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Chris had been avoiding luxuries as much as possible up until now, but he did not stop the attendants from bringing him water. After waking up in a bedroom where the wind was not leaking and washing his face, he realized that he had become a nobleman.
After shaking off the hand of the attendants and getting dressed, Chris leisurely went down to the dining room and met Illesis.
Tyrone has not been seen since early morning.
“Where did this kid go again? He probably isn’t sleeping yet.”
“Good night, my lord. Tyrone went to look around the city early in the morning.”
Baren, who had just entered the restaurant, greeted me in the morning and explained.
As Chris sighs as he touches the crispy grilled chicken dish, Baren asks slightly worriedly.
“Don’t you like it? Shall we send someone to get them right now?”
“No, that’s okay.”
Tyrone disappeared from the morning wind, but it didn’t seem like a big problem.
And why don’t grown adults interfere with things like this… … .
However, he strongly felt the need to make Tyrone, who lives in his castle, do something.
Chris, who was eating chicken legs, was satisfied with the chef’s skill.
Beyond the window of the lord’s castle, thick smoke began to rise from the city.
Illesis saw it and tilted her head.
“huh? Is there a fire over there?”
“no. That’s smoke from a processing facility located downtown. The salt of our manor is not pure white, so we melt it once and process it white, then sell it.”
Varen said, holding up the salt bowl on the table.
The grains of salt he held are pale pink.
Suddenly curious, Illesis used an analysis spell on the fly to examine the ingredients.
“hmm… I don’t think there are any ingredients that are particularly harmful to the body.”
“If there was such a thing, I wouldn’t even put it on the lord’s table. We know that this kind of salt is not harmful because we have been eating it for a long time, but consumers in other countries do not.”
“It’s definitely not a color that looks good on the body.”
Chris nodded, satisfied with Baren’s work.
He was shoveling here and there, so there was no doubt that he was quite a competent person.
Since Chris had been managing the territory well before taking office, his administrative ability was guaranteed.
Baren smiled lightly at Chris’ words and added a little explanation.
“With this processing, you can receive a value that is twice as high as before. It costs a lot of money to buy firewood, but it’s worth it.”
“Oh, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tree outside the castle.”
“That’s the only downside here at Vector.”
While Illesis is chatting with Baren.
Chris watched the smoke grow louder and thicker.
“for a moment. Is that getting worse? Wasn’t it really on fire?”
“yes? No way… … .”
Baren looked out the window again at Chris’ point and hardened his face.
Certainly, today’s performance was unusual.
Just as he was about to run out of the restaurant, one of Yeongji’s soldiers rushed in.
“Lord! It was a big deal. An arson incident occurred at a processing facility in the city… … .”
“what?”
I didn’t think it was possible, but it was really a fire, and I thought it was an arson incident.
Everyone in the restaurant ran outside.
Fortunately, by the time they reached the city, the smoke that had risen in the sky had lost its momentum.
It seems that the people nearby did a good job of coping with it.
At the center of the fire was a warehouse for storing firewood used in processing facilities, and if the fire had spread properly, it would have really gone out of control.
While Elesis, who had followed behind, waved her staff to call for a shower, Chris approached the guards who were putting out the fire.
“Hey, lord!”
“What happened? You said it was an arson incident, not a simple accident?”
“That’s right. This guy suddenly turned around and set fire to the warehouse… … .”
“Because he used to work at a processing facility, the warehouse keeper just let him through.”
Hulin, who seems to have arrived at the scene first, forced the man to kneel in front of Chris.
Then, Chris let out a groan.
“Hmm… really?”
“yes.”
Could it be that these guys have an accident and try to put it on someone who is fine?
He, who was always in the minority rather than the majority, and who was persecuted rather than protected by the guards, had no choice but to harbor such doubts.
Suffering from a chronic illness peculiar to a mercenary, he turned his head at the voice he heard from behind.
“It is true that the child set the fire. It wasn’t long before I went into the storage room, so the smoke came out?”
Just then, Tyrone, who was down in the city, appeared behind him and testified.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the perpetrator of the arson incident did not seem to have any intention of denying his crime.
He lifted his tanned face and looked at Chris, his eyes bloodshot, and he shouted while spitting.
“Inom! How is Cadral’s punishment! Do you think you can turn the church into an enemy and be safe?”
“No, this guy is crazy!”
“huh? Cadral?”
When Chris took a closer look at the man, he saw the holy symbol of the Cadral Church hanging around his neck.
It seems that his enemy, the Confederation of Churches, has been using the believers to work.
It’s a really troublesome situation for Chris, who has a lot to lose after being inaugurated as a lord.
He didn’t bother to answer seriously and asked Baren in the back.
“Baren, arsonists deserve the death penalty, right?”
“That’s right.”
If you set fire to a city with wooden buildings huddled together, it could cause a really big accident.
Therefore, arson in the city was unconditionally punished by the death penalty.
Here in Vector, there are so few trees that the proportion of stone buildings is high, but even so, setting fire to the firewood storage is unforgivable.
Chris looked out at the plaza and sighed.
“You use a dragon to kill me. Let’s get rid of it quickly.”
Chris hadn’t shied away from murder from the beginning, and if he were left alone, he would die mysteriously in prison.
If the fire had spread properly, the city’s inhabitants would have died in droves.
The gaze of the person who committed such a crime was not very nice.
In particular, the workers in the processing facility have been sharpening their teeth from a while ago.
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Firewood began to pile up in the plaza where the death penalty was erected.
According to the tradition here in Vector, the punishment for arsonists was a slow and painful burning at the stake.
Chris, the new lord, also decided to continue that wonderful tradition.
However, the arsonist set on the stake shouted and shouted to the crowd.
Even a faint sense of fear could not be read in the red-stained eyes of the fanatic.
“The author is the incarnation of the devil and the pawn of the devil! Everyone, don’t be fooled by him and follow Kadral… … .”
However, it was useless to shout so desperately.
The citizens of Vector did not forgive the Church Alliance for fleeing the war with Breton.
The newly appointed lord has not done any harm to them yet.
And no one would have been able to dislike it in the face of the lord.
They soon start throwing stones at you.
“If you want to die by burning, die alone, fanatics!”
“This is how you repay the kindness you spent as a worker?”
“Yaya, I’m not going to die by fire, but by being stoned.”
“What are you doing, you kids? Stop it quickly!”
When Jack, who was appointed yesterday, said something, the guards hurriedly moved.
Soon, oil is poured over the firewood, and when it catches fire, a nasty smell fills the square.
The culprit, who had been making a determined expression just a moment ago, howled as hard as he could and cursed Chris.
Illesis had made it rain, and the firewood was in poor condition, so the fire was weak, but that would make it all the more painful.
Chris saw Illesis’ shocked expression and left with her.
Returning to Yeongjuseong’s office, his face was full of annoyance and worry.
Thanks to the war with the Breton Empire, there was a feeling of rejection of the church, so it was a shame, otherwise there would have been a riot to bring down the lord.
“These kids are coming out really mean… I need to do something right now.”
I’ve just been trying to use Yeongji’s property to start a business, but I’m already going to hit it if I get in the way.
Varen, who followed him, tried to give advice with a very worried expression.
“But if you try to suppress the territories, you won’t see much effect. I’m sorry to say this, but you seem to have many enemies around you… … .”
“I cannot deny it.”
Followers of the Cult Alliance are everywhere on this continent.
It is realistically impossible to find and eradicate them one by one.
Attempting to do such a thing would only earn the resentment of faithful followers.
Chris decided to go for their heads, not blind followers.
But the power of religion is strong.
If you confront them head-on, even Chris will take a lot of damage.
It was a few months ago that they struggled with the aftereffects of the ceremony to seal the status window, but they must have regained a lot of strength now.
I wanted to solve it through conversation, but Chris had received the gift of the evil god and killed a lot of people in the church.
So they won’t even try to talk to him at all.
Frustrated, Chris got up from his seat and looked out the window when he saw a flag hanging on the wall.
“hmm… Baren. Is that the royal flag?”
“That’s right. Now I have to fix it with the lord’s crest and walk.”
“okay? Then let’s do this.”
Chris, who took a piece of leather out of his chest, drew a complex and grotesque sentence from his memory.
Seeing this, Illesis and Tyrone were startled and asked with serious expressions.
“Wait, are you serious?”
“The effect is certainly good, but I think this is a bit too much.”
“Simply putting out a sentence would be fine. Baren, make this as soon as possible and hang it on the wall.”
“I will.”
Baren tilted his head at the sentence he had never seen before, but followed Chris’s command.
The crest Chris chose is the holy mark of Argal, the bust.
It’s the lord’s coat of arms, and it’s too dangerous to hang it.
Colleagues who knew that well trembled with anxiety even after Baren disappeared.
Chris, who couldn’t bear to see that, reassured them.
“Don’t you worry too much? Do you guys know how hard it is to make Shinji? Just like this, nothing happens.”
“How do you know that?”
“When I was a mercenary, I was hired on a quest to help build a temple in the land of heresy. At that time, I couldn’t sleep well for three days and nights to stop the aborigines from raiding.”
What Chris’s employers were making was a temple that was only about 100 pyeong, but a huge amount of effort went into making it.
While the mercenaries blocked the enemies outside, the priests and paladins of the temple sang congratulatory songs and prayed while constantly pouring holy power.
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Moreover, this place, Vector, is much larger and more populated than that place.
It is said that Argal is a very powerful god, but it is unlikely that the god will be completed at once just by raising a few holy signs.
After a while, Baren returned and in his hand was a flag made by ordering the maids of the lord’s castle.
Chris nodded, satisfied with his prototype.
“Okay, finish it before the sun goes down and upload it. When this work is finished, the Church Alliance will come to contact you.”
“What kind of pattern is this… … .”
“Wouldn’t it be better not to know?”
When Chris responded to Varen with sincerity, Tyrone and Illesis, who were on either side, agreed.
When Varen saw it, he gave up further questions and went back to finish his work.
The three people left in the office continued to wait anxiously, using the death row inmate’s scream from the city square as the background music.