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I have been thinking about this for a long time.
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It stemmed from a desire to improve distribution.
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The Fontana Territory has succeeded in building a fairly high quality road in a short period of time by using a spell I created called [Laying Roads].
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This has increased the speed of overland travel and the number of people coming and going.
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However, this may also be due to the abolition of tolls at the barrier points since the time of Carlos.
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Thanks to this, the distribution has been considerably improved.
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However, the thought that it could be better still remained in my mind.
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After all, only merchants with a certain amount of money can afford to own a beast to pull a cart.
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Moreover, there are various types of beast, and they have different shapes and speeds to pull the carts.
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The several-meter-wide road created by [Laying the road] was not efficient for movement, because people with different movement speeds were moving at their own speed.
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Therefore, there was a desire to build a transportation route to solve this problem.
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And the transportation that comes to mind that works on land is the train that runs on the tracks.
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Having memories of my previous life, I naturally dreamed of building this line.
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However, this dream has not come true until now.
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Why is that?
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There is a reason, of course.
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The original territory of the knights of Barca, with only a few villages, did not need that many railroads.
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If the distance is short, it is a little inefficient to maintain and manage a railroad track in addition to the road.
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Therefore, it was not necessary to build a railroad track on a large scale only in the territory of the knights of Barca.
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This would lead to the idea of not keeping it only in the territory of the knights of Barca, but placing it in the entire territory of Fontana.
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However, a new problem arises.
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The lands outside of the territory of the Knights of Barca are not under my control.
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I could not build a railroad track and transport goods to the lands which other knights govern on their own.
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In other words, if I tried to build a railroad line on a large scale, various rights related to the use of the land would become an issue.
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If they really wanted to increase the transportation capacity by building a railway line, they would have to persistently and repeatedly negotiate with each knight, persuade them with reason, provide them with practical benefits, or threaten them with force.
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However, I could not bring myself to do such things.
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If we tried to do so, we would have to spend a great deal of time negotiating, and even if we got permission from some knight, it would all be meaningless if we failed to negotiate with the knight of the land where we wanted to lay the line.
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If he tried to do it, he would have to get permission from most of the knights in the Fontana territory.
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I did not think I could do it.
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However, when my brother Byte had his own territory east of Uruk as a knight of the House of Barth, the desire for a rail line was rekindled.
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This is because the iron mined in the mines of the Bald Knights' territory was brought to Vulcania and iron was made in a flame blast furnace.
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We want to make it easier to transport heavy metals like iron.
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For this purpose, I have always wanted to have a railroad track.
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And now the chance has finally come.
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The situation has changed with the birth of a new head of the family, through the extraordinary method of implanting a drop-shaped magic stone into the body of my brother Bite, Vargas, or any other knight of Barca.
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It is usually considered quite rare and difficult for a commoner to become a knight.
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And what is even more difficult is to rise from an ordinary knight to a powerful person of the head of the class.
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Generally speaking, the head of a noble family or a special person who has gathered magical power from several knights in his/her territory by using his/her blood relation is the only person who can be called the head of a noble family.
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What if there is a chance that I can become such a head of the family?
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No one can blame you for accepting such a request, even if it is a bit unreasonable.
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Thus, many of the knights who owned territories agreed to the condition that I offered as a price, the provision of land for a dedicated transportation route, a condition that no ruler of a territory would easily agree to.
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In addition to the Elans who rule Burma, Ghana of the House of Ix, and Peacha, who is also a knight of the House of Ix, are among those who agreed to these conditions.
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When I presented these conditions to them, they quickly raised their hands in unison.
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The first time I offered them this condition, they quickly raised their hands and I was able to get them all to join me.
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"For now, my goal is to build a railroad line across the Fontana territory. The line would carry iron from the mines of the Baltic Knights to Vulcania, and from Vulcania to the Arbalest area.
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"Wait a minute. I know that you are suddenly doing all kinds of unusual things, but what kind of a railroad line is this? I have no idea if it really needs to be done on such a large scale. ......"
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"I see. Mr. Picha certainly has a good point. Then, for the time being, let's build a railroad line connecting Vulcania and Fontana, and let's try to run a train.
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As one might expect, people are a bit bewildered when suddenly asked to build something they have never seen on their own land.
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With that in mind, I immediately set to work.
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Immediately, I started from Vulcania, laying hardened brick rails with my hands on the ground and using magic power.
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