Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up: Volume 4 (eBook)
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-1186-2 (ISBN)
Having driven off the Royal Naruyan Army, Erhin brings his troops and people with him as he sets up a new base of operations in the Bertaquin Domain of the former Brijit Kingdom. As he takes this first step towards declaring independence, he turns his eyes toward the vast sea around Brijit. Erhin hopes to build a fleet and establish maritime trade, but the neighboring Luaranz Kingdom has him massively outgunned at sea-and if history goes like it did in the game, then a coup d'état is about to turn them into a military dictatorship. What will happen when Erhin tries to stop it?
Having driven off the Royal Naruyan Army, Erhin brings his troops and people with him as he sets up a new base of operations in the Bertaquin Domain of the former Brijit Kingdom. As he takes this first step towards declaring independence, he turns his eyes toward the vast sea around Brijit. Erhin hopes to build a fleet and establish maritime trade, but the neighboring Luaranz Kingdom has him massively outgunned at sea-and if history goes like it did in the game, then a coup d'etat is about to turn them into a military dictatorship. What will happen when Erhin tries to stop it?
That’s why I hadn’t given Jint another assignment. Well, not that I could count on Jint to do anything that didn’t involve fighting.
“Oh, forget it. It’s not like I’m telling you to go home.”
I’d summoned Mirinae to try giving her a job. She’d always been very smart, but her passion for her studies had caused her Intelligence score to rise considerably.
Looking at the system’s domain management screen, Brinhill currently had a score of 46 for Agriculture. That number represented production efficiency, basically meaning the domain was only at 46 percent of its potential output.
The Brijitian king’s almost total disinterest in domestic policy was probably to blame for that. For now, I needed to boost the territory’s Agriculture score. I didn’t need it to be 100, but if we were only harvesting 46 percent of what we could be, then people were going to starve.
Brinhill
Opinion: 91
Agriculture: 46
Fishing: 52
Forestry: 45
Despite the significant area the region covered, the numbers weren’t very good. I needed these scores raised as high as they could be by a year from now, when the tax exemption policy ended.
So I’ll start with Agriculture.
Fishing and forestry both required someone more knowledgeable in that field.
“There are a lot of books on agriculture. Mirinae, you have farming experience, right? You must know more about it than someone who used to be a nobleman or a soldier. Could you meet with the farmers, hear what they have to say, and then carry out agricultural reforms based on the books in the palace library?”
“Me? You’d trust me with such an important job...?” Mirinae asked, her eyes wide with surprise as they went from me, to Jint, and then back to me again.
“Euracia, how would you feel about helping Mirinae with her task?”
Just having her around would probably give some kind of bonus like she had before. The way that her Charisma gave boosts to internal administration just by having her around made it feel like cheating to have her.
Obviously, I’m not expecting too much. But with Mirinae’s smarts, I’m sure she can come up with something. She’s got the highest Intelligence next to Fihatori.
“Very well,” Euracia said, quickly nodding. “I’m always for anything that helps the people. It’s a pleasure to work with you, Mirinae.”
“You want me to work with the princess?!” Mirinae jumped into the air in shock.
When Euracia cast a dubious glance in her direction, Mirinae started trembling.
“Um... Someone like me...shouldn’t be working with a princess...”
“Have some confidence, Mirinae. That’s an order. As is the job I just gave you.”
It was something that she needed to do to build her self-confidence. I needed her to be more audacious, like Jint.
On second thought, maybe “like Jint” was taking it a bit too far?
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Public opinion, policy, and agricultural reforms are all looking good. But in the end, military power is going to be the most important thing. These are troubled times we live in. I’m going to need to prepare a military not just so that I can unify the continent, but for defense as well.
Having not yet announced the foundation of a new country, the Runanese forces that I’d brought with me and my own forces that I’d raised in Eintorian were both referred to as the Eintorian Domain Army in the system.
They numbered roughly sixty-two thousand men.
The existing Eintorian Domain Army had been twenty-two thousand men, and their Morale was obviously sky-high. On average, they had a high degree of Training too. Honestly, they were fine as is, as long as I could maintain the status quo.
As for the Runanese troops led by Fihatori, they had an incredible Morale of 98. That wasn’t far from the Eintorian Domain Army, which had just tasted victory.
“Fihatori, I wanted to talk about the unit you’ve been leading. Why is their morale so high when they haven’t fought in any major battles?”
They had a Training of 72, but a Morale of 98. I didn’t understand what could have caused that.
“Oh, the reason’s as plain as day. These men have been following you since your defense of Rozern.”
While, yes, that was true, was he suggesting that it was enough, on its own, to explain them maintaining such a high morale?
“They’re thrilled to be able to fight under you again, Your Excellency. Because they know that, with you in command, they’re unlikely to lose, and the odds of them dying are much lower.”
He certainly had a point there.
“Of course... There’s another, larger reason for it. These men crossed the mountains with you and gained victory. You kept your promise to them then, and convinced them you were different from the other lords. I hear some of the men stayed up all night, crying for joy, after they were able to send the reward money back to their families.”
While this was something I had deliberately engineered, it had only worked out this way because Fihatori communicated things to them in such a way that it was thanks to me, and not the King of Runan. As I started to think in earnest about a plan for how to train my army, Erheet approached from behind Fihatori.
“Is Erhin here?”
“Can I help you, Your Excellency?”
We really needed to do something about styles of address soon. Just how many excellencies did we have walking around here? But it was best to save the proclamation of a new country for when public sentiment had moved more in my favor.
It would seem more justified if, rather than just declare “I’m going to be king!” I seemed to be doing it at the urging of those around me.
Obviously, I had a legitimate claim as a descendant of the Eintorians. Anyway, I decided to take a wait and see approach for a little longer.
“I had a proposal to make. Would you consider training lancers? If you would, then I am prepared to spend my life training and managing them for you!”
“Lancers, you say?”
“That’s right. I proposed the idea several times in Runan, but was always rebuffed because we lacked iron and they wouldn’t give me the budget for it.”
Yeah, I can’t see that king ever approving a costly proposal. Lancers, huh?
This might have seemed obvious, but lancers were cavalrymen who fought using lances. It was a somewhat rare troop type in this world for various reasons. The first of which being they were hard to train. It took a lot of talent to be able to control a lance freely while in an unstable position like on the back of a horse. Also, lancers needed a lot of iron. Their job was to charge into the enemy’s formations with their lances. That required sturdy lances and armor in case they got surrounded.
But it was also true that if we could train a large number of them, they’d be a force to be reckoned with. They were a charging unit with long reach and superior mobility. That on its own was already enough to make them scary. Range dominated the battlefield. So long as it didn’t devolve into one-on-one combat, the soldier with the longer weapon had an overwhelming advantage.
If I combined them with my existing iron cavalry, then I could trample over my enemies with that overwhelming destructive power. I had an iron mine now, and Erheet’s skills with a spear had earned him the nickname The Fiendish Spear.
With someone as suited to teaching spear techniques as Erheet, and the iron to construct the equipment needed for him to arm his new recruits with, there was no reason not to go for it.
“I ought to be asking you if you’d do it for me, Your Excellency. I will do everything within my power to help. Please lend us your strength!”
“You mean it?! Good! Then I’ll begin preparing at once!” Erheet sounded like a giddy child.
After that, Fihatori, Erheet, and I had a meeting about military preparations.
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Just as I was getting things on the rails internally, an incident broke out.
The mountains protected us to the north, but the coast was wide open. It was true that the sea had stopped an invasion, and that was why I had chosen this territory, but if any nation in the vicinity had a war fleet, that changed things.
“So, one issue I have with Brijit,” I said to Fihatori.
“Yes?” he asked.
“Why did they only have a grand total of four warships?”
“There is a reason for that. I believe that, under the king two reigns before the last King of Brijit, they lost a major naval battle against the Luaranz Kingdom. From what I’ve been told, they lost all control of the sea after that, and they had no means of fighting back. The Luaranz Kingdom has been famous for their formidable navy ever since the time when the Eintorian Kingdom still reigned supreme. In the time of the Ancient Kingdom, Luaranz had a massive port and a grand fleet, which they used to expand across the continent. It was the House of Luaranz from the Ancient Kingdom that built that great fleet, and who founded the country, so they had been a naval power for generations.”
Oh,...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.1.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up | Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up |
| Illustrationen | raken |
| Übersetzer | Sean McCann |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Schlagworte | action and adventure • Antihero • army building • clever protagonist • Magic • tactics and strategy • video game mechanics |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-1186-9 / 1718311869 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-1186-2 / 9781718311862 |
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