128 Time Skip

I look at the city from my castle and smile a little. It has been a year since the time of the Frederick Duchy purge. There are at least three hundred people successfully escaping from the purge and settling in my territory.

Right now, they are staying in the new village. At first, they did not like the cold, but after seeing they can eat some food and have some roof above their head, they decided that it was better than what they had in the past.

Not only that, but they also get some work. From farming to mining, they are eager to get some gold and food on their table.

Last year was a hectic year. There is an illegal ship coming from the east to try to steal our food. Lucky for me, my ward works as intended. One of the thieves teleported inside the dungeon, and the rest of them have been melted into a liquid to nourish the land even more.

That is the thieves, and there is a pirate. They are downright annoying. Not only do they attack my ship that is patrolling the area for some reason, but they also decide to attack the land as well. If not for my ward and the fort near the shore, there will be too many raids to handle.

However, because of the barrier I created in the past, the raid is easier to handle. When I'm not asleep just yet, I can smite them from my castle and destroy their ship. The barrier also alerts the soldiers in the fort and lets them search for either survivors or items that are good enough to be taken.

The survivor will be interrogated using the Veritaserum. If they have some mental barrier, they will go back to the old torture, and if they still did not speak, the soldier will use the overpowered Veritaserum. Sadly, once being used, the victim that drinks the overpowered Veritaserum will be dead or become a human vegetable.

There are also too many merchants coming from the Eastern continent. If only it were only a merchant trying to make some trade, then there is no problem. Sadly, it was not. The merchant brings with them Thieves, Gang thugs, and even a spy.

Because of this, I need to increase surveillance spells around the harbor. I give it to both Lucina and Elizabeth so they can handle it. So far, they handle the Thug and Thieves really well. Almost three hundred of them have been captured and deported back to their continent.

As for the spy… Well, both the Queen Dowager and Richard have a field day torturing them. Some of them coming from a small kingdom, and some of them coming from a massive empire. It looks like the famine is getting worse.

Only a few places did not experience the famine. The eastern region of the Holy Light Empire, five kingdoms in the Eastern Continent, two kingdoms in the Central Continent, and the Lionheart Duchy.

Among those places, only my territory is the one that produces the most food.

That is only the one coming from the Eastern Continent. There is also a problem coming from the south. From spies to people trying to make my people go to rebellion.

Let us start with the spies. From a Duke to a Baron, too many spies are trying to spread their web inside my territory. Even with all the spies that keep disappearing when they step inside my territory, it did not reduce the number of spies being sent by the nobles from the south.

What makes things even worse, those spies are not only informational spies. They are being sent here to sabotage the farm and husbandry in my territory. Some of them have a mission to poison the farm's water source, and the worst kind is the one sent to poison the river so that the people in my territory die from the poison.

That is the spies. Now let's go to the bandit. The southern side of the Vulux kingdom became infested with bandits and raiders. Because of the famine, the kingdom struggled to feed all the people in them. Because of this, the kingdom spends a huge amount of money on importing food from either my territory or from the other continent and kingdom.

By spending this amount of money, they did not have enough gold to pay the soldier. Because the soldier did not get paid, the soldier decided to quit. However, because they did not have other jobs and did not want to become farmers, they decided to become bandits and raiders.

This happened across the southern side of the Vulux Kingdom.

And do you know which territory they want to raid? Mine. Because of this, I sent a huge amount of soldiers to the south to cut down the bandit problem. The same with all my vassals. The bandit also did not only come from the land. I have a report saying that the bandit used a dozen or so small boats to sail through the river and ambush the merchant that was passing through.

Sadly for them, all the merchants coming from my territory are guarded by a few dozen soldiers. To show my gratitude for their hard work, I give the soldier a bonus salary.

Then let's talk about the people that try to make my people rebel against me. Well…. Let's say that it did not go as smoothly as they thought it would. My hard work has paid off.

Without interfering, my people decide that the man who says I'm nothing but a tyrant is a traitor and gives him to the soldier. They give the man to the Watchman Captain and explain the situation. Because of the King's rule, the man was immediately executed after being interrogated, of course. This is the same rule that Duke Frederick used to do the purge in the past.

Anyway, the man is from the Holy Light Empire. The Church of Kyla sent him. This man is a priest that has a side job as a spy for the Church. He also gave the name of his fellow priest sent by the Pope of the Church of Kyla.

When Richard was about to send his shadow to take care of it, he found that the citizens of Lionheart Duchy already gave those people to the authorities. Some of those priests successfully get away before the mob gets them, but before they could get out of my territory, Richard's shadow captured them.

They are interrogated once again, and we now know that the Pope wants to declare a crusade against the 'Heretic,' which means that he wants to declare a Holy War against all the kingdoms in the continent.

It looks like what Eli said is true. There will be a Holy War between the Holy Light Empire and the other kingdoms on the continent. Speaking of Eli, she already knows about my power, and she shouts to heaven with frustration.

Let's say that she really envies my power. I can see a trail of blood coming out from her mouth that day.

Anyway, I want to say that the game Eli played in the past did not appear every time we searched for it. There is no game called White Angel. We try to type it in alphabet or kanji, but there is no result.

We try to search for another game, and it comes up okay, but when we try to search for this game? There is nothing.

This makes it more difficult. In the past, I thought that I would get valuable information from seeing the Wiki page of this game. Sadly, we did not have that kind of information anymore. We try anything to search for the game. From searching if there is a forum talking about this game or searching for the dev or company that publishes this game.

Still, nothing came up. Meaning that we did not have access to it.

We also try to go to another world where this game exists but to my surprise; Dimension Hopping cannot do that. An error comes up every time we try that. We try to go back to Earth, but there is still no game called White Angel.

Before you say that we should go back to our world, well…. There is a problem. I already tried to go back to my own world, but the dimension-hopping room did not allow that. It cannot transport me to my original world.

So, yeah. The only source of information we got about this world is from Eli and the information I have from Richard.

"My lord"

I snap from my thoughts when I hear Richard calling my name.

"Yes?"

"My lord, there is a letter from the capital."

"Really?"

"Yes. Here you go."

I take the letter and begin to read it. After a few seconds of reading, I put the letter on the table.

"Richard, call both the Queen Dowager and Elizabeth here, would you?"

"Of course, my lord. Can I ask the reason why?"

"The king is dead."