Reincarnated Aristocrat Chapter 183: Femme’s Plan

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~3^rd Person Perspective~

“Can you reduce the enemy’s ether and troops?”

　Femme had received a letter from Ars.

　Although Shadow has become Ars’ vassal, the reality is not that different from when he was working as a mercenary group.

　Now that he is a vassal, he cannot refuse orders, but the members of the Shadow will be led by Femme to accomplish the mission.

　This mission was not an easy one.

　Femme was carrying out intelligence gathering about Sights. Moreover, he learned that Sights also had secret agents like Shadow.

　They were less capable than the Shadow.

　But even so, there is a big difference between having them and not having them.

　It seems that their spies were given the task of preventing our schemes rather than collecting information on the Canale army for this battle, and thus their defense is considerably strengthened.

　From the point of view of the enemy army, there is no need to use any trickery in order to win the war against the Canale, who are outnumbered. They can win if they do it normally.

　The biggest problem is to create a situation in which they cannot do things the normal way.

　The only way to create such a situation would be to sabotage and have their rations and ether reduced.

　In order to prevent this from happening, it would be a rational decision to use spies.

　Only spies know the movements of a spy. It was most effective to leave the role of preventing manipulation to the spies.

　It would not be easy to succeed in the operation while being guarded by spies.

　Moreover, there was a time limit.

　It might be possible if they took their time, but they had to succeed as soon as possible.

　An ordinary secret agent would have said that this mission was not accomplishable.

　This was only the case for a spy with normal abilities.

　Shadow is a group of elite spy specialists made up of highly skilled people who are far from ordinary.

“If you ask me to do it, I have no choice but to do it.” (Femme)

　They were confident that they could accomplish the mission, no matter how difficult it was.

　In the first place, there is no option of refusing.

　Now, they were not an independent mercenary group, but a vassal of Ars.

　He had to live up to his master’s expectations.

　Femme began to spin his head to figure out how to make sure his mission was successful.

　There are several ways to lose the enemy’s food and ether.

　Either by targeting them as they are being transported or by targeting the bases where they are storing their food supplies and ether.

　The bases storing food and water were supposed to be located near the battlefield, and Shadow knew where they were.

　However, there were more than one of these bases.

　Storing them in one place was too risky, so they did it that way. The supply efficiency would be a little lower, but that was probably taken into consideration.

　There were probably several bases that Shadow did not know the location of.

　If there were several, it would be very difficult to crush them all.

　It would also be difficult to attack them in transit. They were guarded by a large number of soldiers, so it would be difficult for the members of the Shadow to break through.

(However, this mission does not call for a complete loss of food and water, but a reduction. Naturally, a small amount would not be enough. Strategically, it should be reduced to the extent that Canale would have the advantage.) (Femme)

　Femme began to think of Ars’ intentions from the instructions. Since it was an instruction written in a hurry, there were various places where communication was incomplete.

(In that case, should I focus on either military provisions or ether and aim at it? Military food is indispensable to fight. Ether can fight even if it is not the worst, and military food Do you want to focus on… no…)

　If they were hired as mercenaries, they could just do what they were asked to do.

　But now that he was a vassal, he needed to think about various things to help his master win.

(The number of rations itself does not directly affect the fighting power unless they are all lost, the enemy army will only be impatient to attack and will not stop. On the other hand, the enemy army, with their asses under fire, may launch a full-scale offensive.

　How about ether? I hear that Sights is a land that is not so blessed with magic ores, which is the raw material for ether. Once lost, it is difficult to replenish immediately. When the amount of ether is low, it has the effect of lowering the strength of the enemy army itself. Even if we lose in force, if we are superior in the number of ether itself, we may be able to win a defensive battle.) (Femme)

　After much thought, Femme came to a conclusion.

“Let’s aim for their ether.” (Femme)

　Having made that decision, Femme’s movements were swift.

　He began to look into the location of the enemy’s ether.

　He thought he would focus on them, but he didn’t think the damage to the enemy would be that great even if he destroyed them all.

“It would be better if we could steal the ether instead of destroying it…” (Femme)

　If we steal it and make it our own, we can reduce their numbers and increase our own strength.

　It is truly killing two birds with one stone.

　However, stealing them from the battlefield is by far more difficult than losing them.

　If you just want to destroy the base, you can just set it on fire and be done with it in no time, but if you want to steal it, you have to take advantage of the enemy’s gap, sneak in, and escape with the ether.

　It is almost impossible to steal something without the enemy knowing about it.

　It might be possible if they had ether of Shadow Magic, but they used it up saving Clan.

　It’s a valuable item, and cannot be requisitioned yet.

　When he was wondering if he could steal it somehow, one method came to his mind.

　He examined whether it was a realistic method.

　Femme thought that this was a strategy that, if successful, would give the Canale army a considerable advantage. Allowing them to gather a lot of ether in one place and then steal it.

　And it is probably possible to succeed.

　However, it is difficult to do with Shadow’s hands alone.

　It is necessary to inform Ars of the operation and ask for cooperation.

　Femme hurriedly told Ben about the operation and asked him to verbally inform Ars about it.

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