In Takumi's expectation, Artoria Alter stayed in the world of Akame ga Kill to rebuild Camelot. With the current chaotic situation, she could fish in troubled waters, and with the support of the Cangtian Order, a huge civilian force, it should be very smooth.
At least not to say that as soon as the banner was raised, the people responded and welcomed the King's Division on the spot.
But it should be smooth sailing, and they'll be making great progress all the way.
But the reality is only slightly different from what was expected.
At the beginning, with the cooperation of Pope Liver and the efforts of the elf girls from the Dimensional City, a large-scale illusory magic was used to construct the front.
At the grand ceremony of the Cangtian Order, the Chosen King Artoria Alter successfully came into the world.
The believers of the Cangtian Order also rushed to respond as expected and began to welcome the King's Division.
Taking advantage of this wave, Artoria Alter directly led the initial team of Dimensional City and the knights affiliated with the Cangtian Order to seize a large area of territory with overwhelming force.
During this period, the powerful strength displayed by Artoria Alter, as well as the healing magic of the girls and the miracles displayed by a large amount of diluted healing elixir, further confirmed her identity as the Chosen King.
Coupled with the series of reforms after the conquest of the territory, the people have been liberated from the previous oppression, and they understand even more that this is a team that can allow them to live a good life.
As a result, the believers of the Cangtian Order took the initiative to surrender, hoping to join the team and do their part. Those who were not believers among the people gradually began to believe in the religion and supported Camelot.
Artoria Alter's great cause of founding the country began to develop steadily and solidly like a snowball.
Until now, everything has been as expected.
Even the girls who came to the Dimensional City from Artoria Alter unanimously believe that as long as nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to take over the entire empire in another week and build an Akame ga Kill world version of Camelot.
Then, as expected, an accident occurred.
When the Revolutionary Army saw that someone jumped out to pick peaches at this time, they immediately gave up.
They worked hard to wipe out the remnants of the Empire. The revolution had just succeeded; how could they let others snatch away the fruits of victory!
After being beaten a little confused at first, the Revolutionary Army reacted quickly and directly announced that they had overthrown the Empire and that they were the successors to the Empire's territory.
And they officially announced the establishment of a new nation (too lazy to name it, so it will be referred to as the Principality from now on), taking over the territory of the former Empire.
Then they backhandedly defined the Camelot Dynasty led by Artoria Alter as rebels and directly sent troops to eliminate them.
This was a decision made by the top leadership of the Revolutionary Army after careful consideration.
Originally, they planned to hold a grand founding ceremony with a full crowd after stabilizing the situation within the country to demonstrate the authority, rationality, and legitimacy of their regime.
But the current situation no longer allows them to delay any longer. If they don't declare the founding of the country as soon as possible, the army of Camelot will soon annex nearly half of the territory.
Moreover, after the founding of the country, firstly, it was possible to suppress the public opinion in the territory that welcomed the King's Division, and secondly, there was a legitimate reason to send troops.
At the same time, they also made some other remedial measures, such as policies.
All previous plans were scrapped, and Camelot's work was directly copied. Many policies that benefited the people were also implemented in order to win over the people.
For this reason, the Principality has even made greater efforts to arrange all kinds of benefits as much as possible. Even if there are no benefits, it will first draw a big pie.
In short, they are trying their best to bribe the people and get them to support the Principality.
Moreover, they also tried their best to discredit Camelot in various ways and control public opinion.
Not to mention, if they really succeed, at least those people within the bus's sphere of influence who have not yet become religious will no longer have any intention of defecting to Camelot.
Even some believers could not help but waver in their faith.
Because to these people, it doesn't matter who is in power. They only care about giving them a better life.
As long as they can live a good life, they don't bother to worry about any major national affairs. If they have that time, wouldn't it be better to farm?
Well, actually, their attention is distracted by those benefits.
Life had been too hard before, but now that there are finally benefits to be gained, the people naturally want to ensure that they can get immediate benefits first.
As a result, the Principality reacted at the speed of light to quickly stabilize the internal problems, and then immediately began to send troops to eliminate the rebels with their hands free.
This wave of operations caused a lot of trouble for Artoria Alter.
It is not difficult to deal with the troops sent by the Principality to obstruct them because these Principality troops organized by the Revolutionary Army cannot defeat the Camelot army at all.
On Camelot's side, there are Artoria Alter's elf girls and ordinary girls from the Dimensional City. The weakest among them can fight one against a hundred, while the strongest one is like Artoria Alter herself, who can destroy an army with just one Excalibur Morgan.
This is just the follow-up to the high-end combat power. The bottom-level combat power is also stronger than the Principality's army.
The low-level soldiers in Camelot are all fanatical warriors with the bonus of faith, and they are trained by the knights composed of the original members of the Cangtian Order.
These original members were all Esdeath's subordinates. They were the ace troops of the Empire. They can definitely be said to be the most elite troops in the world of Akame ga Kill.
The warriors of faith led by these elites as instructors and officers can at least defeat several Principality soldiers on the opposite side.
Moreover, Camelot has the assistance of the Dimensional City. There are fifty pieces of secondary standard Teigu and a thousand pieces of Shingu. Ordinary equipment is abundant, so you can have as much as you want.
There is no shortage of resources. Not to mention that the Cangtian Order has a good mass base and can collect a lot of food and wages. The Dimensional City also has a large amount of idle materials from the Apocalypse World for support.
Coupled with the generals on Camelot's side—the Marshal of the Army: Artoria Alter, and the generals on the left and right: Saber Alter and Nero—their combat command capabilities also surpassed those across the street by several levels.
It can be said that Camelot not only has an overall advantage in military strength but also has enough logistical strength to crush the Principality.
With such a gap, the Principality could not stop Camelot from annexing territory even if it took the lead.
The things that really make things difficult for Camelot actually come mainly from the private sector.
As soon as this battle started, the people actually became resistant!
This is not difficult to understand because Camelot's reputation among the people is almost zero.
Except for the initial occupation area, the people in other places knew nothing about Camelot that suddenly appeared.
On the other hand, the Principality's reputation is still very high because of its achievements in overthrowing the Empire and liberating them.
More importantly, the Principality Army is the former Revolutionary Army. The soldiers in it are all from the civilian population, and they all have relatives among the people.
Therefore, in the eyes of the people, this Camelot army was unknown and had no reputation. It only had the religious banner of the Chosen King, but it actually killed their relatives.
Under such circumstances, it would be a shame if the people in the newly occupied areas could still welcome the King's Division.
Faced with this situation, Camelot had to slow down its annexation of territory and turn around and devote most of its energy to dealing with internal affairs.
The Principality Army successfully blocked Camelot's advance at the cost of their lives.
In fact, Camelot was quite helpless. Artoria Alter and other high-level officials had long thought of this possibility, so they tried not to kill anyone from the beginning. This was why they were able to quickly occupy large areas of territory.
Because in the previous offensive operations in Camelot, there was almost no resistance and they were so restrained, naturally there were no casualties.
But the war with the Principality was different from the sneak attack on the garrison before. They were here to destroy them, so there was no reason to not fight back even if they were beaten.
At the same time, this battle cannot be avoided on Camelot's side, because even if Camelot stops its expansion at this time, the Principality cannot just let it go.
When Camelot had no choice but to fight this battle, the problem of people's hearts and minds also arose.
Although Camelot had tried its best to control possible casualties and used beheading tactics on the Principality generals to quickly resolve the battle, it still aroused resistance among the people.
At this time, the Principality received the result of the frontline defeat and also understood the strength gap between itself and Camelot.
Understanding that it would be impossible to regain the occupied territory through force alone, the senior officials of the Principality began to find another way.
When they saw that Camelot was being resisted by the people, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they quickly started operations based on this.
While continuing to intensify efforts to smear it, they also stirred up people's hatred towards Camelot.
This is not the most terrible thing. What is even more terrible is that the Principality has even launched anti-religious actions and made every effort to wipe out the Cangtian Order from its sphere of influence.
Generally speaking, being anti-religious is a difficult thing to do, especially for a religion like the Cangtian Order, which already has a large number of believers among the people.
But luckily, the Principality has caught someone from the Cangtian Order.
They pulled out some prisoners from the remnants of the Empire. The main components of these prisoners were those who were once Esdeath's subordinates, those who did not join the Cangtian Order project when they were demobilized.
These people all recognize the original members of the Cangtian Order. After all, they were all comrades in the same army.
It was a lively moment. These prisoners came out one after another to identify the elder priests of the Cangtian Order. They were all soldiers of the former ace army of the Empire.
After identifying them, the Principality first labeled them as remnants of the Empire and carried out the arrest of these clergy members legitimately.
Then they started to spread the word about the Cangtian Order. This was a conspiracy. Cangtian didn't exist at all; it was just someone pretending to be a ghost.
Regardless of whether those believers believe it or not, the ordinary people who have been provoked to hate Camelot believe it anyway.
This dealt a huge blow to the influence of the Cangtian Order within the Principality. A large number of old and new clergy were arrested, and churches were demolished. This anti-religious operation was carried out so smoothly!
"How careless, I actually forgot about these people."
Takumi came to the Camelot base camp in the world of Akame ga Kill. After listening to the summary of the current situation introduced by Artoria Alter, he couldn't help but feel helpless for a moment. If he had known that this would happen, he should have let Liver or himself personally handle these things. Otherwise, it wouldn't have exploded now. Now it's not just a matter of whether Camelot can be established. If things don't go well, even the Cangtian Order may suffer a heavy blow.
"After all, it's not because someone wasted his time on other women. If he had started the plan two days earlier, it wouldn't have ended up like this..."
Artoria Alter glanced at Takumi and said quietly.
In fact, in the final analysis, the main reason why the plan went wrong and developed into what it is now is that the opportunity to fish in troubled waters was missed.
When the plan began, the Revolutionary Army had already wiped out the last remaining resistance forces of the Empire. From then on, the Revolutionary Army, which is now the Principality, began to dominate.
Not only did this give them no time to fish in troubled waters, it also changed the nature of rebuilding Camelot here.
If the original script was to calm down troubled times, then what is being staged now is a drama of overthrowing a country.
In this situation where the wrong script was picked up, it would be strange not to have a lot of complications.
Even if they were able to capture a large territory at the beginning, they were lucky.
If this comes later and allows the Principality to stabilize the situation, it will be more difficult to operate.
And this is all the result of someone shelving their plans here before and turning around to help Artoria.
"..."
Looking at Artoria Alter, who was resentful and a little jealous, Takumi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
He also knows that the situation here will become like this, mainly because he has delayed the progress.
"Okay, I'm here to make amends now."
Takumi didn't make any excuses about important matters (missions), but directly used physical means to persuade Artoria Alter.
That is, practice boxing with her!
After beating Artoria Alter to the ground, Artoria Alter immediately didn't dare to have any more resentment.
"What are you going to do next?"
Artoria Alter leaned weakly on Takumi's shoulder and asked calmly.
"Didn't they say that the sky does not exist at all? Then let the sky appear." Takumi said with a smile.
It can only be said that the senior officials of the Principality are not too naive. They know that someone is pretending to be a ghost, but they dare to jump out and make a noise openly.
Doesn't this give him, the mastermind behind the scenes, a chance to take action?
Dare you say God doesn't exist?
You are blaspheming!
Do you know that you will be punished by the gods?
"I will take action to deal with those prisoners, and at the same time, let those high-level officials be killed collectively. You will act at the right time."
Takumi directly sentenced the senior officials of the Principality to death.
Maybe there are good people among them, but they are his enemies.
Takumi has never been a saint and will not feel pity for his enemies because of their good or bad qualities.
Since these people blocked his way, Takumi doesn't mind crushing them.
Moreover, Takumi doesn't have that much free time to waste with the opponent. Fighting head-on on the battlefield? He would only do this if he was stupid. Obviously, there is a faster and more convenient way, why not use it?
Morality? Can it be used as food?
And, for those people in the Principality, are they even worthy?
How funny!
The strength is completely unequal, and the weaker party will naturally only be beaten.
The only thing that makes Takumi a little worried, probably because of Najenda and the others, is that they needed to do some ideological work for them afterward.
But this was not a problem. After all, the purpose of rebuilding Camelot was not to enslave the civilians of this world.
Even because under Artoria Alter's rule, we can still get a lot of assistance from the Dimensional City, which is actually a good thing for the people.
By then, the rice will be cooked, and the results will be good. Najenda has no reason to object anymore.
"Okay, you go ahead, I also need to make some preparations here."
Seeing this, Artoria Alter got up, packed her clothes, and went out to arrange things.
Takumi didn't delay when he saw this. Based on the information given by Artoria Alter, he teleported to the capital of the Principality.
Then, the classic scene reappeared.
Dark clouds quickly gathered, covering the sky and the sun. Lightning flashed, and thunder exploded.
The people below were stunned and didn't know what was going on. Only a few people remembered the situation in the Imperial Capital that day.
"It's thunder! Heaven is going to punish you!"
The people began to panic. Although they accepted the official statement of the Principality and believed that someone was pretending to be a ghost, they still couldn't help but instinctively feel powerless in the face of this natural disaster-like thunder and were in awe from the bottom of their hearts.
Only those captured Cangtian Order members were all extremely surprised.
They all shouted: "The sky has revealed its spirit! We are going to be saved! The end has come for you heretics!"
The senior officials of the Principality were as panicked as the people.
Because they found that they and others seemed to have given the other side a reason to take action.
Moreover, the natural disaster-like scene in front of them was far beyond their expectations. Having never witnessed it with their own eyes, they greatly underestimated the power of this kind of divine punishment.
How could a Teigu do this?
Is there really a god in this world?
"Gulu~! Can the guards stop it?"
"I'm afraid not..."
Boom~!!!
The lightning instantly flooded the Principality Council, killing the senior officials on the spot but not injuring the others at all.
This was not over yet; the thunder continued to fall, and it did not stop until the prisoners and the senior officials of the Principality in other places were all reduced to ashes on the spot.