Sweet Reincarnation

Lucas was on his way to the southern edge. I can hear relief on my face even though I feel a little chilly. It's a relief that we've crossed a mountain for now.

Next to him was the wizard's brother-in-law. That means that things were carried exactly as Lucas intended.

"Is this Mortairn territory?

Thursden, the main village of Mortairn territory. The landscape has changed since a few years ago due to the impact of numerous large-scale works here.

It is right next to the Lordship Hall that Lucas stands. The building itself has no shadow of the earliest construction due to the renovation after the renovation, but what is also surprising is the landscape overlooking the building in small heights.

"Is it your first time up here, brother-in-law?

"I was brought here to Lord Casserole once before, but it's amazing nonetheless. Aren't you going to line up with Rateshvar?

Lucas is also a living Divine Kingdom man. It has a whole lot of common sense and stereotypes. I was wondering if that's why, when it comes to Mortairn, it's rural though it's getting richer. It was originally a barren earth with one foot in the desert. I was prepared to be inferior compared to the city, albeit somewhat developed, just to know the difficulty of pioneering as a territorial nobleman.

But I don't know. The sight that spreads in front of you flourishes to no lesser extent than the cities around there. At least, it flourishes to the same extent as the Bombino territorial capital, Nylier, who stopped on the way. The number of people, the size of the town, the level of commercial activity and the abundance of supplies. The people of the town are also showing brightness and are lively. Not very much, but you can't call it a country village.

As many carriages cross the boulevard by mistake, we are likely to forget that this is the most extreme border in the country.

It creates so many cities where there was nothing originally. I feel the bottomless strength of the Mortairn family, and I feel a slight tremor.

"That's far to the boulder. Compared to the city with the best port in the kingdom of God, it would be inferior."

As for Pais, I have the impression that it would be difficult to get him to call me a metropolis, however, with a population of about thousands. If I were to know the real metropolis, I wanted to make it a city of at least a million people before naming it that way.

Not to mention the current situation, which cannot be compared to the Rateshvar in a city of 10,000 people. It's a metropolis with no neighborhood lined up with trading as its main industry. If compared, Zarsden will still be inferior. Pace said he meant it, not humbled, but still inferior.

"No, no, but on a scale, it's pretty big. Besides, it still seems to expand"

As the end of the territorial aristocracy, Lucas makes observations without alarm. His gaze as a soldier becomes that if he were to attack this town. I don't know, it's a disturbing view, but it would be a guy called an occupational disease.

In fact, if you try to look for weaknesses as an attacker, you will find some weaknesses, such as the fact that the hands of the water are carried from afar, or the fact that the prospects are too good from being well zoned.

But I guess that's above acceptance from the edge. This town is not a city that solidifies protection. It's a city about how efficiently it creates wealth. That's what Lucas looked like.

They also seem to think of scalability, and they expect it to be about ten times bigger now. Lucas laughed when it looked like an interesting town inside.

"Right. There will always be a build-up of maintenance plans, so it will be noisy for the time being."

"I envy you, I wonder. We have difficulty expanding this much"

The territorial capital of the territory of Hubarek is basically a town with a thorough emphasis on protection.

Originally prepared for invasion by another country is its role as a frontier uncle. Ultimately, the city is caged in a city protected by walls, and the city is built assuming total resistance. For this reason, scalability had a history of city building with the next three things in mind.

Considering the hand of the water, the terrain, the location and the size of it, it is not possible to transition from the current territorial capital, and it is difficult to expand greatly from the current situation beyond not transitioning.

In that regard, I honestly envy the city, a city that can be created from scratch within vast tracts of land and will continue to expand.

"I hear the Fuberlek realm is encouraging internal affairs?

"Even though there is a new and increased territory, it was originally enemy land. First of all, it's important to calm people's minds, so we're not getting very big hands on it. Instead, they take a hand in repairing existing facilities, etc."

Currently, the Luttrut Border House, the biggest and most powerful enemy and the most virtual enemy to the Fuberlek family, is doomed. With the absence of the main enemy, the Fuberleks now have a completely home affairs oriented policy. After putting in place something that will not reduce armaments, we are developing streets, renovating rivers, expanding pastures to develop agricultural land, opening forests, and fostering industry.

Economic development in one or two. We are on the way to invest money in guns and make rich countries.

But there's no way I can say that to much. It was assumed that externally only to the extent that hair had grown to maintain the status quo. In all times, there are people who beat up the pile that came out, and in a world of intelligent aristocracy, the pulling of legs is a daily tea meal. If you get rich to be as discreet as you can, you'll be gathered together by an elephant.

Lucas, who should have answered as if he were only a calm face and nothing. But it's not just people who are beside us.

"... I hear you've enlarged the ranch?

"You're so fast."

Uncle Huberlek is once again amazed at the bottom line of the Mortairn family. It's been about the last month or so since the Huberleks started expanding their ranch. No wonder you're in one or two ears of rumors if you talked about it before on a yearly basis, but if you're running on a horse or grabbing updates in dubious time, it's a stunning word.

It's the fastest way to get a small number of people, including Lucas, to Mortern territory. How fast the hell are you carrying the information?

It's horrible if you turn to your enemies, but while you're on your side, you're reliable. Lucas writes in his heart that he can never turn to his enemies.

"Let's see. It's my wife's home."

Pais dared suggest how to get information. I guess that's the intention of not wanting the Hubarek family to be wary in vain.

I was quick to get information because it was my wife's home. That means that information is available in the part relating to Liquorice.

If we are to be vigilant, if we shut out the information from around Liquorice, we will not be able to get it so quickly, he says implicitly.

"Is it each other who has handouts? I say it because it's nothing to hide, but because the threat of external enemies has diminished, it's expanding the production of military horses. It's a five-year plan, and I'm going to double it."

"Ho."

Lucas also leaks information against Pace. Return good information with equally useful information. They're appealing to each other that they don't want to be enemies.

As far as the information Pais has obtained is concerned, the internal circumstances of the Huberlek family, which are to double the military horse in five years. It would be important information inside.

This means that there will be shipping restrictions in the future. It means that it will be difficult to purchase military horses in the future.

Horses are creatures. Come on. I just said let's increase it, and it won't even be an easy increase. What do we do to increase the number of horses? Simply, it's quick to reduce the number of horses you put out there. It is easy to speculate that a five-year plan is one that includes new born horses until they grow to a certain extent. Horses that have been commonly obtained so far must also be difficult to obtain.

There are currently ten military horses in Mortairn territory. It is all from Fuberlek. It will not be used as a military horse far beyond being a creature. The acquisition of new military horses is a policy of considerable priority.

This means that Lucas is also making it smell as a subtle negotiating card after he has guessed the circumstances of the Mortairn family. I have not said more to the side than I have made no explicit statement, but I cannot do the nobility if I am not capable enough to perceive it.

Pais assumed that his brother-in-law had come to negotiate and made sure that the card valid for them was alive. We dared to expose our weaknesses, which my brother-in-law would be after. I mean, I narrowed it down.

Lucas found out that the bills he was hiding had been found out. I would have liked to use it effectively where the negotiations boiled down more if I could, but it turns out I was after it as an offensive.

They're both exchanges that feel like they're packed with time.

Between those two, there was an intruder smashing seriousness. A woman important to both.

Licoris-Mil-Morthern. She is Lucas' real sister and wife of Pace.

"Rico!!

"Brother. What are you doing here?

And the lady who came at a narrow stride.

I exchanged quite a few greetings for my real brother, whom I hadn't seen in a long time. Around here, I guess it's a unique reluctance for real brothers and sisters.

"Oh, come on. Greetings. She said she was here to see her pretty sister's face."

"Really?"

My brother comes all the way here. It's not that I don't like it, but there's something called embarrassment. It's like my brother came to see me on visiting day. Not if you absolutely don't like it, but if you asked me if I wanted you to come, I'd like to answer no. A strange sensation, a little to the point.

Lucas gave a full smile to Liquorice, who greeted her with a slight blush.

"Looking good and above all. Are you doing well with Lord Pastry?

"Yes, of course."

Being a good couple is certainly desirable as a Fuberlek family.

"What are you talking about here? Please go inside."

Brothers and sisters, there will be stories to accumulate, and Pace welcomes Lucas all the way into the hall.

I just showed him to the reception room, and there was a lot of cheering. There was an annual festival in Fuberlek territory, and Liquorice was about to miss it, and Petra and other brothers seemed to be doing well, and who of his men said it was the maid who married it? That's what comes up endlessly when it comes to the topic.

Lucas coughed up just now, feeling too excited.

Actually, your husband has business today.

"To Mr. Pais?

"Take your seats off for a moment, please."

"Yes."

If Liquorice is close to Pais and Liquorice and Lucas are close as brothers and sisters, the connection between the Mortairns and the Huberleks is that it is a stone. In terms of being able to confirm that, the conversation also made sense.

And finally, the real deal.

Pace and Lucas. That and the auxiliaries, the only places where I became a practitioner.

"So, what's your business?"

brother-in-law who sits opposite each other and becomes a serious expression.

"Um, actually, I heard rumors recently."

"Is that a rumor?"

"Oh. Rumor has it Lord Pais has defeated the Great Dragon. Rumors are already spreading over the mile."

"That's true, isn't it? Correctly, the Mortairn Bombino coalition will have crusaded during a joint operation with the Baron Lunsbadge family."

First of all, it is a confirmation of rumors. Rumors and rumors are just speculation, no matter how corroborating.

Although it is already a well-known fact in the Mortairn neighborhood, the fact was officially confirmed from the Huberleks to the Mortairns.

Now Payce's defeat of the Dragon is treated as a mutually confirmed fact.

"Ho, right? I didn't know my brother-in-law had so much credit. Really dependable."

"Thank you"

"Rumors have followed. I hear a lot of things."

"Say?

And what happens is exploration in the name of rumors.

The task of weaving the falsehoods and exploring whether the Mortairns have nothing to hide or some bargaining material. As for the Mortairn family, the task is to hide as much information as possible while spotting camouflages and shakes.

"Lord Pais defeated it single-handedly, the dragon's blood has healing power, there are still many dragons in the Devil's Forest, maybe the Mortairns will be knighted, etc."

Part of it is that it really runs as a rumor.

It is a story of healing of dragon blood, or the Pais Single Rider Double Theory, etc., which is probably a highly probable and corroborating story, whether it is true or not.

In contrast, the existence of other dragons and the story of the Duke are only frigid rumors. We're only talking about mixing what looks like it with what looks like a lie to compare the differences in reactions.

"Rumors have tail fins."

"... how far is the tail fin?

"It looks like it has a lot of big fins on it. I won't hide anything from the Fuberleks, but the dragon was the result of the coalition forces, and I never rode alone."

"Hmm."

The story of the Mortairn and Bombino families forming a coalition and fighting has already been corroborated by the Bombino family. Lucas tries to observe Pace's attitude even better, saying that Pace's single-ridden penetration is also causing him to throw up at ease from those who participated in the battle, so that something is likely to happen around him mixing truth with deception.

"Nor have we established that there is a healing power. One of the fairy tales is that life blood has all sorts of healing effects, and it's true that one of them was healing, but I didn't try it."

"Didn't you try? Is that true?"

This is also corroborating, and it is a certainty in Lucas that the dragon's flesh has a healing effect. I know a lot about myself, and I shake it in a way that smells dark.

But Pace doesn't even move shaking with a cheerful face.

"Yep. I actually tried it without having to try it. It is true that the wound has healed, but it is unclear whether it is due to natural healing power or to living blood"

"I see."

Is that it? Lucas was also slightly impressed.

It actually healed, but I guess it's as if I don't know if it's the shadow of a dragon. I suspect you intend to use ambiguity for something about the efficacy of dragon material, which is still often uncertain.

For the most part, I think it is a belly that increases the value of other materials by saying that other parts of the flesh have healing powers.

"I honestly don't want to think about the other dragons. I don't want two or three of those things to be around. I think it's quicker to ask the great folks in the middle of nowhere, because that's what we don't know."

"Hmm, I get it."

From Pace's reaction, I grabbed the information Lucas wanted.

The obvious lies are about the other dragons and the Duke. I guess I mean it that I don't know. After that, how to position the other story. In the form of a stopover to the Mortairn family, do we talk about uncertainty? Do we reveal the backing of the Hvarek family and make it a negotiating material as a matter of certainty? Both will be long and short.

"So, brother-in-law, did you come all the way up here to confirm the rumors?

To my contemplating brother-in-law, Pais asks lightly.

"No way. That can't be right. I'd like to ask Lord Pastry for one thing."

"What is it?"

From what Lucas was doing, Pais assumed that this was why humans, who would also be deliberately borderline uncles, took a leg. I'm already guessing at this point what you're trying to say.

"... I want some of the dragons to give way"

"Hmm."

"Of course I wouldn't call it free. We're going to pay for what's right, and we'll give priority to the Mortairns as we expand our ranch."

If the cards are found out anyway, Lucas presents the priority of the military horse.

As a Mortairn family, it is well worth it, and if you can concede even a small part of the dragon's material, you deserve it as a consideration. Yes, Lucas confidently put him on the negotiating table.

But Pace says it all without changing his attitude at all.

"I appreciate that, but I refuse"

Lucas's complexion changed.