"So when are you going to the next person to fight, Ars?
"Don't rush it, brother Byte. I'm tired of the soldiers that make up the army, even though they're taking care of the cold, so I need to think about getting some rest here."
"What the hell? You started this battle by saying that in other noble lands, where nobles and knights are all gathered in New Year's greetings, right? Then we have to go. You always say something about awkward speed."
"Well, it doesn't mean you can't travel no matter how much snow you have. If you do, it is possible that the other knights are ready. That's undeniable."
"Then let's go, rather than take a break."
"So don't be in a hurry, brother Byte. I'm actually already sending Paine to the next target."
"Am I right? Did Payne lead the army?
"I don't think so. As a messenger. Payne went to the Boutica house to make another surrender recommendation."
"I don't recommend surrender. Even now, if I hear that two neighboring aristocrats have fallen, do I ever change my opinion? But you could poke me, right?
"Of course. When that happens, we have to fight. The Booticas are the ones who want to hold them back."
He attacked the Hermes family, who had ruled the territory by trying to hide in the mountains.
And when that battle was over, my brother Byte talked to me about how he was setting things up in the realm.
The contents were expected, and we were just going to go fight the Boutica family.
Compare the two maps as you listen to your brother Byte.
I'm putting together a map from the Rubitch family and a map from the Hermes family.
Both maps are a big mess, but the features of the terrain are well grasped.
According to that map, the Boutica family is depicted as aristocratic territory southeast of the Hermes family.
According to the map, south of the former Fontana territory is the territory of Carmas and east of that Carmas territory is the territory of Lubich.
Now entering the mountains in the northeast direction from Rubitch territory, there is Hermes territory where we are now.
If we go further north over this Hermes mountain, there will be the former Urk territory, and we should be reaching Bartonia, which is the territory of our part-time brother.
And the next place we were targeting was the aristocratic territory of Boutica, in the southeast direction, seen from the Lubich and Hermes territories.
This bootica territory holds a heavy snow mountain on the east side, just like the old Urk territory.
As a matter of course, Snow Mountain is a steep mountain with no movement of people.
And on the northwest side of Bootica territory there is just Hermes territory hiding in the mountains.
What I finally decided to take down in this winter snowy march was the three noble lands on the south side of the small mountain range that stretched out from the old Urk territory to protrude sideways from Mount Big Snow.
I can honestly say that these three territories don't have much flavor in attacking when it comes to geopolitics.
Anyway, it's not the way to the Wang metropolitan area, which was the heart of the economy, nor is the distribution of things that thriving.
If we were to get it in anticipation of future economic influence, we might have had more other places to aim.
but still why did you consider attacking these three aristocratic territories?
Because its biggest aim was the Bootica family, their next opponent.
The Boutica family has its ruling territory bordered by the Great Snow Mountains, a very common aristocratic territory that does not mean that it has so much land.
For this reason, it can be said that there is no special value in the territory itself.
But the Boutica family was worth it.
In other words, the magic of the Boutica family was the aim of this expedition.
Neither is the Boutica family particularly large in the territory itself, i.e. not very large in terms of its military power.
but it was still by magic that the territory could be maintained, the magic of which, in one way or another, was the production system.
This is slightly heterogeneous as a stream of aristocrats during the war.
Because most nobles have had the magic of an attacking system and have given that magic to knights to maintain their territory as a force of war.
Then why has the Boutica family survived this upheaval, albeit dominated by the magic of the production system?
That was because what could have been produced could have been used as powerful equipment.
The magic of the Boutica family specializes in blacksmiths.
It had a unique magic that handled all kinds of weapon protective equipment, and, moreover, it had a strong magic called [performance enhancement] aimed at that equipment.
Wear their crafted armor and apply [enhanced performance] to it, and the armor will not break through easily with a half-life attack.
As a result, the Boutica family had the magic of the production system, but they maintained their territory.
As a matter of fact, I've seen metal armor made by the Bootica family before.
Once, I was the one who struggled on the battlefield.
Metallic armor worn by a man named Pessi, who was Urk's main class and named his next winner.
It was made by the Bootica family.
I still remember that time very well.
Pessi took the thunderbolt unleashed by Lion using his thunderbolt sword decently with that metal armor on.
Normally, it wasn't strange that metal was doing more damage through electric shock.
But there was little damage to Pessi's body or metal armor.
And here's what Pessi said.
Thought you didn't have the proper equipment for the lord of the nobility.
Metal armor that doesn't make you feel that way when you're under a magic attack is in our supermarket. I couldn't even gran the store.
Gran can make fine full-body armor.
but that was just called steel armor and had no effect on preventing a magical attack.
Well, maybe I can't help it if I can't make it into a gran.
Because it could have been done by another magic from the Bootica family called [Attribute Addition].
I want it.
In a different sense from the Hermes family, I want Fontana to have a Bootica family that can use the magic of this blacksmith.
Or it needed to be avoided all in order to avoid damage from magic attacks other than the protection of physical walls until now.
but given the possibility that the size of the army will be even bigger from now on and that some [tornado] of the top magic of the Memento family will become fierce on the battlefield, the situation is not good that there is not one piece of magically resistant equipment.
Even if I don't need the worst territory, I just want to secure a blacksmith who can use the magic of the Bootica family.
"Dear Ars, I'm back now"
"Oh, that was fast, Paine. You've already gone all the way to Bootica territory to talk to me?
"Yes, the Boutica family is not willing to fight the Kingdom of Fontana."
"All right, well done, Payne. Does that mean the Boutica family will be under Fontana's umbrella without a fight?
"No, that's what the Boutica family has been offering... If Master Ars does not approve of that condition, he says it will not come under Fontana. I've persuaded you many times, but nothing more. Anyway, I'd like to talk to Master Ars."
"Even though you are unwilling to fight, have you come to terms? Okay. Anyway, let me know more about that story, Payne."
Payne was keeping him waiting without letting him participate in the fight against the Hermes family.
Shortly after Fontana defeated the Hermes family, he ran to the Boutica family with that information and issued a surrender recommendation.
As for this one, I didn't want to bother losing the Bootica family of people with the skill of blacksmiths in battle, so negotiating is not vulgar.
but what conditions have been put forward?
While I was wondering, I decided to hear more about it from Payne.