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"Why must I cling to this northern land?
With these words, he left the northern lands and crossed over to the continent of Loren, the home of the humans with whom he had once been in conflict.
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His low concentration of free magical element (ether) meant that he had to adjust his body little by little, but the speed at which he walked helped him to adjust moderately.
He was able to move around the area of the country called the Kingdom of Klein without any problems, probably due to his original qualities.
"Humans are fragile, aren't they?"
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Lardus is blown away by a light blow and falls into a coma. He scoffed at the thought of such a human being posing a threat.
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"...... I see, so this is how humans think."
He soon gets tired of just rampaging and easily abandons the frontier village.
He decided to go to a small town nearby and learn a little about the human way of thinking.
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"I didn't know there was such a thing as a golem.
"Did the Aether Stampede reduce the number of golems among humans?
"Is the kingdom of Dinar now divided into smaller countries?
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The more I grasped the current situation, the more I began to think that humans were not to be feared.
"What would be interesting to do?"
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But he is annoyed that they live and prosper in a land of abundance and pleasant climate.
"You'll have to be my plaything."
That was his conclusion.
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In Laxham, there is a villa of Count Walter, a nobleman of the Kingdom of Klein.
"You are a learned man. You are skilled. All right, I'll treat you as my guest."
"Thank you, sir."
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Lardus had succeeded in winning over Count Walter.
（This was a solid foundation.)
Although an outlaw, Lardus is quite clever ...... and wily.
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Ostensibly, he plays the role of a clever little villain trying to win Count Walter's favor, but behind the scenes, he plays with and toys with mankind. Such is the position Lardus has taken.
"We can raise the rural tax rate a little more. We had a good harvest this year.
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"Let's collect taxes equally from those who live in the towns," he said.
"Let's put a luxury tax on alcohol and some foodstuffs.
By imposing the tax, he would slowly make the inhabitants suffer and increase his income to gain the favor of the Count.
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Lardus' plan had worked.
Yes, until that moment.
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"There is a skilled magecraftsman in a remote village called Kaina," came the news from the royal capital.
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This was the news from the capital.
"Oh, a magecraftsman?"
Lardus wanted to get rid of the magecraftsman, who had apparently defeated a powerful golem and repaired it to make it his ally.
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"It's not good if he's plotting treason. First, why don't we forcefully take him in and make him do what we want him to do?
"Yes, let's do that."
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But that plan has completely failed.
The Magi craftsman had played a trick on the Count's men and disappeared into the mountains to the north.
For this blunder, Count Walter was reprimanded by the king, and Lardus was also a bit affected.
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The king rebuked him because of you!
I am ashamed of myself!"
As he bowed his head reluctantly, Lardus thought that it was time for the Count to be of no more use to him.
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Lardus thought that the Count was no longer of any use to him.
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Then one day.
A familiar face came to visit.
"Hey, there you are, Lardus.
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It's been a while.
Bemi Aluche! Bemiaroushe! Dogmaraud!
They were childhood friends.
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To tell the truth, Lardus had a crush on Bemiarouche, but for some reason she preferred Dogmaraud, and Lardus had somehow grown distant from the two.
"You're looking good," she said.
"What are you doing here?"
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"Hmm, actually. ......"
Lardus explained to them what had happened.
"That's just like you, Lardus. But some of the current chiefs want to make peace, don't they?"
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"What?"
Bemiaroushe's words were not lost on Lardus.
"It is rumored that the clans around Morura will soon be sending their daughters as envoys.
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"Well, that can't be going well."
Lardus was in no mood to believe in the good intentions of humans as far as Count Walter was concerned.
"You've always been like that," he said.
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"You've always been like that..." "Why don't you go easy on me?
"Mind your own business. I'll do what I want.
"Okay."
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After a short conversation, Bemiarouche and Dogmaraud said they were uncomfortable here because the free ether was too low, and they took a transfer back north.
"So you've made peace with the humans. What a nonsense."
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A few days later, Lardus broke the seal on a vial containing the virus of
"I'm going to find out if this stuff really works."
It had been given to him by a mysterious man he had met when he was a boy in a strange old facility while exploring the northern part of the old demon territory with Bemiarouche and Dogmaloud.
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However, Lardus did not want to seal the area near the clan's territory, but he decided to try it here.
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The first time, he decided to try it out here.
However, a miscalculation occurred.
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Someone had suspected that Lardus was the cause of the onset of <
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（What the hell is this automata! Is it a monster?)
The overloaded Eladrite shattered in front of the automata, which did not succumb to the gravity magic that was its forte, and withstood the overlay with the Eladrite.
"Bah, you idiot!"
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Lardus, now in the position of being pursued, was cornered by the frail human-made automaton, and was finally knocked unconscious by its body slamming into him.