After showing the slime grenade I showed the hand cannon and wall cannon which were basically the same thing except one was weaker, smaller and could be carried.
The faces of the prince and his entourage turned to shock and disturbance but Erickson had a look of enlightenment on his face.
We returned to the meeting room where Erickson and I wrote up a draft treaty which was approved by my father then using a magic pen and paper a letter and copy of the treaty was sent to the emperor.
The pen and paper had duplicates which acted exactly the same instantly relaying messages it was similar to a fire flute but didn't have any waiting time.
The only thing left was to wait for the emperor to reply I prepared residential accommodations for the envoy and had the prince's escorts send a message to the rest of the prince's forces.
The envoy could conduct business with serothor's traders and merchants as long as they were polite this also meant they could enter the city without any problems.
The prince was ungaged and 'escorted' to his room by Erickson and Elise now it was just a waiting game.
I returned to my room and sat down at my desk where my journal was and opened to the page with the next few major events were laid out.
[events in future:
-suprise attack on eastern front
-locust famine
-iron empire captures the city of water
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It went on for a few pages every few pages the events get worse and worse but eventually my knowledge is limited to a single word every entry.
Then a voice emerged in my head and left my mouth.
"You know the emperor might not like how you've treated his son right?"
I rolled my eyes and spoke back.
"I didn't treat his son in any disrespectful way his own subordinate did and who told you that you could use my mouth to speak?"
I heard a chuckle in my head and then he spoke in my mind.
"you did yesterday you said that if we were alone I could use our mouth to speak"
I remembered back to yesterday and Oz was right I did infact tell him that I let out a sigh feeling regret well up inside me.
Then I heard my door slam open to reveal a red faced kyle then he spoke.
"We have received a reply from the emperor!"
I speed walked to the meeting room where the prince, the king and Erickson were standing around a piece of parchment paper.
I walked towards the parchment and read the writing.
[I emperor Xenam Tudilus the 3rd approve the following contract it is to be official once prince Alberto returns:
The city state of Serothor shall become a protectorate of the great empire maintaining both independence and sovereignty.
Clause 1- serothor provides military technology and assistance to the great empire in times of war.
Clause 2- the great empire has a duty to protect Serothor against any threat to it's sovereignty and from harm.
Clause 3- serothor's laws, traditions, culture and royal family are to be respected and recognised by the great empire within serothor's territory.
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It went on and on but it was basically the same treaty we sent with a few minor changes my father approved the treaty and I put down my blood signature for the binding ritual.
The binding ritual was just a way to immortalise treaties within bloodlines making promises between countries and individuals much worse to break.
The envoy brought supplies and left immediately taking a letter to ask for an outpost to be stationed in Serothor's territory.
Everything has fallen into place now all I had to do was make sure nothing happens and to prepare for serothor for the future.
I returned to my bedroom and looked at my journal iron empire captures the city of water huh? that should happen in about a month but there is nothing I can do about it.
When the mega city state is captured it starts the conquering phase of the great war in which countries try to defeat and absorb of countries and those bigger countries get captured by the big three.
This continues until almost no nation on the continent is left except for the big three then after a series of stalemates the priestdom of joryac gets both nations to declare that they follow the priestdom's religion.
The iron empire breaks into civil war and the next part of the series begins I just needed to help Serothor through the great war then the main character's party should be able to deal with most things for a while.
Before I knew it a week had passed.
•••main character on the eastern front
It was pretty calm at the start of the day the iron empire is north-east of here and the priestdom is to the Southwest of the great empire.
Our presence was mostly a precaution a place for new recruits to get used to the chain of command at least it is supposed to be that way.
Thousands of heavily armoured people were teleported in the middle of the grassy plains surrounding the camp.
We can barely hold out I felt the heat from my body escape me as a warm substance flowed from my abdomen then I heard a voice.
"We have reinforcements! hold out a little longer!"
I pushed myself up from the cold ground I can do this!•••