Whitemist

Yes but even though Aegis would never call himself a good person and is exactly as you say, if the road to hell is paved with good intentions can the stairway to heaven not be made with white lies and unintended kindness? Bad analogy but you get my point right? Aegis may not be a good person but he is beyond doubt a king loved and respected by his people who has given them a life that they could have never even dreamed of before he came to power. So why can't we just say while he isn't and probably never will be perfect person, he is a kind man and a good king of course that's only if you don't do anything that may adversely effect his family in which case nothing will save you...

If you don't like the lemon just skip to the bits that aren't lemon you'll still have tommorows chapters, imagine if this story only had 2 or 3 chapters posted a week isn't this already far better than such an alternative?

No matter how skilful a fighter he cannot fight an army and win. Men is not impervious to arrows or poison and victory is never a certainty no matter how strong or smart you are. As they "Man proposes, heaven disposes."

I fully understand that this quote is supposed to demonstrate the importance of intelligence/information in warfare but it doesn't change the fact that even if a general doesn't know his own army's strength or the enemy's strength as long as his forces are significantly overwhelming or he uses advantageous tactics he will still win whereas even if a general knows the enemy force is overwhelming and his own force is far weaker what can the general do? His only choice would be Guerrilla tactics but such tactics are still not enough to win a war against overwhelming numbers supplies aren't infinite and the enemy won't just send out supplies for you to steal besidesno matter how good your Guerrilla tactics are your losses will still pile up over time until the only option left is surrender.

Considering that a military is the armed forces of a country and is usually funded either by the sovereign of the state or another wealthy faction within the state. What Sun Tzu is basically saying here is that a good general will take the Sovereign's money and resources but in return won't follow any of the Sovereign's orders, which is in itself rather silly as doing as such probably won't encourage the Sovereign to continue sending more resources and if in replacing such a dysfunctional general as one that refuses to conform to their obligationsas an employee, the old general rebels inciting chaos and disharmony throughout the Sovereign's territory doesn't that make him an even worse general? Does Sun Tzu have some kind of grudge against Rulers? Because sure building up the comprehensive force of your army through training and technological advance are definitely neccesary but to assume the orders of all Sovereign's are unreasonable and should not be followed is simply a bit too much. It is true that many Rulers have never been on a battlefield but at the same time many of them will have had an education on military tactics and strategy that far surpasses their own tacticians so even if it is a terrible order or plan a Ruler's words should always be taken under consideration. I will also just say that disobeying your Sovereign as a general is a pretty good way to get yourself executed so sure go ahead with that.

It just occurred to me that you know several beings who might be capable of finding Summer for example both Gaia and Fate could probably tell you if you asked and they decided to you might even be able to bs your way with conceptual tech for example maybe Remnant has it's own dimensional energy that is intrinsically linked to it's inhabitants not that you would need it when instead you could probably just track Summer down through her Aura.

You realise that only Schnee family members can hold the highest positions in the current governing body and that Aegis would never split his territory and then make his harem members look after each individual area there's also no reason to delegate Aegis's work to kings and queens because he already has Album handling the work that doesn't hold some value in passing by him. The current governing structure is completely centralised with no real advantages to be gained by decentralising. Aegis literally holds all the power and Album assures that nothing could change that in the short term so why would they try to change the current status quo?

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