After the war , empire send it's troops to Ravenfield border and following this many nobles of the empire started collecting troops to launch a full scale invasion of Ravenfield
Meanwhile , ash opened 6 factories in the territory, many workers got employment and soon lack of workers came forward
Fortunately many underpaid commoners got to know about the sudden prosperity of Ravenfield
Because of constant drought in Ravenfield and surrounding territories , there was lack of food among commoners and no was willing to help them and when everything seems lost , Ravenfield territory became their hope
Many shops were made selling soaps , perfume , glass articles , mirror
There were many wonders in the street of skywind city because of which many merchants began coming to ash territory secretary and starting smugling these items
These items were available in bulk and were selling extremely cheap in ash territory but outside it was a thing only for nobles
Soon these things got popular in nobility circles , even empress herself was using the perfume
Soon more and more merchants starting smuggling and when popularity was reaching peak ash decided to tripple the price
Merchants went crazy because of it but they had no choice than to compromise and then they tripped the price outside too , but no noble back down from buying it because people started considering it a new social status
It also disrupted the empire plan of invasion to some extent and it was planned that invasion will happen in 4 months meanwhile ash opened two level 2 workshop and 1 factory
Money was flowing in and he also opened a training camp and recruiting office
It was estimated that in 6 months they could train a unit of 1000 soldier and became of recent war morale was high because of which they have turn down many volunteers who were trying to join army
Meanwhile SKYWIND city population rose to 45k people and none of them was unemployed because of high job demand
Ash also removed many restrictions placed upon merchants and released new laws which gave all powers to him alone
These laws were discouraged in all other territories but was appreciated by emperor because he wanted to remove nobility dominance for a while
When empire was preparing to strike Ravenfield territory down a huge incident ocurred that was magic empire declared war on atlas empire
There are four empires of human that are Holy empire in South , Magic empire in west , Atlas empire in north and Ming dynasty in east
There are many other kingdom but there are the main forces of human race and they all friction between each other because of their customs and traditions
Holy empire consider magic a heresey meanwhile magic empire view swordmans as musclehead meanwhile Ming Dynasty hate all other empire because to them none have justification from heaven to rule upon humans
They all also have different power system , holy empire borrow holy power from their god to become strong , magic empire form mana circle to wield spell and connect to earth , atlas empire use aura of human which depends upon emotions to wield the sword and Ming dynasty uses martial arts which is imitation of animal fighting style and take energy from spiritual world
And they all have rivalries because of it and because of assasin of a duke of magic empire escaped to the atlas empire and when magic empire demanded him back , the emperor of atlas empire refused because of which magic empire declared war
And now because of this war Ravenfield territory became 2 agenda on all nobles list and which gave Ravenfield more time to grow
6 months later
In the beautiful berlin palace, inside the throne room a young boy was sitting upon the throne gazing at all his from above and he was none other than Ash who was hearing the report his most trusted general that was Carl ofcourse
He was telling about recent upgrades in territory like a new factory was opened and was currently producing heavy tanks which will be ready in 2 months
There were now 11000 soldiers guarding the territory, 1 vehicle unit was also added and a hotair ballon was made which will be used to bomb territory from air
Bussiness was coming and territory had a total of 58k people right now but this growth also come with attention
Recently scouts discovered that marquies Oscar has collected a total of 15000 soldier to March into Ravenfield territory
Out of this 7000 were mercenary from nearest Free city of vaede and it was alarming, many nobles assume that north will take a heavy blow because two big giant are going to fight
It is crucial for both Ravenfield and Oscar because the winning territory would have enough area and power to establish a kingdom and if Oscar win them he will become the grand Duke of North but if Ravenfield win them it can establish itself as a kingdom
Marquies territory also has sea access which was crucial for ash as he can use it for naval purposes
The other territory in the north belong to countless evergreen and Free city of vaeda
There are also huge forest which house the goblin tribe which invade northern territory every 2 years and they most of the invade villages
For ash this period was crucial because due to ongoing war between both empires nobody will focus on him and he can unify north and form a kingdom
His system has told that it would get a system update if he make a kingdom and ash wants to upgrade it soon
Both Carl and ash were creating a smooth plan for quick annexation of Oscar territory
Finally it was decided that ash troops will not attack first and wait for marquies first move because for ash defence is most favorable rather than offence
And if marquis does not attack in next two months then ash will be forced to attack marquis
Ash just prayed that marquis launch first attack and not apply same tactics as ash
Because this battel will decide the future of both territories and even the empire
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