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It was quite common for orders from above to be interpreted amplified by those below.
This is also well revealed in the history of the empire.
When a commander orders, 'Initiate a force reconnaissance with an eye on engagement,' it is bound to be an 'invasion.'
When Bishop Hong of the church ordered, "Recently, the number of cult members has increased, so think of ways to strengthen people's faith," the heresy investigators stirred up trouble everywhere.
When the Archduke Valencian said, 'We must send as much wheat and barley as possible to the north,' in the center and south, requisitions bordering on exploitation took place.
so.
“Surround the entire fortress! Dig trenches and deploy troops to the western rear as well.”
“Send men to the battleships to bring in the battlemages. They will use large-scale destruction spells.”
“Prepare the Book of Earthquakes. In the worst case scenario, we must completely destroy that fortress!”
“Engineers. Build a rotating catapult. To save the wizards’ mana, we will use the stones of the castle walls as projectiles. Make sure they can rain down without stopping.”
“All knights except the officer knights, follow me. We will begin a reconnaissance of the force together with Sir Tentia. This is to ensure that the siege is not attacked from the outside.”
“Prepare your smoke spell. We will use the catapult to break down the wall and pour toxic gas and smoke into it.”
It was only natural that the order given by Cariosa, “Keep the fortress well surrounded,” changed through word of mouth to “Destroy the fortress, drag out all the bastards hiding inside, and tear them to pieces.”
The knight who delivered the order realized that the situation was unfolding differently from what he had heard.
'Isn't this it?'
But there was no one to stop the officer knights and the fighting knights.
This is because Tentia, who had been listening to the orders together, wanted to show off her overwhelming dancing skills.
She tried to protect the pride of the central knights against the eastern knights who were swarming everywhere, and the eastern knights tried to protect the pride of the east in their own way.
“I am the ‘Sword of the Sea’! I collected 300 heads in this battle! How many people did you kill, Lord Tentia?”
“It’s the ‘Blue Shark.’ In this battle, I beheaded the admiral-level Eastern pirate, Blue Yoo. Who did Lord Tentia kill?”
“‘Shark’. In this battle, I killed twelve mercenary wizards and five devourer wizards. Which sinners did Lord Tentia kill?”
“His Royal Highness the Duke of Valencian, the knight of the Red Knight, Tentia. I killed the pirate admiral Oungula and 200 pirates. I killed about six mercenary magicians, and two of them were devourers! I think I’ve done the work of one person.”
It was a knightly provocation that said you didn't do even one person's share.
The battle knights began to scout the force and explore the rocky mountains, shouting for their servants to bring horses and spears.
Cariosa's adjutant, Officer Knight Jules, who was originally supposed to stop it, wanted to show Tentia his true worth.
“Is the rotary catapult ready?”
“Yes, sir! The assembly is complete. All that’s left to do is push it up.”
“I ordered the ballista to be modified to shoot rocks. What’s the situation?”
“80% done!”
“What about the battle mages and reagents?”
“Everything is ready. Senior Knight ‘Manta’ is in charge of the escort.”
“Good! Then prepare to attack!”
A school of sharks bared their teeth in front of a rock fortress overlooking the city and harbor.
Massive catapults and ballistae, modified crossbows that could hurl stones, stood ready to repurpose the ruined walls, battlemages trained solely for House Asenortha prepared their destruction spells, and the most brutal knights in the East stalked the crag, destroying, killing, and burning anything that looked suspicious.
"firing!"
Thirty catapults and thirty modified ballistae simultaneously fired rocks.
Boom! Boom!
The stones clashed with each other, making a loud noise.
The rock fortress was strong enough to withstand all-day pounding, but Officer Jules had a knack for finding places where bricks had been reinforced.
“Shoot a single arrow containing luminescent reagent at the brick wall! Aim the catapult at that!”
No matter how strong a wall is, if it is repeatedly hit by rocks larger than an adult's torso, it will crack and collapse.
Then the battle mages fired their purple-glowing 'spears of power', and the crossbowmen drew their fire arrows into the shattered fortress.
“Fire! Fire! Fire!”
In front of the fire arrow was a cotton ball soaked in numbing medicine and oil, which gave off smoke containing the numbing agent as it burned.
Although the wind sometimes blew in the opposite direction, the wizards who served the Daughter of the Storm changed even the direction of the wind.
“Kill them all!”
And so the siege of the fortress began.
* * *
The room at the end of the narrow spiral staircase was made of stone from floor to ceiling, and contained a few hanging oil lamps.
The atmosphere was more suited to monks than pirates, but those sitting around the table in that room were pirate admirals who had once made the seas tremble.
Boom! Boom!
The fortress shook and dust rained down from the ceiling every time a huge rock flew and hit it.
Every time a speck of dirt poured down on their hats and hoods, the pirates who had been called admirals let out a deep sigh.
“Comrades, we are finished now.”
“I am paying the price for stealing someone else’s bread to fill my stomach.”
“You crazy bastards! Are you still playing noble? Are you out of your mind? Cariosa is going to kill us all!”
Some still spoke in an old-fashioned tone, while others reverted to their original, vulgar tone.
The Pirate King Aquila remained silent, wearing a wide-brimmed, ornate captain's hat and a blue coat.
His lover, Pagin, looked at him with worried eyes.
“Your Majesty. How about surrendering now? If we negotiate about the geography of this island and the location of the village, we might be able to obtain a pardon.”
Beneath his wide-brimmed hat, the Pirate King's face was deeply wrinkled.
Aquila's eyes, always full of ambition, were wavering.
Page also knew the true nature of those gathered here.
They were pirates to the core, men who had no qualms about betraying, plundering, murdering, and raping.
The man she loved was also of the same nature.
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however.
“There is no surrender, my lady.”
He who calls himself king has chosen to reject his true nature.
“I was born a pirate, but I will live as a king.”
He was not a naked beast, but a pirate king wearing an ornate breastplate, a navy coat embroidered with gold thread, and a captain's hat.
The pirate admirals each gave their own reactions to the king's conclusion.
Some people nodded curiously.
“Your Majesty, what you say is correct.”
“I have no regrets because I have lived my life doing everything I wanted to do.”
Some people were so scared that they were pulling out their hair.
“You guys are crazy! You guys are complete bastards!”
“Do you want to hang on a flagpole until you become undead? Do you want to have your soul eaten by the old things without being able to go to heaven or hell?!”
Aquila looked down at them all and slowly raised a hand.
“Come in.”
The door opened and Inyoung came in, wearing a blue hood over her head.
The part where his face should have been visible was pitch black, and his body gave off a sweet yet fishy smell.
The advisor who was suspected by everyone as a corruptor, the Violet Priest.
The pirate admirals frowned at both the main and the surrender factions.
“Purple Priest?”
“You’re alive.”
“I thought you’d run away first and then get your throat cut?”
“Why did you come here?”
Aquila's lover, Pagin, even asked why she had come.
Although he should have been shocked by the treatment, the purple priest continued speaking as if he didn't care at all.
“I am proud that the generals have made up their minds to fight to the death.”
“We don’t want to hear things like that…….”
“I have brought both the Allies and the way to survive, so listen to me for now.”
If it were true, the reaction would have been something like, “Are you kidding me?”
But the fact that he was the first to warn of Valencian's danger gave some weight to the words of the loathsome being.
Page clicked his tongue and snapped angrily.
“Okay, I got it. Just say something weird.”
The purple priest bowed his head slightly towards her.
“The alliance with the fish people I mentioned earlier has been prepared.”
"what?"
“They are waiting in the underground secret passage, so you can leave this fortress under escort. After that, we will break through Cariosa’s siege through the passage they have prepared.”
It was a declaration like explosive magic.
The pirates' reactions were divided into three.
“What kind of people are these? Those people-eating monsters are here?”
A person who starts a fight just by hearing the word 'fishman'.
“What do you mean, an underground secret passage?”
Those who question the existence of secret passages.
“I’m alive! fu*k! I’m alive!”
A person who jumps for joy while holding onto a rope that has risen from the sea.
Aquila calmed them down by lightly slamming the table.
“My lords, we have found a way to survive. Although we will be leaving our castle for a while, we will definitely return with a splash.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
“Wherever His Majesty is, there is the capital.”
“Wherever we have a ship, isn’t that our kingdom?”
Those who wanted to live quickly took over the majority, and the pirate admirals rose from their seats in joy.
Then one admiral, still sitting in his seat, asked:
“Your Majesty, what will happen to the immigrants and settlers who remain on this island, the subjects of our colonial enterprise?”
A stern gaze was turned towards Aquila.
Aquila answered in a commanding voice as if it were a given.
“My subjects will make heroic sacrifices to buy me time to retreat and preserve the national system. I express my deepest condolences in advance.”
The admiral's face hardened, and Aquila smirked and drew her sword.
“Ahh!”
Choaaaak!
As blood spurted and soaked the walls, Peijin frowned and looked inside the purple priest's hood.
'I didn't even know there was a secret passage.'
No one asked how the fishermen were brought in or what negotiations were made.
'Maybe I'm not asking. I want to believe that this is a real opportunity.'
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The eerie sound of a catapult rang out again, and dust fell from the ceiling.
Page closed his eyes tightly and clung close behind Aquila.
'Me too.'
* * *
Aquila and the Purple Priest descended into the fortress dungeon.
As I cleared away the wooden planks that had been placed in my path and lightly tapped on the wall, the strange seaweed that I thought was stone split left and right, opening up a path.
'It's not a natural cave. There are traces of artificial construction. Come to think of it… … I don't know who built this fortress either.'
Page realized the truth as he looked at the high ceiling, the pickaxe marks, and the barnacles.
'So the fish people lived on this island too.'
As soon as I turned the corner of the cave, they came into view.
"hello?"
“It’s been a while.”
The Violet Priest and Aquila raised their hands in greeting, while Page and the pirate admirals held their breath.
"ha ha ha."
“How many people?”
“There must be forty.”
They were tall and imposing, their entire bodies covered in armor-like blue-green scales and their hands and feet had webbed feet.
Its face was like a sea bass, its back had spiny fins, and although it wore no armor, it was armed with a harpoon and a sword.
They were fish-eating sea monsters, warriors of the fish tribe.
Among the warriors were several sorcerers who were a head smaller than the warriors.
They were clad in purple scales, carried coral staffs instead of weapons, and carried baskets of reagents.
Swish, swish.
Also, there were giant, red-faced creatures with octopus heads and tentacle-bearding beards that crawled on all fours on the floor.
They had tough bodies covered in rusty armor and carried very sharp crescent-shaped swords on their backs.
They were the guardians of the fish tribe who protected the sorcerer.
In the lead, a red crab as big as a carriage raised its claws as big as a spear and blew foam.
He was a warrior in crab armor who could cut through the road and withstand attacks.
“Chwieeeek.”
“Karuruk.”
“Shh, shh.”
Fish-headed cannibalistic monsters greeted the pirate admirals.
Pagen received the greeting with a feeling of faintness.
"haha……."
They were descendants of aliens who had adapted to the sea and their relatives, the fish people.
“Then let’s go. We don’t know when the fortress will be breached.”
The purple priest was flanked by a fish-man sorcerer and an aquila on his left and right.
“If you go down here, you will come across a rough coast. We will wait until night and then go down to the Southern Serpent Archipelago.”
“You can’t swim that far?”
“I’ve prepared a few turtles. They’ll be enough to ride on your back.”
“What about the Dragon Reconnaissance Unit?”
“What are the chances of finding a few heads in the night sea on this rainy day?”
“Yes. Even if Cariosa is the daughter of the storm, she can’t defeat the fish-people at sea. Hahahaha.”
Pagean clung closely behind him, feeling inexplicably anxious.
At that moment, I heard a voice that I shouldn't have heard.
“……I’ll sweep it all up and have a nice meal together!”
The once leisurely purple priest's body became stiff.
“……This can’t be happening.”