Raidorl Seiken Senki - Vol. 1 Ch. 6

[MangaDex]

 

[BlackAeronaut]

Damn. This guy is not pulling any punches here. Completely justified, though, given how he was treated. He knows that his "family" will find a way to screw him over in the worst possible way if given even half-a-chance to do so.

 

[Valve]

So... MC takes on the ENTIRE war effort on his own and in return gets to keep the war spoils he earns, gets a minor lump sum of gold and some half arsed guarantee of safety.

Honestly this is a great deal for idiot king. Imagine if you could win a war with that little, who wouldn't take it?
This is even a war they are losing right, it's even more of a nonsense levels of good deal.
Yet the following chapters will be about how much regret the idiot king will feel over the massive gains MC will acquire, ignoring his own gains completely.
Just think about how much it would cost to raise an army and fight the war rather than relying on MC, fucking ridiculous.

 

[newStudent]

Thanks for the TL

 

[Mathias]

This is the prelude to the younger brother screwing over his older "brother".
Thanks for the chapter.

 

[OSAITUS]

I´m guessing this blood thing is magically binding, so now MC has:

• Virtual immunity inside the kingdom
• An empowered border town that is loyal to him
• Possibility to amass resources from the spoils of war
• Possibility to acquire any and all types of help and tech from the enemy, the one that has already being said is more powerful than the kingdom
• Possibility of creating a personal army through the conscription of POWs

Is he planning a coup? or maybe creating his own territory detached from the kingdom?. The second one i think is the funnier one. Have the current king be the king of a falling kingdom, having a border with a thriving one, ruled by a king you are magically bound to protect and absolutely hates you, also having the nobility hate you because they have no money and your son hate you because now he has to deal with all of that because his dad fought that one condition

 

[ThatNaiGuy]

So... MC takes on the ENTIRE war effort on his own and in return gets to keep the war spoils he earns, gets a minor lump sum of gold and some half arsed guarantee of safety.

Unless they have gold coins as the base rate of money, it's probably on the order of millions of dollars that the king now has to pay, especially judging by the guy murmuring about the national budget right after. And I'm assuming the fancy blood contract effect makes the whole thing a lot more important for the king to see through than he or his court would prefer. Mostly him, depending on the age of the current crown prince.

 

[Valve]

• Virtual immunity inside the kingdom

Only as far as the king can see, nobody else has any need to follow that condition.

Rather, multiple noble families after knowing this condition would try to murder MC to gain the kings favor.
After all, even with magic the condition doesn't require the king to actually successfully protect MC within his domain.


As for the empowered border town, while the king cannot claim the spoils of war, he can decide the tax amount freely as well as being able to just straight up outlaw and attack the town or whatever, hes the king after all.

If the town is still there at all after MC returns from the war, the king fucked up.

 

[DeathkaiserG]

Love how MC added the Crown Prince clause just to rile them up, masking the ungodly loop holes he created. GGWP

 

[forecast]

So the MC is basically forcing the kingdom to donate forces to help in the war effort.

If the king has a brain(Doubt it though from how they acted in the beginning).

He would send out armies to help the war and prevent the MC from amassing a territory and forces. This would then force those armies to protect the MC by the first clause of the contract.

Using clever conspiracies here and there, the MC should be able to overthrow the king.

 

[Wolvenworks]

Ah yes the door slam tech. For those not in the know, one way to get a good bargain is to propose an outrageous (advantageous to you) demand (akin to someone slamming the door on your face). This is (mostly) obviously going to be rejected, so you drop that, and suddenly your core proposals doesn’t sound half as bad and more aggreable.

Ofc, if the other party somehow accepts the door slam, you win bigger.

 

[MagnaDrake]

So... MC takes on the ENTIRE war effort on his own and in return gets to keep the war spoils he earns, gets a minor lump sum of gold and some half arsed guarantee of safety.

Honestly this is a great deal for idiot king. Imagine if you could win a war with that little, who wouldn't take it?
This is even a war they are losing right, it's even more of a nonsense levels of good deal.
Yet the following chapters will be about how much regret the idiot king will feel over the massive gains MC will acquire, ignoring his own gains completely.
Just think about how much it would cost to raise an army and fight the war rather than relying on MC, fucking ridiculous.

He also gets to keep ANY war spoils he finds, including manpower. Bring them in to his own territory, a frontier land far from the capital, and train them as soldier with the new funds he's just got. Then, the Kingdom now has a pact to follow to not harm him as long as he's in the capital.

Et voila, recipe for a coup.

 

[Nekotofu]

Only as far as the king can see, nobody else has any need to follow that condition.

Rather, multiple noble families after knowing this condition would try to murder MC to gain the kings favor.
After all, even with magic the condition doesn't require the king to actually successfully protect MC within his domain.


As for the empowered border town, while the king cannot claim the spoils of war, he can decide the tax amount freely as well as being able to just straight up outlaw and attack the town or whatever, hes the king after all.

If the town is still there at all after MC returns from the war, the king fucked up.

Well, the king has to guarantee his safety. Meaning if he is harmed, he still be punished or even killed by the curse.
Yes, that blood seal is basically a curse, meaning bro can faced a life sentence for cursing a royalty. But due to rule no.1 he is pretty much immune as long he stays in the Kingdom.

 

[Miserys_End]

So... MC takes on the ENTIRE war effort on his own and in return gets to keep the war spoils he earns, gets a minor lump sum of gold and some half arsed guarantee of safety.

Honestly this is a great deal for idiot king. Imagine if you could win a war with that little, who wouldn't take it?
This is even a war they are losing right, it's even more of a nonsense levels of good deal.

NGL, I find your analysis of their magical blood contract rather short sighted and nieve. Especially since there would likely be some rather dire consequences if the king were to break the contract. Let's break down the stipulations.

• King Granard will guarantee the safety of Raidorl within the boarders of the kingdom of Zain

Meaning the king cannot directly attack his brother or his interests within the kingdom, nor allow any other party to knowingly do so. And while a normal contract might be just a piece of paper, the Blood Pact is enforced thrue magic. So very much so a FAFO situation.

• The Royal Palace will provide a grant of 100000 gold to the pioneer city ruled by Raidorl.

Punitive retribution, though the ammount is likely on the order of the yearly national tax revenue for the country. I see this mostly as a smoke screen to make the next two condition look less valuable

• All property aquired by Raidorl in the war shall remain Raidorl's property, and the royal palace shall not demand its return.

The first string in Raidorl's bow. All land he conquers belongs to Raidorl. Including all of their land that has been taken by the enemy, and any land of the enemy's he conquers. Which includes all cities, and even the entire country if he manages to completely conquer the Empire's capital.

• Raidorl has the right to decide the fate of any PoWs captured by Raidorl

Second string of Raidorl's bow. All people captured will become his subordinates. Either willingly, by threat of force, or magical coercion. This includes any soldiers, nobles, heroes, and royalty he manages to capture along the way.


While true these are grand expectations and maybe an inflated ego on Raidorl's part. But I don't see it as too far from his thinking on how the war will turn out.

 

[Dzrian]

Interesting

 

[alfirizkyr]

Imho this looks like a setup for a coup, especially the prisoner of war part. By treating them as PoWs, he could still maintain his position as the kingdom's (technically) insider, and his immunity made sure that nobody would get in his business.

By allying with the enemy, he could well have a whole army of 'prisoners of war' everywhere in the Kingdom and none of the nobles could say anything about it because the King himself guaranteed that how the PoWs were treated was entirely up to him.

The 100k Gold was probably a setup to prepare for the logistics of this. His region wasn't big on money after all. That said, in the long term, this won't do much for an army—it's the other clauses that were more important.

 

[DFlow69]

Thanks for the TL

Thanks for reading!

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

So... MC takes on the ENTIRE war effort on his own and in return gets to keep the war spoils he earns, gets a minor lump sum of gold and some half arsed guarantee of safety.

Honestly this is a great deal for idiot king. Imagine if you could win a war with that little, who wouldn't take it?

Well, it was said that that they were wondering why the MC wasn't demanding compensation as well, so it's not like they didn't notice how good of a deal it appeared.

 

[anasnaufal]

Getting all the spoils of war & draining the country's coffers in the process while also uses a blood contract

NGL pretty smart to prepare for a coup

 

[LordofLeechers]

As for the empowered border town, while the king cannot claim the spoils of war, he can decide the tax amount freely as well as being able to just straight up outlaw and attack the town or whatever, hes the king after all.

If the town is still there at all after MC returns from the war, the king fucked up.

If the town isn't there after the MC returns, then the king fucked up. The town is the MC's biggest asset at the moment, but whatever he gains through the war is his to keep. This includes any potential cities or fortresses he conquers. The only reason why the border town is important here is because the MC is fond of it. Destroying the town while he is away fighting the war would only needlessly aggravate the MC. Admittedly, it's pretty clear he's already setting up against the crown, but such an act would utterly eradicate any slight chance of amicable co-existence that remains.