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"Ars, I think my father is dreaming."

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"What's the matter, Dad? It's not time to dream yet. It's broad daylight.

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"No, I can't believe what I'm seeing. Why is it that just a short trip to Barca and back has made me so crazy?"

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"Strange things?"

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"No, what's funny?　Don't look at me like that, Ars. It's funny. The topography of Einrad's Hill has changed in a short time.

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　Apart from Vargas, my father went back to Vulcania and recruited new men.

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　And this was the first thing he said when he came back.

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　Well, you can understand my surprise.

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　After all, the topography has really changed.

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　The hill of Einrad is a little more elevated than the surrounding area, and is now a small hill, if you can call it that.

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　It is said that many people from Fontana and Uruk pass through this area on their way to the south, and for many years the two families fought for control of this land.

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　Thus, until recently, the hill of Einrad was owned and fortified by the House of Uruk.

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　The Einrad Hill is as high as a small mountain.

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　The Fontana army took this hill from the Uruks and Carlos left it to me and went away.

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　He left me in charge of the hill and told me to defend it.

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　So I fortified it.

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　In the battle for the hill of Einrad, I kept the Uruk soldiers from the fortress on top of the hill, and I added to the wall that I had built to keep out the attack from the outside.

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　The steep walls that had been built around the fortified hill were connected in a complete circle around the fortified hill.

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　However, as if that were not enough, I added more work to the hill.

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　However, what we did was the same as usual.

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　We simply built a moat on the outside of the wall.

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　However, since the wall was located at a slightly higher elevation than the hill's perimeter, digging a moat outside the wall and reinforcing its surface with [wall construction] changed the appearance of the wall.

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　On level ground, digging a hole in the ground outside the wall would create an empty moat.

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　However, digging a hill that is higher than the rest of the ground makes it look as if there was no ground outside the wall.

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　In other words, Einrad's hill was not a hill at all, but a large fortress surrounded by a brick wall nearly 30 meters high.

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　From a distance, it could be described as a fort shaped like a cupcake.

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"Maybe we dug a little too much dirt on the hill..."

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"Not a bit at all. Are you sure it's going to be okay?　If it collapses, you're kidding yourself."

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"Maybe I'll be fine. The sides have been reinforced twice with wall construction.

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"I see. ....... But you're really a mess, Ars.

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"It can't be helped. Otherwise, there's no way the army of Barca can defend this place. If you have a problem with that, you tell Carlos. Tell him to stop asking me to do crazy things.

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"You can't say that. I don't care. Let me in.

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"Yeah, I'll come with you then. The entrance is this way. Follow me.

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　My father, whose face seems to have lost all expression, says in resignation.

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　With that, I walked with my father into the Einrad Hill, or Fort Einrad, as it is called.

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　I was so excited to see the beautiful face of my father.

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"This place is surrounded by walls, but is there only one way up?"

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No, there is another entrance on the other side.

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"I see. But the entrance is like a suspension bridge. Do they pull it up at night?"

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"Yes, that's right. In case of emergency, we can close the door completely to allow for a siege. It's made of hardened bricks, so it's very defensible."

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"...... I wonder if the Uruk family will ever attack us again when they see this."

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"I hope so."

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　I lead my father and the new recruits to the entrance of Fort Einrad.

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　The ground outside the 10-meter wall has been dug up to 20 meters, so we have to climb up 20 meters to get inside the fort.

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　So they built the entrance to make up the difference.

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　Large hardened brick slabs, which are raised and lowered manually every morning and night, form a barrier to prevent the enemy from entering the fort and also serve as a ramp to invite people into the fort.

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　To tell the truth, it is quite heavy and difficult to use.

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　But this is not an ordinary place to live, but a fortress to protect an important place.

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　I thought that it would be better to give priority to defensibility rather than inconvenience, and so I made this.

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　To be frank, it is a measure to cope with the problem of digging the ground too much.

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　The outer wall of Fort Einrad is not made of hardened bricks but of ordinary bricks.

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　As usual, the walls were built with [wall construction] and modified to make them interceptable.

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　However, there is a slight difference from Vulcania.

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　The inside of the wall is further uphill, and there are a number of dangerous weapons placed in the middle of the hill.

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　They are stone throwers that I have recreated from memory.

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　The projectile launchers are accompanied by soldiers who have newly volunteered to join the Balkan army.

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　Even now, there are piles of bricks left over from [brick making] piled up near the pitchers, and the new soldiers are launching them out of the walls.

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　After all, you can't use it in a real battle right off the bat.

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　At the very least, we need to train ourselves to know how far we can fly and what direction to aim.

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　Bricks were seen everywhere flying towards the direction where not many people were around.

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"Yes, we've arrived. The recruits will sleep here. The rationer is making the meals over there, so tell him to pick them up there.

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　Further up the mountain, there is a place where the soldiers sleep.

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　This is the same place that the Uruks used to build.

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　I am recreating my own house at the top.

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　Thus, the hill of Einrad was steadily transformed into a fortress with iron defenses.

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