Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 441: Plan

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"Right now, the barbarians are fine with the current situation since they know they will win and take the city sooner or later. We are losing more men and we are not getting any proper rest, so we’re getting tired and weaker by the day. It won’t be long before there’s an opening.

"However, if we all of a sudden go through the night unscathed, the barbarians will realize something’s up and change their tactics. They will invest more into this place and make sure to take it down, even if it delays their advance in another place.

"Or they will back down for a little while. We will need to be on alert around the clock, but they can just not do anything and plan or rest.

"The point is, we can’t control what they’re going to do if we follow your suggestion, Your Highness. We’re walking a thin path here, and if we take our first step without knowing where to put our second, we’ll fall off."

Zach felt like he had said more words than he had the entire past several weeks, so he took a quick break to catch his breath. But that was enough for the second prince to grow impatient.

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"So, what do you suggest?" He asked, not too bothered by Zach calling his idea shortsighted.

"As I said. We hit them back. We know what they want. So, if we give them it, we’ll know how they act. We control their next actions. We’ll put the path where we want to take our next step."

"And in detail?" Yan questioned. Zach’s words sounded fancy, but without anything concrete, it was just a useless philosophy that wouldn’t work.

Zach glanced at the military officers. He hoped Yan’s authority would be enough to order everyone. Otherwise, it would be difficult to go through with his plan.

Zach told the waiting second prince his idea. Yan was silent as he considered it.

The rest of the members of the meeting loudly expressed their opposition. There were mentions of Zach being a traitor, a fool, an idiot, and a stinking spy. The plan itself was called stupid, reckless, and foolish.

But Yan liked it. It would be brave and heroic if it succeeded.

It was the kind of boldness they needed to break through their current situation when the odds were stacked against them.

Yan still had a lingering doubt in the back of his mind that there was something suspicious about Zach since he was an Evandiel. All he had done so far could have been an act for this moment. Maybe by being empathetic and getting them to let down their guards, Zach was planning to sell Rittel to the barbarians.

…

Unlikely.

Yan weighed the possibilities.

It wasn’t impossible that Zach was fooling them all. But he was doing it so well that most people had stopped suspecting him once they saw him for themselves. Both Storum and Rittel had a good impression of him.

But there was no way he would throw that away for a single city, especially not a small one like Rittel.

This wasn’t a ploy to deceive the Empire, at least not yet. If Zach were going to do something, he would do it when it would cut the Empire at the heel, not poke them on the toe.

With his position as the second prince and representative of the utmost power of the highest power in the Empire as well as the highest-ranking person in the city, Yan ordered for Zach’s plan to be carried out the following night. The troops that needed to be informed of what was happening were informed.

Weapons were moved around. Patients were secured. Barricades were erected. Preparations were made.

They rushed to make it in time, and they spent all the hours until the sun fell making their preparations. And when night was mere minutes away, the last soldier was granted Mandra’s stealth spell.

The soldier left to take their position beneath the wall.

Zach, his maids, Yan, Garad, and Lahso also prepared. They were in front of the gate since they were the key players in this operation. They waited for word from the troops in the city.

They hadn’t given all the troops stealth only to help them survive the night. It was also to make it easier for them to capture the barbarians. The most important part of the plan was successfully fooling the barbarians after all. For that, they needed information that they could only get by capturing and torturing barbarians.

They couldn’t be satisfied with capturing just one barbarian, either. They needed to compare the information given by different barbarians to make sure they got the information they needed.

The plan hinged on them getting and using the right information. Without it, they would be serving themselves up to the wolves on a silver platter. Needless to say, none of them wanted that.

The air in the city was tense as the barbarians slowly made their way over the walls and into the city, carefully scanning their surroundings before dropping down into the arms of the almost invisible soldiers waiting for them.

The barbarians were not prepared but they reacted quickly and put up a fight as best as they could. More often than not, that ended in their deaths.

The soldiers knew that they had to capture as many barbarians as possible as quickly as possible, but they had repeatedly been told that nothing was more precious than their lives. If they could not do it without risking life and limb, they should just kill the barbarians.

There were not many soldiers with the confidence to catch the barbarians alive. They had seen too many of their comrades die to them over the past weeks.

Zach was worried he would have to ask his maids to step up. He didn’t need to.

The military officer with a big mustache had secured two on his own and was ready to catch more if the ones the soldiers caught weren’t enough.

They could get started with the interrogation.