"Ah, Master Ars. Did you hear about the example?
"Lion, no, I've only heard about rumors. Is that true?
"Yes. Definitely. It seems that Master Carlos has already taken on the story. … but it seems that Carlos has already secured himself in his castle."
"... seriously. Better stay away from Master Carlos for a while. In my case, if I'm bad, I'm going to be guilty of being rude."
Time had passed since the new year had dawned and spring had begun.
By the time the amount of snow was diminishing, we in Barca had sent people to Fontana territory to improve agricultural land.
The information that the areas where agricultural land had been improved in the previous year had grown significantly in wheat yields is famous among the knights gathered in the city of Fontana, and there is not much to doubt about its effects as such.
And because the interest rate I set, Barca Finance, was shown to go into arbitration by Carlos, if anything, or the borrower there.
Thus, people were spending time [finishing ground] and [soil improvement] to increase yields everywhere.
I was having a really peaceful time.
While in the city of Fontana, giving instructions through the eyes to reports from the Knights of Barca and interacting with the other knights had become a slightly different way of working but had finally settled down and lived.
But one Shizukuishi dropped and ripples spread to a peaceful life like the surface without its waves.
That's a story outside Fontana territory.
We are talking about territory further south, not Urk to the east, not Arborest to the west.
But what happened there was about to affect Fontana.
The king has arrived.
Leaving the kingdom to the south, the king came to Fontana, the northernmost.
Perhaps the king did not come this far by his own desire.
Because it was the end of an escape from a crisis in life.
The royal family, descendants of the first kings who once calmed the land and made the country.
For a long time, this country was governed by a noble family, mainly kings, who were given territories.
But its royal power had now fallen without a shadow to see compared to what it once was.
It was during a time when a king, once known as the Fool King, ruled, that several leading nobles disobeyed.
As a result, the magic with the mighty power that only the royal family could use became unusable to the king.
From there, each aristocrat continued to contend with the forces around him to increase his territory, and the country was disturbed.
But even though many years have passed since that happened, the royal family exists.
Although his former power as a royal family was gone, he held his former territory as a royal family and retained his power.
And as a result of that continued state of affairs, only strange phenomena began to occur.
It was about the royal family forming an alliance with a powerful aristocrat.
As domestic power charts continued to fluctuate, the Royal Family continued to forge alliances with strong forces.
Though decayed, the royal influence is not at all devoid of each aristocracy.
By forming an alliance with the royal family, the powerful aristocrats also proved their own legitimacy and put their mouth to the actions of other aristocrats.
It is the birth of a hegemonic nobility.
The level of weak aristocracy, which is managed to preserve its territory, managed to live forever by naming it its hegemonic aristocracy and royal alliance.
But naturally there are nobles who are not convinced by it.
Or even problems arose among the nobles within the alliance.
On behalf of the royal family, the hegemonic nobility sometimes settled it in battle, sometimes in negotiation.
But hegemonic nobility could not keep that force all the time either.
Many times, it seems, hegemonic nobles lost their power due to various reasons, and another nobleman repainted his power chart and jumped to a new hegemonic nobility.
But each time, the hegemonic nobility would form an alliance with the royal family, and the royal family survived.
And that history continued to this day.
Of course, there was a contemporary hegemonic nobility, with which the royal family had formed an alliance.
But it collapsed.
In other words, the hegemonic nobility lost the battle and was unable to maintain an alliance with the royal family.
Even as Fontana fought against Urk and Arborest, the other aristocrats did not move much.
That's because there was movement around this hegemonic nobility.
The great aristocratic Risorte family, a contemporary hegemonic nobility further south than the royal ruling kingdom.
The Risorte family was fighting with the Trinity Alliance.
They had a pretty big battle going on.
Of course, it involved other aristocrats.
As a result, the dispute between Fontana and Urk Arborest, located in the north, was apparently missed.
And the Risorte family was defeated.
Seemed like a pretty big loss.
For that reason, the next new hegemonic nobility should have been born if it had been.
But it didn't.
It was good until the three powerful aristocrats jointly defeated the Risorte family of hegemonic nobility.
But each of these three aristocrats was powerful and yet not powerful enough for some to get out of it.
In other words, the triumphant Alliance of the Three Nobles was able to rub it in its alliance with the Royal Family.
It is a question of where leads the alliance with the royal family.
The lead fight, which began quietly, has grown in radicality and, at last, he said, has reached directly to the royal family.
Be a hegemonic nobleman by force and securing the identity of the king.
But it put the king in danger.
And the king felt his danger and temporarily escaped the kingdom.
To a place where there seems to be just enough power to protect the king himself.
Even if it is attacked by more than one nobleman, it will be returned to a nobleman with the power to destroy even the main class.
Thus came the king to Fontana territory.