Skeleton Knight, in Another World

Now, in front of me, I could see Casec, the city of the Holy Leblanc Empire.

Bearing the backdrop of the mountain ranges stretching northwest, the high city walls, formed in planar and straight lines, exhibit a rather rugged construction and a castle-like appearance.

It's just a stronghold near the border and the size of the city, which entails quite a bit of an atmosphere, but contrary to that, there are several narrow rivers and waterways stretching around, with a rich farm-like view around.

The eastern streets that we followed and the streets that crossed south into Rhoden were placed near the same place, but now only those who use the streets because of the damage caused by the Warcraft came from nearby villages, and there were not many crowds.

As we approached the city, there were many people in the vicinity of the city of Casec, placed in the idyllic landscape, who were different from the guards.

They all have the same dark gray long-sleeved hem in which they patrol in blunt metal light armor or or whatever.

In addition to the guards at the city gate, those soldiers look out for those who enter and exit the gate. Because few people go down the street now, it's easy to see through the gates like this.

These are two Dark Elves who don't want to put their hood down to a skeleton knight who can't take off his helmet. If he gets interrogated before entering, he'll definitely be in trouble.

"Looks like you should avoid going in the front."

"Right."

Arian, next door, agrees with his concerns and nods.

Arian and I walk around the area looking for places that seem to be low on military and guards as we travel far around the city of Casec. Ponta is asleep on her head from earlier, or she can hear Spispi and Sleep.

The west side of the city seems to be garrisoned with troops, and many soldiers can be seen entering and leaving places like fortifications surrounded by wooden exterior walls separate from the city. The garrison itself seems to have been rapidly constructed recently, not very well built, but thanks to the outer walls it is not possible to see what is going on inside.

Avoid the location and use the [Dimensional Walking Method (Dimensional Move)] to travel to the unguarded city wall near the east side of the city, from where you will move further into the city.

You're also a lot used to breaking into the city this way, and watching the city on your own.

Behind the unpopularity of the streets, the whole city is quite lively with many people. I also see a lot of military men mixed up with a lot of people and not armored.

He stroked his chest down saying that there seemed to be nothing very noticeable in the city because many other mercenary-like people, like himself, were walking wide.

"Well, we've infiltrated the Empire City for now, but now we have to find Viscount Drassos de Barisimon and his location..."

With that said, Arian and I meet each other in the face. In any way, if we were to find out where we are, if we were to tell ourselves what we could do, we would ask the city's residents, or we would talk to the merchants, as we used to.

Unlike the Kingdom of Rhoden in this imperial territory, we heard that the Elves could be imprisoned if found, so we'd better avoid acting differently with her as much as we can.

In the meantime, you should avoid asking too openly to give Viscount Barisimon's name and sniff around and keep your eyes out for the guards.

Continue on the main street and exit where the city is open in the city.

There are many people here who buy things and then talk to merchants and talk to the public and garrison on the road, so it's a place to gather information.

Ponta over my head rarely wakes up yet as I smell the food sold all over the city. I take Ponta off my head and leave it with Arian, and I go to a merchant who sells food that I pick appropriately.

The product placed in front of the merchant was walnut in appearance. I called out to the merchant because he seemed to be selling in a cage and thought it would be perfect as food on the road.

"Excuse me, I need a cage of this guy."

"There you are."

When the merchant smiles lovingly, he puts the cage in a pile of walnuts packed in a large hemp bag with a familiar hand and transfers it into the bag this person gave him.

"It's a league, sir."

I saw the merchant's face twice in that one word, trying to ask the merchant if he knew anything about Barisimon. If the country changes, the monetary unit changes, and I still realize that simple things like that.

Remove the gold coin from the leather bag wrapped around your hips and give it to a merchant.

"I'm sorry, can I still do this?

"It's a Rhoden gold coin, yeah, of course you can use it. The change is nine leagues."

The merchant gives me nine pieces of silver coin stamped with a different pattern from the previous ones. The texture of the material does not seem to change about the left, but I feel that the fineness of the print is more refined in this silver coin.

If this merchant hadn't lied, he would not seem to be as different from Rhoden as the monetary value, and exhale that it is easy to understand and reassuring for now.

"Husband, are you new to Casec?

"Oh, yeah. Actually, there's something I'd like to ask the merchant. Do you know where Ballissimon is?

Answering the merchant's query, he speaks the name of the Ballissimon he is also searching for. Even in Rhoden, the name of the lord has become the name of the territory, so I think that the suspicion is somewhat diminished if we pretend that we are looking for the territory ruled by that nobleman rather than looking for the name of the lord who is the nobleman.

But the merchant twists his neck slightly to think that the name doesn't sound familiar.

"Is this Ballissimon territory? I've never heard of hatred."

"Well, you got in the way."

I then asked some merchants and others to go around in the same way, but no one showed up to know where Ballissimon territory was located, and the search was riding up the reef early.

"Surprisingly, you can't find it..."

Blurring as he stood on the streets all over the city, he crushed the walnut shell in his hand, took out the contents and handed it to Arian, next door. When Ariane receives it, she is cheeky stroking Ponta's head over it with delight as she does it to the Ponta she holds at hand.

If you think about it, not everyone has territory because they are nobles. Then we have to give the name of the nobility and look for it, but it is quite unlikely that ordinary people will know the name of a particular one nobleman in a world unrelated to such an information society.

When I was in the middle of such an even more contemporary fact, there were those who called out from behind me in the same way as from time to time.

"Looks like you're in trouble."

Looking back, he was no different than he had met in the King's Capital of the Kingdom of Rhoden before, and the man stood quietly and looked up to him.

One girl, wearing a big hat on her head and shaking her dark hair cut slightly shorter into pale eyes, was standing there dressed in black that seemed easy to move. He had a small back length, about a hundred and fifty tall, no impression of a city daughter, caged hands on his arms, and a shin on his leg with a dagger on his hips.

"Oh Lord Chiyome!? Why are you in a place like this?

There was Chiyome, one of the Blade Heart clans, who helped the people of Yamano to help their compatriots in the Wang capital.

Arian also gets a slightly surprised look at her.

"After I broke up with Lord Ark in the King's Capital, I went back into hiding and received a new life from the chief. It's up to me to rush this far looking for Lord Ark again. I thought I would visit the city first to find the person I wanted, so I felt comfortable reading."

Chiyome said that plainly in an unchallenged manner.

This city isn't huge like Landbart, but it's still a big city there. I'm impressed by the fact that it's something we can often find ourselves in.

"Hmm, would you do me another favor? As I said last time, the request of Lord Arian has not yet been fulfilled, so I would appreciate it if you could wait a moment now."

When he said that, Chiyome nodded in the wind that he was aware of it and looked back at Arian, who was next door.

"This time I would like to ask Lord Ark to do so after completing the request of Lord Arian, but this one also wants to hurry as much as possible, and I want you to help me with that request, albeit with a slight force."

Ariane's hand stops playing walnuts on Ponta, and Ponta tilts her little neck and looks up at her.

"I have no particular objection..."

I looked at Arian the same way myself.

"If I can get Chiyome to help me, and the mission is done quickly, there's nothing wrong with that..."

"Negotiations are in place, right? I'll take care of it. We've already looked into the possession of the person we're looking for."

Chiyome says so and shows his chest up a little obsessed. After all, is it because these intelligence activities are the specialty of ninjas, or I thought I was frustrated. I showed the progress of the search coming here and progressing at once.

"Ho, have you looked into it yet? And where is it?

Asking Chiyome where Viscount Barisimon was, she pointed in the north direction.

"From here, along the Siana Mountains, you will reach Leibniza territory, a city just north of you."

"Leibniza? Is Viscount Barisimon the subordinate of the lord there, that it is not the name of the realm?

"No, Viscount Barisimon is the lord of its Leibnizza territory. The lord of this divine Leblanc empire becomes lord in the form of a deposit of the emperor's territory with his life. So if the Emperor's life were to come down, the territory he ruled would change, so the name of the territory would not match the name of the lord."

So the political form of this country is like an absolute monarchy?

"In the first place, the country's predecessor, the Leblanc Empire, grew from west to east by swallowing other countries, so most of the place names are often used as they have been."

Listening to Chiyome's explanation as she and Arian were impressed, she hit her hand as she remembered somehow before turning back this way.

"And Lord Ark and Lord Arian can't really show their faces in public, can they?

Look Arian in the face, and then nod without either.

"Then you two will be my private escorts."

Eyes on Chiyome's offer as Ariane tilts her neck and asks what it means.

"In this empire, mercenaries can only belong to groups of mercenaries authorized for the country. If you know you're a mercenary, you may be subject to minor interrogation."

It is true that there will be no occasions when the questioned side is allowed to question and answer while wearing a hood or helmet, then we must escape, but if we escape, it will be difficult for us to act in the future.

It is normal for the system to change if things change, but both myself and Arian are refreshed by the circumstances around them, so to be honest, Chiyome's help is greatly appreciated.

"So we're leaving for that Live Nizza soon?

As he stroked Ponta's head, Arian looked around at all of them with the face that the story was wrapped around, but besides, Chiyome shook his head back.

"No, it is a distance of three or four days from here even by carriage to the territory of Leibnizza. Besides, you can only earn halfway out of this city from now on. I'm going to go via a relatively large city because it's very popular in small villages."

Chiyome is right, the sky is not in the dusk but leaning out much. Because I'm entering the whole city, it's enough to stay here for one night and then go for a live nitsa the next day.

If you are three or four days away by carriage, you can travel in half a day using the [Dimensional Walking Method (Dimensional Move)].

"So we're looking for an inn to stay in today? Beautiful compartments around here, so you can also find small lodgings in proportion."

Saying so looking around the surrounding streets, Chiyome responded by shaking her head to it as well.

"Avoid this place because Hilk churches are nearby. I'm a little insecure, but I'll pick up the inn in the northeast section. Follow me."

It's about her familiarity with geography and surrounding circumstances, and I follow her on foot with Arian in silence, wondering if there's any reason.

On the road through the boulevard to the northeast, a large stone majestic building entered sight along the way. Two pairs of towers stand across a large front entrance, with statues and sculptures on the walls. At the top of the front entrance was a pattern that symbolized a vertical diamond pestle.

The building had been pulled out of the surrounding building, and had been built as if it were going around.

"Is that the Hilk and the Church?

I look up at that church as I walk, and I give my voice to Chiyome, who walks in front.

"That's right. Hilkism is also deeply rooted in this eastern and western empire, but its teachings are supreme objects of the human race. According to their teachings, the people of Yamano, the Elves, the Dwarves, and so on, are the filthy beings born of evil intercourse with demons."

What a rambling doctrine that is. Then this area where Hilk teaching is rooted will not be a pleasant place for Chiyome or Ariane.

Arian also glances at the church with golden eyes from behind the hood with an unpleasant eyebrow root.

"Was there anyone in the Kingdom of Rhoden who believed in this Hilkism as well?

So I asked him what he doubted. In Rhoden, the people of Yamano, with the appearance of a beast like Chiyome, were persecuted, but the Elves should have taken the form of a reciprocal position, albeit ostensibly, by exchange of treaties.

"Hilkism has not spread to the Kingdom of Rhoden. A certain temple faith has been rooted everywhere since the beginning, and the royal family now forbids the preaching of Hilkism on that grounds. However, our treatment is not very different from that of Hilkism, the Yamano people are despised as beasts born in association with the Warcraft, and the Elves have a great sense of the usurper who deceived the power of the gods with words."

"What the hell is that!? It hardly makes sense!

Arian, who heard Chiyome explain, resents and abhors his voice. Chiyome forgives Arian with a rush to suppress his voice. Whether Ariane was outraged and empowered, Ponta, held in her chest, is going to suffer slightly from being sandwiched by two huge hills.

"Well, I guess there's a big part of jealousy about those who are long-lived and good at magic moves when it comes to the Elves"

If a man is to be a beings graced by the gods, the idea that he cheated something to drop the position of the elves who only seem to be more definitely graced than they are can really be said to smell human.

For a while I ended the day searching for an inn where I could stay today, while myself and Chiyome forgive Arian for their outrage at the people.