After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

"Oh, a family history of seven hundred years, seven hundred years... Their first earl was born during the reign of His Majesty William III."

"It doesn't matter, kill them all. The kingdom has no shortage of ancient families. This is just a violent gang made up of blood ties. But their ancestors were once rising stars on the battlefield!"

"Yes, a single military achievement can allow their family to enjoy a life of wealth for seven hundred years. That's wonderful. I'm so glad to be a foil for their descendants."

In the Sith Lords' territory of the Eastern Territory, Luna sat in the main hall of the Helm's Castle, enthusiastically flipping through the Sith family genealogy.

Paul brought forward two trembling young men, and Luna, without even looking at them, gestured for Paul to execute them. Then she leisurely put two checkmarks on the family tree.

Paul quickly cut off both heads and threw the bodies to the soldiers nearby.

"Has the young lady forgotten that you are also a member of an ancient family?"

"Yes, if my brother can unify the kingdom in the future and there are no more superfluous nobles, it will be much easier for you to overthrow the rule of the Charles family than it is now."

Paul sheathed his sword, his expression showing some surprise.

"The young lady even thought of this?"

"Politics is indispensable, but it's also indispensable. In my brother's words, if a country has a large peasant population, then it will need several successful peasant uprisings."

"If industry develops in the future, and workers are oppressed, they will have to unite and fight. The regret of some great figures is that they did not live to see the era of workers' uprisings, which led to the decline of their ideals."

Closing the family tree, Luna crossed her legs and wiggled her little feet.

The advantage of having a group of excellent personal guards is that she can conquer a territory anytime, anywhere, and quickly establish her rule.

Luna can go wherever she wants!

"Let's not talk about the future, Paul. Now I'm giving you a glorious task: go to the Earl's territory to recruit soldiers and build an army."

With the Duke of Dale and Queen Barbara's wedding still two weeks away, Luna, as a special guest, decided to give them a surprise.

"Yes, Miss."

Paul bowed and quickly stepped back.

He wholeheartedly agreed with the young lady's decision, after all, following Lady Elene could easily lead to a fear of surrendered soldiers.

The upper echelons of the Northern Territory, including Janet, placed great importance on the loyalty of their soldiers. In short, unreliable loyalty was tantamount to absolute disloyalty.

Paul even suspected that the guild that had suddenly become popular in the army was the work of some big shot.

The soldiers of the Northern Army were indeed loyal and brave, but Paul believed that rebuilding a nation required the joint efforts of the common people in each territory.

If we don't learn to absorb surrendered soldiers, future wars will only become more and more difficult.

The capture of Helm's Castle took only two hours. With the sturdy and reliable heavily armored dwarves as the vanguard, the personal guards' fighting power was further unleashed.

At least in urban warfare, the dwarves performed exceptionally well, but they were of little use in siege warfare...

Just kidding, they can't be used for defending the city.

When the residents of Helm's City awoke, the Sith Lords' territory had been transformed. The square was littered with the corpses of the Sith family members—a silent intimidation from Luna.

After leaving the castle, Paul walked along the deserted streets and first came to the armory, which was full of old equipment, with dusty bowstrings that would break at the slightest pull.

To Paul's surprise, the granaries were packed full. It seemed that the nobles of the Eastern Territory were quite adept at making the common people suffer. The land deeds alone showed that the Earl's family owned two-thirds of the entire Earl's Territory.

Elves are lustful, demons are arrogant, dwarves are greedy, and humans are utterly depraved and hypocritical.

Over the next few days, Paul was extremely busy. He first asked the dwarves to build forges and recruit human blacksmiths to produce weapons, and then ordered the cavalry to go to villages to oversee the distribution of land.

First, to spread the news to the villagers that Miss Luna had taken control of the land; second, to win over the people and prepare for production, construction, and the recruitment of soldiers.

Luna opened the treasury, and as usual, rewarded her personal guards before allocating a large sum of money to Paul to support his work.

Besides some of the surrendered soldiers, many young men also joined the army one after another. Paul gave each of them a silver coin as a resettlement allowance. With Luna's large-scale purchase of various resources, the count's territory quickly became lively again due to the circulation of the economy.

Caravans came and went, and after Luna spent half of the Sith family's savings, Duke Dale's letter finally arrived.

Although Dale was angry at Luna's shameless and aggressive behavior, he was helpless.

Long before the Second World War began in the Central District and the Northern Territory, Luna had personally written to Dale, promising him that as long as he supported the Northern Territory, the Northern Territory would strengthen its cooperation with the Eastern Territory.

At that time, Duke Oswald had not yet returned, so Luna probably offered Dale as many benefits as possible.

Unfortunately, Dale ultimately chose to wait and see, and allowed his nobles to support the central district.

Later, the Northern Army emerged victorious.

In an effort to ease tensions between the two, Dale sent Luna an invitation and a box of valuable gold and silver jewelry as a gesture of goodwill, once the wedding date was set.

Dale knew Luna was greedy and not as vindictive as the Duke of Oswald, but to Dale's surprise, Luna actually came and quietly occupied a Count's territory.

The Eastern Territory is not without the power to drive Luna out, but now that Duke Oswald has returned and the Northern Army is gaining momentum, Luna's willingness to come shows that she has the confidence to do so.

In contrast, the Eastern Territory is currently in a terrible state: the 3rd Division is stationed to the north, Luna is to the west, and the Elf Kingdom is in complete chaos to the south.

"Is he welcoming you? He seems quite happy?"

Lisa, who was reading letters with Luna, brushed her long hair, which was coiled into a bun, aside. As a noblewoman herself, she could never write a letter with such strange arguments as those of Dale.

"Don't worry, no noble will welcome us." Luna smirked; she had no intention of agreeing to the meeting Dale proposed.

She had already attended Barbara's wedding once, and Dale was there too. The atmosphere when the two first met was incredibly tense.

Now that Dale has achieved his wish and is about to marry Queen Barbara, Luna wants to see which noble in the surrounding area will dare to attend the wedding banquet if she doesn't make a move.

Since these nobles dared to trip up the Northern Army, Luna wouldn't mind giving them a little punishment.

"Should we make a move? Should we attack to the east or to the north?"

Having understood Luna's meaning, Lisa pointed her two hands in different directions. The east was naturally Duke Dale's stronghold, while attacking the north would allow her to join forces with the Third Division.

Luna shook her head; she couldn't forget her main objective. "No, we need to head south, ideally to the border of the Elf Kingdom."