270 # 270 Takeover, and self-employed.
The non-attribute magic "Cracking" is a magic that interrupts the activation formula of an artifact and rewrites its activation conditions and settings.
For example, let's say there's an artifact, an artifact that produces water when you turn on the faucet. It's hard to rewrite it to make the juice come out when you turn on the faucet, but it's easy to rewrite it to "make the faucet impossible to turn on", "a little bit of water doesn't come out when you turn on the faucet", or "it comes out like an idiot".
I found this magic in the Library, and it's surprisingly easy to use. If you combine it with Analyze, it's easy to understand everything from the flow of magic to its activation.
However, there are artifacts that my knowledge can't handle, and if you follow a too complicated process, unexpected effects may occur, so you have to be careful.
As for the Collar of Enslavement, it's also a bit tough to neutralize the "effect" of "absolute obedience to master" or "forced action".
However, it was easy to rewrite the magic wave registered to the highest authority as mine and erase the rest. I've already experimented with the collar I got from the slavers.
And now, I've rewritten the master registration of all the 'collars of enslavement' that exist in this city to me alone. In other words.........
''What's the matter with you guys! Get it done!
Following King Sandra's order, the slave soldiers pointed their swords at me. But all the soldiers there looked at each other in some confusion.
It's only natural. We are not forced to move. The current action was simply an unintentional movement of the body under orders, not the effect of the collar.
'Slash at me! Kill him!
Again, King Sandra shouted, but the slave soldiers did not respond. Some of the slaves put their hands around their necks, wondering if the collar has come off, but the collar is still in place.
"What is this...?
What's the matter with you? Why don't the slaves obey!
The overlords around him began to flinch at the strange behavior.
''In vain. Slaves with the 'collar of servitude' will not accept orders from anyone but their masters. And their master is now only me from earlier.
What did you say?
I've heard that two-thirds of Sandra's humans and subhumans are slaves. That means most of them are in absolute submission to me. Shall I put it plainly? This country... has been taken over by me.
What....what...what...?
For a moment, King Sandra was stunned, but he immediately passed his magic power through the golden bracelet on his arm and tried to "re-register" it. As you might guess, that thing is the "registration" artifact.
But alas. The master registration has already been rewritten so that it cannot be overwritten. To tell the truth, the king's orders can still reach other cities, but there's no reason to teach them.
''That's absurd...! The master registration of the "Collar of Enslavement" should only be possible for this "Slave King's Bracelet" and those of our royal bloodline...! Ha! You have no idea that you are of my royal blood...
Don't be a creep, you idiot.
The mere thought of being related to you makes my stomach hurt. I don't have Orc blood in me.
The slave-soldiers seemed unable to keep up with the suddenness of the event, their eyes darting back and forth between me and King Sandra.
I'm not giving you any orders, slave soldiers. I will also promise to free you from slavery if you are not a criminal slave. If you are not a criminal slave, I promise to free you from slavery, and you are free to return to your homeland.
He rose from his chair and spoke to the soldiers around him. The swords had already been lowered. Some of them are crying out.
''Are you really........going to be freed.......?''
I promise you this. You will be free. You won't be a slave anymore.
I answer that to one of the slave soldiers who spoke to me. Then the other soldiers also began to open their mouths, with sobs in their voices.
''I'm not a slave........''
We're not slaves...
You can live a normal life.
We can go home ... we can get our lives back ...
The men shed tears as their voices trembled as they held back. They must be a mixture of emotions, joy and frustration, anger and emptiness.
''Foolish ... the slaves, the slaves ...''
Apports.
What?
The bracelet disappears from King Sandra's right arm as she sits on the throne and appears in my hand. So this is the "Armlet of the Slave King"?
"Ka, give it back!
No, no, no, you don't have to.
With a smirk, he threw the bangles and smashed them as they fell with his Blade Mode Brunhild. The bangles that fell to the floor were successfully cut in half. So now the slaves were completely disobedient to the king's orders. Right now, the slaves in the other cities are still having to obey their current masters, but they will be freed in turn.
''You! What have you done? By what right do you take the slaves away from our country!
'This is an interesting thing to say. Then can you guys answer what right you have to take away their freedom from them?
Ugghhh...!
The slave soldiers around me are turning their furious eyes toward the king. They have been unreasonably robbed of their lives and defiled with human dignity. They have every right to be angry.
And then I heard many screams and the cries of the beast's cries from the front. At the same time, something rampant and shocking echoed out. It's beginning.
'Wha, what! What's going on!
The chief ministers were in a panic, not knowing why they were there. During the audience, the robed man who led us to this place came tumbling in a hurry.
''Ta-da! The magical beasts under the control of the Demon Beast Warriors are on the rampage! He doesn't listen to me at all!
What the hell?
Well, they will. The slaves still have reason and the collar is still on, so they wouldn't act recklessly unless they were in danger. But the monsters are different. Once they are freed, they will follow their instincts and start moving. Will you be able to restrain them?
I told you. The 'collar of enslavement' is already under my control. It won't accept any orders from anyone but me.
Gugg....!
By the way, I've ordered the demonic beasts to escape from the city and not to kill as many people as possible. The whole city is probably in a panic.
"You son of a b*tc*...! How dare you...!
So I've heard it a thousand times. Do you want a war? You know. I'm a pacifist, but I'm not a non-resistant person. You hit me, I hit you back. It was you guys who declared war on us. Don't say you weren't ready for a beating.
Shut up, shut up, shut up!
King Sandra comes glaring at us hatefully. Now, all that's left to do now is to tie these guys up, find out where they are producing the Enslavement Collar, and destroy them completely.
With that thought in mind, that's when I took a step forward.
The female slave beside King Sandra was about to swing the lapidary sword at her side with all her strength, as if she had been holding it in her hand for some time.
''Huh?''
The next moment when I thought I heard such a dumb voice, the human head, which resembles an orc, was flying through the air in a perfect way.
As expected of me, I couldn't move either. Maybe I could have stepped in between them, but I couldn't move my body. But I couldn't move, or I couldn't bring myself to help. As a result, I might have left King Sandra to die.
While I was thinking about this in a daze, the head of the king, which had been cut off, was flying towards me.
''Whoa!
I kicked the king's head to the side without a second thought as it bounced to my feet. Oh, no! Not to desecrate the dead or anything like that, but I was really surprised and unintentional! I'm going to be very surprised when a head pops out of my ass.
The head that was blown off flew beautifully under the vizier's bald head and rolled to a stop on the spot.
''Hiiiiii!''
The vizier slumped to the spot, followed by the king's body, which spewed blood from his neck with great force, collapsing in front of the throne.
The blood that sprayed out rhythmically with a buzzing, buzzing sound slowly flowed down from the platform.
Speaking of my side, I had tears in my eyes as the blood was sticky on my kicked off leg.
Aarah..... I didn't have a chance to do a "slip" or anything.... They left without me having a chance to do anything.
'Uh ... anyway, paralyze.
Ugh!
What?
He cast a paralyzing spell on the overlords who were present, making them unable to move. With the help of the slave soldiers, I tied them all up.
As if stunned and powerless, the female slave who was sitting on the spot bowed her head towards me.
''........Thanks to you, I was able to avenge my sisters....... Thank you, thank you........
From what I hear, this guy used to be an adventurer with his sisters. It seems that they were attacked by a bandit gang in Regulus and sold to a slave trader.
All of the sisters were beautiful, so they were presented to the king. While they were being used as comforters, a sister and sister were killed while being teased by the king's intuition. He said he had survived only to one day avenge that grudge.
So he was a scumbag, to say the least. You can say he had it coming.
Now, what should we do with this person? It's a good thing that he's the murderer of the king of his country. Our enemy country........he may be a hero in our eyes, but....... I wonder if it's possible to secretly exile him?
War breaks out between Brunhild and Sandra; in less than 15 minutes, Sandra's slave forces are neutralized and King Sandra is killed in action (?). The war is over. The end of the war. If the war had been fought, it would have gone something like this.
And they were the ones who fought us. What should I tell Mr. Kosaka?
For now, let's put it off for now. We'll do that. I'll do that later.
After recovering the bald Prime Minister from his paralysis, I made him stand up and led him to the factory where the 'Enslavement Collar' is produced.
To his surprise, the factory was located in the basement of a tower on the west side of the castle. The state produces the collar, the slavers buy it, the bandits kidnap people, and the slavers buy it. The people of Sandra would buy more of the people who were enslaved by the collar...and so on.
Many slaves were forced to work in the factory, but they were all forced to stop working.
It seems that the magic tool 《Artifact》 that was installed in the basement, a box-shaped magic tool about the size of a microwave oven, is an artifact that changes an ordinary collar into a "collar of enslavement".
The old one is the original one created by a great wizard hundreds of years ago, and the other two seem to be recently completed copies. It is said that the wizards spent decades analyzing and assembling it.
By the way, the wizard also kidnapped a wizard engineer from Felsen who was said to be excellent and made him a slave.
However, I heard that the wizard also passed away recently, perhaps because he was too much for him. There is no one left who can make a copy. To make another copy, he was planning to recruit another talented mage engineer, but...
''We should cut off the sprout of the disaster from its root,''
The three artifacts, including the original, will be "gravitated" and flattened beyond regeneration.
Now, the "collar of enslavement" will never be created again. ........Well, to be precise, the doctor and I have "analyzed" it, so it's not impossible to make it.
Now all that's left to do is free the slaves....
If we free all the slaves at once, there could be a riot. It's not surprising that the people who have been oppressed until now are planning to take revenge. But if they commit a crime, they could fall into slavery again, and I'd like to think they wouldn't be that stupid.
I'm not going to free the criminal slaves, but those who have a place to go and people waiting for them to return should take the initiative to return. The problem is the number of them, I guess.
I know Sandra is mostly a desert and has a much smaller population than its land area, but....
I don't know how many more days of "recall" & "gates" we'll have to go through........
I guess we'll just have to ask the East-West Alliance for help...
I am not in the least bit concerned about Sandra. But it's been minimized, and war is war. I take what I can get. The slaves need to be compensated as much as possible.
I don't care if it brings down the government. Pull back the slaves and you can rebuild Sandra, or do whatever you want.
Except, since we don't have any more slaves, we'll have to do everything ourselves. The criminal slaves won't be freed, so they'll stay in this country, but they'll use them for mining sites, coal mines, etc. to dig for rare metals.
Eventually, though, we're going to have to create an environment where we can put criminals to work without the "collar of enslavement". And I'm not going to leave a negative legacy.
Since the king is like that, I'm sure we'll have another self-proclaimed king, like Euron. And in the end, will it go on as a city-state, or will it fight for supremacy?
........No, I don't think the cowards who have been letting their slaves fight for them until now are capable of fighting a war on their own. Either way, Sandra will go into decline. Well, I wonder if that orc king had a child.
Well, it doesn't matter. Since he lost the power to control his slaves, how many of them would follow the royal family even if they had an heir?
In the end, the other kings were right after all. I didn't mean to crush them, but I didn't think they were that stupid....... It's probably better to negotiate with a chimpanzee so we can have a more productive conversation.
Huh..... War is always empty.