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"Attention, everyone! As head of the House of Arm I have a decision to make. The Balkan army is heading this way. They're probably after our knight-at-arms who have not sworn allegiance to House Xillia. Therefore, I am thinking of surrendering to the forces of Barca.

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　Barca has been rapidly making a name for itself in the Fontana army in recent years.

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　It was only when the snow had finally begun to melt in the territory of the Knights of Arms that I heard that Barka had once again begun his march on Uruk.

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　Although they had received this report, they were unable to immediately mobilize their forces due to the mountainous terrain of the area.

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　Fortunately or unfortunately, I think this may have changed the fate of the Knight of Arms family.

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　Many of the information that came in one after another were hard to believe.

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　The Xillia family, who had betrayed the Uruks, got into a state of battle as soon as the Balkan army arrived, but was immediately subdued.

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　After that, the Xillia family was forced by Barca to abandon the name of Uruk and was used as a shield on the battlefield.

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　It is not clear from the report, but it is said that Barka attacked from the rear of the Xillia forces fighting against the Uruk forces.

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　But this was the decisive factor in the outcome of the battle.

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　The Uruk army was defeated in the decisive battle on the plain of Myrias, without a single blow to Fontana's army.

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　Barca.

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　A knight who has only recently emerged from the ranks, but whose name is now well known throughout the Uruk lands.

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　He started a peasant uprising in the neighboring territory of Fontana and killed the famous knight Raymond, who was called the protector of the House of Fontana.

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　He was knighted by Carlos de Fontana, who had begun to make his presence felt as the new head of the family.

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　However, it can be said that he was not well known at that time.

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　It was not until Ars von Barka, knighted as head of the Barka family, came to Uruk that the name became known.

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　He destroyed the Keima cavalry, assisted by our ally Miriam.

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　But this was not possible.

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　I have known this knight Miriam for a long time.

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　I have fought side by side with her on the battlefield many times.

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　But Miriam's cavalry has been defeated.

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　And against only one opponent, Ars, the head of the House of Barca.

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　It was hard to believe.

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　How could Miriam be defeated by only one opponent?

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　And all 1,000 of his cavalrymen were annihilated.

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　I did not know what to believe.

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　I thought I had lost my mind.

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　But there was no doubt about Barca's ability.

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　After that, Barka continued to make rapid progress.

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　In Uruk he defeated Pesci, who had all the strength of a leader, and in Arbalest he defeated the leader himself.

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　No one doubted his strength.

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　Then I realized it.

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　I realized that we were at the turning point of a new era.

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　I saw it with my own eyes.

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　I saw the army of Barca approaching my house of Arm and I knew it for sure.

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　The army of Barca is moving toward the territory of the Knights of Arm.

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　Upon receiving this report I mounted my steed and set out on a scouting mission.

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　And I saw the army of Barca.

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　It was completely different from the way I had known the army to advance.

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　They were moving toward the territory of the Knights of Arms at a constant speed.

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　Normally, it is more difficult than anything else to lead an army.

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　It is more difficult than it is to keep up with the peasants you have gathered and to get where you are going.

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　It is not uncommon for the number of peasants to be greatly reduced by the time they reach their destination if they are left to march in a poorly organized army.

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　That is true.

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　Where you are taken as an army, a battle for your life may be waiting for you.

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　It is not surprising if some of them run away.

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　But the army of Barca was different.

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　The soldiers were neatly lined up and marching without any disruption to their ranks.

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　They were not being watched by anyone. They were simply marching along a country road.

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　I saw this and realized.

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　Ars von Barka is not the only strong army.

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　That army is too different.

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　I understood that the defeat of the House of Uruk was not an accident but an inevitability.

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　With this in mind I returned to my house and immediately sent word to my men.

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　The House of Arms will be under the leadership of Barca.

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　Naturally there were those who opposed it.

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　But the situation was urgent.

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　I managed to persuade them, thinking that this was my last task before the end of my short life.

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　And just as the Barka army entered the territory of the Knights of Arms, my family decided on a course of action and surrendered, raising the white flag.

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　To our surprise, Payne, the grandson of Miriam, came to negotiate with the Arm family as an envoy from the Barka army.

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　I immediately entertained him politely and talked with Payne.

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　I knew that Payne felt the same way as I did.

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　Payne, however, was quicker than I was, since he became aware of the situation during the fierce battle that took place last year when Pesci's army and Barca's army clashed.

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　The boy was introduced to me by Payne.

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　He is a boy who will turn 12 this year.

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　When I greeted him, he said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Zitan.

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　I had thought that I was dealing with a much older man, but I was wrong.

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　His elder brother, Mr. Bite, who was standing next to Mr. Ars, and the young man on the other side of Mr. Bite, Mr. Thanatos, were much bigger and could push him out of the way.

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　But it was the master of the house, Mr. Ars, who was truly terrifying.

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　Magic.

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　Over the years I have fought against knights on the battlefield many times.

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　But he had more magical power than any of them.

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　If it were only the amount of magic, the Lord of the Nobility would have more.

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　But I have never seen such a dense magic before.

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　It is so dense that it looks like a black darkness.

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　Among the street names of Barca, there is one that says "White Devil," but I think it is the opposite.

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　He looks like a jet-black demon to me.

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　I wonder what this man is thinking now.

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　While talking with me and listening to my explanation about the Fox Valley, he sometimes looks away from me.

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　He is looking around.

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　The knights who are with me and the soldiers of the House of Arms who are waiting in the distance.

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　If there is the slightest unusual movement, they will probably react immediately.

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　They will kill everyone present and attack House Arms.

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　It was horrible.

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　I do not know what could have put this man in a bad mood.

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　He asked me a question and I told him everything I knew about Kitsunoya.

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　But more than that, I told him that he must not go there.

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　Fox Valley was once a land that the Uruks had investigated with all their might and had to give up.

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　It is too dangerous.

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　But more than that, the death of Barka's soldiers by careless approach might incur the wrath of Master Ars.

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　But he's gone.

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　If they enter the Fox Valley, not only the soldiers but also Ars himself will not be safe.

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　But he came back.

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　He came back with the flame ore... the metal of illusion.

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　There's no bottom.

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　That's what I thought with all my heart.

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　That's why I agreed when he asked me to pledge allegiance to the House of Barth and not to Barca.

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　Because I knew with all my heart that I must not go against them.

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　And I was not wrong.

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　Master Ars sent letters to the surrounding knightly domains.

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　Starting with the knights of Arms, all the surrounding houses that did not pledge allegiance to House Xillia were asked to join Barca.

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　And then he waited.

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　Just long enough for them to come and greet him if they moved immediately upon receiving the letter.

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　Conversely, if they did not respond immediately, they considered the letter ignored.

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　It all happened so fast.

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　The knights who came to bow immediately were forgiven.

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　It was probably the same knight who had watched the march of the army of Barca as I had.

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　They knew just by seeing it that they must not oppose it senselessly.

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　But there was something else.

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　Perhaps they wanted to take their time and consider the situation.

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　But there was no time for that.

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　Valka began to attack the knight's territory.

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　He was leveling the surrounding area at a frightening speed.

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　In the end, the territories that either fell to Barka or were invaded may have amounted to about one-third of the old Uruk territory.

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　The southeastern part of Uruk, where the territory of the Knights of Arms is located, was carved out from there in a northerly direction.

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　It is fair to say that the eastern part of the original Uruk territory has been taken.

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　However, Master Ars himself did not participate in this great advance.

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　It was the Bite.

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　Master Ars's brother, Master Bait, my master, gained the territory through the power of the House of Barth.

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　During that time, Master Ars was building a town while collecting fire ore.

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　A new city surrounded by high walls on all sides.

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　And Ars has made it up.

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　By the magic of Valka.

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　He built a town in the southeastern part of the old Uruk territory, in the old Rumple knight's territory, because it is relatively easy to get to the Fox Valley.

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　Bartolia is a walled city 1km long on each side.

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　In the center of the city, where buildings of the same standard made of white bricks are regularly lined up, a building never seen before has been built.

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　The walls are covered with brightly colored glass, said to be stained glass.

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　When light shines on it, a fantastic sight appears, a building unlike any other.

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　A building called a cathedral was built.

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　It was in this cathedral that the Bite gave us our name.

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　He gave us a new name as we renounce the name of Uruk and pledge allegiance to the House of Barth.

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　Thus, the Baltic knighthood was born in the east of the old Uruk territory, and Master Ars became the head of the Baltic knighthood both in name and in reality.　

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