Chapter 2075 – 2075. The Fallen Empire
Park Soo-ho was busy preparing for war.
This war is a territorial war. Defeating doesn’t mean losing a city. Even if you lose, you still have a chance to start over. However, I had no intention of working with such a complacent mindset.
I will fight this war with desperate determination. He spent all the money he had saved up for it. All of the money in the district and the city budget.
But next month, taxes come in, so all I have to do is win. And the increase in population of 50,000 also means that Park Soo-ho himself is getting stronger. If 50,000 people enter the city, it will develop faster than before.
‘We have already prepared the area for 50,000 people. Even if the food is a little tight… If necessary, you can borrow money from the district and bring food. If that doesn’t work, I can borrow it from the Solite Republic.’
Modern objects tend to sell well in this world. In particular, luxury items such as wristwatches can be quite expensive.
‘The elves and dwarves agreed to cooperate… According to the words of the wizards under the command of Count Morch, we must be careful of the Dread Knights. As you can see, the citizens from the Empire are more afraid of the knights than the nobles. There must be a reason. Let the wizards attack the knights first…’
Park Soo-ho skipped breakfast to prepare for the war. He had a lot of work to do. His head might have exploded had it not been for the administrative officials helping him.
Intense sunlight came through the window and hit Park Soo-ho in the eyes. Park Soo-ho’s concentration broke. Growl It was when the stomach of an empty stomach sent a signal. The door to his office burst open and an armored soldier entered with an urgent expression.
“Mayor! Big deal! Rice, soldiers!”
“Calm down and tell me. What’s the matter?”
Did some of the soldiers have an accident? Or have monsters entered the city? It wasn’t rare, but there were occasional incidents. Park Soo-ho, who had accumulated experience as the mayor of Veroprine, was ready to deal with the problems without panic. Until he heard the soldier’s report.
“The wells used by the soldiers have been poisoned!”
“Uh, um. What?”
“The public well used by the soldiers has been poisoned! Currently 320 people have died and 650 are poisoned! Even now, the number of addicts continues to rise!”
“What crazy!”
Park Soo-ho jumped up from his seat. His bewildered eyes twinkle. A cold sweat runs down your forehead.
“Priest, call the priest! No, close the well first! Tell them not to use water!”
“General Belian has already ordered. Another soldier ran to the priest’s temple, and the situation inside the barracks is under control!”
“Damn. Should I say I’m lucky? I need to check the damage myself!”
Park Soo-ho walked quickly out of his mansion and headed toward his barracks. As he moved, he asked the soldier questions.
“Since when has the well been polluted?!”
“We are estimating the time slot for dawn. Those who drank the water last night were fine!”
“What are the symptoms of poisoning?”
“Symptoms developed gradually. After drinking water, the body gradually becomes paralyzed and hardens after 3 hours. And in the end, he dies of a heart attack.”
“… It’s a vicious poison. It’s like a poison made to poison a well.”
It was better to drink the poison and die right away. Then, seeing the dead body first, he would have known right away that the well was poisoned.
“Who poisoned the well?”
“I do not know. The well is located in an underground facility in the center of the barracks, and has no boundaries. There are no witnesses because there is no need to go to the well to drink.”
Park Soo-ho, the mayor of Veroprine, was a modern man. He used modern knowledge to develop the city.
Park Soo-ho thinks that the best city to live in is a comfortable city like modern Korea. Of, formula, state. He pursued a city where everything was comfortable. He served modern food to citizens and sold modern clothes and goods. Of course, the living environment has also improved.
Among them, one of the most concerned is the water supply and sewerage. In the process, the well was no longer needed… Not all areas have been developed yet, so some are left behind. Part of it is a well in the barracks.
I had no idea that some madman would poison the barracks well.
“Younglord. This is definitely the work of the imperial bastards. The Empire’s pawn poisoned the well! We must investigate all of the Imperials in the city of Veroplin!”
The soldier shouted in hatred.
Park Soo-ho, who was very excited, cooled his head.
‘This is dangerous.’
Veroprine was similar to today’s multi-ethnic countries. It is a city where people from all walks of life gather. The Empire was much larger than the Solite Republic and had an overwhelmingly large population. As such, there were not a few citizens from the Empire.
Now this soldier’s ideology was dangerous. Hating and hating those from the Empire will end the city in its worst form.
“Soldier! Shut up! What you are saying now is an insult to good citizens! Do you think the citizens of Veroprine would do such a dirty thing?!”
Park Soo-ho shouted as a blood vessel was built around his neck. The soldier froze when he, who was usually kind to a beggar, got angry.
“I’m sorry. I made a mistake…”
Seeing the shivering soldier, Park Soo-ho sighed.
“… After. Nothing is certain in this situation. Don’t be quick to guess. If I hear something like that one more time, I won’t put up with it any longer.”
“Ha, but the mayor. Rumors have already spread. I just heard the rumors and thought so…”
“Rumors… It spread… ?”
Park Soo-ho’s head began to throb.
Something. Something was firmly going wrong.
‘… Discrimination. Okay. There were signs of that.’
Even knowing it, it was hard to use my hands.
Even in the modern world with a high level of education, racial discrimination is openly occurring, but is it different in this world? This world is rather less racist. Instead, regional discrimination is severe. In particular, it was common knowledge that people from the Republic and those from the Empire had a bad relationship.
‘Even if I knew about it, it was a problem I couldn’t use my hands on.’
I hoped that over time, it would be harmonized and disappear naturally. Even so, I vaguely expected that someday a problem would arise…
‘I never thought it would explode right now.’
It was a situation where the curse came out.
Park Soo-ho arrived at the scene. The barracks were under the control of healthy soldiers.
A middle-aged man with bald bangs approached Park Soo-ho. He was General Belian.
“… Are you here, mayor? Sorry. I was too careless. Troops should have been deployed at the well as well. I will take the punishment sweetly.”
“Responsibility comes later. Now, saving the soldiers comes first. How are things?”
“It’s the worst. 300 people have already died. The cause of death was a poison-induced heart attack.”
“What is the difference between soldiers who are not dead?”
“Soldiers who drank less water or who were naturally healthy and strong overcame the poison. The problem is ordinary soldiers who drank more than a glass of water. Even if there are individual differences… I don’t think it will last long.”
“Priests and healers are at work. Don’t give up hope At least one person has to survive.”
“Yes. You are right. I will come to my senses.”
“An antidote?”
“It is said to be a hitherto unknown kind of poison. The antidote is… Doesn’t exist. Even the priest’s holy power couldn’t decipher it.”
“…”
Park Soo-ho gritted his teeth.
The situation was hopeless, but the priests and healers did not give up.
“We are trying to overcome the poison by strengthening the bodies of addicts using medicine and divine power.”
“How else?”
“Doesn’t exist.”
“… Then you should do that.”
Divine power flowed from Park Soo-ho’s body. He has a temple in the city, so he can use divine power too.
That day, 755 soldiers died.
Word of this disaster spread far and wide, and the citizens of Veroprin began to hate the Empire.
• • •
An evening banquet was held in the castle of Count Morch. Because I heard the good news that hundreds of Veroprine’s soldiers had died. I attended the banquet as a knight. Count Morch and the knights under him drank wine as if they were happy.
“Chuck! The goddess must be blessing us! Conversely, Veroprine was cursed! We will win this Battle of the Territory!”
“You are indeed right, Your Excellency!”
“No wonder a city without history and honor is cursed!”
“For Morch!!”
Everyone is laughing and talking. I looked at the group sitting a little away from Count Morch. There are six young men and women and two mature women. They were all members of Count Morch’s family.
‘I asked why he wasn’t sad when he said his eldest son was lost, and it was because he had many children.’
As the times have changed, people have become accustomed to death. Ah, everyone in the world must have seen a corpse at least once.
‘Moreover, Count Morch’s wives… You’re young and pretty.’
It seemed that the age difference between him and Count Morch would be at least 20 years. I don’t know the details, but they must be the newly acquired wives. Because polygamy is the standard for those in power in the empire.
My eyes met with the blonde-haired Countess.
Now I was wearing a bast face mask for a handsome man in his 30s. It was enough to attract women’s attention. I grinned. The woman did not avert her eyes. Our eyes burned hot and sticky.
It is absolutely not an illusion. Even after that, we saw each other from time to time.
‘If I had time and space, I could have sex right away, right?’
Now that the two men and women have met eyes, all that remains is to face each other.
In fact, her beauty was not much different from the two prostitutes who came to my room, but the status of a prostitute who could pay and eat at any time and the countess was the difference between heaven and earth. Of course, the latter is worse.
“Did you say Sir Daycourt?”
He was a man 10 cm shorter than me. Water streams run down his face.
“… Hmm? Knight for the first time. Who are you?”
“This is Nell Cotton. A knight who served His Excellency, Count Morch, for eight years. You’re rude to the subject of being a newcomer. If you’re new, shouldn’t you greet other senior drivers first? As an 8-year senior, did I have to come to say hello to you first?”
It was territorial.
I chuckled and tossed the glove at his head and shouted.
“How dare you insult me?! I challenge you to a duel, you goblin bastard!”
