Section 100 Compromise

"Hey, Ashu Rufate, it's really a pleasure to see you safe." Essim greeted him with a smile on his face. It didn't look like the two sides were in a war at this moment, but two friends met by chance on the road.

"Essin, what do you want to talk to me?" Ashu Rufat was unhappy.

"Oh, why do you always look so cold?"

"The night before yesterday, when you brought people to block me, you were not as enthusiastic as you are now."

"Is there any? That's just a misunderstanding. Well, I admit that it's not right for me, but you have to understand that people are in the world and cannot help themselves. At that time, I was just a matter of eating the king's fortune and loyalty to the king."

"The monarch you swear to be loyal to is not the thief Byron, but Her Majesty the Queen."

"All right, we all know that Lord Byron is much more important to me. Without that Lord, I would probably not even be able to meet the Queen, let alone accept the canonization from her. Without the little queen, I will only change to the host of the canonization ceremony." Essin replied with a smile.

"The negotiations you mentioned... aren't you talking about this nonsense?"

"Ah, of course not, in fact, I want to tell you a few things," Essin said. "Then let's make a deal."

"What kind of thing?"

"That's right. At this moment, all the grain warehouses in the city are guarded by my subordinates. Each warehouse has prepared fire-burning objects and can be ignited at any time. There is a cannon next to me, and there are three other cannons under my city. As long as someone ignites the fuse of any cannon, a big firework will be set off that will allow the whole city to see. My subordinates, after seeing this signal, will ignite all the grain warehouses."

"Do you know what the outcome will be?" Ashu Rufat asked. "Will Byron allow it?"

"Me? I will definitely die well if I do this." Essin replied. "As for Duke Byron... you may not know yet, Duke Byron has already evacuated one step ahead of time. Now there are only a few hundred subordinates left in the city. It doesn't matter if I die, my life is not worth much. It is a good thing if someone can bury me with me... But our little queen will probably get a royal city that is hungry. Maybe that's a small matter, maybe... that's an irreparable mistake."

"What do you want?" Ashu Rufate asked.

"What I want is very simple. That is...I think tomorrow at noon... in the morning, can I make a way out and allow my subordinates and my subordinates to evacuate safely?" Essin replied. "By the way, since the city has implemented martial law, the residents were ordered to be prohibited from going out. Although my subordinates are not large, I still asked them to form a cavalry team and patrol the streets every once in a while. I am sure that the civilians do not know that the city has become very empty... When the granary is ignited, there will definitely be no one to stop them."

Ashu Rufat pondered for a moment. "Tomorrow morning?"

"To be honest, I just delayed the time so that you would not have the chance to chase the withdrawn Duke Byron." Essin said. "If the Queen can make this promise to me in person, I can lead my subordinates to leave immediately."

"What if I would rather risk the food being burned to chase?"

"Ah, Ashu Rufat, I believe you won't do this? What will happen if you chase after him? Can you guarantee to kill Duke Byron? Of course it is impossible. He must have prepared a few fast horses for himself. Once the military situation changes, he will immediately escape on the fast horse, which is slippery than an eel. You may be able to chase and destroy the thousands of people around him. I admit this, but please believe me: you only have a slight chance to kill him. No gambler will participate in such gambling: the gambling cost is high, the winning margin is low, but the profit is very small. Accepting my advice will never suffer."

"How did I know you would... keep your promise?"

"I'm in the city," Essin replied. "Although my life is not worth a lot, you don't think I am a type of person who has long been determined to die, right?"

Ashurufate rode away, and Essin on the top of the city couldn't help but breathe out. Although Ashurufate didn't say anything, he knew that this adventure would win.

"Essin, do you think they will come to attack the cannon?" Clio asked in a slight sense.

"That's meaningless." Essin shook his head. "Dear Lord Cleo, one thing you know is that Essus Ruffatt also knows that even if he leads his army to pursue, he will not have much chance to kill Lord Byron."

"That's true."

"So he did this just a boring adventure. But then again, we have to be careful about this, so I specifically pretended to report the number of cannons."

"cannon……"

"In fact, there are only three cannons, and I say four. They will definitely determine the location of the cannons before attacking. If all cannons are found, sneak attacks are too risky." Essim replied. "Of course, the prevention measures of this trick are just better than nothing. However, based on my understanding of Ashrufate, he is not the one who will take this risk."

"But... they may also send troops in to attack the soldiers responsible for burning the warehouse."

"This is another detail involved. That is, they don't know our real forces... If there are too few people climbing over the wall, it will be troublesome if we find too many. In addition, there is a problem of time. Even if they do this, the battle will end at dawn. Why should they take this risk? Wait a long time before everything is solved."

"So that's it." Cleo said.

"The main reason is that our Duke's order is relatively simple. If someone endures it in one day, it will pass. If two days and three days are the risk, it will be too great."

"Essin, you are so far-sighted, it is beyond my expectations." Cleo replied. "When we meet with the Duke, I will definitely report all the details to the Duke."

"This is just a cleverness, no matter how you do, you can't compare to our Mr. Ash Rufate." Essin sighed softly. "If I were him, then I would never hide the fact that I was a magician and pretended to be an ordinary person. If I were him, after I escaped from the Falcon City with the little queen, I would definitely feel that I have done my best and will not risk going to the Guards to try to counterattack. This is simply a matter of escaping from the wolf's den and entering the tiger's mouth. By the way, Cleo, how do you evaluate this matter?"

"Soulless dying struggle," Cleo replied.

"Even if I struggled to death, I struggled a little after all." Essin sighed. "To be honest, I really hope that when I first showed up with him, I was not holding a small villa worth 50,000 Jin Oli. If I had judged him more correctly at that time, I might have been able to successfully pull him into our camp."

"Isn't he a Chaos Wizard? I heard that in order to escape from the royal city, he summoned a big demon to open the way."

"That was just a guess... Now it seems that it is really unlikely that he is a Chaos Wizard. In my opinion... Maybe he just learned the method of summoning demons from somewhere. Of course, I don't know much about magic, but to be honest, if there was a Groni magician who wanted to learn those Chaos Wizards... he might have many opportunities."

"Essin, it seems that you have a good impression of this Eshu Rufate? I remember you weren't like this in the past."

"It's changing your impression now." Essin replied. "It's a pity that he is in a camp that is doomed to fail..." He shook his head. "Although it's full of courage and admiration, there is no hope at all."

...

"General!!!"

Robin's voice was really loud, and Berel's hands were trembling, and the teacup in his hand fell directly to the ground.

"Robin... you scared me." It's hard to say whether Belle's frightening was pretending to be. If this was pretending, he really threw the teacup in his hand. If this was true, then he had no expression of frightened except the moment he threw the teacup off.

"General, you are in good health, but you are staying at home to pretend to be sick. This time, His Majesty the King asked you to attend an emergency meeting... You are so good. If someone knows that you are pretending to be sick, do you know what the consequences will be?"

"Shh...be gentle." Beller did not blush at all after being exposed by a normal person - well, actually, a long time ago, Robin knew that Beller was the kind of person who was so thick-skinned. "I just want to be lazy, why are you talking about those things that are so exaggerated?"

"But that's the imperial meeting!" Robin was angry for a moment. Participating in the imperial meeting hosted by the king himself was considered the highest honor of a noble, and it also means that this person has become the true core of the country's rule. But I don't know what was wrong with Berel's mind and actually retreated from illness - and it was a disguised illness. If you don't want to go to participate even if you are sick.

"I know what they are talking about. In fact, our king also sent me a copy," said Beller without regret. "You may have heard that... it was what happened to our neighbor Groney."

"You mean...that rumor? About that little queen..."

"Ah, that's not a rumor, it's true." Berel smiled slightly. "At the same time, now that magic communication is so developed, how can such a big thing be concealed?"

"The little queen launched a coup and drove the Regent... Duke Byron off the stage?"

"Although this is not the case, the final result is almost the same." Beller corrected. "In fact, it's a little more twists and turns. You know, it was Byron who launched a coup, and then the little queen escaped from the Hawks..."

"Anyway, letting the little queen escape is the root of all mistakes, and Byron is really incompetent." Robin said softly.

"I've seen him," said Beller. "It doesn't look like that kind of idiot...at least not that stupid. Maybe there is something hidden behind it. Maybe it's careless, maybe something unexpected happened. No matter what, the opponent is also the queen, and some secret methods are inevitable... In short, it can be confirmed that the little queen escaped, immediately ran to the military camp on the outskirts of the city, and pulled the guards to counterattack the royal city." When he said this, Beller showed an expression of not knowing whether it was sarcasm or sigh. "Then there was nothing."

"Duke Byron died?"

"No, escape. After the little queen escaped from the royal city, he knew what this meant, so he made the smartest choice in this situation. He fled the Hawk City with his men."

“Didn’t be pursued in this situation?”

"Escape early and fast enough, and sent capable subordinates to cut off the rear, and more or less won some time... Except for the normal personnel who escaped in the middle, they did not suffer any other losses and returned to his own territory."
Chapter completed!