Chapter 247 – Negotiation – Part 2
Gurgling-!
The water continued to flow.
“What is this… !”
Water began to fill up in the wide reservoir where the ground was cracked.
“It is a treasure received from the Barheun Kingdom. A reservoir of this size could fill it all.”
“Oh oh… !”
Bishop Bichenne, who had been following with a bitter expression, changed his expression brightly as if he was relieved about this.
“Um, if you have that thing, can you fill it with water?!”
“No. That’s not it.”
“Is that so?”
The faces of the two people who looked at me with expressions as if they had seen a miracle in front of them became sullen again. I know what I want to hear, but I can’t do what I can’t.
“Bishop Bichenne. You can’t fill this reservoir with water, can you?”
“That’s right. It’s not even magic that specializes in water… Even if you fill it up there, it will be absorbed into the ground quickly. It takes a huge amount of magic stones to keep filling it up like now. That… Even if water is scarce, it will be used too inefficiently.”
“Okay. It’s no different if you have the scales of a sea dragon filled with the magical power of water. It should be better than just using magic power. Even you can fill a reservoir of this size with enough water.”
“Then… !”
He shook his head at Bishop Bichenne, who raised his face at my words.
“But that is the magic of the sea.”
“… So you’re saying it’s salt water?”
“Simply drawing out mana and using it. So you need Amelia. It’s the magic of the sea, but it’s because it can pull out water more skillfully than we do. She could have enough to fill this reservoir with non-salt water.”
I looked at the waterway starting from the reservoir.
You can fill it up if you fill it up more, but if you pour a lot of water at once, you had to think about the possibility of overflowing the waterway below.
“Finished.”
When Amelia opened her eyes and spoke, the scales of the sea dragon, which had lost its light slightly, fell into the water.
The submerged scales dug inward as soon as they reached the bottom.
“Oh, it’s been a while since I’ve seen this much water… ! Thank you, Leoric… !”
She shook her head at the words of Saint Noir, who was looking at the reservoir with tears in her eyes.
“It was just filled in. It will inevitably dry up over time.”
“That… That’s right. But with that treasure… !”
“It is only a temporary measure.”
There is still a lot of magical power contained in the scales, but there is a limit.
“Even if it doesn’t rain or if you don’t replenish water, clean water will fill this reservoir for a month, but after a month, you’ll need to replenish the magic power of the sea dragon’s scales, or take out the scales and store them for a while.”
“That, that… Can we?”
“It’s possible, but that’s not what’s important.”
Even the scales of the sea dragon.
The fertile lands of the south that I have conceded.
Even if you import food.
“Even if you use all of them, you will not starve to death. I have no choice but to live a life of starvation with hunger all the time.”
“That…”
At my words, Bishop Bichenne groaned.
Even the bishop knows. That what I said is true.
It’s true that I’ve given up quite a bit of my breath, but it’s really just breath-taking.
Sometimes dying is more comfortable. Don’t let it
“So, it’s a deal.”
“Transaction…”
At my words, Saint Noir’s eyes shook.
“If you use the pearl of Barheun Kingdom, the power of the sea dragon’s scales will be stronger. Then Amelia will be able to create pure water with your own power without having to go all the way to Serot Church.”
However, pearls are also military items with limited trade like magic stones.
“Let me export a little more. If you do anything, I will hand over the pearls we are buying. And I will lend you the scales of the sea dragon as a form of rental.”
“That sound… !”
“Okay. It is said that the lifeline of Serot Church is getting richer.”
It’s not all here.
Rather, this place, close to the Thoth Territory, is also on the outskirts of the Serot Church, so it is difficult to have a big impact on the Church Country even if it is filled to the brim.
However, if you have the scales of this sea dragon, water flows in the most important place in the Serot Church that flows throughout the country.
“Therefore. It’s a deal. Bishop Bichenne.”
She looked at the bishop, not the saint, and said.
Bishop Bichenne, who had a dark expression at my words, exhaled and nodded his head.
“I will do my best.”
It’s a form of exploiting their weaknesses, but you have to treat them coldly.
“This contract is the same.”
You don’t have to attack the East directly.
Of course, it would be nice to cut their power, but we cannot compensate for the damage suffered in the process.
Just like me, it’s enough for them to get caught up in your presence.
At my words, Bishop Bichenne nodded his head.
“This is, in a sense, an alliance.”
Alliance with the Principality of Hyperion.
A temporary alliance to deal with the Sangvis Marquis in the East.
And after a few days.
A messenger came from the Serot Church.
Bishop Bichenne came to Müller in the capacity of envoy, and presented an answer to my liking.
“We, the Church of Cerot, have decided to ally with the Principality of Hyperion.”
“I’m glad.”
* * *
Time passes.
“Ugh…”
He held Triana’s hand as she moaned with her pale face.
I’m sorry to ask if you’re okay. Because it just doesn’t look good…
“I dare… You don’t have to come… I’m sorry that I’ve been interfering with your work…”
Triana’s face was slightly swollen.
Her complexion is also bad, and her swelling spreads all over her body. Perhaps her sensitivity to cold had risen, but a little while ago, the maids were massaging her arms and legs with warm towels.
“You don’t have to worry about that. As for Triana, isn’t it hard for her to lie down all the time?”
“Whoops. Are you okay. And no matter how bad my condition is, I continue to go for walks.”
“Okay? I’m glad.”
I’m worried because my condition is so bad, but the doctor just said that there is no big problem. Just severe pregnancy symptoms. When she thinks of the baby in her belly, she says that it is ambiguous to make it comfortable with magical powers, so she has no choice but to endure it.
Swoop-
Triana and her gaze met.
“Whoops. Would you like to touch it?”
“… Is that so?”
Triana, who is now her mother’s face, took her hand and gently pushed it down.
She placed her hand on Triana’s stomach, which was small enough to be visible even on her blanket.
Pounding-!
“Ah.”
In fact, she wasn’t going to move yet, but the warm sensation she felt on Triana’s swollen belly as her body temperature rose, and her overflowing emotions that were difficult to express, made her heart ache.
“Can you feel it?”
“Okay. I can feel it.”
By the time this child is born and she grows up, both the war and the country will be over.
For that day, I…
“Great job.”
He stroked Triana’s hair and comforted her about her hard life.
* * *
“You really are.”
“What?”
Pout.
I smiled bitterly at the corners of her eyes as she glared at me.
Swish, swish-!
Chloe, holding a long sword with a blunted blade that had originally flashed, was spinning it like a pen in her hand like a toy.
“Isn’t it heavy?”
It’s not a dagger or short sword, it’s a long sword.
For Chloe, who is short in stature, it is a sword almost the size of her body. He holds it with one hand and wields it.
Chloe glanced at me at my words, then turned her gaze back to the sword in her hand, drawing a large trace of the sword in the air.
The light of magical power that permeates softly shines.
“This is a habit. Habit. Rather, it’s because I don’t have enough exercise. I wish they would give me more exercise.”
“Um…”
At that, I crossed my arms and looked away.
Her lady-in-waiting in the corner of her room shook her head in disapproval.
Even now, the maid by her side was looking at Chloe with her anxious eyes.
“Because it’s okay.”
Knowing all of this, Chloe quickly threw the sword.
The sword drew a clean trajectory and landed on the showcase in the corner! Settled down
“Now it’s time to exercise. Shall we go for a walk together?”
“If that is good.”
She looked at Chloe’s stomach as the maids huddled around her hurriedly preparing.
Chloe’s belly, under her light clothes, bulged out of proportion to her small frame.
Her cycle is similar, but there was a reason for her larger, more bloated belly than Triana’s.
“Twins…”
It is said that there are twins.
“There are a lot of twins around.”
“I know.”
Chloe came near her and changed her clothes while lightly wiping her sweat.
She thought of Triana as she tossed and changed her clothes by herself.
“Haha…”
“Why?”
“No, nothing.”
I know the symptoms of her pregnancy are different for everyone, but in Chloe’s case, it was a bit severe.
Certainly, among the old stories and handed down stories, there was a story of a female knight who performed heroic feats in war while she was pregnant.
As Chloe proves it, even though she was pregnant, she ate every meal with no food to cover and enjoyed her workouts.
“Come to think of it, the report that came up this time.”
“Ah, that…”
The more she went there, the healthier her body was, so the doctor sighed and even allowed her to work for an hour or two a day.
If I don’t do it, she says it’s more stressful and I can’t help it.
“Ruler. Shall we go?”
Chloe, who had already changed her clothes, held out her hand.
She used to hide these things when there were people around her, but now she enjoys skinship quite confidently.
After laughing, I reached out and took Chloe’s small hand.
