Chapter 116: 117

Translator: CadmarLegend

 

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Chapter 117 - The Battle for the Hill

　After receiving the order to assemble, I arrived at the city of Fontana.

 

　As I approached the city, the landscape of Fontana City, which I had seen many times before, seemed different from its usual appearance. This was probably due to the upcoming battle.

 

　The city was a fortified city, surrounded by walls.

 

　In the past, there had been a special demand for bricks to build a new wall, but now that was over and everything was in order.

 

　A number of tents were set up outside the stronghold, and many people were going in and out of them.

 

　The soldiers from the Fontana territory were camping outside the city.

 

　The soldiers from the Barca Knight Domain were also waiting outside.

 

　After all, I still don't have any land of my own in Fontana City.

 

"Okay, let's get ready."

 

"Ars, you go ahead and build a shelter for the soldiers to rest in, we'll take care of everything else."

 

"All right. Thanks, Dad. I'm going to go say hello to Carlos-sama so please take care of everyone."

 

"Leave it to me. Leon-san, take care of Ars for me."

 

And so I quickly built a suitable building, pushed the soldiers into it, and went to greet Carlos.

 

　* * *

　A few days after I arrived in the city of Fontana, more and more troops began to gather.

 

　And then, perhaps judging that most of the members had gathered, Carlos gathered his knights in his castle and explained the strategy for this battle.

 

"We will now go to battle to bring the Uruk family to justice. They have unjustly occupied the hill of Einrad, which originally belonged to the House of Fontana. Our goal is to retake it."

 

　Uruk in the east and Fontana in the west have a long history of territorial disputes.

 

　The two sides clash here and there where their territories meet, but there is one place that has been a source of conflict for many years.

 

　That place is the hill of Einrad, which was mentioned earlier by Carlos.

 

　The hill of Einrad is a contested area that has been taken and lost many times.

 

　It is not so much a mountain as it is a hill, but a hill is nevertheless a place that is difficult to retake if it is occupied by the enemy.

 

　It seems that both sides are aware that whoever controls this hill will have an excellent overlook over the other’s territory. Which means that the family that takes control of the hill will have to fight against the immediate counterattack of the other side who can’t afford to give up this strategic location.

 

　 In recent years however, the House of Uruk had been victorious, having defeated the House of Fontana in a major battle and seized the hill from them.

 

　Ever since then, the House of Fontana has not been able to regain control of the hill. However, despite not being able to defend the hill, they managed to keep the surrounding territories from being cut down, but even that was reaching its limit. 

 

　Then, to make things worse, the situation changed further with the events of last year and the death of Raymond who was acting as Carlos’s regent, being in charge of everything in the Fontana territory.

 

　The sudden death of the technical 'head' of the family caused an uproar, or rather, it was impossible for chaos not to ensue.

 

　The political tensions around the territory were so great and eventually things started to explode.

 

　However, the Fontana family was able to resolve the political crisis in a short period of time.

 

　A few days after Raymond, the pillar of the Fontana family, disappeared, Carlos, the still young head of the family, immediately took over.

 

　Moreover, he has taken the person who killed Raymond into his forces and named him.

 

　Back then I wondered how the people around him saw this move.

 

Did they see it as an unavoidable decision due to the emergency situation that the head of the family has taken him into his own power, while making him realize that he is a worm in a lion den?

 

　Or, was the uprising in Barca a show to regain power under the leadership of Carlos from the beginning?

 

　People had to wait and see what was going on in the Fontana territory before making a judgement. And as things turned out, the latter scenario seemed more plausible in their eyes.

 

　The new knights of Barca, who had defeated Raymond and were now unrestrained peasants that use unknown magic, meekly followed Carlos instead of seeking more glory after having demonstrated their strength.

 

　It was a brilliant move.

 

Carlos, who had organized the territory, instructed Ars to lay new roads throughout the territory and to suppress those who had rebelled against the Fontana family after Raymond's death.

 

Furthermore, even though the Barca Knights had been mobilized all the way to pacify the Fontana territory, they were forced to do menial labor such as building roads. And thus when others saw them returning home without playing an active role on the battlefield, they concluded that they were the pawns of Carlos.

 

　To top it all off, Ars was married to a daughter of the Graham family, who was related to the head of the family and was once a political rival of Raymond.

 

　Due to all these events, it was interpreted that the turmoil in the Fontana family was a scenario that Carlos had initiated in order to seize power from the beginning.

 

　In reality, however, things don’t work out as well as people would like them to.

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　No matter how quickly the situation was resolved, the House of Uruk was not so lenient as to overlook the inability of the rival House of Fontana to move.

 

　They had already taken the Einrad hill where they were camped as a base, and subsequently took over the surrounding Villages

 

　This territory was valued by both families as a key point for transportation towards the south and so Carlos cannot afford to ignore their actions.

 

　This is the reason why this operation was carried out.

 

　* * *

 

"So, the person who was the leader of the uprising is now being forced to do nothing but build roads again?"

 

"What is it, Baito-nii? You don't look happy."

 

"That's right, Ars. We're here to fight, so why are we only building roads instead of fighting? I want to fight more, you know. I want to be active and show everyone what I can do."

 

"It's fine to think that way, but don't move the troops on your own, okay? Besides, securing supply routes is an important part of fighting. The work we're doing right now is laying the groundwork for the battle.

 

"Where's the Ars of last year? I'm sure you were the first one to charge into the enemy. You should be more motivated.

 

"The situation is different from then. Until now, it had not been good to be on the defensive. Come on, let's get back to work."

 

"All right, all right. I'll do whatever the leader says."

 

　We gathered in the city of Fontana, and under Carlos's command, we marched towards the hills of Einrad.

 

　And, as has become often the case, we were working on the road.

 

　The hill of Einrad had already been fortified by the Uruk family with protective walls and other defensive fortifications, making it a bit of a fortress.

 

　So, instead of attacking the hill directly, we are setting up a position in front of it in order to retake the stolen villages.

 

　After taking back the surrounding land, we can start attacking the hill in a prepared state.

 

　We were in the process of building a position and a supply route to the hill ahead of us.

 

***

 

　As I sat in the tower of our position, watching the work, I listened to my brother's complaints and urged him to keep working.

 

　As far as I was concerned, it would be easier to be in charge of this kind of work without having to fight, but my older brother still wanted to fight.

 

　Baito-nii is so motivated that if he had been born in a peaceful era, he might not have been able to fit into society, though he’s a decent fighter in his own right.

 

"Hmm? What's that over there? ....... Something doesn't feel right about ......."

 

"What's going on, Ars?"

 

"Baito-nii, look over there. Isn't it a little strange?"

 

"Wait a minute, let me have the binoculars. Where ......?　I don't see anything that bothers me."

 

"Maybe I'm imagining things."

 

　After having successfully turned my complaining brother away, I felt a sense of discomfort at the edge of my vision.

 

　I was looking at the distant view from the top of the tower when i found something that was bothering me, but when I checked my surroundings with binoculars, neither my brother nor I could figure out the cause of the strange feeling.

 

"... I see. It's mana. There is a concentration of magic power in the forest over there. That's weird."

 

　However, when I looked again into the binoculars to get a better look, I concentrated my mana to my eyes.

 

　I could clearly see the cause of the discomfort in my vision.

 

　It was a haze of magic power coming from the forest.

 

　The amount of the magic cloud was one thing, but the location was also a problem.

 

　The location where the magic was rising kept shifting.

 

"Baito-nii, we're under attack! The enemy is coming from the forest. Let's hurry up and intercept them!"

 

"Hey, wait a minute, Ars! There's no way we can leave so suddenly! We're not even ready yet."

 

"Hurry up! It's getting closer and closer. They might be riding Familiars at that speed. A lot of them must have come here to ambush us."

 

　I had thought that we should take it easy and build a camp, but it seems that I was wrong.

 

　When I sensed the magic of the enemy soldiers from the top of the tower, I immediately ran down the stairs and began to mount my Valkyrie to intercept the enemy, leaving my nii-san behind.

 

CadmarLegend Cadmar:  Ars is being so dumb... warn the others first. Get a group for retaliation. And then go and confront the ambushers. Don't go by yourself.

 

TP: It was 10 sentences ago that he was being prudent against charging straight into the enemy and here we are ...

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