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"What the hell are you doing, Barca? It is unforgivable to lay a hand on a royal messenger! What do you intend to do with him?

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"Calm down, Mister Elance."

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How can this be calm? What if King's Landing finds out about this? The Fontana family would be in dire straits. To turn against this messenger would be treason! We will follow the same path as the Percival family.

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"In any case, the result would have been the same. This messenger went so far as to say that sending all the Valkyries to King's Landing would be considered rebellion against the crown. That's not possible. The original purpose of the royal decree itself was to force the Fontana family to do the impossible, and if it worked, to force the Fontana to send their forces to the royal court, otherwise to make the Fontana fight against the other great nobles. In other words, there will be a war anyway. The result will be the same.

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"But I thought we were going to talk about how to prevent that from happening. In the first place, there is no such thing as the same result. There is a difference between failing to carry out the king's decree and having to fight with other noble families and having to deal with all noble families at the hands of the king's emissaries. It is especially bad to be in clear conflict with the royal family.

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No, let's be clear. No, let's be clear at this time: Fontana is not a member of the royal family. If we listen to the royal family's orders, then Master Garrod may end up like Carlos. We cannot allow that to happen."

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"Cut off your hand?　Like the royal family?　Are you serious about that, Barca?"

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"Of course."

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"I don't see how that's possible. If you don't know that, then you must be a fool who doesn't know anything, Barca. From the royal family we buy things we can never get anywhere else. There is a reason why, despite the decline of the royal family, they are still treated with distinction by all the noble families. Don't tell me you don't know that."

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"Salt, yes. Only the royal family sells salt. Without it, even the most powerful noble family cannot survive. That's why the royal family still exists.

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"That's right. That's why I'll say it again and again. We have to get along with the royal family. No matter what they ask of us, we must not lay a hand on their messenger. How will you take responsibility for this, Barca?

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　I ordered my brother Bite to take out the messenger.

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　The Bite Brother then left the audience chamber.

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　There were only the messenger and a few of his men here, but there were others who had come to Fontana.

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　He must have gone to seize them.

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　It was only when the situation had moved to that point that the surroundings finally began to move.

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　The knights of Fontana, who had not been able to catch up with their thoughts because of their terrible deeds, came up to me at once and questioned me.

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　I was talking with Elance, the most vocal of them all, the knight who ruled the Burmese territory.

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　Well, I must admit that it was a bit much for me to suddenly attack a messenger with a weapon.

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　But what's done is done.

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　I guess I'll just have to go along with the atmosphere that this was a foregone conclusion.

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　I mean, I've already completely lost my mind about the royal family, and I have no intention of bowing down to them now.

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　Elance is trying to talk to me about this and that, but in the end it comes down to the greatest value that the royal family has.

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　There is a reason why the royal family still remains in a reasonably important position in a country that collapsed long ago.

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　The reason why the royal family, which is overwhelmingly inferior to the great nobles in terms of strength, still maintains its position by forming alliances with the hegemonic nobles is not only because of the formlessness of authority.

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　The royal family has a power that other noble families do not have.

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　It is the "sale of salt" that only the royal family possesses.

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　Salt is an absolute necessity for people's lives, and they cannot survive without it.

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　No matter how much the nobles have increased their magical power, salt is indispensable for their life activities.

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　Only the royal family sells salt.

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　If you are against the royal family, you will not be able to get the salt.

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　Monopoly of salt.

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　Why can only the royal family do it?

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　In fact, there is no place in the land where salt can be obtained in this country, which was founded by the first king.

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　Surrounded by snowy mountains, swamps, and valleys, it is an isolated island with no access to the rest of the country, and has no access to the sea.

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　In other words, salt cannot be obtained from the sea.

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　And unfortunately, there is no other place where salt can be extracted.

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　This means that no matter how much power the noble families have accumulated on their own, they cannot completely break away from the royal family, which holds the strategic substance of salt.

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　Then, how can the royal family maintain its position as a monopoly seller of salt in such an isolated island?

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　It has to do with the power of the royal family.

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　In other words, magic.

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　The magic of the royal family is the magic of producing salt.

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　The royal family now produces salt by magic and sells it.

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　It was probably because of the ability to produce salt that the first king led all the wizards to unify the land and unite it as a nation.

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　Incidentally, when the royal family was still powerful, there existed what is called the great magic that used their mighty power.

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　According to the remaining documents, after the pillar of light, all the materials in the area were transformed into salt and crumbled away.

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　The light of judgment that enveloped an entire city or an entire army was a powerful and unparalleled magic that could not be prevented, and was feared by all people as the great magic of the royal family.

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　Such great magic has already been lost, but the situation that only the royal family can produce salt has not changed.

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　Therefore, the Fontana family may not be able to obtain salt in the future now that they have the royal messenger in their hands, as Elance said.

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　If that happens, the Fontana family will eventually fall apart, no matter how much the Fontana family develops.

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　That is why Elans had called me a fool for not knowing better.

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"Don't worry about the salt, Mister Elans."

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"What?　It can't be. Now that we're at enmity with the royal family, all parties will be consulted. Obviously, it will be very difficult to obtain salt.

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"So it's all right. Salt will not be unavailable.

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"...... Is that true?　No, I don't believe it at all. No matter how you look at it, it will be difficult to procure salt in the future. You can't just talk about it. If you believe that salt can be obtained, please prove it.

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"Well, here is the proof. I will make the salt from now on. My company Barca will start selling salt.

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"...... what?　That's ridiculous. You can make salt?　That's not supposed to happen. ......"

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"If in doubt, pick this up. If you take even one bite, you will know that it is salt. It is a little different from the salt of kings, however.

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　When Elance asked me what I was going to do about obtaining salt in the future, I told him I would get it for him.

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　He then handed Elance the proof.

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　It is salt that I made with my magic.

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　I can create salt with magic.

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　In fact, I have been able to create salt for a long time.

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　The first salt was made when we were breeding crops.

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　When I made thick salt water and put the seeds in it to sort them, my parents were angry with me because I put too much salt in the water.

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　So, they decided to use their own magic to make salt to make thick salt water for sorting.

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　But he did not make and sell the salt on a large scale.

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　From an early age they had to earn money to buy weapons, but they did not sell salt alone.

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　He understood that a farmer's child could not possibly get by with his hands in the salt market, which was monopolized only by the royal family.

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　But he is not such a farmer's boy now.

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　Now, I can manage to make and sell salt by magic.

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　It's not that I haven't thought about it.

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　It is precisely because we can make the salt that only the royal families can make that we were able to take such a drastic action.

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　By the way, the salt I make tastes like rock salt, while the royal salt tastes like sun-dried salt made from sea water, which is a little different.

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　But Elance seemed to understand that they are both salt.

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"This is a surprise. I didn't know you had such a hidden gem, Master Ars.

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"What do you think, Leon?　Surely that's salt, right?"

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"Yes. It tastes a little different, but perhaps it is salt. Is the magic to make this already in the form of a spell, Master Ars?"

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"No, not yet. But I will cast the spell as soon as we part ways with the royal family. Now we will have no problem finding the salt.

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"Now, on behalf of Mr. Elance, I have a few questions for Mr. Ars. May I ask you a few questions?

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Yes, of course.

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"Point the sword at the royal family and produce salt. This is defiance of the royal family for which there is no excuse. I want to hear the truth about your intentions in doing this. Where does Master Ars want this Fontana to go?

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"Yes. My idea is quite simple. I think that Fontana should be independent now, so that no one from the outside can take control of Fontana's future any longer."

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"...... independence. The Fontana family will be independent."

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"Yes. So I propose to you all. The House of Fontana should now break away from its ties with the royal family and other noble families and become self-reliant. In other words, the head of the Fontana family, Mr. Garrod, should be the head of state. I hereby proclaim the founding of the Kingdom of Fontana with Lord Garod as its king."

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　A way out of the current situation in which the royal family sees the Fontana family and me as inferior and is constantly making reckless demands of us.

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　I can either do as they say or ignore their orders even if I am accused of treason.

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　I think there are several options.

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　But if we want to have a discussion with them on an equal footing, we should either drag them down to the same level as us, or we should climb up to their level.

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　So, this time, we decided to go along with them.

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　There is only one royal family.

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　If we are going to negotiate with a royal family that exclusively sells salt, which is necessary to sustain life, why don't we try to do the same thing as they do?

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　Fontana also sells salt and ascends to the throne.

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　In other words, make Garud the king as the head of state and negotiate with each other as kings.

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　In other words, they would establish a country called the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　In this way, there was again a great upheaval in the audience hall, even more so than when the messenger had been killed.

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