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Golden Knights.

If the triple wall that protects the empire is the shield of the empire, the Golden Knights are the sword of the empire that slays the empire’s enemies.

It is the strongest knight order in the empire, and each of its knights is a strong man who has reached the rank of Sword Expert.

The Golden Knights are considered to be inferior to even the Grand Duchy’s proud Giant Legion in close combat.

Philip falls into despair when he sees such a group of monster knights appearing and running toward his rear.

“… Such a crazy archduke… How dare he move the emperor’s soldiers into the territory?!”

Manipulating the emperor’s military according to one’s own wishes is a serious act of exceeding authority, even if Devian possesses the emperor’s power.

Although no emperor in the past has ever supported one side in a territorial war and provided support with money, there have only been a few instances in the long history of an empire where such support was provided with troops, and they usually remained in history under the name of tyrants.

Therefore, although it is not written in law, the emperor nominally advocates neutrality.

Devian’s actions now are crossing a line that no noble can tolerate.

The emperor and his vassals have a strict contractual relationship, and for the emperor to intervene in a war in which there are mutual justifications and a war in which a noble god directly chooses the winner is an act that all nobles in the empire would do.

However, I feel deep anger at the Archduke’s foolish and nonchalant actions.

‘You despicable bastard! ‘Don’t think that the imperial faction and the neutral faction will remain silent.’

“Damn… But there are mercenaries in the rear…”

Philip, who has been in war for a long time, knows how hard it is to trust mercenaries, but at this moment, he places his hope on them.

“Reserves! Everyone, protect the wizard in the rear!”

There is a bit of distance between the reserve unit and the magician in the rear, but Philip hopes that if the mercenaries give him a little time, he will be able to hold out to some extent…

“Haha…”

I grit my teeth as I see the mercenaries leaving the battlefield.

***

“Look over there! Captain.”

At those words, the man holding the halberd looks behind him.

“That’s… the Golden Knights?”

The Halberd mercenaries, known for their bravery on the battlefield, click their tongues when they see the knights wearing fancy armor.

“Tsk tsk… Why are they here?”

“So? What should I do?”

The leader of the Halberd mercenaries is lost in thought.

‘What is it? I was planning to stay on the opposing principality’s side for a while and then withdraw if I felt like I was going to lose.’

However, after seeing that the opposing principality was doing better than expected, he changed his plan because he thought he could sack the big city of Win.

“What can I do, I have to jump out.”

“Is that so? Actually, it makes no sense to fight against human weapons.”

The captain nods his head at those words.

“It’s a little unfortunate that my credit is falling, but life is still more precious.”

The vice-captain nodded at those words.

“That’s right. Still, I’m glad. Because I took a lot.”

When they are actually hired, they receive a down payment and a weekly settlement, so they have a lot of money and are thinking about leaving without any hesitation.

“That’s right. Let’s take a break until the rumors that we jumped out subside.”

At those words, the vice-captain nods his head and shouts in a loud voice.

“Now! The entire army retreats!”

At those words, the infantry guarding the rear began to break away from the line.

The Halberd mercenaries retreating like that.

***

Philip watches in fascination as the mercenaries in the rear retreat and falls into despair.

Philip quickly looks at the front lines as he sees the magic troops starting to run away in fear and the Golden Knights chasing and killing them.

“Damn it! What are the cavalry at the front doing? Have we still not defeated the enemies?!”

At that time, several cavalrymen from the front line rushed to Philip’s camp.

“Your Excellency Commander, this is an order from General Goering to report the war situation and receive new orders.”

Philip gets angry at those words.

“What do you need to receive new orders?! Shouldn’t we attack right away and destroy the enemies?!”

When Philip, who normally has a gentle personality, speaks angrily, the messenger speaks as if he is afraid.

“Well… That’s… There are so many spearmen in the enemy’s rear that it’s really okay to attack…”

At those words, Philip again feels like he was hit on the head with a hammer.

‘Could it be… that they were aiming for this… and deliberately exposing their weakness?’

In order to gain momentum, all units that could move were deployed.

Normally, we would have used the reserve force to deal with this, but now the reserve force is…

We are putting all our efforts into stopping the Golden Knights.

‘Wait… what are the reserves doing now?’

Looking to the rear, the Golden Knights are mercilessly slaughtering our magicians and quickly running towards our cavalry and spearmen to the east, avoiding our reserves.

“Haha… damn…”

Our spearmen begin to run away one by one due to the overwhelming force of the Golden Knights.

The cavalry tries to stop the knights, but it seems that the empire’s strongest knights are not fake.

He easily breaks down the friendly spearmen and begins to crush them.

‘What should I do? This will soon free the enemy’s cavalry.’

Philip realized that if time wasted, the enemy’s rear would be cut to pieces and the battle line would collapse, and he thought of a way to overcome this situation…

‘There is no way.’

Close your eyes and try to figure out where you went wrong.

If we had fought in the Franciscan Corridor, we might have suffered less damage.

Although they were at a disadvantage and could not maintain their numerical superiority in the narrow corridor, they would have responded appropriately since they could observe all of the enemy’s actions at a glance in the narrow space.

‘Or, if I hadn’t fallen for the enemy’s plan…’

In addition, the enemy’s cavalry attacked us in an attempt to prevent our cavalry and spearmen from moving.

The real attack was the Golden Knights.

‘Since the Archduke is holding the Emperor hostage, should we have expected him to move the Golden Knights?’

But even all the nobles in the empire would not have expected it before the war.

Because what Debian did was crazy.

Because only a tyrant can personally wield the sword that protects the empire.

Philip, looking at his allies starting to run away, is worried.

‘We must give a retreat order now.’

-Ugh…

“Retreat!, Retreat!”

When Philip gives the command, soon a large horn fills the battlefield.

“Retreat!”

When you so vainly fall into your own defeat and despair.

The Golden Knights are heading here.

“Everyone get on the horse! Everyone get on the horse!”

The anti-communist generals who hurried to speak like that.

At that time… everyone became confused as they saw a knight riding a horse holding a long spear in one hand.

A short woman with flowing red hair.

She approaches here at high speed, slaughtering friendly cavalry.

“Me… Princess Mary?!”

“Why is that monster here?!”

Everyone falls into despair upon learning of Princess Mary’s overwhelming inaction.

***

A letter from the Grand Duchy.

When the results come slowly.

When I carefully lift the letter, I see Mary’s seal.

Surely…you didn’t lose?

If you lose, you might lose everything. It is a grand duchy and has enormous debt.

“Phew…”

With a slightly trembling heart, I open the envelope and read the letter.

-Sreuk… Tak!

When I heard the contents of the letter, I jumped up from my seat and stretched my hands high into the sky.

“I won!, I won!”

An overwhelming victory.

“Of course, Agrippa! I believed you, Slave No. 2!”

I knew it in my head, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried until now.

“Puhahaha! I won!”

-dump.

When you sit down and cheer like that.

-Slap!

“Honey, why are you smiling so frivolously? What’s going on?”

Theodora coming through the door of my office makes me feel very welcome today.

-Flutter!

“It’s a letter from Win! We won!”

Theodora’s eyes widen in surprise at my words, but then she smiles brightly.

“Of course! You are amazing!”

“Hehe! This is thanks to Agrippa and you!”

I truly believe that it is thanks to Theodora who moved the great general Agrippa and the Golden Knight commander William.

“Haha! Now we can solve fertilizers, information departments, and investment funds all at once!”

This time, the financial circles of the Empire, United Kingdom, and Babylonian Empire have no choice but to reap huge profits.

“Now then, shall we make a plan? Go see Lucius and ask him to call Ka, because I have a very important matter to discuss with him right now.”

Theodora nods her head with a gentle smile at my words.

“Yes.”

***

Victory of the Grand Duchy.

As the news begins to spread, financial markets around the world fluctuate.

-this! Shit!

-The opposing principality faction clearly won!

-This life is ruined. I guess I’ll have to go to the Tiber River…

Numerous investors and institutions have purchased anti-duchy bonds so far.

Among them, investment companies and financial companies that sold call options were in despair and had no way to resolve the issue.

-What… what do we do with the call options we sold this time?

-G… Buy the Grand Duchy bonds on the market right now, no matter how much they are! hurry!

Panic…

In order to resolve the call options sold by panicked financial institutions, they began to purchase the Grand Duchy’s bonds in circulation.

It’s natural for them.

High prices began to be set to somehow purchase bonds in line with the call option contracts purchased by Pieta Company.

-No… a 1 million gold bond is worth over 2 million gold?!

The price of the Grand Duchy’s bonds, which were skyrocketing day by day, began to rise without realizing that they were sky high.

And before I knew it…

Financial companies fell into despair as they saw the 1 million gold bond rise to 3 million gold.

-Damn it… it’s bankruptcy!

-Who on earth is buying a 1 million gold bond for 3 million gold? Are you crazy?

-Yeon… I heard that the United Kingdom now has over 3 million gold!

The financial sector is in despair.

A huge financial institution that is scrambling to prevent contract default and bankruptcy by purchasing bonds at ridiculous prices.

On the other hand, small financial institutions that tried to make a lot of money through Pieta Company’s foolish behavior can do nothing.

There is already a shortage of Grand Duchy bonds circulating in the market.

This is because they do not have the financial power to compete with large financial institutions.

Financial institutions that fail to keep their contracts… must pay huge compensation.

-Haha… Our company is now ruined.

-Same goes for us.

If there were financial institutions in despair, those who trusted and invested in the Grand Duchy until the end, like the Pieta Company, earned astronomical amounts of money.

Bond prices have tripled in less than a month.

Screaming with happiness, they are now happy to sell all their bonds on the day before Pieta Corporation exercises its rights as the contract expires.

Some are despair, some are happy.

But they don’t know anyone.

Pieta Company led all of this.

The owner of the Pieta Company is Devian Ryan.