Arestia Empire'S World Domination
Chapter 5: Sowing the Seeds

...—Rodez, Kingdom Forbrenne—...

...—11 July 1238—...

Silent, without a sense of presence, the darkness of night enveloped a largest city at the western end of the border of the Forbrenne Kingdom Region.

A faint small step was heard from a small alley between two abandoned wooden buildings. Reckoning, the black-robed man opened the shabby little door of one of the buildings with high vigilance.

"Chairman, what happened to our request? Do they really accept it?" The anxious words of a woman immediately sounded right after she entered the door.

"Don't worry, I've made sure there's heavy weaponry outside the city walls." The black-robed man opened his hood and immediately took down his leather bag which contained many swords, daggers, as well as arrows that would be used as a supply of his group's weapons.

The reddish curly hair that was very tangled, the incision scar made his adult face greatly give the impression of a mercenary leader.

Rutz, one of the leaders of the people's liberation movement.

Right after being crowned emperor, Ares realized that he could not act freely until the internal affairs and make adjustments to the state bureaucracy.

For this reason, in the last year, Ares ordered Eina to create seeds of rebellion in the community, in addition to her efforts to further intensify the feud between the heirs to the Forbrenne throne.

Surely, if it was the Forbrenne Kingdom, Ares would not need to prepare that many resources considering that Eina already had many spies in it, who had now joined as the Intelligence Bureau of the Arestia Empire.

Knowing Eina was still alive, great happiness soon struck the knights and his followers—which incidentally was a blind follower of the House of Fonca—which since the beginning had intended to commit massive sabotage against the government of Ares.

Anticipation has been made, Ares can solve several problems with just one move. Releasing Eina greatly helped the political stability and the region of Arestia which is known to be still dynamic.

Whether what Eina did, her group was no longer heard, as if it had been lost in the middle of civilization, making Ares very relieved by it.

Eina has a large fund that she can access whenever she needs from Ares. With the fresh funds, his spies did a lot of propaganda— secretly— to the people, creating an assumption that civil war and heavy taxes haunt people's lives.

With concrete evidence of increasingly massive feuds, under Ares's orders, Eina contacted many of the commoners who had real influence through her group.

Many sweet promises Eina has given. Funding, heavy weaponry, food, everything they needed would be fulfilled, until many of the commoners were affected given the condition of the Forbrenne residents that had been seen as hopeless.

Rutz, along with many influential figures from various circles who gathered that night, promised to gather a large crowd. Although many obstacles and trials have been passed because the majority of the common people are too afraid to fight, their struggle in the past year has not ended in vain.

They had already had a large mass, with much propaganda the more vigorous the imperial Intelligence Bureau did, making Rutz and other influential leaders more determined to carry out a rebellion, this can be known as a revolution.

Revolution until no people are trampled, they have carved a strong determination in the mind, especially after having real and clandestine support from the common people.

Rutz had gotten the message, "The door of the Viscount mansion has been opened for you," greatly making him wonder how his collaborator— pinned down for Eina—'s spy could do such a thing.

Even so, Rutz did not bother about it. As long as the people can be freed from the suffering that will befall them, it will be enough for him.

Many of the members of the group were stunned by the iron weapons that had now been within their grasp. Very good quality, characterizing that the weapons they are holding are very expensive, very different from the weapons that have been passed down by their parents for generations.

These operations have very different values to the wars they often perform. No longer using their own weapons, no longer moving as puppets of nobles, no one does not believe that their lives have now changed after the "collaborator" moves in the interests of the people.

"Come on." After sharing his weaponry, Rutz with his small group— scattered throughout the city, each of which amounted to about 25 people— scattered through different paths even though their destination remains the same, Mansion Viscount Ilgid.

Several faint groups were seen sneaking around at some point of the city, besieging the Viscount Ilgid mansion from all directions.

Unlike the large cities owned by the Count or Earl and higher ranked noble families, although it was said to be a big city, Rodez City was a very small city when compared to Ereth City, which was a very small city, The Capital of the Rueter Region.

Unrestricted by the wall dividing the social caste of the people, with no more than 1,000 soldiers as city guards, the rebel movement had no barriers under the darkness of the night.

A mild-armored knight— was a spy Eina— approached the guard post located in the border area between the knight caste and commoners. Slowing away at a quick pace, without paying attention to the guard knights who were negligent of his guard, Eina's spy unsheathed the poisonous dagger that had previously been grazed behind her back.

"Aragh!"

Against the back of the neck of one of the gambling knights, Eina's spy slashed at him quickly, making several other guard knights aware of the attack.

In a sabotage operation, a minor wound is what the spy aims for. Not a severe or deep wound, Eina's spy condition can be fulfilled if the victims can not move properly.

The other knights who gambled with him frantically got up, preparing a weapon they could reach, even if their efforts only ended in futility.

"Urghs!"

Eina's spies once again unsheathed the poisonous dagger with her other hand, scraping rapidly into the nape and legs of the guard knights, no longer able to stand due to the extremely rapid spread of poison crippling them.

Eina's spy took an arrow from her leather bag, burned the arrow's eye with the fire of the lantern she had just tampered with and immediately shot it upwards.

"Seraaaaang!"

Rutz shouted, raising his sword of iron, running with the liberators of the people to attack the Mansion of the City Lord.

"Oooooohhhhh!"

Not only the liberating forces, even the civilians also joined in, freeing themselves from the viscount confinement which imposes heavy taxes and starving them of having experienced political turmoil over the past year.

From within his mansion, Viscount Ilgid and his family had awakened to the increasingly boisterous state of the city, running frantically towards the secret passageway they knew.

The knights of the Viscount's bodyguards protected them, moving away from the masses who had barged through the entrance.

"Quick! Hurry along!" The viscount shouted in panic. His long brown hair looked wet with sweat, his round eyes also reflected a great panic.

The basement door was at the end of the line of sight, the footsteps and the cries of the rebels grew louder, a sign that they could only escape through the secret passage.

Ckkrkkp.

Ckkrkkp.

The Viscount took the handle of the door, pushing his lever down while pushing the door with one of his shoulders in a panic.

A few times, the door did not open. Moreover, a heavy burden felt holding back the Viscount's shoulder thrust from behind the door, as if it had been held back by something heavy.

"Fucking asshole! Open it!" The viscount shouted loudly. His wives, two sons, and three daughters immediately expressed hysterical expressions.

TUBS!

TUBS!

The guard knights several times kicked the door hard, forcing it to enter.

Their hopes ended. More than 40 people had surrounded from the end of the hallway with Rutz as its leader.

Looking at the body of the viscount's wife and her daughters, vile thoughts came to Rutz's mind, causing him to smile eerily, which was no different from the other rebels.

Sensing the liberators getting closer, several times pushed the door forcibly and remained unable to open, only a look of despair could be painted on the faces of the knights as well as the members of the Ilgid Family.

As you said, man is a vile individual.

Looking at the chaos from above the city's protective walls, Eina once again recalled Ares' words when he ordered them.

Long hair full of gray hair scattered to flutter due to the night wind, old face with a little wrinkles Eina did not even have sweat even though she had worked very hard some time ago.

Crime, revenge, until war will always haunt the history of mankind, which is certainly very approved by Eina.

Even for low-caste commoners who had just been granted a little power, they would also snatch all things from the nobles and knights who were now weaker compared to them.

A wry smile was also etched. Feeling that all conditions had been reached, Eina again turned around, regrouping with all the members of the imperial intelligence bureau involved in the operation—which was also carried out in other Forbrenne Kingdom cities simultaneously.

Now, I have believed.

There will be a time when the nobles and the church will no longer have power.

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