Chapter 429 Seizing
Power Glorious Year 2462, New Moon 3, Silver Fir City.
As the capital of the Gray Iron Kingdom, Silver Fir City's level of prosperity ranks among the top in the entire federation.
On this misty morning, before it was fully light, the newspaper boys and small vendors on the street had already gotten up swiftly and were hawking their wares along the streets in the early morning.
A light grey carriage slowly drove into the city gate decorated with holly wreaths. The city guard at the gate lazily held his spear and gestured with one hand for them to stop for inspection.
But the coachman did not follow the rules. Instead, he took out several gold rose coins and distributed them to several defenders.
So, after confirming that there was 'no danger' on the carriage, the guards waved and let it go, and everything was as peaceful as usual.
But this morning, something was different.
On the top of the city wall, when a city guard picked up the bowl of water to drink, he suddenly noticed something unusual.
The originally calm water surface in the bowl suddenly produced circles of faint ripples! He paused in confusion and looked up.
Outside the city gate, the mist had dissipated at some point, and under the shining sun, an endless army of magical constructs suddenly appeared on the plain outside the city!
Those thick shells reflect the cold metallic luster, which makes people feel cold all over.
When he saw this sudden construct army, its ranged troops had already opened fire first.
"Oh, gods..."
Looking at the thousands of blazing fire explosions flying at him at high speed, almost dyeing the sky red, the city guard opened his mouth woodenly, and even the bowl of water slipped from his hand without him noticing.
Boom boom boom——
"Enemy! Attack!!"
Along with the shrill alarm, a huge gap was blown open in the East City Gate, and the city protection magic circle flickered for just a moment before completely dimming.
Obviously, the city's defense officials probably took a lot of kickbacks. . …..… At the beginning of the North Wind Prayer of the New Moon this year, a sudden change shook the entire Itel Federation.
The incident occurred in the Gray Iron Kingdom of the Federation, a small kingdom located on the west side of the Theberus Mountains, famous for its abundant magical minerals, and adjacent to the Leica Kingdom.
On the third day, several large resistance organizations such as "Spark", "Ember", and "Sun's Glory" suddenly joined forces and launched a mutiny in the Gray Iron Kingdom under the banner of "freedom, equality, and resistance to oppression".
Several major resistance organizations seemed to have planned this for a long time and sent out a large number of elite construct troops. In less than half a month, they surrounded and captured the royal capital and several other large cities.
Although the kingdom's garrison fought bravely, their equipment was far inferior to that of the enemy, and because the city's protective magic circle was "in disrepair", they were ultimately outnumbered and defeated, and fled in all directions.
Except for a few members of the royal family who managed to escape, most of the nobles and royal family members were captured on the spot, including the king and queen.
Among them, a group of nobles who had caused great public outrage due to their excessive taxation were publicly beheaded by the rebels.
At the same time, the Grey Iron Kingdom's protector wizard, His Majesty [Dragon's Eyes] Philgood, was ambushed and besieged by two people who were suspected to be newly promoted to the ninth level, and was eventually defeated and killed.
In this incident, many resistance organizations demonstrated their strength for the first time, shocking everyone.
He has a large number of elite constructed troops under his command, and he captured many large cities with ease. He even has more than one level nine warriors behind him, and he is not afraid of the threats from high-level professionals.
After learning about the fall of the Gray Iron Kingdom, the ruling classes of many other small kingdoms of similar size became uneasy.
The rebels could easily seize the Gray Iron Kingdom, so if everything that the Gray Iron Kingdom had faced happened again in their country, how much better would their fate be than that of the Gray Iron Kingdom? Thinking of this, the leaders of many small kingdoms immediately began to frantically place large-scale orders for various military-type structures.
At the same time, they also began to thoroughly investigate the defense arrays of major cities. While maintaining them in a timely manner, they also cut off a number of corrupt officials who embezzled city defense funds.
Compared with the fierce reactions of many small kingdoms, those larger kingdoms responded more cautiously.
To them, the strength of the rebels, while alarming, is still within control.
Fortunately, these resistance organizations are currently just a simple union. If they really unite into a super large resistance organization, it will be a real headache.
For this reason, some kingdoms have prepared to secretly send people to divide the cooperation of these organizations from within, and even instigate them to kill each other under the pretext of unification.
After several resistance groups joined forces to seize the entire Gray Iron Kingdom, the people of the Federation faced a new problem.
According to the provisions of the Patikaran Covenant, when the ruler of a kingdom changes, the new ruler is eligible to join the federal parliament.
But when this rule was first made, no one could have imagined that a kingdom would be seized by the so-called "civilian resistance organization."
Therefore, many parliamentarians were troubled by how to deal with the current situation of the Gray Iron Kingdom.
After taking over the management of the entire Gray Iron Kingdom, the major resistance organizations did not immediately continue to expand outward, but instead prepared to send representatives to join the Federal Parliament just like other ordinary kingdom regime changes.
This is a very smart move. Making such a gesture is equivalent to sending a signal that the rebels also intend to play by the rules of the game instead of going against the Federal Parliament.
Therefore, according to the provisions of the Patikaran Agreement, the rebels' seizure of power is theoretically also a private matter within the kingdom, protected by the rules, and the Federal Parliament cannot intervene at will.
At the same time, this was also to appease the top leaders of other kingdoms, letting them know that they would also abide by the Patikaran Agreement, to prevent the other kingdoms from joining forces in advance out of fear and destroying them at all costs.
After conquering the Gray Iron Kingdom, several resistance organizations temporarily quieted down and began to gradually digest the gains of this battle.
At the same time, they also began internal voting to elect a federal member of parliament to join.
In the Gray Iron Kingdom, many civilians who had originally worried that they would be robbed suddenly found that their lives had become much better.
Since several resistance organizations sent out security teams to each other, they strictly prohibited their subordinates from disturbing the public.
Not only did the feared looting not occur, but after the resistance organization came to power, a number of tax-free policies were temporarily implemented, and commercial taxes were reduced to an extremely low level.
For a time, many newspapers reported the incident, attracting the attention of many people.
At the same time, sensing business opportunities, many chambers of commerce sent people to the Gray Iron Kingdom. While bringing in a large amount of livelihood resources, they also purchased high-value materials such as artworks that were seized by the rebels but were not easily handled due to lack of appropriate channels.
Thanks to the reduction of trade taxes and tariffs, these bold chambers of commerce made a lot of money in a short period of time.
(End of this chapter)
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