Saving The Abandoned Empress - Chapter 69

69 Chapter 69 ~ “Trap”

“The Republic’s main force is now busy in conquering the Dark lands. If we take this chance and attack the Republic Kingdom, then the empire can easily defeat them and take control over the dark sea!”

King Melendez’s started the topic and Cathain began to think.

Although the empire is big enough but conquering another Kingdom doesn’t seem to be a problem.

The relief delegation will be back shortly and the imperial fund has a little shortage.

So, attacking the Republic Kingdom now with the help of Rua doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

It will also help the imperial fund.

Republic Kingdom has been always on bad terms with the other two kingdoms and specially the Valentino empire because they worship Dark magic.

All kind of dark and illegal buisness happens there and there is no rules or law there.

They want to summon the devil, thus they are trying to conquer the forbidden dark land and control the dark sea.

…..

“Almost all of the knights are working in the relief delegation. They will soon return, but we can only sent 50,000 mens as sending more might stain our finance.”

According to them, 50,000 knights are enough because the imperial army are the best in their strength.

Not to mention the Dalton and Heartz Duchy knights.

Eleanora kept hearing the discussion and sighed. In her last life, this was the first battle she participate at the age of 13.

‘This expedition will ultimately fail…’

After Duke Ravens negotiate with the Kingdom Rua, he informed them about the upcoming war to fight the Republic Kingdom for Dark Sea.

There was a information that there was a lot of hidden treasure’s there, only to find nothing after spending a lot time to dig the sea side.

The other kingdom’s seem to support the Valentino Empire but actually, they was just waiting for the imperial knights to break down…

Then they helped Rua and even if Eleanora won the battle, the imperial army suffered heavily during the battle.

If she says this now, people might become wary of her, the peaceful life she wanted to lead might come to an end…

But if she doesn’t says anything despite knowing the truth, the knights will suffer just like before.

No, she needs to save the people and empire.

This is the only purpose of her this life.

Eleanora mustered up her courage and clear her throat as she spoke seriously.

“Please reconsider, Your highness.”

The hall again fall silence and Cathain looked at her with a sly smile. His prey has finally fallen into the trap.

“Do you have something to say, My wife?”

“…”

‘Just what does he want to prove by calling me his wife?’

Eleanora decided to let it go this time and started speak, ignoring the hateful stares of the people around her.

“Well, this is only my opinion…”

“Go on… My-”

“There are two things to be wary about in this war. King Melendez’s, Don’t tell me you forgot about Kingdom Moncton in the east?”

Eleanora had intrupted Cathain before he could utter the word ‘Wife’ again.

Her question had taken Melendez aback. He didn’t expect her to realise this, where even Cathain ignored this.

The silent meeting hall started to murmur among themselves. What Eleanora said made sense.

“But the Moncton Kingdom is known for being neutral and has no ties with the Republic Kingdom. They are closed geographically, So they have no reason to help the Republic Kingdom to control the Dark lands.”

King Melendez’s spoke with great seriousness, how dare a mere underaged girl ruin his plans?

Mendel stayed silent the whole time and was amazed by Eleanora. The more he couldn’t get it the more he wanted it.

“Crown Princess, Can you tell us why we shouldn’t be wary about Francisco Kingdom?”

Mendel finally spoke after being silent for a long time.

Eleanora took a deep breathe and Cathain patted on her hand to reassure her to speak confidently.

“King Melendez is right. Technically the Moncton Kingdom has no reason to help the Republic. But…

The current king of Moncton is yet to secure his position and thus he needs the help of Republic.”

“!!!!!!”

The whole meeting room started to discuss among them as Eleanora continued to speak.

“The Moncton king can exchange their troops for help the Republic Kingdom to secure his position.

If that happens, then with the Moncton force, the total army will be more then 100,000. Even with Rua’s help, Our army won’t be more then 70,000.

If that happens, We will lose even before we start.”

Cathain was truly proud on Eleanora and his love for her even grew more.

‘As expected from my wife.’

“My wife is right… It was indeed negligent of me to not notice this before. So what should we do then, My wife?”

Eleanora and even all the present people was truly disgusted on Cathain for calling her ‘his wife’ in literally every word he spoke.

‘We all know she will be his wife. But why does it seems like he is just trying to show off?’

Cathain rested his head on his palm and kept staring at her with eyes full of love and admiration that gave Eleanora goosebumps.

‘I should help my wife to boost her reputation a little more… Once those imperial fools get to know this, Even if her father starts a war with us, he can’t stop our marriage.’

“My wife… Don’t you trust our army’s manpower? How can those weaklings can be compared with our army?”

Eleanora clearly understood his words and gritted her teath.

‘So this was this bastards purpose! He already knew this but pretended to not know, just so i could step into the trap myself! Damn sly fox!’

Eleanora controlled her temper because she can’t be lose it now. She has to be patient and explain.

It’s too late to step back now.

“Our army is best in the entire continent… no, in the whole world… Only if we fight them face to face.

…But what if that’s not the case?”