"I'm home, Lion. Huh, I'm just tired."
"Welcome home, Master Ars. You're safe and above all. I didn't really think we could make it east over Snow Mountain."
"What the hell. You kept in touch with the telecommuters on [reading]."
"That's right, but [the reading] doesn't mean you can hear Master Ars raw. In case, you also have to think about it. Plus, if you can come back with a transfer stone, you should be able to come back along the way."
"Well, I would have done it if I had told you if I could. But the Oriental Expeditionary Army guys who went into Snow Mountain with me can't go home because they don't have enough magic to transfer stones. I can't believe I'm the only one who went home and slept on a warm bed. It's about morale."
"... Indeed. I guess that's true, even though I successfully crossed Heavy Snow Mountain because I was Master Ars, because I would carry out an act that was supposedly absolutely impossible. You've come home really well. Arrange for enough food to be sent to the soldiers who are still out there."
From a variant I created east of Mount Big Snow, temporarily returning home using a transfer stone, I was discussing it with Lyon in the city of Fontana.
Apparently, there was also some doubt about me leading the Oriental Expeditionary Army into Mount Snow, even though there was contact from the correspondents, as to whether I was really alive.
That would have been perceived as impossible to cross the Great Snow Mountain.
But my return in time for the New Year's celebration changed the air.
Besides, I didn't just come back.
He saw what he had brought back from beyond Mount Snow and was admitted to have really succeeded in going east.
It is a fabric knitted with yarn from brocade worms bought from Sura.
A brocade is a creature that does not exist on the western side of Mount Big Snow.
Therefore, he was officially admitted to having completed a heavy snow mountain crossing by bringing back unprecedented fabrics from the East.
"Does Master Ars aim to make it possible to trade between East and West the Great Snow Mountains?
"Um, I wonder what's going on. Installing the newly acquired ice absorbing stone will certainly make it easier to travel the Great Snow Mountains as well. But there will be demons. You wouldn't be able to make a deal without profits commensurate with the level of danger?
"Right. It's impossible for ordinary people to use magic bags even though it's for trading. It may not be so light and bulky, and then it might not be profitable unless it's precious."
"I mean, it's also opaque if we can keep the variant over there as a story in the first place. We don't know what happens after we get rid of the nearby forces and the ones in Atmos."
"There's going to be a recapture operation in Atmos, right? Will it succeed?
"For once, I'm sending a reconnaissance out of the variant right now to find out what's going on. If Sula's information is correct, it looks like there are people in the Atmos who dig spiritual stones, abbreviated spiritual stones. Depends on how much security you have to protect them."
"But even if we win that organization, we still have to keep securing the Atmos we reclaim. A variant's defense isn't enough."
"That's right. If there are Atmos warriors who survive everywhere, I think we need to protect them until they can get back inside. I wish we had some numbers, but when will that be?"
"You can't read ahead. But it won't even be if you're looking all east. What are you going to do about the south?
"You mean the Marshall mercenary regiment led by the example Naja. The Church certified him as an enemy of God?
"That's right. In the wake of the Church raid, which determined the gravity of its sins to be a serious issue, the Church established the Marshall Mercenaries, beginning with Naja, as its divine enemy. This will then be the enemy of God in conjunction with anything that has any involvement with the Marshall Mercenaries."
"Hmm. Is that realistically a tough response? It's like eight minutes in the village."
We should also be discussing how to move the future Eastern Expeditionary Army, but there have also been new moves against the Mercenary Corps of the South.
It lay in the fact that the Church officially recognized Naja as the enemy of God.
I've been jeopardizing Naja since the beginning, but as the kingdom of Fontana, I didn't deal with the Marshall Mercenaries like this.
Nor had he actually complained at all to other nobles about the danger of Naja.
There's a reason for that.
Perhaps Naja learned from her experience in the Labyrinth Street how to use her skill of [collecting], possibly collecting even the magic of the Doren royal family.
If we were to keep attacking the church and swell up the amount of magic, the lost Great Magic [Light of Judgment] might also be available.
but that is why I was reluctant to inform the aristocracy of the whole territory to a large extent of its potential.
Most people would normally think that such a dangerous existence is scary.
But on the contrary, can this be considered as well?
It is a great opportunity to revive the great magic lost if Naja is present.
In other words, if we poorly communicate the dangers of Naja's power to the nobles, we will not necessarily have a nobleman to think about taking that power into his own camp and turning it into ours.
No matter how dangerous you claim it is, there are quite a few people who want to keep it at hand if the power that can overwhelm others falls under their control.
I mean, the more I sour my mouth and say about the dangers of Naja, the same thing that proves to be an intense counterpuncher against Fontana.
Therefore, Naja had to be seen as an enemy by all the nobles.
That's why I asked the church to deal with it.
The Church has always been preached about names, inheritance rituals, etc., as God's blessing.
Therefore, once the Church has certified itself to be the enemy of God, it will mean that it is the enemy to all.
If Naja is ever put at hand by selfish action, his nobility is also abandoned from the Church as a divine enemy.
In other words, Naja will no longer have the strength to rely on.
Besides, the empowered Naja individual may still be able to disobey, but what is around Naja will be different.
How shocked would I be if God told me, "You are the enemy" who is always watching over people's lives closely?
Do you want to be on Naja's side until you become God's enemy?
Perhaps you will be on God's side more than Naja?
There may be mercenaries who abandon Naja and leave the Marshall Mercenaries.
I mean, here's the policy the church took.
They didn't just snipe at potential Naja individuals, they moved to reduce the number of people on Naja's side.
No matter how strong you get, you can't keep living on your own.
"I often say it. Isn't it Master Ars who led that?
"What are you talking about? I don't know. I'm pretty sure I've had a lot of discussions with Archbishop Paul."
"Not at all...... It is not clear that the Church will certify the Divine Enemy. but I don't think this bounty system is just the idea of Archbishop Paul."
That's what Lion says and puts a bunch of paper on the desk.
There were depictions of the faces of the executives of the Marshall mercenary regiment, including Naja.
And under that personage is written the words "whether life or death" and "amount".
That's right.
The Church arranged for Naja and the church raiders to be nominated.
With a bounty, I mean, set it as a bounty neck.
This is also evidence that clearly shows who the Church recognized as God's enemy, and a eulogy for the departed of the Marshall Mercenaries.
Those who had joined the mercenary regiment but escaped with Divine Enemy certification.
But even if they escape from it, they are not likely to be punished as God's enemies in the future.
That's where we got the remedy.
If you take the bounty neck prepared by the Church, life or death, you will be granted an amnesty by acknowledging that you are a brave man who has taken the enemies of God.
In other words, you are officially recognized by the Church as not the enemy of God.
Plus, it comes with a huge bounty.
Lyon seems to think I'm the one who thought of these najas and mercenary corps executives as bounty necks.
but I just deposited with Archbishop Paul the material that scouts and correspondents sent to Fontana who sent me to monitor the Marshall Mercenaries.
I merely provided the church with an accurate depiction of my face and standing perfectly in [Mindfulness] as a material.
I don't know how well this will work, but for now, Naja, I wonder if you're going to have a sleepless night for a while.
In the meantime, let's end the Atmos relationship somehow.
Thus, after my New Year's celebration, I jumped back into the variant with a transfer stone.