Border Guardian Hal Akircius

Cilentium City

Today there will be a plenary session of the Cilentium Alliance.

In addition to the southern tribes of Cliffonam, which have the title of "First Alliance" in the annexed cities of Cilentium, the number of northern tribal chiefs and tribal chiefs who have joined the Alliance at this time are visiting Cilentium in large numbers, thus increasing at times and the level of crowding is terrible on the boulevard.

Lucius leads the magistrates in organizing traffic, but not only the warriors and clans who accompany the chiefs of the various tribes, but also the people who started them, come to Cilentium on this occasion in an attempt to see Cilentium at a glance, so it doesn't go very well.

A group of people on horseback, drawing the crowd together, appeared before Lucius.

"The people there! No riding in the city, get off now!

It is probably the peoples of the eastern Cliffonam tribes who are noticed aloud by Lucius and rushing down from their horses after a proper time.

That outfit is something I don't see anywhere near here, and above all, I can tell right away from riding it.

In response to Hal's call for participation in the Cilentium Alliance this time, the Eastern and Southeastern nations are visiting Cilentium, so many of them are not guided to Cilentium.

Perhaps the situation in the city of Cilentium is rare and unpleasant due to the fact that the tribes have had little opportunity to touch the empire or its culture itself until now.

Even after descending from the horses, their people took fur hats, looked up at insulas (collective homes) and water bridges, touched the walls of the paved roads, street trees and buildings that were cleaned up beautifully, marveled at the elaborate emergence applied there, said something with their eyes rounded pointing to the Northern Legion soldiers standing for security in Tsuji, and stared with amazement at the conversation between the unfriendly Orans and the Cliffonams as they walked.

My face is excited and my eyes shine like children with curiosity.

Lucius drops it off for a while, confirms that he is not riding again or lost on the road, and then immediately finds a group of ethnic people who think he has lost his way elsewhere.

"Where are we going?

While giving directions to the people who would tell them where they were going in a relieved manner, Lucius thought about the difficulty of the upcoming meeting and saw the administrative building where Hull was.

Cilentium City and Administration Building, Large Conference Room

First Alliance Plenary Session after Northern Peace.

The chiefs, who were already the Lord, sit on the round table, but this is the first time their faces have met together in this way.

I'm in this one.

Cilentium City

Border Guardian and Chief Administrator of Cilentium and King Fried

Hal Achillsius

Attached Cities

Dekims Adamantius, Mayor of Colonia Meridieto

Petra Suidella, Mayor of Colonia Fellum

Tiberus Tarpeius, Mayor of Colonia Pontis

Mayor Fradia and Castle Cost Bergan

First Alliance

Alchiando, chief of the Armar clan

Alpecio Clan Chief Gatti

Berefes Clan Chief Randeles (Oran)

Serwenk, Chief of the Argentine Clan

Sokanian Sheikh Body

Sodersi Clan Chief Maldos

Northern Nations

Rolfurt Clan Chief Hietagannas

Cadonian Sheikh Mold

Cedenia Chieftain Dietrinthe

Torderite, Chief of the Possia Nation

Quofurt Clan Chief Jebarien

Sphelt Clan Chief Yarvift

Salf clan chief radens

Saura Sheikh Barsieg

Rudows, chief of the Freids

Frink Clan Chief Vin Frind

External alliance (Oran representative)

Chrisurawinus (Alleony clan chief)

However, in addition to the Chiefs of the Eastern Clans of Cliffonam, the Oran clan chiefs, and the Ambassador of the East Photographic City, Daesung Sukesei, are present as jurors.

Colonia Fellum was used by Petra to gather spirited miners and became the base city for the miners in every sense.

It was also decided that the emigration of Oran and Cliffonam ethnic groups engaged in mining operations would be treated as a single city in the sun due to successive population increases.

As for Colonia Pontius, although the underlying bridge is complete, it is still under construction, so Talpeius, who completed the Fradia Urban Improvement Project, was set to complete the city as the mayor's deputy.

Fradia, whose urban improvement project ended, was promoted to the city and Bergan became mayor in conjunction with the cost of the castle.

Meetings in the Great Conference Room were always well under way, with tribal chiefs of the Northern tribes signing the Alliance pledge, and the Eastern tribes remaining five tribes, excluding the Saura

Toral Clan Chief Baysood

Eukuta, chief of the Tisink tribe

Millifian Sheikh Geishint

Fekis Clan Chief Orlov

Rut Clan Chief Parawen

signed as soon as possible because he announced his participation in the alliance.

The Eastern tribes had originally had little interaction with the Empire, and participation in the Cilentium Alliance had been a policy to drop off from its inception, but as neighboring tribes began to join the Cilentium Alliance one after the other, and information from the East Photographers and Finns came in, they were gradually beginning to take an interest in the Alliance.

Detailed information about the battle on the banks of the Ineon River was delivered there, and Hal decided it was not a good idea to ignore it anyway.

Initially, he was invited and intended only to tour the Cilentium, the chiefs of the eastern tribes and their entourage, but was surprised by the beauty of the massively renovated streets of Altrius, witnessing the walls of the Cilentium and the buzz inside, listening once again in detail to the strength of the Northern Legion soldiers and the great victory of the Cilentium army in the Battle of the River Ineon, and gradually his feelings leaned towards alliance participation.

At the end of the day, Hull told me about the loose terms in the alliance and signed it.

Meanwhile, the Oran tribal chiefs, eager from the outset to participate formally in the Silentium Alliance.

Instead of joining the Cilentium Alliance individually, however, the entire Oran people, excluding the Berefes, took the form of forming an alliance first, and then a coalition with the Cilentium Alliance.

Although the conversation is consolidated in the direction of individual alliance participation after Hal was awarded the throne, as a Cilentium, we intend to let the Orans exercise their own autonomy, rather than pursuing the same policy as Cliffonam.

Oran instead recognised the Silentium Alliance's tronian dominance, right to lay streets, and right to build cities, as well as imposing an obligation to provide troops against Silentium.

The Orans receive the same amount of technical support and cultural promotion measures as the Cilentium Alliance, but they are put on hold for the moment for defensive cooperation, which discourages the tribal leaders.

However, although various burdens were imposed, this made the Orans part of the empire in a sense formally and in the form of specific dominance, as the area in charge of border protection officers by joining the Cilentium Alliance.

Until then, the Imperial Army troops who had done whatever they wanted in the Oran area were prohibited from crossing the border outside their jurisdiction.

Orania Orienta, an Oran region that was liberated from labor assignments and extraordinary expropriations from the Empire, as well as no longer threatened from the land side by cross-border incursions by the Imperial Army, and was better prepared only for raids from the coast.

Since that tribal warrior regiment can now concentrate exclusively on dealing with the maritime forces of pirates and island Orans, security will be significantly restored.

After the meeting, the Cilentium Administration Building, Hal's office

"There's something I want you to see"

"What is it?

In his own office, where each secretary and Altrius and Adamantius gathered together, headed by Sittius, Hal first circulates a letter from Julianus.

When the readers were stunned in turn, and at the end of the day Sittius lifted his eyebrows and finished reading, he returned the letter to Hull.

"... as you can see, His Highness Julianus has become Vice Emperor"

"Uhm, this is an unexpected development... Haruyoshi, this is a little bit of a glitch"

Artrius says arm in arm as he peeks into the letter Hal puts down.

In addition to the letter from Julianus, it was noted that the border guardian, Hal Akircius, would henceforth come under the command of his deputy emperor, Julianus, and ask for his instructions, and that Julianus would henceforth retain his powers of appointment and personnel.

"Uhm, now that His Highness Julianus and I have a powerful handkerchief called Haruyoshi... it's not funny, but if he does, he can do badly and dismiss Haruyoshi or threaten him with shields... well, it doesn't matter where he does it."

Sittius opens his mouth as he snorts at Altrius' words.

"Well, Lord Achillsius is building a solid ground on Cilentium, even if you're dismissed, it's not painful or itchy, in case you do, it's just a matter of independence, and if anything, you should sell yourself to East Photograph and be awarded the official position. We already had as much power as we could do."

"Ma'am, I think it's all right, because Your Highness probably wanted to avoid that my identity and official duties would be taken away by nobility or restricted in authority... and that would bother you with this sentence, wouldn't it?

Hal fingers a part of the letter while smiling bitterly at the statements of two radical people.

Apart from being entrusted to his deputy emperor, the letter from Julianus spelled out requests for permission and cooperation for Cilentium.

One of them is the permission to augment armaments, but no specific limits or target values are noted there.

It was just marked “Allow Armament Enhancement” there.

"… it is permitted to augment armaments, but no specific figures are shown"

"Hmm, I see, this is too abstract"

Adamantius and Altrius are right, there is no specific description there.

If we admit armaments in such vague sentences to a badly ambitious existence, we will run to an endless augmentation of armaments and become a new spark.

But Altrius slowly opened his mouth when he noticed the hidden intentions there.

"It can also be said to be inadvertent… but it can also mean that they trust us."

I get Altrius' words, and I'm impressed Hal nods over and over, and then speaks to Cowdex sitting in the side seat.

"I see, did you...... Mr. Cowdex, how big would it be if it were a financially moderate armament in Cilentium?

"Well... with current fiscal revenues without taxes, clearly enough to be too large on the current scale, but with the assumption that tax revenues and the city's business revenues can be expected to be more than constant… up to 60,000 people, etc."

"60,000... roughly more than eight legions with auxiliaries..."

Although it is about a quarter of the Empire's strength, this is only a story of force limited to Cilentium, and adding tribal warriors from allied nations such as Oran and Cliffonam also makes it possible to gather as many troops as the Empire can.

Only tribal warriors with limited defensive warfare ties can't move freely, so if it's Cilentium's own power, we still don't have enough power.

"Cilentium has more fiscal revenues than the population... and its contents are diverse from eastern photographs and dealings with empires, iron and copper mining revenues, income from agricultural businesses, and donation revenues. And next year we'll start collecting taxes, so we can lubricate the funds, so it's possible to turn them into armaments."

Cowdex answers the material as it turns to pieces.

"Now in Cilentium, in the land of the north, the enemy is not there. The Orans and pirates on the island have a headache... but the Halemians haven't been in a state of civil unrest since our defeat, and the Finns of the East can't attack us again because of our friendly relationship with East Photograph... so I can read from this letter... '

"... are you saying there are signs within the Empire, or... Siluha?

Sittius supplements the words with those of Altrius.

"I can't think of anything else, especially when and where. Therefore, there is nothing we can do to deal with it but to provide a strong army that can be moved, and to train hard. '

"It's a shame that we have to pour the power we've gained in prosperity around the corner into armaments, but let's think of this as a point of inquiry and prepare our soldiers"

Hal said, everyone who was on the spot nodded and Altrius raised his tense voice.

"Well, I'll take care of the training, but it's good!

"... no, my predecessor is on the back this time please"

"Oh my God!?

With his motivational gripping fist intact, Altrius looks back at Hull with the eyes that see something incredible.

"The Northern Legion soldiers have complained about the difficulty of training their predecessors..."

"Become… why ~?!"

Everyone on the spot was feathered to hear the most rare thing in the world: a meaningful ghost scream.