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Editor’s Corner (cast: Yuuka, Slish Clown and a French Pierrot) It is a calht breeze accoh the air The circus was having a tea party in the middle of a field, there was also a cake as dessert Everyone was enjoying the circusy stuff When suddenly a seey: Hey Yuuka-san, I’ve been wondering for awhile now, doesn’t Clown-sama and Pierrot-chan look the same? How do you tell them apart?

Yuuka: H on tea? That’s Clown-san-chan, the one carrying a baguette around is Pierrot-chan

S on tea right now though… Isn’t the one who is constantly sipping on tea you? You can’t tell the about, I can t-t-tell them apart just fine

B-baka

065 The Prelude to Disaster

King Edodoes in the trade status quo surrounding the Farinally, the profits and losses of trade will take up to a year or even longer before it’s certain, but this ties are do partner of the Dwarven Kingdom

Without the need to traverse hazardous terrain, it is advantageous for direct transactions Therefore, a great deal of profit was earned by selling the ih taxes

But, sih to be satisfied about

If the ioods were to be solely sold within the country, withholding foreign trades, that would further increase profits, and such a decision wasto the advice of the Minister of Economical Affairs

As expected, at first there was an increase in the number of adventurers into the country plus the sales and revenues also increased

But in a ns of recession, and an investigation of the cause was ies are not only lioods and adventurers who ca in the city affect the revenues of shops and inns, nored

This isn’t a problem one can afford to siht forth, it was a shocking one

“It seems like a new city has appeared in the Great Jura Forest In addition, it’s inhabited by monsters”

And that’s the situation This is simply absurd

When Veldora disappeared, the spike in monster activity had been a cause for concern Many monsters live in the Great Jura Forest Comparatively, the threat level of the h there area town in such a dangerous place, howvillages and toithin the monster habitats requires a lot of taxin a town is an unprecedented pheno a country Who could possibly believe this?

However, there were reports of goblin tribes evolving into a huures that looked like orcs, and whatnots

In the report, they’ve all evolved into the species called hobgoblins By now, the goblins are already quite close to huuage

That’s not all, there are also Orcs and High Orcs, with knowledge and technique of organizing work corps to establish and maintain roads

This is an absurd story no matter how one thinks about it

How le individual to evolve? Of course due to thethat roup evolving, this is so that is unheard of for centuries!

Of course, I didn’t doubt that the spies would lie

But that’s not the problem here

The main issue is a city has appeared out of nowhere

Directly through the Great Jura Forest, with a route directly connecting the Dwarven kingdom and the small country Buruaranteed

This is solected After all, if this route is perdodom, which mainly relies on trade for incohboring Dwarven kingdodom (thank you), the local level of industry is low

There are no local specialties, and there aren’t any resources able to be processed

The local agriculture is at a level when the people wouldn’t starve, but the tax gained wouldn’t be enough to cover the national spending

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Until now, thanks to threat Veldora posed, the trade route through the Fardom had made it prosper

The disappearance of Veldora after 300 years was not predicted

Thus, measures for the future as a country haven’t been well looked into yet

「Now then, what happens now……」

There isn’t anyone who could answer the king

Currently, in a place where an e conference commenced, siathered here are all upper class nobles involved in the ement of the state, whose wealth is deeply routed to the central

Everyone present knew do with the Dwarven kingdoh no one answered, there’s an answer However, whoever says it will have to burden all the responsibility

Adding that to the equation, this isn’t so that could be said

“Let’s invade and destroy the city!”

Those are the words

Even with the collective effort of the country, the most number of troops that can be ainst an evolved ht or a mercenary will be necessary This isn’t a war between humans, if you want toa the amount of people ill die in vain

So out of the 100,000 soldiers, those with actual combat experiences via skirmishes number about 20,000 Mercenariesto this country is 10,000 at ion When it co’s orders are 5000 at most

The numbers in the monster’s country seeht be so construction

TN: Dramatic Irony – there’s around 165,000 maxresdefault

In addition, if you consider a 1 vs 1 battle scenario, you’ll need to factor in the quality of equiphting force as well

With that said, subduing the hts will be difficult

For a decisive victory, at least 10,000 experienced soldiers ests the attack will have to carry the burden of the fund should the combat forces be insufficient

No one wants tothe burden of the losses is also undesirable The people gathered here all had that hts of the upper class nobles

Factors that will secure victory are combat forces and war funds

In addition, the adventurers staying in the lected He’ll need to cooperate with a friend to work this out No one is going to support them if there aren’t any benefits……

However, what if it’s assu the overn the city……

There wouldn’t be any sense of unethicality ruling over thethe proble monsters In addition, the city can be incorporated into the country’s territory

In doing so, the Farht even obtain the blessings of the Great Jura Forest

Adding to that, the defenses can also be left to the monsters The council doesn’t allow human slavery, but they wouldn’t complain if they’reup new trade routes, it’s choke-full of good benefits

Above all, there was so

It is silk, a sample of it was obtained fro like it before

Coic fiber or hemp cloths is a presumptuous act Analysis results show that it appears to be a fabric woven froerous h the materials aren’t limited to the cocoon, however… In reality, no one could believe there being an even better fabric than the one at hand

With whatevermethod, this could be the country’s specialty

This and that, if the city was to be conquered, those benefits will be obtainable

Involuntarily, it’s likely the desperation of the king has distorted his face with desire

The proble had a plan

He had already contacted Cardinal Nicolas Spertus of the church previously

An urgent eic communication between countries

The contents of the letter was regarding the Monster Country The letter rittentrouble to the church and persuading the Edomarisu is acquainted to Cardinal Nicolas

He is a shrewdas it doesn’t depreciate the church Such afrom his perspective is natural

In the letter, it was also written that for any further consultation would require sendingcouldn’t hide his surprise