"What are you talking about, Barca? It is not forbidden to put hands on royal messengers. What are you going to do about it?"
Calm down, Elance.
"This is not going to calm down. What happens if the King's City finds out about this? The Fontana family will be in trouble. Pointing a blade at this messenger is a rebellion against the royal family. You will follow the same path as the Percival family."
"In any case, the results were the same. The messenger even said that if he did not send all the Valkyries to the king's capital, they would be considered rebellious against the royal family. I can't do that. Originally, this royal decree itself was intended to push the impossible task to the Fontana family, and if it succeeded, to bring the power of war to the royal family. Otherwise, it was intended to confront Fontana and other great aristocracy. In other words, it's going to be a fight anyway. The results are the same."
"But didn't I tell you not to? In the first place, the results are not the same. It is quite different to compete with other great aristocracy without executing the king's orders, and to put your hands on the king's messengers against all the aristocracy. Especially against the royal family."
"No, let me be clear. Let Fontana cut hands with the royal family. If you had listened to the royal decree, Garros might be the second dancer next. I won't allow that."
"Cut your hand? The royal family? Are you serious about that, Barca?"
"Of course."
"Is that what you can do? If you don't know that, you can't help saying you're a fool who doesn't really know what you're talking about, Barca. I bought something from the Royal Family that I would never get anywhere else. Even though the royal family has declined, there is a reason why they are still treated differently by any noble family. I won't let you say you don't know that."
"Salt, right? Only the Royal Family sells salt. If this is not in your hands, you must not live in a noble house of great power. That's why the royal family still exists."
"Exactly. That's why I keep telling you. We must get along well with the royal family. Even if they say it's impossible, there's no way to put a hand on the messenger. What are you going to do about it, Barca?"
I ordered my part-time brother to defeat the messenger.
Then, my part-time brother left the room as it was.
There were only messengers and a few of their men here, but there were other messengers who came to Fontana.
They must have gone to hold them.
When the situation moved so far, the surroundings finally started to move.
Fontana's knights, whose thoughts had not kept pace with the murders, came to me together and interrogated me.
I was talking to Elance, the knight who ruled Burmese territory, the loudest of them all.
Well, I don't have to wonder if it was too much for me to suddenly wave a weapon at the messenger.
But I can't help it anymore.
Here again, this would have to be pushed through in an atmosphere that was the established route.
I mean, I don't feel completely different from the royal family anymore, so even if they ask me to lower my head now, I don't feel like it.
That's what Elance tells me, but the ultimate goal is the greatest value the royal family has.
There is a reason why the royal family remains so important in this country, which has collapsed a long time ago.
It is not only because the royal family, which is overwhelmingly inferior to the great aristocracy, has nevertheless forged alliances with the hegemonic aristocracy to maintain its position without any authority.
The royal family has powers that no other noble family has.
It is a "sale of salt" that only the royal family has.
Salt is an absolute necessity in people's lives, without which they cannot live.
No matter how much magic the aristocrats increase, salt is more necessary than performing life activities.
Only the Royal Family sells the salt.
In other words, hostility to the royal family makes it impossible to get the salt.
Salt only.
Why can only the Royal Family do it?
In fact, there is no place to get salt in this land that the First King raised.
Surrounded by snowy mountains, wetlands, or large valleys, it's a land island that no other country can afford to visit.
I mean, I can't get salt out of the ocean.
And unfortunately, there is no other place where salt can be collected.
No matter how much power the aristocracy accumulates on its own, it means that the royal family that holds the strategic substance of salt cannot be completely cut off.
Then why can the Royal Family maintain its position by exclusively selling salt on such a land island?
It is about the power of the royal family.
I mean, magic.
Whatever magic the royal family has, it's magic of making salt.
The current royal family uses magic to make salt and sell it.
Once upon a time, the First King led all the wizards to unify the land and unify it as a nation, and there was a great reason why salt could be made.
Incidentally, when the royal family was still powerful, there was something called the great magic that used that powerful power.
In the remaining literature, it is said that after the light pillar, all the substances there were converted to salt and collapsed.
Unstoppable powerful magic, called the [Light of Judgment], which encloses a city or an entire army, was the object of fear from all people as a royal magic.
Although such great magic has already been lost, the situation has not changed that only the royal family can make salt.
So, as Elains said, now that we have the royal messenger, the Fontana family may not be able to get salt in the future.
That way, no matter how Fontana develops, the Fontana family will eventually collapse.
That's why Elance called me a fool who doesn't know anything.
"Don't worry about the salt, Elance."
"What? I don't think so. Talk to all concerned now that you are hostile to the royal family. It's obvious that it's going to be very difficult to get salt."
"So it's okay. You won't lose the salt."
"... is that true? No, I can't believe it. Regardless, it should be difficult to procure salt in the future. It's not just the tip of the mouth. If you can get salt, please prove it."
"So, this is the evidence. I'll make the salt from now on. My barca starts selling salt."
"... what? Well, I guess so. Can you make salt? There must be something like that...."
"If in doubt, take this. If you put it in your mouth, you will know that it is salt. But it's a little different from the royal salt."
I said I would prepare it for Elance, who asked me what I would do about getting salt in the future.
And give Elance what will prove it.
I made it with magic salt.
I can magically make salt.
In fact, I have been able to make salt for a long time.
Salt was first made when crop varieties were improved.
When I took the method of making thick salt water and seeding it there, I put a lot of salt in the water and my parents got angry.
So I decided to use my magic to make salt and make and sort high concentrations of salt water.
However, they did not make or sell the salt in large measure.
I had to make money to buy weapons from a young age, but I didn't sell salt alone.
That's because I knew that farmers' children couldn't get into the salt market, which was exclusively reserved for the Royal Family.
But I am not such a farmer's child now.
Now you can make and sell salt magically.
I mean, I wasn't thinking about anything either.
It was because we could also make salt that only the royal family could make, that we moved on to a very thoughtful action.
Incidentally, the salt I make is like rock salt, and the taste of royal salt is a little different like the tempura salt made from seawater.
But Elance also seemed to know that both were salts.
"I'm surprised. You had these hidden balls, Ars."
"What do you say, Leon? It's definitely salt, isn't it?
"Yes, it tastes a little different, but perhaps this is salt. Is the magic that makes this spell already, Arus?
"No, not yet. But if I'm going to break up with the royal family, I'm going to spell it right away. Now there's no problem with salt procurement."
"Now, on behalf of Lord Elance, I would also like to ask you a few questions. May I ask you something?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Turn your sword toward the royal family and make salt. This is a rebellion against a royal family that can no longer be excused. I want to know the true intentions of Arus, who is going to do this. Where is Ars going to send this Fontana?"
I see. My thoughts are simple. I think it's time for Fontana to stand on her own feet so that she doesn't have to do anything about Fontana's future anymore. "
"... independence. The Fontana family will be independent."
"That's right. That's why I propose to everyone. The Fontana family should take off their sympathies with the royal family and other nobles and become self-reliant. In other words, Gaylord, the main leader of the Fontana family, entertains the country as the head. I hereby declare the founding of the kingdom of Fontana, king of Lord Garord."
A way to break the status quo where the royal family is just pretending to be indifferent to the Fontana family and me.
Listen quietly or ignore orders even on charges of treason.
I think there are some options.
But if you want to have a conversation with the other person in a reciprocal relationship, you will need to drag them down to the same area as you, or we will need to climb up to the other person's area.
So this time, I decided to match it with the other party.
There is only one royal family.
If you are negotiating with a royal family that exclusively sells salt, which is necessary to sustain life, why don't you try doing the same thing with them for now?
Fontana also sells salt and takes the throne.
That is to say, make Garold king as head of state and negotiate with each other as king.
In other words, we will build a country that is also called the Kingdom of Fontana.
And when the messenger was made dead, much more agitation spread between the eyes.