We Do Business In Full Auto [EN]: Chapter 230

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Purge (2)

A high watchtower.

I sat here, observing the situation.

Soojung stayed close to my side.

No matter what anyone said, this was a battlefield. I fully expected Marquis Kainer to surrender, but there was always a chance something unexpected could happen.

If he betrayed us and sent a suicide squad to kill me, Soojung could get hurt. That was unacceptable.

To prevent such a thing from happening, I had her heavily guarded and even erected a barrier around us, making it impossible for even an arrow to reach us.

Two of the Four Heavenly Kings [powerful guardians] stood behind Soojung, and I even dressed her in armor, just in case.

Thoom! Thoom! Thoom!

The drums of war sounded, and as pre-arranged, our forces began to encircle the enemy.

“Waaaaaah!”

The enemies charged.

But then, the demonic nobles disguised as enemy soldiers moved. They easily assassinated those on the purge list.

“I am Marquis Kainer, the Grand Strategist of the Empire! We surrender! There is no need to shed any more meaningless blood!”

Marquis Kainer’s voice rang out.

“It’s over,”

Soojung yawned, stretching.

I knew this would happen, but now that it was actually over, I felt drained.

Shwaaaaa!

The enemies dropped their weapons and knelt.

As if they had been waiting for this moment, the nobles were all killed, and even the top commanders of the knights who followed them were eliminated, causing the soldiers to simply give up the fight.

The sight of hundreds of thousands of soldiers surrendering was spectacular.

Soojung and I flew through the air towards the enemy lines.

Of course, I didn’t let my guard down, even at this moment.

“As of this moment, the battle is over. You will be spared as soldiers of the Crystal Empire.”

“Waaaaaah!”

A cheer erupted.

Now, the war with the Empire was effectively over.

The battle was over.

Afterward, a command meeting was reconvened, but there were hardly any nobles from the former Kallin Empire.

Now, all that remained in the Kallin Empire were the neutral and Archduke factions, but the Archduke faction nobles had been annihilated in this battle.

Only some neutral nobles who had no choice but to participate and those who followed the Grand Strategist survived. It was fortunate that at least the staff officers were intact.

A heavy atmosphere hung in the air.

The Emperor, on the verge of unifying the entire continent, was here, so it was only natural that the atmosphere was suffocating.

“Grand Strategist.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

“You will lead the staff officers and serve as the Deputy Strategist.”

“I will obey your command!”

“The Strategist is my daughter here.”

“……”

Some of the staff officers wore bewildered expressions, but Soojung was someone whose status no one could ignore.

She was the First Princess of the Unified Empire and held the right of succession.

She was essentially a Crown Princess, so even if she was young, they couldn’t disregard her. Above all, they knew that all the strategies came from Soojung’s mind.

“Hahaha. I have heard much about the genius strategist. I never imagined she would be such a beautiful young lady.”

Some of the nobles exclaimed in admiration.

Soojung grinned and said.

“Heehee. I’m happy to have so many subordinates!”

“Haha, use them as you please.”

“Subordinates……”

The staff officers scratched their heads.

They seemed to have expected a grand atmosphere, but now that they had entered the heart of the Empire, they realized it wasn’t anything special.

Shwaaa!

Soojung spread out a map.

“Deputy Strategist Ahjussi [term of endearment for an older man]?”

“Yes, Strategist!”

“Soojung thinks we can just pass straight through to the capital. I’m going to call that the ‘High Pass,’ so remember it!”

“High Pass…… Understood!”

“Now, we’ll take the High Pass to the capital, but we need to station some troops! Our Empire doesn’t allow lords to hold military power, so keep that in mind.”

“Y-Yes, I understand.”

“Then, advance to the capital! Go go!”

“Go go?”

“It means let’s go quickly.”

“Ah, so that’s what it meant! Then we shall go go immediately!”

The full-scale southward advance began, and as Soojung said, most of the territories were a High Pass.

The neutral nobles had no intention of fighting in the first place, so they opened the gates, and since dozens of Archduke faction nobles had been purged, each territory was practically empty.

Occupying and managing the territories was easy.

Here, the number of troops gradually increased, and now it was close to a million. Of course, they were mixed and deployed in different units, and while some troops were left in each territory, the actual force advancing to the capital was about 500,000.

Of course, there was no territory that could stop these 500,000 troops.

And they arrived at the large territory near the capital, the territory of Marquis Kainer.

Marquis Kainer had already sent a messenger to announce that his knights and soldiers, as well as himself, had submitted to the irresistible trend.

Because of that, a grand welcoming ceremony was prepared.

“Waaaaaah!”

“Long live the Emperor!”

Even though the entire Kallin Empire must have been devastated, there was such a grand welcoming ceremony.

The faces of the territory’s residents showed hope.

In any case, there was plenty of grain left over.

They bought rice and wheat, which were about to be discarded in various countries, at bargain prices, and used the enormous amount of food to provide relief along the way.

They distributed about three days’ worth of food and created a creative economy by launching large-scale projects and distributing grain as wages.

The Empire would probably recover quickly.

I entered the lord’s castle and attended the banquet.

As a large amount of food was released, smiles bloomed on people’s faces.

It was ironic that the grains, which were several years old, tasted better than the grains produced here.

“Your Majesty! The war will soon be over!”

“That’s right! The continent will be unified!”

One by one, the nobles participated.

The neutral nobles were practically all under my command.

They had no doubt that the war would be over tomorrow.

Kainer asked Soojung.

“Princess! What do you think?”

“Huh? Soojung?”

“I would like to hear the Grand Strategist’s opinion!”

Soojung was engrossed in eating.

She had donut powder all over her mouth and a donut stuffed in her mouth.

Soojung, who drank a glass of milk and made a ‘캬’ [onomatopoeia for satisfaction] sound as if she had drunk a whole bottle of alcohol, said.

“It won’t be tomorrow, but it will probably be over the day after tomorrow.”

“Why is that?”

“Do you think the Archduke, who is about to lose everything, will surrender easily? He will resist to the end. He will probably use the people as shields, right?”

“S-Surely not.”

“Heehee. But since Daddy is here, it won’t last past the day after tomorrow, right?”

“Well, we can just assassinate him.”

“If we assassinate the Archduke tomorrow and enter the capital, we have to purge until the day after tomorrow.”

“Ah!”

Soojung set the point at which the war would be completely over as tomorrow.

Of course, if the Archduke died and the capital fell, the Kallin Empire would effectively be destroyed, but the problem was after the war, as the remaining territories had to be occupied and the system had to be established.

“Deputy Strategist, send an envoy to the Archduke.”

“Yes, Princess!”

“Then let’s eat!”

The Imperial Palace of the Kallin Empire.

The capital was literally stained with blood.

The central nobles finally revolted, and Archduke Lied mobilized his private soldiers and knights to deal with them.

While the enemies were advancing here, Lied was preoccupied with internal power struggles and eventually succeeded in purging them all.

As a result, he succeeded in creating about 100,000 troops, but the enemies were 500,000. And they were elite soldiers.

Lied was always drunk and had recently been taking hallucinogens, so he was not in his right mind.

“Your Majesty! The enemies are scheduled to arrive tomorrow!”

“Hehehe. Conscript them! Then we can stop them!”

“But the young men are already……”

“I’m telling you to conscript the old, the children, and the women! We will protect the Empire by sacrificing the lowly people!”

Lied’s eyes were bloodshot.

Even the staff officers trembled at the sight of Archduke Lied.

He was already out of his mind.

He had some cleverness and showed everyone new dreams, so even the knights who had sworn allegiance to him frowned.

If the power of the capital had not been concentrated on him, no one would have tolerated such a sight.

Another knight enters.

Chuck!

The knight snapped to attention and shouted.

“An envoy from the Crystal Empire has arrived!”

“An envoy!?”

“Yes! Shall I let them in?”

“Hehehe. Let them in! They too will be moved by the energy of this great Emperor and try to surrender!”

“……”

The nobles who had no choice but to serve him were filled with despair.

Even in this situation, he was not willing to let go of power.

He was clearly not making proper judgments because he had taken too many hallucinogens. If he were to behead the envoy, no one would survive.

Soon, a woman so beautiful that people’s eyes popped out appeared.

Although the situation was not good, all the nobles and knights momentarily revealed their lust for her.

She was a woman with a strange charm that went beyond beauty.

“The enemy Emperor has presented a woman to me! Hahaha! Look at this!”

It was incomprehensible that a woman had come as an envoy, but that was what the Crystal Empire was like. It was a country where gender equality was truly being realized.

“I am an envoy from the Crystal Empire, and I have come to convey the will of our Emperor to Archduke Lied of the Kallin Empire.”

“Hehehe. Haven’t you heard the news that I have become Emperor? I can forgive that much.”

“His Majesty has ordered that if you bring the Archduke’s head, the rest of you will not be held accountable. And if you open the gates and surrender, there will be no need to shed unnecessary blood.”

“……!”

Sparks flew in the eyes of the nobles.

However, there had already been a great purge due to the rebellion.

In addition, the Archduke, who had gone mad like that, was holding the nobles’ families hostage. As long as there were hostages, there was nothing they could do.

“What? It seems that your Emperor has gone mad? Did you think you could dare to bring down me, who is close to God!”

The situation was not going well.

What if the envoy’s head was cut off?

Then something really big would happen.

But the envoy was not at all nervous.

“Hehehe. I could assassinate trash like you here, but know that you are alive thanks to my master, who values ​​reputation.”

“Seize that woman!”

“Yes!”

The knights moved.

The nobles who were watching the scene closed their eyes tightly.

Koo-lung!

And at some point, the envoy disappeared from the spot.

“Uaaaah! Catch her! Bring that woman back!”

The Empire, which had endured the invasion of the Demonic Kingdom for 300 years, was preparing for its end.