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"Hurry up. If we don't get this done quickly, we'll be surrounded by the Arbalestos and wiped out.

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　I raise my voice and give orders to the Barka army.

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　The men who heard my voice were moving from place to place as they worked.

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　They were building walls here and there by invoking the magic of "wall-building.

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　We have been building walls with magic many times before, but the speed of work seems to have increased since the last time we went to battle.

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　I think this is thanks to your idea.

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　Even within the Balkan army, the amount of magic power differs from person to person, and therefore the magic that can be used differs.

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　Those who have less magic power can use [Land preparation] but not [Wall construction].

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　Or, if they can use【Wall Building】, they cannot use【Wall of Atmos】.

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　Therefore, in the past, people used to work in groups according to the magic they could use.

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　However, my father changed the way of doing this and made groups where those who can use magic that consumes a large amount of magic are injected with magic by those who cannot use it.

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　This seems to be working well.

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　The effect was more than just the fact that the Balkan soldiers who could not use [wall construction] could be expected to be workers to build the wall.

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　It was a sort of hierarchical system that was beginning to be established, in which the weak were placed under those with more magical power, i.e., those who were stronger.

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　This was surprisingly useful.

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　This was surprisingly helpful, because human beings are creatures that skip work more than expected.

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　Even when they are working in a hostile area, if you take your eyes off of them for a moment, they will try to slack off by slowing down their work or taking a break.

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　Until now, we were grouped in groups that had only the same level of strength, so within the group we were all relatively equal among our peers.

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　Therefore, when everyone worked hard, everyone worked hard, but when some of them started slacking off, I would take a little break because they were taking a break too, and a chain of slacking off would occur.

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　But what if someone who is clearly stronger than you is leading the group?

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　The physical strength due to the difference in the amount of magic power is not something to be fooled with, and at the very least, it is impossible to do anything half-heartedly in defiance of the leader.

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　If one was caught slacking off, a nail would be driven mercilessly into one's head, and one would have to work hard, even if one did not want to.

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　However, I tried to speed up the work even more.

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　I made each group compete with each other in the progress of their work.

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　In this case, I divided the people who could use [wall construction] into a group of Balkan soldiers who couldn't use it and ordinary soldiers who helped with miscellaneous tasks.

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　This had an unexpectedly positive effect.

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　By each group working hard for their own reward, the rate of slacking off was reduced, and each group came up with various ideas to finish their own work more quickly.

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　As a result, we succeeded in finishing our initial goal of building the wall early without any problems.

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"This is terrible. I never thought that impregnable paramour would end up like this. ......"

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"It seems things went better than expected, Lord Ghana. I'm sure the people in Arbalest must be very nervous now that they've heard about Paramere."

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"Of course, Mister Ars. But I did not know this way of fighting. ....... I must confess that I am puzzled. For me, I have the perception that a battle is something in which knights display their abilities and achieve results.

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"Well, you are not wrong. An ordinary person can be defeated by a knight so easily that he cannot do anything. The basis of battle is a showy clash between knights, which is the flower of the battlefield.

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"You know this, and that's why you are carrying out this kind of operation. Mister Ars and Mister Rion..."

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I just did what I was told. I'm sure that Leon will be the first to be recognized for his bravery this time.

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　I was talking with Ghana, a knight of Fontana, from the shore of Palamere Lake, looking at the water fortress Palamere.

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　Since we finished building the wall the other day, we have been observing Palamere from the lake.

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　My brother Byte was out on a scouting mission with his cavalry, so there was no need for me to do anything.

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　But even just looking at the lake like that, the impregnable Paramere was still suffering from ongoing damage.

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　And so it should have been.

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　This was Rion's plan.

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　I took the Barca forces and built the wall as Rion had instructed.

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　The wall was to dam the river connecting it to Lake Palamere.

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　When I first heard the idea, I thought it would dam up the river, change the flow of the water and dry up the lake.

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　But Leon's idea was quite the opposite.

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　The Barca forces that had invaded the Arbalest territory had passed through Lake Palamere and had built a wall around the lake to the other side.

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　Lake Paramere is formed by the confluence of several rivers.

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　But there was only one river flowing out of the lake.

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　The river is dammed.

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　And what happens?

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　The impregnable water fortress is submerged.

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　Of course, it is not completely submerged in water, as if it were at the bottom of a dam.

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　But at least the first floor of the fortress is completely submerged.

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　Once that happened, Paramere was finished.

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　The food and other things that had been stored in the fortress for the siege would be ruined.

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　The food would be gone.

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　This is more painful than you think.

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　I know how hard it is because when I was a child, I had to plow the fields with magic because there was no food.

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　But it seems that something even more terrible has happened.

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　It has to do with the creatures that live in this Lake Palamere.

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　Apparently, there is a ferocious monster swimming in this lake.

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　Dangerous monsters lurking in the lake.

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　Another reason why Lake Paramere was said to be impregnable was because of this monster.

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　You are not allowed to go into the water at Lake Paramere.

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　It is said that people living in this area are taught this from the time they are small children, to the point of having calluses on their ears.

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　Also, most of the armies that tried to conquer Paramere in the past failed because of this demon.

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　After all, if you approach the fort in the middle of the lake with your boat and fall into the lake, you will be attacked by the demon.

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　The strongest invisible gatekeepers are waiting for you, as well as iron-clad defenders.

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　This was the secret of the strength of Palamere, a water fortress that was said to be impregnable.

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　The dangerous monster entered the submerged fortress and literally bared its fangs at the soldiers defending the fortress.

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　Thus, the fortress of Palamere, which was said to never fall, fell before the main army of Arbalest arrived.

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