Mage Veigar

Chapter 501 Return to Kareni

The city of Kareni.

This is the first city that Vega stayed in in the other world.

If he had not been excluded by Foster because of his outstanding achievements, he might have become a senior official in the Kareni military after graduating from the Central Military Academy. At the same time, due to his great prestige in Kareni City, he could probably live the life of a local tyrant.

But there is no if.

Fortunately, after escaping death, he finally returned to the starting point.

Now the city of Kareni has become his next target.

It doesn't mean that we must occupy the city of Kareni. After all, Kareni is the northern frontier of the empire and is of great importance. The empire cannot give it up easily. Now there is still a considerable garrison force within the empire.

If Vega were to attack the city of Kareni now, when the Free Alliance has not taken action, the Principality of Baya has not unified its eighteen vassal states, and the kingdom is still struggling to take care of itself, the defense force within the empire is not something that Vega can handle alone.

Not to mention anything else, just those aviation forces are enough to make Vega's scalp tingle.

And the northern part of the empire had fallen once before.

It was also based on the fact that the last time the United Kingdom captured the city of Kareni, it caused severe damage to the northern part of the empire. Now the empire has deployed a considerable number of garrisons in the north, and the defense force of the city of Kareni is no longer what it used to be.

According to Vega's understanding.

In the past, the Third Army of Kareni City was only equipped with the Army Aviation Department, which had a total of about 100 war airships, but now there are two standard aviation corps stationed in Kareni City.

Therefore, even if Vega wanted to take over Kale City.

It is impossible to accomplish it in just a few months.

Even being able to capture Kareni City within half a year was considered an extremely optimistic thing. Vega was not carried away by the great victory of the "Novice Village".

So why set the target on Kareni?
This is of course done to counter the empire's trade war.

In his previous life, Vega was just a history student, and he knew nothing about economic matters. After all, he was not a genius who was proficient in all kinds of skills. He was just an ordinary person.

You can't expect a history graduate to be a big shot on Wall Street.

Industry specializing in surgery.

Vega believed that with his own abilities, it would be like hitting a rock with an egg to start a trade war with the Empire's think tank in an unfamiliar financial battlefield. Even if he dragged in the dynasty's finance minister, it would be difficult to turn defeat into victory.

If the dynasty's finance minister was really of such a high level, as a major trading country, the dynasty would not have been in such a miserable state. It was easily controlled by the empire, and the entire society was on the brink of collapse.

Use your own weakness to attack the other party's strength.

This is the stupidest thing a person would do.

Although Vega considers himself an ordinary person, ordinary people are not fools, so he still has the mindset of playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.

What are his strengths?
war!

And no matter in which world, violence is a very useful tool.

You need to know that even the so-called laws are based on violence.

Since we have the powerful tool to make rules in our hands, why should we engage in a confusing trade war with the empire?

Playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses is what a truly wise person should do.

Doesn’t your empire like to restrict imports and exports?
Then I will march my army to Kareni and force you to lift all restrictions.

Does your empire still like to raise tariffs?

Then I will attack the city of Kareni and force you to exempt the dynasty from taxes for five years... No! Ten years!
Don't agree?
It just so happens that the Empire's Erkia City and the remaining 100 war airships have not been given to us yet, so we can use this excuse to directly launch a war.

As the battle breaks out on the Dragon City front in the Kingdom, whether to compromise or fight to the death is a question that does not need to be considered at all. If lifting restrictions and tax exemptions for 10 years can buy precious time, I believe it is self-evident what the Empire's think tank will choose.

Therefore, seven days later, Vega advanced his army to the vicinity of Kareni City and sent a letter to the Empire, asking it to lift import and export restrictions on all industries and exempt the dynasty's 137 industries from taxes for 10 years.

of course.

Vega did not waste time waiting for the empire's reply. He began to check the gains of this battle.

A total of 700,000 lives. Even if most of the magicians and professionals escaped, it should be enough for him to leap several levels, right?

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at the same time.

Clemens Oliver, the commander-in-chief of the reorganized 17th Army stationed in the city of Kareni, received a letter from Vega.

Clemens Oliver was the former chief of staff of the Third Army. Since Foster led the Third Army on an expedition to the Dynasty Dragon City, he was promoted and was responsible for the garrison command of the entire northern part of the empire.

The 25th Army Group has troops under its command.

It includes an army aviation unit and two aviation corps, as well as an elite brigade of high-level mages. The garrison is unprecedentedly strong. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is at least twice as strong as Vaigar.

With the exception of former Third Army Chief of Staff Clemens Oliver.

Foster Nolan left the Third Army, including Raglan, Olcott Owen, Lucas... and the entire former command level of the Third Army in the city of Kalini to assist Chrisman in guarding the entire north.

After all, these people have lived in the North all their lives.

Most of them had experienced the fall of Kareni and already had considerable vigilance and experience in defensive counterattacks.

without any exaggeration.

If it was the Kingdom Army instead of Vega that arrived at Kareni City, they would not even wait for the Kingdom Army to attack the city. They would directly organize their troops and march out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Kingdom Army, letting the Kingdom know what true invincibility of the army is.

But when Vega's letter was made public by Chrisman at the meeting, everyone fell silent.

They had no choice but to remain silent.

After all, Vega was an officer from Kareni, so his actions over the years were naturally watched by them.

Of course, these are only secondary reasons.

After all, as Vega's former superiors, they were instinctively somewhat conceited about their own command abilities. Even if they admitted that one person was not as good as Vega, with so many generals present, plus a force several times stronger than the original Third Army, it was not possible for Vega alone to do whatever he wanted here.

Therefore, the main reason for their silence is——

The news that the 700,000-strong army of the 18-nation coalition was completely annihilated.

With almost zero losses, 700,000 coalition troops were annihilated. This cannot be called a miracle in the first place... No, it should be called an epic or even legendary battle.

The second thing that really frightened them was——

Vega issued an order not to take prisoners and to annihilate all enemy forces.

They can disagree with Veigar's command level, or they can deny Veigar's achievements from the past to the present.

But the only thing they dared not deny was the death of 700,000 soldiers, because they didn't know what Vega had gone through to be so cruel as to kill 700,000 people.

If this war goes to failure.

So will Vega spare their lives for the sake of their past friendship?

You have to know that no one said a good word for Vega in front of Foster at the beginning, so everyone already has the answer to this question in their hearts.

And everything was just as Vega said.

In this world where the strong prey on the weak, you may be able to gain recognition and respect from others by accomplishing countless great deeds, but in the end, only...only violence and blood can terrify people.

(End of this chapter)