We lack troops.

Kyrie’s army encampment near Cophion.

Inside the dim tent, Kyrie relied on a small light as he read through the piles of documents before him.

The most crucial part of this venture is the army, every bit as much as the trade itself. Whether the cities of the Free Cities Union join us because they want protection, or because they fear us, it all has to be done through military force in the end.

The financial figures and political language were already prepared.

Still, the Elector Princes all kept faith in their own way. Instead of terminating the mercenary contracts locally, they are extending them until the troops reach each house’s territory. Partly because they are elite mercenary companies that have been under contract with those houses for a long time, so few of them want to remain in the central region. In any case, fewer mercenaries have been released into the central interior than I expected.

All t...

Chapter 262

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