There was a calm that ca after the visit from the Holy Empire.
Everyone knew that this was nothing more than the calm before the storm, but when the storm ca, it didn't co in the form that everyone thought that it would co in.
Instead of the Holy Empire initiating it, it was our kingdom that initiated it.
That was because everyone else was just too busy dealing with the monster waves.
So instead of them coming to us, we were the ones that ca for them.
As for who 'them' was, it was the kingdoms that were around our kingdom.
After so ti, the forr Midra Kingdom had basically been folded into our kingdom. It seed that most of the people of the forr Midra Kingdom were very happy that they had been taken over since the nobles of the forr Midra Kingdoms had oppressed them quite a bit.
Now that they were free from the oppression of the Midra Kingdom nobles, the people of the forr Midra Kingdom thrived.
At the sa ti, they were happy because we gave them plenty of food when they had been starving from the monster waves.
After raiding the stores of the Midra Kingdom nobles, we actually had plenty of food for not just the people of the Midra Kingdom, but also our kingdom. This had alleviated a lot of the pressure that we had been feeling and would last until the pri minister's plan ca to fruition.
At the sa ti, since the Midra Kingdom's territory had been incorporated into our kingdom, there was no longer a need for the position of regent.
But that didn't an that the forr second prince of the Midra Kingdom was abandoned.
The pri minister took the forr second prince under him and nad him one of the chancellors of the kingdom. Though he had this new title, his actual job was to be the pri minster's assistant.
The forr second prince didn't mind that since the two of them seed to get along quite well.
But in light of all this happening, I called the pri minister and the new chancellor of the left into my study.
"Let's crush the surrounding kingdoms." I said to the two of them as they looked at with curious looks like they were asking what was happening.
As soon as my voice fell, both of them had shocked looks on their faces.
They looked at with narrowed eyes for a mont as if they were trying to figure out if I was being serious or not, but I just looked at them with a calm look on my face.
After a long silence, the pri minister asked, "Why?"
It was a single word, but the aning behind this word was very clear.
There were a myriad of questions that he was asking at the sa ti, but he shortened it all into a single word.
It was the faith that he had in that I would understand just from this single word.
I looked at him without answering for a bit before suddenly saying, "Because the ti is right, because we won't get another chance like this."
The two of them knitted their brows once more before the pri minister asked, "Why now of all ti? I already said that we should have done this when the monster waves first started, so why are you deciding to do this now?"
I raised a brow to look at him without saying a thing.
The pri minister knitted his brows upon seeing this before saying, "Is the Holy Empire that much of a threat?"
I shook my head before saying, "It's not just the Holy Empire, I want to make sure that everything is fine before the other empires make their move. It would have been fine to do things in the dark while the other empires weren't aware, but the Holy Empire moving will make them aware. We shouldn't underestimate the empires, so we need to strengthen ourselves while we can."
The pri minister bit his lip when he heard this, but he slowly gave a nod of agreent.
But he didn't accept it right away since there was sothing else that he had to confirm before accepting.
"Even if we take down those three kingdoms, there's still the problem of taking care of them. If we try to do it with our current supplies, it will be impossible to care for all of the new citizens."
I shook my head and said, "There's no need to use our supplies."
The pri minister knitted his brows when he heard this before looking at with a serious look to say, "You're abandoning them?"
I could see the clear disappointed look that was in his eyes as he said this.
It was as if he couldn't believe what I said.
The chancellor also looked at with the sa look on his face.
I knew that these people cared deeply for the citizens and even if they were still currently citizens of another kingdom, they still cared for these people since they would beco our citizens in the future.
So if I were to really abandon them, they would feel that I had betrayed their trust.
But I had planned for everything.
"There's no need for us to take care of them with our own supplies. There's plenty of supplies in their kingdom to take care of them, but the nobles are too corrupt to share them in the first
place."
Both the pri minister and the chancellor knitted their brows even more when they heard
this.
They looked at like this for a bit before saying, "Are you sure about that?"
It wasn't that they were questioning , it was just that they didn't feel that this would be the case with how bad the monster waves were in the surrounding kingdoms.
But I had one thing in my na that I had confidence in.
My knowledge from the ga.
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