"Welcome, General. It was cold, wasn't it?
"Ah, it's futile to move out in the winter. In a short distance, it was far from Arbarest, Vargas."
"But you're surprised to be here. He's a general."
"Well, there's Valkyrie on the move. Valkyrie's cool and hot, and he's got new heaters."
"The flame ore said to be a phantom metal by the general is just a heating appliance. I knew it was different."
"Really? Everyone seems to think of something."
The New Year's greetings have all been over.
However, it still snows for a while, and the knights gathered in the city of Fontana will spend some leisurely time in the city's own pavilions.
This period of time will make it impossible to return to work, but it can also be an unexpectedly meaningful time.
For knights entrusted with territory, it is also possible to meet with knights from distant lands in winter.
Each knight opens a social world in his own hall and meets a variety of knights.
It will foster friendship, but it will also lead to exchanges of information and transactions in each other's territories.
Some of them seem to be natural factions, but only this year will it be useful to better identify who the newly embedded knights in Fontana territory are.
So, during the winter, the knights were throwing parties and facing each other.
Of course, I threw a party at Carlos' castle.
Some of them were talking about Fontana's future movements, inflating the conversation about the new clothes Liliana would make, or asking her to go sightseeing in the Knights of Barca area.
But normally, I left the city of Fontana after cutting up some of those parties until the snow melting started.
Last year it became part of Fontana territory, the former Arbarest capital, ruled by Vargas as Knight of Barres.
I traveled along the snow-capped road to Vargas.
For many, this behavior would have seemed impossible.
It is also equivalent to suicide such as traveling in extreme cold.
But this is how I managed to get to Vargas.
It was because Valkyrie pulled a big sled.
Valkyrie can move without any problems even in the mid-winter cold.
I've known that for years.
In the winter, he used to travel back and forth between Barca Knights and Fontana.
In winter, there were fewer foods that could be eaten every once in a while, so they were making money selling hatsuka grown in the greenhouse.
However, I am not making that much money right now, so I will not continue.
But it can be said that this time I only extended the distance of the winter's travel.
No matter how cold it gets, Valkyrie can get to most places by pulling a sleighed vehicle instead of a wheel.
But if it's too far away, the cold problem will still be great.
The city of Vulcania and Fontana could have moved with a thick fur coat on, but it's too far to get to Arbarest.
So it is necessary to warm up your body during the journey.
Conventionally, however, firewood was needed to keep warm in winter.
It is very difficult to carry such firewood on a snow-capped journey.
However, it was the flame ore that was called a phantom in Urk that solved it.
The flame ore, which was also the ingredient of the Kuo Sword, is a flame that comes out when magic is poured.
It can also be used as a firepower to fly in the sky as a balloon or airship, depending on how it is used.
In other words, there is a mysterious substance that can keep igniting as much as magic can.
We decided to use it as a mobility tool.
Make the sleigh Valkyrie pulls into a large box and attach something like a ski board underneath it so that it can slide over the snow.
Then they make a fireplace in a box sleigh and light the flame ore.
If even a small amount of flame ore continues to burn in the fireplace, the temperature inside can be sufficiently warmed.
In this way, I succeeded in enabling long distance travel in winter, which was generally said to be difficult.
It might be more useful than just using a weapon called the Kuo Sword like the old Uluk family.
"So you didn't come all this way to show off that heated sled, did you? When I contacted you earlier in [Precautions], it seemed like I wanted you to take me to the wetlands, but are you sure?
"I'm serious too, Vargas. You, too. I have work to do in the winter wetlands."
"... I think you know, but there are monsters in the wetlands? Besides, it's cold outside. What are you going to do, General?
"Well, that's settled. The ingredients of the thunderbolt sword I heard from Lord Ragna, who was the master of the Arbarest family before, can be harvested in the wetlands. Then you'll have to go."
Yes, that's why I came all the way to Arbarest.
Information about the ingredients of the Thunderblade left by Ragna, who died while escorting the King with Carlos.
I'm here to pick it up.
Thus, I accompanied Vargas to the marshlands further afield in the Arbarest area.