The First Magic World War

Chapter 397: 369, For the Legendary Warship!

As intelligence swirled like snowflakes, Charles also learned the reason behind the Duchess Mesu’s rebellion.

— For the legendary warship!

The vampires of Byron had played a very dirty trick.

They had promised the Duchess Mesu a legendary warship.

No, not Byron’s Bismarck!

It was the vessel of His Majesty Julius Axler of the Fars Empire—Fontainebleau!

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The process of the Duchess Mesu’s betrayal had actually been quite prolonged, and it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The Empire’s military had always been divided into the Royal Knights Order, the nobles’ private knighthoods, and local forces. Any country on the Old Continent recognized the private armies of nobles as legitimate. The Northern Fleet had always been a private fleet; although it obeyed the Fars Royal Family’s orders and fought for the Empire, it did not belong to the royal family or the nation; it belonged only to the Mesu Family.

The Northern Fleet of the Mesu Family was at its peak, half the size of the Imperial Navy.

But since the failed exploration into the Raging Sea, the Northern Fleet had been on a decline, shrinking to one-sixth of the Imperial Navy.

In two major naval battles, the Mesu Family suffered severe losses, with three Magical Alchemy Warships sunk by the people of Byron. Their strength had declined so much that they were now inferior to the Empire’s rising talents like Menilman.

If the war continued, the fall of the Mesu Family was all but predictable!

The people of Byron used two Magical Alchemy Warships as a door opener to secure a detailed discussion with the Duchess Mesu, and they lent out six members of the Blood Clan’s Sacred Order to collaborate with the Duchess Mesu. They snatched His Majesty Julius Axler of the Fars Empire’s vessel—Fontainebleau—from Fars’ largest port, Mingfoster Port!

Once the Duchess Mesu got hold of the Fontainebleau, she immediately declared a change of allegiance, took her own territory and fleet, along with the entire population of her family, to join Byron, and announced that the Mesu Duchy would be loyal to Byron.

From then on, the Mesu Duchy would be a territory of Byron.

Having acquired two of Byron’s Magical Alchemy Warships and captured the Fontainebleau, the scale of the Northern Fleet might still be far from its peak, but its combat power had far exceeded that of its peak period. The Mesu Family had completely regained their vitality.

Byron didn’t actually need the Mesu to join their side, nor did they need the Northern Fleet to participate in the war; they didn’t trust the defectors either. But as long as the Northern Fleet withdrew from the war, it was Byron’s greatest victory. Moreover, the Duchess Mesu had also spirited away the sole legendary warship of the Fars Empire. By stealing the Fontainebleau, the Duchess Mesu had left herself no way out and could not possibly return to Fars.

Well, it wasn’t actually the only one.

Sophia Garanord still had control over the Queen Bee.

However, the Queen Bee was nominally under Princess May and was not a warship of Fars.

By paying the price of two Magical Alchemy Warships, they had turned the Northern Fleet and the Mesu Family, ensuring that Fars would no longer have any legendary warships.

This was a more glorious battle victory than a hearty naval battle.

The officials involved in the conspiracy against the Duchess Mesu numbered at least ten, all of whom ascended to the top ten ranks, seizing a chance for meteoric rise.

Charles easily deduced a fact from the battle report.

This was the best choice for the Mesu Family.

To fight for the Fars Empire to the end and see the Mesu Family completely annihilated…@@novelbin@@

Or to seek refuge with Byron and restore the family to its peak?

Since ancient times, politics has been just like this: loyal people sacrifice, patriotic people fight, and the cunning reap the final benefits, celebrating amid the blood of the fallen soldiers, and those who rejoice are often the dregs of humanity.

Faced with this major event, Charles did nothing but sigh.

He had no opinions and nothing to say.

The greatest impact of the Duchess Mesu’s treason was that Menilman was directly promoted three times and gained eight governmental roles, upgrading from a 13th Rank Imperial Colonel to a 10th Rank Imperial Brigadier General, with an alarming thirty governmental roles, to the extent that if written in a novel, readers would be too bored to curse at the filler and would simply abandon the book.

A lesser impact was that Sophia Garanord also jumped several ranks, and while still not graduated from Strasbourg Rose College, she had already become a 24th Rank First-Level Warrant Officer, stepping into an insurmountable class.

Menilman, holding seven Magical Alchemy Warships and hundreds of warships, along with two stable overseas naval bases, suddenly became the leading power of the Fars Navy, unmatched and prominent in his time.

The lovely Miss Sophia Garanord, although owning only one Ancient Magic Warship, had a legendary warship at her disposal. With full support from her father, Count Galanod, she even commanded a sizable fleet, becoming the second most powerful entity within the Fars Navy.

Many naval officers, upon learning of Duchess Mesu’s treason, secretly reached out to Count Galanod, hoping to join the Eastwind Fleet. It was not that Menilman lacked appeal, but the Imperial Rose Fleet was simply too powerful. Joining now wouldn’t even add a feather on a cap, whereas joining Sophia Garanord could be seen as providing timely help, especially since…

After Duchess Mesu’s defection, Count Galanod finally extended his reach into the navy completely, taking over all naval ports of the Fars Empire and a part of the navy.

Sitting at the Red Dragon Strait, Charles observed the changing winds and storms of the Fars Navy, always with a subtle feeling…

After the Duchess Mesu’s defection, the military offensives of Fars on land and sea both slowed slightly. The war potential of the Fars Empire had been stretched to its limits, barely sustaining itself.

Byron, however, saw a significant increase in momentum, engaging in several fierce battles with the combined navies of Fars and Inglima in the Sea of Giant Whales, with varying outcomes. Although they had not yet broken through the blockade to regain control of the sea, they were much stronger than after the second great naval battle when they could only shrink back to their ports.

However, Byron’s losses in the two great naval battles were severe, especially after the loss of two Magical Alchemy Warships. The naval strength of Byron was no longer strong enough to launch any significant counterattacks, and the few battles fought were minor skirmishes, far from the scale of the previous two great naval wars.

Just when Charles thought he was in the southernmost part of the Fars Empire and temporarily safe from the war, an old friend came for a leisurely visit.

An old friend deeply connected with Aegeus — the High Priest Augustine!

Charles was also surprised. Why had the High Priest come to see him?

The two shared a unique friendship, and he warmly entertained High Priest Augustine, even offering him several robust Beastmen selected from the elephant, bear, and orangutan clans. Since crossing over, Charles’s principles had been eroding day by day, and he was no longer very resistive to some of Augustine’s peculiarities.

Instead, High Priest Augustine flatly refused Charles’s “kind gestures” with a look of embarrassment.

He asserted righteously that he had come for a serious matter.

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