“The Crimson Skeleton is a massive organization. They consist of about a thousand members, which is basically about 8% of the entire population. This city is considered to be one of the big cities. Although it’s not considered a main city due to the location, it has been a connecting city for people to travel.
“As such, the government is trying to make sure the Crimson Skeleton remains small. However, the situation has changed.
“Now that the disaster strikes, the government doesn’t have the manpower to handle this task anymore. The people in the slum end up joining them to survive.
“The situation in the city has become even worse because of them. They plunder things from shops and rob people’s food. That’s why they have become popular recently.
“In fact, they’re only supposed to have a single strong summoner, which is equal to the captain of the garrison. Due to this disaster, they end up gaining another summoner of the same level.
“The government realizes they can’t fight the Crimson Skeleton, so they turn a blind eye to them.
“If this continues, the entire slum will be controlled by them, and by that point, they might revolt and crush the government. They’re even forcing people to serve them just for a single loaf of bread.
“Whenever the food is coming, they will force the people to hand it over to them.”
Nathan crossed his arms. “Their strength? How about other summoners other than those two?”
“I’m afraid I don’t know the exact number. From what I’ve heard, there are above 10 summoners.”
“I see.” Nathan took out the map of the city that had been marked with everything. “Can you read a map?”
“Yes. I’ve learned it before.” She nodded.
“Check them. Do you have any paths that we can take advantage of? First of all, we’re going to eliminate some of them or capture some people to get information. To do that, we need a path that not only can hold these people but also hide them,” Nathan explained.
Iris narrowed her eyes. “I see. Capturing them through the soldiers is not possible. They might be aware that something is going on, so you would like to keep up the confusion.”
“Hoh?” Nathan looked quite impressed that this girl was able to figure out his intention. She was three years younger than him, but she was only taught until she was 10 years old before her family fell, so he could see why people considered her to be talented.
She pointed at two places. “If you would like, I can convince these two places to hold them. The path to these places is also quite complicated, so it’s easy to lose them here.”
Nathan examined the two places. It was true that the path was quite narrow and had a lot of turns. “Still, two places, huh? Do you know their owners?”
“Yes. If you allow me to visit them, I should be able to convince them in an hour or two.”
“Interesting. In that case, we’ll lure them here. Once we deal with them, we’ll hide them here.” Nathan nodded. “Of course, luring them will be…”
“The children’s job, right?” Iris nodded. “There are several people who are good at stealing. They’re quite fast, so I will ask them to provoke them and run to the designated spot. Meanwhile, there are children who don’t mind seeing blood, so we’ll ask them to handle the bodies.”
Flora’s expression darkened. She never thought the kids would get accustomed to seeing blood and corpses. It was messed up.
Nathan, on the other hand, focused on the matter. “In that case, I will give you the task of distributing them. We’ll use these two spots. I will take care of this one, while Flora will be in charge of this one.
“I want them to think there’s something going on. If they lose about a hundred people all of a sudden, they will surely notice it and send people to investigate.”
Flora nodded. “We will kill those people and provoke them further. If possible, we’ll capture or kill about 300 people during this period, right?”
“Yes. The period will be 3 days. On the fourth day, we’ll launch an all-out attack and lure them to this place.” Nathan pointed at the main plaza. “Within that time, the traps and everything will kill an additional one or two hundred people. Jinwu should be able to incinerate another one hundred people before the last battle, reducing their number to only 400 people.”
“My lord…” Iris raised her hand.
“En?” Nathan still felt a bit weird being called by that title.
“May I assume that you’re planning to reduce their number to three hundred people first?” Iris asked.
“Yes. How do you know?”
“My father always told me that number 3 is always the best thing for our family. You either reduce your enemy’s number to 30% or kill 30% of their entire force. Nothing in between. The former is basically an annihilation of the enemy’s force, while the latter is crippling them.”
“So, what do you want to say?” Nathan nodded in understanding. Read latest stories on My Virtual Library Empire
“I believe we can take another one hundred down.” Iris pointed at the map. “This building. Although I have told you we can use two buildings, it’s only because of the requirement.
“If you allow me to do it, I can help you divert their attention and follow me through this area.
“This is the route to the plaza as well, so they will surely not notice it. However, there are two stores here that I can ask to hide some people inside. If we throw rocks or boiling water, we should be able to handle them somehow. The problem is… we don’t have enough people.”
Flora raised her eyebrows. She didn’t expect Iris to be this good at strategy.
Nathan turned to Flora and asked, “Tell them to send some soldiers and summoners to deal with these people. Archers should be enough, right?”
Flora nodded.
“Soldiers?” Iris looked surprised. “If we can use the soldiers, doesn’t it mean we can make a more flexible plan?”
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