Volume 5 Chapter 153 - Reason for war (1/2)

Volume 5 Chapter 153 Reason for war

“What!”

Xu Yi suddenly stood up. Because he stood up too quickly, he hit himself on the table and pushed it up, creating a loud sound.

King Teruc turned to wave at his guards that came in from this sound to show that it was fine and to have them go out again. Then he turned back to Xu Yi, waiting for his next reaction.

Xu Yi was in a daze for a bit before his expression slowly calmed down and he sat down again.

After a bit of silence, Xu Yi asked, “Your majesty, can you tell me why this happened?”

Seeing Xu Yi recovering this quickly, King Teruc had a look of praise as he replied, “The reason…..On the surface, it’s because of a smuggling case.”

“Smuggling?” Xu Yi knitted his brows.

Because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had been hostile all these years, transactions between the two countries had been performed through smuggling before.

But since the two countries created the free trade area and because there was this free trade area, there were much fewer cases of smuggling.

Even if they were, it was just to avoid a bit of tariffs and didn’t have that much effect. It wasn’t important to either side and it wasn’t possible to spark a war between the two countries.

The only smuggling cases with this much influence was related to that aspect.

As expected, King Teruc continued with a nod, “Yes, according to the official announcement from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom had some people smuggling military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom…..”

When he said this, King Teruc looked at Xu Yi and saw that he wasn’t surprised at all. He just slightly knitted his brows, which meant that Xu Yi was definitely aware of this.

“After the Lampuri Kingdom side discovered this, they started investigating this smuggling case and finally traced it to the Sack Kingdom. In the beginning, the Lampuri Kingdom only requested the Sack Kingdom to hand over the criminals, but the Sack Kingdom rejected this request. In the end, there was a conflict between the two sides. In the conflict, the Lampuri Kingdom lost seven soldiers and the Sack Kingdom had lost several dozen border guards, as well as harming several citizens.”

“And then? Did they directly declare war?” Xu Yi asked with a surprised look.

“Yes. The Lampuri Kingdom declared that the Sack Kingdom attacked first, so they would officially declare war on the Sack Kingdom. As for the results…..it was as I just told you.”

Xu Yi deeply knitted his brows.

There was definitely no need for King Teruc to lie to him about this, but no matter how he thought it, he felt that this matter was strange.

Even if the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had been hostile with each other for several hundred years, for the two kingdoms, declaring war was not an easy thing.

Not to mention that they finally created a free trading zone between them. This was the first time trade had been open between them for several hundred years and with how well it was developing, the Lampuri Kingdom could sell many magic machines and other products to the Sack Kingdom, earning a large amount from them.

In this situation, the Lampuri Kingdom had suddenly declared war on the Sack Kingdom and even attacked them, seizing a third of the Sack Kingdom’s southern territory at once?

Perhaps for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom who had been suppressed by the Sack Kingdom for several hundred years, this matter was something to be proud of, but it was completely confusing for Xu Yi.

Who decided to start the war? Was it the queen Seveni?

Xu Yi shook his head and denied this guess.

Because he knew that Seveni wasn’t this kind of brainless person. Moreover, when they signed to create the free trade zone with the Sack Kingdom, it was decided after Xu Yi discussed this with her.

Seveni was clear on how much the Lampuri Kingdom would benefit from this free trade zone, the data from this year and last year had proven this.

Xu Yi didn’t believe that Seveni didn’t understand the benefits of maintaining this situation for the Lampuri Kingdom, so it was clearly impossible that she would take the initiative to declare war that would destroy this good situation.

But if it wasn’t Seveni, the ones who made this decision should be from the Lampuri Kingdom.

However, it was like this, it would prove an even terrifying possibility. It was that Seveni couldn’t fully control the Lampuri Kingdom, which includes not being able to stop the war with the Sack Kingdom.

This possibility would shock Xu Yi more than Seveni declaring war.