I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 380

"Have you fought the Hermes, Lord Brahms?

"Of course, Your Highness. The Rubić family shares territory with the Hermes family and has fought many times before. Before my Rubić's swordsmanship, I would cut off as much Hermes as I could, but for as long as they fought in the territory, they were in trouble."

"Surely the Hermes used illusion, right?

"Exactly. They set their home in the mountains and show off the leaves of the trees as ingredients. As a matter of fact, the exact location of the Hermes castle, deeply divided by illusions in the trees, is not well understood by my Rubić family, which has fought for many years."

"I see. Then I am convinced that the Hermes family has survived for many years with the descendants of Kensei. It's a difficult opponent."

"Exactly."

We invaded and seized the Rubitch family east of the former Carmus realm.

Nevertheless, most of the knights originally in the realm are alive simply by attacking the capital of the Rubić family and defeating the noble family.

They came to greet Fontana as soon as they heard the news of her victory over the Rubić family.

There is no problem with sending a separate team to those who have not come.

Then he sent the family of the Rubić family to the city of Fontana, and left a man at Rubić Castle to go to the next battlefield.

That is the Hermes House, further east of Rubic territory.

View the map that was at Rubić's house.

Although it is not a well-measured and precise map, the map depicts the approximate positional relationship between Ermes territory and the Great Snowy Mountains in the east.

And the north of Hermes was bordered by mountains that jumped a little west from the snowy mountains.

Snow Mountain is a mountain high enough to reach the sky that it runs from the north to the south, making it difficult to travel to and from the land to the east.

And then there are some mountains that are sticking out of that snowy mountain.

To the south is Hermes territory, and to the north beyond the mountains is Baltonia in the Urk district.

In other words, this Hermes Territory is located on the other side, such as Fox Valley, in the south-eastern part of the Old Urk Territory.

I have heard stories that the Ulk territory has no way to go south beyond the mountain, so I have been grabbing the Eindrad hills from the Fontana family for many years, which were regarded as important trading routes.

That means that there are steep mountains where people can move forward, and Hermes territory.

A castle in a mountain is difficult to attack.

However, the Hermes family is not simply based on difficult terrain, but using illusion to consolidate their defenses.

Hermes uses the magic of illusion with tree leaves.

Just to say it's in the mountains, it has a terrifying effect.

The Rubić have entered the mountains many times in an attempt to attack the Hermes, but every time, the army is surrounded by illusions.

Lost Forest.

That was the best defensive margin for the Hermes family, and the location of the castle had become unknown in many years of history.

... if King Doren is hiding from the Alliance of the Three Nobles, would I rather rely on this Hermes house than on Fontana?

Well, okay. In winter, when the mountain trees wither, will the effects of the lost forest diminish, Master Brahms?

"I think so, but are you sure you want to go into the mountains? Even the winter mountains are dangerous. And even if the tree is dead, the leaves of the tree are not completely gone. I think the effects of the lost forest are somewhat effective. If anything happens in Mt. Winter, the army will be wiped out, my lord."

"It's okay. I've already done it."

Brahms is right, it would be ridiculous to think normally and put an army in the mountains in the winter.

However, the Valkyrie used to move so far can move without any problems even in winter.

And the soldiers riding the Valkyrie are fighting the cold with the Ice Spirit that I summoned in my [Ice Spirit Summoning].

After all, we have introduced warm military clothing made of dress liners, so it will be fine.

And it's a lost forest that protects the Hermes family in question, but we already have a strategy.

We had a guide prepared in advance.

No, I don't think so.

It was a bird.

"Tracking birds. Follow the smell of this letter to Hermes' house. Can you do it?"

"Pee"

It's not just a bird.

It is a creature that hatches from a mysterious thing called a beast egg and listens to what people say, and is a masterpiece that Billy Boy studied and produced in Barca.

Even among the rare flying beasts, this tracking bird can smell and even follow the subject's smell.

When Billy first produced this tracking bird, he basically only used it as a replacement for a pigeon.

After that, Kyle's [precautionary story] only played an auxiliary role as a means of communicating information.

However, the tracking bird did not have enough information and communication skills as [Precautionary Story], but still did enough work for me.

Rather, the true value of the tracking bird was its tracking ability.

A terrifying ability to fly as far away as possible to the subject as you can smell.

It changed the efficiency of the criminal investigation in Fontana.

The smell of evidence left at the scene makes it quick to find the culprit, and no matter how many fugitives escape from prison, we will always catch up and find their whereabouts.

The tracking bird, as its name suggests, had established itself as a professional in tracking.

And I have a letter with me.

This was a letter written on parchment, not botanical paper made of barca.

It was the hermes who wrote the letter.

Even though Hermes territory was surrounded by lost woods, there was territory outside, and there were some knights there.

They had sent a messenger there in advance and sent a letter to the Hermes family.

Of course, Hermes couldn't have nodded just because he received such a letter because he wanted to subordinate himself to the Hermes as the Kingdom of Fontana.

But instead of turning around and ignoring Fontana, who was recognized as royal, he sent back a letter.

The owner of the Hermes family wrote in writing.

A letter that would have been written at the home of the Hermes family, perhaps beyond the lost woods, was politely returned to me.

Thus, the Fontana army chases after the tracking bird, which follows the smell left in the letter.

And beyond that, I saw the castle of the Hermes family, where it had not even been known for many years.