Chapter 953 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (11)
The nobles did not agree to the emperor’s going to the battlefield, saying that from the beginning they would do it right away.
As everyone knows, the emperor is the foundation of the country, and if he went to the battlefield and the emperor had a problem, there would be a bigger accident than the stomach.
Naturally, the nobility frowned and opposed the emperor going to the battlefield because it was dangerous.
However, the nobles could not stop the emperor in the end.
And he left for the war, and the rest of the people had no choice but to pray for his safe return.
“Ha~”
“…”
“It’s boring.”
“Why isn’t this fun?”
The imperial emperor’s 3,000 concubines somehow grew sullen at the increasingly boring life in the imperial palace.
Originally, concubines were not people who grew up receiving the emperor’s love.
But nonetheless, they used to feel the magic of becoming the happiest woman in the world with just one touch from the emperor.
“What is His Majesty supposed to be doing right now?”
“You must be fighting a fierce war for a while.”
“Have we forgotten? I don’t know how many months I haven’t seen your face.”
“There will be women there too, so they won’t need us.”
“…”
The expression of the concubine who spoke and the concubine who was listening darkened, perhaps because the words made her sullen even after she said them.
“Aren’t you going to have this banquet too?”
“What are you doing by holding a banquet among the concubines? I don’t have a lady to look after.”
“Ehh…Still, I had fun preparing for the banquet.”
All concubines prepared for the banquet with enthusiasm because even if they did not win first place, they could spend the night if they were noticed by His Majesty.
However, after Her Majesty went to the battlefield, the concubines lost all that fun.
“Actually, if it weren’t for my status, I would have liked to follow Your Majesty.”
“Ah~! Come to think of it, you must have excellent swordsmanship skills, right?”
“Yes. Even after becoming a concubine, I continued to polish it.”
“If you have that level of skill, you’d rather go into politics. How did you become a concubine?”
“… His Majesty offered her grace, but I couldn’t refuse it.”
“Well, that’s unavoidable.”
Even among the concubines, the class was divided according to origin.
Concubines who were born as princesses received as war reparations were the lowest class, and immediately above them were concubines from courtiers of the imperial palace, concubines from noble families, and the highest concubine was the concubine who gave birth to the emperor’s child.
By the way, most of the concubines from aristocratic families were talented people full of talent.
“Isn’t it better to put down the post of concubine and follow Her Majesty to the battlefield? If I make a mark there and stand out, wouldn’t it be possible to get much closer than I am now? If I had that ability, I think I would have ventured out like that.”
Remaining as a concubine and garnering His Majesty’s attention was never an easy task.
So going out to the battlefield and being noticed by His Majesty might be the best way to appeal to him as a woman.
“…It’s a tempting way. In fact, when the war broke out, my body itched a lot.”
“But this method is dangerous. Of course, you should be confident in your skills, but war is a place where lives come and go.”
Her concubine listened to her own words and she panicked when she saw her concubine thinking about going out to a real battlefield.
Hearing her own words, wouldn’t the back of her head chill if she went to war and lost her life?
It was a good rule not to accumulate resentment as much as possible.
“I’m well aware of it. I’m tempted to listen to you, but I won’t take responsibility for choosing this method because it’s my own decision.”
“Uh…But that’s embarrassing. It’s going to be really dangerous. You know what war means, right?”
“You know. I was foolish. I should have thought of this earlier and followed you.”
As if the concubine had made up her mind, she jumped up from her seat.
“Are you really going like this?”
“Yes. I’m going. Good job. I don’t know if we’ll be able to meet again.”
As if her skirt was cumbersome.
She rips off her skirt and leaves the garden of her concubine proudly.
The gaze of the concubines looking at her from behind becomes profound.
It was a wide, imposing back that complicates thinking.
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I can’t imagine exactly what it’s like to use my own strength on the battlefield.
It is impossible to fight directly against me who has never been able to punch properly.
In the first place, there was no way the nobles would watch the emperor holding a sword and setting it up on the battlefield.
That’s what I do
A big shot that no one can do in a war, but one that can determine the outcome of a war.
For example, the first thing I do is break down the castle gate at once.
“Your Majesty must be a wizard, right?”
For example, the Geos Empire summoned huge stones and scattered them indiscriminately on the battlefield, as if they had received support from other countries for their magic corps.
If we leave it as it is, it is obvious that our military will suffer great damage.
Then I stepped out
It turned the falling stones into powder with one gesture.
Of course, even in that short period of time, there were people who died, but since thousands of people had minimized the sacrifice to the magic that should have died, it was only natural to receive tremendous cheers.
“Maybe not? You’ve done the impossible otherwise.”
“It’s not just a wizard, but a great wizard. Do you remember what Count Soulo said?”
Count Soulo was an aristocratic family that produced wizards for generations.
He was a person who had no knowledge of magic, but he was fascinated by the miracle Your Majesty showed.
“One wizard can overcome a large-scale magic cast by dozens of wizards? This shouldn’t happen. It’s like denying magic head-on!”
And, blasphemously, he went so far as to say that his majesty had done something that made no sense.
I thought it would cause an accident if I left it alone, so I locked it in the dorm for a while.
I barely came to my senses and came out to the battlefield again, but it was very unsightly to see him groaning next to His Majesty and trying to dig up the miracle.
Even so, there was no way His Majesty would reveal his secret to the midday noble?
“You’ve been chosen by God.”
“Contrary to what the temples say, isn’t it?”
“Cancer!”
At one time, I wondered if His Majesty really made a contract with the devil to use such great power.
However, seeing His Majesty who did not hide his power and used it, the nobles could be sure that such a thing would never happen.
“There’s no way you can get such great power from demons.”
“We will be victorious. Your Majesty is so reassuringly protecting our empire.”
The morale of the soldiers was at its peak due to the emperor’s miracle.
Isn’t His Majesty saving our lives for now, whether it’s a demonic contractor or something?
What mattered to men like the soldiers was not whether the emperor was a demon contractor or not.
He is the one who saves us and makes tomorrow’s sun rise.
That was important.
Nothing else matters to them.
“However, there are still people who are suspicious of your majesty externally with concern. It is because of the rude lies of the temple. So I think we should idolize your majesty’s miracles.”
“Idolize?
“Honestly, what is your Majesty missing out on?”
As the empire grew, even the emperor who accomplished such a feat naturally had fanatics.
And His Majesty also proved his greatness on the battlefield.
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? If they harm Your Majesty’s prestige, we just need to make them realize their ignorance anew.”
I put an unbelievable stigma on His Majesty.
Can’t we just keep quiet?
If you insist that that side is the devil, we intend to claim that your majesty is the incarnation of a god.
“Let’s compete whose faith is greater. How is it?”
“Really… You don’t think of Your Majesty as the incarnation of a god, do you?
“I believe so. Is it any problem?”
“No…It’s not…”
“I know what you don’t know. It’s a secret I can’t tell you, so don’t be too curious.”
“Yes?”
“Anyway, I’m going to go into public opinion work called the incarnation of God, so I’m saying everyone agree. Do you understand?”
“No… I know what.”
What can I do to idolize him as a way to break through the obscenity towards the Emperor in the temple?
The aristocrats agreed to the operation despite expressing concerns that the emperor’s authority might be becoming too strong.
And rumors of this work began to spread wildly and quickly after the emperor performed several unbelievable miracles during the war.
In the temple, they are said to be demon contractors, but rumors spread that the emperor is the incarnation of a god, so it is no longer possible to know what is real.
“So the Emperor of the Empire is a demon contractor or an incarnation of a god?”
“I don’t know. How can a ignoramus like us know that?”
“You know one thing.”
“What?”
“To us, it’s no different than a demonic contractor.”
“Shit. Tweep!”
“At least the emperor of the empire is not an ordinary person. No matter how different the family, our emperor can’t do this.”
“I’m scared and I can’t even show my nose on the battlefield.”
“Ac! What the hell do you think human life is? Isn’t our life also a life?”
“What do we do when reinforcements come? They just cause trouble.”
Currently, the morale of the soldiers of the Geos Army has fallen to the ground and shows no signs of rising.
How many sacrifices have you made during the war?
It wasn’t once or twice that a colleague who laughed and chatted yesterday came back as a corpse covered in blood.
Now the soldiers were afraid to even laugh and chat with anyone.
Laughing and chatting creates a thing called ‘Jeong’, and when you show up dead the next day, you have no choice but to feel acute mental fatigue.
Sacrificing yourself on the battlefield after just living with no one attached.
That was the future the soldiers envisioned.
“Some of the soldiers of the Empire say that they even raise their status by making a contribution…”
“Where else did you hear that?”
“I heard the high-ranking nobles gossiping. Over there, they rise in status by making credit, but what the hell are we doing? Shouldn’t they also make credit?”
“Sir.
It has been a long time since the common people died when nobles were greedy.
In the barracks of the Geos Empire, there was more music than laughter.
And only the melancholy and bitter sighs of the soldiers echoed.
