Chapter 45: Arent these castle walls now?

Chapter 45: Arent these castle walls now?

I cant believe it. These fields

At first glance, the fields here might seem normal. On a closer look though, one could see that it was anything but.

Firstly, crops here were absurdly gigantic.

Weirder than that though, there were crops out of season.

An area was colored golden by what looked like wheat, despite the season being winter right now.

I have never heard of wheat growing and being ready for harvest at this time of the year.

In fact, I have never heard of anyone succeeding to grow any kind of crop out here in the wasteland.

A little later on, I discovered they even had orchards!

Moreover, this road

Our carriage was currently travelling on a magnificent cobblestone road that could rival even the famous Alpira highway.

I could hardly feel any shaking throughout the journey. If such a highway was present throughout the land, journeyseven the ones to the capitalwould become more comfortable.

The two layers of walls, this roadit goes without saying that these require substantial technological prowess, but the manpower required for all these must have been substantial as well

Even then though, it was still hard to believe that all these were built within the last 6 months.

Then, has Lord Albert been secretly building this fortress city throughout the years? And then sent his son

I thought that, but pouring immense resources here just didnt make much sense.

This wasteland offered no strategic importance whatsoever, after all.

They were all appointed by my father, but each ones circumstances were different from the others.

After a territory has been taken over through war, the former lord and their family was usually executed and then replaced by a loyal subordinate of the victor.

However, it wasnt unheard of for an opponent who has surrendered and swore fealty to the victor to be made that newly acquired territorys governor. They already knew the land, after all.

In the case of the northern region of the Albert territory, it was the latter case.

That said, the incorporation of the region into the Albert territory happened in the generation before my fathers.

Welcome. I am Luke Albert, the chief of this village.

and I am Dant, the appointed governor of the North.

Technically speaking, I held the higher social status because I was the lords son. As such, Dant-san felt it proper to kneel down.

I deeply apologize for not greeting you sooner.

Dant-san apologized like so.

Whenever the lords son would be sent on a missionlike developing a frontier landnearby governors would usually give the lords son a courtesy call right away.

This time though, my mission of developing this wasteland was just an excuse to exile me. No governor would go out of their way to pay me a courtesy call now.

They probably didnt even expect me to give building a village a good try. There was even a chance they didnt know I was sent here in the first place.

Oh, its nothing. Please dont worry about it. More importantly, I hope you enjoy your stay here.

He was the leader of the neighboring region, so it was likely we would be interacting with one another plenty of times. As such, I wanted to make a good impression as much as possible.

I didnt know it at the time, but some of my villagers were less keen on building a good relationship with Dant-san and more interested on keeping an eye against him and his group.

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