Chapter 411: We’re home

Chapter 411: We’re home

Things happened, but the fun honeymoon(?) must also end.

「There’s still a way to go from the Savage Lands southwards to the Sanctuary.」

「Indeed. On the north side of the Sanctuary, Yggurle Kingdom, Valkyra Kingdom, and Lomaria Kingdom have developed and maintained roads to compete to subjugate monsters.」

The development of the east-west line from the Sanctuary to Lomaria Kingdom by way of Wedgefort was going well with fortress cities and highways being established along it. Also, the highway that continues to extend north from Wedgefort to Yggurle Kingdom was close to completion. The highway from Wedgefort to the Volton Margravery in Valkyra Kingdom was the first to be completed, and the monster extermination there was well underway.

「The Table Mountain also had a nice view though.」

「Takumi-sama, that place is still a Monster Nest, so it isn’t accessible to normal people.」

Speaking of which, the Savage Lands are dotted with small, but many monster nests, so much of it is unexplored.

Lately, the monster nests in the Savage Lands were changing. I suppose this is another effect of the Sanctuary, but while the mana was still just as dense, it seemed like there were less aggressive monster types, perhaps because of the miasma being cleared.

「Even so, there’d be a problem with a road being developed towards Samandour Kingdom.」

「If Samandour Kingdom doesn’t develop the road by themselves, and if we and the Trination do it, they might be taken as us preparing for war.」

I’ve heard that in the road developments during the warring ages in Japan were made narrow and winding, making it easy to attack foreign troops.

If we build the road to Samandour Kingdom by ourselves, it might really be seen as the Trination preparing for war.

Finally, the carriage reached the barrier of the Sanctuary.

The carriage Tsubaki pulls passed through the barrier like normal and went directly to our mansion.

Fuu, I’m so glad we’re back.

「We’re home.」

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「My Lord, all seven of them were monsters. Additionally, they were not seven-strong. They were always followed by a Familiar Arachne.」

「Wha, an Arachne...... Is that not a Calamity-class monster? I can’t accept such a report!」

「Please understand. It wasn’t noticed by our spies eyes, and it seemed like it possessed the perfected Stealth skill. We would not have known it was there if the arachne had not shown itself. They had other familiars which were out of the norm too. Please understand that.」

Earl Sechnal’s mouth flapped open and close, no words coming out.

「Mercenaries, goons of the Dark Guild, the spies, and all of them were handed over to the Adventurers Guild as thieves, and they were sold as criminal slaves. The assassins from the DArk Guild weren’t included, so...... that’s how it happened.」

「Wha, those guys weren’t j-just commoners? The mercenaries and the goons from the Dark Guild were pros.」

Earl Sechnal should have realized. The opponent who had a Dragon Horse, which was difficult for even royalty to own, pull their carriage, couldn’t possibly fall into the normal commoners.

「Replacing the spies would be an issue, but the Dark Guild’s goons and mercenaries was unfavorable. We should go about buying all of them, but......』

「Guh......」

The spies of the Sechnal Earldom were one thing, but the mercenaries and members of the Dark Guild couldn’t be left to fall into slavery. If that happened, the Sechnal Earldom would not have any mercenaries to employ. It was detrimental to the nobles of Samandour Kingdom who had limited knights employed and relied on mercenaries.

It was even more unfavorable with the Dark Guild. Earl Sechnal who always hired the Dark Guild to do work for him behind the scenes had a give and take relationship with the organization. So if he abandoned their members now, that relationship would be broken. Exposing the dark side of the Sechnal Earldom that the Dark Guild has a tight hold on would be a huge problem.

「Shit! I will not just end it here with that brat! I will chase him to the ends of the earth and make him grovel at my feet in apology!」

The subordinate who gave their report gave their final words and left the enraged Earl Sechnal.

In the room, Earl Sechnal was left there, stunned by his subordinate who had arbitrarily announced their resignation and made his way out.

The fall of Earl Sechnal and Earl Vautarc had was just beginning.

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This is the end of Volume 8! As with every volume I had finished in the past, I will take a break. Thank you for reading this far and I hope you continue to read this with me.