The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

Lord Bardo.

The border is very rich.

Above all, it's the richness of the trees.

I was completely overwhelmed.

In the woods there are birds and animals, and there are nuts and fruits and water.

The forest is full of grace for people to live by.

The rumor that Nakahara was once full of greenery is incredible to me.

I see. There would have been more than now.

But if there was once so much forest, the trees would have to be resurrected in the course of a long time, even if the Middle Plains had been destroyed in the battle between the gods and the gods.

After all, Nakahara is a thin place of forest grace.

Huh?

Ha, ha.

That's true.

Iron, copper, gold, silver, and other mineral resources are more common in the Middle Plains than on the border.

And stones.

No, I'm just wondering if there aren't a lot of metals on the perimeter, it's just hard to find them.

Together, there are several lush places in such a middle field.

Whatever its biggest would be the Mount Mordos system.

When you were here, around the time you left Saion country, didn't you see the Mount Mordos system?

Huh?

Ha.

Exactly.

The path leading up to the Mount Mordos system is covered with a pretty rocky mountain.

Beyond that rocky mountain, though, I wonder if the green mountains could have been distant, too.

That streak of mountains stretches far west.

No one knows exactly how big it is, but in general imagination, yes.

I wonder if it's big enough to get from Rhode Van Castle all the way to the capital of Gainelia.

Ha, ha, ha.

Can't you believe the story is too big?

But it's huge enough to really seem like it, and it's abundant.

It was the Principality of Zarban who enjoyed its richness.

Lord Bardo, of course, knows The Werewolf King.

I'm sure you also know that the open kingdom of the Werewolf King is the Principality of Zarban.

Huh?

I've heard the name of Zarban, but I didn't think the kingdom of the Werewolf King existed, did I?

Ha.

I see, I see.

Is that how you passed it on to the border?

Of course it's a real country.

If the werewolf king asks if the person is real, I will have trouble answering.

An unnamed demon who looked like a giant snake.

It is said that the giant was enough to surround the Mount Mordos system.

And when the anger of the demon god had destroyed them, they prayed to the star god, and slashed and tore the darkness of the night, and a giant wolf appeared.

The Divine Wolf continued to fight the demon gods for three years, and he finally dropped them.

The Divine Wolf turned into the figure of man, and took the wife of man, and made a kingdom in the land.

This is the origin of the founding of the Principality of Zarban.

In the face of the first generation, the Werewolf King, generations of monarchs honored the Grand Duke without naming him king.

The monarch of Zarban has long been full of mercy and pride.

We continued to share that richness with other countries free of charge.

Wait a minute.

Lord Bardo.

You said you thought it was a legend about the kingdom of the werewolf king.

So you didn't even know that green flame stones (Lee Pergogue) can only be picked in the Mount Mordos system?

Yes, it is.

That precious stone can only be picked in the Mount Mordos system, which was possessed by the Principality of Zarban.

The Green Flame Tree (Lee Peroge) was once a strange tree.

The tree itself is neither burnable nor manageable.

It would rather be less burning, etc.

Cut with a blade onto the trunk of a tree, you will get some soggy sap, but this is not easy to burn either.

This sap is brown when freshly removed, but turns translucent green when dried.

This is the green flame stone.

Of course you know green flame stones.

If it hits a seed fire for a while, it will ignite and will continue to emit heat for an amazing long time.

No other fuel can be better than this to keep warm or boil water.

There were many monarchs who wanted to grow green flame trees in their country more than they used to.

But I can't do anything about it.

For some reason, the green flame tree only grows in the Moldos mountain system.

Oh, sure.

Black Stone (Nerigogue) is a great fuel.

The ignition temperature is very high, and I wouldn't make steel or anything without that.

Right, right.

You couldn't pick black stones on the border, could you?

This milk capital also has four black stone mining mountains nearby, and over a hundred mining sites throughout the country.

But the black stone.

You dig holes and dig them out.

The deeper we pick it, the deeper we have to dig the hole and dig it out.

This is hard, and it takes a lot of work to transport.

There is a limit to how much you can use.

It's completely impossible to cover all of the fuel with black stone.

If it's as lush as the border, there's nothing wrong with it.

Because you can cover all the fuel with trees and grass.

In Nakahara, that's not how it works.

Speaking of this country, apart from the very south, there are too few trees for the number of people in this northern part of the capital.

If there were a vast forest area like the Goriola Empire, it would be a different story.

To solve this fuel shortage, the countries of Nakahara have long imported green flame stones from the Principality of Zarban.

No.

I didn't buy it.

I just got it.

The monarchs of Zarban have allowed kings of all nations to determine their respective ranges and freely collect green flame stones.

Can you believe it?

This kingdom of Parzam was given seven mountains.

The bureau was placed and a huge number of carriages each day brought out the green flame stone.

It's hard to transport, but it's not easy to collect, so I don't have to worry about losing it, whether I pick it or not.

The kings of the nations managed it exclusively and sold it to the cities and villages.

Green flame trees can of course be used as wood, but logging other than old or dead trees was strictly forbidden.

In a way, I don't think that's a mistake to say that the stability of the royal power in the Middle Plains was supported by the Principality of Zarban.

What do you mean, while you benefit so much?

A country is a human being, a greedy one.

Not only was it unsatisfactory to be given, but, hoping for even more, the countries grabbed it by the throat of Zarban.

2.

That was four thousand two hundred and fifty-first years.

Now, 21 years ago?

To the Central Plains, suddenly, in the name of the King and the Great General of the Sinkai Nation, the text flew.

The Grand Duke of Zarban is an evil monarch who mixes blood with the scurvy subhuman.

Destroy the country and do justice.

My country's royal palace was baffled at the time.

The Principality of Zarban can also be called the oldest country in the Middle Plains, so it has different legends.

The King of the Founding Fathers was actually a subordinate who resembled a wolf, and the story was famous that his subordinate clan still lived in the Mount Mordos system.

Sometimes the Grand Duke had the feeling of putting in subhuman blood so that its blood wouldn't fade.

It is indeed a terribly disingenuous (dull) and nasty thing to do, such as having a child with a person and a sub-person.

However, it is unnatural to attack Zarban again on the grounds of such rumors.

In the first place, it was famous that the knights of Zarban were powerful, as well as a heavenly protected country.

It's easy to protect if you block some of the mountain roads.

The road is narrow and the great army cannot pass.

It wasn't the kind of country you could take away by force.

However, it is also true that I felt a little anxiety about that sentence.

Because alongside King Sinkai, there was the signature of General Appetite.

No.

It's not a mistake to hear.

I'm General Appetite (Grigor Entra).

My real name is Lugurgoa Geskas.

I also hear rumors that you weren't originally a Sinkai person.

Sinkai is a completely mysterious country.

I will not accept any envoys from other countries.

If people from other countries enter the country, they will kill them.

Resource-beneficent cities are densely populated to create a country, and national power seems unimaginably high.

Little is passed on about this country, the name of the king, or even when he was replaced.

You're the only country in the Middle Plains that doesn't receive priests from the Temple of Mercano for a crowning ceremony.

In the meantime, only the name of the General of Appetite lingered in Nakahara.

I wonder if you know King Kerdebaj.

Not anymore now. I'm the king of a country called Yanga.

About eighty years ago now, King Kerdebaj got a great spear.

The knights were invited to a feast to brag about it.

They invited not only the knights of their country, but also prominent knights of the neighborhood.

You actually let that spear wave at the feast.

It was the SS knight who used the spear, but he said it was what a glimmer of power it was.

Some time after the feast, the use came from General Luglugoa.

They want you to give up that spear for what it's worth.

To be told by generals from other countries to hand over the king's treasure, etc. is like being treated as a nation.

This is a country that had no national traffic at all.

You couldn't have accepted it even for the king's decency.

Then two months later, General Luglugoa sent me to lead two hundred knights.

They bypassed the Mount Mordos system to a large extent and arrived with grand lodging and replenishment in the city along the way.

Knowing that as many as two hundred knights had pushed over, King Kerdebaj firmly closed the gate.

In front of the gate, the General of Appetite offered me a jewellery box and a cup of jewellery, so I would like to lend you a spear and a knight for a year only.

If only spears and knights are taken and gems are not obtained, King Kerdebaj's name will fall to the earth.

Once you loaned out your spear, that would never come back.

In the first place, responding properly to such a rude offer is in itself a matter of involving the authority of the King.

King Kerdebaj shouted himself (because he wanted to) that he would receive it with an axe (two) instead of a jade stone.

No matter how steep things are, there are knights and soldiers in the castle, arrowballs and food.

In a day or two, the nearby knights will also rush.

The General of Appetite will only die if he doesn't give up and flee immediately.

King Kerdebaj had no anxiety whatsoever.

The General of Appetite told me to show you the knight's face that he had used every spear.

The SS knight, who was beside King Kerdebaj, named me,

Then General Appetite ordered his men not to kill him, or to shake the sword and smash the castle gate.

No, no.

It's the best thing you can do.

There's no way you can actually do that.

It just seemed that way, I guess.

Or someone is deliberately telling a lie.

Most importantly, when I talked to Lord Zaifert about this, he said that if the door in the shape of a round thickness was rusty or rotten with fastening hardware or leather strings, if it was successfully slashed, it might be possible to split.

Anyway, General Appetite and his men broke into the castle.

The knights and soldiers of the castle were occasionally defeated again, the spears were taken, and the knights of the users were captured.

The treasure of the castle was also stolen in vain.

The General of Appetite said that when he grabbed King Kerdebaj's head and lifted it, he would leave the treasure ball as promised but not return the spear, threw his neck and hit it with a treasure chest, returning home.

This is where it's strange again.

I dropped the royal castle.

Sell this and you will gain enormous wealth.

Do you also kill kings and knights?

Let it live and you'll still get a hundred million ransoms.

Isn't resentment and dishonor the only thing left in this way?

Besides, I didn't expect to pay for the spear to the king who killed him.

We ended up being attacked by the countries around us after this, and the country of Yanga was doomed.

The survival of the royal castle told this story.

General Appetite also worked atrocities in cities and villages where he went and returned.

I also suddenly forced myself to take care of the accommodation by boarding into the local lord's hall.

They forced it to be their own if they had any weapons or conditioning they liked.

Beautiful women don't have eyes, all they want is goods.

They showed great interest in good liquor and food, though.

They leave a lot of money behind and walk away.

There are a number of these stories.

Rumor has it that General Appetite is a knight in his own country, even if it belongs to another knight or to a king, who must always get what he wanted.

On the other hand, I heard rumors that I would not spare any money and that it would be generous to accomplish the merits of my men.

Somehow, I started calling this strange knight thing a General of Appetite.

The name of the General of Appetite was in the text calling for an attack on the Principality of Zarban.

Something happens.

I couldn't help but feel that anxiety.