Record of Wortenia War: Volume 18 by Ryota Hori

Author:Ryota Hori [HORI, RYOTA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

Walking quickly through the palace corridors, Chris made for his room as he thought back to what he’d just seen—the mountain of documents lined up before Helena.

It really does seem that establishing and training the new knight orders is weighing heavily on Lady Helena.

Normally, someone else would handle this kind of work, but since Queen Lupis requested that this be handled perfectly, Helena had taken over it herself.

Since Queen Lupis wants to increase her authority as sovereign, reinforcing the knight orders is a matter of great urgency for her.

Despite claiming to be a centralized authoritarian monarchy, Rhoadseria’s political system was closer to feudalism. Some nobles with roles in the palace didn’t own land, and although their high positions did support the administration, most of Rhoadseria’s aristocracy was made up of governors who ruled the country’s territories. They maintained their own armies, collected taxes from their domains, and swayed the law within their territories with their discretionary power.

They’re like kings ruling small countries.

They didn’t have the authority to negotiate with other countries, but even that wasn’t fully controlled by the royal house. For example, Viscount Winzer, who ruled the southern border city of Galatia, had significant authority over military and diplomatic affairs.

In a world where long-distance communication was limited to carrier pigeons, the palace couldn’t properly manage the border regions itself. At worst, if the Kingdom of Tarja were to suddenly declare war, it would take too long for a runner to reach the capital and return with instructions. If Count Winzer had to wait for permission to engage in defensive combat, the invaders would have encroached too deep to be stopped by the time he received it. Due to this delay, Rhoadseria’s rulers had no choice but to give frontier governors the right to maintain an army, like they had done for generations.

But that could create an opportunity for a rebellion.

That wouldn’t happen if the royal house had the power to keep those governors in check, but over Rhoadseria’s five hundred years of history, the royal house’s authority had gradually dwindled.

In that regard, Queen Lupis was correct to order Helena to swiftly organize the new units. The problem was the intent behind her order.

Queen Lupis is testing Lady Helena’s loyalty. Lady Helena was close to Baron Mikoshiba, so I can understand Her Majesty’s misgivings, but still. She’s mistreating Lady Helena.

Chris could only shake his head at this absurd test, but that didn’t mean he or Lady Helena could just ignore the queen’s instructions. Forming new knight orders was an important task, one which would determine Rhoadseria’s future; that much was for certain.

The royal house is weak, though. No governor is going to obey a queen who lost all her authority.

The weak were at fault for their weaknesses, no matter how strong they might have once been. The governing nobles only served Rhoadseria and obeyed its ruler because they stood to profit from it. But what kind of profit did they seek?

Safety and stability. No noble would serve a king that can’t guarantee those.

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