Garrode calendar 12 years.
This is a peaceful year.
Even though I went on an expedition to El Meralda in the Great Snowy Mountains during the first snowy season, there hasn't been a big fight since.
After all, it must have been a big battle with the neighboring countries last year.
In addition to causing damage to any country, a peace agreement was concluded.
It also included the idea of drawing troops to both sides and putting an end to the armistice.
Of course, it wasn't absolutely protected, but it still made it harder for each other to move.
In such a situation, I had to move the Orient Army to do some construction work.
Wall tactics used in battles with five surrounding countries.
With that, we will look at the border with a large number of walls and deploy our soldiers.
In this way, we will develop Orient Domestic by letting those soldiers use magic tools that allow them to send simple messages and strike the target with vigilance.
It is a major project to build a dike next to a river that often causes flooding, and in some cases replace the river.
Alongside those works that will even change the flow of the river, we will also build a road network.
This series of work that we've been doing since last year is normal, but it won't be over soon.
Rather, it will continue for many years to come.
In short, I was working on changing the terrain according to the plan set by Ai while checking the progress of the construction without fighting.
However, this has gradually become a different situation from last year.
It means that the Orient soldiers are no longer the only ones working on it.
Since the snow began to melt, I decided to hire people instead of soldiers.
Replacing rivers in flood-ridden areas is a reckless act against the great nature.
It seems that there has been such a consciousness in this small group of countries.
Even if you build an embankment, every time it rains heavily, it breaks down, and the effort until then is attributed to the blisters.
It may have been a feeling of giving up somewhere because such a thing has been repeated over and over again.
That's why.
When we started replacing the river last year, the Orient soldiers were the only ones to carry out the plan.
As Secretary of Defense, I used my position of mobilizing soldiers to contain my objections, and even in the winter, I rushed construction.
And we have a track record.
Even though it is not a good time for snowy construction, the Orient country has begun to change its terrain significantly.
And then there's my winter expedition.
Mt. Daisuke is a hellish place where monsters that are rarely seen in the east can flood into the mountains of death.
I went there and defeated the monster that dwelt there.
At that time, I brought back the materials of monsters such as ice bears and four-handed ice monkeys in my magic bag.
Some of them were given to manufacturing artisans such as Galius and Banage, but they were also exhibited.
Peeled to the Orient Council and other public viewing spots.
Apparently, that improved my reputation.
While fearlessly entering the mausoleum in the winter, he returned everyone without freezing to death.
That, combined with the defensive line of the wall that was being built around the country and the battle that was bouncing back around the five countries, began to be called the "Alphonse of the Iron Wall".
Maybe it has something to do with collecting iron cargo.
And, well, that's how soon I got the reputation of being a good defender.
I personally prefer to attack.
However, it is true that even in the mercenary business until now, the Orient nation was more likely to go to battle where it was attacked, and that may be the case from the surroundings.
Whatever it is, my name and achievements are now known enough to be named.
Thanks to this, more people than ever want to become Orient soldiers.
After all, not only titles, but people are likely to gather under strong and well-known generals.
I guess I finally got out of Ian's shadow.
However, we couldn't turn all of them into Orient soldiers.
As expected, the number of standing troops could not be increased indefinitely.
It takes time, labor, food and money to train a soldier in his most basic tasks.
But I want to use the motivated people who have come forward.
That's why I decided to use it as an operative, not all soldiers.
Let the people who gathered to think where such a person was located do the construction work.
There were many people who could not do [Wall Construction], but there was [Meditation] because they always had little magic power.
No matter how much you use it, if you give them a minimal meal and use Meditation , they'll get better after going to bed.
Construction in the Orient went further thanks to Meditation , which takes on physical fatigue as well as mental fatigue.
And of course, the wages you pay those workers are endless.
When it comes to getting a bracelet from Barca's church, most of them followed suit, because they pay with an end.
There are people who think differently, and people will believe differently, but if they don't, it's normal to think about getting into it for now.
The Barca Church didn't have a way of forcing us to do anything.
In this way, vigorous construction was carried out in various parts of the Orient from spring to autumn this year.
Tens of thousands of people, or even more, will participate in the construction, changing the terrain and creating a transportation network.
At the same time, the enthusiasm penetrated even more generally.
Because I use the entrance I received in construction to shop, I have increased the number of exchanges between ordinary people using bracelets.
An Orient country that develops peacefully in such a way.
It happened one autumn day, when it seemed as if the calm days would continue.
No. Few can recognize when it was.
But it certainly happened like a catastrophe for everyone.
Due to the collapse of the magic item market, a storm more than a big one struck a small group of countries in autumn.