Ataraxia Abyss
Chapter 54: Red Queen Boudica

As the war continued, the Eceni and their Queen attacked and killed the right-wing troops, while Regal and Gram held off the left. Regal and Gram really fought so hard that the Templars could not handle two people. As they were fighting, Kallen, who had just awoken on the ship, saw two large ships each carrying a thousand troops. Seeing that, Kallen moved his right hand and controlled the ocean currents.

The ship crashed into each other and the soldiers were all sunk due to their heavy armour. Seeing that Kallen had blocked the enemy reinforcements, Regal and the Eceni troops finally charged in full force and in the end the war was won by the Eceni tribe. Regal and Kallen finally meet the Queen of the Eceni forces, Boudica. A beautiful woman with blazing red blonde hair, she meets Regal and bows her head.

"Thank you for accepting my request of the King of Warriors, we won't be able to survive without you." Regal saves Balmung and greets Queen Boudica. "No matter the Queen, you could say I also have a problem with the Holy Kingdom." Boudica answered. "Call Boudica, Mr. Regal, then come, we'll go to camp." Finally everyone was drunk after the war was over, a party was held and enlivened by the soldiers while Regal and Kallen were chatting with Boudica.

"Tell me Boudica... Why don't you ask the other tribes for help?" Hearing Regal's question, Boudica answered. "We have asked for help, but they do not want to help at all because the Holy Kingdom promises that if we pay tribute then they will not mess with us,the tribes believed that and thought that it was a good idea not to provoke the emotions of a great country like the Holy Kingdom." As Regal had expected, the Holy Kingdom was unsure of this invasion and only threatened to use an ultimatum. Well, come to think of it, this invasion will only last for a short time because the Holy Kingdom has difficulty sending their troops through the sea which is of course long and high risk.

A woman pours drinks to Regal and Kallen, those are the children of Boudica, they are almost similar to their mother and they seem to dislike the arrival of Regal and Kallen. That dislike culminates when one of them opposes their mother. "Mother! Can we trust a Mercenary? We Eceni always fight against everything alone, father also always face everything alone, then why should we give our treasures to these Mercenaries?!" Boudica was immediately furious and snapped at him. "Heanua! Respect our guests...!" The young girl was instantly stunned in silence after hearing her mother snarl. Boudica looked at Regal and smiled. "I'm sorry, my son, we've been through so much that they can't be so clear-minded..."

Regal shook his head and replied. "No problem, but we can't fight alone. You need an army, and to be honest the Eceni army of only 24,000 is clearly impossible to defeat the forces of the Holy Kingdom. You will lose even with the two of us...

Eceni has tremendous wealth and fighting power I admit, but according to rumors circulating you do not want to pay tribute so that the Holy Kingdom does not vary. The whole tribe pays Boudica's tribute, so why don't you? Why do you want to fight when everyone goes to pay their wages to be safe from this occupation?" Boudica was obviously distressed by Regal's words, her son wanted to yell at Regal but Boudica stood up and replied to Regal.

"This land... My husband has been fighting for years, fighting the tribe and also keeping the peace with Victoria. I didn't give up tributes because we knew we were weak. When they subjugated Victoria, did you think they would still protect us? Keeping their promises? No. gabe... Even when we refused to pay, they threatened to whip and harass me and my children, all of which happened when they were not in power,do I need to explain what's going to happen when they've come to power on this island?"

Hearing that answer, Regal smiled and laughed a little. "Hmm~ I originally thought that you only hired us out of desperation, and in fact you were desperate. But those eyes, you have the eyes of a Warrior who knows what is right and what is not, that is the eyes of a Sovereign. Well, then I'll help you in this war..." Hearing that answer Boudica finally cried, it was like she had gained a glimmer of hope after all this time struggling alone.

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Kallen and Regal went on their horses to get to a tribe in the south, the Trinovantes. There Regal started with the negotiations, and it turned out that it was all going well and Trinovantes wanted to join.

"Everyone has gathered?" The tribal leaders began a meeting with Regal as its chairman. "In battle, we always lack people and equipment nor can we surpass the Templars. But there is one thing that can be destroyed right now, namely moral... To the south was a fortress built by the Templars. The fortress was made to govern the administration and they also built buildings similar to the buildings in the Holy Kingdom as a sign of their power. But the place is very vulnerable in the absence of walls. But we have to do it slowly..."

As planned, the Regals and the armies of Eceni and Trinovantes attacked and overthrew the power of the Holy Kingdom there, but they did so with few troops. The news spread like a storm to the ears of the Holy Kingdom troops who built a fortress close to the conquered fortress. Roland who was leading the Holy Kingdom campaign heard the news. "The Barbarians managed to flatten our fortress in the east?" Roland asked a soldier who was delivering a message. "Well Mr. Roland. After Eceni defeated the sent troops, they invaded before sunrise." Roland was obviously worried about the loss of the army he had routed to conquer Eceni. But hearing there were only a few troops attacking, making Roland think that Eceni won but with a very large number of casualties, and he underestimated the troops who attacked the fortress. Roland also only provided assistance by sending a slave army of 2,000 people with 500 Templar troops.

They all went to the fortress with passion, knowing that it had no walls to protect its surroundings. Everyone was excited as soon as they saw that the Eceni and Trinovantes troops were not aware of their arrival and they ran away from the fort. But back again, it was all a plan from Regal...

Boudica and his army ambushed from the forest, killing the reinforcements sent without any Templars being pardoned, while the slaves fled in fear. This news clearly made Roland's ears hot, out of all the battles he had fought on the island, all the tribes had always fought openly or used guerrilla techniques, either,making Roland underestimate them and eventually someone knows that Roland underestimated the Barbarians and that person took advantage of them. He took the opportunity and made the Holy Kingdom lose 2 times in a row from Eceni to make the Holy Kingdom question their morale. Roland was obviously upset that their defeat began to cause the tribes who paid tribute to worry and eventually joined Boudica. But fortunately, no one knew that Regal had joined the Eceni, which made Roland begin to underestimate the fighting tactics and strength of Eceni. They thought that their tactics could defeat the barbarians who only relied on direct attacks or stealth attacks.

But now that Regal was on top of the Templars' dead bodies eating apples, he was thinking about this war, Regal told himself that this was all just the opening...