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　I received a call to arms and arrived in the city of Fontana.

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　As I got closer to the city, I could see that the city of Fontana, which I had seen many times before, looked different from usual, probably because there was going to be a war.

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　The city is a fortified city, surrounded by a wall.

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　In the past, there was a special demand for bricks for the construction of a new citadel, which allowed the city to earn money, but now that demand is over, everything is in perfect condition.

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　There are many tents outside the fortress, and many people are going in and out of them.

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　It seems that the soldiers gathered from Fontana's territory are camped outside the city.

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　The soldiers from the Barca Knight's territory are also waiting outside.

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　After all, I still don't have any land of my own in Fontana.

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"Alright, let's get ready for the day!

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"Ars, you go ahead and build the building where the soldiers will rest. We'll take care of the rest.

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"Okay. Thank you, father. I'll go say hello to Carlos and take care of the others.

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I'll leave it to you. Leon, please take good care of Ars.

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　Thus, I quickly built a building at random, shoved the soldiers into it, and went to greet Carlos.

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"From now on, we will go to battle to bring the House of Uruk to justice. They have wrongfully occupied the hill of Einrad, which was originally the Fontana family's territory. Our goal is to take it back."

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　A few days after I arrived in the city of Fontana, more and more soldiers started to gather.

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　When Carlos had gathered most of his men, he gathered the knights under his command in his castle and explained to them the strategy of this battle.

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　Uruk in the east and Fontana in the west have long been at each other's throats.

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　They clash here and there where their territories meet, but there is one place in particular that has been a source of conflict for many years.

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　This is the Einrad Hill mentioned earlier in Carlos' story.

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　Einrad Hill is a disputed land that has been taken and taken many times in the past.

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　It is not so much a mountain as a hill, but a hill is also a place that is difficult to break when it is occupied by an opponent.

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　Both sides seem to have the understanding that whoever controls this hill also controls the other side's territory, and they have been conducting counter-offensive operations immediately after the other side has taken the hill without giving up.

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　However, the victory of the Uruks has continued in recent years.

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　The Fontana family lost a major battle against the Uruk family in the past.

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　At that time, the hill was taken from them and since then they have not been able to regain it.

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　They managed to prevent the hill from being taken but only to cut down the surrounding lands, but this was reaching its limits.

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　Then, a further change in the situation came.

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　It was last year.

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　The incident that occurred was the death of the Fontana family vizier during the Barka uprising in which I was the mastermind.

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　Until then, Raymond, the vizier of the Fontana family, had been in charge of all the affairs of the Fontana territory, with a young boy as the head of the family.

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　The sudden death of the head of the family.

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　The people around him were upset, or rather, it was impossible not to be upset.

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　The political tension around them was so great that it almost popped.

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　However, the Fontana family resolved the political vacuum in a very short period of time.

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　A few days after Raymond, the mainstay of the Fontana family, disappeared, Carlos, the young head of the Fontana family, immediately took over the reins of the family.

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　Moreover, he has taken the man who lost Raymond and tamed him.

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　How did the eyes of the people around him perceive this?

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　Do they see it as an unavoidable decision made by the head of the family, knowing that he is a lion among lions, to incorporate him into his own power as a matter of urgency?

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　Or, was the Barca uprising a show of power restoration under the leadership of Carlos from the very beginning?

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　The Fontana territory was in the midst of a rapid development, and we are now watching the developments.

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　The result may have been the latter in the eyes of those around him.

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　Carlos, who had organized the territory, instructed me to build new roads throughout the territory, and to tighten the ranks of those who had almost left the Fontana family after Raymond's death.

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　It was a brilliant move.

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　The new knights of Barca, who had defeated Raymond and were now peasants with an unknown magic, meekly followed Carlos.

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　Usually those who have shown their power and gained enough territory seek more glory.

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　The Barca knights, who had been mobilized for the purpose of pacifying the Fontana territory, were forced to do hard labor such as road building and returned home without playing an active role on the battlefield, and were judged to be pawns of their master Carlos.

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　To make matters worse, he married the daughter of the Graham family, who was related to the head of the family and had once been Raymond's political enemy.

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　It was interpreted that the Fontana family's turmoil was a series of events designed to bring Carlos to power from the beginning.

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　In reality, however, things did not always work out that way.

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　After all, the House of Uruk was not so naive as to let a hostile nobleman remain unmoved, no matter how quickly the situation was resolved.

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　They had already taken the hill on which they were camped and the surrounding villages.

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　Carlos could not ignore this move, since this area was positioned by both families as a strategic point for transportation to the south.

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　This is the reason why this operation was carried out.

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　The reason for this operation is that Carlos cannot ignore the actions of the two houses.

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"So, the ringleader of the uprising is now being forced to do nothing but build roads again."

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"What the hell, brother Bite? You don't look happy."

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"That's right, Ars. We came all this way to fight and all we do is build roads instead of fighting. I want to fight more. I want to be active and show everyone my power.

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"It's fine to think so, but don't move your troops without permission, okay?　Besides, securing supply routes is an important part of fighting. The work we're doing right now is helping the fight.

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"Where was Ars last year? Where's the Als of last year? You would have been the first one to go charging at the enemy. You should be more motivated.

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"Things are different than they were then. And you'll have your turn sooner or later. Until then, it's good to be on the defensive. Come on, let's get back to work.

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"d*mn, all right. I'll do whatever the leader says.

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　We gathered in the city of Fontana and marched into the hills of Einrad under the command of Carlos.

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　And, as has become the case every time, we, the Barca men, were working on the road maintenance.

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　The hill of Einrad had already been fortified by the Uruks with defensive walls and other defensive positions, making it a bit of a fortress.

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　So instead of attacking the hill directly, we are setting up a position in front of it to recapture the villages that have been taken.

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　After taking back the surrounding lands, we will start to attack the hill again in a perfect state of readiness.

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　We were ahead of the others in building up the positions and supply routes to get there.

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　I was watching the work on the tower that we had erected in the camp, listening to my brother's complaints and encouraging him to work on it.

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　I think it would be easier for me to be in charge of this kind of work without having to fight, but he still wants to fight.

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　He is so motivated that I wonder if he would not have been able to fit into the society if he had been born in a peaceful time, though I am not that belligerent.

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"Hmm?　What's that place ....... Something doesn't feel right about it. ......"

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What's going on, Ars?

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"Hey, Bite, look over there. Doesn't it look a little strange to you?

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"Wait a minute, let me borrow your binoculars. ...... where is it?　I don't really see anything that bothers me."

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Am I imagining things?

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　I was able to successfully turn away the complaining part-timer.

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　That's when it happened.

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　I felt something strange out of the corner of my eye.

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　I was looking at the distant view from the top of the tower, and something was bothering me.

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　However, neither my brother nor I could figure out the cause of this strange feeling, even though we checked our surroundings with binoculars.

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"I see.......... It's magic. The magic is concentrated in the forest there. That doesn't make sense.

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　But when I looked through the binoculars to get a better look, I concentrated the magic in my eyes.

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　The cause of the discomfort was clearly visible in my vision.

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　It was the haze of magic coming from the forest.

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　The amount of the mist was a problem, but the location was also a problem.

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　The location of the rising magic power kept shifting.

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"Brother Byte, we're under attack! Enemies are coming from the forest. Let's hurry up and intercept them!

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"Hey, wait a minute, Ars. You can't leave so suddenly. We're not ready yet.

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"Hurry up, brother Bite. They're getting closer and closer. At the speed they're moving, they could be riding a handheld beast. A lot of them are trying to surprise us.

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　I thought we could just take it easy and build a position, but it seems I was wrong.

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　I sensed the enemy's magic from the top of the tower and immediately ran down the tower to intercept the enemy, leaving my brother Byte behind as I mounted my Valkyrie and began to run.

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