Thinning Out
Heading to the designated ruins
500 mercenaries and 100 of Zalmbald's private army.
The rest of the mercenary group is left to Aritote and Doss.
"It's not as much of a problem as I thought."
I was definitely wary of running into Shelma's scouts.
"Ah! The king knew this..."
"Do you know anything, Zalmbald?"
"Currently, there should be a war between Shelma and Boldoi at the edge of the Dead Desert."
"Are you sure you don't want to join it?"
"I think there's probably no problem. If my prediction is correct, the aim is to inflict damage on Shelma and destroy our army."
That doesn't sound good.
He wishes for defeat, destruction, and annihilation.
"Do you know how many nobles there are in Boldoi, Lucette-dono?"
"I don't know. I have no intention of knowing."
"There are too many of them for Boldoi's land."
"Are you thinning out the nobles?"
"The nobles who will get crushed, or in commoner terms, the glass owners. They are… ah…"
"I'll keep quiet. There's no need for me to get in trouble."
No there is nothing [noble] from those glass owners
"Don’t you wish that the nobles who were glass owners would just die?"
"Aren't there any good ones who joined the war?"
"Every single one of them is such a bad guy. All the soldiers are their own people, so I feel sorry for them."
Ahh
And are you trying to direct their dissatisfaction to their feudal lords and cause a rebellion within the territory?
"What do you think, Olasha?"
"The fighting power of the feudal lord will be in tatters due to the war and the rebellion. If the kingdom intervenes as an ally of the commoners, the people of the territory may be happy about it."
"Isn’t there a possibility that the people will turn their attention to the kingdom?"
"It would be easy to control information and speech. If the kingdom continues to shout out justice and causes that are convenient for the people while drowning out the voices of the glass owners, the problem will be..."
"I'm sure this could be an opportunity for Shelma to take advantage of us. Why did you act at a time like this?"
"King Boldoi has a source of information that he doesn't reveal even to us nobles. He must be onto something."
"Something..."
In fact, it seems likely that there will be a separate squad and arrows will come flying from behind Boldoi the moment the battle starts.
And the arrow is the attack of the lapis lazuli owners, and the punchline is that the glass owners have no choice but to move forward.
That's scary
"When we arrive at the ruins, you and I will be attacked by King Boldoi from behind! It won’t happen, right?"
"I-I don’t think so."
Can you deny such possibility?
"Well, that's enough of that."
"We got off topic."
"What do you think is in the ruins?"
Zalmbald's expression is slightly tense.
I can clearly see that he keeps his expression unnaturally expressionless.
"Don't you get told that you're honest?"
"…What do you mean?"
He is clearly upset.
"You heard something from the king, right?"
"...Only that there's a ship."
"Hey, did the king understand the characters on the map?"
"Was it written on that map?"
"Yeah, it said it was a ship that swims in the wind."
"Was it used 100 years ago?"
"If that's the case, it would be something that would be told to me as well. It's probably even older."
I haven't been told
Either they didn't want to tell me.
Or they didn't use it.
Or they couldn't use it.
It's probably one of those
"Olasha, do airships rot?"
"Some of the things I saw in the Holy Kingdom were made of wood. There is a possibility that they will rot."
"Is there anything that isn’t made of wood? It’s a ship, right?"
"The things I often saw were made of wood. What do you think of the things that come from the Empire?"
"No, even if you ask me."
"Was it a material that Olasha-dono didn’t know about?"
"Well, it's soft and warm enough to be called iron. However, it can't even be called a processed product like wood."
I don't understand what it means
Isn't it iron or wood?
"Is it made of stone?"
"Lucette-dono, no matter how much you try, a stone ship will never fly in the sky."
"You don't understand, do you? The Empire... after all, common sense doesn't apply to what Olasha says."
"Well, that makes some sense."
"Am I being mocked, perhaps?"
How can that be?
I'm not mocking you.
It's safer to be an idiot because you're still predictable.
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