380 Protecting the Hermes family

"Lord Brams, have you ever fought the Hermes family?

"Of course, Your Highness. The Lubitsch family borders territory with the Hermes family, a pattern that has been fought many times before. Before my Lubitsch swordsmanship, I'll cut them off as much as Hermes wants, but for minutes they'll be in trouble fighting in their territory."

"But the Hermes family used illusion, right?

"Exactly. They have their home in the mountains, and they make the leaves of the trees appear illusory in the ingredients. As a matter of fact, deep in the trees, the exact location of the castle of the Hermes family, which has been bordered by illusions, has not been known even by my Lubitsch family, which has fought for many years."

"I see. Then I am convinced that the Hermes family has survived for many years being in contact with the descendants of Kensei. You're a pain in the ass."

"Exactly."

It attacked the Lubitsch family, next to the east of the old Carmus territory, and seized the land.

Even so, most of the knights originally in its territory are alive only after attacking the Lubitsch family's territorial capital and defeating its aristocracy.

They came to greet Fontana as soon as they heard the news of her victory over the Lubich family.

I'm sending a separate team to the people who haven't come, so no problem.

And then he sent the family of the Lubich family to the city of Fontana, and left people at Lubich Castle to go to the next battlefield.

That is the Hermes family further east of Rubitch territory.

View the map that was at the Lubitsch family.

Hermes territory borders the Great Snow Mountains to the east, according to that map, which is not a well-measured and precise map but contains information to the extent that an approximate location relationship can be seen.

And the north of Hermes territory was also bordered by mountains that protruded slightly west of the Great Snow Mountains.

Snow Mountain is a mountain high enough to climb from the north to the south, making it even more difficult to get to and from the land to the east.

And some mountains that are like protruding all the way out of that big snow mountain.

To the south of it is Hermes territory, and further north beyond the mountains is Bartonia in the Urk district, apparently.

In other words, it is this Hermes territory that is located on the other side, such as the Fox Valley, in the southeastern part of the former Urk territory.

There is no way from the Urk territory to the south beyond that mountain, which is why we have been depriving the Fontana family of the Einlad hill, which was considered an important point as a trading route, for many years.

This seems to mean that there is Hermes territory where there are steep mountains for people to move on.

A castle in a mountain is hard to attack.

but this Hermes family doesn't just say it's based on tough terrain to attack, it says it's using illusion to consolidate protection.

The Hermes family uses the magic of illusion with leaves of trees.

Just because it's in the mountains, it has a terrifying effect.

The Rubitch family said many times they went into the mountains in an attempt to attack the Hermes family, but each time the army was wrapped in illusions.

Lost Forest.

That's the best defensive junction for the Hermes family, and they say the castle's location has become unknown in years of history.

... Am I the only one who wonders if King Doren would have preferred to rely on this Hermes family than on Fontana if he were to hide himself from the trinoble alliance?

"Well, okay. Finally, during the winter months when mountain trees wither, is it certain that the effect of the lost forest will also fade, Lord Brams?

"I think so, but are we really going into the mountains? Winter mountains are just dangerous. And even if the tree is dead, it's not completely devoid of tree leaves. I think the effect of the lost forest is to some extent. If there is anything like a shipwreck in Winter Mountain, the army will be wiped out, my lord general."

"It's okay. I've already hit my hand."

Surely Brams is right, it would be a ridiculous act such as thinking normally and letting the army into the mountains in the winter.

but the Valkyrie I use for my traveling feet so far can move fine even in the winter in the first place.

And the soldiers riding that Valkyrie are being countered against the cold by the ice sperm summoned in my [Ice Sperm Summon].

For once, we have also introduced warm military clothing made in Dresslina, so it will be fine.

And it's a lost forest that protects the Hermes family in question, but we already have a way to attack it.

We have a guide in advance.

No, aren't you a person?

That was a bird.

"Trailing bird. Follow the smell of this letter and lead me to the Hermes family. Can you do that?"

"Pea."

That's not just a bird.

He is a creature that hatches from a strange thing called an egg of a servant beast and listens closely to people, and, moreover, a masterpiece researched and produced by the Billy boy in Barca.

Even among the precious flying service beasts, this tracking bird can smell the object and even follow its smell.

When Billy first produced this tracking bird, he basically only used it as a biographical pigeon replacement.

but then Kyle's [pronouncements] only led him to assume an auxiliary role as a means of communicating information.

But the tracking bird didn't have as much intelligence and communication skills as [talking], but it still worked well enough.

Rather than that, the true price of the tracking bird was in its tracking ability.

Terrible ability to fly to the object no matter how far away you smell it.

That has changed the efficiency of criminal investigations within Fontana.

If you follow the smell of the evidence left at the scene, it won't be long to find the killer, and besides, no matter how many fugitives escaped from the hut, you'll always catch up and find a place to stay.

Trailing birds, as the name suggests, had established themselves professionally in tracking.

And I have one letter on hand.

This was not a botanical paper to be made in Barca, but a letter with letters on parchment.

It was the Hermes who wrote the letter.

Even though Hermes territory was a land surrounded by lost forests, there was also a territory outside it, where there were several knights.

He sent a messenger there in advance and sent a letter to the Hermes family.

The Hermes family cannot nod, of course, just because they receive such a letter, in the content of making themselves subservient to the Hermes family as the kingdom of Fontana.

but they couldn't bend over and ignore it against Fontana, who was recognized as royal.

Autographed by the owner of the Hermes family.

A letter was politely sent back to me, probably at the home of the Hermes family at the end of the Lost Forest.

Thus, the Fontana army chases after the trailing bird that follows the smell left in the letter and flies.

And beyond that, we could see the castle of the Hermes family, which for years was even considered unclear where.