Can't I develop my own character?

After all, who would attack them when they have nothing to do after eating?

The surrounding territories were filled with other nobles. They would have meals together from time to time, have parties to bond over their feelings. War? What was that? I'd never even seen that before!

But Ryan doesn't think so. It wasn't necessary before because the empire was stable. Now it's different. Times have changed, sir.

With eighty cannons guarding the place, Ryan felt more at ease and could sleep peacefully.

However, before he could sit down firmly, news of the battle came from the border - the army of the Kingdom of Kainte had made a comeback and was heading towards the city of Berman again!

"Damn it, are you done yet? You're just picking on the weak, right?"

Ryan was about to curse.

"They are coming for me." Casladi now understood the situation. Kainte had been here once before and went straight to Berman City. It was clear that he wanted to kill her, the princess.

Now that Maganna is in trouble and the situation within the empire is turbulent, it is the best opportunity for Cainte to make a comeback.

"I think I should go back to the imperial capital." She sighed.

She originally thought that she could stabilize the situation after cooperating with Maganna, but she did not expect a series of unexpected events to happen. Now, given her situation, she could not stay in the three southern cities to seek development. It would be better for her to return to the imperial capital to see the situation.

"No, Your Highness, you can't go back now." Ryan shook his head decisively. "Don't forget that the army hasn't appeared yet. I originally thought that even if something happened, it would be them who would do it. I didn't expect the damned Cainte people to come. I guess those people are still lurking, waiting for you to leave Berman City."

Casradi smiled bitterly: "It really is like walking on thin ice."

"It's okay, we can get to the other side."

"On the other side?"

"I mean, we can get through it." Ryan's fighting spirit was blazing. Come on, come on, fight. I'm the Fourth Scourge Legion, am I afraid of you? He turned to look at the soldier who delivered the message, "By the way, how many people are there in the Cairnt Army?"

"To the mayor, there are... 20,000 people."

"Huh? Young Master Duo???"

Twenty thousand? ?

Ryan couldn't help but let out a fucking cry.

"So many of them have arrived... It seems Kainte intends to take advantage of the chaos in the western border to invade the empire," Kasradi pondered. "The problem now is that we don't have enough troops to fight back. Even if we mobilize all the troops in Nad City, it wouldn't be enough."

"Not really." Ryan touched his chin. "Your Highness, I have a suggestion. How about you borrow troops from the surrounding lords?"

"The surrounding lords? Who would be willing?"

"Give it a try. I know a lord who would probably agree."

"Oh? Who?"

"Viscount Venet of Kells City."

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Chapter 72: When Charlie advances, Wei Nei: Mr. Ryan and I are good friends [6k5]

Ryan didn't want to reveal the existence of "Weinei" too early. With her abilities, she could develop slowly on her own.

But now the situation in the West is changing. Once Maganna falls, even if the Empire does not intervene, the Western Barbarians' army will attack and the city of Kells will be affected.

Therefore, Kasladi must not fall. With her here, at least there is hope for the southern border to stabilize.

Otherwise, once Casradi leaves and she loses her title as princess, who will listen to Ryan, a commoner?

Although Cairnt's 20,000 troops were numerous, they might not be without hope of victory.

First of all, the other party is invading, using the weak to defeat the strong, and it is impossible for them to stay in the territory of the Augustus Empire for too long.

Secondly, they have two thousand Iron Blood Legion and one thousand Royal Guards, including the army of Nad City, which is a five thousand "army"!

Although the army of Berman City has not been established, they can at least shoot guns. What’s more important is that there are eighty cannons on the city gates!

As long as the extraordinary people guard these cannons, they will not lack firepower output.

Of course, these alone are not enough. The defense of the city gates requires a large number of soldiers standing guard. There are only a few extraordinary people in the Fire Covenant, and they cannot withstand the army of tens of thousands.

So Ryan thought of "borrowing troops" and asked Casradi to borrow troops from the surrounding lords.

Kyles has been developed by 'Vene' to an army of 3,000 these days. Although half of them are new recruits, even if only 1,500 of them are available, it is still a good fighting force.

The main task was to defend the city. It didn't matter if the quality of the soldiers was a little lower. Ryan didn't plan to let the Iron Blood Legion and the Royal Guards defend the city. Their mission was to attack and harass. Three thousand people were enough to give those Caint people a big blow.

In addition to the city of Kells, Ryan felt that there were two other places where he could borrow soldiers. They were the two cities to the north of Berman City, 'Romanil' and 'Mist'. They were both cities in the southern border of the empire but on the west side. Although they were not on the border, the interests were close.

Once Berman City is gone, it will be their turn to move north.

"The city of Kells? You actually know the lord there?" Casradi was a little surprised. She herself didn't even know Viscount 'Vine'.

"I wouldn't say I know her. As mayor, I've contacted the surrounding cities, and Viscount Vene was the only one who wrote back." Ryan spread his hands. "I think she's quite easy to talk to. Besides, in this kind of situation where everyone suffers, I believe you, Princess, won't be rejected if you step forward."

"As for Romaniel and Mist, I'm not too sure, but I have to give it a try. From what I know, their two major cities have a combined army of 4,000 to 5,000. Even if I can borrow half of them, it would be fine."

"I see."

Kasiladi nodded with relief, "Lian, it's good that you thought it through."

She had never thought about greeting other surrounding territories in advance.

"It's a rainy day." Ryan said, and then said, "Your Highness, won't the Empire send anyone over?"

Casradi sighed softly, "I haven't received any news yet. I don't know what Father thinks. Perhaps... he doesn't care about the gains and losses on the border."

Ryan thought about it and agreed.

The Augustan Empire was too big, with wars breaking out on its borders every year and cities being lost and captured frequently. Perhaps the old emperor would have cared about it before, but now... he didn't have the energy to care.

So what if people die in the war? What does it have to do with the emperor?

After all, this system of aristocratic autonomy has its flaws. If Casradi hadn't been here, the 2,000 royal guards wouldn't have been transferred here.

"I'll go write a letter to those three lords."

...

The news of the attack by the Kainte army quickly spread across the border, and over the next day, the population of Berman City not only did not decrease, but increased instead.

The reason was that the Kainte army plundered Kosotho when passing through, and the local people had to flee outside the territory. The nearby places were either Nad City or Berman City.

Compared to Nad, more people are willing to come to Berman City, at least Her Royal Highness the Princess is here.

This is the princess of the empire, how could she die on the border? The old emperor would never agree to that!

The influx of population is good news for Ryan, but he also feels sad. As the strongest empire in the northern continent, it can't even protect its own people. What a shame!

Ryan tried his best to arrange accommodation for these refugees. In fact, most of them brought money and supplies with them, and they were not just fleeing for their lives.

It can be expected that once Berman City completely absorbs these people, the economy of the entire city will be greatly improved.

The prerequisite is to be able to stop this wave of attack.

The reinforcements from Nad City will arrive soon, a total of one thousand people. These are the relatively good soldiers selected by "Xia Li". The remaining one thousand people will stay in Nad City... Well, compared with the thugs of Dihuo, those people are just wearing soldier armor, otherwise no one would know that they are soldiers.

However, 'Xia Li' herself did not return with the team. She wandered around the border between Berman City and Kosotoya with a thousand royal guards, apparently intending to ambush the Kainte army.

Although Ryan didn't know what 'Xali' was planning, with a 1:20 number of people, there was no way she could have the advantage, right? But as the saying goes, never doubt AI.

So he just needs to focus on arranging the city defense. As for the 2,000 Iron Blood Legion, Gluck is ready to fight at any time. Once the Caint Army attacks the city, he will lead his men to attack them.

Besides that, 1,500 men from Vinet were already on the train and would arrive tomorrow at the latest. The two lords of Romaniel and Mist, seeing Vinet sending troops to support them, felt it difficult to refuse, and each sent a symbolic 1,000 men.

There are a total of 3,500 people in the three cities, plus the people who can currently fight in Nad City and Berman City, the total number is nearly 6,000.

A full six thousand people!

...Um, well Ryan wasn't happy at all.

Because these 6,000 people were cobbled together, including 1,500 people from the city of Berman...that quality, haha~ he himself shed tears when he saw it. Fortunately, the muskets sold by the Gilded Regiment were really good. At least when facing the army of the Kingdom of Kaint, there was no need to worry about the lethality.

Ryan knew that he must not let the battle fall into a disadvantage. Once the situation became critical, the new recruits who had never experienced war would definitely be scared and might not even have the courage to pick up their guns and shoot.

"Mr. Mayor, military supplies have been dispatched, and ammunition has been replenished at each city gate. I have contacted the medical team and they are ready to provide support at any time."

"Also, I've spoken with the Hunter Guild in the city. They'll be issuing bounty quests. Once you accept a quest, the hunters staying in the city will head to the city gates to provide support... Conservatively, I estimate there are at least three hundred of these hunters."

"At the same time, Chief Jonathan of the Administrative Bureau sent a message saying that he has already arranged for law and order and all the sheriffs are on standby at all times."

Inside the office.

'Ina' reported the work at hand in an orderly manner.

"The Hunter Guild agreed to help?"

Ryan's eyes lit up, "Well done Ina!"

The Hunter's Guild is a super power spread across the continent, mainly composed of bounty hunters. Its nature is similar to the mercenaries Ryan had learned about before. They do things for money. Anyone can go to the Hunter's Guild to post a task. Bounty hunters will take the task, complete it, and then come back to collect the reward.

However, the main force of the Hunter's Guild is not here, but in the East Continent. Ryan remembers that there is a very powerful bounty hunter character in the game, but it requires a mod to play. When it was first released, it directly rushed to the top of the character popularity list.

Bounty hunters are generally very powerful, especially some of them are even extraordinary people, so even though there are only 300 of them, their combat power is probably not worse than the 1,000 people who came to support from Nad City.

However, the Hunter's Guild is not under the control of the Empire, and never buys face from the nobles. The nobles in Berman City are afraid of no one but the Hunter's Guild. Although they are protected by the laws of the Empire, who can really guarantee that there won't be bounty hunters who are fearless and will chop off their heads for money?

Therefore, regarding the attitude towards the Hunter's Guild, the Senate once discussed expelling them from the empire on behalf of the aristocratic groups, but it seemed that it was not passed in the end.

Ryan had been in contact with the Hunter's Guild before, but the guild leader said that he was unwilling to get involved in the internal affairs of the empire, implying that it was impossible for him to work for the princess.

Although the nature of this situation is different, Ina was able to get them to take action, and her communication skills are truly remarkable.

"If, when the time comes, the Earth Fire side can still gather several hundred... that should be enough."

Ryan estimated in his mind that this battle to defend the city should be enough. At least in terms of apparent numbers, they have the ability to fight. What follows is to see their performance on the spot.

...

"Why haven't you come yet?"

at dusk.

Casradi personally went to the South Gate to supervise the battle. According to previous information, the Kainte army should arrive in Berman City this afternoon.

For this purpose, she made sufficient preparations, carrying a lot of mana recovery potions on her body, and was waiting to kill everyone here.

At this point, the existence of extraordinary people has gradually been known to ordinary people. This seems to be an invisible trend. Not only in the Augustus Empire, but also in other places, there have been incidents of exposing extraordinary people.

Because the range was too large, blurring magic was difficult to work, so Ryan announced through official media that extraordinary people did exist, but did not explain in detail.

As long as they are defined as "human beings" in our cognition, it will not cause too much panic. After all, ordinary people and extraordinary people really have little intersection.

"Ryan, what's the situation at the other city gates?" asked Casradi.

"Everything is fine. We haven't found any traces of the Kainte army."

"Strange... Is there some conspiracy?"

Casradi said to herself.

Ryan was also puzzled. According to the news sent back by the people of the Fire Covenant, the Caint Army had entered a mountain range south of Berman City, which was only two hours away from the city. The news came at three o'clock in the afternoon.

At this moment, the fire-chasing investigator who was responsible for delivering the message climbed up the city wall.

"Your Highness, Vice Captain, the latest intelligence has arrived from the front!" the man said in a deep voice, "In the Lierta Mountains, a huge fire has broken out in the forest. The Kainte army is trapped in the forest and has suffered heavy losses!"

"Huh?" Ryan was stunned.

Ambushed?

and many more.

He calmly opened the game interface and switched to 'Xia Li'. As soon as the game loaded, he saw 'Xia Li' killing the Kainites.

The blood-red sword was swung wildly, shining in harmony with the flames that illuminated the sky. 'Xali' led a group of blood mercenaries to slash forward, madly intercepting the group of Kainte soldiers trapped in the fire.

"this..."

"Ryan, did you hear that?!" Casradi's face was filled with joy. "Incredible! Miss Shirley actually ambushed the Cainte army with the Royal Guards!"

"Ah, I saw... No, I heard it." Ryan nodded seriously, "Yes, Your Highness, this is indeed incredible. Miss Charlie is really great. She gave us a huge surprise."

"Yes." Casladi looked at the messenger. "Pay close attention to the news from the front line and report any new developments immediately, especially Miss Shirley's. The enemy is fierce, and we must not let her get hurt!"

"Yes!"

The investigator left.