Imperial Reincarnation: I Came, I Saw, I Survived Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 7] by Masekinokatasa

Author:Masekinokatasa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Interlude: A Chance Encounter

New Calendar, 460th Year, 9th Month, 14th Day

On a Certain Ship

Rosaria Van-Chalongé-Cruveillier greeted her seventh birthday aboard a ship bound for the Bundarte Empire’s capital.

The adults traveling with her each congratulated her briefly, before their expressions once again became stern and they convened to hold yet another conference—what number this marked, she’d lost count.

The Belverian diplomats—for that is what they were—had but a single topic on their agenda, and that was: how would they secure the Empire’s aid? Rosaria was expressionless as she watched them, but she felt something quite close to resignation.

They’re going to offer me up as collateral to Duke Raul. Or perhaps Duke Agincarl. If I can curry their favor well enough, they might take me as a concubine. If not...

If not, her homeland could meet its end. For the Kingdom of Belveré was in dire straits indeed.

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Princess Rosaria’s homeland was located at the northwestern edge of the Eastern Continent and situated on the Belveré peninsula. It was one of many nations on the Eastern Continent with a long history, but its most prosperous and stable era had been during its alliance with the Rotahl Empire...which, in practice, had been more akin to vassal statehood. But while that position hadn’t inspired pride in the Belverian peoples, they had swallowed the indignity—such was the cost of peace.

This peace, however, collapsed with the advent of the True Inheritors, a vocal branch of the First Faith. The True Inheritors believed that the land that the Illuminatus Ein first set foot upon on the day of his arrival at the Eastern Continent was sacred ground, and attacked the Kingdom of Belveré seeking to reclaim it. Their proclaimed “holy land” was located at the tip of the Belveré peninsula, coincidentally within a stone’s throw of the Kingdom’s capital of Crulére.

On one side was a kingdom that been content to serve as a vassal state to avoid the fires of conflict. On the other was a militant host of religious zealots, to whom death in battle was synonymous with martyrdom and virtue. The war was entirely one-sided.

Many more moderate adherents of the First Faith nonetheless supported the cause to retake the holy land, adding extreme momentum to the True Inheritors’ crusade. This could be attributed to their religion’s teachings: in the holy scripture of many First Faith denominations, it spoke of how the land Illuminatus Ein’s ship first reached was awash with heathens. They were too attached to their wicked faith to heed Ein’s words, and the king of their nation ordered his imprisonment.

This scripture was grounded in truth: the kingdom that had existed before the Kingdom of Belveré’s founding had indeed captured the Illuminatus Ein. However, it hadn’t been for religious reasons—they had sought the knowledge and technology he had brought with him from his home continent.

At the time, the technology of the Old Continent, as it was called in the First Faith, far surpassed that of the Eastern Continent, and Ein’s ship had been vessel to a number of skilled craftsmen.

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