The First Magic World War

Chapter 410: 382, referendums in sixteen cities of Modova, willing to pledge allegiance to Miss Annie Brittany

As a transmigrator, Charles wasn’t constrained by the strictures of the nobility in this world; he did something very bold. First, he sent the family of Baron Sigma to Cappadocia City overnight and declared that he would give the Baron’s land and possessions to every resident of Sigma Castle, while also announcing that he would never levy taxes!

His proclamation didn’t generate much enthusiasm, as many harbored doubts, but it still moved a group of people and earned him the support of a small portion of the local residents.

Afterward, Charles conscripted soldiers on the spot in the Baron’s castle, assembling a force of six hundred men, and set out again before dawn to attack the next city.

Princess Akso, Anne, and Mama Karen, along with the Augusladin High Priest, woke up the next day and still saw no Modovan officials to receive them, nor did they see Charles return. They waited patiently all day, in accordance with protocol.

They were a foreign diplomatic delegation and, in principle, should not move about freely without local officials to receive them.

And yet, for the entire day, they saw neither the officials who were supposed to greet them nor Charles, who should have returned by then.

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Anne grew restless. She had wanted to go out and search for Charles, but Mama Karen persuaded her to stay. With three members of the Sacred Order by Charles’s side, he was unlikely to run into trouble. If even they couldn’t protect him, their presence would merely add to the chaos.

Anne’s reason told her that Mama Karen was right, but her emotions made her as restless as ants on a hot pan, visiting Princess Akso’s residence three times in a single day, to the point that Princess Akso herself considered going out to search for him.

For several consecutive days, Charles marched on relentlessly, assaulting and conquering cities.

It wasn’t until the fifth day that Charles sent a message to Princess Akso. The message was simple, containing only one sentence: “In a plebiscite of the Modovan cities, sixteen have pledged their loyalty to Miss Annie Brittany; talks are eagerly ongoing with the others, and sure news shall follow shortly.”

Princess Akso nearly thought Charles had sent her the beginning of his new novel!

Though accustomed to her bold and rash son and the earth-shattering feats of the youth, Princess Akso still spilled a cup of coffee in shock and exclaimed before the Augusladin High Priest, “Why must Lord Mecklen be so reckless.”

The Augusladin High Priest replied at that moment, “On his last mission to Inglima, he also conveniently captured St. Michael Island!”

Hm, all three envoys of the diplomatic mission, chief and deputies alike, were aware of the Old Goat’s existence!

After a lengthy silence, Princess Akso finally said, “Modova will surely protest to my father the Emperor.”

As the conclusion of the day’s meeting, her words possessed a prophetic magic power.

The next day of the meeting, Charles sent a document detailing a “sorrowful event”: The Grand Duke of Modova, regrettably, had been assassinated by a sniper from Byron!

This news made Princess Akso heave a deep sigh, and she immediately prohibited the diplomatic mission from discussing the matter.

Hm, this time Charles had not lied; indeed, a sniper from Byron had killed the Grand Duke of Modova!

After learning of Modova’s fragile national strength and empty military capabilities, Charles set off in haste with just a few dozen men to initiate a “war.” In this world, wars hinged on Transcendents. With three members of the Sacred Order under his command, Charles’ forces were described as “fierce and audacious, conquering far and wide,” taking several cities in one day and conquering sixteen Modovan cities within five days. Using these cities as a foundation, he formed a new Westwind Knights force of seven thousand men, and the army set their sights on Ligulia, the capital of Modova.

During the battle against the Modovan Royal Guard, Charles spread a rumor that the Grand Duke of Modova intended to surrender.

Charles initially hoped to dampen the Royal Family’s fighting spirit, but as an accustomed “novelist”, his descriptions were too vivid, leading the Baron snipers, who were lurking in Modova, to believe it without a doubt. To prevent Modova from falling to Fars, they resolutely took action and assassinated the Duke of Modova.

Charles had no idea what these Baron vampires were thinking. Were they even using their brains?

After all, when the news reached the frontlines, the Royal Guards of Modova, who had been fighting bloodily alongside Charles, turned on the battlefield. The captain of the guards, who had not even won a duel against Charles, had only one demand when he surrendered: he must personally execute the Baron assassin.

Charles swallowed up the Modova Royal Guard without shedding a drop of blood and stormed into the capital of Modova, Liguilia, declaring the principality had changed its allegiance and was now loyal to Miss Annie Brittany!

Princess Akso received the news of Duke Akso’s tragic assassination on the same night that Modova announced its loyalty to Annie.

The princess hesitated for a long time before finally representing the Fars Empire in recognizing Annie’s rule over Modova!

Learning of the princess’s decision, Miss Brittany’s first reaction was, “I need to find my dad, or at least my brother!”

“This matter…”

“has gotten out of hand!”

Charles, by then exhilarated, had already split his forces to attack the other five Modovan noble lands.

On the Earth he had transmigrated from, there was no such thing as unclaimed land left; even in web novels, to play out grand tales of unmatched dominance, one could only find small opportunities in the crevices of history to establish new nations—like investing in the British Royal Family before World War I to be granted Australia, landing in America and starting from Chinatown, or becoming a military overlord in Mexico…

In short, the modern Earth offered little room for armchair military strategists to exercise their imaginations.

The Modova military was so weak, the opportunity so advantageous, and the Duke of Modova had been killed in cold blood by a Baron sniper…

The people of Modova no longer cared that it was actually Charles who had inexplicably attacked them; all they remembered was the people of Baron murdering their duke, shouting for revenge against Baron.

This kind of public sentiment saved Charles a lot of effort, with four of the Modovan noble lands swearing allegiance to Miss Annie Brittany under the pressure of encroaching armies!

The other resistant noble was thrown down from his supposedly impregnable castle walls by Old Goat, dying on impact.

On the eighteenth day of waging war, Charles announced he had “unified” the entire territory of Modova.

This war, begun on a whim, came to be known by posterity as the Eighteen-Day War!

Many historians wracked their brains trying to understand why Charles Meklen had suddenly attacked the Modova Principality? Although subsequent events proved the significance of this sudden assault and how it became a turning point in the war between two major military blocs, no one could fathom Charles’s motive for initiating the war.

At least a dozen historians ended up writing in their research documents: Hmm, this is so Charles Meklen!

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