Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Anger and Innovation

The Quirinal Palace, Rome, Italy

September 6th, 1908

[Giovanni Giolitti POV]

In all my years of life, I have never been angered and disappointed as the plan we've been preparing for these past few years have gone up in smoke thanks to a young noble child from the German empire who purchased land and territory from the ottomans.

How she did it, I'll never know but our plans went to dust thanks to her moving first. We didn't even leak anything, and she somehow found out. And decided to grab these lands first

The Dodecanese islands are valuable as a staging point and control over the ottomans, but why the Tripolitania is the question on my mind as far as I can remember, that land is nothing. And all I can assume is a land grab from the German empire, which is illegal technically but it was sold in legitimate terms. Hence I cannot even demand legitimacy over it. Which upsets me even more as I crumpled the document and sighed.

Disaster after disaster has struck Italy and they had just been in. Earthquake this year and destroyed some of the ports in Sicily. Which required large amounts of money to be poured into Sicily's ports and be fixed as soon as possible.

Not to mention that, the Impeachment screwed his chances to have the people's Support as he was exposed to be a corrupt politician, which I vehemently denied even with mounted evidence.

I grabbed my temples as I finally went to the Quirinal Palace to Visit the King Emmanuel.

I knocked on the door and waited, as Emmanuel stopped for a moment before speaking in a tired voice "You may come in."

I opened the door and looked at the office of the King and I was still fascinated on how clean and gravitas the king lived and snapped out for a moment before stopping to prepare himself to speak. As he tried to speak, Emmanuel spoke first. Which surprised him but he is the king after all. He knows what's happening within Italy and out of it.

"Is it about the Young Noble Child Erika Victoria who acquired the Dodecanese islands and bought some lands in Tripolitania?" Emmanuel spoke, as he continued to write.

"Yes your majesty, I was hoping what could we do to remove them from the German influence and control and Italy controlling it instead of the Germans." I said, as I sat down on a couch and waited for the kings response.

"Emmanuel responded "All we can do is pressure the young noble, who wouldn't do anything to change her mind since she bought it from what I've heard with her own money and not the empires money." Emmanuel said, even surprised that a young noble had that much money to buy a land without the authorization of the Kaiser. 

"Additionally, I picked up another piece of news that she has also bought land from Arabia. Which is most curious on why, since it's all desert from what I've known and learned." Emmanuel spoke, puzzled at the fact that Erika still bought it anyways.

I spoke with equal surprise and shocked tone "The Kaiser named her Saintess after all, I think that qualifies her to do anything she wants. She even has her own private army, last I heard."

"I see" Emmanuel said as he finished writing and closed his book to look at me and answered with a strict tone and with authority. "We will not be undermined by a young noble from the German empire. The plan still resumes. We will have to change our plans for a bit since there's a German presence now in Tripolitania and Dodecanese islands now. But we will still go forward with our plans." Victor Emmanuel said with conviction as he turned around to glance at the map of Europe behind him and looked at the territory of Italy as of now and sighed.

"If only we only had a Saintess as well. Italy would rise into a power that only a few nations would dare challenge. Alas god has given us this challenge."

"Are you sure Your majesty? We will challenge the bottom line of the Triple alliance. There'll be war on the horizon if we aren't careful." I said, worried at the fact that the triple alliance is close to Italy.

"Do not worry, the French and the British will guarantee our safety. Even though it's an empty promise, it's better than nothing."

"I see…and what if we fail in our plans, your majesty?" I said, looking at the King's back. Waiting for an answer that he also knew as well.

"Then Italy may be forced to be neutral and never enter any wars for now. And if push comes to shove, we will have to make concessions on who wins this powder keg that's about to erupt and follow the trend or keep the status quo. Emmanuel said, although reluctant, he knew Italy was vulnerable everywhere.

"How prepared is Italy in your opinion Giovanni?" The king said

I responded. "Around 200,000 men and women. Counting reserves, it's around 300,000."

Emmanuel grimaced a bit and said these words. "Increase the army size to 600,000 by 1912 at least. I know that's pushing our budget, but we can't leave Italy unguarded as the Germans already have almost 1 million troops. Which doesn't bode well if you count Austria-Hungary's numbers as well."

I nodded as well and also said "We are also increasing our naval flotilla as well to compete and stay behind the French numbers as well. The issue is the navy is still demanding more money which is impossible given the current circumstances our kingdom it's in."

Emmanuel nodded and spoke his last words "Keep me posted and informed of any changes for our military. You may leave now as I need to finish my book."

"Yes your majesty, take good care of your health." I said, as I left the office immediately after bowing and headed to the military training ground to have a meeting with the generals about improving the Military tactics and it's arsenal since I'm very concerned that we are behind by a good margin.

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Somewhere in Frankfurt, Germany.

One of the Secret locations owned by the Society.

An experiment was ongoing on one of the SMG variants.

[3rd Person POV]

"I think this variant is somewhat ok, but Erika wanted a 30 round magazine on it, which we will have to change the body of the gun a bit." One gun manufacturer said, while another also chimed in

"I agree, also, the pistol trial is almost done and we're about to do the last trials and will be set to be mass produced in early summer of 1909." Everyone was proud of the new pistol and cheered and thanked Erika for her divine blessing and knowledge.

Meanwhile in Victoria's Louise's Room

Victoria was admiring the art Erika drew, and what her plans were as she knew she was the one to lead Germany to greatness and not her father. Call her delusional, but she has that gut feeling as Erika will change the world as we know it. And she will be at the center of it.

Erika also doesn't realize that Victoria knows her deep dark secret, that Erika has a Dick of a man. Which surprised Victoria a bit and assumed that Erika was disguising himself as a woman, but she checked everything, and she found out that she has both a Cock and a Vagina. Which amazed her as she has this deep feeling of love towards Erika. 

Now her feelings were even truer and more…passionate as everytime Erika comes to visit her or Victoria visits Erika, Victoria would try to always be Erika's side all the time and didn't let any girls near Erika as Victoria knew she was possessive a bit. She grew even more excited at the prospect of marriage with Erika and even having a baby with her.

 Which made Victoria slowly become obsessed with Erika and want her even more. But now is not the time yet as Erika is focused on the war that's about to happen and Victoria will bide her time. And when Erika's ready, she will have Erika all to herself…and in that moment, Victoria licked her lips as she knew there was no turning back from this desire. But she will bide her time…but for how long, no one knows.

Inside a Rheinmetall Factory, a secret project is being conducted that is known only to the society.

One welder and mechanic was surprised by this ambitious build and it would be a game changer in the battlefield once it's introduced and as Erika, their leader. Stressed that the tank must be in top quality along with its parts and the training of the soon to be crews as well.

Erika designed a Training manual on how to be a tanker thanks to Erika being a history nerd and geek in her past life. She will show the true power of the German panzers as she only showed the Panzer I and Panzer II designs with their last variants shown as she knows it's trial and error. But once all of that is fixed and done, and if and only if there's only a few dozen tanks of it. It will be a game changer. And hopefully will end the infantry in advancing the line.

For Anti-Personnel mines and Grenades and lastly, Anti-Tank mines.

For grenades, Erika has introduced what's called a Stielhandgranate (Stick grenade) and showed the process now to make and design one that's practical to use and design even the fragmentation version.

For the Anti-Personnel Mine, Erika introduced what's called an S-Mine. Which is bulky in design but it will be a game changer in the battlefield as it was designed to maim and kill the victim later on. Her version though, would be filled with Steel balls, and Steel rods and would detonate after a brief delay. She also made it hard to defuse, as if it was tampered with or anyway without the knowledge of how to operate one, it would detonate anyway.

Lastly for the Anti-Tank mines, Erika introduced a Mine that's a bit hard to replicate, but if done correctly, it would be a revolutionary mine that the allies will never copy until decades later. Which Erika will take that as an advantage.

The name of the anti tank mine was TellerMine 43, which would be renamed to ErikaMine 10 and presented to the Companies that will build this type of mine. Erika also stressed that, once the fuse is list, do not attempt to disarm this mine alone since the explosion this mine would produce would vaporize anyone. Which scared the builders, but Krupp and other weapon companies were highly intrigued by such an efficient killing weapon made for what's called a Tank that Erika has pointed out in the future.

Erika calculated by 1914, she would have produced 

50 Panzer Is

30 Panzer IIs

10 Million Stielhandgranate

700,000 S-Mine

20,000 ErikaMine 10

This list will further expand as she plans to build tech that will be more complicated and complex that it will be hard to deal with and hopefully make the allies suffer as much as possible to force a white peace at least.

For other inventions that are made for warfare. She will put on hold for that for now as she also passed some bills and policies thanks to the Reichstag s approval on improving the common people's livelihood and the middle class itself. Which boosted her popularity even more as Wilhelm was even more wary of her but was proud to have a selfish German noble who would do anything for the Fatherland.

But what Wilhelm didn't realize is that the Reichstag has put more hope and trust now with Erika a young marquess noble than the Kaiser himself as the Reichstag also secretly planned along with the nobles to promote Erika to be a Duchess of Königsburg of Prussia in 1911. Which shocked her when she got into the Prussian war Academy and was greeted as a Duchess and an Oberleutnant at that. 

I hope the fcking army isn't crazy and will promote me to a higher rank..or I would go absolutely apeshit at this ridiculous moment as I'll be titled as the world's youngest officer in the entire world. Which pains me since I'll be used as a fcking meme sometime in the future and it won't be good as I feared it would be ..let's hope the internet is forgiving…just hoping…but somehow I feel they'll not use me with good intentions. She shivered at that thought and just went with her duties to finish highschool as early as possible.

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