Abe the Wizard

the frontline.”

Head Commander Job wasn’t going to believe that Abel was a hero.
Rather, he just didn’t want to.
The feeling was mutual for the other four duchies.
Still, none of them wanted to attack the duchy of Carmel.
They had plenty to worry about, and the last thing they wanted to do was to make an enemy with so many ridiculous records to his career.

Head Commander Dobson passed some documents to Head Commander Ewell, “Here, this is something that the Koror Intelligence Agency collected.
According to them, they’ve spent a lot of money getting their hands on this.”

The duchy of Koror was located in the northern part of the duchy of Carmel.
Due to years of dedication, many of its spies had been rooted all over the duchy of Carmel.
That was until Abel became the new king.
Abel was very interested in investing in his own intelligence force, and many spies from the other states paid a heavy price, especially the Harvest City region.
Ever since the noblemen were all exiled, any newcomers were immediately identified by the locals.
Because of this, they had to spend a lot of money infiltrating the area.

After many sacrifices, the Koror Intelligence Agency finally obtained a very precious piece of information.
As it turned out, Harvest City was using a very special potion to help its crops grow.
Also, ten or more granaries were built in the region, and all of them contained crops that were just harvested.

The four duchies didn’t want to make an enemy out of the duchy of Carmel, but they were desperate.
They didn’t have enough food.
People disregarded the nations that they should serve.
Soon, there wouldn’t be enough food to feed the armies.
Thousands would die.
During a time like this, only a military invasion could resolve the issue of mass starvation.
If they didn’t do anything, they would perish into history like the duchy of Keyen.

Anyways, the only concern for the four duchies was food.
They didn’t care how strong Abel was.
They didn’t care about the possibility of revenge.
They didn’t even care if they would antagonize the dwarves and the elves.
Head Commander Ewell understood as soon as he saw the documents.
The four duchies had already made up their mind.
It didn’t matter if the duchy of Thunder wasn’t going to join them.
They just wanted to increase their success rate, regardless of the increment was.

The four representatives all looked towards Head Commander Ewell.
They were waiting for his decision.
If they managed to win against the duchy of Carmel, they could work together to prevent the Kingdom of St.
Ellis from taking away all the loot like last time.
The Kingdom of St.
Ellis would only come to take from them if the price wasn’t too high.
It wouldn’t want to lose so much that it wouldn’t have enough force to match the other two human empires.

Head Commander Ewell asked, “So how do you plan on fighting the wizards?”

The four of the representatives felt at ease.
Since he was asking a question like this, it meant that he had already agreed to join in the invasion.
Actually, before Head Commander Ewell agreed to come here, he was already granted the right to represent the king’s decision.
He had the right to join forces if he thought that it would serve the best interest of the duchy of Thunder.

Head Commander Job spoke, “We’ll use up all the wizards in our duchies.
If we win, we will survive.
If not…”

The sentence ended right there, but everyone understood.
If they failed, they would have to suffer the consequences for attacking the nation that a grandmaster blacksmith ruled.
The dwarves would sanction all of them.
All the wizards might just perish, and that was a very frightening thought, given what had already happened to the duchy of Keyen.

Head Commander Armand continued, “We cannot afford to lose this.
When the war begins, all the intermediate wizards will use their “instantaneous movement” techniques to go straight towards Abel.
Once he is dead, then the duchy of Carmel will be of no threat to us.”

Head Commander Ewell proposed a plan, “How about we lure him out, then? We’ll trap him with something, and once he’s caught, we’ll push on and finish him.”

“Impossible,” Head Commander Job raised his head, “Abel’s been hiding for two years.
He hasn’t appeared in public for two years.
How long do you think we should wait before he walks into that trap of yours?”

That shut Head Commander Ewell up.
Even now, he couldn’t forget the look that he saw from Abel.
It was the look of someone staring down at an ant.
He was a head knight commander.
It was five duchies against one.
Still, he had a feeling that anyone who posed as enemies to Abel would be annihilated.
Head Commander Job couldn’t understand this sentiment.
He just continued to propose plans to assassinate Abel.

Head Commander Job continued, “I’ll wrap this up with something positive.
From what I’ve heard, all the advanced wizards will be undergoing shutdown training during this period of time.
Now that things have become so terrible in this world, they made sure that they would forbid themselves from making it any worse.”

Next up, they discussed how they should collide to bypass the intelligence network that the duchy of Carmel had.
It wasn’t easy to have five duchies moving on the same page.
They were all different in their locations, so it was guaranteed that there would be some discrepancy in terms of the time that they launched their forces.

After discussing amongst themselves, they decided that they would begin from the duchy of Thunder.
They would start by invading Neking City.
If they continued to go straight from there, they could make a forced entry by attacking two of the minor cities.
It would be the fastest route for them to make ways into Harvest City.

The duchy of Thunder knew everything about Neking City.
They’ had been controlling it for a very long time.
When it was just ceded to the duchy of Carmel, there were still a lot of their intelligence officers that were working there.
Needless to say, it was the easiest place for them to plan on an invasion.

……

The collaboration between the five duchies didn’t escape the eyes of the St.
Ellis Intelligence Agency.
Prince Derek received news instantly.
He responded as soon as the duchy of Tex deployed out an army of three thousand knights, and the duchy of Tex was supposed to be the state that was the furthest away.

Of course, the duchy of Tex knew that this would happen.
They could only try and move faster.
Soon, the duchy of Larvid followed, sending three thousand knights of their own.
Once the two armies joined, they then joined the six thousand that the duchy of Laka and the duchy of Koror deployed.

They had twelve thousand very quickly.
Once this very frightening army went to the duchy of Thunder, their number would increase to fourteen thousand.
There were fifteen or more head knight commanders, five intermediate wizards, and fifteen beginner wizards.
Prince Derek knew the rough numbers, and he reported it to his father, King Ambrose, very quickly.

Prince Derek bowed, “Your Majesty, the duchy of Tex, Larvid, Laka, Koror, and Thunder are joining forces to attack the duchy of Carmel.
Should we send out messengers to persuade them to stop?”

“Why are you asking?” King Ambrose said coldly, “We tried it last time already.
You know, if we could use diplomacy to fix these things, we wouldn’t have to send out so many knights.”

Prince Derek persisted, “We’ll send out troops as reinforcements, then.
Abel’s helped us before, Father.”

Kind Ambrose said solemnly, “You are the future king, Derek.
Don’t let your emotions blind you.
We are not as strong as we used to be.
The five duchies are going after the duchy of Carmel for food.
They must’ve thought about the possibility of us participating.”

“Still!” Prince Derek persuaded, “We’ll have to tell Abel in advance! We won’t help, but the least we can do is to tell him to prepare in advance!”

King Ambrose stood up in anger, “You fool! If we do that, how are we supposed to attack the five duchies? We can’t give ourselves away, do you understand?”

Prince Derek understood.
King Ambrose was planning on securing their victory.
He wasn’t planning on staying idle the whole time.
From his understanding, the five duchies would lose plenty after they launched the invasion.
If the Kingdom of St.
Ellis wanted to help, they had to have the right timing or left with no loot to take.

Prince Derek was still a bit uncertain; however, “What should we do if the duchy of Carmel wins?”

King Ambrose said in a relaxed voice, “That’s a strange question, Son.
We’ll help them eliminate their enemies.
Haven’t we been friends with Abel from the very start?”

That statement chilled Prince Derek.
He didn’t want to say it out loud, but he didn’t think that the Kingdom of St.
Ellis would continue to have the same good relationship as the duchy of Carmel after this.
King Ambrose refused to help due to his self-interest.
No matter how wrong that decision could be, only the king would have the power to decide.

There was an enormous knight army marching forward at the crossing border between the duchy of Thunder and Neking City.
Behind them were wizards that were sitting inside carriages, and even further back was the supply team.

The march was very long, especially for the duchy of Tex and the duchy of Larvid.
To get to the duchy of Carmel, they had to first travel across the duchy of Keyen, the duchy of Laka, and the duchy of Koror.
If they wanted to make it to the duchy of Thunder, they needed a supply team.

Since the wizards were also participating this time, they needed even more supplies.
And no, the wizards weren’t veterans that were used to stationing at Miracle City.
They were wizards that relied on tributes that were paid to them from the duchies, and the lives they lived were not so different from noblemen.

With five knight armies joined together, only one person could be the leader.
The greater the number, the more important it was to have a singular officer to keep things under control.
Head Commander Job of the duchy of Tex was elected to be that person.
Due to his experience and a record of having almost no failures in his military career, he was chosen to be the commander officer of this army of fourteen thousand.

“Fellow knights! I know that your families are starving! Today, we are here to build an army of knights, and for what? For food, that’s what! Our goal is Harvest City.
There is a lot of food there enough to feed our families for the next several years.
As I stand here, I will now make a promise to all of you.
Whoever participates in this war, they will be the first to have the right to decide where the food should be distributed.”

Head Commander Job shouted as he took out his knight’s big sword, “For our duchies! For our families!”

“For our duchies!”

“For our families!”

As the knights chanted these words, they marched into Neking City and stepped into the duchy of Carmel.

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