What happens if Napoleon Bonaparte is resurrected in a fantasy world to save a whole continent from a Demon Lord?
A moment after his death, the former ruler of Europe receives a visit from the mysterious Faucheur, who proposes him to reborn in anoth...
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All nobles loved tea.
It was the drink of rich and cultured people, very expensive to import and buy, and the distant land of Maharadi had built its wealth on its trade.
But Daemon was different.
He appreciated another drink, denser and darker, produced in Torian; it was unpleasantly bitter, but he didn't mind, and in fact he said that the stronger it was, the more it relieved him, because it allowed him to stay awake for a long time to take care of his many tasks.
The people of the Empire and beyond found the stuff so untasteful that they had never even given it a name, so he had given it one.
"Who made this coffee, a drunken salamander?" he protested as he sipped some in the middle of the meeting. "Okay, I like it strong, but it's practically burnt this way."
Not that anyone was paying attention; they were all too busy arguing with each other.
A week after the victory at Mistvale the situation was essentially frozen; the enemy, who had also received reinforcements in the meantime, was still entrenched in Grote Muren, with no apparent intention to leave anytime soon.
Contacts with the outside world were now limited to just the bridge over the Jesi, but the continuing state of war weighed ever more heavily on trade and on merchants' confidence in the future of the Free State.
A solution was necessary, and it was precisely on this that even after seven days of discussions the Assembly was still unable to agree, with the interventionists on one side led by Oldrick and the wait-and-see group on the other gathered around Mary.
By now the meeting hall of Basterwick Town Hall had become a fighting arena.
"I can't understand why you, Lady Wallace, insist on leaving things as they are." said Oldrick "As Minister of Economy you should be the first to understand how desperate the situation is."
"This doesn't justify what you want to do." Rutte said. "Invading Eirinn would be madness!"
"And what should we do? Wait until they attack us again?"
"I agree with Governor Tielde." said Lyrney, lawyer and Minister of Justice. "We all know that crazy cannon Victor. If his father did everything to avoid having to designate him as successor, there must be a reason."
"One thing is certain, this situation cannot continue." Borg said. "Political tension and indecision are more harmful than war, and merchants love this country above all because decisions are made quickly here. If we wait any longer, many of them will leave."
"You're talking about a full-blown invasion!" Zorech exclaimed with unusual vehemence. "It doesn't matter how you name it."
"Messer Zorech is right." Mary said. "We created all this with the hope of giving all our friends a better future. But war doesn't bring a better future, only mourning and misery."
