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A decisive battle for the fate of the empire (7)

The moment Jennifer was knocked unconscious by Yuno, Eliza also took the victory by slightly cutting off the arm of Count Kashu, who she was fighting against.

“Surrender. The Count knows very well that you have no chance of winning”

“Not yet… Not yet…!! I haven’t lost yet!!”

Count Kashu did not admit defeat and increased his momentum by raising all the mana in his mana hole, but when he saw Yuno, Isabella, etc. trying to surround him, he was shocked and stopped his movements.

“Ugh… We’ll see, you traitors!!”

In the end, Count Kashu turned his gaze to some of his direct knights and left the battlefield with them. Kurimu fired an arrow filled with the power of the spirit, but as if he still had some strength left, he blocked the arrows aimed at him. They defeated everyone and returned to base.

When Count Cassu fled, other knights in Heinrich’s army who were not directly under his command surrendered to Juno, and Juno accepted their surrender, filled them all with magic spheres that were mana seals, and instructed his knights to escort them to the main base.

“Phew~ Thank you for coming, Sister, Mari, Kurimu, and Miruku. I wasted so much time with Viscount Amin that I almost put Eliza and the teacher in danger”

“It’s okay. But maybe that’s why we caught Master Jennifer safely”

Isabella patted Jennifer, who was wearing a magic suppressing arm, with her foot and comforted Yuno, who was blaming herself.

“Anyway, it was really scary. No, I only felt this level of magic from Miri who was running wild. How can a human have this much magical power?”

“Of course. No matter how much of a genius Master Jennifer is… there is a limit to human magic. It’s ridiculous that the four of us rushed in and achieved an even level”

Even Kurimu was thrilled by Jennifer’s magical power and shivered for a moment as if she had goosebumps.

“Cluck cluck!! I think that’s probably because Jennifer extracted the life force from the boys”

“Count Richtenauer! Are you okay?”

“Master!! You must have come to your senses!”

Eliza and Marie rushed to Lichtenauer, who was coughing and waking up, and helped him up.

“Count Richtenauer. But extracting life force? Is that possible?”

“I don’t know if it’s possible with magic, but Jennifer said earlier that the secret to becoming young while fighting God was stealing the source of mana from people. It is presumed that it rejuvenates the body and amplifies the magical power”

Isabella tilted her head in response to Lichtenauer’s answer.

“But… Master, there was a way in which she was a bit revealing about men, but it wasn’t to that extent, right? Why did it become like that?”

“I’m curious about that too… Although I was a bit selfish and self-righteous from a young age… I wasn’t the kind of person who would commit such an evil act. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have gotten married”

Marie next to him smiled sinisterly at Lichtenauer’s stern appearance.

“If you just look at her sleeping, she looks really pretty. Hehehe, but no matter how divorced you are, I have seen your wife become younger. Do you have any regrets, Count Liechtenauer?”

“There is no such thing. Although we initially met and got married through the introduction of His Majesty, we did not have love for each other”

“Ugh! Marie! Even though you know that Count Liechtenauer is dating one of Prince Prinz’s maids?”

“Oh, that’s right! Was it Maria? She was tall and quite a pretty maid~ But there is a huge age difference, right? Maria is now 23 years old, so there is a difference of almost 30 years, right?”

When the topic suddenly changed to his love story, Lichtenauer repeatedly cleared his throat.

“Hmm!! Your Majesty Yuno! This is a battlefield! There is no time for this!”

Juno also seemed to come to his senses after hearing Liechtenauer’s words, and after asking Liechtenauer to escort the subdued Jennifer and Viscount Armin to the main camp, he raised his head and looked at the battlefield.

“Isabella, please use loudspeaker magic. Marie, you are the spirit of the wind, lift me higher”

“Wow, I’ve exhausted all my magic power, but really~ You really can’t do it without this sister, right? Giggling. Instead, should I give it a try tonight?”

“Oppa, me too!! I’ve been saying I’ve been preparing for war lately, but I’ve been missing your dick so much~”

“I understand. It’s been a while since we’ll both be doing a lot tonight, so don’t worry about that and do it quickly”

At Yuno’s urging, Isabella cast a loudspeaker spell and Marie attached the wind spirit, and Yuno’s body soared high into the sky.

“Phew~ This should be enough. By the way, it looks like our main base suffered some damage… Heinrich’s army also suffered quite a bit of damage… Still, it’s fortunate that the left and right armies of both armies are fine”

Because he had made a promise to the imperial army’s corps commanders before the battle, Yuno, who did not want the imperial army to suffer damage that would lead to its annihilation, decided to surrender the enemy soldiers.

Therefore, in order to convey what he was saying to the entire battlefield, Yuno raised his voice by carrying mana down his neck.

“All soldiers, listen! I am Juno Alexander Windrage von Balkan, Third Prince of the Balkan Empire! Heinrich’s army’s trump cards, Count Kashu, Viscount Armin, and Magic Tower Master Jennifer, were defeated by my hand!!”

When Yuno’s cry was heard that the two masters and the archmage were defeated, Heinrich’s army began to murmur.

‘What? Are you saying that all the masters were defeated? Plus the magic tower lord?’

‘Isn’t that a lie? Count Kashu is the second strongest master in the empire!!’

‘No, I saw Count Kashu returning to the base looking like a mess earlier. Besides, it looks like Viscount Amin and Jennifer haven’t even returned.’

Certainly, the roaring noises that had echoed throughout the battlefield just moments before had completely stopped, so the soldiers of Heinrich’s army began to hear Juno’s words with increasing credulity.

“In particular, soldiers who served in the 1st, 4th, and 5th Corps will know this well! What I did to capture Streve! How did Yuno sacrifice himself for the empire!! You too will know that! Am I the kind of person who would betray this empire? Is this Yuno the traitor to this empire!!”

At Yuno’s shout, the imperial legionnaires stopped fighting and only looked at Yuno, and naturally the Prinz army also stopped fighting and looked at Yuno.

“I, Yuno, swear on my name! The person who betrayed the empire is not me or Brother Prinz, but Heinrich, who is currently calling himself emperor!! The man who assassinated my father, Karl III, who led the empire to its glory, and took the throne is a true traitor to the empire!!”

Yuno continued to speak as the imperial soldiers looked on.

“What is the current state of the empire? What does the empire led by the corrupt emperor Heinrich look like? Mad with power, he handed over the Plain of Zenon to Tesseito to attack his brothers, resulting in a serious food shortage throughout the empire. Even though the harvest season has passed, the people are starving, refugees are popping up here and there, and the imperial army is not receiving proper supplies!! Think about whether you are loyal to that corrupt emperor or this Balkan Empire!!”

The failure of the Imperial Army to receive proper supplies was more largely due to Mayer’s army’s bluster, but the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps, who had to march with only 1/2 of the regular rations each day until a week before arriving in the eastern region, They began to actively respond to Yuno’s speech.

“His Royal Highness is right!! We will follow His Highness Yuno from now on!!”

“The Emperor Henry, who handed over Streve, which we occupied with blood and sweat, for free, is the real traitor!!”

“We must follow His Highness Yuno and strike down that corrupt emperor!!”

‘After all, food is what motivates the soldiers… You will have to pay the price for neglecting the most important supplies!! Heinrich!!’

Yuno smiled at the sight of the 1st and 4th corps and accepted their oath of loyalty.

Several lower-ranking commanders who saw the incident tried to stop it, but the soldiers who started to run away were violent.

In the end, the 1st and 4th corps on the left and right turned their spear points in the opposite direction at Yuno’s speech, while the capital corps and 3rd corps in the center turned their heads back and forth in embarrassment.

The 3rd Corps, which came down here from the Eastern Front without much difficulty thanks to the Windrage Army’s control of the Leon Kingdom Army, and the Capital Corps under Emperor Heinrich’s direct control received intensive supplies even during difficult times, so Juno’s speech did not make much of an impact, so it was the tip of the spear. It was hard to believe that the ally had turned it the other way.

“Hey guys!! Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

“Shouldn’t we all work together to defeat the enemy? If you push the enemy center just a little harder, you can win!!”

Despite the words of the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps that tried to persuade them, the spear tips of the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps did not waver at all.

“Now our army has no master or archmage, so how are we going to deal with His Highness Yuno, the master?”

“Since there hasn’t been a battle in the past 10 years, you don’t know the difference between an army with a master and an army without a master?”

“If you want to die, die alone. You idiots!!”

“This is the true path to loyalty to the empire!!”

The reason why the 1st and 4th legions surrendered to Juno was partly because they clearly remembered Juno’s majesty in breaking down the castle gate alone at Streve.

Still, the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps did not attack the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps, which had been allies just moments before, and the Prinz Army also stopped its attack with Yuno’s connivance, so the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps were able to safely retreat to the base.

*Illustration of Kurimu coming down from the sky to save Yuno