16th July 1574
"You still have the guts to spew such bullshit after already picking a side? To think that I once considered you an honourable man who held his holand in high regard!"
With Jan openly coming out to denounce , I couldn't hold my emotions back. While I felt that his allegiances started to change all the way back when I refused the position of the country's econom, but back then, I just thought that he was disappointed with what he took for the lack of ambition.
Who could've known that this guess of mine would turn out to be a great underestimation?!
"Insulting won't get you anywhere. I don't know why you did what you did, but your recklessness ends here. I'm asking one last ti, lay down your weapons and surrender. Your cris will be judged by the senate and I will guarantee your safety all the way there, that's the least I can do when taking our relationship into account."
Hearing those words, I snapped. Rather than aiming my rifle at this haughty noble, my face twisted in an unsightly manner as I looked at him as if he was so kind of pest.
"You say you value our relationship? Then at least stop giving that crap and openly admit that you are fucking traitor! But fear not, even if you sohow manage to kill here, as soon as my n return with the news from the east, everyone in my developing area will raise up against you!"
At this point, I couldn't care less about this man. At one mont he was speaking about what kind of great relationship we use to have, only to call a traitor in the very next sentence. Even the fact that I could see so carriages rushing from the city towards his position with the very reaper guns that I offered to him, wouldn't stop from fighting till the end!
After all, being the very inventor of those guns, I know their drawbacks and faults better than anyone else!
Yet just as I was about to turn to my n and order to put the engine on the reverse run as to move us near the opposite shore so that the range advantage of my rifles could be used, I saw sothing that I didn't expect. A face of honest surprise of this forr friend and protector of mine!
"News from the east? Just what kind of sche are you trying to co up with right now? On the account of all your inventions so far, I will let you flaunt your wits one last ti!"
While it was obvious that this was nothing more than a move aid at stalling for ti with how it would still take a bit of ti before the reaper guns would arrive at the scene, I could tell with almost perfect certainty that ntioning east sohow managed to catch Jan off-guard.
Yet rather than preparing for the combat, I realised that sothing was insanely wrong!
So far, when thinking about the news of Russian invasion, I thought that it would most likely be yet another elent of Ostros plot aid at worsening my political position. After all, if I were to just co in and start claiming that I received the news about the war, no one would believe ! For this kind of sche to bear any real effects, with nobles mobilising only to realise I was wrong in the first place, they had to believe my words in the first place! That's why, when I realised that Jan, one of the major powers relatively close to Zamoyski household that already received the news, was clueless about this fact, I had to admit that my initial guess was wrong!
And if the eastern war wasn't a part of Ostros plan, then should I consider it as sothing that was likely a truth?
With how complicated this issue is, I didn't even realise when I rested my side against the ship's railing while putting my hand on my chin as I imrsed myself in deep thoughts.
If we assud that the invasion really did happen, then there were only two possibilities. Either Ostros knew about it in advance and picked the right mont to make their move, indicating that rather than trying to topple , they were actually set on carving their own country from the falling state of the commonwealth.
On the other hand, if they didn't know shit about it, then their aggression, both in a political and military sense, would be the act of the treason against the common cause!
Yet before I could figure out which of the possibilities were the truth, the ti that I had to imrse myself in my own thoughts ran out. With the two carriages mounted with reaper guns on top of them arriving at the scene, Governor just received the ultimate card he could use to force my surrender.
"Mike, your ti is over. Surrender now or"
"Can you stop for a mont? Can't you see that I'm trying to figure out just what the fuck is going on? Wait, can you actually tell just what am I even accused of?"
Despite how tense the current situation was, I knew that if I allowed myself to think about literally anything other than the current situation, I would lose my only chance to find the crux of the matter.
"Wait, what? Eh, have it your way. You are accused of selling your weapons to the enemies of the state and instigating those people to revolt against the Senate in order to abolish our golden liberty and ugh Now that I said that out loud, I realise how stupid that sounds"
Hearing what Jan just said, I understood two things at once. First, the enemy that was hidden behind all the forces that were already on the move, was far smarter than I actually expected. Rather than coming up with so utter bullshit, he actually took sothing that I considered on my own accord, mixed what I actually planned to do by installing Batory on the throne, and just spiced things up a bit by adding an elent that would turn any noble against .
With how everyone interested could easily learn that I was the first one to use those reaper guns, with how Jan was one of the firsts to learn about my new rifle, it only made sense that this story had the elents that involved those moves of mine. Since I saw Jan's reaction to the prowess of those guns, it was given that he wouldn't hesitate to stop soone daring to sell it to the enemies of the state!
Yet even with how dire that kid of enemy would make my current situation, there was one aspect to him that was even worse. Actually, this kind of social technique of manipulating information wasn't sothing that people of this day and age knew how to use. One had to dabble in the propaganda of dia for quite a lot before learning how to use such tricks to create a believable lie, or rather, fake news.
And that could an only one thing.
I wasn't the only one who moved from modern tis to this tiline!
Did that an, that this great clan of Ostros that I would otherwise respect, was actually lead by a player that was out for my blood?!
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