The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Volume 4 Premium by Seiichi Takayama

Author:Seiichi Takayama [Takayama, Seiichi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2018-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

News of the Panther Clan’s attack reached Yuuto within the day.

Beginning with the works of Sun Tzu, there were a great number of treatises on military strategy that discussed the importance of information.

Yuuto understood that because the Horn Clan bordered the territories of powerful hostile nations like the Hoof and Lightning Clans, it functioned strategically as a western-facing shield for the Wolf Clan. With that important fact in mind, after Yuuto’s war with the Hoof Clan, he had taught Linnea techniques for using smoke signals to relay information.

The use of coded smoke signals was recorded as having happened as early as the 2nd century B.C. in China. They had quickly sent messages across the country about attacks by the horse-riding Xiongnu people, in a situation eerily similar to what Yuuto was facing now.

Smoke signals could be used to communicate over great distances in a short time, the equivalent of 140 kilometers per hour. Of course, one couldn’t send complicated messages with smoke, but it was perfect for reporting a “state of emergency” as quickly as possible.

Also, once the first warning had been delivered quickly by smoke signal, it could be followed afterward by more detailed information carried by messenger pigeons. Yuuto learned such information about the fall of Myrkviðr over the next two days.

“So, we really have no choice but to fight after all, huh...” With a sigh, Yuuto looked up at the sky.

Two years ago, on the night he’d finally succeeded in refining iron, Loptr had told him about his lifelong dream under a starry sky just like this one. Yuuto remembered that night like it was only yesterday.

Loptr should have been the one to lead and protect the Wolf Clan, but now it was being protected by Yuuto. And Loptr was now furiously baring his fangs towards the same Wolf Clan he should have been in charge of protecting.

Yuuto couldn’t shake the feeling of tragic irony.

In his heart, he still felt uncertain, hesitant.

To fight Loptr would mean pointing his blade at his brother’s throat. It wouldn’t be personally and directly, but it would still be the act of aiming to take his opponent’s life.

Could he really bring himself to do that?

What if there was another alternative to battle?

However, now that Myrkviðr had fallen, Yuuto could not allow himself the luxury of hesitation. If his uncertainty delayed his decisions, the cost would be borne in the lives of innocent civilians.

“When I die, I’m definitely going to hell, aren’t I?” Yuuto closed his eyes, whispering the words. “...Well, guess it’s a bit late to think about that.”

His hands were already stained with the blood of so many.

Even so, he’d resolved to keep moving forward.

Because Yuuto was the patriarch, a sovereign.

Allowing himself to be stalled by personal sentiment would be an insult to the souls of all the lives he’d sacrificed to get here.

It wasn’t about whether he could separate his personal feelings from the matter. He simply had to do it.

With those words of counsel to himself, Yuuto gave the order to raise his armies, in order to protect his little sister’s nation.

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