"Ah, Mr. Ars. Did you hear about the incident?
"Leon, no, I only listen to rumors. Is that true?
"Yes, definitely. It looks like Carlos has already taken over the story.... confidentially, it seems that Carlos has already secured himself in his castle."
"... really? You'd better stay away from Carlos for a while. In my case, if I succeed, I'll be guilty for being rude."
Time has passed since the dawn of the new year, and spring has come.
By the time the amount of snow was decreasing, we had sent people to the Fontana territory to improve the farmland.
Information that wheat harvests increased significantly in areas where farmland had been improved the previous year is famous among the knights gathered in the city of Fontana, and there is little doubt about its effectiveness.
And because it was shown that the interest rate Balkan finance I set would be subject to arbitration by Carlos, there was a borrower there.
Therefore, I spent [leveling] and [soil improvement] in order to increase the harvest volume by sending people to various places.
I had a really peaceful time.
Back in the city of Fontana, I gave instructions through the reports from the Barca Knight Regiment and interacted with other Knights, and it was a slightly different way of working, but I was finally able to settle down.
However, one of the shizuku dropped into a peaceful life with no waves, and the ripple spread.
It's outside Fontana territory.
It's not the eastern urk, it's not the western arborest, it's the territory further south.
But what happened there was about to affect Fontana.
The king has come.
And the king came to Fontana, the northernmost king, far from the king's kingdom, which was to the south.
It is probable that the king did not come here of his own free will.
It was the end of an escape from a life-threatening situation.
The royal family, descendants of the first king who once made this land a land of peace.
For a long time, the kingdom was ruled by a noble family centered around a king.
However, the power of the royal family now fell without a shadow compared to what it used to be.
During the reign of the former king, known as the Fool King, several powerful nobles rebelled against him.
As a result, magic with a powerful power that only the royal family could use became unavailable to the king.
From there, each noble family continued to struggle with the surrounding forces to increase their territory, and the country was disturbed.
But even though years have passed since then, the royal family still exists.
Although his former royal powers were gone, he held his own territory as a royal family and retained his power.
And as a result of that state of affairs, a strange phenomenon began to happen.
It was an alliance of royalty with powerful aristocracy.
As the country's faction charts continued to fluctuate, the Royal Family continued to forge alliances with powerful forces.
Although decayed, the royal influence is not at all vested in each nobleman.
By forming alliances with the royal family, the powerful family proved its legitimacy and sometimes spoke out against the actions of other nobles.
It is the birth of a noble hegemony.
The weak aristocracy at the level that managed to keep the territory alive managed to survive by connecting the hegemonic aristocracy with the royal alliance.
But, of course, there are nobles who are not convinced.
Or there may have been problems between the aristocracy in the Alliance.
On behalf of the royal family, the hegemonic nobles sometimes fought in battle and sometimes negotiated a settlement.
However, the hegemonic aristocracy was not able to maintain its power all the time.
It seems that the hegemonic aristocracy lost power for various reasons, and another aristocracy leaped into a new hegemonic aristocracy by repainting the faction map.
But every time, the hegemonic aristocracy formed an alliance with the royal family, and the royal family survived.
And that history continues to this day.
Of course, there was a modern hegemonic aristocracy with which the royal family was allied.
But it collapsed.
In other words, the hegemonic aristocracy lost the battle and was unable to maintain an alliance with the royal family.
When Fontana fought Ulk and Arbarest, the other nobles didn't move much.
That's because there were movements around this hegemonic nobility.
The House of the Grand Noble Resorte, a contemporary hegemonic nobleman further south than the royal reign of the royal family.
The House of Resolute fought against the Alliance of the Three Nobles.
There seems to have been quite a big battle going on.
Of course, it involved other aristocracy.
As a result, the dispute between Fontana and Urk Arbarest, located in the north, was apparently overlooked.
And the House of Resolute was defeated.
Looks like we lost quite a bit.
Therefore, the next hegemonic nobility should have been born.
But that didn't happen.
It was good until the three powerful aristocracies jointly defeated the hegemonic Risolte family.
However, each of these three aristocracies was powerful, but not powerful enough for anyone to escape.
In other words, the trinity alliance, which was supposed to have won, rubbed together in an alliance with the royalty.
It is a question of where to lead an alliance with the Royal Family.
The quietly begun leadership struggle increased radicalism and finally reached out directly to the royal family.
Secure the king by force and become a hegemonic nobleman.
But it put the king in danger.
And the king felt in danger and temporarily escaped from the kingdom.
To a place that could only protect the King's self.
If attacked by more than one nobleman, it will be returned to the nobleman with the power to destroy the current class.
Thus came the king into Fontana territory.