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　This castle is inhabited by a Dwarf chief.

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　More precisely, the ghost of a Dwarf chief of the soil resides here.

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　He is the chief of the dwarven village I saved, a man who sacrificed himself to defeat a certain necromancer but luckily came back to life through a demon-summoning ritual.

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　He has an unusual background, but his skills as an administrator and an engineer are of the S rank.

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　He has become an indispensable member of the Ashtaroth Legion.

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　The old Dwarf had a workshop in a corner of the castle where he taught his apprentices day and night.

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　He himself is no longer able to wield a hammer. However, his insatiable passion for creation has not waned, and he spends his days teaching his apprentices to wield the hammer instead.

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　He is also developing new weapons, such as gunpowder-based "cannons" and "roasting balls," which he shoots at the castle garden.

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　There are already cannons in this world, but they are not widely used in this region, and once they are deployed in our troops, our army will be a step ahead of them.

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　I thought that if we could deploy them to our troops, our army would be a step ahead of the rest, but the magic of this world has made it impossible for us to keep them in reserve until later.

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　It is not enough to just make cannons, we need artillerymen who know mathematics and we need to train artillerymen.

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　I could wait until my army was a little bigger, and if I kept putting it off, I would have missed the opportunity to do so.

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　When I told this to Godreve, the Dwarf chief, he agreed with me.

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"Training artillery is expensive. First of all, we should give priority to the regular army.

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We can never have enough money.

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You're right. I wish our country was as rich as the trading cities in the south.

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"Come to think of it, the coffee Eve just made me was from the south. Is the South rich in this world?

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"I wouldn't say so," Godreve says.

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　Godreve says.

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　He points to a map of the world, the continent we are on.

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　He explains the map on the wall.

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You know that the continent we are on is in the shape of a cross?

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"Eve told me that.

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　The land where we live is a continent called Glorius.

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　This continent is cross-shaped. Like shurikens.

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"In the middle of this continent is where we are. This is the crossroads of the continent. Humans, demons, elves, dwarves, a fair of races.

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　Instead of being a rich region, Godreve says, it is a region of constant strife.

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　It is true that this region is connected to all directions, east, west, south, north, and south, and can be attacked from anywhere.

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　In other words, it can be attacked from anywhere.

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　Gottlieb's cheeks relaxed as he said, "That's one way to look at it.

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"Basically, the center is in such chaos, and the south has a warmer climate and better crops. In addition, they are relatively wealthy because they can import spices and sugar from the island cities in the southwest."

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"So the land itself is rich."

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"That's right. The north is basically poor. The north, however, is rich in minerals and processing technology. There are many industrial cities.

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"Hmm, these areas are no different from the world I lived in or other worlds.

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　In any other world, the south, which is more affluent and has a better agricultural production capacity, is more industrialized than the north.

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　In places like the south, where people can live by plucking fruits without working, it is difficult for industry to develop, while in the cold north, industry must develop in order to survive.

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　In that sense, the place where I was born and settled, the center of Japan, may be just the right place for me.

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　A reasonably affluent and hardworking population was worth governing.

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　When I mentioned this, Godreve let out a laugh, saying, "That's just like the Demon King.

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　It makes me happy to hear a Dwarf as majestic as granite let out a smile.

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"By the way, I heard that the Demon Lord is away from the castle again..."

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"Yes, I'm just going to run some errands at the castle of the Demon Lord Sabnak. There's an interesting merchant there.

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The rumored peddler. Maybe he's from the south. I've heard rumors that there are merchants from other worlds in the south these days.

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Well, could that be the man?

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Well, I don't know, but he's worth meeting.

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"Well, I don't know about that, but I think he's worth seeing." "I'm sure he is. Fortunately we don't have a hostile Demon Lord. It's a good time to move around. I'm going to have to ask Gottlieb to stay here again.

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　I thought the old man would shake his head in agreement, but he made an exchange.

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　I thought this was unusual, but the old man's condition was trivial, so I immediately agreed to it.

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　Godreve's condition was that he would drink alcohol for me, since I had become a spirit and could no longer drink alcohol.

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　With a thud, a bottle of sake was placed in front of him.

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　What was there was a distilled liquor called "fire dragon's breath.

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　It is famous for its alcohol content comparable to industrial alcohol, but I was not about to refuse the old man's request.

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　I drank it in gulps, though I diluted it with water and mixed it with ice.

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　When I drank the sake that the old man used to love, my stomach burned and I could exhale hot breath as if I were a fire dragon.

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