Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

It was because he believed that the human empire would not last long.

“The reason Your Highness is disposing of the ranch is not only because of the war. Another reason is that now is the time to dispose of the ranch at a high price. Didn’t the price of slaves rise significantly after the Empire of Man stopped exporting slaves?”

As for how much the price of human slaves has risen, it has soared to the point where it is said that the price, which had been on a downward curve for a thousand years, has returned to a thousand years ago.

“Right now, there are no slaves, so it’s a mess. Just a few years ago, there were so many that it was a mess. Because of the slaves pouring in from the southwestern peninsula, the price plummeted, so I couldn’t even pay for the maintenance of the ranch.”

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“That’s right, but…”

“If you destroy the Empire of Man, it will happen again. Your Highness knows that, so you dispose of it when you can sell it at a higher price.”

Everyone knew that if the Mycenae Empire collapsed, the human empire would be next.

What about the representative system, how about livestock, not the same reasons, but more realistic reasons. It was because the empire had banned the export of humans.

“The emperor made a big mistake. Blocking human exports? I don’t know if it was for the sake of my own people, but is there any country in the world that doesn’t use slaves?”

The heterogeneous society was a slave society.

The only country that officially forbids slavery is the Imperium of Man.

In all other countries, it was impossible to ban slaves because their societies were based on slaves. And slaves usually referred to human beings.

Enslavement of non-human races was rare, except for cases where they hunted even their own people, such as orcs and goblins, and when people were enslaved for debt or prisoners of war.

Humans were the only race to be treated as slaves from birth.

But, blocking the export of human slaves?

This race could not stand still.

The impact of human slavery on society has grown too great. In order not to miss the convenience, a stable supply of slaves was necessary.

There were still human pastures left in Lizardmen’s territory, and several human territories left unconquered by the Imperium of Man. A little bit of human beings were being supplied through this place.

But that kind of supply won’t last long.

The only way to meet the overflowing demand was for the Imperium of Man to allow human exports, and if the Empire refused, war was inevitable.

“You just have to hold out for a little while.”

While Seongju was reading and patting the supervisor on the shoulder, a commotion broke out on the other side of the construction site.

“What’s the fuss?”

The soldiers dragged a child and came to the castle.

“There was a fugitive.”

“A fugitive?”

The blue boy was dragged by the soldier’s hand and knelt in front of the lord.

When he was arrested, he had blue bruises all over his body as if he had been hit here and there, and his face was swollen.

“Are you alone?”

“yes. There are no sympathizers.”

Youngju narrowed his eyes and flicked his tongue.

Whipping and shackles did not kill the desire for freedom. In particular, the fact that the Nehrup Plain is right next to it creates the illusion that you can have freedom with just one step.

Most of them are caught during the escape, and the rest are destined to starve to death or be hunted by orcs and goblins.

Even so, the fugitive appeared whenever I forgot.

“Execution.”

“Execution?”

The overseer widened his eyes.

In response, the lord laughed.

“why? Do you feel sorry for me?”

“Didn’t you just tell me to treat slaves properly?”

Youngju snorted.

“This is appropriate. didn’t you tell me too Humans need to be flogged often. The same goes for breakouts. They look down on us if we put them in solitary confinement for a few days and respond in a forgiving way. Humans are animals that think that no matter what they do, they will not kill. So sometimes you need to set an example like this to keep the tension.”

Even more so, the criminals who are executed are children who have not even gone through the coming-of-age ceremony.

It was an appropriate object to show their ruthlessness.

“Tie it up!”

The soldiers dragged the boy up the wall and tied a knot around his neck.

The boy was afraid of death and wept.

Tears flowed down his swollen face and his body trembled.

“shut up.”

“The kid is grimacing.”

The soldiers frowned and gagged the boy’s mouth.

To the Lizardmen, humans were nothing more than scaleless livestock, so instead of being moved by the cry of a child, they were only annoyed.

“You shouldn’t have run away in the first place.”

“——!”

The boy climbed onto the wall of the castle.

If the soldier standing behind kicks him, the boy will fall down the castle wall, and the knot will choke him. The boy’s rag pants were damp with incontinence.

Damn!

The overseer brandished a whip.

While the execution was in progress, the construction continued.

When the workers passing by the wall turned their heads not to see the child’s death, the overseer brandished his whip and squealed.

“Don’t turn your head!”

The whip hit the worker who turned his head.

The workers looked up at the boy reluctantly.

I read the young despair and fear in the boy’s eyes.

“Look! This is the end of the coward who abandoned his duty and ran away!”

The moment the executioner raised his right foot to knee-high and was about to kick it,

wealth—

The trumpet sounded.

“What’s going on!”

Seongju looked up at the steeple in surprise.

A sentinel from the spire screamed urgently.

“An unknown army is approaching!”

“army?”

The castle owner climbed the wall and looked at the horizon.

Summer is coming and the hot wind blows the plains.

A haze was rising from the end.

“Is it an orc…?”

When I narrowed my eyes, I saw a group filling the horizon.

As the haze subsided little by little and the shapes began to become clearer, Seongju realized the identity of the crowd and opened his eyes wide.

“human?”

A horde of humans was crossing the horizon. The armies of the Imperium of Man passed through the plains of Nehrup and arrived at Theokal, the kingdom of the Lizardmen.

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A loud trumpet sound.

I raised my right hand and stirred it once.

The cavalry, made up of their own, came out at the head of the ranks.

“Caliope. Join the cavalry and rescue the humans outside the castle.”

Bondi’s cavalry corps had to be commanded by Army Chief Jekt, but the Lizardmen were different from their previous enemies. Perhaps an unexpected force could appear.

To prepare for this, I sent Calliope as my commander.

“Yes, Sir Edar.”

Calliope immediately ran with her cavalry.

As the cavalry began to run, the sound of the bugle grew louder.

Dung- Dung-

Enemy fortresses beat drums to announce retreat to those outside the fortress.

However, most of those outside the fort were human, and they just stood there blankly watching the human army.

Have you ever seen an army of humans who were raised as livestock from birth and not as slaves? At most, when they were mobilized as arrowheads, the extent to which humans moved in groups was probably all.

Lizardmen soldiers were seen catching motionless humans and dragging them to the fortress.

“Didn’t you say you would avoid a head-to-head confrontation with the Lizardmen?”

“This is not even a confrontation. It is a minor conflict.”

How many defenders can there be in this fort?

Probably only a few hundred at most. There are close to 100,000 troops here, including support units, and the enemy won’t look down on them if you occupy that much.

“Shoot, shoot! Don’t let them enter the castle!”

The enemy did not respond in any way to the cavalry.

Soldiers and workers outside the fort were sent in, and when the cavalry pretended to approach the gate, they raised the gate and shot arrows.

The cavalry slaughtered the Lizardmen who couldn’t enter the fortress as they hit the arrows, and returned to the main unit by leading the human workers.

Their number was well over 4,000.

both children and the elderly.

‘Have you sold people who can make money?’

Suppressing the anger boiling inside, I set my troops out of the range of my bow and approached the fort with the guards. Then several arrows flew, but all were crushed by the hand gesture of the guardsmen.

“You bastard!”

A lizard dressed in the most colorful clothes on top of the castle wall screamed.

“It is too early to pretend to be the emperor of monkeys! For what purpose did you come! Didn’t the monkey know that not being able to leave the peninsula is the rule of the representative system!”

I smiled and twisted the corner of my mouth up and made a sneer.

What’s the use of pretending to be with me for a long time?

“I have nothing to say to you. Call your master.”

“go away! How dare you seek His Highness!”

“You have a bad mouth.”

I raised my hand again.

pop!

Siege cannons spewed flames and fired shells.

The shells hit the walls accurately.

patter…

The outer surface of the castle wall was greatly breached and debris fell.

Seongju lowered his head to check the damage and stuttered.

“What, what…”

A reaction that is now common enough to bite.

“Surrender. If you give up the fort over humans, I’ll ensure your safety. And go back to your master and tell him that I, Edar Lundlingen, the Emperor of Men has arrived.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Where is the monkey or something—”

pop! Perbung!

The gunfire continued, and the words of the castle lord boiled over.

As soon as Seongju heard the gunfire, he hid behind a woman’s costume.

“Do you still have something to say?”

“…”

There was not a single lizard poking its head against the wall.

“Keep shooting. Until they surrender.”

bang! Kwakwang! Kwakwawang!

The bombardment continued for three days.

The walls fell right on the first day.

However, I did not rush into the fort and continued the bombardment. There was no need to occupy a meaningless fortress. They bombarded the defenders until they surrendered, and on the third day the fort raised a white flag. And I made the fort my garrison and waited.

Until Sumontema, the king of Theokal and the incarnation of Lizardmen, arrived before me.

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“father.”

Imperial Chancellor Skadi once asked me.

“What is God?”

I thought for a while and then replied.

“An entity that cannot be understood by science or common sense.”

Skadi frowned and asked again.

“Science will understand. What do you mean by common sense? Science or common sense, isn’t it there?”

“no. different. Didn’t magic exist in this world? Isn’t there a world where spiritual beings like souls also exist? This cannot be explained by science, but it is accepted as common sense.”

However, what if there is an existence that cannot be understood with those two?

That was the existence of what I thought was God.

“Look at me without going far. Didn’t I draw the power of my soul and shine? Can science or common sense explain the healing of the sick who touch the light?”

How should we regard the unknown power that cannot be solved by universal truths or laws such as science? The people of this world solved it simply.

– That is the power of God, and the owner of that power is God.

okay.

In this way, the family of gods was created.

The elves called the tree that gave birth to their race the World Tree, the dwarves worshiped the great master as their ancestral god, Naga as the god who lived the longest, and the orcs and goblins simply served the strong.

And humans worshiped a wolf called Horvid as a god.

“What about Lizardmen?”

“Lizardmen worship mutants as gods.”

Lizardmen are born from eggs.

Eggs are not collected by individuals, but raised in a breeding facility called a spawning ground.

Lizardmen, who grow in spawning grounds rich in magic, undergo mutations within their eggs, and ranks are determined based on the results of the mutations.

worker, warrior and king.

Most lizardmen are workers, a few warriors are born, and a king is born once every few hundred years.

The king absorbs all the magic of the spawning grounds and grows, revealing himself by killing other eggs in the same spawning grounds in the process. The Lizardmen called the king an incarnation in other words.

“The King of Lizardmen is nothing more than a mutant with high magical aptitude and greed. However, high magical aptitude also means high potential. Did you know that Orcs and Goblins worship the strong?”

“I know. Are the Lizardmen the same?”

“same. Because it is a world where the strong are worshiped, the king was also worshiped, and as it had a religious color, it was believed that the king was a being in which a god dwelled in the flesh.”

Orcs and goblins were not much different.

However, the two races regarded the strongest as the head who could satisfy their desires, and turned their backs at any time if they could not satisfy their desires.

On the other hand, Lizardmen tended to value the interests of the group rather than individual desires, and all members belonged to warriors, but unlike the Orcs, where there were low, intermediate, and high ranks, they were a race with distinct classes.

“There are three incarnations of Lizardmen that exist at this point. The reason why Lizardmen’s country is divided into three is because each incarnation has a kingdom.”

Bondi had more countries than the three, but just as ants with different queens quarrel with each other, Lizardmen also quarrel with each other, so there are only three left.

One of the three was Sumontema, the incarnation of Theocal Kingdom.

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【Lv. 90]

“dare···.”

Sumontema showed his teeth and grunted.

I looked down at him from the top of the collapsed castle wall.

The wall was a border fortress, and now it was a place where the imperial expeditionary force was stationed. The fort was so small that most of the expeditionary force could not even get inside the garrison.

“Does the monkey dare to invade Yeo’s territory?”

A voice filled with magic rang out.

Sumonthema was far from the fortress.

He set up the army he had brought behind him, and sat on top of a palanquin carried by 12 Lizardmen, glaring at me.

His skin and bones were so dry that he wondered if he had a disease.

However, the soul contained in that body was so huge that it naturally spilled its own energy. Its soul is so large that even a human insensitive to magical powers can feel it.

‘I see, even if it’s fake, is God still a god?’

I laughed inwardly.

A haze shook around the boy’s body.

The surrounding space was distorted by magic power.

“I am not interested in your territory. Sumon theme.”

I also answered with magic in my voice.

Then, just as his voice rang, so did my voice.

The boy opened his eyes in surprise, then narrowed them again.

You should have known that the source of my magical power is the soul.

“What I want is a human being. I know you are raising humans as livestock. As a person in the ninth position, as a representative of humanity, I have a duty to protect humanity. Therefore, I ask you to release the human.”

“Ha,” Sumonthema laughed.

“Did you just come here to talk about that?”

That’s it.

I answered with my eyes fixed and only one corner of my mouth raised.

“okay. You want a human being who is just that. I will not take it for free. don’t pay the price If you sell humans anyway, there is no problem if you sell them to me.”

“go away!”

Sumonthema roared.

A strong wind blew towards me, but before it touched me it died away and only the breeze tickled my skin.

“My monkeys are my property! I decide who to trade my property with! It’s not up to you! No matter how much you ask, I will hand it over to you!”

I guess so.

If there was such a possibility in the first place, there would be no need to mobilize an expeditionary force like this. I just had to pay the price and buy the whole human ranch.

“The reason you led the crowd and occupied my land was to intimidate me! But, why should I be afraid of you guys!”

Sumontema raised his right hand.

There were dark clouds in the clear sky and strong winds blew.

Rumble—

“You should have waited for the end of Ming to hide in the peninsula! Remember the rules of the representative system and die of regret!”

The moment his hand pointed at me, lightning struck.

Kwakwang!

A bolt of lightning fell between me and Sumontema.

The marks that hit the ground and spread out like branches in all directions.

Sumonthema blinked at the soot left by the lightning.

It was evident on his face that something was wrong.

“this.”

I smiled and lifted my chin slightly.

Sumontema gritted at my attitude, bit his teeth, and called out the thunder again. There was a stronger wind than before, a loud roar, and three consecutive lightning strikes.

Kurleung!

Kwakwang! bang! bang!

All three thunderbolts landed on the same spot.

It’s the same place where the lightning struck a while ago.

The ground was red beyond scorching.

“What…”

Sumontema opened her mouth slightly.

I stood on the back of the house quietly while watching the scene.

“Isn’t that enough to scare you? Sumon theme.”

The four lightning bolts were supposed to fall on me.

Sumonthema called the thunderbolt with the intention of killing me.

But I interfered with his mana and blocked it.

Since its mana emanates from its soul, and since it has the same power as mine, wouldn’t it be possible for me to intervene and interfere?

It is the same God who can deal with a false god.

“this person···!”

Sumontema trembled with anger and shame.

Since he was born a lizard, his face didn’t turn red when he was angry, but his mana was pouring out violently.

However, other Lizardmen reacted differently.

I didn’t know why Hwashin was angry, so I just shrank my body and looked at it. It wasn’t because I didn’t openly show my strength, and it wasn’t like the lightning that Sumontema sang fell on them.

It was only me and Sumontema who gave an accurate assessment.

From the Lizardman’s point of view, it will look like he’s intimidating me.

“this guy!”

The boy raised both hands.

Then a strong whirlwind blew.

The whirlwind was so large that it could have swallowed the fortress.

He glared at me, showing his teeth and smiling.

‘Where to block this too.’

You must be thinking like that.

I said, extending my open left hand forward.

“Fade away.”

The wind snapped.

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As if the storm was an illusion.

The clouds that obscured the sun also scattered in all directions.

The sunlight fell on the ground again, warming it up.

omg-

Hook, I heard the sound of swallowing my breath.

I heard it even though I was far away.

I couldn’t see how surprised he was.

“hmm.”

I inadvertently tried to press down on my temples from a surging headache, but then lowered my hands. You shouldn’t show weakness already. On the outside, I looked at him with a smile as if nothing was wrong.

“Would you like more?”