Maou no Hajimekata

"How's it going?"

"Oh, Dad!

A simple room, surrounded by thin tea rock walls.

acknowledging Oul's appearance there. No, no, Sophia floated a delightful color in those green eyes and jumped on him. It must have been an act of admiration for my father.

"That's not bad. At least I remember better than the princess."

Half of them, however, were meant to escape the old man with a grin and spicy findings.

"Who's the princess?

"It's about Eunice."

To Sophia's question, Oul answers instead of the man.

Despite his bright white hair, one-eyed glasses, and seventy years of counting, the man who stretched his long skinny body like a sword is an adjunct and educator worn for the world's neglected Sofia.

Its political skill is the best of Oulu's knowledge. Aside from Oulu himself, he may even beat Merizand, who has been running a great power for thousands of years.

"Whoa, excuse me. Shall I call you Her Highness the Queen of Demons?"

"Don't talk about things you don't even think about. Fine, call it what you want."

- Anyway, that hero king, he's been supporting the country for years as one arm of Wolf.

The man's name is Tuscany. Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Grandiera.

Oul pulled me as Sophia's educator where I left my job a few years ago to live in hiding.

"You know what, Dad? I'm having everyone fix this stone dungeon right now. The one your Eunice mom turned into two."

On the palm of Sophia rises the sight of giant rocks carried by the people of the sand. The rock is the material of a stone labyrinth that Usermart called a pyramid. Amazingly, they were carrying it with no magic or magic props, but only with manpower such as round-tails and ropes laid under a rock called a colo.

That's tremendous skill and effort, but at the same time it looks terribly wasted. Using the magic of Oulu, it is possible not to create a golem that carries that rock in one piece, but even to let the Great Rock itself walk on its own.

"It is well understood that it is inefficient. … but if you don't, you don't have a job."

Toscan supplements the out-of-the-life oul.

"You don't have a job?

"Yeah. You know what? There are a lot of fields in this country that can be taken, but they are not very large. So, uh, the previous king was in charge."

"This is the map of this country."

When Oulu frowned at Sophia's obnoxious explanation, Tuscany quickly widened the map.

"Mm-hmm. Here, here, here, here, here in the desert, nothing. So, by the river in the middle... this is the field"

pointing to the map, Sophia explains diligently. In short, the Sahara, the land of sand, was mostly a barren desert… about 90% of it.

And I try to lean against the great river that flows through its center, and live in the remaining 10%.

"I see... this is a kind of dragon vein"

He stared sharply at the terrain, and Oul so nursed it.

"Magic also dissolves in water. The magic of the northern lands is melting and flowing in this river. Nevertheless, if normal, the magic contained in the river is something that will stain the earth, but I guess this barren land has become a kind of insulator. Magic covered in sand and with no other place to go moisturizes and enriches the earth slightly along the river. With this terrain, the crop grows at will, even if nothing is done, and it will never cease. - And"

Then, Oul moves his fingers and points to the center of the pyramid where they are now on the map…

"The magic eventually reaches this pyramid. His... Uselmart's unusually extreme amount of magic, is this Tane?"

Whatever the slightest difference, what you're doing is the same as Oulu. If there is a difference, does it mean that Usermart does not use dungeon cores? Instead is the pyramid, a stone dungeon with this complex structure.

The labyrinth made of stone conceives magic in all its places and circulates it slowly. It stores magic that dissolves in the atmosphere and disappears if left alone, while avoiding the risk of too much influx and rupture at the same time.

It's a primitive, muddy device compared to a dungeon core. But it was made hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago if it was bad. The technical and creative skills that created this stuff back in time in Tai Chi were something that even Oulu wrapped around his tongue.

"And the king had a monopoly on his overflowing wealth."

Sophia snorts at Oul's words.

"So. People who don't live around the river... people who live on the sand are so poor and hungry. I'd like to give you some rice... but eating without doing anything is not a good idea, right?

Behind Oulu's brain emerged a tatsuki who drank and ate many times as many people without working in particular. Maybe that's what Sophia thought when she saw her too.

"So I gave you a job, you mean"

"Yeah."

Pyramid... Sophia has not yet mastered the wreckage of Eunice's cleavage in two. That's obvious if you look at that figure that hasn't grown since around twelve.

She says that the pyramid is currently in a 'dead' state as a dungeon and cannot be taken in by herself.

The pyramid, which is a vast receptacle of magic and also functions as a fortress, is extremely useful. It makes sense to rush the restoration. In addition, giving jobs and food to people who have no place to work will also lead to the consolidation of Sofia's position in this country.

Even with Tuscan wisdom, it's not a bad choice. Oul nodded contentedly.

"So, Dad..."

Then Sophia grabs Oulu's sleeve softly to sweeten and looks up at him.

"It's good to make them work, but they don't have enough food to distribute to everyone. Sometimes the absolute quantity is low... because of the tsunami caused by Tatsuki's sister before this, so many fields have been wasted."

Oh, that one, Oulu recalls.

Tatsuki's contribution to the first war with Usermart, pulling the sea up to the top of the desert, was significant, but at the same time costly. When the amount of food she asked for to regain the power she consumed, even the oul was barely enough. If there had been no contact with the home country, stockpiles would have bottomed out.

"So why don't you share the food from my dad's...?

"No."

Sophia turned her eyes round to Oulu, who responded instantly without getting her hair in. I don't know, Oul is sweet on Sophia, and Sophia herself knows that. That's why I didn't think you'd say no.

"Uh, hey, why?

"Because I'm the king."

To my confused child, Oul told him so in a harsh tone.

"Regardless, my country can afford it, and it will be possible again to help your country. But I have a responsibility to feed my people. Because Sophia's in trouble, she can't give me food to take advantage of."

Gaze upon my young child, and Oul tells him to speak.

The wise young king received the word of his father again.

"I need consideration...... yeah, no. Really? I have to get both my dad's country and mine."

Twice, he nods deeply, grinning at her, Tuscany holding back behind him.

"Conversely, if it's not consideration, it doesn't have to be now to pay for it?

I looked up as I havent noticed, and Sophia asked Oulu that.

"Oh. You'll need manpower to do anything and the food from which it comes. If we can show this interest firmly and present the underlying items, we don't have to prepare them right now."

There's nothing we can offer Sophia in the first place. State control is not in place, no reliable subordinates and no system is in place. There's no way I can do business with Oulu's country on an equal footing in that state.

But if it's an investment, it's not a story.

Oulu can lend a hand to Sophia as long as he finds out that he will be profitable in the future. Oulu is heartily surprised by Sophia, who went from a slight conversation to the idea.

"... it would have been a lot easier for me if the hero king was politically savvy because he was half as good as His Majesty Sophia..."

Toscan groaned with a distant eye as he saw the young king wandering his thoughts eagerly.