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"So, when are you going to go to your next fight, Ars?"

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"Take your time, brother Bite. The soldiers who make up the army are tired, even though they've been out in the cold, so we have to think about giving them a little rest here and there."

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"What's that?　You started this war by saying you were going to round up all the nobles and knights in other noble territories where they were all gathered for New Year's greetings, didn't you?　Then we'd better get moving. You're always talking about how I'm not fast enough."

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"Well, even if there's a lot of snow on the ground, it doesn't mean it's impossible to move. If we are slow, there is a possibility that the other knights are getting ready. We can't deny that.

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"Then let's get going rather than take a break."

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"So, take your time, brother Bite. I've actually already sent Payne to his next target.

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"Huh?　Did Payne lead the army there?"

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"No, I don't think so. As an emissary. Payne went to the Bautica family to ask them to surrender again."

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"Surrender. It seems a little late for that, but when you hear that two neighboring noble families have fallen, does that make you change your mind?　But they might push back, right?"

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"Of course. If that happens, we'll have to fight. The Bauticas are the ones we want to hold on to."

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　They attacked the Hermes family, who had been hiding in the mountains and ruling their territory.

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　And when the battle was over and they were making arrangements for the territory, the Bite brother spoke to them.

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　The content of the conversation was what I had expected: to go and fight the Bautica family as soon as possible.

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　While listening to the conversation, I compare the two maps.

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　He compares the map obtained from the Lubitsch family with the map obtained from the Hermes family and compiles the information.

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　Both maps are sketchy, but they have a good grasp of the topographical features.

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　According to the map, the Bautica family is depicted as a noble family located to the southeast of the Hermes family.

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　According to the map, Carmas lies to the south of the former Fontana territory, and Lubitsch lies to the east of Carmas.

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　From Lubitsch territory, we now go northeast into the mountains to Hermes territory, where we are now.

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　If we go further north beyond the mountain where the Hermes Territory is located, we will reach the old Uruk Territory, which will lead us to Baltonia, the territory of my brother Bait.

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　The next place we were targeting was the noble territory of Boutica, located in the southeastern direction from Lubitsch and Hermes.

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　Like the former Uruk Territory, the Bootika Territory is bordered on the east by the Great Snowy Mountains.

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　Of course, the Daisetsuzan is a steep mountain and people do not come and go.

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　And there is only the territory of Hermes, which is hidden in the mountains to the northwest of Boutica.

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　In short, what I have decided to attack in this winter snow march are the three noble territories on the south side of the small mountain range that juts out horizontally from the Great Snowy Mountains in view of the old Uruk territory.

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　These three territories are honestly not worth attacking from a geopolitical point of view.

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　They are not located in the direction of the royal capital area, which used to be the center of the economic zone, and the distribution of goods is not so active there.

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　If they wanted to acquire the land for its future economic influence, there might have been other places they could have targeted.

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　But why did they still decide to capture these three noble territories?

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　The biggest target was the next opponent, the Bauticas.

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　The Boutica family is a very common noble family whose territory borders the Daisetsuzan Mountains and does not have a large area of land.

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　Therefore, it can be said that the territory itself has no special value.

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　However, the Boutica family had value.

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　In other words, the magic possessed by the Bautica family was the goal of this expedition.

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　The Bautica family's territory itself is not particularly large, and in other words, its military strength is not very great.

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　However, they were able to maintain their territory because of their magic, which was more of a productive type of magic.

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　This is somewhat unusual for a noble family in a time of war.

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　Most of the nobles had offensive magic and gave it to their knights to maintain their lands as a force in the war.

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　Then, why did the Bautica family survive this upheaval while mainly using production-based magic?

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　It was because they were able to use the products of their production as powerful equipment.

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　The magic of the Bautica family is specialized in blacksmithing.

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　They have a unique magic that handles all kinds of weapons and armor.

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　If you wear their armor and apply [Performance Enhancement] to it, the armor cannot be easily broken through by half-hearted attacks.

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　That is why the Bautica family has been able to maintain their territory even though they have production-related magic.

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　In fact, I had once seen metal armor made by the Boutica family.

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　I had fought against them on the battlefield.

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　A man named Pessi, who claimed to be the next head of Uruk, wore this metal armor.

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　It was armor made by the house of Boutika.

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　I remember that moment well.

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　Pessi was hit by a thunderbolt from Leon's thunderbolt sword while he was wearing the metal armor.

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　Normally, the metal would have done more damage through the electric shock.

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　However, neither Pesci's body nor his metal armor showed any signs of damage.

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　And then Pesci said

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　Did you think I did not have the right equipment for the head of a noble family?

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　Even Gran, our super-dandy, couldn't make metal armor that doesn't feel like it even when hit by magic.

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　He can make a full-body armor of high quality.

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　However, it is only a steel armor and has no effect to prevent magic attacks.

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　Well, maybe it's a good thing that Gran can't do it.

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　Because it was made possible by another magic of the Bautica family called [Attribute Addition].

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　I want it.

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　In a different sense from the Hermes family, I want the Bautica family to be able to use this blacksmithing magic in Fontana.

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　I mean, until now it was necessary to avoid all damage from magical attacks except for the protection of physical walls.

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　However, considering the possibility that the size of the army will grow even larger, and that the Memento family's high-level magic [tornado] will become more powerful on the battlefield, it is a bad situation to have no equipment with magic resistance.

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　At worst, even if we don't need a territory, we should at least secure a blacksmith who can use the magic of the Boutica family.

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"Ars-sama, I'm back!

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"Oh, you're early, Payne. Have you already been to Boutica to talk to them?

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Yes. The Bauticas have no intention of fighting the Kingdom of Fontana.

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"Good, good job, Payne. So the Bautica family will be under the Fontana umbrella without a battle?

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"No, but the Bauticas have set conditions. ....... They say that if Master Ars does not accept their conditions, they will not work for Fontana. I have tried to convince him several times, but he is not willing to go any further. He insists that he wants to talk to Master Ars anyway."

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"You have no intention of fighting, but you have conditions. I get it. Anyway, tell me more about that story, Payne."

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　Payne had kept them on standby instead of letting them join the fight against the House of Hermes.

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　Immediately after Fontana defeated the Hermes family, he ran to the Boutica family with this information and asked them to surrender.

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　We did not want to lose a member of the Bautica family with blacksmithing skills in the war, so we were willing to negotiate with them.

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　But what kind of conditions did they offer?

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　I wondered, but decided to ask Payne to tell me more about it.

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