The Branded Female Fencer
In the kingdom of the beast man, Part 5 - The kingdom of the beast man
That's what happened. Nia and Kazas don't know anything about Amur interacting with Rhine, but Kazas was supposed to keep up with Nia. It was only in the beginning that Nia disagreed with Kazas' behavior, which also seemed untouchable, but Kazas has already cleaned up his own classroom at the university and even put out a further suspension request at the end. Kazas wanderings are not what started now, and since Kazas usually publishes excellent research results after such wanderings, the University of Triade was also accepting leave requests without showing so much difficulty.
Speaking of, Nia remembered an emotion that was neither disturbing nor disturbing in Kazas' sudden behavior, and she ended up welcoming him in with a reluctant look but a heartfelt shout of pleasure. Needless to say, of course, Nia's tail was moving left and right at high speeds.
And Amur, who gathered some information, accompanied Nia and Kazas, and turned his foot toward the king's capital of Gruzard. No matter how the kingdom of the beast man, it is relatively easy to get into the territory of Groussard. Unlike old times, some lands differ so much between the beast man and the human sphere of life. It is the middle plains that Krums manages exactly, but in the western countries the border between the beast man and man is also very vague, and skirmishes between towns over the land are still not uncommon. Some land borders were not clearly hitched, and others were such that beasts and humans lived relatively amicably.
When Amur and the others appropriately let some officials grab the money on such an obscure border, they entered the Groussard territory with dignity, even without scrutiny at all. It is precisely the border between Gruzard and its neighboring small countries, but it was no longer the same for Amur to have returned to Gruzard.
Is the gatekeeper on Gruzard's side used to Amur's traffic, or when Amur took the hood, he just saluted silently and dropped him off. Only that "do it" look proved that Amur and his gatekeepers saw neighboring small countries as easy opponents. Because, in fact, the neighboring small countries were more manipulative as they wished than they were to take them down, and as just the right buffer with other countries, they were the strategically left countries of Gruzaldo.
One line walks through the land of Gruzaldo. It was still far from the capital of Groszard, Grand Valley, but they were no longer in a hurry to travel. First of all, on the move, Kazas could not follow Nia or Amur without a horse, but Kazas' handling of horses in Groussard territory was very conspicuous. Riding a horse in the territory of an Orc is tantamount to informing the surrounding area that you are either extra stately or human. For this reason, the movement was tailored to the speed at which Kazas walked on his own.
But then there's a bad habit in Kazas. When he enters a rare land, his first, he can't help but make a map. This time again, Kazas began making maps with great excitement, as it was an impossible land for humans from almost the east of the continent, northwest of Gruzald. Seriously Nia watched over Kazas like that, but unexpectedly Amur kept an eye on Kazas.
"Nia, that's funny. That kid."
"I won't deny it. Because you can keep people waiting so dignified. I think he's a big guy."
"There's that too... I don't know, that kid. You don't discriminate against them."
"That's... maybe it is"
Indeed, what Amur said was best. There was no example of humans and beasts becoming lovers to each other, but it was very rare. The beast man is hairy and looks reasonably human, except that his appearance resembles that of some organism, but nevertheless the tide of discrimination as "xenophobic fornication" and so forth was everywhere. It is the same not only in the human world, but also in the world of the beast man.
But Kazas doesn't care about that. And Amur and I quickly broke the facts. Amur seemed to be dealing with Kazas with sheer interest at first, but when he found out that Kazas' views were out of line, he gradually began to see Kazas as a reciprocal counselor.
Kazakh knowledge goes beyond geography alone and is very diverse in politics, economics, language, history, arithmetic, and others. That's why he was the youngest professor at the University of Triade, but Amur really understood the story of Kazas, which many of his students could not understand. And Amur was starting to show more than he was interested in about Kazas.
"... do you want to go with Dryan"
"What? Did you say something?
No, I'm talking to myself.
Amur decided to keep the idea with Nia.
And they reached the Grand Valley, also using the Midway Flying Dragon and others. Because Kazas became so enthusiastic about making maps that he realized that he could not find any more.
When they got to Grand Valley, it was a stunning world for Kazas.
"This is the Grand Valley... I heard rumors that cities like this really exist. I can't hide my gratitude and surprise."
"You have a calm voice for that. This is our capital. As the name suggests, it's a city built in the valley."
Their arrival was in a great rift that could have been made to the ground. Numerous holes were dug in the cliffs and stairs were also fitted. Inside, there are entrances that travel by rope alone, and entrances that don't even have stairs or a place to get caught and don't know how to get there.
And there were three valleys in all, but the valleys were partly connected, and their connecting parts were mainly cities, and the valleys themselves seemed to be inhabited areas or other living spaces. The valley was deep, and its depth was about 200 dozens of meters, and it was also hundreds of meters wide, the largest. The walls of the valley. It seemed that there was some traffic in places where distances would fall, and there were very tall trees growing in such places, and the beasts seemed to use those trees to come and go.
Of course, there are many residential buildings on the ground. Something like military training is taking place on the surface, which also seems to be releasing livestock. The Grand Valley was no longer a big city that Kazas had never seen before.
"I knew it in stories and books, but this is great. What a creative creature to imagine a city like this."
"Well, to tell the truth, I wonder if the life of the hollow barn is creeping into the skeleton. Because I'm talking about the Ancestors of the Beasts originally lived in the mountains and woods. The people who live out there are either the extra weirdos or the ones who have run out of living space and gone flat. These days, the population has grown too much, and securing a living space is the main political issue."
Amur spoke to me as I swirled the Fei Long in the air. And in the process of unloading the flying dragon to the departure site of the flying dragon at the bottom of the valley, Kazas realized there was.
"Geology here... that's special"
"Oh, you know what? You're a scholar."
"Of course it is. The geology here is a special metal called Armadite. Machining can be a very powerful weapon protection, but it should be quite stiff as it is. Did you process these to create a city?
Nia answers somewhat well on behalf of Amur, as Kazas speaks as impressed.
"That's right. We beasts qualify to build our own homes on this shoreline as a sign of our splendid adulthood. The house digs with its own claws and fists. As Kazas knows, this wall is very stiff. And on the edge, the harder it gets down there. So the greater the house, the greater the power of the house at the bottom of the valley."
"Well, as long as it takes, most beastmen can set up quite a few houses. It wouldn't be great if you lived there."
"Is that..."
Kazas replied as impressed, but in its heart the story was not already in his ear. More than that, Kazas saw the city and realized there was one. It was something I had thought about to some extent since I heard about the existence of a city called the Grand Valley, but immediately with my eyes the question turned to certainty. It was probably a tremendous discovery, like when we saw the ruins in the prairie.
Continued