With the sunshine of the morning solar filtering by the blinds of her home windows, Michelle awakened with a uncommon faint smile on her face.

Nicely it uncommon when in comparison with her general each day routine in the course of the entirety of her lifetime.

Nonetheless, Michelle discovered that it turned much more frequent for a smile to kind on her face today.

On prime of this, her friends and subordinates alike have each commented that she has been extra pleasant or not less than extra approachable as of late.

Maybe it was as a result of not less than partly, issues had been beginning to grow to be extra attention-grabbing.

For as soon as in each of Michelle’s lives mixed, she felt ‘alive.’

Not was she bored by inactivity nor was she bored by ‘ingenuine’ leisure.

And in reality, she needed to thank her previous life for that.

Who knew a single want might go to date?

With that faint smile nonetheless on her face, Michelle subconsciously muttered a single sentence to herself.

“Some intense date huh?..”

As she stated this, sudden photographs of that fateful day flashed inside Michelle’s thoughts. Nonetheless, she shortly positioned these ideas apart as she bought up from her mattress earlier than she proceeded to do her morning stretches.

It was simply one of many few habits that she nonetheless continued to carry even after she expertise dying and was effectively into her second life.

In her first life she would usually inform herself that these morning stretches had been essential for her well being and suppleness but when she was actually being trustworthy with herself, it was solely a monotonous exercise she repeated to move the time.

Nonetheless, she nonetheless continued to stretch each morning, particularly now that she was in an exceptionally good temper.

When she completed stretching, she heard a knocking on the door, presumably from one in every of her knights or servants.

[What perfect timing. Everything just seems to be going to right today.] With ideas equivalent to these working by her head, Michelle allowed the one who knocked on her door to enter into her room.

“You’re free to enter.”

“As you want my woman.”

In a considerably awkward method, a servant opened the door earlier than continuing at hand over a set of papers to Michelle.

After taking the letter and skimming over its contents, Michelle forged the servant a fast look earlier than giving him one other order.

“You might go away. I’ll name for you when the time comes.”

The servant solely nodded silently earlier than he complied with Michelle’s orders, shortly leaving the room in an orderly method.

Lastly left alone, Michelle was as soon as once more free to do as she wished with out worrying for her fame. After all she knew that she was seen as enigmatic and eccentric by her Breetish subordinates and rivals alike, however so long as she continued to carry a domineering and threatening presence, Michelle had nothing to fret about.

As she learn the studies, the faint smile that was already on her face began to develop wider and wider.

It will appear that she learn one other attention-grabbing report right now.

Whereas she was conscious of the crusader’s defeat by the hands of the Drussians, she has but to know the finer particulars. In what’s arguably Katholicism’s biggest defeat, a seemingly unstoppable campaign composing of over 250,000 males was annihilated by a mere military which consisted of slightly over 45,000 males.

Though the Drussians did undergo greater than 20,000 casualties, that was nothing in comparison with all the 100% of the 250,000 sturdy crusader military being fully worn out.

The best way the Drussian’s victory was achieved was by a moderately commonplace stratagem which might have been utilised by which respective facet was smaller.

It was a mixture of the ‘scorched earth’ and ‘defeat intimately’ techniques which took benefit of the Drussians extremely mobilised Dragoon divisions to strike the unprepared and undefended crusaders who’ve but to correctly be part of the battle and get into their battle positions.

Though that did not imply that there weren’t any new attention-grabbing developments. As Michelle predicted, the opposite kingdoms began utilising primitive variations of line warfare though feedback from commanding officers in the course of the battle usually mocked the way it sorely required improvement.

The opposite attention-grabbing improvement was that the Drussians appeared to have launched one other weapon into their arsenal, this time being the ‘horse artillery.’ Not like the Drussian howitzers, their horse artillery stored the identical normal design of the standard low-angled cannons.

The distinction between the horse artillery and the standard cannons was the truth that it is metallic plating was thinner and its barrel had a decrease calibre so as to lighten its weight. The reason is its namesake, it was horse artillery. It was meant to be simply manoeuvrable, being actually moved across the battle subject with a staff of horses.

These elements, mixed with the talents of the respective military’s commanders made it apparent who could be the victor as soon as one put even the slightest little bit of thought into it.

Nonetheless, that did not change the truth that it was a ‘miraculous’ victory from the Drussians perspective and a ‘disastrous’ defeat from the viewpoint of Katholism. As was the usual apply with the Drussian Imperial Military, they executed all of their prisoners of struggle in an identical method to the Elgon Bloodbath in the course of the Panish-Drussian battle over two years in the past.

All the P.oW.s who surrendered to the Imperial Military had been systematically executed the day after their give up, usually by firing squad however hangings could also be reserved for commanding officers if a city was close by.

There was little question that Maxwell was the one accountable for this side of the Drussian struggle doctrine, in spite of everything, standard nobles had been all the time cautious of spilling ‘noble blood,’ particularly if it was the blood of a member of the royal household.

Though nobles had been usually high quality with the dying of nobles in the course of the course of a battle, the execution, particularly the general public execution of a noble with royal blood normally made the stomachs of those ‘nobles’ flip. It was nearly comical in a means.

Even Michelle was stunned by the truth that Maxwell was capable of persuade the vassal nobles who served in his preliminary Violet Military into following this form of doctrine however when she requested Maxwell herself, a 12 months in the past, his solely response was one thing alongside the traces of.

“I am usually impressed with how logical an informed thoughts from this period will be when it’s introduced with details. They are surely prepared albeit considerably reluctantly to simply accept no matter their superiors say so long as they’re introduced with sufficient proof. Particularly if you point out that their enemy could do the identical to them.”

There was no want for Michelle to elucidate what Maxwell stated.

Nonetheless, that was not his solely spectacular feat.

His different feat could be the way in which he utilised the artisans of this world in a means that Michelle could not consider that she hasn’t even conceived.

It was the truth that the event and analysis of weapons of this world was exponentially quicker when in comparison with the pace of weapon’s improvement and analysis of their authentic world.

And the reply was easy.

Arcane magic.

Arcane magic meant that whereas exact metalworking in mass numbers couldn’t be achieved, it could possibly nonetheless be accomplished when it ought to have been in any other case unimaginable of their authentic world.

Arcane magic meant that large parts of weapon design had been not crucial. In any case there was not any must take into consideration the best way to spark the gunpowder of bullet cartridge due to the strategy of arcane magic.

That was how they developed breechloading weapons, howitzers and even gatling weapons in a pace that logically talking ought to have been unimaginable. Nonetheless, that was solely unimaginable within the context of their authentic world.

Arcane magic made all of the distinction.

It was simply that Maxwell had prior information of how firearms would develop and as such was capable of steer and information his weapon’s improvement in the correct course as a substitute of the random sporadic weapons developments of their authentic world.

Nonetheless, that didn’t imply that Michelle wasn’t making weapons developments of her personal.

Actually, she made a improvement that will blow even Maxwell’s gatling weapons out of the water.

Actually out of the water.

Michelle felt the broad smile on her face curve upwards as she approached her window.

Quickly, she opened the blinds to disclose the sight of her two private ships ready on stand by on the coast.

Certainly one of them was her authentic ship and the present capital ship of her fleet, the ‘Dragonhawk,’ a large ‘ship of the road’ and was armed with 74 weapons in whole, 37 on either side. It was Michelle’s most prized possession.

Emphasis on the phrase ‘was.’

Whereas it was even thought-about an experimental ship by her friends, now, it was outclassed by its youthful sister.

An enormous ship which was the identical dimension because the Dragonhawk, if not, it was even bigger.

Whereas its gun rely was but to be seen, it was estimated to have round 35, a gun rely that wasn’t even half of the Dragonhawk’s. The distinction being, that when this literal beast is completed, that gun rely will not even matter.

And that was due to the caliber and nature of the youthful ship’s weapons.

And that was because of the new ship’s inherent nature and design.

For the brand new ship was not a ship of the road nor was it any standard ship produced on this period.

For this ship was a real metal dreadnought.

The very first of its variety.

A secret product that Michelle has been to work on ever since she has seen Maxwell’s breechloading weapons.

She actually needed to thank Maxwell for giving her the thought within the first place.

Maybe she might do this later.

For the dreadnought was but to complete improvement.

That vacant shell hanging at her coast was simply the mere hull of the ship.

An unarmed hull meant to impose its almighty presence into all those that determined to go to Michelle in these latest months.

After all, the dreadnought wanted a reputation and for its title Michelle went with one thing moderately easy.

It is title was ‘Superbia’ for ‘superbia’ meant ‘satisfaction in a sure language of her authentic world.

And as soon as it’s completed, it will be a real terror of the seas, it was nonetheless Michelle’s final ‘satisfaction.’

Her most prized procession that symbolised that whereas Maxwell dominated the lands, it was Michelle that dominated the seas.