Clear skies.
The sun is shining like never before.
In the Feudal Capital, the commoners and sub-nobles were ready for the annual military parade.
The streets, similar to Medieval Europe, were crowded with people on the sidewalks waiting for the parade to take place in the street, which passes in front of the Feudal Castle, and there was Charles looking out of the window at all his subjects waiting.
"The time has come to decide the future of the fiefdom."
However, as soon as Charles left the room, his general, who was dressed in formal military clothes, was in the room with him, an old man, wearing plate armor from chest to toe and carrying a one-handed sword at his waist in its scabbard, smiled briefly when he realized that the Feudal Lord had left.
- Finally, the time had come.
Descending from the castle, Charles and his wife, all dressed in formal attire, leave the castle to the cheers of the crowd and head for the "parade box", which was just a higher viewing area with luxurious, cozy chairs.
Just after they leave the castle, Magno appears with his sister Antonia, and they wave to the crowd, but he thinks to himself as he does so.
"Cobalsk and Ricardo are now preparing against this possible coup by whoever it is, so everyone has ammunition and I've even taken a dagger, and a pistol, because these warm clothes are good for at least that."
Meanwhile Ricardo, the knight who had ridden in with Magno to show his sister the small palace earlier, was tidying up his horse in the area where the Wiki City troops were, a place close to the outskirts of the feudal capital.
Similar to a favela in Brazil, but on flat ground and in a time equivalent to the Middle Ages.
However, after a while he is approached by Cobalsk, who arrives speaking.
- Ricardo.
- Yes, sir! - He replies, saluting.
- Are your soldiers ready?
- Yes, sir! They just need to finish sharpening their daggers to be fully prepared for combat.
- Very well then, we must be prepared for this possibility, because if it happens we must protect Mr. Magno and his family to the end.
- Understood sir, I will do everything in my power to prevent this from happening, and if it does, protecting Mr. Magno will be the least I have to do, because of him I was able to lift my family out of their misery back in Wiki City and that's why I will never betray the trust he gave me.
Cobalsk smiles a little and leaves, saying quietly.
- Well, I'm old and the post I have is a reward for protecting him at the time of the attack on his parents, so Magno and I are deciding who can replace me, and you could end up being that person.
He is astonished by this possibility.
- Really, sir?
He continues.
- Of course, he and I have been discussing it for months.
However, when he gets far enough away, his brief smile disappears and gives way to a serious expression.
"That day I'll never forget,..... Now I've done my bit, so the spies will keep an eye on him."
Cobalsk goes into an alleyway, where he meets a city commoner, but it's actually a spy, who has infiltrated the Capital.
- Sir?
- Investigate all of Mr. Charles' military leaders and my subordinates, just to be on the safe side, okay?
The spy replies.
- Yes sir, if agents discover the leaders of this possible plot, do you want me to kill them immediately?
He says a little seriously.
- Yes, but after the parade, otherwise it'll be obvious that they've been discovered, and they'll immediately start the coup attempt.
So Cobalsk goes back to his position, leaving the alley, and the spy leaves.
- Yes, sir.
And as he walks to position himself for the parade, he thinks.
"If I have to, I'll do everything I can to protect Mr. Magno and no one will stop me."
The drums beat, the parade began, the army from Wiki City would be the last to parade, so Magno had to watch, the other soldiers riding with flags and lances, all dressed in luxurious plate armor, their breastplates with a tunic with the coat of arms of the Seven Lakes Fief covering it.
There were also archers wearing almost all plate armor, as this made it easier for them to move around, something indispensable for handling the great bows that the fiefdom possessed.
There were also the crossbowmen, whose equipment, apart from the fact that they used crossbows and crossbowmen's shields, was practically the same as that of the archers.
All but the combat engineers were parading at the time, so only the archers and crossbowmen weren't riding, they were marching like the Roman army.
And the people applauded them, commented on them and shouted for joy at the sight of them parading.
Seeing that it was about time, Cobalsk thought as he approached the parade ground.
"It's time."
Then Cobalsk appeared in front of everyone, marching and drawing his saber from its scabbard with his right hand diagonally under his right arm.
At this, the Generals appear right behind carrying the flags of the Kirsim Empire, the Seven Lakes Fiefdom and Wiki City, and marching alongside each other.
Your brother soon notices something remarkable about them.
- Magno, they have practically no armor, and I don't see anyone carrying a shield or a spear.
He smiles.
Then the soldiers appear, dressed in their rifles, pistols, knives and backpacks.
The audience is surprised by the costumes and equipment.
At this sight, Magno looks at his brother and says enthusiastically.
- This is the future, armor, spears and swords are useless to them.
This statement confused Charles.
- What do you mean?
He replied, pointing at their rifles.
- What they're carrying in their hands will do that, that device is an arms revolution.
Not understanding what his brother had just said to him, Charles continued.
- But does this device you promise so much work?
- Let's just say it's a new kind of bow. - He comments confidently.
He becomes curious.
- Interesting, in fact it's all new to me, I've never seen anything like it before.
Magno is overjoyed to hear this.
- Yes, and there's more to come.
He smiles.
- Then surprise me! This is all extremely valuable for our fiefdom.
As soon as he had passed the marching soldiers while looking at them, along came Richard and the guards on horseback, nothing too impressive for Charles, but that was about to change when he began to hear a strange sound.
- What is that sound? - Charles asked his brother.
Then he excitedly spoke.
- Behold! The military future!
Then the armored vehicles similar to the Renault FT appeared, and everyone there was amazed, including Charles and his wife, who pleaded.
- My God! Is this possible?
He looks at the couple of feudal lords.
- With these things we could win any war today! And there's more to come.
His brother can't believe his eyes.
- Is this the future you promise to deliver?
Magnus replied without hesitation, as he was immersed in the enthusiasm and confidence of demonstrating his military inventions to his brother.
- Yes! Now do you understand why I say that these shields and armor are useless now?
Charles is still processing what he has just seen and questions him on an important point.
- So, how do you defeat these things? These metal things seem unstoppable on the battlefield.
Happy and content, Magno continues.
- Ah, but there's also a way to destroy them....
An explosion occurs.
Everyone there is frightened, the crowd begins to despair, the soldiers of Wiki City take up battle positions.
His brother, faced with the calamitous situation, tries to calm the despair of the population.
- Evacuate the area carefully! Calm down!
In all this chaos, Cabalsk comes running up to them, saying.
- It was an attack on the Adventurers' Guild Center!
- Who did the attack? - Charles asks, remaining calm.
And there, the place was destroyed, the Adventurers' Guild was in ruins and what was still standing was in flames.
In the streets around the Guild, the adventurers were fighting against those who had caused it all.
Their leader was the old general.
- That's what they deserve for not bowing down to the new supreme authority of the Feud of the Seven Lakes!
The knights, archers, mages and spearmen massacre the adventurers who opposed the coup d'état.
The Feudal Capital is in chaos and the military, who are not from Wiki City, begin an attempted coup d'état.
In this way, people's screams echo and more explosions occur.
- Into the castle! - Charles shouts.
Everyone rushed inside the castle with Ricardo and Cobalsk, who ordered some soldiers to go with them, and the others to protect the castle and confront the coup plotters.
The castle guards then close the door.
Having been temporarily protected against the coup plotters, Magno now speaks seriously.
- Let's get ready in case they invade the castle.
Charles' wife, clearly terrified, suggests a place to take shelter in the castle.
- Darling! We should go to the cellar!
He doesn't say it twice.
- I agree, we can put up a formidable resistance there.
Suddenly the sound of gunfire echoes.
- What was that? - asked his wife.
Magno immediately replies as he takes his sister hand in hand.
- The confrontation has begun! My soldiers are facing the scammers now.
At this point, Charles realizes that someone is missing.
- I hope General Rubion is helping your soldiers, my brother!
Outside, the aforementioned is leading the coup troops through the streets, after some of the guards and especially the adventurers have been massacred by them, and they loot their equipment.
Meanwhile, he hears the sound of gunfire.
"What was that?" he asks himself, looking in the direction of the Feudal Castle.
The coup was not just in the Feudal Capital, but in almost all the cities of the Feud, where bloody battles between coup plotters and legalists were raging in the streets.
In this way, Charles is thinking while he goes down to the basement.
"I've prepared the Feud to resist this coup, so I've sent my most trusted soldiers to the strategic cities to take care of it."
In a small port town, the bodies of knights, archers and mages can be seen in many corners of the city.
In the streets, the commoners are fleeing the battle, many houses are on fire, urban combat is raging there.
Then a knight wearing head-to-toe plate armor and carrying a spear shouts in a thick voice.
- Attack!
Soldiers with iron shields similar in design to those of the Roman Legionnaires appear, because they have only two pieces of armor, which is on the chest and a simple but very resistant helmet, below which there are thick clothes on the body and chain mail on the body, and they are carrying spears.
The fight in the street begins with archers firing their arrows at the coup army.
They return the attack with their crossbowmen firing at them.
In another town in the mountains, in the south of the fiefdom.
The adventurers hold their ground in the town with the troops loyal to Charles.
But it's been a bloody battle and the city is in complete chaos as a result of the clashes.
But back to the capital.
Charles and his wife, along with Magno, Cobalsk, Ricardo and other soldiers manage to reach the basement, after passing through the castle meeting room, library and finally the military room, hearing the loud sounds of rifle fire, artillery pieces and armored vehicles.
However, on the way, Antonia asks a worried question.
- Brother!
- What's wrong? - Charles asks
- Will we be all right?!
He didn't have long to think of a suitable answer for her.
- Of course we will! Nobody's going to die today! This is a passenger, trust me!
When they reach the entrance, Charles pulls the lever that was a torch, and reveals that the large picture of him in the military room was actually the entrance to the castle basement.
Then, before entering the basement, Cobalsk orders the soldiers.
- Protect the inside of the castle!
The soldiers shout.
- Yes, sir!
So the passage closes and the painting returns to its place, and the soldiers begin to position themselves defensively inside the castle.
Outside the capital, something was being assembled.
- Hurry up! We haven't got all day! - Shouts a coup commander.
Rubion, meanwhile, is fighting against the legalist forces and while he does so, he thinks happily.
"It's time to finish off the Kirbom once and for all"
In the streets, the Wiki City army easily repels the coup's advance until.
- What's that?! - Shouts a soldier on the front line, who was firing at the coup plotters.
- They look like dragons! - shouted the other soldier next to him, who was doing the same thing.
Then a sergeant appears shouting.
- Anti-aircraft! Fire now!
The machine guns aimed at the sky start firing.
Still in the same place as before, General Rubion reflects as he watches the dragons flying through the sky.
"It's very close to giving the Kirbom the final blow, it's only a matter of time."
Then the commander from before looked at what they were building outside the capital.
There were several catapults and some trabucos that were almost ready.
"I'll finally be able to help the Great General put an end to their greatest symbol, their grand castle."