Raidorl Seiken Senki - Vol. 1 Ch. 6

[Willie29]

be funny if he brings his brother son to his side

 

[Valve]

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.

I expected someone to say this, and you're even admitting yourself, hes already hostile.

The only reason to keep the town would be to get into a schemes war with MC to try and drain him dry using the town as a hostage.
Lets be honest, no way this king would have a shot at winning such a fight, letting MC go away as far as possible with as little contact as possible has to be better than such a confrontation.

Also if MC only has the conquered land, you could say that he's outside the range of clause 1, allowing the king to straight up attack him since hes outside the borders of the kingdom depending on how you spin it.
Well you could do the same with the town but that would be far less convincing.

 

[LordofLeechers]

I expected someone to say this, and you're even admitting yourself, hes already hostile.

The only reason to keep the town would be to get into a schemes war with MC to try and drain him dry using the town as a hostage.
Lets be honest, no way this king would have a shot at winning such a fight, letting MC go away as far as possible with as little contact as possible has to be better than such a confrontation.

Also if MC only has the conquered land, you could say that he's outside the range of clause 1, allowing the king to straight up attack him since hes outside the borders of the kingdom depending on how you spin it.
Well you could do the same with the town but that would be far less convincing.

He's already hostile, but it's not to the point of overt action. As it is now, there is a chance, small as it is, to cool the temperature. Destroying the town will guarantee retaliation. And yes, he would have no chance winning a drawn out fight. However, judging from the fact that the MC alone is apparently their only hope of holding off the empire, a direct conflict is just as hopeless. The king's sole path forward is making amends with the MC, but we all know that he would never do such a thing.

Fair to say, I think we both can agree that the king really screwed himself over, no matter what he does from hereon out. I just hope that the rest of the nobility have enough sense to realize how stupid antagonizing the sole chosen champion of their kingdom truly is.

 

[Gudachiz]

I know I've seen the raws for this already but man is this beautiful

 

[trenslime]

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.

considering the plot so far, the 5th condition, the implication of the other conditions, and the Holy Sword choosing the king, I would be more surprised if he doesn't simply start his own country, overthrowing his brother after this war

 

[CinderSquall]

I doubt world building stuff are gonna be explained like what extent are the magic in this world, what is the actual value of gold coins, does MC even actually have any skills as a leader, wtf is the miasma thing from the "holy sword"(why does a holy sword even emit miasma unless it isn't actually a holy sword).

There's a lot of things that could've made this series more interesting but as someone who enjoys revenge centric series I just can't take the "betrayal angle" of this series seriously since the way MC got exiled is incredibly tame(like they exiled him WITH the holy sword in a town with decent people and a decent training ground to use the holy sword).

 

[hevensdragon]

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.

If a enemy takes a area, for even a moment and he takes it back, its his. So let the enemies advance to the capital. If they hold it and he takes it, he brother is a king without throne.

 

[Miserys_End]

If a enemy takes a area, for even a moment and he takes it back, its his. So let the enemies advance to the capital. If they hold it and he takes it, he brother is a king without throne.

The first statement of the blood contract is "I, Raidorl Zain, will fight to protect the Kingdom of Zain from the Arsline Empire"

True there is no stipulations on how he would fight, but it would be rather hard to justify letting the Empire take the capital of their nation and still say he made a good faith effort to protect his kingdom.

So I think he would rather just take the empire's capital and rule the larger nation.

 

[hevensdragon]

The first statement of the blood contract is "I, Raidorl Zain, will fight to protect the Kingdom of Zain from the Arsline Empire"

True there is no stipulations on how he would fight, but it would be rather hard to justify letting the Empire take the capital of their nation and still say he made a good faith effort to protect his kingdom.

So I think he would rather just take the empire's capital and rule the larger nation.

Easy, just be fighting on another front. Could also be luring them into a trap, let through and encircle. If he lacks the forces to fight head on, he only has to fight where he can.
But yeah I doubt he will let his people suffer.