“Oi! It really occurred! The Alliance have been in a position to obtain a heroic victory towards the Confederation”

“Oh actually?! How so?!”

“From what I heard, just a few months in the past we have been in a position to maintain the Drussians on the Elgonic Go after a battle of epic proportions. The battle resulted in a stalemate and no land was gained nor misplaced.”

“Wait a minute! Maintain the Drussians? I assumed we have been those on the offensive. How the hell is holding the Drussians off a victory in any sense of the phrase?”

“I did not actually take into consideration that…”

“Extra false Panish propaganda ehhh? What else is new? Hey do you know that the sky is the color blue?”

Even throughout the confines of the inn’s non-public room, the loud gossip and chatter of the tavern’s patrons nonetheless discovered its method to a sure particular person’s ears.

Within the highest flooring the place the rooms might solely be afforded by the richest and most elite of society, that particular person lay in her plump, snug mattress because the noise from downstairs leaked its manner into her room. Her brown-black hair, sprawled onto the pillow whereas her eyelids remained glued collectively as she silently thought to herself.

Her title was Rose Phlorear Finaflor and she or he was simply one other younger noble woman.

Though she sometimes did not thoughts the loud racket downstairs, in spite of everything it was her primary methodology of staying conscious of the present scenario, this time, she simply could not abdomen what they have been speaking about.

Battle.

Battle.

Battle.

That is all that the gossip up to now three years have ever been about.

The warfare that has been the biggest battle when it comes to scale that has ever occurred within the historical past of this earth.

The warfare between the ‘Alliance’ which consisted of nearly each Katholic nation and the ‘Confederation’ which consisted of the Protestent nations of the north.

In particular the foremost factions of the Confederation have been the Unified Kingdoms of Nice Breeton, the Kingdom of Shweden and the Imperium of Drussia whereas the foremost factions of the Alliance have been the Kingdom of Hongary, the Kingdom of Ostria, the Republic of Benice and the Panish Empire.

In fact, Rose’s personal nation, the Kingdom of Portegol have been individuals of the warfare as properly. They’d no selection. As a vassal kingdom underneath the Panish Empire, the Portegeese had no selection however to help their Panish lords at any time when doable.

Though this help was initially restricted to the Portegeese being compelled to provide the Paniards with foodstuffs, weapons and gear, ever for the reason that depressing defeat of the campaign and subsequent fall of Demark, the Paniards needed to resort to forcing the Portegeese into offering true army assist.

As one would count on, Rose didn’t take the Paniards abuse and mistreatment of the Portegeese kindly. In truth, she despised the Paniards for it. Nonetheless, she additionally despised the very fact there was even a fairly ridiculous battle to start with.

What would even be left for both aspect to achieve as soon as the warfare is over and the mud settled?

Charred earth?

The Confederation and the Alliance weren’t even formalised throughout the ‘begin’ of the warfare however in all honesty, nobody actually knew when the warfare actually started. The one factor agreed upon was that the unique battle was the Panish-Drussian warfare which someway escalated into the state it’s as we speak.

The primary indicators of escalation was when the Drussians invaded Porrand within the so-called ‘Drussian Conquest of the East’ which solely escalated when the Porrish Princess; Stefanie tried to retaliate by calling a campaign towards the Drussians solely to repelled in a fairly pathetic method.

Since solely a scattered few crusaders returned dwelling to dwell one other day, all of the nations who participated within the campaign have been compelled to reconsolidate and lick their wounds. The Panish Empire even tried to shift blame away from themselves by proclaiming that the Panish crusaders have been a faction of rogue nobles but nobody believed them.

Nonetheless, these actions of reconsolidating shortly proved to be an enormous mistake, when in a mixed effort, the Drussians, Breetish and Shwedish invaded the Katholic Kingdom of Demark in a 3 pronged assault. With the Drussians attacking from the south, the Breetish to the ocean of the west and the Shwedish to the north, the Dames shortly capitulated.

It was solely after the annexed Demark was cut up evenly throughout the three nations did they formally announce the formation of the ‘Confederation;’ a union of the sovereign Protestent nations of the north that swore a pact of mutual defence and a normal settlement to assist one another in army conflicts.

In fact, the opposite nations which weren’t a part of the Confederation shortly grew uncomfortable with the specter of three highly effective Kingdoms who ‘threatened their sovereignty’ and shortly the ‘Alliance’ was fashioned in different to counteract the Confederation.

What occurred subsequent was a fairly monotonous lull in conflicts with the borders of the 2 factions all the time remaining underneath tense surveillance and safety with some occasional skirmishes each on the land and within the sea.

The statements that the Alliance was ‘advancing on the offence’ was nothing greater than a mere fabrication.

The sheer scale and switch of occasions of the battle was so ridiculous that even the Turkmen invasions from the southeast have slowed achieved because of concern of being caught up on this battle. In truth, a number of the Katholic nations even agreed to start out paying tribute to the Turkmen Empire in alternate for assured peace.

Whereas Rose admitted that preserving updated with the warfare is fairly necessary, it might nonetheless be good for the principle matter of gossip to be about one thing else for as soon as.

Maybe one thing like how this is not even the Portegeese individuals’s warfare.

It was due to how Rose disagreed with the vast majority of Portegeese nobles, together with her family when it got here to the warfare that she selected to remain in an expensive non-public room of a comparatively properly revered inn than her personal mansion.

In spite of everything, these was nobody to cease her. All the boys in her household have been both useless or alive and at the moment taking part within the warfare. Her mom was nonetheless in mourning after the loss of life of their father whereas her sisters continued to ignorantly observe the silly king’s idiotic will.

Though it might appear pointless within the grand scheme of issues, Rose fairly favored this peace and tranquility offered by skipping out on her duties. Why would she attend events and banquets and stay in the identical mansion with individuals she will be able to’t essentially agree with?

Doing so would put her at odds which nearly everybody else current and Rose would fairly disappear and be gossiped about than danger a a technique journey to the gallows after pissing off an excessive loyalist of the king.

But when Rose really had her manner, she would have had the Kingdom of Portegol break off relations with the Paniards since their power ought to have been drained by the warfare. What have been the Paniards going to do? Divert a portion of their already weakened forces onto the Portegeese?

However her want was not possible. She was nothing greater than a mere third daughter of some noble household who swore fealty to their king.

There was actually nothing that she might presumably do.

In Rose’s sincere opinion, this was all nothing greater than irritating.

At this very second, the Portegeese could possibly be trying to take away their standing as a vassal nation and but they selected to proceed being the Paniards lapdogs, both out of misplaced loyalty, easy ignorance or a mixture of each.

Both manner, Rose was nonetheless irritated by the present state of Portegol.

Nonetheless, her ideas have been quickly interrupted by a repetitive knocking on the door which was quickly adopted by a voice.

“Girl Finaflor? There’s a message for you”

“Slip it underneath the door.”

Rose did not even hassle to lift her head and even open her eyes when she heard that she had message.

Why ought to she?

Extra probably than not, it was simply one other message from one among her sisters, in all probability her youthful sister Lily, that’s asking her to return to ‘dwelling’ within the mansion.

Rose knew that she would in all probability throw the letter away earlier than even studying it the second she obtained out of her mattress.

“As you want my woman.”

Nonetheless, Rose was shortly shocked by the response of the messenger.

Usually the messenger was all the time a direct subordinate of the Finaflor home, whether or not he was a knight or only a easy servant. In Rose’s previous experiences, these messengers would have urged her to return out or no less than query her properly being.

Evidently, the present sequence of occasions was one thing that Rose has by no means skilled earlier than.

Was it a brand new tactic?

Or did they actually lose all hope and quit?

If it was the previous, then Rose needed to admit that it labored.

She wasn’t a totally heartless being in spite of everything.

Inside moments, Rose dragged herself out of the mattress earlier than slowly making her manner in direction of the door and choosing up the envelop that carried the message.

Nonetheless, her expectations have been as soon as once more proved to be unsuitable because the envelop did not appear to belong to her household.

Or any noble Portegeese household for that matter.

For the again of this envelop was only a clean area.

“That is… bizarre…”

Envelops all the time had the sigil of no matter noble home it belonged to on its again.

That was commonplace protocol for the the Aristocracy of this world.

How else would a noble household painting an envelop as their very own?

Exhibiting off the standard ones paper with an insignia on the again of their envelops was simply one other manner for the nobles to flaunt their wealth to one another.

With out even figuring out it, Rose felt that she wanted to know contents of the message, no matter it might be.

She did not know why however she had a ‘good feeling’ about this message.

When Rose lastly opened the envelop she discovered a fairly peculiar message inside.

After subconsciously brushing her hair apart, Rose learn the letter out loud to herself.

“Are you dissatisfied with how your Kingdom is being handled by the Panish? Would you like this battle to finish? Do you wish to carry peace to your individuals? If the solutions to all the above is sure, meet us on the co-ordinates beneath.”

Although she doubted whoever wrote this letter, she nonetheless needed to see it via to the very finish.

Quickly, she felt the sudden urge to show to the again of the letter simply to see if there have been anything.

On the again of the letter, Rose discovered a pair of two totally different insignias that she has by no means seen earlier than.

As such, whichever group or organisation these two insignias belonged to, Rose knew that they need to not be from Portegol or Espain.

The insignias have been a golden hawk that seemed to be swooping down on its prey and a silver snake that seemed to be consuming itself.