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"I heard they are going west next. Is it true, Mr. Ars?

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"Yeah. I was just thinking of going over the Nelson wetlands beyond the Arbalest area. Sorry, Lilina."

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No, but please be careful. I'll have to ask Mr. Ars to see this baby when it's born."

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"Right. You don't want to worry about the baby, do you? It's okay. I'm just going to go and check on him.

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　We go to the west using a magic airship.

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　As I was making plans and preparations to see the sea, Lilina worried me at Barca Castle in the heavenly realm.

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　A new life is now being born in Lilina's belly.

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　It will probably be born this year.

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　I know it is not right for me to leave my pregnant wife, but I will be back soon, so please forgive me.

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　Lilina was quite concerned about the fact that she had given birth to twins before.

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　For my part, I don't mind it at all, but it is because of the custom of not welcoming twins.

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　However, both of the twins are growing up well, and Alford has already succeeded to the position of the head of the family.

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　Perhaps because of this, Lilina is no longer as concerned as she used to be, and she is genuinely happy about this pregnancy.

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　I am happy to see the effect of my prenatal inheritance.

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　However, I felt like it was a strange flag that we were having this kind of conversation before our departure.

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　As they say, you never know what you can expect in this completely unknown world.

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　I will be very careful and cautious, and safety first.

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"Okay, I'm off then."

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"Yes, sir. Good-bye, Mr. Ars.

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　And so, I took the volunteer on board the magic airship and flew westward in the sky.

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　The first time I saw the airship, I was surprised to find that it was a magic airship.

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"Hey, look, Vargas. You're crawling with mud dolls."

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"Indeed, General. But looking down from the sky, I was surprised to see how big the swamp was. I wonder how far it goes?"

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"I don't know. It's a pretty big area. And there are more demons than just mud dolls. Isn't that one of those lizard-like human things?　Oh, there are bigger demons over there, too."

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"No, I don't have such good eyesight, chief. You see fine."

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"Try to gather more magic power in your eyes and look at it. Well, but I guess you could say that this is an unexplored land. It would be tough for humans to manage such a large swampy area."

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　A magic airship flying in the sky at high altitude.

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　Looking down from the window, I was talking with Vargas.

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　The territory where the Nelson marshes are located is also the land that Vargas rules over, so he wanted to see the other side of the marsh with his own eyes when he went to see it.

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　That is why I am observing the ground like this, but Vargas seems to have given up halfway through.

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　Vargas, who flew for the first time, was as surprised as Charlotte had been before.

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　He grabbed my arm to make sure I would not fall.

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　But unlike Charlotte, who was a pretty girl of her age, I was not so happy to have my arm held by a muscular man.

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　I quickly shook his arm off and kept on calling out that it was okay.

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　Despite all this, we left Vulcania, the heavenly realm, and I gave a brief lecture to Vargas, who asked me to look out the window at the ground on the way, saying, "From there to there is whose territory it is.

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　Of course, this included Vargas's territory of Valles.

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　Vargas was well aware of the vastness of this land, which had been inherited almost entirely from the former Arbalest territory ruled by the Arbalest family.

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　Looking down from the sky, his cheeks relaxed as he realized that the vast land belonged to him.

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　However, the situation gradually changed when the Nelson Marsh, which borders the Valles Territory, came into view.

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　While exterminating demons such as mud dolls that appeared in the Nelson wetlands, Vargas was steadily building rice paddies and fields, flood control, and expanding his farmland.

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　I am sure that Vargas thought that if he continued his work of expanding the farmland, he would eventually achieve such success that the wetlands would disappear.

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　However, the reality was beyond their imagination.

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　The land they were cultivating was no larger than the size of a cat's forehead compared to the entire Nelson wetlands seen from the sky.

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　It was so vast that no matter how many generations of settlers they might have, they would never see the end of it.

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　He said, as his eyesight improved further, that the swamp was crowded with a myriad of demons.

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　There were mudmen, of course, but also lizardmen like bipedal lizardmen living by the water.

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　And that's not all.

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　We also saw a multi-headed dragon-like creature with a large body and many heads.

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　It would be a hundred times easier and quicker to seize farmland from other noble families than to settle in such a place.

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　I wonder if that is what Vargas is thinking right now.

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　He looked as if he didn't care about anything anymore and started drinking the sake he had brought and eating the snacks.

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　Well, I can understand his feeling.

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　I had no idea how far the marshy area extended.

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　It would be difficult to reach the sea today.

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　But it would not be good to keep flying in the dark night.

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　So we decided to sleep in the magic airship in the sky and continue onward.

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