What happens if Napoleon Bonaparte is resurrected in a fantasy world to save a whole continent from a Demon Lord?
A moment after his death, the former ruler of Europe receives a visit from the mysterious Faucheur, who proposes him to reborn in anoth...
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When news arrived that a small band of rebels following an ambassador was approaching the fort waving the white flag, Victor wanted them to be caught, beheaded, and their heads sent back.
But as Lefde reminded him, he was a nobleman who commanded an army formally at the service of the Empire, and as such he could not fail to follow the law of hospitality which required him to always listen to peace proposals.
What surprised everyone a little, but perhaps not even that much, was finding out who the ambassador sent by the rebels to negotiate was.
"Lord Longinus. We finally get to know each other. I've heard a lot about you."
Victor almost laughed as he sat him down in the guest seat of the same office where Adrian had escaped from just a week before.
"Same for me, Grand Duke Montgomery. I hope that your father is in good health, and that you will pay my respects to him when you meet him."
"I will not miss. I remember when you came to visit my family, in the days when yours reigned with wisdom over these lands.»
"I only wish that our meeting after so long had taken place under better circumstances. But let's see if we can do something to improve this situation."
"I'm all ears."
"First of all I would like to reiterate that I am here as Commander of the National Guard's First Army and Home Secretary of the Free State. What I say and what I am authorized to do will be within the functions I have been given."
"Given by whom?"
"By the people of the Free State, the sole owners of the lands we administer in their name."
Victor almost burst out laughing: "The people? And since when do the people count for anything?"
"In the Free State the people are sovereign. The people decided to raise their heads against the usurper, and once the Revolution prevailed, they chose us to administer the nation and protect the freedom they have conquered. And we are ready to do anything to fulfill this task."
What could have seemed almost like a threat was immediately diluted when Adrian, almost smiling, had some documents passed to him by one of his secretaries.
"Therefore, in order to resolve this dispute without further bloodshed, the people of the Free State through our respectable Prime Minister and Supreme Commander of the Army have instructed me to discuss with you the terms for a cessation of hostilities."
Under these terms, Adrian explained with enviable self-control, Eirinn's forces would renounce to advance further into the territories of the Free State, which promised to not undertake any retaliatory action for the attack nor would it ask for some kind of compensation .
