It can be said that there are a total of four territories bordering the Akasha territory. The place with the largest area facing each other is the Marquis of Illivad, and besides that, there are Baron Bretling, Viscount Aodani, and Viscount Yurent.
Among them, the heads of three families, excluding the Marquess of Illivad, gathered together.
“Because of Count Akasha, our estate is in trouble these days.”
“It is the same for us.”
“Where did that young fellow get the money to spend so much? Do you mean that the church has so much support?”
It’s not only because of the Akasha estate that the situation in their estate became difficult, but they believed that. Right now, even the Marquess of Illivad was benefiting from the development of the Akasha Territory.
“Isn’t that why you can’t even wager a territory war?”
“If you want to die, I won’t stop you. How many masters are there? In addition, Countess Akasha said that she was also a great wizard. Because he is a saint, he can treat hundreds of people at once.”
“I have had that treatment before. It is truly a miracle from God.”
“In addition, you have the absolute trust of His Majesty the new Emperor. The central army might come down the moment we start the Battle of the Territory.”
“In the first place, we won’t even get permission for the territory battle, but before that, the masters of Akasha’s territory will cut our throats.”
The sighs of the three lords deepened. no method. There is no way to touch it by force, economically, or politically.
“But isn’t it as long as we don’t touch Count Akasha?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’ve seen it in old history books. There is a story about a country on the eastern continent disguising its regular troops as bandits and plundering border towns in neighboring countries to raise money.”
Even if you don’t have to go all the way to the East Continent in history, such a story was a common method used by aristocrats with a bad back. It was a method of disguising the regular army of the territory as bandits or thieves to plunder the neighboring territory or the passing company. They even plunder their own lands.
“That might be a good way. Isn’t the scale of the corps heading to the Akasha estate amazing?”
“I think we can increase our pockets and weaken the Akasha estate without directly attacking Count Akasha.”
Their intellect might have thought it like a good way. Except, of course, that I’m watching all the mocks of this plot.
However, he did not immediately cut the three lords’ heads. However, he requested the Sword Mountain Mercenary Corps to thoroughly escort the top tier under direct control of the territory, and warned the top tier that had transactions with the Akasha territory to strengthen their defenses.
The thieves, organized by each of the three lords with a portion of their regular army, had their goals drastically reduced. In the first place, all three territories have not changed their strength. The power of the thieves, made by borrowing only a few of them, couldn’t be good.
There were a few knights who reluctantly participated at the command of the lord, but as they gathered in each territory, they became discordant, and in terms of organizational power, they were actually close to a rogue group that was worse than an ordinary thief.
As a result, the guild guarded by Sword Mountain, which had a lot of knight-level mercenaries, didn’t dare to touch it, and the private guilds, who had listened to my warning, were well prepared, and several guilds were grouped together, so it was not easy to attack it.
In the end, the target was not the merchants who came and went to and from Akasha’s territory, but the merchants who came and went to and from their territory, that is, the vicious merchants who were kicked out for doing something in Akasha’s territory.
Even though the thieves had been active for a while, the satisfactory amount had not been collected, so the lords disguised themselves as thieves and started wiping out their subordinates.
In the end, the bandits slaughtered several slashed-burning villages within their territory and chased the fleeing slashed-burning villagers to the vicinity of the city, where they even clashed with the guards.
But here a problem arose. The city the bandits descended from was the city of Baron Bretling. There was a brief skirmish with the guards there, resulting in two fatalities on both sides, one of which was Setas’ father.
Setas’ father did his duty. It would be normal for a normal lord to come up with a subjugation plan for the thieves who injured the city’s regular army, but Baron Bretling, of course, couldn’t do that.
A few days after his father’s simple funeral, when his mother, who worked as a maid in the manor house, went to work early in the morning, Setas quietly led her two-year-old body outside.
And suddenly the body disappeared from the surrounding landscape. It was invisibility magic. A two-year-old child who had never learned magic from anyone used invisibility magic. Then, using fly magic, he flew up into the sky.
Setas headed to the mountain where the thieves had settled. It seems that this also uses some tracking-type magic, but I didn’t know that.
Setas, who landed in the middle of the mountain and reappeared, spoke in a low voice as he looked at the bandits who were bewildered by the sudden appearance of a child.
“All you scumbags die.”
It was so cold and frightening that I couldn’t believe it was uttered by a two-year-old. And, starting with the members of the thieves around Setas, their chests began to explode one after another. This isn’t normal magic. It looked like a variation of the language magic that Drakan had created and used.
After a while, there were no living thieves left in the thieves’ living quarters. There were a few knights among them, but they were no different from ordinary soldiers or knights in front of Setas magic.
I was watching the whole scene as an alter ego. A two-year-old baby flew in with fly magic on invisibility and slaughtered about 150 bandits with magic? Even if you tell Howard, he won’t believe it.
And Setas returned home as if he had brought a small box containing the money the thieves had plundered. Returning home, Setas shed tears as he stroked his dead father’s sword. Tears were not shed at the funeral.
I’m a bit shocked here. It’s not because of ability. I have always believed that Setas was something related to the gods. But shed tears over his father’s death? God can’t do that. Setas was human.
When the bandits were massacred, the three lords fell into chaos. I couldn’t get a regular call, so I sent someone in person and found only corpses. The lords gathered again.
“Judging by the state of the body, it’s the work of one person.”
“He is also an incredibly talented person. It was a desperate technique that made it impossible to tell whether it was a wizard or a knight.”
“Perhaps he caught on to our ruse.”
It wasn’t something I did, and it was a petty swindler who couldn’t even call it a ruse, but the lords thought I did it anyway, and trembled in fear and stopped all operations. In fact, there was nothing to say about stopping. It was because they couldn’t afford to hire more people to maintain the bandits.
A few days later, I called in advance and visited Baron Bretling, where Setas lives. As Jake and Joseph’s Inquisitor’s troops were dragged away, Baron Bretling came out to meet him all the way to the border of the territory and trembled like an aspen tree in the winter wind.
“hello. Baron Bretling”
I may seem a bit arrogant, but I greeted the baron, who was trembling from the top of his horse. The thief seemed to think that I had come to kill him right away because he was numb. In fact, there are some that have been aiming for it a little.
“Oh, hello. Countess Akasha”
“I’m sorry for saying this the first time I met you, but what I came to see today is…”
“D-I’ll give it to you. Please spare my life.”
What are you suddenly giving me? And why kill all of a sudden? I came with the intention of taking Setas and his mother.
“What are you suddenly giving me?”
“Hey, I’ll give you the manor.”
I know roughly what you’re thinking, but I’m not that ruthless. What’s the point of losing face when I become such an extortionist painting?
“I don’t know what you mean, but let’s hear the details.”
I was invited to the baron’s mansion to talk. The bottom line is that Baron Bretling will dedicate his estate to me. He could be accepted as a vassal family, but considering Baron Bretling’s ability and character, he was not a great man to work properly when he was entrusted with a vassal as a vassal.
After a long discussion, it was concluded that I was purchasing Baron Bretling’s estate with money. Baron Bretling seemed rather overjoyed.
I was just prepared to be taken away day by day, but I was happy because I sold the ruined estate for a fairly large amount of money.
After discussing the details with the staff below, I headed for my original goal, Setas’ house.
Setas’ mother, the baron’s maid, was still at work, so Setas was alone at home. I quietly knocked on the door when I heard a noise from inside.
“Who are you?”
imitate a pretty cute baby Setas had been deceiving the attention of those around him by pretending to be a reasonably smart baby.
“I am Count Germain Akasha. Can we talk for a moment?”
But I know the true face of Setas.
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“Mom told me not to open the door to someone I don’t know!”
“Setas, we know each other quite a bit, don’t we?”
Instead of answering, the door opened quietly. A rather cute-looking baby was frighteningly opening its eyes inside the door. Those cold eyes when he killed the bandits.
“There is no need to be so vigilant. I’m not here to fight.”
“What did you come for? And you know me?”
Setas’ tone changed. Her voice is still a baby, but her tone is that of an adult.
“Yes, I have been watching you for a long time. Didn’t you also radiate energy around here and explore it once?”
In an instant, the waves I felt last time passed through my body. And Setas’ face hardened. Perhaps it was a measure of my strength.
“You are strong.”
I smiled. It was funny to have a serious adult tone with a cute baby face, and it was also like that to be too wary of me.
“As I said before, I am not here to fight. I am not your enemy. Rather, it would be more like an ally.”
“You’ve been watching me all this time?”
“Yes, I have that ability. I watched from the time you were born until the time you killed all the bandits a while ago.”
Setas’ eyes widened slightly. However, it soon returned to its original expression.
“So what are you going to do with me?”
“You have no idea what to do with you? yes, how about this? Would you like to adopt me?”
Setas’ face wrinkled beautifully. no do you hate me that much? Isn’t he a good father with a lot of money and a lot of power?
“refuse.”
“why not?”
“I cannot entrust my mother to someone who looks like a parasitic brother like you.”
“No, I’m not saying I’m going to marry your mother. I want only you to be my adopted son. Your mother will take care of you so that you can eat and live comfortably for the rest of your life.”
Setas’ eyes twitched again. Was it a tempting offer? It’s definitely shaking right now.
“I don’t know if you know it or not, but I am the richest person in this empire. As you know, he is quite strong and has enough power to be favored by the emperor. Isn’t he a good father?”
“I still refuse.”
“so why?”
It was a half-joking proposal from the beginning, but at this point, my pride hurts.
“I have no intention of falling under anyone. Just take care of my mother as I will work for you until I grow up.”
“Hmm”
I pretended to be worried. Talking about adoption was a joke, and I was thinking of taking him anyway. Setas is too dangerous for this world. Setas is also dangerous from the world. Seeing that Setas is not present in Wither’s past life memories, it is likely that Setas died somewhere before growing up.
It’s hard to measure the strength of Setas right now, but it’s not absolutely strong. It’s not that he’s going to die somewhere easily, but if that’s the case, what killed Setas is probably something related to the gods.
“good night. Instead, you must stay on my territory until you reach adulthood, and in the meantime you must obey my orders. Instead, I’ll give you anything you want, if possible.”
For now, Setas is bound until he becomes an adult. Even now, it’s hard to imagine how strong the monstrous Setas will be when it reaches adulthood.
“I get it.”
The hand I extended was caught by Setas with its small hand. Setas and his mother returned to the Akasha estate with me. Setas, the first to leave the Baron Bretling family, couldn’t hide his surprise when he entered the Akasha estate.
After asking Wither to give him a mansion for Setas’ hat to live in, he returned to the office with Setas. There was still much to be said about Setas. But as soon as Bastet, who had just returned to her office, saw Setas, her hair puffed up and her claws were raised.
[You bastard!!!!!]
In an instant, a tremendous amount of energy and life gushed out from Bastet to the extent that her body was pushed back.