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"Happy New Year, Master Garod."

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"Yeah, happy birthday, Al. You take me to the heavenly realm sometime.

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　Soon after Vulcania floated into the sky, the new year dawned.

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　I am in the city of Fontana to greet the king, Garod, for the New Year's celebration.

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　Until now, I, as the acting head of the family, have received the greetings, but from now on, I have decided to have Garod handle them.

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　The number of people coming to greet him has increased dramatically due to the expansion of the land area in the last year, but I expect Garod to do his best.

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　By the way, Garoad is still a single-digit child, but not many people underestimate him for it.

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　Because he has been strengthened by my magic pass and his physical ability is at the level of a monster due to the amount of magic power he has.

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　He has been lightly trained by his brother Baito since he was at Barca Castle, and he knows how to use his body at least a little bit.

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　Therefore, he has a strength that one or two ordinary knights cannot win even if they stand on their heads.

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　Perhaps, even the head of the family might be in danger.

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　If you look at Garoad now from the front and think that he is just a child, then you are a very ignorant person.

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　At first, such greeting and ceremonial work will be the main place of Garoad's activity.

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　In time, I would like him to learn the duties of a king, but to tell you the truth, I have no idea what a king's duties are.

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　Should I leave that to Rion?

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"We will now begin the extraordinary meeting of the council. The topic of this meeting is the way the Kingdom of Fontana will move this year. Leon, take over.

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"Yes, Mr. Ars. I will now brief you all. The situation surrounding the Kingdom of Fontana is currently in a state of flux. One of them is the impact of the disappearance of the Holy City last year, when Pope Paul, who was in the Kingdom of Fontana, became the leader of the Church and made this place the headquarters of the Church. Pope Paul immediately contacted the various regions and decided to gather the scattered bishops here to raise them to the archbishop's ministry."

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　After greeting Garrod at the New Year's celebration, a banquet would normally await.

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　However, for this occasion, a special council meeting was held.

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　This is because it is easier to have a discussion now that those who are in a certain position in the Kingdom of Fontana are gathered together.

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　The agenda of the meeting was the future.

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　There were several important points among them.

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　First, the Church.

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　As Pope Paul had mentioned before, he is reorganizing the Church by gathering bishops from all over the world.

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　Perhaps because of his immediate action, it seems that by the end of the year, the necessary number of bishops has been gathered from all over the country in a reasonable number.

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　However, a subsequent statement from the Church was controversial.

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　A ban on warfare.

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　Up until now, whenever something happened, knights and nobles had immediately started fighting each other, but now they have issued a statement forbidding it.

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　There is a reason.

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　Because of the fact that so many people died by the Light of Judgment that Naja used.

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　In some large cities, more than tens of thousands of people lived in a single city.

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　Many such cities were destroyed by Naja.

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　The extent of the damage was especially great in the south of the royal city area.

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　Therefore, the church issued a statement to stop fighting each other, and apparently most of the nobles and knights nodded their heads in agreement.

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　However, it is likely that they will soon start fighting as if there were no such thing.

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　After all, there has never been an end to warfare in many parts of the world.

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　There is no way that they can suddenly stop the bloodshed that has been going on for so long.

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"The most important powers to watch out for are the Reinsatz, Memento, and the Kingdom of Risolute," he said. But there are others to watch out for as well.

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"Is there anyone else to watch out for besides the big power camps, Leon?"

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Yes, Mr. Ars. The nobles and knights whose magic was [collected] by Naja, or the lords and ladies of the land."

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"...... I see. I see. Naja's random seizures have created a messy web of magical connections. So there are a lot of people who can use a lot of magic.

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Yes, that is correct. At present, it is not possible to confirm exactly who can use what kind of magic.

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　The ones Leon mentions are the ones to watch out for.

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　Is this Nadja's legacy?

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　Nadja collected them at random in order to gain power for herself.

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　She collected from knights and nobles who possessed magic, but she also collected from the heads of the families who had the right to inherit, and from the priests of the church.

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　And when I defeated Nadja, the first Valkyrie who was by my side [collected] Nadja's power in reverse.

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　By doing so, I have succeeded in maintaining a high amount of magical power even after Nadja's disappearance.

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　But there was a big problem with this.

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　That is, a lot of the magic that Nadja collected is still available for others to use.

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　For example, Naja attacked a church, killed a priest, and collected the magic paths of the inhabitants whom the priest had named.

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　As a result, Nadja's magic power was increased by the magic of the inhabitants, but from their point of view, the magic that Nadja could use became available to them.

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　Of course, since Nadja can use Barka's magic such as [Land Clearing] and [Wall Construction], there must be people living in the southern part of the city who can now use them.

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　Generally speaking, peasants are not so much of a threat because of their low magical power.

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　However, when they start to act in groups, their threat level will increase.

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　They can use offensive magic such as [shotgun] and [ice spear], but we must not forget that they have [barrier against evil].

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　If you are smart enough to use magic well, you may be able to be an effective player in the battle.

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　However, as far as I know, the skills used by labyrinth explorers, such as Nadja's 【Gathering】, cannot be used even if they are connected by a magic path through naming.

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　Perhaps the skills are not magic, but more like sorcery, and therefore cannot be used.

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　Thankfully, the magic of Valkyrie seems to be treated more like sorcery, and there were no reports of anyone using the [Shared] skill.

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　If they could use [Sharing], there was a possibility that some of them could use [Light of Judgment], but it seems that we don't need to worry about that.

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　However, this problem will have to be dealt with sooner or later.

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　Ideally, it would be best if the number of Valkyries could be increased and the magical paths to humans could be cut, but that may take some time.

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　In the meantime, there is a possibility that those who have gained access to a large number of magic may use their power to take action.

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　The rest, well, how will the Reinzatz family and other major powers act in general?

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　In particular, they seem to be complaining a lot about the fact that the center of the Church has been moved from the defunct Holy City to Fontana, where the bishops were gathered.

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　It would be better to deal with this issue in cooperation with Pope Paul.

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　There were also some other problems.

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　There are a few nobles who want to be under Fontana's protection.

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　Until now, all the nobles had put their independence first, for whatever reason.

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　However, they have reversed this and offered to join Fontana.

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　It was not a good idea to refuse.

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　If he refused, there would be fewer nobles who would make a similar offer in the future.

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　On the other hand, if we take in nobles who are far away from the Kingdom of Fontana, we will have to protect them.

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　If any problem arises there, they will be blamed if they do not deal with it.

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　If a kingdom cannot protect its subordinates, it may be said that its existence is worthless.

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　Therefore, if you take in nobles who want to be under your protection, you will have to spend a lot of effort to protect them.

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　We have entered a world of politics that requires a difficult balancing act.

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"Listen up, everyone. I have a proposal.

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"A proposal?　What do you mean, Mr. Ars?

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"Yes, I have been thinking about it for some time, and I, Ars von Barka, would like to resign my position in the Kingdom of Fontana."

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"...... resigning your position, sir?"

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"Yes. And I would like to hand over my place to Mr. Leon von Graham, who is here. All those in favor of the motion should applaud.

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　You have to run away from difficult problems.

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　Thus, I tendered my resignation at a special council meeting.

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