The Branded Female Fencer

Winter is here.

By the time the snowflakes scattered from the sky, Romansland's invasion that it was going south of the Five Roads had stopped as expected, but it was clearly a disgust with the effort of transporting supplies. The front itself succeeded in bringing it into mutual battle by prevailing over Romansland on four roads and by hiring numerous mercenaries in the Northern Consultative Union.

However, for the first time in decades, seven countries, large and small, were placed under Romansland's control, and the national map was to be significantly rewritten. People told us that some of them could be thought of as unknown life and death countries of the royalties and virtually doomed.

Countries, including Arnelia, petitioned Romansland to explain the reasons for the invasion, but only with the answer of explaining it at the next Continental Peace Conference, did they remain unable to obtain a satisfactory answer. Instead, there were some countries whose faces were shamelessly pioneered that they were going to attend the conference while doing all this, but it cannot be denied that some sides of the war were relieved, knowing that the war would not continue without negotiations.

But Arnelia unleashed a large number of intermediaries and knew Romansland's answer was a buy of time. Pretending to stop the invasion, Romansland is building a steady road from his country and preparing for the next invasion. Once the roads have been completed, transport will be easier. You won't have to stop marching the next winter.

Again, assuming Romansland leaves the Northern Consultative Union, the rest will hardly be prevented from invading by snow. The expedition will take a long time if land is secured as a large base. It was clear that stopping Romansland even further would make it difficult.

To what extent did the countries understand that reality, Miriazal had to confirm its intentions as well. For the first time in a long time, Miriazal spent most of his time in the winter by making a visit to the countries as Virgin and confirming to Arnelia the will of the friendly countries.

All in all, it was only a quiet winter on the surface. But it is clear that each nation is holding its breath and hoarding its strength in preparation for the storm to come from the spring. Jaeger is no exception again.

"Ahhh!

"Ooh!"

The hanging voices heard from Jaeger's training ground grew ever more numerous and louder. The total number of mercenaries belonging to Jaeger had swelled to nearly 10,000. Sometimes the reason for this is that Jaeger is not just a mercenary regiment that undertakes combat.

There were good offices to work underneath, training to put jobs in the hands, or some mercenaries to visit with the aim of basic education within Jaeger, etc. The Alliance also introduced Jaeger as a beginner-friendly mercenary regiment. As a result, a new flow of beginners who registered as mercenaries were visiting Jaeger. It is, of course, one of the publicity plotted by Lisa.

Most of them do not become a mercenary, but their reputation from the neighborhood was good, as they can train and do as many requests as occur in the neighborhood. Also, with more new entrants, Jaeger did not know that those who had previously belonged to him would remain active, such as appearing as platoon captains, receiving requests and raising their ratings as mercenaries.

Jaeger's base had a voice at night during the day, and he was seen sweating in the training ground until late at night and encouraging him to study again. Alphilis, Cowen, Ekla and others thought it necessary to set up a new mercenary regiment base, as the land lent in Arnelia would have been narrow if the numbers had increased so far.

Negotiations for this were left to Lisa and Kazas. The village of Fleur, as expected by Alphilis, was a village where the collection of ore was carried out without permission and, at the same time, dealing with contraband. It was surprising that there was such a village on Arnelia's lap, but should it be called darkness beneath the lamp? Whether it was due to the alarm of regular visits by Arnelian priests, or whether the villagers, who were close but thus discerning the nature of Arnelian, were smart, the village of Fleur was totally stealing Arnelian eyes and committing those illegal acts.

There are many ores to deal with that can be processed into precious metals, and they are not for sale, but where it is clever that each house saves and retains them as in kind. These were sold only to the Yatri Chamber of Commerce, and if there were no name for this village on the Yatri Chamber of Commerce's goods distribution route this time, it was possible that it had been missed with Alphilis.

Ore circulation is controlled by the Gem Guild and is therefore a complete violation. The contraband also included herbs and poison grass, and the villagers were good at processing and manufacturing this drug. Although not as good as Experion, there are also types of these drugs that, if ingested incorrectly, can lead to death and are often used as assassinations and stimulants.

Where these are the financial resources of the village of Fleur and where no one could blame them for a long time, Alphilis easily spotted them by turning over Kazas and Lisa. Because Kazas had long suggested the possibility of mines sleeping on the land around here, and a thorough investigation by sensors, including Lisa, revealed the mineral veins.

And Alphilis signed a contract with the village of Fleur. As always, the product may be developed, and I even promised to buy it using the Yatri Chamber of Commerce distribution route that I took over. Instead, they allowed themselves to emigrate. At the same time, he asked them to use the technology to develop drugs that were legal and to cooperate in the processing of precious metals, so that they could pay a certain amount as profits.

Furthermore, Kazas and Alphilis surveyed the castle, which was the stronghold of the Demon King in the mountains behind.

"It's an old castle. But when you look at where it still works, it's quite well built. You got a demon here?

"Numerous examples of demons building buildings have been reported. Ants make ants, don't they? Well, there are many more primitive constructions, but this is also possible if you have a large number of demons that are knowledgeable in their entirety and become hands and feet. But as far as this construction is concerned, didn't Dwarves or humans work together? That's about the kind of people who process stones and build castles."

"Huh. The inhabitants of Fleur Village used it as a factory.

"You're making this up here?

Alphilis smiled back at Kazas' words as if they were frightened.

"No, something better."

And Daron and Victoria played a part in the negotiations with Dwarf. Dwarves prefer alcohol, respect those with strong arms, and live for those who shed blood and sweat with them. In that sense, I feel comfortable with the giant Daron, and some Dwarves once took care of the Great Demon King Tetrapolishka. If that daughter Victoria were to come, that alone had succeeded in gathering a certain amount of respect.

More Aerial drunkenly crushed them at the banquet, where Cowen showed the Dwarves a piece of paper.

Continued