Chapter 312: 15 year old Inglis and the Two Princes (3-2)
「Calm down! Your lives are too precious for me to order you to charge into those beasts without any Artifacts! All troops halt! Move out of the wind and snow and prepare to camp in the woods!」
Weinsel pointed to the woods before the bridge and gave his order. With that, the troops and the huge magic stone beasts were facing each other across the bridge.
「And there are three of those things! God damn it, Lahti. When you said that the Highlanders tricked us with the increase of magic stone beasts, you really are just trying to fool me?」
Alucard had always been a land with minimal Prism Flow and consequently relatively little damage from magic stone beasts. However, when the city of Lekrea was destroyed by a magic stone beast… The reigning king, Weinsel’s foster father, switched policy in order to increase the defenses against magic stone beasts.
However, with how little power Alucard had as a nation, trying to plead for significant additions to the gifts from Highland was difficult.
Thus, what they offered was human resources—labor. Alucard was to direct their army towards Charalia and invade it in conjunction with the Venefian army, a pretty powerful move. There were those who agreed and those who went against these conditions, but in the end, the country decided to accept them.
However, taking on the brunt of the battle and opening the war by themselves would be a bad idea. So, they waited until the Venefiques, who always had strong territorial wants over Charalia’s lands and were aggressive in their invasion, and gained the upper hand in the war so that Alucard could enter Charalia’s territory with relative ease, but…
The Highlanders took this as an attitude of disrespect and disobedience, and thus, through giving out an advance loan, they sent down Tiffany the Hyrule Menace.
Now, if only Hyrule Menaces like her had lived up to their reputation as guardian deities who protected the Midlanders against all evil, as what Charalia had always boasted…