On the border between the Empire and the Duchy, there is a magical town. The left half of the town belongs to the Empire, and the right half belongs to the Duchy. The river in the center of the town is the dividing line between the two countries.
The residents of the duchy and the empire originally had a fairly good relationship.
However, with the duchy's unilateral declaration of war—which was merely a declaration without any outrageous actions—the atmosphere in the town became tense due to the large number of troops being assembled, as well as the warriors being assembled on the empire's side.
Merchants fled upon hearing the news, and many residents also chose to seek refuge within the country. Only a few shop owners with physical stores remained, cautiously running their businesses, but it was only a matter of time before they packed up and fled.
Inside the still-operating tavern, someone was observing the situation at the distant border through the window. Then... the door to the room on the second floor of the tavern was opened.
"Heidi, as planned, I've met up with you... *pfft*"
"..."
The woman, known as Hedylin, was lying on the bed completely immobilized, her entire body wrapped in bandages except for her face.
Upon entering, a young man saw Heidi Lin lying on the hospital bed, looking as if she might die at any moment. He clearly wanted to laugh, but he was trying hard to hold it in.
Heidilin stared at the man in front of her, who had suppressed his laughter and returned to his indifferent gaze and expression, with dead fish eyes. She said, "Shala Elkaras, if you want to laugh, then laugh."
However, the young man, who looked to be in his early twenties and was called Shara, had stopped laughing.
Having regained the indifference and calm befitting a ruler, he looked at Heidi Lin, who was wrapped up like a dumpling and still needed a long rest, and said, "It's already quite remarkable that you were able to survive under Uncle Ira."
Yes, Shara's surname is also Elkaras, and Shara is undoubtedly a member of the [Ira Faction]. As for Hedylin... she is a very rare neutral.
In other words, Hedy Lin only obeys the Queen's orders and will not participate in the struggle between the Iraqi and noble factions, although Isabella herself may, in a sense, be Iraqi.
Therefore, at that time, she was the only one seriously pursuing Ira. The others at most damaged Ira's wings, and did nothing else... Moreover, it was basically impossible to bring Ira back intact as Isabella had ordered.
Shara's grandfather was Ira's father's brother, so Shara would call Ira "uncle"... even though he looked older than Ira.
“Ira…the teacher intentionally spared my life.”
As Hedy Lin said this, even with her eyes closed, she could still see that intensely crimson, almost bursting, flame of destruction that seemed to transform into a blazing white inferno.
She originally wanted to say "Lady Ira," but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that Ira had now defected, and it would be impolite to address her that way, so she used "Teacher," which was unrelated to any faction, as a suffix.
Even Iraq itself doesn't care about this at all.
“I know, I knew before you said it, otherwise you would never have survived Uncle Ira’s clutches, but your death trigger should also be able to fire Uncle Ira’s death trigger, right?”
Then, if that happens, Hedy Lin will really be dead.
She will also be the first seated consul to die.
"Not necessarily. My Death Trigger slot is clearly not high enough, unlike Marilla's Mostima Shadow Shark."
Heidi said this, knowing why the Archon was so feared on the battlefield: the moment an Archon was killed, syllables would automatically come out of his mouth, and the spell would automatically activate.
When a person is killed, the mana within their body should be out of control and unable to activate any spells, so this is something that should not exist in the world... But the governor has no mana within his body.
All of the mana was cast into four wing pillars for filling.
Furthermore, the death trigger of the governor usually clears the surrounding battlefield indiscriminately, while restoring some health to pull the governor back from death. The cooldown time of the death trigger varies for different governors.
Compared to information such as the consumption of the Archon's [World Spell], combat habits, and preferred weapons, the cooldown of the Archon's Death Trigger is the most, most, most, most important information and must not be easily revealed.
Any governor who possesses the "Death Trigger" will be granted a seat.
The ten seats for the consul... or more, but there are only ten for now. After Iraq leaves, everyone will automatically fill in for one person, and then there will only be nine seats left.
"My sister's death trigger is indeed very strong."
Shara nodded in confirmation. This handsome young man with gentle features simply referred to the current leader and chief administrator of the Iraqi faction, Marila Elkaras, as his older sister.
After all, she really is his own sister.
"Don't you... really consider the prosperity of your family?"
Hedy Lin asked this question, even though she wasn't an Imperial citizen... which was easy to tell since her name didn't contain the character "La," but she was also very aware of the Empire's extreme emphasis on family offspring.
The vast majority of the current generation of the Elkaras family have chosen to become governors, which means that the number of the next generation of the family cannot be expanded at all, which is completely inconsistent with the values of a large family.
"I don't care, I'm a hedonist~"
Shara spoke lightly, though it was hard to imagine that the detached governor would be a hedonist. He joked casually to Heidi, who was lying on the hospital bed, "Who knows, maybe one day, all of Ira's people will run off with Uncle Ira."
"..."
"..."
"Take back what you just said, I can pretend I didn't..."
"Just kidding."
Shara easily interrupted Hedylin, calmly looking out the window at the heavy atmosphere, and said, "What are those sissies of the Duchy doing? Flicking their pinkies and grabbing violets to provoke us?"
"Sissy"... While it's a fitting description, the mouths of the Elkaras family truly share the same viciousness as Lord Ira.
Thinking this, Heidilin looked at the border where a storm was brewing and said, "This is why I transferred you here. The nobles of the duchy fight their own battles, unlike us. Their armies are not subordinate to the duchy's army, so they will do evil deeds."
They will burn and kill for profit, they will plunder and humiliate for desire, therefore...
“Killing innocent civilians is definitely not an option, so it’s up to us to take action and strangle their army on their borders. In short, we can’t let the battlefield be on Imperial territory…right?”
As she said this, Shara grabbed some snacks from beside Hedylin's bed and started eating them without any hesitation.
...
Then let's bring it on. The moment they attack, let them know what a [Governor] is, what it means to be—
To take charge of world politics.
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