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"Magic stone ready, food ready. We're all set.

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"General, are you sure you'll be okay?　I don't want to get lost in the sky again."

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"I'll be fine, Vargas. It's a new type of balloon, improved after the last failure. Well, maybe "balloon" isn't quite the right word.

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"Are you sure you're okay with this?　I don't know if it's a new model or what, but this time the enemy army might come while the general is gone."

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"No, I'll be fine. We had a successful test flight this time.

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"Oh, for God's sake! Well, if you insist, I won't stop you any longer. Have a safe trip."

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"Oh, thank you, Vargas."

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　The slow progress of Memento's army.

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　I decided to go and see for myself.

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　The Memento family is currently marching north with an estimated 40,000 troops.

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　And their route is via several noble families.

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　Normally, the nobles or knights of the territory would not allow the movement of other noble families' armies.

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　There is no way to know what they might do at any moment.

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　Perhaps they will attack another noble family on their way to Fontana.

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　Or they may loot villages and towns along the route in the name of securing food.

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　They are too dangerous, to say the least.

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　However, the Memento family continued to move northward while allowing the passage of such a dangerous army.

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　This is because the Memento family is an exceptional noble family.

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　If their army were to turn towards them, it could cause great damage.

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　If that is the case, they may decide that it is better to allow the passage even if it will cause some problems.

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　There are other reasons as well.

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　It had something to do with the existence of Fontana or Barca.

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　The Fontana family's territory has been expanding rapidly in the past few years.

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　The House of Uruk, which ruled the neighboring territories, has been cut off and its territory carved up.

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　And the House of Arbalest on the other side has suffered a crushing defeat that has weakened its power to the point where it can no longer use higher magic.

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　Then, the noble families located south of Fontana's territory would think

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　Fontana's next target must be our lands in the south.

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　If this is the case, the move of the Memento family is not a bad one.

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　The uproar triggered by the presence of the king, it will make sense for the House of Memento to defeat Fontana.

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　After all, the Memento family does not share any territory with the Fontana.

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　If war were to break out with the Fontana and the Fontana were defeated, the territory would become an enclave and would not be controlled by the Mementos.

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　If this happens, they may be able to take advantage of the fishing industry.

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　Or it would be enough for Fontana to be defeated and stuck.

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　If they have no power over their own lands, they will be easier to deal with.

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　In other words, they may have decided that it would be more profitable to allow the Memento family to pass through their territory quietly, even at the risk of having a large Memento family army pass through their territory.

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　That is why the Memento family is able to pass through the territories of other noble families and come to Fontana as if it were their own.

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　But the opposite is not true.

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　Fontana will not easily allow its army to march south.

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　Especially after the three new positions, the southern nobles have tightly closed the gates of their territories.

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　The information about the Memento family, which was available at first, is becoming harder and harder to obtain.

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　That's why I'm going.

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　Through an empty road where there is no barrier.

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　I will go.

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"Yo-Soro!"

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"Master Ars, what is it?"

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"No, I don't know, like a signal to go?　So, what do you think, Payne?　How's the ride in this new ride?"

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"Yes, it is. As you can imagine, I've never flown before, so I'm a bit scared. ....... But it's more stable than I thought it would be.

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"Well, the wind hasn't picked up that much yet today. It's not shaking too much, but maybe more. Oh, and before I go any further, if you're going to throw up, throw up out there.

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"Hey, don't say that right after you start flying, Mr. Ars."

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　We'll be moving through the sky to scout for the Memento family.

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　That's why I got into my new balloon and took to the sky.

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　Or rather, it is no longer a balloon.

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　To put it bluntly, it is not a balloon, but an airship.

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　It is a small airship, but not too big.

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　The inside of the cloth, which is not round and inflated like a balloon, but rather oval shaped like a rugby ball, is heated by a flame from a flaming ore.

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　It is larger than the previous balloon, and the basket is large enough to accommodate more than 10 people.

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　Why did you choose a blimp-shaped balloon?

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　There was a reason.

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　It has to do with the freedom of flight in the sky.

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　A balloon floats by the buoyancy of the heated air in the fabric.

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　The way to move is to drift with the flow of the air.

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　Atmospheric air currents change in a complex manner depending on the conditions of the moment.

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　The altitude of the balloon had to be adjusted appropriately to read the air currents and to ride the air flow in the direction of the desired direction.

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　However, such a complicated method cannot be learned overnight.

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　Then, he thought, how about adding power to the balloon while accurately reading the flow of air in the direction it is going?

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　The airship was the answer.

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　However, it is a little different from an ordinary airship.

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　Normally, gas, which is lighter than air, is used for buoyancy.

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　But the only floating gas I could get my hands on at the moment was hydrogen.

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　If I electrolyze water with the lightning sword I got from the Arbalest family, I should be able to separate it into oxygen and hydrogen.

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　There was a plan to collect only hydrogen from the two gases and use it as a buoyant force for the airship.

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　However, he rejected this idea.

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　Hydrogen gas is unstable because it reacts with air.

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　If the airship were to explode and crash while flying in the sky, it would be impossible for it to survive.

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　For this reason, the use of hydrogen for airships was rejected.

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　However, the shape of the airship was changed to an ellipsoidal airship.

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　I remembered that this shape had the advantage of being more buoyant when moving through the air.

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　A small but extremely powerful heat source made of flaming ore.

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　It is used to ignite the airship in the same way as a balloon.

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　The airship is then powered.

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　The power source, however, was not fire.

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　It was something more primitive.

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　Billy's newly created flying messenger beast.

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　He hooked it up to his blimp.

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　Let's call the birdlike beast that had been tracking us by scent a tracking bird.

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　The bird was big enough to perch on my shoulder.

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　But the newly hatched flying beast was even bigger than that.

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　A green-haired bird messenger about one meter long.

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　This would be quite large for a bird.

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　However, even at that size, it could not fly with a person on board.

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　But it was different when it was connected to an airship.

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　The airship, heated by the flame ore and buoyed by the air, floated in midair.

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　An object floating against gravity can be said to be in a state of reduced weight.

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　In such a state, the airship could be pulled by connecting several of these new flying beasts.

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　It seems that this new flying beast is not good at recognizing smells like a tracking bird, but it seems to have a different characteristic.

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　It is very good at reading the air currents.

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　In other words, I was able to make the airship float in the air by means of the flame ore and move it by means of the messenger beast, which was quite a feat of strength.

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　This method was only possible because the flying boat was not an ordinary bird, but a beast that recognizes and obeys what people say.

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　For the time being, let's call this beast of burden a weather vane to distinguish it from a tracking bird.

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　Thus, I succeeded in flying to the place where the Memento family might be located on the new type of airship.

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