families.

Unsurprisingly, King Alexander take advantage of this. His first act before even setting up foot to the plain is to convince many of the vassal lords around this plain region to switch sides.

Greater Veranis have been able to persuade some of the vassal lords to defect and as such that is the reason why Kyle and his army took so much time to arrive at the plains. Each road that he goes to were obstructed by the allies of Greater Veranis.

Kyle also seems to see the dangerous trend that is appearing here.

If this is not addressed quickly, the rule of the Empire would be harmed.

Niovar rebellion is a headache in the Imperial court but it is still contained but if even the western part of the Empire began to rebel, then the Empire might even have to forget Duvar and might even lose former Vetten territory.

As Kyle was thinking about all of this things, they finally arrived at the plain.

The horse neighed, the sound of horns being blown and the striking of the gong stopped.

Kyle narrowed his eyes as he sees the scenery in the distance

A few hundred kilometers from them they could see the banners of the Greater Veranis in the distance and he frowned.

The sight that awaited the imperial army of the Empire is the sights of hundreds of thousands of Greater Veranis soldiers on the plains.

Sighing Kyle said

’This is going to be a long campaign’

The war between Greater Veranis and the Holy Empire of Vanheim begins!

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