Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

The retainer closed his eyes and left the mansion.

And again, after some time, he returned.

It is packed with salt in a wooden box.

He was guilty of daring to question the advice of the chosen race.

– You insulted me.

This was the reason he listened at the cost of his vassal’s life.

“insult?’

is that an insult?

what insult?

Svein and Ibela couldn’t understand.

The one they served was an elven prince.

How dare, who? Would you insult a noble person?

‘for a moment···.’

Something suddenly popped into Ibela’s mind.

‘Edar.’

She asked the duke and vassals gathered in the office.

“Has anyone heard of Edar?”

“Edar? Why did he suddenly…?”

Asking why, the duke widened his eyes.

his intuition whispered.

Where did you banish Edar?

Where is the land that Sudret gave to the prince of the elves?

“Send people to the frontier village right now! Edar, find out what the hell he did! And bring them right now!”

However, it was never revealed what Edar had done.

Similarly, Edar never returned to Sudlet.

The person sent by the duke crossed the border and lost contact.

No matter how many times I sent, no one came back.

The news of the jokjok sending people was cut off.

‘What did the bugs do!’

At this point, the suspicion was accepted as fact.

How many senders did they all betray?

Everyone was sure that Edar had a hand in it.

What was the reason for using your hand, would you have used your hand if you were confident?

His vassals were furious and complained that they had to send troops.

“It’s not an accident! It was a dirty trick!”

“This is an insult to the Duke!”

“We must reveal the truth in detail and ask for the guilt!”

Just as the duke began to seriously consider sending out troops, word came that the northern lords of Wallochia had invaded the Great Plains and were severely defeated.

‘what?’

And soon followed the news that a human lord of the Great Plains had conquered northern Wallochia, and that lord’s name was Edar of Sudret.

‘That lowly thing?’

That Edar, who didn’t treat even the lowest-ranking servants of the mansion as human beings?

Conquered northern Wallachia and became Marquis?

Everyone was shocked by the incident beyond understanding.

‘how? How did that happen…?’

The call to send troops was heard.

Not because I was afraid, but because I couldn’t understand.

What happened to Edar to make such an achievement possible?

They couldn’t understand it with their common sense.

“…First, let’s check the situation a little more.”

The duke took a step back.

I knew that Edar was the eye of the hurricane.

But is the typhoon really a typhoon that sweeps away everything?

I couldn’t decide if it was a typhoon in a teacup or not.

The duke decided to wait until the situation became clearer.

In the meantime many have been sent to grasp the Great Plains and Northern Wallochia, and they met the same end as their predecessors.

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Time passed by like that.

Short spring came after winter, and long summer came after spring.

And it was one day when autumn made its face at the end of a long summer.

Drums rang on the border between Oroko Great Plain and Germania.

Dung- Dung-

The castle lord of the fortress, who had been soaked in alcohol since broad daylight, stood up.

The sound of drums resonating throughout the fort drove my intoxication away.

“What a fuss! Who dares to play drums at will…”

“The enemy!”

“what?”

Seongju blinked at the desperate soldier’s cry.

From the watchtower, a boo— and a horn blew.

It was the sound of announcing readiness for battle.

“This, what…?”

enemy?

It can’t be, it’s an illusion.

This is the border fortress of Germania.

It was a border fortress facing the Great Plain of Oroko.

What enemy is on the Great Plains attacking the fort?

Seongju climbed the wall, questioning himself over and over again.

“…!”

And he opened his eyes.

The plain spread before his eyes.

There really was an army on the plain.

An army was approaching from the Great Plains.

The number was well over a thousand.

“Ta, isn’t it a defector?”

The soldier standing next to him stuttered and asked.

“Is that a defector?”

In an instant, I thought it might be.

But hope soon turned to despair.

Their behavior is revealed as they get closer and closer.

Even from a distance, their clothes were not rags.

It was a regular army better armed than the garrison of the fortress.

Dung— Dung— Dung—

The sound of the drums grew louder as the troops approached.

Every time the sound echoed through the fortress, the castle owner shuddered.

It was a fortress inherited from his father because he was the lord of the castle.

I will protect the border, there was no such will.

I had never even thought that the fort would be attacked in the first place.

Even in my father’s generation, I had never been called out.

“Why… why now? why?”

Seongju stuttered to himself.

I don’t know the identity of the army in front of me,

I don’t know why the army appeared in front of the fortress,

I might be able to fight them.

‘Impossible…’

The number of soldiers stationed in the fort was around 200.

A poorly trained and poorly armed group.

Of course, the ability to fight was not at all.

ridge-

The drumming stopped.

At the same time, the army stopped walking.

A distance where arrows shot from the fort would barely reach.

As if aiming for this, the troops lined up in an orderly manner.

Seongju gulped and swallowed.

“Oh, oh come!”

The soldier in the watchtower trembled and shouted.

Three men on horseback approached the gate.

“Oh, where are you from?”

Seongju asked with a trembling voice.

It was a stupid question.

Who doesn’t know that they came from the Great Plains.

However, due to their nervousness, the lord of the castle and the soldiers did not realize this.

“I’m from the Great Plains.”

The man in the middle smiled and replied.

“Why, why, why are you here? I know where this is…”

“I am Edar Lundlingen. No, Eddarda of Sudret.”

Edar?

Edar of Sudret?

A thunderbolt struck in the mind of the lord of the castle.

It brought back memories I had forgotten.

Edar, the eldest son of Sudret, and the illegitimate son abandoned on the plains.

And isn’t it the great lord who conquered northern Wallochia?

Seongju’s face turned white and his body shivered like an aspen tree.

“Go and tell your master, the Marquis of Loesene. The abandoned child wants to return to his hometown, so open the way.”

open door

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“You still haven’t heard back?”

Sister Rachel raised her voice.

She put her hand on her waist and looked up at the top of the castle wall.

The castle lord shook his head on top of the tall castle wall and replied.

“Yeah, that’s right. There is no answer from home country yet.”

“Did you really send it? Did I inform the Marquis of Loisene that we were passing? Do I have to wait a few more days?”

“Just a little longer… please wait a little longer.”

At Rachel’s scolding, Seongju avoided her gaze and refused to answer.

She glared at him, then sneered and turned away.

After the rain, he walked towards me stepping on the damp dirt floor.

“It is a lie. I am deliberately wasting my time.”

“I guess so. They are waiting for help to come.”

I smoked a cigarette and looked at the top of the castle wall.

Her eyes met the man Rachel had just spoken to.

He moistened his parched lips with his tongue and his eyes trembled violently.

It was clearly terrified, so I laughed.

“father-“

Rachel whispered.

“no.”

I hung up before she could finish talking.

“If you insist on punishing them for lying and conspiring, don’t do it.”

“but.”

“Rachel.”

She pursed her lips.

I patted her and looked behind her.

A plain on the border between Oroko Great Plain and Germania.

There was a temporary camp built a few days ago on that plain.

‘Family 300, conscripts 6,000.’

The number of soldiers staying in the garrison.

It was the army I mobilized to head for Sudret.

On the other hand, the number of guards on the wall was hundreds at most.

Even that level of armament did not look very good.

As Rachel said, if you push hard, you will be able to surrender on your own.

“I wish I could have brought more.”

But she smacked her lips, saying that it was too little.

“more? What are you going to do by bringing more here?”

“yes? Are you sure you’re fighting? Wallochia has also been virtually finished, so I’m going to grab Germania right now—”

“no.”

I shook my head.

“Of course not. The purpose this time is different from when I visited Wallokia. I will do my work in moderation and come back, avoiding fights as much as possible.”

“…moderately?”

I asked while looking at the garrison and me alternately.

Even Calliope tilted her head slightly to the side.

It’s because he said it after mobilizing more than when he caught Vlad.

No matter how you look at it, the word “moderate” doesn’t quite fit.

I smiled.

“Why did people like Pasimea and Gerhard not attend?”

Because there will never be anything like the visit to Wallochia.

“mmm…”

I even smoked tobacco.

I was now on the border of Germania.

Germania was waiting in front of the fortress built on the border.

The reason, as you can see, is that there is no pass permit.

‘They must be gathering an army.’

The reason for the delay in permitting passage was obvious.

Because Germania knows me well.

Who am I and what have I done in Wallochia?

‘An illegitimate son who was cut off from Sudret conquers the northern part of Wallochia and returns as a vassal, mobilizing an army.’

Oh, are you? And where is the person who will open the territory?

At least you should have the power to pressure me so that I don’t eat anything else.

If not, what if I suddenly change after entering the territory unprotected?

This was the reason Seongju held out that he had not received a reply.

‘If it was Wallochia, I would have ignored the border and crossed over.’

I looked at the fort again.

The walls of the fortress were really high.

A height that even ten adult men cannot reach.

A wall of this height surrounded the entire border.

‘The border was clearly defined, but if you ignore it and cross it, it will be a war. I don’t have to fight anymore.’

Germania was a country on a different level from Wallochia.

Wallochia left the border with Oroko Great Plain to nature.

What did the armies of the northern lords pass through when they crossed over to the Great Plains?

It was just passing the river created by nature.

It is the boundary and border that separates the Great Plains from Wallochia.

‘Even though Germania is a kingdom, it’s not called an empire for nothing.’

Germania, on the other hand, fortified its borders.

Like the Great Wall of China, the entire border was blocked by walls.

Commonly, this was called the Great Wall, and over the generations, the Great Wall was divided into several areas, each nobleman protecting it from generation to generation.

‘The owners of this place are the Marquis of Roegene.’

It was my ex-fiancée’s family.

‘I’ve never met the Marquis of Loisene in person. The time I was active in the previous episode was after he died of old age. His only daughter succeeded the family and was active.’

I remembered the girl I met in the previous episode.

‘At that time, he was a pretty old nobleman, but how is it now?’

What will she also think if she sees me after being possessed?

I was intrigued by the strange situation, and I smiled naturally.

Buu————

The sound of the horn was heard.

Returning to the garrison, I stopped walking.

The sound was echoing from beyond the walls.

“Here you are.”

The army of the Marquis of Loisene had arrived.

The sound of the trumpet propagates that they have come.

It was hidden by the castle wall, but there must be quite a number of them.

Because it gave me plenty of time to assemble.

“Rachel.”

“Yes, Father.”

Rachel raised her right hand and spun it around.

Dung- Dung-

The sound of drums overshadowing the trumpets echoed through the garrison.

“Gather!”

“Get in line!”

The subordinates formed formation in the front, and the conscripts stood behind them.

All of the 6,000 conscripts were freed slaves.

All of them were selected and given short-term training at Rachel’s initiative.

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【Lv. 2】

The level was terrible.

There were numerous people worse than goblins.

Although the armament was excellent because I paid for it myself.

The level of each individual is difficult to deal with even beginner mercenaries.

Even though they were selected and trained from over 100,000 slaves, because they were slaves by birth and their foundation was poor, they were just in their infancy.

‘It is amazing that he has grown to this extent.’

Except for a very small number of people from the arena, he had never held a sword.

Before being selected by Rachel, their level was the same as mine.

But now their level has risen even though it is low.

He had grown this much only through bloody and sweaty training.

Knowing that, I was proud of them.

‘It’s a pity.’

But at the same time, there was also sadness.

Did they really train with their own will?

‘It’s just according to the owner’s wishes.’

Among the slaves, they were no different from puppets.

Those who were born as slaves and had their human nature broken.

Line up in an orderly manner and watch them stand firm like stone statues.

Not a single person had any emotion on their faces, and they breathed evenly.

They were like puppets with hearts.

‘Even if you free yourself from slavery, you will only be freed from the system.’

Their minds were still enslaved.