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"Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know you had a stash of this stuff, Ars."
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"......, looks like you made it. Everyone can use magic except for my part-time brother, right?"
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"Yes, I can use it too, that I can. But there are so many magic things.
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I had been concentrating on the magic circle, but my tension was broken by my brother's words.
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As I had expected, using this magic circle was nerve-wracking.
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But it was worth it.
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All five of the people I had named had mastered my own original magic.
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"Okay, I'll use this as a bargaining chip to gather forces from the village. I will give the name and magic of Barca to those who cooperate with me now as well. Can you all please split up and go talk to them?"
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"Okay. I'll be there as soon as I can."
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"And the old man needs to go separately. I want you to go to the city as soon as possible and gather information, okay?
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"Yes, sir. In the meantime, I'll see how many people the Fontanas can get together."
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You got it. Be careful.
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That's my line. Don't die, Ars.
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The old peddler says, quickly extending his hand.
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I said, "Of course," as I squeezed his hand back.
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But don't die. .......
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I never dreamed that I would spend my life being told such a thing.
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I couldn't help but think that I was in trouble.
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I was so sorry.
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"Seventy-eight people. That's quite a turnout."
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We ran around the village that day and gathered a good number of people.
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Everyone split up and scattered throughout the village, demonstrating their magic to persuade the others.
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We spread a slightly fictionalized story of how the nobles had tried to force their way in, and how they had tried to hurt Kyle, an innocent man of the village.
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He then declares that we will rise up and rebel against the nobility.
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Naturally, this is not enough to get the villagers' attention.
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They would not want to be friends with someone who would do such a thing.
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But then we show them our magic.
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Now they can use this magic if they cooperate with us, and we are willing to offer them a new land if they want.
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In this way, I presented the practical benefits as well as the emotional ones.
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However, it is very likely that they would not have been able to gather that many people.
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It is not an easy task to resist against the powers that be, no matter how pragmatic they may be.
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But we were able to break through that problem.
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It had something to do with the village we had.
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I had cleared the forest and made it my land.
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When I couldn't handle the work there, I hired a part-time brother.
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He was a very prominent figure in the village.
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No one could stand up to him by force of arms, as he was constantly fighting and growing.
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He also assigned the work I gave him to the poor children, for which he gave them food and other in-kind rewards.
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In other words, I was very good with the young and the poor in the village.
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He brought in quite a few people.
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Mr. Madoc also talked to the lumberjacks and gathered a number of people.
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This is a group of people who have been greatly affected by the forest management I have done, as Mr. Madoc said.
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It seems that they prefer their current life to the life they used to lead, which is just cutting trees in the forest where dangerous animals sometimes appear.
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I think it is thanks to Mr. Madoc who once let me know about the frustrations the lumberjacks have with me.
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Through Mr. Madoc, the strong men in the village who wielded axes on a regular basis came to me.
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But in the end it was my brother Hector who had the biggest impact on the village.
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Hector is the older brother of my brother Bite and I, and from my father's point of view, he was the first child born.
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And he got married just a few days ago.
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Actually, he was only 14 years old when he got married.
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This is a little early marriage compared to other men in this world.
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Why did he get married so early?
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It was because his marriage partner pushed him into it.
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The family he married was the daughter of the chief of the village of Barca where we live.
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A chief who had been coveting my land for a long time.
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He had set his sights not on the young me, but on my brother.
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By marrying my brother Hector, who would eventually become the patriarch of my family, he could legally gain the right to interfere with my land.
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That's what he thought.
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But I must say that was premature.
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The village head never thought that his daughter would get into trouble with the other family right after she got married.
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Well, that's understandable.
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I myself never had such an idea.
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But what was an unfortunate incident for the village head, turned out to be a very good marriage for me.
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I threatened the village chief that you too would be killed for the same crime, and asked him to cooperate with the villagers.
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As a result, we succeeded in mobilizing a good number of people from families that had little connection with ours.
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In the first place, in the size of Barka village, the usual mobilization force is about 50 people.
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This is because not all the men go out every time there is a war.
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Even though there were some children who had not yet reached adulthood, more people gathered than expected.
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To tell the truth, there is no one in this village who is not related to the participants of the rebellion.
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Thus, the village of Barca was quickly transformed into a land of rebellion against the nobility.
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