Chapter 103: CH 100

“That’s why Yuna was in a bad mood.”

It was Colette, the Countess of Listner, who was Yuna’s closest friend, who made the blunt remark to Yuna, who was standing moodily on the balcony.

Colette, who was originally like an escort or guide, does not easily relate to or sympathize with Yuna. She knows Yuna’s personality well, so when she’s in the wrong, she tells her clearly and in a way that Yuna can accept and encourages her to reconsider.

Before they were a Queen and a Countess, they were Yuna and Colette.

Yuna also made no logical argument against Colette’s point, which would be illogical and would not be taken seriously, but she still showed her dissatisfaction by reluctantly bending her mouth into a crooked shape.

To Yuna, Lulu proudly reiterates her claim.

『Lulu was born by inheriting the magical traits of mom and dad. That’s why Lulu is Papa’s daughter.』

“Hart!”

“Ah, all right, all right! Yuna, in the first place you should understand that human beings and spirits are different existences. Lulu, go back to being a kitten for a minute.”

Hart, who cannot help but worry about Yuna’s rough manner, had Lulu turn back into the white kitten, lifted her by the belly, put her on his lap, and started stroking her back to calm her.

Lulu rubs her forehead against Hart’s hand, and shows a very cat-like affection. Then Maya also turned into a black kitten, then jumped on Hart’s lap, and began to pamper herself alongside Lulu.

Witnessing the scene, Yuna glanced up at Hart with her mouth agape.

“In any case, I will promote these two, and have Alfrida create a realm in the Machaon Star System. Colette and Claudia, you can ask questions, and Yuna, just listen by the side.”

“I can listen just fine, too!”

“No, you can’t listen calmly. I never, to think Her Majesty the Queen would be such a heckler. Well, I’m glad she’s back to normal.”

Hart declared regretfully, and imagined that the cause of Yuna’s relaxed mind, which had been in the bird’s-eye view mode, would be the creation of a realm in the 7th Monarchy Star System and the prospect of one in an 8th star system.

If 8 of the Monarchy’s star system can be made into a realm, it will be perfect in terms of defense. In a realm, where the difference in strength is fivefold, the defense of the Monarchy with hundreds of millions of fighter crafts cannot be breached.

Even if the Daemon Emperor, which is likely to exist in the Hercules System, is so powerful that it is judged impossible to attack the system, the Monarchy will not lose because the other side cannot attack either.

Hart believes that the Monarchy, which recently rewrote the Daemon King’s realm in the Battle of Apollo, is not threatened by Tenka and Hercules, who failed in their capture operation, and that it is possible to conclude an agreement to end the war.

If a realm could be created in the 8th star system, Queen Yuna would have fulfilled the role entrusted to her by the previous Sovereign, Valfrete, to protect the Monarchy.

Only one and a half years have passed since she acceded to the throne.

It was earlier than expected, Hart recalled the dense period.

“First of all, we will feed Mars to the two bodies. What is necessary for the birth of the Spirit King is a planet inhabited by intelligent life. It is necessary to destroy it, then purify and absorb the accumulated miasma. It won’t work if it’s uninhabited, but it’s impossible for Mars to be uninhabited.”

Lulu and Maya already possess energy comparable to that of the Spirit King.

And since there are Martians living on Mars, and Earthers have recently been evacuated there, the feast would fulfill the necessary requirements for promotion.

After all, a certain number of the people of the Solar System do not listen to the Monarchy of Diete. They will ignore the immigration orders of the Monarchy, their former enemy, and martyr themselves in the attack on the planet.

In addition, Mira made a special proposal for the promotion.

According to her, “Why don’t we use the spirit crystal of the Spirit God to add energy and push the two up to Spirit Emperor like Mira?”.

『The crystal body of the Spirit God has about 80% of its energy left. If we give an additional 20% to each and raise them to more than triple their power, they can become Spirit Emperors.』

Hart anticipates from Mira’s idea that she wants to raise Maya, the black spirit, to Spirit Emperor.

Lulu was involved because she couldn’t come up with a reason to give preferential treatment to Maya alone.

“Just to be sure, is it better to spend 20% of the energy on Lulu and Maya, which are considered Anomalies, than to spend 10% of the energy on Alfrida, a normal Spirit King, to make her a Spirit Emperor?”

『Yes. Between Lulu and Maya, who are Spirit Emperors, and Alfrida, who has 10% of the energy of the spirit god’s crystalline body, Lulu and Maya would win.』

“I see, very well.”

Convinced, Hart thought about using the 40% of the energy left over after using it for Lulu and Maya to attack the Hercules and Ten-to Systems, instead of using it to make Alfrida a Spirit Emperor.

In the Apollo Star System Battle, Mira, the Spirit Emperor, used 10% of the energy to rewrite the realm of the Daemon King, which had territorialized the Apollo Star System.

There may be a Daemon Emperor in the Hercules Star System, but there are twice as many Spirit Emperors as allies.

If you challenge them using the crystal body of the Spirit God, you may not be able to repaint the realm of the Daemon Emperor, but you can expect to connect the Transition Gate to the Monarchy side and at least disrupt the realm of the Hercules Star System.

If the planet Alcaeus is destroyed and the Herculeans are annihilated, the Daemon Emperor will no longer be able to obtain miasma from the star system, making it difficult to mass-produce Daemon crystals. That way, even if time passes in a stalemate, the threat to the Monarchy will not increase.

In addition, if the Ten-to Star System is attacked, the war will come to an end.

Finding a path to the final destination, Hart asked Yuna for permission to destroy Mars.

“We will raise two Spirit Kings with Mars, create a realm in the Machaon Star System, and use them to capture Hercules and Tenka. To prevent information leaks, we will falsely inform the Lords that only one Spirit King could be created.”

Using Mars for the spirits is also necessary to prevent it from being used by Daemons. Since the only difference is which side will use it first, the Royal Army should use it.

Colette and Claudia both concurred with Hart’s explanation.

“I suddenly wonder if there was someone like Dr. Kerman in the Hercules Star System. Isn’t it possible that there is something like the Daemon God Crystal over there?”

“I don’t know, but Dr. Kerman was only able to prepare two Spirit Kings, and no Spirit Emperors. Even if there were a Daemon God, they wouldn’t be able to easily increase the number of Daemon Kings, and if there were such beings, we would have to consider signing an agreement to end the war right there.”

Hart added that it would not be profitable to continue the war.

Rather than using the Spirit Emperor or Daemon Emperor for uncertain captures, it is far better to connect the Transition Gate to other promising new star systems. After all, if you use the Transition Gate, you can travel to a star system thousands of light-years away in one day, and also expand into the vicinity.

Information on the character of Yuen of Tenka was provided by Count Liú Hào of Lynn who switched from Kyūyama. Based on that information, the Monarchy decided that if offered agreeable terms to end the war, Yuen will be onboard.

When Ishidor of the Hercules Star System declared war on the Republic of Frodi, he insisted that he would eliminate the threat in order for his people to survive and prosper.

If survival and prosperity were the goals in the current situation, it is far more suitable to sign an end-of-war agreement and advance to other star systems than to wage a war of annihilation with the Monarchy.

If the Daemon Emperor of the Hercules System cannot be conquered, Hart believes ending the war is also an option.

“If the war ends with a draw, the threat of the National Mages will remain. Even in the Monarchy, the people of Shinkyō and Kyūyama will be able to leave because they do not have Royal nationality.”

Naturally, Hart also had the fears that Colette imagined.

If the war ends, Tenka will not invade again during Hart’s lifetime.

Instead, it is expected to mass-produce National Mages and expand throughout the galaxy to increase national power.

The Monarchy will also advance, but in the race for advancement, the Tenka side, with its large number of National Mages, has an advantage.

The Monarchy should have a larger population, but the Monarchy does not know how many Herculeans there are.

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If the total population of the Herculeans is 10 times that of the Monarchy, the number of star systems secured in the race to advance into the galaxy will be 10 times greater, and could pose a danger to the Monarchy in the far distant future.

“I would like to settle it as soon as possible, but we won’t know until we actually attack. The first step is to attack Mars. There were probably spies from the three Tenka nations among the people of Fukashiro and Kyūyama, so I will ask the Lords for their cooperation only after I get to Mars.”

Even if there are Spirits, they cannot flush out spies.

The people of the Kyūyama do not wear spirit crystals, and even if spies infiltrate, they cannot be identified. Even the people of Fukashiro who wear spirit crystals have a large number of spies from before they attached the crystals.

In the first place, since the spirit is the contractor’s ally, it is impossible to demand the spirit to give any information about the contractor. They can only expect encouragement not to antagonize the contractor of the Spirit King, Hart, or to report to the Spirit King in case of direct harm, or something to that extent.

In order not to interfere with the attack on Mars, Hart declared that the information would only be disclosed after preparations were completed, and Yuna and the others agreed.

“That’s right. So we’re going to use Mars to create the 8th realm in the Machaon Star System. Yuna, who has added to her list of accomplishments with that, seems to be getting further and further away from abdication, though.”

Colette jokingly pointed out, but Yuna slammed the desk hard to express her dissatisfaction.

When the war is over, it is not surprising that there will be calls for Yuna, who has accumulated several accomplishments during the war, to continue as the head of the state.

“The will of the former Sovereign is also in place, and Yuna has made her declaration about the succession of the throne from the beginning. If we say that she is to marry and create the next generation of magic power holders, the Royal people will be satisfied. The Monarchy of Diete will carry on after this.”

“Oh yes, that’s right. Hart, hurry up and create a realm.”

Hart quickly followed up, and Yuna agreed with a great nod of her head.

Having reached an agreement from Yuna and Colette, Hart turned his attention to Claudia, who was looking for something to say at the end, and urged her to talk.

“Claudia, did you notice anything? I, Yuna, and Colette have been classmates since middle school, and our perspectives are skewed. Please speak up.”

When Hart and the others focused on her, Claudia made a slight pretense of thinking, then looked up and opened her mouth timidly.

“I might say something a little outrageous.”

“That’s fine.”

“Then………… if we can create one new realm, how about creating a realm in the Hermes Star System, where His Majesty the former Sovereign was originally scheduled to immigrate to, then immigrating the people of the Machaon Star System and move the Solar System residents to the vacant Machaoan Star System?”

Claudia explained, and projected the Hermes Star System onto the screen using her terminal.

The Hermes Star System is a star system to which the former Sovereign, Valfrete, when he was the Third Prince, was to lead a fleet of emigrant ships after receiving his Duke peerage.

The Milky Way galaxy, which spans 100,000 light-years, has many planets suitable for human habitation.

However, if too far away, it would be impossible to travel back and forth from the home country, so the interstellar immigrants had to compromise and choose systems from the vicinity. This is why the star systems of the various powers are so close to each other.

Prior to the resumption of the war with the Coalition, the Monarchy expanded its scope of activities by advancing into the six star systems, and with advances in interstellar navigation technology, was able to choose a slightly more distant destination for emigration.

The Hermes Star System, which is barely within the Monarchy’s reach as a star system to be colonized, is located 1,000 light-years away from the Solar System and 400 light-years away from the Monarchy’s remote Machaon Star System.

The reason why such a distant star system was chosen was that the planet was suitable for immigrants.

The Hermes star is similar to the Sun in size and luminosity, with a surface temperature only about 300 degrees lower.

Within that habitable zone was the planet Kerykeion, which is about 1.9 times the size of Earth and has about 3 times the surface area, and orbits its star with an orbital period of 378 days. In addition, the planet’s rotation period was about 25 hours, more in line with the human biological clock than Earth.

The energy received from the star is about 93% of the Earth’s energy, and the average surface temperature was 5° Celsius, about 10 degrees lower than that of Earth, but within the range adjustable by human technology.

The mass of the planet is about 4.1 times that of Earth, and the gravity is about 1.1 times that of Earth, but this does not interfere with human activities at all.

In other words, the Hermes System contained a rich planet with a surface area three times that of Earth.

At the time of the Diete War of Independence, the population of the Solar System was 40 billion, but if technological developments are included, the Hermes System can be tripled to 120 billion people.

If the surface area of a planet is three times larger, the atmospheric layer is also correspondingly thicker, and the living space can be obtained not only in area but also in height.

A land with three times the area has 1.75 times the length and width, and if the height is also 1.75 times, then the volume is 5.3 times as large.

If there are 40 billion people on Earth, 200 billion people can live on the surface alone, five times as many. The Monarchy of Diete also utilizes underground spaces.

Therefore, it was selected as a destination for immigration and terraforming.

In the star system, resources for building materials have been collected, city-building facilities and solar power generation systems have been constructed, and cisterns and water purification tanks are built under the continents of the planet.

On the other hand, the Machaon star system is a K-type main-sequence star, which is the standard type for humans.

The Milky Way has three to four times as many K-type main-sequence stars as there are G-type main sequence stars like the Sun. Therefore, it is easy to migrate, but K-type systems, whose habitable zones are closer to their stars than G-type systems, tend to have slower planetary rotations.

Rhodes, the inhabited planet of the Machaon Star System, is about the same size as Earth and has 98% the gravity, but has 78 hours of day and night.

If a day has 78 hours, even if divided into three cycles of 26 hours each, it is difficult to live in the dark cycles during the active hours.

However, human technology is not yet capable of freely changing the rotation of the planet.

One of the reasons why it is difficult to increase the 4.6 billion population of the Machaon Star System is the voluntary population control of the Royal people due to the unfavorable planetary environment.

“In other words, instead of creating a realm in the Machaon Star System, we create the realm in the Hermes Star System and have all the people of the Machaon System immigrate there.”

“Yes, I think that would contribute to the national interest.”

Claudia’s proposal isn’t outlandish, but realistic in that it is a plan to emigrate to a planet that is already scheduled for emigration and has already undergone terraforming.

It is self-evident which would be more conducive to the national interest: a star system where 120 billion people can live or a star system where 4.6 billion people live.

It serves not only the national interest but also the interest of the Royal people.

The natural environment, such as rotation speed and temperature difference, is suitable for human habitation, and the energy required for artificial adjustment is minimal.

As the number of humans increases and the miasma accumulates, the energy supplied to Alfrida, who has created a realm, also increases. If that happens, the day may come when she reaches Spirit Emperor. In the far future, the Monarchy could have more sources of Spirit Crystals.

“The New System has more resources than the Machaon System, so it’s also significant from the standpoint of securing the supplies needed in times of war.”

Upon hearing the proposal, Colette evaluated the objective figures.

Besides, it wasn’t just the numbers, but also the development entity of the Hermes System and the largest number of immigrants were from the Machaon System, which was the closest. The people of the Machaon Star System were as attached to the Hermes Star System as they developed it, and there was even a certain number who plan to immigrate there.

The reason why Valfrete chose his wife from the Marquis of Ornelas family of the Machaon System must have been for the purpose of receiving support from the Machaon System.

Having made a bold proposal, Claudia also spoke about its feasibility.

“How about sending a group of city-building facilities through the connecting transfer gate and recreating all the cities in the Machaon System with a 50% increase in size? If the community remains the same, they can get new homes and modern infrastructure at no cost, and we have a cause for war and national defense…”

If a powerful leader pushes forward with just cause, it can be achieved.

Hart, who made eye contact with Yuna, received the will to execute from the change in her eyes and facial expression.

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