Wasteland Disaster
The next day, news spread that the black market leaders had been killed by Finance Minister Aaron Lionheart.
Then I gave all my reports about them and the people in the empire were shocked by the reports and then I found people calling me heroic titles: Hero of the North, Savior of the Country, Slayer of Monsters.
But I did not care about these titles because I had two last things left to finish my work as a minister. Suddenly, before I left, the falcon of transportation came to me and I found with him a written message stating that the king would come to the ministry headquarters to meet me personally.
At sunset, the king and his personal assistant arrived, but another person with orange hair and violet eyes arrived. When I prepared a place for the king and those with him to sit, the king said to me:
"Well done boy, I'm proud of your work. Despite your young age, you dealt with things that we adults couldn't handle."
I thanked him for his compliment and he said,
"Oh I forgot to introduce you to my eldest son, Adrian Pendragon, heir to the throne of the empire."
I was shocked because it was the first time I met her.
The prince said to me
"Mr. Aaron, it is an honor to meet a brother friend of mine."
I asked him what was happening in the war and how Otto was doing.
He told me that Otto was doing well and that the war had stopped for now.
I was shocked and asked him why.
He told me that the war that lasted for 15 years was on the side of the Vikings because they had the strongest warriors in their history, Erik with the blood axe who was 8 feet tall and no one had ever been able to defeat him before, and also the wise warrior Thors with the iron hand who fought our soldiers with his hands only and was 7 feet tall and with only 2 million soldiers of them the war continued for all these years
But the war was stopped by order of Knut who ordered them to retreat but the prince was the only one who returned because the others stayed because they did not trust the Vikings
He said that a conference between the countries of the continent will be held after a year to solve the war problem.
I was shocked by this news and angry at the same time. I told the king that I would go with him to the conference. He and the prince agreed to that after their initial shock.
I told them that I would solve the rest of the country's problems and that there would be no problems even if war returned. The king was really happy and thanked me and told me that I could enter the academy a year before the deadline, but I refused to enter with those who were my age.
After a while of talking to each other, the king asked me about the plague monster incident, so I told him:
"The plague monster was created by a secret spell among the corpses and was clearly a trap set by the Danes, especially since all the corpses were coming to Britain."
They were shocked by my words
I told them that Knut did not want to occupy us, but rather wanted to exterminate us, I think, to expand his lands for his soldiers and keep only the Scandinavians.
And that this war was nothing but a war of extermination from the beginning and that this pause is nothing but the calm before the storm
They kept looking at each other in shock and the prince said to me
"Is that what I concluded from this incident alone?"
I told him there were Danes on the black market selling poisons and all sorts of deadly stuff so I assumed they were just doing it to kill us.
They decided to discuss the matter between themselves and decided to go and I said goodbye to them.
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And the next day
I went to see the farmland and its condition and found a disaster.
Where I found the lands in a deplorable state, as the lands were almost barren and full of immature crops, I quickly went to them and shouted, saying:
"What the hell are you doing? What happened to the lands?"
A person I had met during the plague monster attack looked at me and said,
"Mr. Minister, this is not what you think."
I grabbed him and said
"I gave you flour that will help you in farming, so why is this happening?"
He told me that it started just the day before when the farmers were planting and everything was normal until some toxic gases started to be released into the land and suddenly the land became unfit for agriculture and all the crops were spoiled.
I felt very angry because I knew who was the cause of this, so I summoned some saints from the Catholic State, and three days before their arrival, I began to see the conditions of the farmlands in the rest of the empire except for the Catholic State and the Poison State because the State does not grow crops because of their poisonous lands, and the Northern State because most of it is filled with snow.
After reviewing the events and coming up with solutions in my head, I decided to send 10 saints to 4 different states, and I will deal with this place, meaning 40 saints, but my request was accepted with difficulty, but on the condition that the heiress of the Catholic State, Aya Catholic, Bianca's older sister, be sent to monitor the situation.
Bianca looked upset to hear about her sister's presence here.
I asked her why and went to her and asked her why she was so worried and she said to me
Her sister, who is 18 years older than me, is considered the successor and first heir to the State of the Catholic Saints. She is also considered the most cruel and strict person in the empire because of her closeness to the Catholic Pope. She is also the person who hates those close to her by blood, enemies of authority.
Also she loves Ray, Zola's left hand in the Holy Knights and wanted to get close to him in any way but Ray never expressed it to her and also her family didn't want her to start such a relationship because the Saints didn't like the Holy Knights.
They wanted to marry her to one of the knights of the church from outside of empire, whose name was Joseph Catholic. She said that all the children of the Pope were Catholics in the entire continent, and she found them Catholics.