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"Brother Bite, are all the Barka troops here?"

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We have 7,000 horses ready to move, Ars. We're ready to go."

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"Yes, sir. The army of Barca will now move south along the Rhine. There they will check the movement of the Kingdom of Risorthe that has crossed the river. Understood?

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"Oh. So it's Risorthe this time. I can feel my arms clanging.

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"I don't know if there will be a battle yet, Brother Bite. Well, we should be ready for a fight at any moment. All right, let's get going.

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　Information brought to us by the radio operator.

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　According to this information, the Kingdom of Rizzolte, which had been attacking the Rhine-Satz territory separately from us, was planning to cross the Rhine River from the south of the Costambre Fortress to reach the Rhine-Satz capital.

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　In order to stop this, I left the attack on the Costambre Fortress to Kyle and immediately moved the Barka army.

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　With Valkyrie's legs, it was possible to get ahead of them and wait for them on their projected course.

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　Hopefully, the Royal Army of Resolute would see our movement and stop it, but who knows.

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"Well, the Kingdom of Risorthe is moving fast. I wonder if they are cutting off Reinsatz territory one after another and advancing toward the capital.

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"My brother Byte is right. The Risolute Kingdom seems to be making steady progress in cutting off territory, while ours sometimes stops moving for some reason or another. This is surprising, even though the Reinisatz family has a strategic policy of lowering the line of defense."

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"But that doesn't mean that the Reinisatz side is unresisting, does it?　I'm told that they are indeed fighting to protect important points."

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"That's right. Historically, the territory between Rheinsatz and the Kingdom of Risolute tends to fall easily to either side. The Reinisatz family knows that this will accelerate if they capture key points. So, they must have left a reasonable amount of defensive strength, but even so, the attack power of the Kingdom of Risorthe is probably high."

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"I have heard that the Risortes have the strongest offensive power among all the noble families. Does that mean that the most powerful force we've heard about is back?

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"According to the correspondent we have on watch, there is no doubt about it. The dragon knight squadron that once made the Resolute family the dominant nobility.

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　While riding the Valkyrie, he exchanges a conversation with his brother Bite who is standing nearby.

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　The conversation was, of course, about the armies of the Kingdom of Rizzoluto that he was about to face.

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　The Valka army is doing a good job in the process of cutting off the territory of Rheinsatz.

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　However, we had to admit the speed with which the Kingdom of Resolute was moving, as they continued to produce war results that were no less than that of the Balkans.

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　It will take time for Barka and Reed, who were not originally involved in the regional power in this area, to gain territory.

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　They fought once with the Hamans and forcefully took over the surrounding area, but still there is a rebellious force somewhere every time.

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　There is no other way to say this.

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　No matter how much we know the difference in power, there are many people who cannot join our side.

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　And since we could not move forward with peace of mind in the presence of such disquieting elements, we had no choice but to stop every now and then to sort out the situation and deal with it.

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　That is why it took us so long to move forward.

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　However, the Kingdom of Risorthe was a little easier to deal with than this one.

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　Many of the nobles and knights who were originally part of the current Rheinsatz territory have some kind of connection to the Risorte family.

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　I was able to talk to such places in advance and persuade them to join the Kingdom of Rizzolte.

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　It seems that they have some information about the situation of the nobles and knight families living there, so the negotiation went smoothly.

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　Therefore, the advance of the Royal Army of Rizzoluto was faster than that of the army of Barca.

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　And while we were waiting for Reed's army to arrive at the banks of the Rhine, they had finished cutting off the southern part of the river.

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　But it was not just a negotiating advantage.

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　There were, after all, resistance from the Reinisatz in various parts of the country, and they managed to cut them down.

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　And this was made possible by the strongest dragon knight force of the Kingdom of Risorthe.

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　Dragon knights, as the name suggests, ride on dragons.

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　However, there is a monster called a flying dragon, which is a little different from the dragons I've encountered.

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"A flying dragon is a dragon that flies in the sky, right?　They live south of the Kingdom of Resolute, right?"

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"It seems so. There is a large valley in the south of the kingdom of Resolute where flying dragons live. It seems that it was the head of the Resolute family many generations ago who brought the flying dragons into the army and made it possible to attack from the sky. Since then, the Rizzolte family has risen to become a powerful aristocrat and reached the height of its prosperity.

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　The cities in this area are basically fortified cities.

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　Large cities are surrounded by walls and are built to withstand attacks from the outside.

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　However, there was someone who could attack them unilaterally.

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　It was the Risolute family, which once showed absolute power as a supreme aristocrat.

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　The Rizzolte family has a magic called [training].

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　This magic itself has no offensive power.

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　If we were to classify it, we could say that it is more of a cultural magic.

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　Therefore, the Rizzolte family was not so powerful in the past, but rather a weak noble family.

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　In any case, [training] is a useful tool to raise animals and make them listen to what you say, but there was a substitute for it.

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　There was a substitute for them, a being called a "messenger animal" who was born to listen to people.

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　Because of this, the magic of the Resolute family was relatively underrated.

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　Rather, they were a weak aristocracy that could have been destroyed at any time.

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　But there was a great lord in the Rizzolte family who changed that.

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　More than 15 generations ago, the head of the Rizzolte family had his eye on the Hiryuu Valley, which is located further south from the Rizzolte territory, the southernmost frontier of the Rizzolte family.

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　A flying dragon is a dragon that flies.

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　It is a small dragon, not as big as the sky dragon I once was, but it can still carry a person in the sky.

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　That's what the former head of the Resolute family thought.

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　This was a terribly foolish idea when you think about it from a common sense point of view.

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　In the first place, even a knight cannot win in a fight with a flying dragon.

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　The magic of [training] is not so powerful that it can make an opponent absolutely obedient once it is used, but it is like slowly developing a relationship of trust with an animal over time, and it was thought to be ineffective against the ferocious flying dragons.

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　In fact, there had never been a successful case before.

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　However, the common knowledge has been overturned.

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　It seems that the first success was when they obtained the eggs of a flying dragon.

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　They entered a dangerous canyon and secured the eggs of a flying dragon.

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　Then, immediately after they are born, they are cared for and trained by human hands.

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　By doing so, they succeeded in taming the flying dragon, which is stronger than humans.

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　This led to the breakthrough of the Risorte family.

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　It is not that there are no flying beasts among the messengers.

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　However, it seems that flying type flying servants, which are rarer than the mounted dragons, and large enough to carry a person, are rarely born.

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　Even if such a flying beast were miraculously found, it would not be possible to obtain it continuously.

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　This is because once the owner of the magical power that created the conjugate dies, the same conjugate will never be available again.

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　However, this was not the case with the training of the flying dragon.

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　The risk is great, but as long as the eggs can be obtained in the flying dragon valley, the number of flying dragons can be increased.

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　Furthermore, if they could be bred well, it became possible for the Risolute family's flying dragons to lay eggs with other flying dragons.

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　Therefore, even after the death of the Rizzolte family head, who was called a great ruler, the number of the flying dragons could continue to increase steadily.

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　This gave the Rizzolletes a flying squadron that no other noble family had.

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　How beneficial this was is shown by the fact that the Rizzolletes later became the hegemonic nobility.

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　Many nobles were defeated by those who rode beyond their walls.

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　There was a great incident in which the Risorte family, which owned the strongest dragon knight unit, fell from the position of a high aristocrat.

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　This was due to the overthrow of the Risorte family by the alliance of the three noble families.

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　The driving force of the overthrow was the Percival family, the least powerful of the three noble alliances.

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　Speaking of the Percival family, I am impressed by their labyrinth town, but it was the magic of the Percival family that led to the overthrow of the Risorte family, not the existence of the labyrinth.

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　The Percival family's magic was not the existence of the labyrinth, but the magic of the Percival family that led to the overthrow of the Risortes.

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　It is said that this was very effective against the strongest dragon knight squads.

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　The flying dragon is a being that can fly and has the strength of a dragon.

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　However, it is said that the flying dragons had no resistance against the poisonous attack of the [Poisonous Magic Bullet].

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　Even the slightest contact with this magical attack would result in death from the deadly poison.

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　And so the number of flying dragons in the dragon knight squadron, which was said to be the strongest squadron due to the efforts of the Percival family, is said to have been greatly reduced.

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　If the number of flying dragons is reduced, the threat level is greatly reduced no matter how much they can fly.

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　The Reinzatz family boasts of the best anti-personnel performance when compared to the Memento family's [super-acceleration] and [momentary] magic, and the Memento family's [tornado] magic is capable of even large-scale attacks.

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　The Risolute family has been ousted from the position of the supreme aristocrat by the combination of these.

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"Does that mean that the number of flying dragons, which once decreased, has increased again?"

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"Probably so. The Risortes, having fallen from the hegemonic aristocracy, then formed an alliance with the Fontanas and managed to minimize the loss of their lands. After that, they succeeded in increasing the number of dragon knights until they could make dragon knight units again over the years. I guess the current rapid progress is the result of that."

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"So that means we might have a chance against those flying dragons, too. Valkyrie may have the advantage on the ground, but in the sky we may not be a good match.

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"Yes, that's right. Well, if we have to fight the Royal Army of Resolute, I'll deal with the flying dragon, brother Bite. I'd like to try something."

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　The number of flying dragons in the kingdom of Resolute will undoubtedly increase.

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　The fact that they have been carving up the territory as fast as the Barka army has so far tells us this.

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　However, I doubt that they have yet returned to their former numbers.

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　I do not know much about the ecology of flying dragons, but if they could lay eggs so easily, they would have expanded their power much more easily.

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　Perhaps we have enough of them to use in actual battles, but they must still be few in number compared to the time when they used to be the dominant aristocrat.

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　But I am sure that they will increase in number as time goes by.

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　It might be a good idea to reduce the number of flying dragons once again.

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　With this in mind, Barka's army succeeded in getting ahead of the Resolute Kingdom's army on the route they were expected to take, and decided to wait there.

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