Rogue Lord (2)

If I have a system, I can level up.

With the points I receive each time I level up, I can buy weapons, items, and skills to increase my power.

With the system, only I can level up, and only I can get stronger well with it's assistance I mean.

It seems to be the same now that I started as Julius Aquintania.

It's just the way the game is set up!

For intelligence and command, my performance will show in the evaluation after ever battle I'm a part of.

The higher the intelligence value, the better the strategy used in war will provide a higher rank.

For command value the higher the value, the more obedient the soldiers and vassals will be.

If you have a 100 command value even a suicidal order will be followed by those under your command

Even if my power level is quite high, if my command of soldiers is low, I'll be only half a man.

A General without a voice.

If it were any other person, wouldn't the intelligence and command portions of the game display correctly?

As I recall, that was the case in the game on the screen.

I opened the door to the room to check it out.

There was a maid waiting outside the door at all times.

She was probably a personal maid for the lord.

I didn't hesitate to use my basic skill, [Unit Inspection].

Since I'm still Lv. 1, I don't have any other skills yet.

This is the skill set I have at the moment, but it is also a very useful set of skills.

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[Gaen]

[Age: 18]

[Martial Force: 5]

[Intelligence: 31]

[Command: 10]

[Affiliation: Maid of the Aquitanian Castle.]

[Loyalty: 50]

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I knew it was the same as the game I was playing.

Then, the opportunity to challenge for glory is not a story of a hero from a small town who rises to the top, but a story of a rogue lord who must start out as a villain and use the system to conquer the game or in this case the entire world.

"Pfft! Kuh-hah-hah!"

So that's it.

This is my chance to challenge that glory, isn't it?

I have no idea what that glory is, though.

"Gosh, Master...?" <Gaen >

The maid began to tremble as she watched me laughing like a madman.

In the eyes of the maid, I must look like a crazy person with my head poking out from my bedroom door laughing manically while look right at her.

Even more so since I'm a lord who kills people without hesitation.

"Don't worry about it, sorry for startling your Gaen." <Julius >

I replied in the tone of a lord so as not to make her feel uncomfortable authoritative and perhaps a little but pompous, then closed the door and returned to the bedroom.

That's right.

I had one more thing to check.

I quickly opened the door again to ask what I forgot.

The maid, who was wiping the sweat from her forehead with a shocked look on her face, stiffened up again when she saw me reappear.

Seeing such a reaction made me realize even more how infamous Julius really is.

How much bad behavior does it take to scare people like that?

"What day is it today?" <Julius >

"Today?" <Gaen >

"Yes." <Julius >

"It's March the 14th!" <Gaen >

"March 14th?" <Julius >

"Yes!" <Gaen >

"I see, and What year is it?" <Julius >

"Well... My lord it's been 202 years since the Lunar Kingdom was founded!" <Gaen >

"Right. Thank you." <Julius >

"Yeah...?" <Gaen >

I left the maid with another puzzled look on her face, as if the words "thank you" were unexpected, or maybe it was my questions about the date, and went back to my room.

As soon as I closed the door to my room, I sat down on the floor.

When I heard the date, my mouth dropped open.

March 14th, 202nd year of the Kingdom?

Then it will be tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the very day that the Aquitanian lands will be trampled by the Visigoth Kingdom's forces and their lord will be assassinated, beheaded and his corpse paraded around as a conqueror's banner to all parts of the kingdom as it falls!

There was no time to prepare for war.

I had to calm the lord's infamy, train my soldiers, and raise their levels.

I was worried that I wouldn't be able to survive even after doing everything listed above, but that day was tomorrow?

This is really bad luck!

This sucks!

Oh, shit! Fuck! Fuck!

Per world history all that was missing was the old Sooth-Sayer whispering the phrase "beware the ides of march Caesar" into my ear.

Well I'm not the emperor so I'm not Caesar even though my name is Julius, maybe if I survive this I can become Julius Caesar... not the time for this.

If this happens, how can I survive...?

Only by surviving will I be able to continue the Challenge for Glory.

Let's figure out a way.

This game became popular because it allowed players to try out their own strategies in war.

It is a solo player game, not a multiplayer or co-op game where you play together with other players in real time, but it is also a game where each player is ranked by the points they generate while playing the game.

Anyway, I was ranked first in such a game.

So I had to come up with a strategy that would be worthy of being number one!

I had to figure out a way to survive.

Because the most important thing before having fun is not to die.

So, how should I plan my strategy?

I turned my gaze back to the map I had unfolded.

All I knew about the beginning of the war in which Julius Aquitania died was the few lines of synopsis I had found when I was playing the game.

I know that the Visigoth Royal Army started the war and that Julius dies, but I don't know any details about the war itself.

What I know is from the perspective of the original protagonist leaders, not Julius.

Besides, if Julius actually survived, the story would change completely, so what I know now would be meaningless.

Still, knowing a few lines of the story is a great privilege in itself.

If I know the enemy, I can plan countermeasures.

Let's try to remember the synopsis.

I rummaged through my memory and tried to recall the synopsis that came up at the start of the game.

According to my memory, as I recall, the forces of the Visigoth Kingdom attacked the Lunan Kingdom from two directions.

The real main force would appear from the northern part of the Lunan Kingdom.

Aquitania is the western border of the Lunan Kingdom.

In other words, this was a decoy.

The Visigoth Kingdom would first send a spearhead force to the Aquitania territory.

Then, when the Aquitania territory was invaded and attention was drawn to the west, the main force invaded the northern border.

This was the method used because the northern border was quite close to the capital of the Lunan Kingdom.

In fact, the Lunan Kingdom has been hit by this strategy.

When the Aquitania region fell to the enemy without any token resistance, the bewildered Lunan Kingdom hurriedly prepared for war, and the surrounding territories concentrated their forces to the west.

They were unaware that the real main force, which had been moving completely in the shadows, would appear in the north.

The Visigoth Kingdom showed just how bad the Lunan Kingdom's intelligence was, and also how good their strategy was in covertly sending their main force north, because they were able to move that many soldiers to the north without being noticed at all.

The reason for this difference is that not only Julius, but also the king of Lunan was a tyrannical and corrupt king.

So, as it turns out, there is a way to survive here.

This means that the real war will take place in the north, so once I defeat this decoy force I will have time to breathe.

Yes, time to level up and prepare for battle.

If I survive tomorrow's battle, my future will be limitless.