"Lion, do you have a minute? I have a council meeting to think about later."
"Things you want to think about, are you? What is that?
"It's about mechanisms to contain those who want to fight for their own benefit, not for their country. Hopefully, all of them will be civilized, but in short, I want a mechanism to prevent some noblemen and knights from going wild."
"What is civilian control, Master Ars?
"Do you feel that it is not the military, which is the force of war, that moves the country, but the political department that directs internal affairs and diplomacy that has the power to make decisions? In short, the position of Chancellor and General means that the Chancellor is better."
"... Hmm. Does that mean that we have the means to fight only to obtain a political solution and not vice versa? As things stand, however, the Chancellor and the Grand General are the combined responsibility of Master Ars, and isn't it possible that the Royal Fontana will be involved in that one at any rate?
"Well, yeah, but nothing. You don't even need the king himself to be a general, do you? For example, the man at the top of the army, the general, can be appointed and removed by the king, I think. Anyway, I hope we don't get the kind of war on our own."
"Hmm. It's going to take a while to decide that. I wonder if the prohibition and severe punishment of unsolicited behaviour would be effective if it were to realistically break the current situation"
"Let's see. Well, that was about as good a story as any of that would have been. But I'm pretty sure we should all discuss this from now on. Even if not, the size of the country is getting bigger."
"Right. So why don't we put some more ideas together and work out a draft before we even consider it in the council"
"Oh, it's nice to meet you, Lion"
Listen to the battle freaks my brother Byte and Lyon told me about, and think about it.
I'm not sure what to do, but isn't it a good situation where the military is somehow unusually powerful?
but I also have trouble saying that the army is powerless.
Anyway, the surroundings and the country are still unstable, and more importantly, there is a demon in this world.
We don't know when or when a powerful demon will appear, or when the number of demons will increase and push.
We definitely need as much power as we can cope with that.
In the end, a good idea doesn't come to mind so easily, so I pulled it from my previous life's knowledge.
Create a presence above the army so that the army does not run wild.
Civilian control will not be possible in this country, which is a royal government, but I want to explore the organizational structure that will manage to become a stopper.
In that case, it may take time for decisions to be taken and instantaneity lost, but there are also expectations that if the power of the State is greater, it will be able to manage it.
Ma, and indeed Lyon is right, I'm not even talking about this right away.
It will be necessary to think carefully about the proposal and to develop a continuous mechanism and organisation.
It was when I thought so while talking to Lion.
Kyle came into the city's office in Fontana looking panicked.
"Yay, my God, Brother Ars!!
"Oh, I'm surprised. What's the matter, Kyle? How dare you come in with the momentum to break down the door?
"Gi, the Gizanian family is dead, a telecommuter reports in... What should I do?"
"Yeah? The Gizanian family is..., that's definitely it. It's an aristocratic house to the south, and you almost have territory near the land where the Marshall Mercenaries stand, right? What? I thought you and Naja were like incomplete alliances.
"That's right. The Ghizanian family was crushed by Naja."
"... yeah. Okay, I get that, but why is Kyle in such a hurry?
"Reports say the castle the Gizanians ruled has vanished from city to city, Brother Ars. You know what this means?
"The castle has vanished from city to city?... Oh, no way."
"That's right. Looks like [the light of judgment] was used. Where the city of Gizania was, the castle, the walls, the buildings, and the figure of man were gone. The only thing left was a lot of salt."
You're lying, right?
Tell me it's a joke, Kyle.
but Kyle jumped into the clerk's office and, unlike usual, made a serious rush to report.
Seeing that look, I'm pretty sure you're not joking.
The Gizanian family was destroyed by Naja.
Though it is a case in itself, it is not that surprising.
It was once a story that Naja was defeating the Ghizanian knight, and even if the Ghizanian principals were connected to the magic path from Naja, they were not on their side.
I don't know if that would happen.
but the way it was done was the problem.
The fact that we destroyed the Gizanian family from city to city and the massive amounts of salt left behind.
That Kyle's prediction that Naja might have used [the light of judgment] is probably not wrong.
[Light of Judgment].
It is called the Great Magic, once used by the First King, which draws a line even compared to the magic of other nobles.
It can be used just to cast a spell, and its effect is a hell of a lot of turning a wide range of things into salt.
Most of all, the great magic was once lost in the days of the Doren royal tyrant Nero, and now it's just in the story.
Naja said she used it.
"No, but isn't that strange? Naja was indeed expected to possess the power of [collecting] and the ability to acquire magic for every inheritance right of nobility and knight. And I think that might have put the missing King Doren in his hands. But didn't you have enough magic to use great magic?
"I don't think I did. But I got it. Naja's got all the magic [the light of judgment] can use, Brother Ars."
"So that's weird, right? Although Naja took the castle next to Gizanian territory, every Marshall mercenary regiment should have been trapped there. No other nobleman or knight should have frightened away from Naja's power, but they had blockaded the perimeter. Where did you get that kind of magic from?
"... Brother Ars. This is my idea and there's nothing to prove. But maybe this is what I'm thinking, you know?
"Oh, sure, Kyle. If you have a prediction, let me know."
"... maybe, but it was from Barca that Naja got all the magic she could use."
"What? From Barca? Wait a minute. What do you mean? I'm not taking any magic from Naja. Could anyone have Barca's knight been attacked by Naja?
"No, I'm not. It wasn't the knights that Naja put in her hands. It's Valkyrie, Brother Ars. Perhaps Naja [collected] the magic of [sharing] from Valkyrie. And that [sharing] is being used to connect the magic of the entire Valkyrie herd with Naja."
... Huh?
Can you do that?
Naja got the Great Magic [Light of Judgment].
Kyle says the magic power for this came from Valkyrie, Barca's proud supreme force.
When I heard about Kyle, I finally realized how serious it was.