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Country Gate? oO Is this a mistranslation, or did Rozemyne actually say that?
Because if that is correct, there are some serious implications here. Let's look at the possibilities.
Anyone with a Grutrissheit can open the country gates, even if they are not the Zent or even registered as a member of the royal family. This would make Lanzenave a considerably bigger threat, since it'd mean they could invade from any country gate of their choosing, if it's the Lanzenave King who wants to invade.
Rozemyne intends to pressure the royal family to move up her adoption and be registered as a royal, or maybe even made a secret Zent, TODAY. With none of them having a Grutrissheit, they can't open Dunkelfelger's country gate for her after all.
Either way, she just essentially told Aub Dunkelfelger that she has a Grutrissheit, since it's well known that only someone with a Grutrissheit can open country gates. I doubt the royal family will be particularly happy about this particular bit. In the worst case, they might even interpret this as her trying to win Dunkelfelger over as an ally for a coup.
Tactically it would make a whole lot of sense to lead the strike-force outside the country and attack through Ahrensbach's country gate. They would completely catch Ahrensbach off guard, they would have a good view of any potential reinforcements Lanzenave might have in place, waiting outside the gate to move in for support and instead of having to travel over Giebe controlled land, they would traverse over open ocean all the way to Ahrensbach's capital, thus needing to content only with the Knight's Order, rather than any local forces.
Which brings me to Lanzenave and Leonzio. Personally I think Leonzio is doing this at his own initiative, without the consent or permission his king and only supported by a small cabal of close allies from his home. If the king was involved, surely he'd want Yurgenschmidt for himself, rather than give it to Detlinde. And if they intended to just string Detlinde along and then get rid of her, once they got into a position to take the Yurgenschimdt foundation for themselves, surely it'd be better to send the successor, who already has a Grutrissheit of his own, rather than some minor prince way down the line of succession.
"I See..." He said "Hah. HAHAHAHAHA! [...]" - Aub Dunkefelger
His reaction is of someone that just learned the she has G-book, so I don't think that this is mistranslation.
I wonder if something will happen when an attack will go through a country gate where Ferdinand himself ordered to station some knights for protection from Lanzenave.
WIth Georgine about to launch her attack at Ehrenfest, I would expect her to either reduce the guards or withdraw them entirely, to have more forces for the attack.
And with how well of an impression Ferdinand made in Ahrensbach, contrasted to how Detlinde is viewed, I would not be the least bit surprised, if any small contingent of guards that remains at the country gate, would just surrender, once they see a combined Ehrenfest and Dunkelfelger force bearing down on them, or maybe even join them, once they're told what happened.
Even if Georgine put some of her more trusted (or most thoroughly brainwashed) people at the country gate, I very much doubt they can even slow down Aub Dunkelfelger and Rozemyne, plus a host of very eager and capable Dunkelfelger Knights and a furious Eckhart, but I doubt even she foresaw the possibility of an attack from outside the country.
She doesn't need to open the country gate, since she is already inside. There are teleportation circles between the country gates that the Zent would use to open/close them. Presumably Rozemyne plans on using her Grutrissheit knowledge to use those.
This isn't that big of a threat, since it only lets her teleport to the country gate. Once there, she us still outside of the dutchy gate, which will need Aub Dunkelfelger to open.
Oh right, I forgot about that, even though it was mentioned in the Eisenreich history lesson by Giebe Kirnberger.
I don't think Ahrensbach's inner country gate will be a problem. It's already past the feast celebrating spring, when Ahrensbach traditionally opens their gate to trade with Lanzenave. There's also a chance they might not even have been able to close it the previous autumn without a proper Aub. Not to mention that with Leonzio being part of the plan, there's a good chance they'd want to open the gate for him and maybe some troops he's bringing, regardless of tradition.
But coming through the Zent's own personal teleportation circle should give the strike team even more legitimacy in the eyes of any Ahrensbach knight stationed at the gate, who's on the fence about following Detlinde and Georgine.