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　The Battle of the West Bank of the Rhine between the Barca Army and the Army of the Kingdom of Risorthe.

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　It seems that the Barca forces have won for the time being.

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　The battle with the army of the Kingdom of Risorthe is still going on, but it will be over soon.

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　The soldiers of the Kingdom of Rizorte fought with the deep and wide terrain of the Rhine behind their backs, but it seems that they did not have the strength of the backwaters.

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　Well, that may be so.

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　At any rate, the main camp of the Risolute Kingdom army was still on the opposite bank of the Rhine.

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　If all the Risorthean army had reached our riverbank, they might have been motivated to resist in unison.

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　But there is no way they would have thought of fighting until their lives are burned up, knowing that there are safe ones on the other side of the river.

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　Some of the Valka forces, mounted on Valkyries and firing their magic guns at us, gradually began to surrender.

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　I and my brother Byte called for their surrender, and it seemed that the battle would be settled for the time being.

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　The battle continued for a while after that, but it was over by sunset.

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　The Royal Army of Resolute survived the battle against the forces of Barca.

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　They found a general who was among them and decided to ask him about the Risorthean army.

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"d*mn, my throat burns. This is great, Mr. Ars Varka. Is it common to drink such a strong drink in the Kingdom of Fontana?"

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"Yes, it is. The Kingdom of Fontana is located in the north and it is cold, so this kind of strong liquor is preferred.

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"I see. Different places have different things to offer. It's not so cold in my sultry territory, so I don't have anything as harsh as this. You have given me a good one.

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"The Sult territory is a noble territory that until recently was under the control of the Reinsatz family, right?　And now you are fighting as part of the Royal Army of the Risorthe?"

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"Do you mind?　It is natural for a landowner like us, who is situated in between the great powers, to side with the stronger one in order to survive. The Reinisatz family lost power after the defeat of Barca and was targeted by the Kingdom of Rizzoluto. Under such circumstances, we had no choice but to fall under the Rizzolute Kingdom.

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"I understand that. But you are not completely under the Risorthe Kingdom, are you?　That's why I'm here, to talk to you. Isn't that right?"

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　The Royal Resolute Army that fought with us.

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　But this may have been a pawn for the Kingdom of Resolute.

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　This is because all the armies from the mainland were waiting on the east bank, and it was the nobles of the old Reinsatz faction who came to the west bank to fight against the Barka army.

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　The Kingdom of Risorthe sent an army to cut off the southern part of the territory of the Reinisatz.

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　Then, they increased their territory by turning over the nobles who ruled the land from the Rhinosatz to the Rizorte side.

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　In doing so, they sent out their armies against the nobles and knights of the lands under their control, aiming at the capital of the House of Rhinzatz.

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　Then, seeing the movement of the Fontana side who were capturing the Costambre fortress, they marched against the city from another direction.

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　However, the army of Barca, which had moved to stop them, was already waiting for them on the other side of the Rhine.

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　The Kingdom of Risorthe then took the option of fighting against the Balkan army.

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　However, it was not their army that would fight.

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　They had the army of the nobles and knights who had been under the influence of the Reinsatz family fight them.

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　In other words, they were probably trying to determine the strength of the Balkan army by using the forces they had captured with their overwhelming power as their stallions.

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　It is hard to know if the Balkan army is really strong just from the information on the radio.

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　Or, they might be an easy opponent for the Kingdom of Resolute with its air power.

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　It seems that they engaged in a battle to find out.

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　Normally, nobles and knights would rebel if they are used as pawns.

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　But even so, they could not refuse.

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　If they did not show their willingness to shed blood for the Kingdom of Resolute here, they might lose their territory completely.

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　Besides, there was a squad of dragon knights among those who crossed the river to fight against Barca's army.

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　Seeing the flying dragons in the sky, they must have thought that they could defeat Barca's army even if their main camp was not moving.

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"Well, I'm surprised at you, Sir Ars Varka. I didn't expect him to play a trick on the dragon knight troops to that extent. I didn't understand it because I was fighting, but what was that thing fighting with the dragon knights?　I thought it was a flying insect, but then something like an insect started attacking the dragon knight, so much so that I looked twice and thrice."

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"That was one of the countermeasures against the pride of the Kingdom of Resolute, the Dragon Knight Corps. I wasn't sure if it would work against the dragon knights until we actually fought them, but it was quite successful.

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"With that, we won't fall behind the Kingdom of Resolute, will we? ...... Ars Varka, I have a favor to ask you. Will you listen to me?

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Yes?

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I, Brian Surt, head of the Surt family, ask you to make me, Brian Surt, a member of the Kingdom of Fontana. It is said that the magic of the Surt family, such as the "clay pile", is similar to the earth magic of Lord Ars Valka. We would be honored to have you as our ally.

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"Are you sure?　The Sults have been under the influence of the Reinsatz or Risolte families for a long time, haven't they?"

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"I told you. We have always followed the stronger side. This battle has shown that. I have decided to bet the fate of House Surt on you. Please, grant my wish."

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　Brian, the head of the Surt family, located in the southern sphere of influence of the Reinsatz family, now carved out of the Kingdom of Rizzolte.

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　It seems that he had an ancestor who used the same earth-based magic as me, and he fought against the Barka army using magic such as [earth stake], and was defeated.

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　After surrendering, he now says that he will leave the Kingdom of Resolute and join us.

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　I can't help but wonder if it's really okay to change the master of a kingdom so frequently.

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　However, since they are treated as pawns to be discarded to see how strong our forces are, it is not surprising if they do so.

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　Or, do they easily fall in favor of the really strong ones?

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　I was not sure about that.

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　But I accept the surrender of the Sults.

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　The Surthe territory is included in the territory of Rheinsatz, which has already been carved out by the Kingdom of Rysolte.

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　The Sult territory will be returned to Brian, the head of the Sult family, from the Kingdom of Rizzolte, and this will be for a good cause.

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　Until now, frankly speaking, there was not enough cause to fight against the Kingdom of Rizzolte.

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　However, if we accept the request from the head of the Sult family for the restoration of our territory, we will have a good name for our cause.

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　Thus, the Balkan army won the battle at the Rhine and succeeded in bringing the Sults and some other knightly families into their camp.

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　At the request of these forces, the Barca army started to take back the territories that had been carved out by the Kingdom of Risorthe.

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　...... is it safe?

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　I wonder if the confrontation with the Doren and Reinsatz families will eventually lead to a situation where even the Kingdom of Risolute will start a full-scale war against them, and the situation will gradually become uncontrollable.

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　I was a little worried about the future, but I continued to serve sake to the Sults who had newly turned to the side of the Fontana Kingdom.

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