Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

Gerhard was going to summon mercenaries from Wallochia, and Pasimea was going to join them by stamping a bronze cannon at a foundry.

– You shouldn’t waste your time. Mr. Edar.

Grif’s thoughts were strongly transmitted.

– The Orcs of Nehrup Plain are gathering. The number identified exceeds 100,000. Other factions within the Great Plains are also increasing their garrisons. There are also looting attempts at the border.

‘I guess so. But don’t worry. They’re not going to rush right in. They’re pressuring me not to project my power into Germania.’

Ughdash is dead, and Vlad is wounded.

The representative system wasn’t playing tricks on Germania for nothing.

They decided that an all-out war would be burdensome, so they took a detour.

‘Of course, this state won’t last long.’

time, lack of time

The family that creates four people a day, the population that grows by tens of thousands every month, I am definitely growing rapidly, but the enemies of a civilization that has been achieved for more than a thousand years have been tightening me up with a completed foundation.

‘There is no time to continue the standoff. We need to secure the sudlet right away and make a decision at the construction festival. We need to secure Germania.’

I nodded and sent Griff’s familiar.

Then I stopped and looked straight ahead.

Coincidentally, I ran into a vassal who was heading to the office.

Because he is a familiar figure in my memory.

I smiled and called him over.

“Sir Helmut.”

He was the duke’s most trusted veteran.

“… Mr. Edar.”

Helmut trembled in shock when I called his name.

He looked at me, his eyes trembling, then he lowered his head slightly.

It reminded me of the dukes of my youth and made me feel uncomfortable.

“Why are you so surprised?”

I smiled and approached him.

“Did you know that I resemble my father? I am even more embarrassed to be so surprised that you have come now.”

“Just because they look the same doesn’t mean they are all the same.”

“Am I the same now? with your father?”

he swallowed

That attitude made me laugh.

“Has your father not told you about your future schedule?”

“No, but why are you asking?”

“I am back. We should have a welcome banquet.”

Mmm, he groaned.

“It seems difficult.”

“the reason is?”

“The Duke wouldn’t want it.”

The reason I don’t want it is simple.

Trying to take me in moderation and then swell.

So there’s no reason to announce that I’m here.

But I definitely intended to throw a banquet.

“Sir Helmut.”

“Yes, Sir Edar.”

“I think it should be opened.”

“What are you talking about?”

I stroked my chin.

“Isn’t the knights like that?”

The knights pointed out the jumble.

A battle in which 3,000 knights lost to 600.

It was a natural result for me, who knew each other’s strength.

For those who don’t know the truth, there’s nothing worse than this.

The same goes for Helmut, who cleared his throat.

“If you leave it as it is, it will damage your father’s reputation.”

“What does that have to do with the banquet?”

“If others see it, won’t it look like my father accepted me after defeating me?”

He opened his mouth.

“Who would dare to think like that?”

“then? Can you hide the fact that the Knights lost to me?”

How many eyewitnesses are there?

50,000 soldiers mobilized by the Duke of Sudret.

100,000 citizens of Zauritz, the city of the Marquis of Loisene.

There were well over 150,000 witnesses.

I want to hide it, but I can’t hide it.

Rumors will come sooner.

“…”

Knowing this, he kept his mouth shut.

“So, let’s throw a banquet.”

“What makes a difference?”

“Don’t you think it’s very different between quietly accepting me to hide your folly and glamorous acceptance by acknowledging my abilities?”

“It is forced.”

“is it? Still, try talking to your father. Let’s be as glamorous as possible, and don’t let your reputation get hurt. And you may charge me for the cost. Oroko gold coins are a specialty of my territory.”

Helmut widened his eyes.

The rumor that there is a gold mine in my territory is widely known to the human world because Grif made a deal with Germania and paid for the Orocco gold coins.

He put his hand on his shoulder and said.

“Helmut, don’t look at me as the old Edar anymore. What you need to see is the current me, Edar. Edar, the eldest son of the Duke of Sudret. Do you understand?”

Helmut hardened his expression and nodded hard.

The shaking of the eyes seemed to be deeply troubled.

I patted him on the shoulder and let him go.

“Did it work?”

“To live and die with pride is nobility. What can I do if I can heal my wounded pride even a little bit? Besides, I’ll take care of the cost. There must be no reason to refuse.’

It didn’t take long for Helmut to enter the office and get the duke’s consent before leaving.

The duke readily accepted my offer.

Soon the mansion was busy preparing for the evening banquet.

“dinner? what’s this dinner? It opens in a hurry.”

If it was the original banquet, I had to take more time to prepare.

Because of the situation, we prepared right away without delaying the date.

“Because I had a bad fight.”

Even though they came back cheered as if they were going through a triumphant ceremony, they were still a mess.

It is obvious that the morale of the summoned vassals has fallen.

The duke was planning to fill his lost morale with a banquet.

“If you hold a banquet normally, a few days later. If that happens, there will be some of the vassals returning to the fiefdom. Only then will the duke’s reason for holding a banquet be diluted.”

The Duke wants to appease them all at once.

The banquet was decided on the same day, like roasting beans over lightning.

“I didn’t even know that this was my father’s goal.”

Rachel laughed.

The evening banquet thus held was quite large.

The mansion of a lord in a city of 800,000 was no different from a palace.

The hall in the mansion was so wide, it was almost full.

I wonder if they accepted it by opening it up to the yard.

All nobles under Sudret in Germania gathered.

‘There’s no deviation from one’s expectations.’

I laughed.

Why did I give the duke time to gather troops?

It wasn’t even that the duke was trying to annihilate the soldiers he had gathered in one blow.

‘I said They gave me time to summon all my vassals.’

To gather here right now.

‘Go to each one and embrace them? at what age? Like the Marquis of Loizene said, we should gather them all together and finish them all at once.’

I said to Rachel while shaking my glass lightly in the hall.

“Assuming that the dukedom of Sudret cannot be conquered by force, what is the method of obtaining the dukedom?”

“Inheritance is best, right?”

“What are the conditions of inheritance?”

“Shouldn’t it be the highest priority in succession?”

I nodded.

“right. But that’s not enough.”

Because Germania is a feudal country.

“To inherit a title in a feudal state means to accept the vassals under it.”

What if my vassals reject me even if I get a title?

The title is a duke, but what if there are no vassals below?

What if all I had was a direct control?

Could that be called a duchy?

“A vassal who refuses to obey can be beaten.”

“There is no time.”

Because the representative system has already moved.

“If I get stuck in Sudret, the forces leaning toward the representative system will increase that much. If the sudlet is left alone, the representative system will take over the sudlet. Therefore, take the sudlet, but swallow it in one go.”

There was no time to catch each one.

Inherit the dukeship of Sudret, but also have to subdue the vassals.

‘Without a single battle.’

“The way to capture the vassal is simple. When I inherit the title, I just need to make my vassals acknowledge me. I just need to make sure they never reject me.”

So how do you make sure you never reject me?

“Justice and power. Those two things are all you need.”

The justification was filled by regaining Sudret’s family name and right of succession.

Power was demonstrated by grinding knights.

“Did he throw a bait just to get a head start? I tried to imprint the power I had by crushing the Knights. When the 3,000 knights were crushed, how many were my followers and soldiers?”

“There were 600 people in all.”

“okay. After that, what about the second team that arrived behind the duke?”

“It was 6,000 people.”

I asked with a smile.

“Did the duke see the 600 advance corps and the 6,000 late corps as different units? Did you think that the 6,000 people in the late start group were weak?”

If so, it didn’t matter.

I’ve already shown overwhelming strength enough to change knights.

“ruler. Now I have shown cause and power.”

Then what is left?

“There’s a duke left.”

Rachel tilted her head.

“You have the most important problem. If the duke doesn’t pass on the title to his father, it means nothing.”

“Nothing to worry about.”

“yes?”

“The duke will die soon.”

The duke will die, Ibella will die, and the two sons will die.

that has already been decided.

“So what is left for me is sentencing.”

I climbed the stairs on the central wall of the hall.

The stairs went to the wall and then split left and right to connect to the second floor, and a large portrait was hung on the wall where the path split.

The owner of the portrait is Svein, Duke of Sudret.

It was a portrait drawn with Svein as a model in his youth.

I looked down into the hall from the stairs with the portrait behind me.

“everyone.”

At my call, the attention of those gathered in the hall gathered.

Then, looking at the portrait and me alternately, he made a noise.

“Are you enjoying the banquet?”

Attendees made awkward smiles with awkward expressions.

Because no one here knows who I am.

No one was happy to see me and answer me.

“Today, this is a place to celebrate my return.”

He placed his right hand on his chest and slightly bent his upper body.

“I thank my father for bringing me back into the family.”

Duke Sudret nodded with a firm expression.

“I also thank my mother for forgiving me.”

Ibella stood with her back to me and didn’t even look at me.

Her neck rose red and her shoulders trembled slightly.

I smiled broadly.

“I know that a lot of people in this room disapprove of me. How can you not know? We are already dividing the pie into two factions, and a third challenger has appeared.”

isn’t it? He said and took a drink.

Everyone in attendance let out an uncomfortable breathing sound.

one who frowns,

who snorts,

those who turn their backs,

None of them gave me a good response.

“But, gentlemen, don’t think badly. This is your chance. A chance for you to choose a better owner.”

“Edar.”

One article opened the door.

“I’m sorry to interrupt you, but I don’t know what makes you better than the other two brothers.”

I smiled.

“The name?”

“This is Bjorn.”

“Bjorn, you asked the question backwards.”

He tilted his head.

“I have to say that I don’t know what the two brothers are better than me.”

“…”

“Eirik, Haral, do you two have the Great Plains? Or conquered Wallochia? Have you ever fought him or all of you and won?”

“…the Great Plains and Wallochia that you mentioned were only partly occupied?”

“no. everything.”

I laughed.

“I’ve already taken the Great Plains from this race, can’t I get the rest? Wallochia is mired in civil war and begs for my help. Can’t I get a throne?”

Bjorn took a step back.

“Everyone thinks I came because I wanted a sudlet.”

“mistaken?”

“The illusion that I came here aiming for Sudret.”

I said

I don’t want a sudlet.

“What I want is Germania.”

The Duke opened his eyes.

He has declared that I will have what he never had in his life.

“Sudrat is just a hand to get Germania. And Germania is also a loser.”

I threw the glass on the floor.

Clinking, the glass broke and the red wine soaked the floor.

I spread my arms and looked down the hall.

“Look, look. look what i have The Great Plains are with me, Wallochia are with me. Now, if we get Germania, how many countries will we have left?”

Churches, republics, and other small countries.

“But will you still call me king? Who can say what if I go beyond a king and call myself an emperor, the only emperor of humans?”

The sound of swallowing breath filled the hall.

The faces of those who looked up at me were full of astonishment.

Some dropped their glasses and walked backwards out of the hall.

‘Emperor. A title not given to humans.’

Emperor was a title reserved only for members of the different races.

Because it was the heterogeneous race that created the human kingdom.

Because they didn’t want humans to be one.

The place where humans can reach the highest was set as the king.

I declared that I would destroy it and unite humans.

“So I will ask you guys. The empire is right in front of you. Will you live under an emperor or under a duke?”

Halls filled with countless nobles.

However, the only sound heard in the hall is breathing.

No one was more surprised and opened their mouths.

He looked up at me with his eyes wide open and his body trembling.

‘okay. I will create an empire of mankind.’

The only empire of mankind, for mankind.

‘Now I’m going to get out of private and sit in the same seat as you.’

The ninth seat of the representative system given to me is just a formality.

isn’t it? Look at what is happening in Germania now.

Even though I am the same existence as them, I have never been there.

‘In the first place, you did not consider me as an equal. You did not acknowledge me challenging your supremacy. They were afraid that I would group up and challenge you.’

That is the reason why the Great Emperor had a hand in Germania.

‘Now that Wallochia is almost in my hands. What if even Germania comes into my hands?’

Humanity is virtually united.

The representative system will no longer be able to regard me as an individual.

‘To sit in the representative system as the emperor and the master of mankind.’

It means that humanity will take its place in the representative system.

It means that mankind sits down to discuss world supremacy.

‘So now, here, in Germania, the fight is a game. A game of human supremacy. representative and me. Who has more of a human being between the two. So who can be called the master of humans?’

I will say it like this.

It’s called the Great Game compared to the games that took place on Earth.

The winner of this great game will be the true master of man.

returnees

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“It’s an empire…”

Garrison of the Duke of Sudret on the outskirts of the city.

The garrison was buzzing with events from merchants from the city.

But on the other hand, there was silence.

“Is that possible?”

“well···.”

Those who gathered in the silent place were those who had attended the banquet the previous day or heard about Edar’s declaration from the attendees.

“Has anyone ever talked about it so openly?”

“None. Who dares?”

The emotion on their faces was bewilderment.

Edar, the eldest son of the Duke of Sudret.

What did he say at the banquet?

– I will usurp the throne from Germania.

– Beyond the king of Germania, he will become the only human emperor.

The words were different, but the meaning was the same.

Those present here were aristocrats.

I couldn’t help but not know what the words meant.

“Crossing the king?”

It means to break the human limits set by the different races.

This is because the different races did not allow humans to assume the position of emperor.