Ideologies

  Yuuji sat before the Guardian Overseer and Nazarick’s Defense ander, his eyes gazing at Albedo’s beautiful, slitted, golden eyes and Demiurge’s diamond gems as his lips curled into a soft smile.

  On his side, Lelouch had picked up one of the reports oable, specifically the ones regarding Nazarick’s current defenses, and chose to let Yuuji take the reins for the meeting.

  “Firstly, I would like to establish the agenda for the meeting.”

  The two guardians nodded in stoic reverehough determination and absolute loyalty still apparent in their eyes.

  “The first topic would be regarding Nazarick’s current eic situation and pns to i in the ey of other nations.

  Sedly, to establish an informatiowork sisting of undercents and spies within other nations for the purpose of intelligehering.

  And stly… For Momonga, Aika, and I to establish ourselves as high ranking adventurers iize.”

  Even before Demiurge, who was already on his feet, Albedo rose from her seat and pced her hands oable, leaning towards Yuuji.

  “Yuuji-sama! That is too dangerous! How could three Supreme Beings leave the safety of Nazarid go to another nation, which isn’t in our trol yet, with so many dangers yet to be known?!”

  “I fully agree with Albedo’s , my lord. Moreover, to do so without any guards… How could we serve as your shields and ensure your safety?!”

  Yuuji raised his hand and the two guardians halted their stream of s. But, while they had stopped expressing their s verbally, Yuuji could still see their opposition to the sheer notion of having the supreme beings outside of Nazarick within their eyes.

  “I uand your s. However, let us discuss the previous points first before I expin our reasoning behind this decision.”

  With such words, both Albedo and Demiurge had no choice but to obey and sat back down to their seats.

  At this point, both of them could not uand why the supreme beings would decide on being an adventurer in a kingdom in which they have no information or trol over.

  If it was for information, they could simply task the two of them to send their spies and agents to the kingdom, as they were already pnning to do.

  ‘Could it be… No. No, it couldn’t be… The Supreme Beings have expressed how much they care about us…’

  The terrifying thought of the Supreme Beings deeming them as inpetent and decided to take matters into their own hands was quickly dismissed by Albedo.

  After meeting them yesterday within the Amphitheatre, Albedo could see that the Supreme Beings did not merely see them as tools. In fact, Momonga had personally referred to them as their children.

  So, this should not be the reason behind his decision.

  But if it wasn’t, then… It could only be something beyond their meager intelligence could e up with.

  Truly… She khat the intelligend wisdom possessed by Yuuji and the rest of the supreme beings were beyond her reach. But now… to actually see it in person was truly awe inspiring.

  “Well then, first regarding Nazarick’s eic situation and pns to i in other nation’s eies.”

  Yuuji picked up the report Albedo had made regarding the current financial situation of Nazarick, including all details regarding the Yggdrasil Gold o maintain the various traps, Merary summonings, pop monsters, etd upkeep the great underground tomb.

  It was aremely detailed reparding every single aspect reted to the topic. Just by reading these, he would have all the knowledge he’d o uand Nazarick’s finances deeply and make appropriate decisions.

  That said, if it wasn’t for his Iment Proficy, Ma Proficy, Enhanced Memory, and Accelerated Learning Speed, it would’ve been too difficult to uand and truly prehend the report in such a short amount of time.

  It was no wohat Momonga couldn’t prehend these reports even though he was a veteran saryman.

  But, revising these reports could be do aime.

  “I see you’ve worked hard to produce these reports. You even included the amount of gold Draupnir produced if all of its eight copies were turned into gold. Thank you, Albedo.”

  “Thank you for your praise, Yuuji-sama.”

  Havihe report, Yuuji now had a clearer uanding of Nazarick’s fi this point in time. And truthfully, if they were to simply stay and live within the fines of the underground tomb, they could easily do it for decades, especially with the Yggdrasil Gold they could infinitely gee with Draupnir, the World Item Momonga had acquired i moments before they were transported to the new world.

  However… That’s not what they pn on doing.

  “As expined in Albedo’s report, Nazarick is in no dire need of funds for the upkeep of the tomb, especially with the existence of Draupnir. If we were to simply live in hiding and never i with the outside world, we could live in abundance for decades. However… Those outside will definitely find us sooner or ter. And as you might imagihey will not simply let a treasure trove remain uncimed.”

  The temperature around Albedo and Demiurge instantly fell as their expressions turned even more cold and stoic. If they weren’t in the presence of two supreme beings… furniture would’ve beeroyed in their rage against the very notion of inferior beings daring to take a step into the holy grounds and home of the supreme beings and even think of plundering it.

  Yuuji simply smiled softly at their cold dispy of anger and tinued.

  “That is why, we will then ourselves in case such a time es that others wish to harm us, or eve it from even happening in the first pce. And one way to do so would be to acquire more resources which could be done by iing in others’ eies, aing their gold flow into our own treasury.”

  Gold from the real world may not be usable for the Guilds’ myriad of funs, as all of them required Yggdrasil gold. However, it would allow them to trade in the new world and gain resources for Nazarick’s growth.

  Even useless items could be turned into Yggdrasil Gold by using the “Exge Box”. While the more useful and iing items could be researched or used for their purposes.

  The two greatest minds of Nazarick fell into a deep thought, processing ead every word uttered by Yuuji iail, disseg it carefully as to absorb every single wisdom tained in his every word so they could perhaps uand a sliver of his iion.

  Then, a look of realization came to the both of them.

  “However, my iion, as you may have already guessed, is not to simply collect resources.”

  With eyes wide in realization, Albedo muttered.

  “It is… to trol their ey. Am I right, Yuuji-sama?”

  Yuuji nodded, his lips curling into a soft smile.

  “Indeed. By iing in their ey, we would be able to easily trol the dire their nation is going by simply tugging at a few strings of the marioe, supplying Nazarick with the resources we o grow. And if they prove to be a liability more than a profit, we would be able to easily destroy them as well by simply cutting the strings aing them fall to the ground.”

  The two guardians nodded in uanding.

  It was as Yuuji had said… By trolling their ey, they would be able to easily shape the future of the nation to their will. May it prosper uhe rule of the Supreme Beings, or be destroyed from i as its people suffer from poverty, hunger, and war.

  Instead of taking them over through ford war, they would be able to exert an absolute trol over the future of a nation by trolling the invisible strings of the nation named “gold”.

  “However, trolling the ey of aire nation would be impossible without information. Thus, we would o establish a work to colleformation within these nations.”

  Yuuji then turowards Leloubsp;

  “And, thanks to Lelouch’s abilities, we’ve ascertained a bit of the structure of the three nations we are b.”

  Lelouch pced down the report he was holding back down to the table and faced the two guardians.

  “The three nations closest to us are the Re-Estize Kingdom, the Baharuth Empire, and the Sheocracy.”

  Located northwest of Nazarick, Re-Estize was a rge kingdom occupying most of the western ti with a popution of over nine million souls. However looking behind the thin veil, it was a failed state, suffering from near-stant political disorder and civil u.

  Moreover, the kingdom was also in frequent flict with its neighb nation. With a bulk of its army sisting of mostly scripts taken from vilges and small cities who held the rake many more times than a sword, the kingdom engaged in small territorial skirmishes at the Katze Pins every year during its harvest season. And with its farmers scripted into soldiers, the food produ within the kingdom slowed dramatically over the years.

  Oher hand, the Baharuth Empire, which was located east of Nazarick, was one of the stro nations in the region. They posses a powerful armed force as all imperial soldiers in the Empire were professionally trained and equipped with the test magical equipment provided by its ministry of magibsp;

  A single knight of the empire, trained and equipped, could easily defeat more than 10 scripts (farmers) of the kingdom. Thus, while the size of the armies during skirmishes betweewo nations were vastly different, the results were mostly a draw.

  While the resoureeded to train and equip a single knight was vastly more expehan scripting 10 vilgers, with their farmers workers not scripted into the military, food produ and the ey could still fun even during war times if a full-scale war were to erupt; a stark trast to the kingdom’s situation.

  And stly, the Sheocracy was, as suggested by its name, a theocracy tering around a main goveral body that worshiped the Six Gods. They were a highly religious, orthodox state, promoting human supremabsp;

  Their doe revolves around the “Gods” they call the Six Great Gods. As such, their try was divided into six different religious sects, each with its own intelligence agency fog on one expertise they’re skillfully good at.

  Due to their humarism, they are in frequent flict with other non-human kingdoms, especially the Elven Kingdom and had used Elven prisoners of wars and sves as a bulk number of their workers.

  Their ey, essentially, depended on these elvehus not suitable for any sort of iments.

  This was why Yuuji only said to i in the Kingdom and the Empire.

  They also seemed to have institutionalized a divine magic training system that was parable to the Baharuth Empire in terms of are magibsp;

  Thus, their forces mainly sist ur knights as well as divine magic casters. But the most important and dangerous scripture they o be careful of is the Bck Scripture. It seems they have extremely powerful members when pared to other denizens in the world.

  “...and while their strengths are not known, it’d be safe to say that they were superior to the former nations I expined.”

  Lelouch crossed his arms and legs as he expio the two guardians.

  Last night, while trying out his abilities, he had actually looked into these three tries by sg into the notable “characters” he had seen from the anime and colleg as muformation as he could.

  Although most of his knowledge about them came from the anime, he was still able to firm much of his knowledge about the try and accumute more details regarding their culture and current state.

  Meanwhile, both Albedo and Demiurge sat in silence… speechless.

  Even after employing numerous magic casters and going through great lengths to colley sort of information ohree nations, they failed to even scratch the surfabsp;

  But alone… Lelouch had collected such a detailed and thh insight into these nations, down to their political, military, and eical structure and weaknesses.

  How astounding… No, could this be what they should expect from the greatest mind of the supreme beings…?

  “That said, we still don’t have enough information…”

  While the information he has regarding these three nations had been quite detailed aehere was still a possibility that the reality they were in differed from the anime.

  Thus, there was a o actually colleformation in this world and experie themselves.

  Yuuji nodded in agreement.

  “I agree. That is why we should pn oing an information colleg work ihree tries to provide the appropriate owards a more favorable dire for us when needed.”

  The two guardians nodded in uanding.

  “This is where the pn for Momonga, Aika, and I to go to Re-Estize as adventurers es in.”

  Once again, both Albedo and Demiurge rose from their seats in opposition to the sheer notion of letting the supreme beings be without guard in an unknown and dangerous spabsp;

  “Yuuji-sama, it is too dangerous. Please resider. me and a few others along so rotect you!”

  “I agree, Yuuji-sama. Even if we uand that your strength knows no bounds… We could not let evei ce of you and the rest of the supreme beings be in any kind of danger!”

  Yuuji nodded in uanding and looked at the two guardians with a soft smile.

  “We will be fihe three of us will be equipped with a World Item, and we will also have Lupusregia e with us to be an adventurer.”

  “Even so…”

  More than her feelings of not wanting a supreme being to be in a dangerous space without guards, Albedo felt a deep fear and worry for Yuuji being in a far off pce outside her reabsp;

  But seeing the resolute determination and faced with his devastatingly beautiful smile, at this moment, Albedo could not find the words to deny him…

  “Yuuji-sama… Please resider.”

  Oher hand, Demiurge still had not given, and bowed in revereo persuade his master to not take on such a dangerous pn.

  “oal in being an adventurer isn’t solely to colleformation. It is to create a name for ourselves… as heroes of the kingdom and the people.”

  A look of fusion fshed across the guardian’s faces as they tried to uand his words…

  Then slowly… a look of realization and uanding began to appear.

  “Could it be…?”

  Yuuji nodded.

  “In this time of flid dahe people would rather trust a group of adventurers, who had protected them from various terrifying monsters and camities, went through thid thin together, and give them hope and safety more than if we were to suddenly appearing out of nowhere and try to befriend them.”

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