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It's a game. Give up, Vargas.

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"d*mn ......, what the hell was that ......?"

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　Vargas was blown to the ground, but he did not seem to lose consciousness.

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　When I called out to him, he mumbled in confusion, as if something incomprehensible had happened.

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　My attack on Vargas was the same as before, a long-range magic attack.

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　But it was not a shotgun attack.

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　Of course, it would have been fine if it had been settled with "scatter".

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　But Vargas was unexpectedly strong, so I used the attack method itself as a decoy to attack.

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　Vargas knew the aim of my attack from the angle of my palm, and he knew the timing of my attack by hearing the sound of my incantation.

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　I merely used it against him.

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　By persistently firing "scatter" shots that were repeatedly evaded, Vargas finally made a desperate move to hit me with his own attack even if he was hit by the attack.

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　But this was something I had led him into.

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　I didn't expect him to come close to me without any damage, but it was meant to prevent him from detecting my aim and taking evasive action.

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　And then, I would launch a counter to the attack.

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　Even though Vargas is a strong man who has fought on many battlefields, if he is caught off guard, damage is sure to occur.

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　When he himself exposed himself to the magic attack, he attacked with a magic attack without using spells.

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　The magic attack was fired with the word "scatter", which had been repeated many times before.

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　Vargas must have subconsciously imprinted that a magic attack would be launched when he heard the incantation.

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　If it had been something else, it would have been fine.

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　But I can still fire magic even if I am not under a spell.

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　I imagined in my mind a rock bigger and harder than the one I could send off with a projectile, and I fired it silently.

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　Vargas would not have been able to detect the attack until it hit him.

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　Thus, my counter attack was successful.

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　But still, I must say that Vargas was amazing.

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　I should have taken him completely by surprise, but I was able to reduce the damage by protecting myself with my great sword.

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　But it also snapped my beloved greatsword.

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"All right. I've lost. I surrender. But please... I beg you not to harm the people of this village.

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　After my victory over Vargas, the people of the village of Barca are rejoicing with shouts of joy.

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　I wonder if they are happy that a person from their own village defeated a hero from a neighboring village, whom they saw and heard on the battlefield.

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　However, there was a feeling that their happiness was getting too heated up.

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　Group mentality may be dangerous in such a situation.

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　Even normally good and gentle people may be carried away by the enthusiastic atmosphere and act in ways that would normally be unthinkable.

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　Especially now that they have each other's weapons in their hands.

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　Vargas may be afraid that his defeat will trigger the overthrow of his village.

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　Maybe that's why he said he's surrendering to me instead of giving up.

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　That's fine.

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　We are prepared to go to war with the nobles who rule the land.

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　But it is not as if we have enough men.

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　In fact, they may be too few despite the fact that we have gathered men from all over the village.

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　We originally came to this village to increase our strength.

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　Men like Vargas are what we need.

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I understand. Vargas, if you fight with us I promise you that no harm will come to the village.

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"Understood. I promise to fight with you, Ars.

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Thank you, I look forward to working with you.

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　Thus, I had achieved my original goal of building up my forces.

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　Just as planned!

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"Wow. I never thought I'd see the day I could use magic."

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　After adding Vargas to my group, I immediately gave him the surname Barca to enable him to use magic.

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　It may seem strange to give Vargas the surname of Barca, since he was from the next village, but I had given the surname to Gran, the old peddler, and other people who had nothing to do with the village.

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　There is no need to be particular about the people in the village.

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　Rather, I think that they would have a sense of unity and be able to fight well if they share the same Barca surname.

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　I don't know how it works in practice, but this is the reason why I gave her the surname of Barka and let her learn the magic.

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　The contingency of fighting Vargas.

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　As it turned out, the story turned out rather well.

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　The main reason for this was that I was able to show everyone that I could actually fight.

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　It's no wonder, if you think about it.

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　I am a child, not yet an adult.

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　No matter how much I cooperate with you to help you use magic, it is not easy to trust or believe in me personally.

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　I suspect that many of them were thinking that if push came to shove, they would leave me behind and run home.

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　But now that they have seen me fight, they seem to be changing their minds.

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　It was as if our positions had been reversed, as if I had won over Vargas, who had a track record of running the battlefield with overwhelming strength, as if I had twisted the hand of a baby.

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　Maybe he really is strong.

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　Maybe he could fight against the nobles and win.

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　It was not strange to think so.

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　And this "maybe" was a big "maybe".

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　If there is even a glimmer of hope, people can do their best to pursue it.

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　There was an atmosphere of "let's do it" in the group.

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"So, where is the general headed now?

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"What's this about a general?"

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"What do you mean, Ars? He's the boss in this group, so he should be the general.

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"Hmm, well, that's okay. We're on the river. That's where we're going to set up camp.

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　Vargas came up beside me and started talking to me.

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　He seemed like an interesting person to talk to.

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　He seemed to be friendly and well-liked by everyone.

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　When Vargas surrendered to me and we decided to fight together, many young men from the neighboring villages joined us.

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　Apparently, the trouble they had once gone through in order to protect their friends was the reason they had left their village.

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　To answer Vargas' question.

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　We have absorbed the forces of the neighboring village and have started moving away from that village as well.

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　It was a river on the way to the town of Fontana, south of the village of Barca.

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　I decided to take up a position there and attack the Fontanas.

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