Chapter 188: Unholy Land
Looking out of the carriage, I let out a breath.
“Huh…….”
I recall, it was only until mid-morning.
This morning, the day of Nambonan's departure, I went to the mansion to greet Anna on her departure from her.
This was my first visit to the mansion during my stay in Nambonan, as Rave had come to the mayor's mansion to be embraced last night as well.
Anna was a little reserved, perhaps because the maid had given her a sermon.
But that was only until I invoked my phony magic, and after a little sparkle, she was all gooey and sweet.
We exchanged plenty of hard, thick kisses that left our mouths smeared with saliva, and then we headed back to the mayor's mansion.
Perhaps it was not a good thing that I returned to the mayor's mansion smelling like a meth-head.
Rave had woken up before I knew it and was waiting for me to return, and when she saw me, she pressed her big tits against my cheek. It seems that she has already figured out that I am a tit star.
Even though my cock had been so excited last night that it was worn out, and I had pumped four shots of seed into my vagina each time, I couldn't resist my morning erection from becoming a full blown erection. To.
I had a bad feeling in my vagina, which was still halfway full of the semen I had poured in just a few hours before, like when you put on a pair of sea pants you used once and left them to dry, but as I shook my hips, my brain became all about pleasure and I didn't care about that.
In the end, the first and second squeezes of the morning belonged to Rave.
I probably should have brought Rave to New Nellie City, even if I had to push her a little. If I had asked for it strongly enough, I am sure she would have followed me.
The thought of not being able to touch that attractive woman's body again for a while makes my cock swell with withdrawal symptoms.
But it is too late now that I have already left.
Remembering the feeling of muu-muu-muu in my hand, I let out a deep breath once again.
Young Master, the knight has come to greet you.
The maid who was waiting for me responds to the voice coming from outside the carriage and informs me of the situation.
I understood.
Although there is no toll tax in the territory of Kuordenze, I, as a nobleman, am greeted by a knight or his deputy every time I enter the knight's territory.
I don't know how many people I have been greeted by since I left the city of Nambonan, but now that I have crossed over into knight territory again, the greeting party has arrived.
To be honest, it is quite tedious to get off the carriage every time and listen to the knight's lengthy welcome message. It was fine for them because it was only once, but for us, we had to listen to the same thing over and over again.
“Thank you for coming to the land under our custody……”
As one might imagine, the greeting is very polite here, too. Polite and long.
While listening to the knight's talk, a part of my brain was thinking about something else.
This time, I had decided to take a different route back to New Nellie City because I had a stopover I wanted to make.
Since this route is not usually chosen, I think the knights who were passing through also wanted to make sure they were greeted well here.
We were prepared for a lengthy greeting, and since it would be a slightly circuitous route, we planned to leave Nambonan City much more quickly than we had planned.
However, remembering Raveh's female body, I began to wonder whether it was worth the bother to make the detour in the first place. Since the side trip was not essential, I felt that it would have been better to stay in Nambonan City a little longer , giving priority to mating.
But I felt bad for the civilian officials who went out of their way to adjust their schedules for me, and I couldn't say “I've decided against it.
And the knights who came to greet me were very welcoming! I felt a prickle in my conscience when I thought of what I would have done if I had refused them.
I wish I could be a little more of a self-possessed nobleman.
…… Then, please allow me to show you around.”
After the super-long greeting of the knight who rules this land, he moved to the front of the carriage as if to lead the way.
He is the knight who governs this destination as a knightly territory. He seems to have made a lot of preparations since he heard of my visit.
As I was returning to the carriage, I suddenly noticed the carriage behind me. In the carriage, which was a bit smaller than ours, was Kohliy.
The military officer had advised him not to take a woman who was not his servant her and enjoy car sex with her in the same carriage, since he was traveling with many ordinary soldiers in tow.
This was not a problem with Rosé. The soldiers said that it was “Manly” To fuck Rosé, who was also an enemy general, in a carriage.
Fortunately, his erection had not yet recovered, perhaps due to Rave's exploitation of him in the morning.In the ground, it was a needless worry.
When can we expect to arrive?
This time, we had chosen to travel from north to south along the Amelia River on the west side of the territory of Kuordenze.
The wagons were currently moving eastward, away from the river, but until just a few minutes ago they had been traveling right alongside the river.
Because of its location, this area was once the scene of a rebellion by a relative of the Kuordenze family. The Spiaseik family …… Was in a position to receive interference from the kingdom of Vojstra because of its proximity.
The family of the knight who came to greet me earlier is one of the knight families that rebelled against the main family according to the side line. Although several decades have already passed since the purge of their grandmother, they are still treated one rank lower than other knight families.
Even though the family was exonerated after the purge by having a military officer who left his family to join the main family and follow his grandmother faithfully installed as the head of the family, the family itself has not been cleared of all its sins.
I hear there is a good view over that hill, perhaps you can see it from there,” The maid said.
The maid pointed to a window on the front side of the carriage. There was still some distance to go, but a small hill could be seen ahead.
I see. That's something to look forward to.
We continued to ride in the carriage for a while.
As we did so, I began to get an indescribably bad feeling.
It's like being shown a picture of food scraps smashed into a triangular corner, as if the mere sight of it makes the back of your nose go oooh.
And I know that this discomfort is not caused by my sense of smell, but by my sense sixth, my sense of magic.
I ask him, “Don't you have a strange feeling?”
When I called out to them, one of the two maids riding in the carriage had a tense look on her face.She looked as if she was in a very bad mood.
However, the maid still acted stout-heartedly, opened the carriage door, checked the road ahead, and gave some instructions to the driver who was holding the reins. When it turned sideways in the direction of travel.
The maid then opened the door on the side of the carriage and said in a low voice, “Please visit .
'Please take a look at …………. That discolored area in the distance is the land that was defiled by the mature magical beast. The terrain from here on is a gently sloping basin, but such contamination exists in places.
Until now, the height of the window had prevented us from seeing clearly, but now that the door was open, we could see well down below.
It seemed that the carriage was climbing a small hill, and when I looked down at the open door, I could clearly see the scene below.
All the way down the gentle slope was a speckled expanse of blackish-purple earth, as if an amoeba had been slithering about.
The polluted color seemed to have eroded over a fairly large area, at least as far as the rectangle of the door allowed us to see, but we could not grasp the scale of it.
Is that the filth?
That's the muck.
It is the soil contaminated by mature magical beasts.
Oddie once told me. There used to be a hot spring in the territory of Quardenze.
The area where the hot springs used to be located is the place we visited this time. The area suffered a large-scale disaster caused by the appearance of mature demonic beasts about 100 years ago.
I have some knowledge of the Quardenze region's magical beast disasters.
In the warehouse of Newnery Castle, there are not only administrative documents left by the civil servants of the time, but also paintings depicting the appearance of the hexenbiests.
The painting left by the Quardenze family depicts a demonic beast spreading toxins on the earth.
In a word, it is a giant salamander. It resembled a giant salamander in its slimy body and limbs, and in the way its face was smashed up and looked like an aardvark.
Its epidermis was pure white, and it had a mouth so large that it could swallow an elementary school gymnasium in one gulp.
A fully matured demonic beast transforms its body into a gigantic one.
The personality and characteristics of mature demonic beasts vary greatly from individual to individual.
This salamander hexenbiest was said to be a hexenbiest that liked to pollute an extremely small area to an extreme degree.
As it moved from place to place, as if sighing, it would spit out a bluish-purple mist from its huge mouth, polluting the land.
So, even now, nearly 100 years later, the soil here is still contaminated.
Soil pollution caused by a normal mature demonic beast will naturally clear up in a few years, 10 to 20 years at the most, unless the beast is piled up on top of the soil. Remain for 100 years.
It can be said that it was a very troublesome type of magical beast, as if all of its status was allocated to its ability to pollute.
It's a much more poisonous sight than I had imagined,” I said frankly.
I frankly said, “It's a much more poisonous sight than I had imagined.
Even though this was supposed to have been naturally purified over the past 100 years, it was still so horrifying that I could not believe it was that way.
It is frightening just to imagine how polluted the area must have been when the salamander was rampaging in real time.
It was this contaminated land that I wanted to go all the way to see.
……What's wrong, are you feeling sick?”
I called out to the maid who was still waiting at the door. She doesn't seem to be sick enough to vomit, but she is sick enough to make her smile twitch.
She says, “I am sorry to show you the …… Unpleasantness. I am not used to this filth. ……..”
Apparently, she was not the only one who felt something, as the horses pulling the chariot also felt something. When the driver ordered the horses to proceed toward the polluted area, they stopped and would not move.
Perhaps they felt that they did not want to go any closer to the contaminated site after having stopped once. Even horses don't like things they don't like.
The knight who was leading the way talked with the driver about something, and then came to the front of the carriage with a horse in tow.
The knight said, “Young master, I am not accustomed to this. From now on, the horses must be accustomed to the dirt, or they will be wary of it. If you wish to proceed, I would like you to use one of the horses I have prepared for you.
I have come this far, I would like to get a closer look. Get ready.”
“Yes.”
The maid, who seemed to be in a bad way, decided to go with the carriage. Re looking for.
In addition, I decided that the troop I was leading would take a break at this hill for a while.
There was no point in taking the soldiers along for my personal business.
I dismounted from the carriage and mounted a horse, probably bred in this region, that the knight had prepared for me.
My escort, another maid, and a civil servant with the knight were said to be following on foot. I and the knight were the only two people on horseback.
Are you all right?”
While the maid left in the carriage seemed to be having a hard time, the maid who followed me had a calm and composed expression on her face.
Yes, I'm fine,” She said. I have some strange sensations, but I don't feel particularly uncomfortable. I am a slave.
According to this maid's story, it seems that the followers are the most disgusted by the unholy soil.
This indescribable feeling of bad mood,……, Such as a stench that cannot be felt, is due to the magical factor.
In the case of the main ancestor, he is not affected to the extent that he feels bad because of his overwhelming magical power of his.
On the other hand, the slave ancestors are so poor that they may or may not have a sense of magic, so most of them do not feel anything, although there are individual differences. , It is probably difficult for the Yeizu to perceive it.
However, it is said that a squire who has a half-hearted sense of magic will feel and take this evil aura and feel sick. Perhaps the knights and guards are just skinny dipping.
But this is just a matter of getting used to it, and after a while they will naturally get used to it.
In public toilets in the summer, the strong pungent smell makes you feel sick right after entering, but you get used to it and don't mind it while twisting out your stools there.
As we were listening to the knight's stories about the contaminated land, we reached the point where the soil would become contaminated in a few dozen steps.
As expected, even a horse accustomed to the contaminated soil didn't want to go any further, so he stopped without giving any particular signal.
The horse stopped without giving any particular signal.
The ochre color of the unpolluted land and the blackish-purple color of the dirt are clearly demarcated. I had once seen an image on the Internet showing a beautiful separation of water colors at the confluence of two rivers, and the atmosphere was a little like that.
On the surface it looks that way, but already the place where we are standing has turned to filth underground.”
Saying this, the knight picked up a long metal rod that looked like something a Sanzang priest would carry, which was set on the horse's flank.
Gong! And a dull sound, like a compressed earth tremor, was heard, and the ground into which the stick had been thrust had a crack three meters long, 30 centimeters wide, and three meters deep.
'See? We are still a few dozen steps away from the highly contaminated area, but you can see that the ground is already contaminated.
I see, this is easy to understand.”
Except for the ground that the knight magically opened up for us, the soil was normal up to about one meter from the ground, but it began to change color from that area, and from a depth of about two meters down, it was completely black and purple, unholy soil.
Even though the surface has been purified, there are still many areas underground that remain contaminated. Are more extensive than they appear.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
How deep is the contamination?”
The knight answered shortly, “I don't know. He said he had never done any research on this before.
The squires, including myself, have an aversion to digging in the dirt. It takes time for commoners to dig, and if those without magical powers come into direct contact with the dirt, they can get sores and in some cases, their skin can rot and they can die. If you dare to make them do something dangerous and wonder if the benefits are worth it, ……”
So there is no benefit.
It was contaminated up to how many meters, the arms of the lords hired to investigate rotted and 10 people couldn't work satisfactorily, end of story. …… Hmmm, that doesn't sound like a noble sacrifice for academia .
But then again, it's not as if you have to provide someone who can use healing magic to do the research.
Then, are you doing any research or investigation on the unclean soil?
I only record the distribution of the soil visible on the surface of the land once every three months. Compared to the past, the contaminated land is becoming very small. Please see here, I have brought an excerpt of a copy of the record.
I had informed the knight in advance that we would be touring a contaminated site, and he had even prepared the documents for us in advance. I received a sheaf of papers from the civil servant attached to the knight and checked the contents.
This is a map. ……The area filled in with black ink is where the dirt appears to the surface of the earth, right?”
You are correct. The place where we are standing now is this part of the map.
The knighted civil official pointed out the point on the map, but I honestly did not understand it well because I did not know the area well.
I looked at the second map and found that the base map was the same, differing only in the degree of blackening. Apparently, they used a common map.
The top sheet of paper is the oldest pollution map we have on record, and I've brought excerpts from each decade so you can easily see how the cleanup has progressed.”
As I flipped through the map, I could see that the area of black ink was getting smaller and smaller.
The earliest recorded map is about 100 years old. Compared to this, it was safe to say that the current area had shrunk to less than one-fifth of the initial size.
As I was comparing the maps, the knight began to explain the situation.
'There is only a small amount of heavy contamination left, including here. I think that in a few more decades, the filth will probably disappear from this place, and I will try to make sure that it does.
After some confirmation, I handed the map back to the knighted civil official.
You kept good records, didn't you?
'This is a responsibility given to my family about a hundred years ago. It is said that this duty was given to our family about a hundred years ago, by the then head of the family, who is also an ancestor of yours,” He said.
At that time, it was not long after the Kuordenze family had united the interior of Japan through forceful expansion.
In the end, the army was so exhausted by the forced expansion that it was unable to defeat the giant salamander monsters that appeared in the area.
It is said that the knight does not know what he was thinking when he ordered the recording of the contaminated land, whether he was an enthusiastic researcher or it was just an idea.
He did not order us to report to Newnery except for the first time, so I don't think it was for research purposes,” He said. Even now, after taking the records, they are just stored in the warehouse of the mansion as What do you think the purpose of …… Was?
With the lack of information, it is impossible to make any great deductions.
The first thing that comes to my mind is the answer.
“Maybe it was for self-discipline?
I only know what kind of person the head of the family was at that time from what I have read in books that have been handed down in the Quardenze family. Of unifying the interior of Japan and accomplished it.
Although he succeeded in unifying the inner regions, he was unable to prevent the disaster of the matured magical beasts.
A competent person would not turn away from his failures, but face them, accept them correctly, and make the most of them the next time. The head of the company at that time may have deeply regretted the magical beast disaster, and may have had a contamination map made to see how much serious damage had been caused, and decided to take precautions himself.
It is a very likely story.
Or, at least, that's the only thing I can think of.
I'm not an esper. That's one way to think about it.
The knight seemed to be convinced by my answer.
Well, there is a possibility that the head of the family at that time may have left a diary or something, and you can look into it when you have some free time.
But there was one thing that occurred to me after listening to the knight's story.
I would like to get a copy of this map, by the way. Information on the magical beast disaster.
The records that are being kept every three months for about 100 years, so that would be about 400 copies by simple arithmetic.
It would be a first-class record of the contamination and cleanup over such a long period of time.
I will be happy to help you with the map. In addition to the maps we brought this time, we also have written reports by the civilian officials who are in charge of recording the information, so if you want to preserve them, we can prepare copies of those as well.
As expected, there are more than just maps.
As soon as the manuscript is finished, I will ship it to New Nellie Castle. Would you like me to send you the ones I'm going to make at …… As well?
I'm sure it would be hard to send them every time, so just bring me a year's worth of records when you come to the castle at the beginning of the year.
It is indeed not something that I want to subscribe to.
The primary purpose is backup, so even if the worst happens and we lose a year's worth of data, it won't be that damaging.
Then, at the beginning of next year, I will climb the mountain with the records of the remaining three times this year.
They have already conducted the contaminated site survey once this year.
'Oh, please. I'd like to get some of the contaminated soil from …… And the records. Please put it in a wooden box like this and ship it to me.
Since I had come all this way to see the sights, I needed a souvenir.
I said, “About this big,” And indicated with my hand the size of a one-door refrigerator.
I was told that this dirt was repulsive to small insects such as flies and mosquitoes.
Small insects are very annoying.
The Lord Ancestor's body always releases a small amount of magic, so flies and mosquitoes can only come close to him up to a certain distance. It is good that mosquitoes do not bite him, but they are very distracting because they keep flying around close to I sometimes find myself with insects on my snacks on my desk, which is especially frustrating during the summer months.
Sadly, the buildings on the Eluo continent are not as airtight as those in prehistoric Japan, so insects are attracted by lighting magic and other such things, and gather in droves.
It would be nice if someone would develop an insect reblowjobnt or moth-eaten light magic, but alas, there seems to be nothing convenient like that.
I wanted an item like a mosquito coil or insect repellent spray.
I don't have much aversion to dirt, so I'd like to try it out in a pioneering society to see if it can be used as an insect reblowjobnt. If it fails, there is no problem since the original cost is free.
Are you …… For dirt?”
'I'm not in a rush, but I'd like it sent before the summer. Castle.
The New Nellie Castle is crowded with followers, so if I brought a wooden box full of dirt to the castle, I was sure they would look at me with a sour look on their faces. .
If that is the case, it would be better to send it to the development team from the beginning.
I gave detailed instructions to the civil official who was taking notes next to the knight regarding the shipping method and destination.
'By the way, can't we get a little closer to the Unsullied?
I said, “I wouldn't recommend it. The horses will not like it, and their hooves may rot if they are allowed to walk on highly contaminated ground.
Even though the horses are shod, they still come in contact with a certain amount of dirt when they walk, and dirt poison can enter the horse's body.
I don't have a hobby of messing with horses, so I'd better not do it.
I think that would be better.”
I had proposed approaching the place myself, but now I felt that it would have been better to just watch from a distance.
To be honest, I don't want to get off my horse and approach on foot.
Even if I were wearing shoes, it would be a little creepy to stand on the black-purple earth that looked like it was dripping with the juice of evil.
Just like I don't feel like walking through sludge just because I'm wearing boots.
Why would the young master want to see the earth like this?”
The knight asked such a question on the way back to the carriage waiting at the top of the hill.
Well, it is certainly not something interesting to look at, and I don't understand why a young nobleman's heir would go to the trouble of making a detour to see it.
In fact, I didn't have such a great reason myself.
The main reason was that I just wanted to go sightseeing.
I had heard so much about the damage caused by mature magical beasts that I wanted to see with my own eyes how bad it really was.
My impression is that I am glad I came to see it.
The continent was greatly devastated by the upheaval that began in St. Navempos, and mature demonic beasts appeared one after another in various places.
Unlike the priests, for whom the central government of the Holy City of Maguausse is all about politics, the nobles are rooted in the local land and live off the land. When one's hometown is being invaded by such an abomination of filth, one would think that one would have little love for the priests.
The landscape of contamination in this land is so cruel and horrible that it is understandable why Zerdomitra Clade called for a break from priestly rule and independence for the nobility, and why the Levios family took a hard-line anti-priestly line.
Having seen the land of filth, I rather feel that I have come to understand a part of the pride of being a nobleman.
Even if I were to be questioned about my attitude as a nobleman at a social gathering in the royal capital, I think I would be able to behave with confidence.
The current territory of Quardenze is a territory that has not been contaminated by mature magical beasts. I wanted to see it before the Royal Social. It would not look good if I was the only one who did not know about the contaminated area.
“Only you don't know about it?”
I'm sure that all of the five great nobles' estates have more serious problems with hexenbiests than the Quardenze territory.
Without waiting for the knight's response, I continued.
The Zeldmietra territory still bears the scars of the matured monsters and beasts from the time of the upheaval. The fear of the filth must be familiar to those of the Zeldmietra family. Besides, this is a noble family that produced Lord Clard.
In fact, we hear that the territory is prone to famine. And that is why they are engaged in a war of aggression against the Free City Cluster in search of promising lands.
Their thirst for untainted lands must be much stronger than that of the Quardenzes.
The Aterahans, for example, have a misty land just beyond one of the great rivers. The city of Zalezeria, their home base, serves as a huge stake against the invasion of magical beasts, literally holding them back at the water's edge. Sure that they are well aware of the threat of the magical beasts.
The Atellahan family has a great deal of experience in defeating demonic beasts.
I believe that their military-oriented system is also a reflection of their determination to protect the land and with it, the people.
The Milendorva family is no different in the sense that they are troubled by mature magical beasts coming from the land of fog. I heard that due to the tidal currents, mature demonic beasts sometimes drift in from the north. By the time we can confirm their appearance, ocean pollution has already spread, so they must be feeling very bad about it.”
In the northeastern part of Millendorva territory, there is a strait with the Land of Mist.
Due to the tidal currents here, it is said that it is rare for mature magical beasts to wash ashore in the fields of the Land of Mist.
The place of occurrence is outside the territory, and moreover, it is a land with no administrator. Therefore, we cannot complain to anyone and can only defeat those that have washed ashore.
I hear that the Levios family, like the Aterahans, also has many mature demonic beasts that invade from the north.
However, the river is much wider, probably due to its location downstream and proximity to the ocean, and the number of mature demonic beasts crossing the river is said to be fewer than in the territory of Aterahan, which is located upstream of the river.
There are not many mature demonic beasts that have the character to cross the wide river.
After all, there is the disaster of the magical beast Elsinia.
The Ercinea, the great disaster that shook the continent, occurred in a field near the royal city of Levios.
Naturally, the memory of this event would be hard to forget, even if one wanted to.
In this way, the territory of Quardenze, where there is no other polluted area like the one we visited this time, is very fortunate in terms of the disaster caused by magical beasts.
This fact itself is something to be proud of as an aristocrat, but the fact that we have never seen any contaminated land is not very pleasing to us, as if we were a monk aristocrat. Never seen a polluted place. Don't you know how bad it is to be a mature demon beast? I was afraid that he would look at me with an unintelligible superiority.
I had just recently fought a mature demonic beast that had appeared in New Nellie City, but because I had killed it so quickly, I didn't feel that much fear about soil contamination.
It was a great help to have you show me around this time.”
As long as I am going to the Royal Social as a member of the Quardenze family, I cannot afford to be taken for a fool.
I feel that what I have seen and learned about contaminated areas will be one of the things that will support me when I make some statements in the future.
I would be more than happy if I could be of help to you, young master.
Besides,” I continued.
I wanted to see with my own eyes what would happen if I failed to fulfill my duties as the guardian of the land of Kuordenze. I think this is my duty as the nominated next head of the family.”
Oh ……, A voice leaks out from those around us.
The actual “I'm not a fan of the way you look at it, but I'm not a fan of the way you look at it either.
She was quite pretty to look at and had a good-looking body, so I thought I would hold her in my spare time when I was on the move. If this would lead to “Nice-x with the esteemed young master,” It would be worth the embarrassing line.
When I returned to the carriage, the cousin maid, who had looked so pained earlier, was waiting for me with a clear face. Apparently, she had gotten used to the filth of the dirt.
From outside, I heard the voices of the military officers announcing the end of the break to the soldiers, and the knights began to move forward to lead the way.
Thus, my business was finished, and the carriage began to move forward again toward the city of New Nellie.
