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"Request for help?　Where are you from, aye?"

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"The town of Biden, Mr. Alphonse. The chief of the town, Mr. Biden, requests your assistance.

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I'm coming. Get me ready to go out. I'm not acting as Secretary of Defense of the Orient, but as the Barka Mercenaries.

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Yes, sir. We will be ready."

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　The fourteenth year of the Garrod calendar.

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　The time passed so quickly that we had just celebrated the New Year's Eve when a startling report arrived.

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　A request for help came from one of the towns that had traveled southward from Valiant, at the foot of Mt.

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　Normally, they wouldn't have said such a thing at a time like this.

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　Because, basically, military operations happen during the warm season.

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　But after listening to the report in more detail, I came to a conclusion.

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　It seems that the remnants of the independent forces in the small states have moved northward.

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　In recent years, in the areas where the power of the Church of Barca has increased, including the small countries around the Orient, the independent forces that had gained power and gained ground by occupying towns and other places were rapidly being driven back.

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　This is because the original rulers have been reoccupying more and more places because of the ceremonies of the Church of Barca that prevented them from using magic unnecessarily in the towns.

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　Independent forces that were outnumbered in this way were taken in or eliminated by the original rulers, but it seems that there were some remnants.

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　Some remnants were driven out of the cities they ruled by force, and those who still wanted to be on top, as they had been before, moved on.

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　They looked for cities that were not under the influence of the Church of Barca and that were easier to occupy.

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　However, they did not expect to move that far north and reach the town of Biden, which is not really a town at all.

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　But I guess it's not such a bad idea.

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　I mean, the town of Valeant, located at the foot of the mountain peak, is a place where we have had dealings with the Brillia Mage Nation.

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　I'm from Valiant and I'm in the Orient.

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　It may become an important transportation hub in the future.

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　Well, maybe they just wanted an easy-to-reach place without thinking about it.

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"I'll bring out the Valkyries too. We'll focus on cavalry. If we don't get there early and save Biden, we'll have no one to negotiate with for the reward."

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　Let's go as soon as possible.

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　They even sent a messenger all the way from the town of Biden to the Orient to ask for help.

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　Perhaps they thought that they could not fight against us by their own strength.

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　And it took a long time for them to arrive after they sent the message.

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　They must have already been attacked by now.

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　Let's get on our way to help them.

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I'm coming with you, Alphonse.

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"Are you sure, Ian?　I'm not taking care of the kids."

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"No problem. Besides, I haven't been in the field for a while. I'd like to fight and get my instincts back, no matter who I'm fighting."

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"Indeed. I'm with you. I've been so busy with research and construction the past few years, I haven't had a chance to fight. So let's go out with them.

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　As we were getting ready to go out, Ian came over to see if he had heard what we were saying.

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　Ian is right. I haven't been in a battlefield for a while, so I may have lost some of my battle-hardened sense of the game.

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　This time, Ian and I will take along with us some reinforcements who can ride on Valkyries.

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　I'd like those mercenaries with the magic stone implanted in their bodies to be put into battle and have them develop their blood-sucking senses as well.

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　With this in mind, a troop of about a hundred cavalrymen from the Barka Mercenaries headed for the town of Biden to help out.

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　The cavalrymen were to be sent to the town of Biden by the Barka mercenaries.

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"Oh, you're doing it."

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Are they defending themselves?

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"I guess so. I think they've walled off part of the town of Biden and are holed up there.　That's probably why they sent out a rescue."

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　I mounted my Valkyrie and just kept riding.

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　Of course, I have a small ice sucking stone with me, so I was able to ignore the cold even though it was wintertime and I had made it this far.

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　We arrived at the town of Biden almost without fatigue.

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　As one would expect from the proximity of one of the sacred mountains called Elmeralda, where the White Dog People used to live, there was more snow than in the small country group known as the Kutouryu Plain.

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　To be honest, I thought that the people who attacked the town must be quite crazy.

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　But maybe they just couldn't care less.

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　The town they had occupied until then was driven out, and they ended up in the mountains.

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　And winter is coming.

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　They would not have enough to eat if they thought about it normally.

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　That may be why they decided to attack the town and get food instead of making a normal deal.

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　But it seems that the town of Biden was dealing with the situation in its own way.

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　More and more people in this area must have been able to use magic.

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　They had walled off a part of the town to defend it.

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　Since the remnants of the independent forces had been inside the walled city, they probably had few chances to attack from outside the wall.

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　They are having a hard time attacking the wall, perhaps because the wall they once used to defend themselves is thicker than they thought and they can't get through.

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"What do we do now, Alphonse?　Shall we attack immediately?"

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"That's good, but Biden is alive, isn't he?　In the meantime, let's let them know we are here to help them and then attack."

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"How do we let them know?　If they're inside the walls, how can we contact them?"

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"...... I'll send you some arrows. I'll shoot an arrow over the wall with my Jumaki bow and tie a letter to it and try to get in touch with them. After I've done that, I'll take out the rest of the people outside.

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　Then he takes out a bow made of soft magic wood from his magic bag.

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　While putting magic power into the bow, I squeeze the bow, and my Valkyrie starts to run.

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　The bright red fur of the Valkyrie stands out against the white snowy landscape.

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　The red Valkyrie approached the wall and fired an arrow high into the air, which was the signal for the white cavalrymen to attack the remnants of the Valkyries.

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　Thus began the winter battle in the small mountain town.

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