At the most dangerous moment, Gasson could not bear the pressure from the royal family and chose decadent enjoyment and rest.
In a sense, he no longer wanted to care about Roman's affairs. As long as the elite troops of the Aresei were protecting the palace, he could continue his life without any worries.
As he enjoyed himself, his servants corrupted him more and more...
When the time came to January 20th.
No royal figure was ever seen in the palace's audience hall.
At this point even the nobles, who were supposed to be the most calm, could no longer hold back.
They wondered if the Queen's "serious injury" was a smokescreen to shift the blame. They began to doubt the intentions of the Aresians. They believed that the current Roman royal family was no longer able to shoulder the responsibility of the entire empire. They wanted to see clearly and then shift the blame for the deaths of their relatives and friends onto the royal family.
When the nobles formed a noisy crowd and walked towards the palace, the imperial knights and the original palace guards did not dare to act rashly because of their status. They could only form a human wall to block their progress and persuade them kindly:
"My Lords! Please go back! The palace is under martial law now. We cannot let anyone in until His Majesty recovers!"
"We want to go and offer our condolences to His Majesty. How can you stop us from being loyal?"
One noble cursed in exasperation, and they threw all the tools in their hands at the knights' faces. The knights could only silently accept the humiliation of these nobles and use their strong bodies to prevent the invasion of these fat and strong men.
However, not everyone has a good temper like the Imperial Knights.
To those elite soldiers of Arese.
They accepted Prince Gasson's request to use their air rifles to protect the Roman Palace while having the power to execute any intruders at will.
Because of this, when a noble finally squeezed through the wall of knights and his foot stepped on the tiled floor inside the palace.
The Alesse opened fire with his air rifle.
Puff--
The unique sound of the airgun firing caught everyone's attention and silenced the entire corridor.
The body of the noble whose head was smashed by the steel ball fired from the air gun fell limply on the corridor. The blood and brain matter flowing out of the gap gradually stained half of the corridor.
The knights were stunned because they really didn't expect the Ares people to obey orders and open fire directly.
The nobles were chilled because they really didn't expect that someone would actually shoot at them.
They were all looking at the corpse of the noble, and just as they were stunned, Arese's soldiers lined up in the rear, with their air rifles aimed at the backs of the knights, or to be more precise, at the crowd of nobles that the knights were blocking.
"We have received orders to execute all intruders at will," said the commander of Arese, biting his cigarette. "You are the nobles of Roman, but to us, you are just intruders of Roman's palace - you can come in and complain, but before you complain, we will follow orders to send you to hell."
The people of Alese really didn't expect that there would be a day when pie would fall from the sky.
Originally they were worrying about how to reduce the influence of the Roman Empire nobles. As a result, when they arrived, not only were most of the nobles in the Roman capital killed in the attack by the Isgardians, but Prince Gasson of Rome was so stupid that he actually allowed them to enter the palace and gave them the authority to shoot invaders at will.
Even if they were nobles, as long as they did not have permission to enter the palace, they were obvious invaders and could be shot.
This gives the people of Arese unparalleled convenience.
It also made the people of Ares realize that the Roman queen had disappeared.
(It seems that the breakup of the Roman Empire is inevitable.)
The people of Ares all thought that it would be great if they could kill a few more nobles in such an occasion.
But the Roman nobles were not brave at all. After one of them died, they fled even faster than when they came.
It's amazing that they can still use words like "pure loyalty" to show their courage!
The Alesse sneered and returned to his work.
During this period, the Aresians carried out a series of law enforcement actions against the nobles.
The Roman nobles finally couldn't stand it anymore.
Unlimited bounty at the end of volume 4!
@@@@=W=As everyone knows, with each chapter of Hilmi having 8K words and 3 updates a day, Hilmi has already paid off the 20+ over-due updates from the last unlimited bounty!
So this time, Hilmi still uses the same rules as last time—
According to Hedgehog's standard of updating 4K per chapter and 8K for two chapters, 8K per chapter is Hilmi's standard daily update volume, and the remaining two chapters of 8K are equivalent to the amount of 4 updates by most authors!
In this case, after updating one chapter of 8K daily, Hilmi will use the remaining two chapters of 8K to repay the owed updates. According to the standards of Hedgehog Nest, one chapter of 8K is equivalent to "repaying 2 updates"!
So - Hilmi is going to offer an unlimited bounty again in the New Year!
The criteria this time are;
500 votes + one chapter with 4K words updated;
100 monthly tickets + one chapter with 4K words updated;
10,000 rewards + one chapter with 4K words updated;
100 Blades + One Chapter 4K Word Update;
A golden box of happiness + 20 chapters 4K words update;
A silver box of happy ending + 5 chapters and 4K words update;
And there is no upper limit! =W;
[Anyway, based on Hilmi's 500,000-word update per month, I should be able to finish it this month... ]
[So Hilmi is not panicking at all! Mimi!]
Chapter 1: Roman is torn into countless pieces, Ishgard's dilemma 8K
February 1, 006 of the Imperial Calendar.
In the actions of the nobles, Roman was divided.
Its division came faster than anyone imagined. Perhaps it was because of the disappearance of the little queen, or because of Gassen's inaction as the last member of the royal family, or because of the black dragon's attack on the noble district of the royal capital, or because of the Aresians' move into the Roman Palace to take on the responsibility of defending the palace, which was a major event that damaged the country's reputation...
In short, under many influences, the Roman Empire broke apart.
If Yang Hao was at a gathering of the Restorationists in the suburbs, he might subconsciously say "This is more divided than the Holy Roman Empire!" when looking at the map in front of him.
But since the others were not here at the moment, the nobles could only look at the colorful map in front of them with sad faces and fell into deep thought.
“It was really unexpected.”
The members of the Restoration Party did not live in the aristocratic residential area of the royal capital, so they did not suffer too much damage in the previous black dragon attack.
But even so, they really underestimated the actions that the other nobles would take if their relatives and friends died under the dragon's breath.
They originally thought that even if the Roman Empire was divided, it would still be divided into four categories: nobility, royal family, parish, and military district.
The dioceses fought against each other, the military districts guarded the borders, the royal family stood in the capital and surrounding towns, and then the nobles, led by the Restoration Party, occupied other noble territories.
Although it sounds confusing, overall everyone should be sure that there are four major regions, so there should be only four colors on the map...
But what is the reality? In fact, even the members of the Restoration Party have divided themselves into two leaders, the western and the eastern, not to mention the other noble groups with their own ulterior motives!
Their division has resulted in the map of the Roman Empire now being painted with more than twenty colors!
Moreover, these twenty colors are not harmonious with each other, they are divided, and... they may become more hostile to each other!
"Let's not talk about the parishes that are fighting each other... The ranchers in the west and some of the nobles in the west formed the "Pastoral Council", the mine owners in the east and some of the nobles formed the "Mine Council", and then the other nobles formed independent alliances for their own small groups, and they would also fight each other because of family feuds or other reasons...
This is really too chaotic! If we add the rebels in the central region...
The entire Roman Empire is in chaos now. How can we stay united in this chaotic situation? It's impossible!"
The nobles present laughed bitterly. Yes, how could they remain united in this situation? It was impossible!
When the Roman Empire was still intact, even if the nobles had feuds with each other, they would not show it too obviously.
Even if they wanted to kill each other, they would choose to be patient and cooperate with each other as necessary due to the imperial laws and the authority of the royal family.
But now the Roman Empire is broken, the Queen is missing, and Prince Gasson has used the Imperial Knights and the Alessians to protect his palace and has stayed indoors.
With the royal family's dignity completely destroyed and like a drowned dog, and the nobles seeking independence for their own benefit or out of resentment... who can expect these nobles to cooperate as they did before
We were able to cooperate in the past because we were still a family to the outside world.
But now, we are not a family anymore. We can use fists and butcher knives to deal with people who raise questions, so why should we cooperate with the rotten eggs on the other side? Instead of just killing their whole family? !
Now it’s good. Once the nobles with feuds became independent, they wielded the butcher’s knife against their former compatriots, and those nobles with strong power even used their own strength to kill their enemies or opponents they disliked after the split...
The civil war between the nobles intensified, consuming the country's already limited resources.
When the famine had not yet been alleviated, they used the flesh and blood of the enemies to fill the stomachs of their own farmers, and then they still found ways to buy fresh food from the coastal areas of the military zone to enjoy.
If we have to say who the nobles would not go to war with, it would probably only be the military district and the ranch council.
Because only they can provide food before the crops are harvested. But this is not absolute...
After all, the Mining Council is already very dissatisfied with what the Ranch Council did... The two largest noble alliances might go to war in a few days... What should we do then
This is really bad.
This is really too bad - if the Roman Empire used to have the possibility of collapse due to foreign invasion, then now, before the foreign invasion, the Roman Empire will collapse due to internal strife among its own people.
This is really too bad—
A few drops of cold sweat dripped down the faces of the nobles present. It didn't matter if the country collapsed due to internal strife, but the problem was that if the collapse of the country would cause them to be buried with it, then it would be really fatal.
The several small nobles who attended the meeting looked at each other in bewilderment: they had originally thought that they could use normal means to split the Roman Empire into four parts, so that His Majesty the Regent would come back to protect their interests...
Who would have thought that the structure would crack like this!
Their sighs were endless. And at this moment, someone suddenly said tentatively that if everyone continued to fight alone, they would definitely be slaughtered bit by bit. Instead of dying in obscurity and feeling extremely aggrieved, why can't we unite now and work together
Just like those aristocratic alliances, only if we unite can we have a chance to survive in this troubled world!
The nobleman's speech immediately won everyone's approval. They discussed it and finally decided that the alliance members could not kill each other, but must help each other and have a clear division of labor. Then a new independent faction appeared in the central area of the Roman Empire.
They called themselves the "Central Noble Alliance". Although this force was not as strong as the Ranch Council and the Mining Council, at least after they united, they occupied the important towns in various places. It can be said that they also had the right to make demands on the territory of the Roman Empire after the division.
Meanwhile, in the military district, General Dreshuka had no intention of resolving the uprisings that were spreading across the country.
He also had to communicate with the ranch meeting, asking them to build a stone wall on the vast grassland to prevent the invasion of barbarians, but this request was rejected without any suspense.
The reason for the ranch meeting's rejection was very simple: We have a large plain here! You said building stone walls in various villages and towns is fine, but you want to build a four-meter-high stone wall across the entire plain
This thin stone wall alone is enough to drain all the resources of the current ranch meeting, and you still require it to be at least one meter thick
General Dreshuka, I don't want to be too rude, but now even the poor in the empire know the scarcity of resources. Do you think we are rich now and have the spare energy to deal with the so-called "threat from the north"
Faced with the reply from the ranch meeting, General Dreshuka was silent for a while, and finally ordered his troops to prepare for the expedition.
"Although it's impossible to build so many stone walls, it's not difficult to dig a four-meter-deep trench... These nobles only think about the civil war, not knowing that the barbarians in the north are our biggest enemies - I must get rid of them all, only in this way can I legally build the Great Wall belonging to the military zone on their land."
In the current situation of the Roman Empire's division, General Dreshuka is an extremely rare person who has self-awareness and a sense of the overall situation. But it is meaningless for only him to understand the overall situation.
After all, the best he could do was to display his military talents - he couldn't politically make these short-sighted nobles surrender, so the only thing he could do was to resort to violence...
For the time being, let's just treat it as the screening and training of new recruits -
General Dreshuka looked down at the current equipment ratio of the new recruits on the roster. He sighed heavily and muttered subconsciously:
People from Alesse have been coming here more and more frequently recently.
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In the Roman capital, the number of Aresians guarding the Roman palace has increased from one thousand to three thousand. After the last incident, when the Imperial knights suffered heavy casualties and the palace guards could not be replenished for the time being, in order to ensure his own safety, Prince Gasson had to ask the Aresians to send more troops to protect himself and his palace.
The people of Ares were naturally extremely pleased: because the more land forces they stationed in Roman Empire, the easier it would be to annex Roman Empire in the future.
However, they were also very clear that they had to do more than just send troops, so after accepting Prince Gasson's request, Alesse's servants asked Prince Gasson to give up part of the interests of the mine on the grounds that "the Queen is missing and the marriage is cancelled."
According to the contract, if the Arese army can assist the royal family in suppressing the rebellion in the eastern mines, then Arese will take more than 70% of the minerals from the mines as a reward, and this is an unfair clause that will last for 50 years.
But in return, the people of Arese will support the legitimate rights of the Roman royal family. If necessary, Arese will send more troops to ensure that the Roman royal family will be saved...
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Arese intends to train the Roman royal family to become their "agents". Once the Arese people's plan succeeds, the Roman Empire will be completely destroyed and will never be restored.
But Prince Gasson no longer cared about that.
He was already powerless to change the situation. With the help of his servants, he managed to spend a few days happily and carefree. After completely giving up the entire empire, Prince Gasson only hoped that the people of Arese could protect his palace and his life so that he could enjoy his life.
"Because I have completely lost - I can't reunite the entire empire, I can't sit in that position, I can't be that target! I don't want to be that target!"
Gasson's hysterical roar made the nobles who supported him look at each other in bewilderment. But he was right, whoever sat in that position now was doomed to be hated by everyone.
Gasson didn't have the courage and ability, and those who had the courage and ability had already been sent to the coffin by him.
So Gasson had no choice but to accept all the conditions of the Arese people, and his move undoubtedly won the joy of the Arese people.