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In the palace where everyone has disappeared-

“Can you explain it to me now?”

At Luna’s words, Jinor nodded slowly and said.

“… … Assuming that what Luna said is true, let’s start by talking about the path our army can take to victory.”

With his eyes closed, Jinor recalled Swen’s confident claim that “our army will lose” during the Battle of Hispil Castle.

Swen’s reasoning was very interesting, especially since I’ve never seen anyone tell a story that way.

And the biggest reason Lunalian was so sure she would win was because ‘Swen said so.’

Finally, Swen insisted that Luna, and no one else, was the one to become the unified monarch.

then.

If the constant that ‘the Lunarian army will win’ in this battle is absolutely unchangeable―

What on earth has to happen to achieve our goal of victory?

Backtracking to a rational outcome.

It was a type of reasoning he had never done in over 60 years, but now all he could do was to do as Swen had done – to ‘deduce the process from the result’.

“Please explain.”

“If we win, it means we have defeated a large army of 200,000 men. Do you understand this?”

Luna nodded slowly.

Even at this moment, there was no fear or worry in her eyes. Rather, she was extremely calm and composed. As if she was certain that she would win.

“The way to defeat 200,000 is simple. Either confront them with more troops than 200,000, or fill them with better-trained, quality soldiers even if they are a little short. If there is one thing in common between these two cases, it is that the number of troops fighting on our side ‘increases’. In other words, it is safe to say that reinforcements are coming into the war.”

“… … !!”

Luna, who had been maintaining her composure, showed a slightly surprised expression when reacting to the word ‘increasing’.

Jinor doesn’t miss it and stabs the spear named Question straight in.

“Does anything come to mind, my lord?”

“… … .”

The place where the straw is.

There was.

Long ago, two mercenary groups that had sworn allegiance to him, handed over all their troops to the Lunarian army as advised by Swen.

The Chilean Mercenaries and the Raven Mercenaries.

It had been a long time, and there were many things that were right in front of me, so I hadn’t really thought about it… … but if reinforcements were added to our army, it was true that I couldn’t think of anyone else besides those two mercenary groups.

Well, wouldn’t it be possible for troops to suddenly fall from the sky to fight for our army?

Luna nodded slowly with a determined expression.

“Yes.”

Hearing those words, Jinor wiggled his eyebrows.

“If there is a place that can be identified, then of course that is where the battle will be fought. If there is no place that can be identified, then it could have become a much more complicated problem… … .”

In fact, if the problem had become more complex, it would have been extremely difficult for him to even make an imperfect deduction.

Unlike Swen, who possessed knowledge of the game, Jinor was a character who lived in this world.

Calculating the possibility of a natural disaster relatively freely would have been difficult without the unique ‘sense’ of a person from another world.

No matter how wise Jinor was, he couldn’t easily come up with such absurd thoughts as ‘Is there an earthquake?’

Of course, he also thought about natural disasters –

With a high probability, for a natural disaster to be favorable to our military, it would mean that an event would occur that would not cause any damage to our military at all, but would instead inflict damage on the enemy’s 200,000 troops… … It may not be possible to say that the probability was 0, but since it was infinitely close to 0, it would be inefficient to think in that direction.

So, naturally, the balance of this battle would shift in our favor – that was Zinor’s conclusion.

“Anyway, the former case here can be seen as an extremely difficult condition to achieve. In order to gain an overwhelming advantage in a battle with 200,000 troops, and even with someone as powerful as THAAD, you need at least 250,000 troops… … It would be difficult to suddenly increase by 150,000 troops. ”

“Then… … ?”

“Probably the latter – I think it would be right to see a force slightly over 200,000, or rather, just barely approaching it. There is an added condition that they received good training… … In any case, assuming that they are excellent elite soldiers, a battle of 170,000-180,000 against 200,000 would not be completely impossible. So I’m asking… … Can you tell me exactly what the ‘pointing point’ is?”

“Of course, I can explain it to you.”

Luna explained everything to Jinor about the Raven Mercenaries and the Chilean Mercenaries.

As soon as Jinor heard the story about the two mercenary groups, he looked at Luna in shock, his eyes widening.

“I see… …So the Raven Mercenary Corps and the Chilean Mercenary Corps swore allegiance to Lady Luna.”

“Yes.”

Two mercenary groups known for their bravery have pledged their allegiance to the small nation of Lunalian.

Although it was the result of my own calculations, I couldn’t help but be surprised at this point.

If they could just send in at least 30,000 troops – we could really have won.

The enemy’s morale would immediately drop as they were surprised by the unexpected reinforcements, and even Sade and Cecil, who thought they would win easily, were likely to make a momentary error in judgment.

Of course, Staff Sergeant Vanessa could have remained calm – but in any case, from our military’s perspective, isn’t it a huge achievement that a ‘battle that could never be won’ has become a ‘battle worth trying’?

No. It is not a ‘battle worth fighting’. If the two mercenary groups really join our army as Lunalien says, this battle will be an absolute win.

Because Luna believed so. Because she had no choice but to believe so – because Swen insisted so.

“Anyway, if reinforcements join, the interception force will naturally have to clear out 200,000 troops. Since we don’t know the size of the reinforcements, my lord, I think we should leave only the minimum number of troops to defend the castle.”

Luna nodded slowly after hearing Genor’s explanation.

“I understand. Thank you for explaining.”

As he said that and looked at Luna, who was bowing down, Jinor was overcome with a strange emotion.

I thought about just letting it go, but since he was my master and I had to serve him in the future, I didn’t want to just leave it at that, so I insisted on asking the question.

“I… … This may be extremely rude, but.”

“Please feel free to ask me anything.”

“At first, I thought you asked for an explanation because you needed a basis to convince me of the opinion I presented… … But when I look at your appearance, I start to think that whether you are convinced by my explanation or not is a secondary issue.”

“Is that so… … ?”

“Yes. I’m not saying that it’s offensive or anything… … I mean, isn’t it possible that my opinion is wrong? But, since you didn’t ask about that at all… … .

Upon hearing that, Luna closes her eyes and places her hand on her chest.

And then, slowly opening his eyes again… …he looked straight at Genor.

It almost felt like her ruby eyes had flashed for a moment.

“I don’t doubt Genor’s advice.”

“Yes… … ?”

“To be precise – if you think about how Jinor came to be ‘here’… … I am sure Jinor’s words are not wrong.”

“!!!”

Only then did I understand what Luna was talking about.

The reason Jinor came here – because Swen sent him here.

And, Jinor had already revealed this fact to Luna in order to gain her trust.

Luna looked at Genor’s surprised expression and said with a faint smile, as if she had guessed something.

“I… …trust the bookstore.”

Her eyes, which did not look anxious or nervous at all, but rather, were completely calm and confident that everything would turn out as it should――

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“Attack!”

“Don’t miss the gap! Fire simultaneously!”

――The moment the two mercenary groups actually joined in, it flashed before Jinor’s eyes once again.

Indeed, I was right.

No. To be exact, Jinor knew very well that what I said was not true.

The reason she was able to come to such a baseless conclusion was because she believed the story of Swen, the only strategist Luna trusted, that ‘Lunarien Iniang is the one who will become the unified monarch.’

‘good!’

Jinor immediately realized the size of the reinforcements.

Instead of Lunalian standing at the forefront and fighting with his sword, it was the job of Jinor, who held the title of national strategist, to lead the troops from behind.

“Please find out the exact situation and report it!”

Soon, the soldier began reporting to Zinor.

and.

Something, things started to turn strange,

“Two mercenary groups have joined as reinforcements! The Raven mercenary group has 20,000 members, and the Chilean mercenary group has 25,000 members!”

‘……huh?’

In this part, Genor’s prediction was wrong.

A total of 45,000 people.

It was by no means a small number – roughly 130,000 to 200,000, but the difference in forces was difficult to overcome, no matter how many elite soldiers the two mercenary groups had.

If the value that must win is constant – this number was inadequate no matter how I looked at it.

‘Could it be that there are additional reinforcements?’

But, the two mercenary groups that Luna mentioned have already joined… …?

Or is there something more I don’t know about?

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At that time, Jinor was grasping the situation in that way.

Naturally, the opposing Karelian army also began to understand the situation.

“These rat-like guys! Where did they disappear to? They went to this weak country!”

As he said this, Sade quickly grasped the situation.

‘The number of archers is around 50,000 to 20,000… … I think. How many are there on that side?’

The enemy reinforcements, identified in this way, quickly reached Vanessa’s ears as well.

‘So that means there are about 40,000 people in total… … That’s okay.’

Although we were surprised by the sudden reinforcements, we were confident that we would be able to win.

“Everyone, don’t panic! We’ve only added two mercenary groups! Don’t forget that the battle situation is still overwhelmingly in our favor! ”

Lunalian Inian.

The reason they mobilized such a huge number of interceptors in such a arrogant manner was probably to surprise us with reinforcements… … But that’s as far as it goes.

At that very moment, when Vanessa, having made that judgment, was about to quickly order the entire army to charge.

“Eww!”

“Run away!”

“… … ???”

Suddenly, several soldiers who had been at the forefront began to run quickly in this direction.

“Stop! Where are you going! Don’t you know that deserting the front line is a felony punishable by death under military law!!”

Despite Vanessa’s words about their lives, the uncontrollable number of troops began to run away.

At that time, I couldn’t even figure out what was going on –

――Kwaaang!!

A loud noise was heard, and everyone’s attention, including Vanessa’s, was drawn to it.

And the scenery that came into her sight was――

‘… … !!!’

Vanessa has a gut feeling.

This moment will forever be the nightmare of the Karelian Army.