Chapter 60
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Chapter 60 - Mobilization

"Uh, this is amazing. So you hid this kind of thing, Ars?"

"... Hmm, it seems that it was successful. I wonder if everyone other than Baito-nii can now use magic?"

"I can use it. Even so, it's a tremendous amount of magic to give to a person."

 Concentrating on the magic circle, nii-san broke the tension in the room by saying that.

 After all it is nerve-wracking to use this magic circle.

 However, it seems everything went well.

 All five I named had learned my own original magic.

"Okay, I'm going to use this as a trading material to gather strength from the village. I'll give the name and magic of us Barcas to those who cooperate with me now. OK?"

"Okay, you should go right away."

"And I want to ask peddler ojiisan to do something, as well. Will you go to the city as soon as possible and collect information?"

"I understand. Let's find out how many people the Fontanas will gather for the time being."

"Thank you. Be careful."

"That's my line. Don't die, Ars."

 The peddler says while reaching the door quickly.

 While waving his hand backwards, he answered, of course.

 But 'don't die' ...

 I never dreamed that I would live a life where people would say this to me.

 I couldn't help think that life was getting harder.

 * * *

"78 people? I've gathered quite a lot."

 As a result of running around the village on that day, a reasonable number of people gathered.

 We divided ourselves and scattered all over the village, demonstrating the magic and persuading fellow villagers.

 I spread a slightly dramatized story of how the aristocrats tried to hurt Kyle, a villager who was an innocent.

 On top of that, we declared that we will stand up and rebel against the aristocrats.

 Of course, that alone is not something that will get the villagers on our side.

 They won't want to get close to the guy who will rebel against aristocrats, after all.

 However, the magic is actually shown at this point.

 Now, if they cooperate, they can use this magic, and I am willing to provide new land.

 In that way, I presented the actual benefits as well as the emotional aspects.

 However, it is highly possible that the number of people that will fully gather won't be much.

 It is not trivial to resist those in power, no matter how profitable the reason to rebel may be.

 However, I was able to break through that problem.

 I have a person who has a deep relationship with our village.

 I, at one point, used to clear the forest and turn it into my own land.

 I couldn't get enough work done myself and hired Baito-nii.

 Although he was only the 2nd oldest brother in our family, Baito-nii had a considerable presence in the village.

 There is no one who tries to fight against my growing brother, who has been honing his fighting skills over time.

 In addition, I used to allocate rewards such as food to the children in poverty who worked under Baito-nii.

 In other words, the young and the poor were very friendly with me and my brother in the village.

 Everyone combined has gathered quite a few people.

 Maddock-san also approached the lumberjacks and gathered a number of people.

 As Maddock-san said, people who were greatly influenced by the forest management I carried out gathered here.

 After all, it seems that the lumberjacks' current lives are better than their previous lives of just cutting trees in the forest where dangerous animals come out.

 I think it's because Maddock once informed me of the lumberjack's dissatisfaction with me.

 Even in the village where people usually wield an ax, stronger-than-average men gathered with me through my connection with Maddock-san.

 However, it was Hector who had the greatest influence on the village in the end.

 Hector is the man who is the elder brother of me and Baito-nii, and from the perspective of my parents, he is the first child to be born.

 And he's the one who just got married the other day.

 Actually, even though he got married, Hector is still 14 years old.

 Marriages in this world can happen earlier than marriages in my previous life.

 Why did he get married so early?

 It was because the marriage partner was pushed onto him.

 The house where Hector got married into was the mayor's house in this village of Barca where we live.

 The village mayor who has been aiming for my settlement for a long time.

 He aimed at my family, my brother, not me, who was still too young.

 If his daughter marries Hector, who will eventually become the head of my family, he will have the right to legally squeeze into my land.

 I think the mayor thought so.

 However, I have to say that that decision was premature.

 The village mayor would not have thought that the other party's house would quarrel with a powerful person immediately after his daughter got married into it.

 Well, it's not unreasonable.

 I never had that idea myself.

 However, even if it was an unfortunate event for the village mayor, it turned out to be a thankful marriage for me.

 I indirectly threatened the village mayor that he would be killed in the collective punishment if we lost against the Fontanas since he had become a part of my family and asked for cooperation from the villagers.

 As a result, we succeeded in mobilizing people using a house that has little connection with our house.

 In the first place, on the scale of Barca village, the normal mobilization force is about 50 people.

 This is because not all male hands come out every time a battle is played.

 Although there are still pre-adult children, more people than I expected gathered.

 At this point, there will be no one in this village who has no kinship with the rebels.

 In this way, the village of Barca was quickly transformed into a land where the entire village rebelled against the aristocrats.


TLN: Hmmm... marriages at age 14... well, they probably don't consummate it, tho. Probably just a way to connect families. Probably.


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