153 First story, six months of flow.

About six months after the explosion, I turned twelve.

I've only lived twelve years... but I feel like I've lived longer than twelve years because I live a very dark life every day, or because I have memories of a previous life again.

Sensibly, I think I'm about thirty.

Now, let's put aside the story of me turning twelve and explain what's happened over the last six months.

Over the past six months, I've focused all my efforts on strengthening the defenses of my territory.

We thought it would be almost certain that there would be a war, and we began to prepare carefully even as we hurried towards it.

Schools that collapsed in the explosion were closed for six months, but there is still no prospect of recovery, and for the time being they are unlikely to be able to go to school.

Well, I wish I could concentrate on territorial development for that matter.

I guess I don't have to do Frank or anything ~.

And I've been busy with the defensive developments, and I'm sorry, but I've decided to leave everything to Elsie and the Holland Chamber of Commerce regarding the commercial developments.

So I try to listen to the occasional reports, but I haven't been involved in the development of an underground city in six months.

Recent reports say the construction of a magic tool factory is finally over and the production of street lights is starting to build more and more buildings in the underground city.

Apparently, it will be available to the public as early as six months early and at the latest in a year.

As planned, no, significantly earlier than planned. This is really because of Elsie.

Oh, speaking of which, putting 'mr.' on Elsie and not speaking in a respectful tone.

Because I feel only my distance, I was asked to just call me by my name, just like the Shelleys did, and I decided to do so.

Well, if you ask me, it would be like that, so I tried to talk to Elsie with the same language as Shelly and Bell.

Whoa, that's derailed the story.

It's about what I've been doing over the past six months, but I've been strengthening the Knights and strengthening the city's defense equipment.

Knights strengthening is, of course, about increasing the number of Knights, but I've done six entrance exams a month so far, roughly fifty more.

Is that it? Not much for the intent? As you may think, all this was just like the first admission exam, I had to choose carefully.

If you're in a bad hurry to keep the kingdom spies company, it sucks.

The kingdom still sends spies to the entrance exam when they say I'm so vigilant, and I can't get out of the entrance exam at any point.

That said, it wasn't all bad.

The world-renowned adventurers and swordsmen have all challenged me after hearing rumors of an overly demanding entrance exam and Bernort becoming the team leader.

I can't say as much as Bernort, but there are steadily more people who are strong, who are likely to be strong.

By the way, Alma is growing faster than I imagined.

I've had my entrance exam examiner take turns with Hellman, but not once these days has the order come around to me.

Thanks to Bernort's accurate mentoring and competing with Herman, in six months he has become no different strength than an S-ranked adventurer.

He is getting even faster by mastering unattributed magic and is getting stronger and stronger using his uplift and genius motor nerves before him, such as changing from a single two-handed sword style to a two-handed sword style in order to stretch the way he overwhelms with manipulation.

Speaking of which, yesterday, you seemed happy to say that Alma had succeeded in winning over or something for the first time in the nine wins, eight losses and one hundred and twenty-eight draws over Hellman. Conversely, Hellman was so depressed though.

Well, as you can see from the number of draws, the strength of the two is mutual.

Perhaps tomorrow Hellman will win and lose nine.

Still, you're so impressed with Alma's speed of growth because he's mutually reinforcing with Hellman who worked out in the dungeon.

I still don't have a small number as a Knights like that, but I think it's getting big enough to manage to say a few elite.

I would like to continue to strengthen and strengthen my team in parallel.

And defensive equipment, but I focussed on the west side anyway.

Originally a city of commerce, Murdine territory, which was only conceived of bringing people together, really has a weak protection from the outside world because there were no strong demons around it or anything to be involved in the war.

A castle wall is a decoration. It's low and thin because it's only made to keep goblins out of the city.

Very, you couldn't have survived a war like that.

So I started remodeling the western walls for now.

I thought about doing it at the hands of people...... whatever you think it is at the hands of people can't be completed by the start of the war, so I made the walls with just creative magic by trial and error for about six months.

Because it was built with great attention, the walls became satisfactory.

I've thought about a lot of tricks, and I'm pretty confident I've set up a golem that will keep an eye on me for 24 hours without a break.

After the last explosion, I decided not to spare a moment.

Like this, Murdine territory has been turning into a good feeling over the past six months.

But on the other hand, in the same six months the empire had gone in a bad direction.

The cause, of course, is the Filibels.

The lord of the now deceased Filibel family left a lot of very troublesome things for the Empire.

On a rough territory, a people who are too exploited to starve to death, a border with a kingdom with few functions that can be defended.

How much money and time will it take to get this back to its original state already......

Of course, when I crushed the dungeon and further exacerbated poverty, the idea of knowing because my territory was busy could not come to mind, and I was given solid support.

Well, even so, I just sent money, food and magic supplies because my territory wasn't enough manpower.

If I can afford my territory from now on, I'll have to send people to support me.

That's why the Empire is trying so hard to rebuild its former Philibert territory, but it hasn't progressed very far.

The reason for this is that the restoration and strengthening of defence bases near the border with the Kingdom took precedence over the reconstruction of the territory.

There's a good reason for this too... what do you think happens when you leave the destroyed defensive base intact and rebuild the territory first?

If you think about it properly, you'll see, no matter what you think, the kingdom will gladly come and get the finished territory of reconstruction......

Because he knew it would happen, the Emperor decided to invest in defense first while buying objections from the people.

Truth is, politics is tough.

Even so, it's not every person......

Maybe I'm going to manage the vast western territory that the former Filibels and their subordinates ruled in the future.

Before this, the Emperor asked me to bow my head and do him a favor.

"I'm so sorry that I've come to push you, Leo, for contributing so much to the Empire so far. But if you're the only one I can ask... please, just grow up. [M] I want you to manage the West in the future."

Apparently, His Majesty the Emperor, or his idea as an empire, is to have me marry Shelley at the same time as an adult, to duke alongside many of my previous achievements, and to manage a vast, almost non-ex-philibel family and the western lands that had their umbrella territory, which cannot be left to nobility as royalty.

So I've decided to be Duke.

Well, I don't think I have a choice. I decided to marry Shelly because I was prepared to have to work for the Empire.

I just didn't know I'd have to work this far......

So until the adults...... now it's twelve, so four years to sixteen. I had to gather a lot of good people, funds, to manage a hell of a lot of land and work out a plan for reconstruction in this short period of time.

Four years... I don't care what you think. Overwhelmingly not enough time...

Well, we have to do everything we can.

In the meantime, after the perfect development of the territory you have now, will you start preparing for that one?

All right, we have a policy for the future. All you have to do is work desperately!