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　12 years in Garrod's calendar.

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　This is a year of peace.

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　The first snowy season was the only time I went on an expedition to Ermelarda in the snowy mountains, but since then there have been no major battles.

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　I guess it is because of the war we had with the neighboring countries last year.

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　We made peace after inflicting damage to all the countries.

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　It was a peace treaty that included the withdrawal of troops and ceasefire on both sides.

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　Of course, it was not absolutely guaranteed, but it still made it difficult for both sides to move.

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　In such a situation, what I was doing with the Orientals was construction work.

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　This is a wall defense tactic used in the war against the five neighboring countries.

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　The wall is made up of a large number of walls that are used as borders, and soldiers are placed on them.

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　Then, those soldiers were equipped with magical tools that can send simple messages and were put on guard to develop the country of the Orient.

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　The construction of levees on rivers that often flooded, and in some cases, the replacement of rivers, were major undertakings.

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　In parallel with these works, which even change the flow of the rivers, a network of roads is being built.

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　This series of work that I have been doing since last year will not be completed immediately, of course.

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　In fact, it will continue for years.

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　In short, we have been working hard to change the terrain according to the plan set by Ai, while checking the progress of the construction without fighting.

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　However, the situation gradually became different from last year.

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　The reason is that it was no longer only the Orientals who were working on the project.

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　When the snow began to melt, they decided to hire people instead of soldiers.

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　Replacing a river in a flood-prone area is a reckless act against the great nature.

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　It seems that this group of small states has had such an awareness so far.

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　Even if a levee is built, every time it rains heavily, it breaks, and all the efforts made up to that point will be in vain.

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　Since such a situation had been repeated over and over again, they may have felt a sense of resignation.

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　That's why.

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　That's why the Orientals were the only ones who went ahead with the plan when they started the river replacement work last year.

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　As the Secretary of Defense, I was able to use my position to mobilize the soldiers, to suppress any opposition, and to hasten the work even though it was winter time.

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　And he achieved a successful result.

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　Despite the snowy season, which was not suitable for construction work, the topography of the Orient began to change drastically.

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　And then came my winter expedition.

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　Mount Daisetsuzan, the mountain of death and a hellish place infested with demons that is rarely seen in the East anymore.

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　I have been there and defeated the demons that inhabit the land.

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　I had brought back the materials of the demons I had defeated, such as ice bears and four-handed ice monkeys, in my magic bag.

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　I gave some of them to craftsmen like Garius and Banagher, but I also put them on display.

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　They were stuffed and displayed in the Parliament of the Orient and other places where they could be seen.

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　Apparently, it has improved my reputation.

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　I'm the general who fearlessly entered the sacred mountain in the winter and brought no one back without freezing to death.

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　Combined with the defense line of the wall that is being built around my country and the way I fight against the five surrounding countries, I have started to be called <>.

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　Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he collects iron coins.

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　And so, I have gained a reputation as a good defender and protector.

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　Personally, I prefer to be on the offensive.

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　But it's true that in my mercenary career, I've fought more often in places where the Orient was attacked than in places where the Orient was attacked, and maybe that's the way people see it.

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　At any rate, my name and my achievements are now known enough to be called by some people.

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　Thanks to this, more and more people have come to me asking me to become an Orient soldier.

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　I guess people tend to gather not only because of the position, but also because of the strong and well-known general.

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　It seems that we are finally getting out of Ian's shadow.

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　However, it was not possible to make all of them Orient soldiers.

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　As expected, they could not increase the number of people they had as a standing army without limitation.

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　Training, which is the most basic job of a soldier, also takes a certain amount of time, effort, food, and money.

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　However, we wanted to make the best use of those who volunteered to join the army.

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　So we decided to use them as workers, even though they are not all soldiers.

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　We have them work on the construction work, and I wonder where we could find such people.

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　They all had little magic power, so many of them were not able to do [wall construction], but they had [meditation].

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　No matter how hard we work them, if we give them a minimum amount of food and let them use [meditation] before going to bed, they will be fine.

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　Thanks to the [meditation], which took away physical fatigue as well as mental fatigue, the construction work in the Orient progressed further.

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　And the wages paid to these workers were, of course, en.

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　If I told them that I would pay them with en, so they should go to the Barka church and join the church and get a bracelet, most of them obeyed.

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　There are many people with different ideas and different beliefs, but it is normal to join a church if you can't make money if you don't.

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　There was no rule that forced them to do anything in the Barca Church.

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　Thus, from spring to fall of this year in the Orient, construction work was vigorously carried out in various parts of the country.

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　Tens of thousands of people, or even more, participated in the construction, changing the terrain and building up the transportation network.

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　At the same time, the En has become more and more popular among the public.

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　The reason is that the number of purchases using bracelets has increased even in interactions between ordinary people, as they use the en received from the construction work to make purchases.

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　And so, the country of Orient develops peacefully.

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　One autumn day, when it seemed that the peaceful days would continue, it happened.

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　No, few of us would be able to recognize when it happened.

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　But it certainly happened like a disaster that befell all of us.

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　The great fall in the price of magical tools brought a storm greater than a tempest to the small nations that autumn.

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