Me, Adventurer! - Undoubled Skills Are Flat Magic (WEB Version)

Viscount Rockman territory is apparently about three hundred kilometers northwest of the new Viscount Weissman territory. It is not uncommon in the kingdom for a small town, the capital of the realm, to have only one village and one territory. The new Viscount Weissman is a more nuanced nobleman with only one territorial capital.

There is nothing that can be said to be the main industry, and if you insist, it is at the northwest end of the Dark Forest, so the demonic material that can be picked there cannot be said to be a specialty. For once, they also have a branch of the Adventurer Guild. The new Viscount Weissman has lost. I just got up, so I can't help it.

Closer than Dorton in distance, but no direct streets pass because it is the woods inhabited by gobbly, large rocky rolling wastelands and demons that spread between them. They say there's only a big route through Bordersetz.

Why has such a peripheral zero aristocracy been fighting against an equally peripheral zero aristocracy that has just been done?

"Water rights."

That's why.

The new Viscount Weissman territory exists in the middle of the Great Forest. It's a peripheral border, probably the most remote aristocratic territory in the kingdom. It will take more than five days each way by carriage from the nearest city (Dorton), and on the other hand, it is at the forefront of the human habitat that there are demonic raids even near the town.

It's such a dangerous place, but at a minimum, we can only secure enough water for people to live in. That's why I was able to create a pioneering village.

The southern part of the kingdom has an intermediate climate between Savannah and the desert, and this new Viscount Weissman territory does not leak into that example either. Sometimes away from the sea, the trend is more pronounced. Normally, the land and air are dry and not in an environment where we can do very much farming.

But further south is the Dragon Cry Mountains of the Great Forest, which extends to the south. A small river runs all over it because the rain that has fallen there is immersed in the basement and gushing out as a fountain from all over the Great Forest. The creek used as agricultural water in the town of Dantes is one of them.

Many of those rivers turn into dried rivers as they flow through the dry earth, but some of them merge into great streams, pouring them into the sea and larger rivers. One such river flows through the new Viscount Weissman territory to Viscount Rockman territory.

"Water is a valuable resource in the south. Being held by it is tantamount to being held by life. So I also expected a skirmish like this one to happen. The only unexpected thing was that Viscount Rockman moved faster than I thought."

Basically, river water rights have priority on the upstream side. In this case, the new Viscount Weissman.

Until now, it was just a pioneering village, so there was no problem. Because I had no rights to land or rivers. However, because the Viscount had entrusted the Territory to him, he had also acquired the right of the river to flow through its territory.

If you try Viscount Rockman, the water on the river that has been commonly used has suddenly become the property of other nobles, so they may have to pay royalties depending on the intentions of the new rightholders. It is a matter of life and death for the Zero Nobles.

"The country barely speaks, except for territorial issues. In the case of a rights relationship like this one, it is customary not to interfere with the parties alone."

"But it's a fight, isn't it? If a lot of people die, isn't it painful for the country? Sometimes the lord of the aristocracy dies."

"Mm-hmm. So the law" On solving problems between nobles in the country "is laid down. Among these is an item on solving problems by force in large numbers, only the inhabitants can participate in the battle, the number is not more than 10% of all the inhabitants, the participation of the Lord in the battle and the participation of other aristocrats is prohibited. The Lord can only command."

Is there such a law? If our Lord's participation in the battle is forbidden, then there is no danger that the house will go on losing. If you don't consider the existence of a wizard, it's a more advantageous law to have more inhabitants.

Is that why this is the right time? If it were the new Viscount Weissman territory, which has just risen and has few inhabitants, I guess I stepped on that there would be no losing in battle. Viscount Rockman seems to have quite an excellent strategic eye.

"As far as I'm concerned, I wasn't going to take the money with water, but Viscount Rockman didn't seem to. Knowing I got a ton of rewards for the war, I guess I thought if I won the fight, I could wind it up."

Viscount Rockman seems to have quite a seco sense of money! Selling fights and winding up gold or whatever you're doing is a rounded dick. I'm sure the kitchen is the fire train at the doctor's research expense.

"But if there's such a law, it's not a good idea for me to lend a hand, is it?

"Right. This time it has to be just the new Viscount Weissman family (of which). And it's a tough fight to win."

If you lose, you'll be deprived of funds for territorial development, but if you win, you'll have to pay for your water rights. That's why we fought. But that may temporarily moisten the nostalgia of the new Viscount Weissman family, but it's deadly for the Viscount Rockman family. That could cause it to collapse and be converted.

When it is converted and a village or town is abandoned, it becomes an undeveloped place, which means that people's living areas are narrowed. I even built a branch of the Adventurer Guild, but it's going to be an abandoned village, something I want to avoid at all costs as a country. The rating of the Viscount who created the cause will go down, and I can't say enough that there is no possibility of some kind of penalty being imposed.

Then I guess you can win the fight and just take a little water royalty, but that's in front of other aristocrats with water rights, they can't even do it if they want to. If a vendor destroys prices, it will also put pressure on existing vendors to cut prices, and as a result, the management of existing vendors will suffer.

I mean, there's no other option in this fight than to draw. Wow, that looks like a pain in the ass.

Winning or losing, a good commander could do something about it. But it takes accurate battle situation judgment and command to make it a draw, which is very unlikely with a slightly better degree of command. If you're a valiant warrior and experienced combat commander, you might be able to do something critical. I can't do this. There is an overwhelming lack of experience in combat command. It's faster and surer to get into it yourself than to command it.

Right, has Viscount Rockman set it up after reading that far? You never lose, so there's no reason not to set it up. Viscount Rockman seems to have quite a strong personality to use as a weapon to his own weakness.

"So when and where is the battle?

"Five days later, it's a wasteland near the border between the two sides of the territory. There's a distance, so we don't have time to lay the formation if we don't leave tomorrow. Tell Glenn when you get home."

Hmm, I don't have more time than I thought. This battle, from what to what, is the Viscount's overwhelming disadvantage. A normal war would seem to do something with my help, but only this time... no, it depends on how you do it?

The point is, you don't help either and you don't have to take part in the fight, do you? All right, then let's scratch it around flashy at best and let's fight it out.

But even though this is happening, my father, who is sleeping well... he was definitely a squire, wasn't he? Viscount, can I fire you?