episode_0058

Meanwhile, when Onora was walking on the path to success, there was a person who was looking at her with envious eyes. His name was Felix.

Felix is a 17-year-old boy from the West who was abandoned at the door of a church as a baby and spent his childhood doing odd jobs at the church. As he got older, he realized that he had a special talent and joined the military to get ahead.

His strengths were his quick calculation of numbers and his calm personality. Felix was confident. He said he would be able to calculate 7-digit numbers even when his life was threatened. Of course, that doesn’t mean anything will help you survive.

Then one day, a miracle happened to Felix.

“Fe, Fe, Felix! What did you do!”

Felix was taken aback by the knight’s sudden shout.

“What do you mean?”

“I’m asking what kind of accident happened!”

“I stayed in the barracks for several months. Because I didn’t have a home, I gave up all my vacation. What kind of accident would I get into?”

“Then why did His Excellency Count come? That’s also the power of the Mayer family!”

“Ma, the Mayer family?”

The Meyer family was not just a count family, but the actual powerhouse of the Krusenstein family. Someone like that came? The barracks must have been in chaos.

“Yes! Franz Mayer, the head of the Mayer family, has come to visit you!”

Only then did Felix realize the seriousness of the situation. Meyer. Franz Mayer came to visit. Franz Mayer was the third-in-command of the Krusenstein army, the strongest in the world. In other words, it was a being in the distant sky. Why would such a high-ranking person treat himself as lowly? Felix held onto his pounding heart.

“Well, what should I do?”

“I don’t know what you did, but go and pray! Please forgive me! Did you understand?”

“Yes, yes!”

The knight grabbed Felix by the back and dragged him away. Soon Felix arrived at the reception room. There, Franz Mayer was leisurely sipping tea after being served cheap herbal tea that did not go well with the oriental tea that was an heirloom of Baron Malcolm, the head of the barracks.

The driver brought Felix, and Quartermaster Felix was instantly in front of the military’s leadership and the country’s number three.

“Fe, Fe, Felip!”

Felix bit his tongue as he tried to speak. It was because of excessive tension.

“You are Felix?”

“That’s right… ”

“Your tongue will hurt, so let’s skip the courtesy. Please answer only yes or no.”

“Yes, yes!”

“Are you thinking of quitting the military and working under me?”

“… ”

A question mark appeared above Felix’s head. What on earth does that mean?

“Quit the military and learn a job under me. I promise you success.”

“Yes? But what abilities do I have… ?”

“Don’t you know that best?”

there was. ability.

Aren’t you a mental arithmetic genius who can quickly calculate even extremely large numbers if you put your mind to it?

“Do you really guarantee me success?”

“Of course. How successful you are is up to you.”

“… ”

Felix looked at Baron Malcolm. Baron Malcolm nodded desperately, as if urging him to quickly accept. Felix lowered his head at a 90 degree angle towards Franz.

“ and… I would like to.”

“Good. Then let’s leave right now. I enjoyed my tea, Malcolm.”

“A, Your Excellency! Are you leaving already?”

“Staying there for a long time will only make the soldiers uncomfortable. For someone like me, it’s for everyone’s best interest to leave quickly.”

“But… ”

“Thank you for the good treatment. I will send you the promised items soon.”

The promised item was money. Franz had offered to give him money if he would hand over Felix to him. Thanks to this, Baron Malcolm instantly received a large sum of 500 ducats for free.

“Thank you, Sir! Please come again!”

“If I get the chance. Okay then. ”

Franz left, taking Felix with him. Felix was still dazed.

Felix asked on the way to the Mayer family’s temporary residence.

“Your Excellency, how do you know me and why do you want to hire me?”

“There is a saying in my hometown: The awl in your pocket is bound to be noticeable. People with special talents are bound to stand out even when they are still.”

“But am I really that talented?”

“What… There is someone better than you when it comes to talent.”

Felix was just puzzled by those words. So why did you choose yourself over someone better?

“Mr. Felix. Talent and ability are important, but there is something more important than that.”

“What is it?”

“That’s… ”

Rattling. Felix could not hear the next words because the wheels of the carriage were hitting the stones and making a loud noise.

Felix asked again, saying he couldn’t hear the carriage because it was so noisy, but Franz just laughed.

—–

Franz Mayer did not simply hire Felix. Felix planned to make him his disciple.

When Franz returns home, Lucille takes over. And Felix assists Lucille, who will be busy without Franz. That was the plan.

That’s why Felix was given a tutor. Felix’s talent is at the top level in the worldview. Of course, he was not an all-round general who was as good at everything as Onora, but at least his political stats were 97.

A person who will become an outstanding civil servant with leadership 50, military strength 27, intelligence 91, and politics 97. That was Felix, and if taught well, he could have risen above this.

‘You can just order your subordinates to fight. The important thing is that Felix is young and talented.’

Age was an important factor in choosing disciples. What are the advantages of being young? The answer is simple. It meant that there were many days left to live.

Franz was prepared. He said that one day he would have to return to Korea. And after he returned, Leona and Lucille would be in quite a bit of trouble. This is because he was in charge of many roles in the Kruzenstein army.

Therefore, Franz decided to prepare for what would happen after he left. It was about finding and nurturing talented people.

If there was such a person, there was Onora. But Oh No-ra was eliminated in an important respect.

‘tenacity.’

Oh Nora was a person with great talent in terms of worldview, but unfortunately, she had an unstable mentality. However, if he had a good personality, it wasn’t particularly so. He commits numerous massacres of civilians in the story. Of course, I and Leona also massacred civilians, but Onora’s massacre was malicious and intentional.

Yes. Oh No-ra is a failure in terms of personality. On the other hand, what about Felix? He remained loyal to the person who gave him money until his death, and even after the person he gave his money to died, he remained loyal and kept his will until the end. Felix was a kind of scholar-like figure.

That’s why I chose Felix over Onora. The most important aspect of being Franz’s successor was personality.

‘I hope Felix will take good care of Lucille even after I leave.’

With that in mind, I decided to give Felix professional training as a tactician. If possible, I wanted to take her with me and teach her step by step, but I couldn’t afford it, so I left it to someone named Evelyn Spencer. He was also Franz’s teacher.

After assigning tutors to Felix, I decided to check this month’s schedule. There was a lot of busy work this month.

One of them was Leona’s accession to the throne. Leona was crowned king in recognition of her contribution to enthroning the emperor. König der Könige. He was to be crowned the highest of all kings.

Accordingly, the Balboa family and the Meyer family were also scheduled to be crowned dukes. We would enjoy power like never before.

—–

By order of the emperor, a person from a lowly family was crowned the throne. Leona’s ascension to the throne was a significant event, as there had been no such case for 200 years.

As a result, Leona uses this matter thoroughly politically. Leona wrote letters to the princes of each country in the emperor’s name. The preface was long and decorated with a lot of rhetoric, but the gist of it was this.

[The king has been sealed in the name of the emperor, so the princes of each country must have an audience with the newly sealed king and offer him gifts.]

The preface was delivered to all countries of the world in the name of the new emperor Blasia I.

In response, Johannes von Albrecht, the loser of the East, looked at the letter, called a servant to bring him paper, and wrote a reply right away. However, what was written in the reply was unfortunately not recorded in history. This was because Krauss, Albrecht’s bookkeeper, saw the reply and immediately tore up the letter, saying, “If you send this, our family will be ruined!”

In the end, the Albrecht family did not reply. However, the Carter family, the losers of the West, were different. Edward Carter, the actual head of the Carter family, saw this and immediately sent a reply.

[The head of the Carter family will come to Seoul with gold and silver treasures to offer to the Krusenstein family.]

Other families sent agents instead, but the Carter family decided to send none other than the head of the family to have an audience with Krusenstein.

Of course, this was largely politically motivated. The Carter family also planned this plan for their own benefit.

The plan was that the Carter family would first pretend to bow to Kruzenstein, and if Kruzenstein attacked Albrecht, Carter would take advantage of the moment when Kruzenstein and Albrecht were tired of each other and attack them in the back.

Of course, Leona was not unaware of this, but from Leona’s perspective, the arrival of the head of the Carter family was in itself equivalent to acknowledging her hegemony, so it was not a loss at all.

So, when the day of the coronation ceremony arrived, there were only two forces that did not participate in Krusenstein’s coronation ceremony.

They were the Albrecht family and the Sthenian family.

In other families, the head of the family came directly, or even if he did not send the head, he sent the head’s children or at least a vassal. Along with a lot of gold and silver treasures. But Stenia and Albrechtman simply ignored Leona’s letter.

On this day, Leona makes one decision.

They attack families that do not recognize their authority first.