The Strategist Knows Everything

There's a tall man with silver hair cut across his shoulder in front of me. The year looks about the second half of the twenties to the first half of the thirties. Actual age would be like that.

The man's name is Arnold Dooneheil. A man in the position of archdeacon of the Aytail Empire, my enemy at hand.

After interacting with His Highness Leasia, I immediately headed for Count Eulen's territory, using Roy as my escort. Taking advantage of a small number of profits, I managed to reach the castle of Count Eulen in about six days, sending a messenger to the First Fleet of the Empire who, if he wanted his daughter, Her Royal Highness Princess Liasia, to come alone, was beginning to line up on the coast.

The king's brother, the cutter and reputation, waited to see how he would cut back, and he came in person. Alone as requested, too.

I had considered the possibility of coming, but I didn't think it would really come. By then I suspected my daughter was cute, but Her Highness Liasia wasn't in her eyes. I'm the one to stare at.

Arnold Dooneheil has come aboard to admit me as an enemy and to fight this deliberately. To fight each other the best.

All of the information that goes to the status screen is so expensive that it's going to be dazzling. Combat power is in the nineties. Intelligence is over one hundred and thirty, and magic is over one hundred.

It is told that the first kings of the four great powers other than Albion were ancient species, and because of this, those who draw the blood of the royal family will beat over a hundred at their leisure, with a status rarely exceeding a hundred. So far, more than a hundred are almost exclusively the royalty of the great powers. Do you mean the blood of ancient species? There are a few exceptions, some of them Sofia, but everyone, including Sofia, is in the process of making an exception. As far as Sofia is concerned, in existential terms, it cannot be described as an ordinary human representative because it is even more precious than an ancient species.

Well, I don't care about that story now. The problem is that the man with higher intelligence than me has challenged me to brainstorm.

Admiral Arnold is sitting on the chair across the street from his desk, and this side is Sophia, Master Kaguya, with me sitting on the chair. Still, Admiral Arnold doesn't look away from me.

It's something that's been blinded by troublesome people. Though it is entirely my fault. I took my daughter hostage. But this man assumed more than he had led the First Fleet himself. That His Highness Riasia will be taken hostage and dragged to the negotiating table. No, rather, it may have been designed or aimed at to be so. Neither would the imperial purpose be a clash of force, but a negotiated solution.

It is unclear how powerful the First Fleet led by Admiral Arnold is, but it will certainly not win easily. And Admiral Arnold will not commit the foolishness he wants for the war alone against the Velis army. We won't cooperate, we'll let the Empire fight first and beat the exhausted Velis.

More than this man, the commander in chief of the navy, can handle any ad hoc response on the front line. At the same time, it doesn't mean this is going to be the kind of situation I told His Highness Liasia.

Things went back to shaking out. No, it hasn't changed. Even with some movement, neither the Empire nor Velis have shown any clear movement. Suitable for the opponent, the formation is changed, but not attacked. Because it's more unfavourable to move first. And because he didn't like to move first, Admiral Arnold smiled and ate at the bait he sprinkled with the intention of getting the other person to move.

He's too dangerous. Right now, Her Royal Highness Riasia is politely asked to wait in the next room. And there are two powerful trumpets over here that say Dear Kaguya and Sofia. Still, this guy keeps grinning.

"It's Arnold Dooneheil. Greetings, Master Hall of Arklight"

"My name is Yukito Clay. My lord. Now I'm letting you name me Velis' warrior. I ask you to call me that in the future."

"Are you Velis' military teacher……. Is it no longer satisfactory under His Highness Diorud? Or did you pay attention to His Majesty Caguya?

"I'll leave it to your imagination."

Before Kaguya reacts, I give it back without putting my hair in.

Master Kaguya, after looking at me a little dissatisfied, named himself and Admiral Arnold returned it in a meeting. He's not so interested in Kaguya's reaction, and there's no further indication that he's going to say something.

That's not the end of it, though. From now on, Admiral Arnold will have to consider putting a shake in Kaguya and Sofia. Is that a light jab to convey it?

Master Kaguya and Sofia asked me to leave it to them. Perhaps, unless so much happens, the two of you will only answer without difficulty. He also asks me to fix his expression, but I am honest about that, and I don't like the clumsy Kaguya. It makes a lot of reactions to the point that someone who understands.

I still move my eyebrows slightly, and my right hand, holding my fist, is powered. I can't afford to think about why it's happening, but I guess I'm not in a very good mood. Still, I have to ask you to keep quiet.

"Uhm. Let's try to push evil on our own over here. And your supreme maiden lord."

"It's the first time I've seen you. My name is Sophia Leesberg. Lord Dooneheil, I hope you will know me later."

"You are more adult than His Majesty Caguya."

"Is it? Speaking of adults, Your Excellency, you sound like a child."

Admiral Arnold turns a deeper smile back to Sophia, who releases her spicy words with a neat smile. A smile I can't read at all what I'm thinking.

"You've said hello, and it's time to negotiate."

"Indeed. I am also a child of men. Don't worry about my daughter."

There's no sign of that in Admiral Arnold's face like that. My obsession with my daughter is very different from that of my predecessor. Both extremes, though I don't know if my daughter is happy.

"You're safe. You're in the next room. Something tells me that in the middle of the war, I left you with a little personality. Many generals mistakenly assume that the Empire has attacked them, and with all the meaning to convince them of that, Your Excellency has asked you to come here alone. Now the general will be relieved. Even if it ties the history of the continent. There is no single commander in the castle of an enemy country trying to attack you."

Admiral Arnold doesn't smile at me when I talk shabby. No, can you see the change because it has changed from a relatively mild smile to an invincible smile earlier?

"I might be one of the first, though?

"Just kidding. You don't think Your Excellency can win a war with Velis?

Returning a slightly provocative word, Admiral Arnold darkens his invincible grin, rests his elbows on his desk and puts his jaw over his assembled hand.

"Our Imperial Navy is the strongest in the world. In Velis' navy, I don't think we're going to be dealing with it with quality, quantity?

"You're right. So you think you can win a war with Velis? I asked. Velis is sure the Navy is no big deal. I haven't even experienced combat at sea in years, and I'm just a name for the Navy. But there are some of the strongest soldiers around His Majesty Caguya. Now, you don't know?

"Whatever. Velis' strongmen are rumored to be the best on the continent. Anyway, it's a country that was at the dawn of war."

"That's right. Unlike a country that enjoyed peace like the Empire, we at Velis had many enemies, we had no choice but to take our swords."

Admiral Arnold's word that dawn has dawned on the war is a cynicism about what it means to be a combatant fanatic and about Velis, who has fought a useless battle. And to say that you enjoyed my peace means an inert country and irony to the Empire, which is weak except for the Navy.

Me and Admiral Arnold gaze at each other a little bit in the form of an irony that showered each other's country. I didn't catch a glimpse of it. I was just trying to read their thoughts. And I couldn't read it. Probably over there.

The drop in this negotiation will be on what terms we will alliance. Hostility has no future in either country. If you are at sea, the Imperial Tiger Son, the First Fleet, will also suffer less damage from this interception if you go ashore. And that's deadly for the Empire. On the contrary, Velis, too, when attacked by the Empire after joining the Empire, would lose the coast, hinder the distribution of supplies and the movement of soldiers, and eventually lose the war.

After obtaining Velis, the Empire and Albion set their aim for the Empire. Finally, it's a matter of order.

And both countries in such a state of being hunted down understand that alliances and bouncing enemies are best for both countries. Anyway, Admiral Arnold and I have the best decision to make.

Here comes the face of both countries and the greed of me and Admiral Arnold. The Empire wants to be Velis', and Velis wants to be superior to the Empire. Of course. By alliance, if this ordeal walks away, we are enemies. If you don't stay superior to your opponent, you'll have trouble when your alliance is over.

And depending on which takes the lead, the way other countries look at it also changes. The movement of the empire, especially now on the Albion side, will change. If this alliance is seen as advantageous, the Empire will abandon Albion. But at that time, negotiating with the Empire is a dominant country.

So the later you think about it, the more you have to stay in the vanguard right now. And this is the face of the country.

From me and Admiral Arnold, I honestly don't care about negotiating with the Empire or anything. Interpretation, where you won the right to negotiate with the empire that will join you when the war situation prevails, all you get is a small amount of support and the face of the country. Me and Admiral Arnold are thinking differently. No, dunno, I'm thinking.

It is.

"Velis, who took the sword, is exhausted in a long battle, albeit with all the strongmen. Even the civil unrest ahead made a sacrifice. To be honest, I mean it best in the fight against the Union of Small States and the Albions that lead them."

"Really? But let's be honest with you, only the First Fleet is stepping on actual combat experience with pirate extermination, etc., otherwise all weak soldiers because of the continued peace. As the Master warrior said earlier, it's impossible to deal with a great power."

How much to avoid losing soldiers. End of the line. More importantly, how much you can shred your opponent's soldiers and protect your own.

The Imperial Navy will definitely come. As for Velis, I would like to ask the Empire for that opponent. However, as an empire, I do not want to deplete the first fleet, which is a tiger son. In all seriousness, you'll want to pull up the First Fleet even now. At any rate, the First Fleet is a matter of national defence. If I wear out here, I won't be able to protect my country.

I want to hit the empire, Velis. The Empire withdrew on the condition that it would not attack in order to take a high view of itself. The two countries are in that state now, and me and Admiral Arnold are thinking about how we can get into the situation the way we think it is.

"My empire has few good commanders, and to tell the truth, the First Fleet will not function properly unless I command it."

"Just kidding. Even after His Excellency leaves the fleet, the First Fleet is lined up in uninterrupted motion. That is the strength of the world's strongest navy. I want you to show me your strength."

"Ha ha. The Master is a good flatterer. But the Master told you earlier, right? Our empire has not experienced war for a long time. Even when the enemy is present, the soldier's movements become dull with fear, confusion and tension. Now that we have no enemies, we can move as we practiced. This is proof that our empire does not see Velis as an enemy."

Admiral Arnold won't respond to it if this one goes badly and incites it. As soon as I showed my pride in the power of the Imperial Navy, I thought of spraying it, but there was no gap in the boulder. Regret boils in my chest as to whether I should have attacked you at the time of the first words, but then I recall that, even if you wanted to be the shield of my country, you would have been well served. Speaking on that occasion, it's synonymous with putting this aim in my mouth, and they take my word for it. Then it would be unfavourable after being scolded.

"We Velis have no doubt about the Empire. However, Velis has many enemies. Confidential information, but now you think the Imperial Navy, which sounded like sound, is coming this way? We don't have a Navy for this in Velis."

"What are you talking about? If you are the elite of Velis, led by His Majesty Caguya, you will be able to retreat easily. Anyway, we can get away with it."

Saying so, Admiral Arnold laughs niggardly and slaps his hands wide.

Move. At the same time that I thought so, Admiral Arnold said an unexpected word.

"But we cannot remain silent that our Empire will also be trampled upon dear Velis. Under certain conditions, our Imperial Navy, the most powerful in the world, will kick the Imperial Navy's ass."

"I appreciate that. So what are the terms of that?

In addition to His Highness Riasia's stature, this one has the strength and the know-how to build it up.

New tactics using Knox's system of independent troops and witchcraft. They all become trading materials.

If it's a deal, it's in your favor. That's what I thought. Admiral Arnold uttered words, as he saw through my thoughts.

"It's a guarantee that I won't betray this one. Of course, it comes with form. Simply put, he's a hostage. From the Imperial side, let's keep my daughter, Leasia, in Velis as she is. Instead, I want you to send out royalty."

Admiral Arnold's face, who said so, was delightfully distorted.

There are two royalties in Velis who can move quickly. Kaguya or Dio. Master Kaguya is the king. I can't believe you're a hostage. But being pulled out of Master Dio right now is unlikely to be Velis either. I stop standing. The two of you, Dio's sisters, are in the Empire because you let them escape through the Empire's parent, the Veris. It's impossible to call it back in this situation. There is no reason to offer a fake royal family. The Commander-in-Chief sent his daughter out on purpose. If you respond in good faith, you don't know what kind of bad reviews you're going to get.

"But His Highness Diorud is about the country's top positions. So let's make a concession. A human being who is not in a key position but is worth as much as a royal"

With that said, Admiral Arnold grinned at me.

"Lord. The Master of Velis."

That's what I said.