Chapter 74: 75

Chapter 75 - Future Plans

 

"General, new guys are coming from the village."

"From the village? What do you mean, Vargas?"

"Probably because they heard about our victory here. Maybe they've heard about the victory here, and now they want to join our ranks in the hope that they can ride in on the winning horse and get some magic."

"I see. That's how it is."

"That's the way it is, General."

　Vargas came to me with a report about the new arrivals from two villages.

　It seemed that they had come to take advantage of us in hopes it would be a good investment.

　Nevertheless, I need some strength right now.

　I decided to bring the newcomers into my ranks.

　According to what I learned from the captive knights, the 500 men of the Fontana army were still a part of the Fontana family's strength.

　Well, they had only gathered them to capture a boy from the northern village, a village on the outskirts of their territory, and they didn't expect to be in a mass battle with people who used magic.

　They even said that 30 knights among 500 people were an unparalleled strength.

　The next question was what action the Fontana family would take.

　The Fontana family is a noble family, but their military strength standing alone is only on the scale of 5,000 soldiers, and even if they were to scrape together to the very limit, they would only have 7,000 to 8,000 men.

　In that sense, the presence of the Barca forces, who had defeated an army of 500 men and captured six knights, would have been seen as a threat.

　I wondered if they would gather the rest of their forces and try to crush us in one fell swoop.

　To be honest, I'm not sure.

　But what was a happy miscalculation was that the knights we captured believed that the nobles from other lands would not intervene.

　What would happen if the Fontanas couldn't handle the riots in a small village in their territory and asked for help from someone else? They would not only lose their reputation, but the Fontanas would also owe a lot to that power.

　The Fontana family would not want that to happen, one knight told us.

"I'm glad that Vargas knows someone who is a knight. He was originally a commoner, so he was able to tell me a lot of things that helped me."

"I've fought side by side with him a few times."

　It was fortunate that I was able to extract valuable information from one of the knights the most without being rough with him.

　It's really great that Vargas was on board with us.

　I have to make the most of this information.

"All right, then, let's strengthen the defenses here right away. Let's build a castle, Vargas."

"I'll take care of it.

　If they don't want to rely on other forces, we will use that to our advantage, because it seems that the nobles who rule the land are fighting for more territory around here.

　The longer it takes, the greater the disadvantage is for the Fontana family.

　There was a suggestion that we should charge into the city ruled by the Fontanas with the momentum of victory, but as expected, a siege would be impossible for a group of amateurs.

　There would be tremendous damage.

　If that's the case, I think we should aim for an endurance battle from here on out.

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　If the other side gets upset, can't we come to the negotiation table for the reason of returning the prisoners?

　That's right, I should ask the ojiisan to spread the story of our victory and our legitimacy to other villages.

　I decided to work with the old man's network of merchants to improve the position north of the river with the increased number of 300 people.

 

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　Building a castle.

　Its purpose is to protect us, but its ultimate purpose is to bring us to the negotiating table with the Fontana family.

　The main purpose of this turmoil is to protect me and to gain my freedom.

　It's not that I want to eradicate the noble house of Fontana, burn this land to the ground, or make it my own.

　Even if I were to seize the land, I don't think I could keep it.

　After all, I'm surrounded by people who can't even write properly.

　But as a mere farmer, I don't seem like someone the nobles would want to negotiate with.

　That's why I needed to win this battle and make them think that I was a dangerous person to make enemies with.

　However, in the current situation, there was a large power gap between the two sides even though we had won the field battle once.

　Therefore, we had to make them think that it would be a bad idea to take on Barca forces.

　So, we want to build a castle to intimidate them.

"That's why I want to build a castle. I want to build a castle that will frighten my opponent and also have a decent defense. Manufacturing is your forte, right, Gran-san?"

"Well... hmm... I never thought this day would come, desu, Ars-sama."

"What is it? You can't build it?"

"What do you mean? For a builder, building a castle is like a dream from childhood, that it is desu. I don't know how many times I've thought about building a castle, that I have desu."

""I don't know how many times I've thought about building a castle" ...... So you've never designed a castle before? Are you trying to say that?"

"I just haven't had the chance so far, that I haven't, desu."

"...... you're making fun of me, aren't you? You're mocking me, aren't you? Is that what you're aiming for?"

"It's not the only reason, but it was one of the reasons, that it was, desu~"

"...... Well, okay. I can clear the land and build walls, but I'm no good at designing. You're the only one I can count on. I'm counting on you, Gran-san."

"All right. I will build you a magnificent castle that will amaze even the nobility, that I will, Ars-dono."

　I was surprised to find out that Gran was a bit more shrewd than I had originally thought.

　But I know that he has building skills because he built me a house once.

　I began to discuss the construction of the castle, exchanging opinions with Gran.

 

 

CadmarLegend 2nd Chapter of the day! and the castle's being built... yay~ wonder how it'll turn out to be like. Thanks to all those that joined the discord server!

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