Chapter 176: Ties Of Friendship
The day passed since the meeting with the delegates, three of whoms representatives were cast out of these lands via Julius’s Mana arts, the other two delegations remained, and took up Miri’s offer to explore the city, their actions of course were monitored by the Praetorians but the report provided to Julius stated their actions were not suspicious as they merely questions the people about the new lord their experiences in the war against Visigoth, and on whether they’d be open to trade with their nations.
All these were fine for Julius as trade would be appreciated and an insular economy would not be able to flourish as luxury goods could be found across the continent but not many really could be found in the south where Latinium presently stands.
Zeff after a moderate amount of time spent with Miri returned to Julius’s side before questioning him about the day’s events.
"Are we at war again?" <Zeff>
"No, I cannot speak for Roserun as they are likely to attack in the near future, but as for Ramie, and the Principality they lack the naval force to contend with our Carthaginian brothers, and while we share a small border with them, they should be fearful of our land army which swept Visigoth, and now Lunan aside to powerhouses of land combat.
"But we didn’t really defeat either of them with our armies?" <Zeff>
"That doesn’t matter, as long as they believe it to be true they will be afraid, for people always fear what they don’t understand." <Julius>
"I see, so we appear more powerful so long as we don’t reveal how weak we really are?" <Zeff>
"Well I wouldn’t call us weak, but yes compared to some of our new neighbours we could be defeated while certainly putting up a valiant resistance, but... in time we can grow and with that growth, we can challenge their dominance on the continent." <Julius>