365 the vicinity of the Predecessor

"Why! How did this happen?"

I held my head to so many events.

The Fontana family named a new king and built a country.

I never thought this would happen.

I was in Fontana with my predecessors until a few years ago.

And an example incident occurred on the way home from its Fontana territory to the Wang capital.

It's a king raid.

I was traveling with the king to the king's capital, but fortunately during my misfortune I escaped that ordeal and picked up my life.

but Lord Carlos de Fontana, who was providing the king and his escort during that incident, lost his life.

The raiders were very handy, and they succeeded in the raid with little to no recoil.

I could have lost my life on the spot, too.

but he was lucky enough to rendezvous with Lord Lion von Graham, Lord Carlos' knight under his command, and succeeded in escaping from it.

I had no idea that this was how the king would be targeted for your life.

Don't you understand how sinful it is to point a sword at a king?

But such thoughts of mine, too, were to be busily killed by something else when I got back to King's Capital.

That is because the pursuit has begun as to whether our proximity has really taken the right option to defend the king.

Ridiculous.

In the first place, the king turned to Fontana only because the king himself felt in danger.

The Risorte family was defeated by the Trinoble Alliance and fell from their status as hegemonic nobles.

but its trinoble alliance was also good until it defeated a big enemy called the Risorte family, but from then on under the water, it is in a drool contest.

The king turned himself in relying on the Fontana family, which decided it was possible to confront that trinoble alliance at all because it could not fit properly.

In fact, the Fontana family helped the king well.

He did a brilliant job of protecting the king, which no other nobleman could do, and the Lord himself fought for his life.

Nonetheless, it would not be much like our decision to rely on the Fontana family was wrong, etc.

That is why we, together with our predecessors the King, accompanied the Fontana territory in a desperate persuasion.

with the work of Fontana, how rich Fontana is.

Born and raised in the Wang metropolitan area, I knew little about the territory of Fontana, the northernmost nobleman ever.

We only knew common things like snow falling better than the Wang metropolitan area and because of the cold areas, crop yields are lower and hence the number of inhabitants is smaller than the area of the territory.

That would be the same for those who are pursuing us.

But it wasn't.

The territory of Fontana was very rich.

The fields are well cultivated and the harvest is high.

There are robust buildings, and there are solid roads that can stretch through the territory like you've never seen before.

I especially liked the road.

I've never seen that many roads before.

Even the Wang metropolitan area would not rival the quality of Fontana's roads.

Normally, a riding beast car riding on the move will rock with vibrations from the ground, but neither will that happen.

Furthermore, Fontana seems to make good use of merchants.

Many merchants go out and buy and sell in a prestigious manner.

The sight was very vibrant.

I thought I had gone to Fontana just to be seen.

Fontana said she had won over neighboring aristocrats in recent years, but that was never just a good fight.

It's because we rule the land so often that we can build on it.

I was desperate to explain the matter back to the King's Capital.

Is this the result?

The desperate persuasion given by the surviving companions of the previous kings turned into an unexpected direction.

This is what the contemporary king, who was made the next king by the hiding of the previous king, said.

If Fontana can do so well with the development of the land, I was wondering if she could do it in this king's metropolitan area.

Perhaps that was just a leak for the king when he heard the story as well.

There are rough roads in Wangdu too.

Maybe it was to the extent that it would have been nice if you had maintained it a little.

but soon after that, information about the Fontana family was again brought to the King's Capital.

With regard to the Percival family crusade that he might have been behind the raid on the previous king.

A coalition of aristocrats, principally the Rheinzatz and Memento families, should have been attacking the Percival families.

However, it was the Fontana family, not the Reinzatz or Memento family, that determined the trend in the Percival family crusade.

The Labyrinth City was plunged by Fontana's army, which stormed from the north as a mourning battle for the death of his predecessor, Lord Carlos.

Everyone was aware that the Percival family's labyrinth was an important part of the future struggle for power.

but naturally it is very difficult to just reach the labyrinth because there are several fortifications and cities for defense even before approaching the labyrinth district.

That was also the idea of all the nobles and in the king's capital.

But the labyrinth quickly fell.

An elite Warcraft unit in Fontana just happened to attack.

The information shocked the King's capital not least.

And we came to that conclusion at some point.

How about turning Fontana into a hegemonic nobleman and letting him protect the Wang Metropolitan Area?

I was wondering if it would be a stone and two birds if Fontana were also allowed to maintain roads in the Wang capital and improve the fields.

... Why does that happen?

The late Lord Carlos did attach great importance to his relationship with the royal family.

but it was realistic, such as a reliable trade in products starting with salt and such because of its distance from the Wang capital, and was never acting for the status of a hegemonic nobleman.

Or in fact, when I spoke to Lord Carlos during the King's escort, he clearly said that the Fontana family had no great power to be a hegemonic nobleman.

If you want to ask for road maintenance, you should normally make that request.

But how about when they're around the new king?

I'm blowing this and all the convenient things that the king wants me to like.

He must have actually advanced to the king without even thinking about whether the Fontana family could be a hegemonic nobleman.

Well, maybe there's a side to it, because of the restraint of other grand aristocrats whose power was increased by the Percival family's retreat.

But it can't possibly work.

Was my prediction like that met?

Or should I say it is a great departure?

The messenger heading for Fontana territory did not return.

That's not all.

Fontana sent me a messenger with a response like this.

The Fontana family carries out a new ceremony of crowning as royalty and founds the Kingdom of Fontana.

... Why does that happen?

What story does an apostle on his way to Fontana come to such a conclusion?

I don't know why.

but what surprised me more than that was the church move.

Isn't the Church going to perform the crowning ritual for Fontana to become king?

Besides, at the same time, they say the church will start selling salt.

What's really going on?

Things get even more complicated.

It turns out that when the royal family is asking for an explanation for the church, there are stories of the Rheinzatz and Risorte families as well as the Fontana family performing crowning rituals.

... What happens if that's true?

I had never even thought about it before, such as the attempt by the non-Doren royal family to become king.

Because no matter how powerful the great nobles were, it was natural to form an alliance with the royal family for hegemonic nobility.

But I feel like a new age of twists has arrived to cut that flow off.

... I have a bad feeling.

So much so that I even feel the uncertainty of my feet as if the heavens and the earth were going to flip.

Anyway, the royal family issued a decree to each nobleman stating the precept that they would never forgive the Fontana family for becoming king.

After the grand aristocratic Percival family, it is now the decree of the Fontana family crusade.

But will fulfillment work?

I remember the boy I saw only once in Fontana territory, and I couldn't stop shaking my body.