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Chapter 218 - Battle for Supremacy

"Ah, Ars-sama. Did you hear about the incident?"

"Leon, no, I've only heard gossip about it. Is it true?"

"Yes, I'm sure. It seems that Carlos-sama has already heard about it... Although it is confidential, it seems that he has already been taken into Carlos-sama's castle."

"...... Seriously. I think it's best to stay away from Carlos-sama for a while. If I'm not careful, I might be accused of being impolite."

　Time passed since the beginning of the year and spring has arrived.

As the snow stopped accumulating, Barca sent a lot of people to different parts of the Fontana Territory to improve the farmland.

　It was well known among the knights gathered in Fontana City that the wheat harvest had increased greatly in the areas that had been improved the previous year, and not many people doubted the effectiveness of the spells themselves.

　And perhaps because the interest rate I set for the Barca loan indicated that Carlos would intercede if anything went wrong, it attracted a fair number of borrowers.

　And so, I spent my time increasing the amount of harvest by sending people to various places so that they could use [Leveling] and [Soil Improvement].

　I was able to spend a very peaceful time.

　It was a little bit different from the way I used to work, but I was finally able to live a calm life. I was able to look over the reports from the Barca Knights' territory and give orders and interact with other knights while in the city.

　However, a drop of water was dripped on this peaceful life, and the ripples spread.

　It was a story from outside of the Fontana Territory.

　That story was not about Uruk in the east, nor Arbalest in the west, but a territory further south.

　But what happened there was about to have an impact on Fontana.

　The king had arrived.

　The king had left his kingdom in the south to come to Fontana in the far north.

　Perhaps the king did not come here of his own volition, for it was the end of his escape from a life-threatening situation.

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The royal family, descendants of the first king who once settled this land and founded a country.

　For a long time, this land was ruled by the king and other noble families who were given territories.

　However, the power of the royal family is now a shadow of what it once was.

　During the reign of the king known as the Foolish King, several powerful nobles defected.

　As a result, the king was no longer able to use the powerful spells that only the royal family was able to use.

　From that point on, the country was in turmoil as each noble family continued to fight with the surrounding forces to increase their own lands.

　However, even though many years have passed since this happened, the royal family still exists.

　Although they no longer have the power they once had as a royal family, they still hold their own territories and maintain their power as a royal family.

　As a result, a strange phenomenon began to occur.

　The royal family formed an alliance with a powerful noble family.

　As the power structure in the country continued to change, the royal family continued to make alliances with powerful families.

　Although the influence of the royal family has declined, it is not completely lost on the nobility.

　By forming alliances with the royal family, the powerful noble families could prove their legitimacy and even interfere in the actions of other noble families.

　This was the birth of the hegemonic aristocracy.

　Weak noble families that managed to keep their territories tried to survive by joining the alliance between the hegemonic noble families and the royal family.

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　However, there are naturally nobles who are not satisfied with that.

　There were also problems that arose among the nobles within the alliance.

　The hegemonic aristocracy, on behalf of the royal family, solved these problems, sometimes by war, sometimes by negotiation.

　However, the hegemonic aristocracy could not maintain its power forever.

　It is said that there were many times when the hegemonic aristocracy lost its power for various reasons, and another aristocracy rewrote the balance of power and emerged as the new aristocracy.

　However, each time, the reigning nobles formed an alliance with the royal family, and the royal family continued to exist.

　And that history has continued to the present.

　Of course, there was a hegemonic aristocracy of the time, and the royal family had formed an alliance with it.

　However, that collapsed.

　In other words, the hegemonic aristocracy was defeated in battle and could no longer maintain the alliance with the royal family.

　Even though Fontana fought against Uruk and Arbalest, the other noble families did not make any major moves.

　This was because of the movements around this hegemonic noble family.

　It's a great noble house, the Rizzolte family, which is the hegemonic noble house of this generation, located further south than the royal domain ruled by the royal family.

　The Rizzolte family was fighting against the Three Noble Families Alliance.

　It was said that there was a very large-scale war going on.

　Of course, it involved other noble families as well.

　Because of this, the conflict between Fontana and Uruk Arbalest, which was located in the north, had been overlooked.

　And the Rizzolte family was defeated.

　It seems to have been a pretty big defeat.

　Therefore, originally, a new hegemonic aristocracy was supposed to be born next.

　However, that did not happen.

　It was fine until the three powerful noble families jointly defeated the noble house of Rizzolte.

　However, each of these three noble families was powerful, but not powerful enough for any one of them to break away.

　In other words, the supposedly victorious alliance of the three noble families had a dispute over the alliance with the royal family.

　It was a question of who would lead the alliance with the royal family.

　The struggle for leadership started quietly, but became more and more violent, and finally reached out directly to the royal family.

　By force, they would secure the king's custody and become the hegemonic nobility.

　But this put the king's life in danger.

　And the king, sensing the danger to himself, temporarily fled the royal domain.

　To a place that seemed to have enough power to protect the king.

　He went to a nobleman who had the power to repel attacks from multiple nobles and even defeat the Head of the family.

　Thus, the king came to the Fontana Territory.1

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Whoa... plot development. The King has appeared! I know many people find the summaries irritating so if there ever are any, they'll be in footnotes at the last word of the chapter from now on. Such as above. There's a footnote above "Territory" which you can click to get the summary. Well, a link to the summary.

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