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　The territory of Rheinsatz lies to the west of the capital.

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　There is a large river that runs through the territory of the Rhine-Satz as if dividing it into north and south.

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　This is the Rhine.

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　The Rhine is also a rather long river, eventually leading to the Arbalest area.

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　The large, slow-flowing river seems to be the reason why agriculture is flourishing in this area.

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　It was only because of the warm and suitable land for agriculture in this area that the Reinsatz family was able to become such a powerful noble family.

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　The Rhine is the last line of defense for the Rhine-Satz family.

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　Therefore, there was a defensive position on the Rhine.

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　It is called the Costambre Fortress.

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　But can we call it a fortress?

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　It is much larger than the Fortress of Palamere, which we once conquered.

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　The Palamere Fortress was built on an island in the middle of a lake called Lake Palamere.

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　We built a fortress on the island and fortified it.

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　Due in part to the existence of a peculiar monster that lives in Lake Palamea, the Palamea Fortress was once said to be impregnable.

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　However, it seems that this Costambre Fortress was not built on a small isolated island.

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　It was fortified on a triangular piece of land jutting out from the west bank of the Rhine, and could be said to be a complete city.

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　Rather, it is a much larger city than the capitals of ordinary aristocratic fiefdoms.

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　Surrounded by high and thick walls, it is a huge city that can be supplied from the outside by waterways.

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　It is even said that this fortress alone may be more powerful than those of the nobles' fiefdoms.

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　That was the full picture of the Costambre Fortress.

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　It is said that even a normal siege would not be able to take down a fortress this large.

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　This is because inside the walled Costanble Fortress, there is enough to feed all of its inhabitants.

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　There are farmlands, stores where you can make and buy everything you need for your daily life, from the manufacture of weapons to their maintenance.

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　Since everything can be handled within the fortress, there are even records of people who fought for several years even when they were cut off from outside supplies.

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　Therefore, it is said that the fortress has an ironclad defense system that makes it impossible to cut off the supply and attack the soldiers.

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"There are many inhabitants, and there are many soldiers defending this costal fortress. It's a problem, isn't it?

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"But you can't just take it easy, Ars. The kingdom of Resolute will catch up with us before we can hold them for years. If that's the case, we'd be better off ignoring them and crossing the river to attack the capital of Rheinsatz, wouldn't we?

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"That might be a possibility, though. But if we leave it here, we'll have to watch our backs at all times. Considering that, we should hit them hard here if we can.

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"Okay. Then what's the plan?　As for me, I don't want to fight too much on the water, okay?　And the Valkyrie's legs will be useless."

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"Right. The last time we had a battle on the water, we were able to force our way to victory with the ice and flame sword, but that's not going to happen now. I don't know what to do.

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　The trouble with Fort Costambre is the presence of the Rhine River.

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　Although it is possible to fight a long war without external supplies, there is nothing better than having supplies.

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　And that supply is provided by way of the Rhine.

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　Naturally, the opponent has the technology to do so at any time.

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　This meant that they were quite skilled in ship handling.

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　We might be at a disadvantage in the attack and defense of the ship crossing stage before we could attach ourselves to Fort Costambre and launch our attack.

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　And even after the attack had begun, they would need to be on the lookout for supplies by ship.

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　Such technology is not available in Balka.

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　The only water battle I have ever fought was against the House of Arbalest.

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　That time, I summoned ice spirits with my "Ice Spirit Summoner" and forced them to freeze river water, then turned the ice into flames with my ice spirit sword and burned the entire fleet of ships to the ground.

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　However, this is no longer a feasible method.

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　After all, I can't use [summon ice spirit] now.

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　If I can't summon the ice spirit, it is impossible to freeze the ice on a large scale, and the ice flame sword will be ineffective.

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　Then, what should we do?

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　I wondered if it would be possible to attack with water as in the case of Fort Palamere, but that seems to be a little difficult.

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　This time, since the Costable Fortress is not located on an isolated island in the lake, it would be impossible to submerge it under water, and there are no slimes, the lake monsters.

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　I was still pondering what I should do with the Costantable Fortress.

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　Then I received a call.

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　It seems that we are going to get reinforcements.

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　Kyle, who had won a complete victory over the King's Landing allied forces, was coming to Reinzatz territory.

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