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"But this way, overland travel takes a lot of time.

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"Yes, that's right. The leaders went straight down the river to the lumberyard, but our squads went separately, didn't they?　We left before them, but the leader's group was quicker to the rendezvous point after the battle."

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　They return to the new Barca town, carrying the lumber of the soft magic tree.

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　At first, we were on the lookout for assassins, but they did not show themselves.

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　This is not surprising, come to think of it.

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　It seems like it was only a short while ago that the council decided to send the assassins.

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　Thanks to Laura and Ai's quick communication, we were able to find out about it quickly, but maybe the assassins have not moved yet.

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　If anything, they may have heard about the job that is coming after me by now.

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　I guess it's not good to be too cautious.

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　I was trying to relax and move on, while being cautious to some extent.

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　While I was moving, I had a talk with Zen who was nearby.

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　It was a trivial conversation.

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　We were talking about the slowness of movement on land.

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　The raid on the lumberyard had gone down the river, and they had reached their destination in no time at all.

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　But I had moved Zen's squad ahead of the raid.

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　The objective was to get men and legs for the timber transport.

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　We needed to bring vehicles to replace the boats, since we expected to raid the area with boats and abandon them.

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　Incidentally, the abandoned boats were bought from villages near the Gulu River on the assumption that they would be abandoned.

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　Normally, not many people would sell their boats, which are tools of their trade and livelihood, for a disposable boat, but this time, the damage from the storm was so great that we were able to buy the boat at a bargain price.

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　Well, it might be because they might be able to recover the abandoned ship later if they are lucky.

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　Then, we had to go to the land from such a disposable boat and load the lumber into a car for transportation, which was quite a difficult task.

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　The reason is that the roads are rough.

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　The bumpy road makes the car rattle and shake.

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　The shaking sometimes caused the loaded lumber to collapse.

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　In worse cases, the wheels, which are the legs of the car, can break.

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　Whenever one of the wheels broke, the car had to be stopped and repaired.

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　Therefore, the speed of progress was very slow.

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I mean, this is normal. It is strange that you can build roads and tracks with a single spell. It makes a huge difference in the speed of movement.

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"Indeed. We take roads for granted when they are around us, but it would be really inconvenient without them. Building a wall is one thing, but the magic of building a road was really well thought out."

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"The Commander's brother built it, didn't he?　The king of the sky, I think. It's a little surprising or interesting that the king of the sky has so many magic spells like [laying roads], [laying railroad tracks], and [improving the soil].

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"Well, yeah. That's why Brother Ars in the teachings of the Church of Barca is depicted more as a shield of God than as a king of the sky. He is more like a god of the earth than of the sky.

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　As Zen mentioned, this is usually the speed at which they travel.

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　Unpaved dirt road.

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　A road that is muddy when it rains and bumpy when it dries up.

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　It takes a long time to tow a car loaded with a large amount of goods on such a road.

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　It is the same for ordinary people, merchants, mercenaries and armies.

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　Especially, the more people in an army, the slower it takes to move.

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　This is because the amount of goods carried increases in proportion to the number of people.

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　Food, weapons, armor, camp equipment, and other things that are necessary when going into battle.

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　Roads and railroads can shorten such time-consuming journeys to and from battle terribly.

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　Especially, roads are of great benefit.

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　While railroad tracks do not work well unless special cars are prepared for them and the direction and time of the cars running on the tracks are controlled, roads can be used by anyone at any time once they are built.

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　In addition, hardened brick roads are very easy to drive on because they are designed to drain even if it rains.

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　This became clear to us once again as we traveled along the rough roads.

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"One of the reasons for the rapid advance of the Barca and Fontana armies was their speed of movement. Until then, it seems that there were times when the roads were not made so that the knights could not easily move from one knighthood to another, even within the same nobles' territory. By eliminating this problem and building functional roads within the territories, it is said that the Kingdom of Fontana was able to gain a strong national power.

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"I see. After all, speed is important in a fight. The Barka Mercenaries must be operated not only with strength in mind, but also with consideration for their speed of movement.

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　Ai, who had probably heard our conversation, added something else.

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　How did the Fontana family, once only one of the noble families in the north, become more powerful than other noble families?

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　It was not only because there were many strong nobles and knights.

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　The speed of the army's movement was also important, according to Ai.

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　However, this reminded me of another story.

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　It was the great expedition of Brother Ars.

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　But it was not an expedition to the east.

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　I am talking about the raid on Percival's territory.

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　The Percival family once assassinated King Doren.

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　Along with King Dohren, the Percival family had also taken the then head of the Fontana family, King Carlos the Great, into their hands.

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　In order to conquer the Percival family, the brother Ars attacked from Fontana to Percival in just a few days.

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　The speed of the attack was something no one could have predicted.

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　It was not only because of the roads he was able to build.

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　Rather, they easily crossed other noble territories where roads were not well maintained and attacked the Percival family.

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I want to build one too. I want to build a cavalry.

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"Cavalry. That's nice. But I hear it costs a lot of money.

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　The only reason Brother Ars was able to do it was because of the Cavalry.

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　It was not by human legs that he traveled to Percival's territory.

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　It was because they were all mounted and moving at high speed.

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　I would like to build such a cavalry too, but horses are expensive.

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　I would like to have enough horses, even if I have to scrap for them somehow.

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　While we waited for the assassins who did not come too often, we continued to move slowly, thinking about the future shape of our mercenaries.

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