Back to the Battlefield: The Veteran Heroes Return to the Fray! Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 5] by Kiraku Kishima

Author:Kiraku Kishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3: The Final Form Villainess

As Alan and Rosetta were heading to meet Kevin, a man named Daniel McCrory was on his way to the Fourth Kingdom in a shaky, highly guarded carriage. The Fourth Kingdom was named Orange Gallery, the Kingdom of the Sun and the Arts, and he had been dispatched there from the First Kingdom. He was a tall, slender, and striking young man whose face overflowed with confidence. While he was only in his early twenties, he was the First Kingdom’s Minister of Culture and an unparalleled prodigy.

When Daniel was ten years old, he attained the highest score on the entrance exam for the Whitehyde Academic Research Institution—the highest institute of education in the capital—graduated at the top of his class with aplomb, then entered the Ministry of Culture. His innate talent helped him jog right up the stairway of success until he ascended to the role of Minister of Culture at the age of twenty-one. While he did have the backing of his esteemed noble family, the speed of his success was largely thanks to his own brilliance.

The task Daniel had been assigned was to receive the final signature for the common front treaty concerning the current war from the Fourth Kingdom’s queen, Isabella Stuart.

“Hmph, why did she assign this mundane errand literally anyone could do to me?”

For better or worse, Daniel’s competence had made him elitist and proud. From his perspective, even if it was a direct order from the empress herself, making him do what was essentially gofer work was reason enough for protest.

However, despite his misgivings, this wasn’t a task just anyone could accomplish. A common front treaty for such a large-scale war involved negotiations around topics such as the exchange of an immense number of supplies, or the authorization of one kingdom’s military to trespass on another’s territory. One wrong step could lead humanity into a full-blown civil war. The duty of receiving the final signature for such a treaty, and from a queen herself, couldn’t be left to someone of inadequate standing.

The Kingdom of the Sun and the Arts was the center of art and culture amongst the seven great kingdoms. In that respect, Daniel, as the First Kingdom’s Minister of Culture, was the perfect representative. His sharp mind made that obvious to him, but he felt that a job with no need for strategy was beneath him.

My intellect should be used more creatively, on jobs centered around budget or personnel assignment.

He believed doing so would benefit the First Kingdom, and by extension, all of humanity. Once this was over with, he could return to his important original duties.

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Daniel finally arrived at the Fourth Kingdom, his mind full of dissatisfaction. As his carriage traveled forward, he saw elegantly decorated buildings all around him, while painters and musicians demonstrating their skill filled the streets. In the Fourth Kingdom, art flourished. More than any other area, it had escaped destruction during the great war, and thus had a significant number of surviving

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