The Economics of Prophecy

"Do you mind, Lisa Belt? You were used by that man."

Mathier turned his pity eyes. Lisaberto was suddenly puzzled by the words he was bumped into.

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Lisaberto was called to Mayteel when he was rushing around to rebuild from the damage of the dragon Baguild. Lisaberto was bewildered by the sudden call to the battlefield.

As a straight line distance, her hometown is closest to Kurtheit in the empire. But the Imperial Army was passing down the Great River and busy restoring her own territory to the extent that she knew the great victory in the East and the struggle in the West.

Even when it comes to struggles in the West, the Empire says it is currently occupying Kasel and Kurtheit and pinching the King's capital. It was a rumor among the people that the surrender of the kingdom was near.

On a transport ship loaded with many munitions with the horse dragon knight who was a companion, she crossed the great river where the flying dragon danced. When I passed through two imperially occupied towns, I was just a little relieved by how order was maintained at first, frightened by the imperial soldiers.

When we got to Kurtheit, the knight we came with was called first. Lisaberto unveiled his traveling costume in a appreciated room.

"Sudden call, and carrying the princess with the load, etc. His Royal Highness Mathilde is rude, even though he is a winning actor."

Ann, who was allowed to accompany her, is outraged.

"I heard you dropped Kurtheit with little sacrifice, but you were right"

Lisaberto told me to deceive the samurai. The horse dragon knight who came with me did not speak a word, but was anxious about the sad look on his face.

But Kurtheit's imperial morale is high, and far greater numbers of residents than the imperial soldiers follow the apparent empire. It must have been such an overwhelming victory because I had not heard of massacres and other means being obstructed. I remember the people of my hometown who just endured that they couldn't beat the dragon.

The story also said that an Enchantment Furnace was installed in a nearby mountain, and that the attitude of Enchantment Crystal's magic replenishment was in place.

"Sure, the Empire's food seems cheap just on the plots until we get here. Just..."

Ann clouded the words.

"Right. If the kingdom's abundant food comes straight into the empire,"

Imperial food prices will crash. Even though it's a long way from starving, what happens to poor hometowns? I don't have any problems with her.

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"What does" used "mean?

Lisaberto asked Mayteel. Neither of us has got our hands on the tea prepared like I'm sorry.

"So it's that pollen."

"Pollen......? Wasn't the pollen effect real? Thanks to......"

Lisaberto's voice pointed a little. I guess the man Mathilde refers to is Ricardo Vinder. In her perception he is the benefactor of her hometown, a form in which she revenged the favor with a vendetta. Even though I do not intend to disagree with the policy of the state as a member of the imperial family, she still does not want the conflict between the empire and the kingdom.

"Ha. Fine, I'll explain it right to you. First of all, the tragic defeat of Dagobad."

"Miserable defeat...... is it?

Riesaberto was surprised by the state of war in the western part of the kingdom, which he told Maythir. Dagobad's legions lost two-thirds of their horse dragons and riders, and even Dagobad, the commander himself, was a complete defeat to be taken prisoner.

He said it was a report of a man accompanied by a knight, Lisaberto, who had escaped thanks to a horse dragon hurting his leg in a pit in the gate and sheltering himself outside the fort.

"Half of the Empire's horse dragons will be a lost reckoning. It will take more than five years to rebuild this damage. Even more problematic is how to defeat. I'm pretty sure Dagobad was careless, but that was even the result of information manipulation by the kingdom. And..."

Mayteer looked at Lisaberto.

"That's why you were used as a tool."

The horse dragon was defeated with that pollen, he said. The Royal Army said the horse dragon, which inhaled it, used pollen as a smoke by acting as an acid, fell easily.

"... I've only heard that pollen works on dragons, and I'm only talking about it right"

You can't be treated like a traitor. Lisaberto said.

"I don't doubt you. 'Cause that's not what you can do. It wasn't even possible for me at that point. Anyway, the kingdom didn't teach you the best way to use that pollen, that is, to gas it and use it"

"Well, isn't that something that, to some extent, we have no choice"

"Yes, it is. Something that doesn't need to give the best information to an empire that is a virtual enemy nation. But if you're going to say that, handing over pollen in the first place is a strange story in itself. Even you didn't believe it completely."

"It is...... Isn't that why His Royal Highness Dagobad and His Highness Maitir were actually tested? And the effect was as he said. Didn't the kingdom want relations with the empire broken?"

"I guess so. For the kingdom, the land of the empire cannot be managed even if it is gained. But that has nothing to do with the kingdom alerting the empire. How do you explain this?"

Mayteer, before Lisa Belt, put out a piece of paper. Lisaberto snapped his neck.

"The activity record of the last seventy years of the Devil's Vessel near the Imperial City, supposedly a number. I hear it was presented at the kingdom meeting. The kingdom expected the empire to have room to attack the kingdom. You don't know how I felt when I saw this."

They don't even have data from over forty years ago that could be called the culmination of the Empire's magic guide, Maitille. Lisaberto recalls meeting Ricardo in front of Fulsey's room that he measured this. Besides, Alfina said, the prophecy of a sudden warcraft flood in the western part of the kingdom, the only one who believed it was Ricardo.

"I'm going back to the pollen story. How much knowledge do you think the kingdom needs to devise this plot? That the Empire is using horse dragons, that horse dragons belong to the same group of organisms as dragons. Most importantly, I need a deep knowledge of how pollen works. It was even very recently that I learned that the action of that poison was the respiratory tract in the autopsy results of the dragon Baguild. It's not just Dagobird. I was rolled over the palm of a human being thinking about it."

Lord Ricardo dared to give me the pollen.

"Perhaps he predicted that we would try pollen and come to that conclusion. I might have prayed that we had the knowledge of the Warcraft to the extent that we were supposed to."

Mathier's face distorted in self-derision. There was a sweat on Lisa Belt's forehead. Mathier's explanation brilliantly explains the defeat of the Legion of Horse Dragons, which only seemed questionable and invincible, which she also felt.

"So, but no matter how much..."

Then is it not a monster of knowledge? Not at all realistic. I didn't even know the anger I was exploited.

Leezaberto even thought Alfina's words were overrated with her "certain emotions”. First, he didn't have the qualities of a magic guide. Absolutely.

"Until then, I took it for granted that the kingdom would be destroyed by the Empire. The kingdom was asleep when the empire was accumulating dying advances to counter the activities of the fierce Warcraft year after year. But when I looked at these data, I changed my mind."

"Is that...?

"How is it that the empire has not been destroyed by the kingdom?

"Huh!"

Lisaberto was stunned. Mathier smiled. And for the first time, I put my mouth on the tea, not even worrying that it was cold.

"I'm joking about boulders. But I'm sure I can't explain it. of these knowledge too advanced and the actions of the whole kingdom. The Grand Duke of the East believed we were suffering the damage of the Warcraft. How could you? I doubt how incompetent you would be if you knew that data. Even in the West, Dagobad's army of horse dragons approached Bertoldo without bitterness. You know what that means?

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"My hypothesis was that these knowledge were shared only by a very small number of people. So I want to ask you something."

Lisaberto was stuck with a sharp gaze.

"About the man you said earlier. You've talked to the Vinder Chamber of Commerce about it, haven't you? Like Ricardo."

"Yes..."

"Including horse dragons and castle bugs, it is the Chamber of Commerce that is so involved that it can always be said in combating warcraft in the kingdom. We know that the trail isn't just for the witch princess, but also for talking to Craig."

"But he's a merchant. I should have made sure that not only I, but also Uncle Viral, didn't have magic. Plus, if you've done so much..."

One of the merchants reminded me of the discomfort I felt with that pollen differential, and Lisaberto's words gradually lost power.

"It's possible, of course, that the Chamber of Commerce named Vinder is just a cover-up. I can't imagine a hidden person."

"There are magicians in the kingdom who gather respect as great sages..."

"Yeah, and some young alchemists are called geniuses. But it's crazy..."

Mayteel put two metals on the table. One was just a cylinder of iron and the other was extremely complex to make.

"So far, no. It is this cylinder that is still used in the majority of carriages in the kingdom. That's what happened all of a sudden. Viral reported that the kingdom's transport capacity would rise by a factor of 23%, which was extremely worrisome. You're right about that. But the difference between the two isn't that raw."

Maitille spread her hands wide as she had a complex circular mechanism of barrels on her right hand and left hand.

"The technological gap in the meantime was filled with innovative applications of alchemy. But what happens to the gap between the theories, concepts that are in between?

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In front of Lisa Belt, who could not utter a word, Mathier sank into her thoughts like she was possessed by something.

"No, rather all the pieces may have fitted. Yes, the kingdom's chigusa. If you think that a central figure who thinks about a series of things doesn't have the qualities or social power of a magic guide, it all connects. Suppose only concepts were offered. That shouldn't be possible. I just feel like it's possible."

Mathier is staring at the sky and crushing like a solo.

"Whatever it is, there is definitely that Vinder Chamber of Commerce guy involved. About the man, about the man's surroundings. I want you to tell me everything you know."

Mayteer glanced back at Lisaberto.

"Well, what do you do with that person?

"Of course I get it. The man showed it to me by dealing with all the catastrophes that struck the kingdom. It can't be that I just happen to come up with knowledge of them. Hey, how many concepts the hell are stuck in that head? its brains, may be more valuable than the kingdom itself"

Mathier smiled. The look was like a girl of her age.