I waited and waited while advertising.
The advertising effect finally came after a very long time.
Because one person tried to summon me.
But unfortunately, something was lacking, so although they tried, no fishing line-like thing came down from above like last time.
Still, what’s important is that someone who tries has appeared now. The more attempts there are, the higher the probability of going back to the world will be.
Meanwhile, many things happened in the world where I first set foot.
First, Isla decided to avenge Witga. So she remained in the Kingdom of Anselus. Because she knows that Wide will invade the Kingdom of Anselus no matter what, since he hates Tis. She probably thinks that if she waits in the Kingdom of Anselus like this, Wide will come on his own.
And when Wide and Tis fight and become exhausted. She calculated that at that moment, she could stab Wide.
So Isla decided to stay in the Kingdom of Anselus until Wide comes. While training herself.
Surprisingly, the Kingdom of Anselus allowed this.
Of course, they didn’t just do it like that. Unlike Tis, they pushed her into a place a little away from the capital, as if confining her.
Considering that they had lost their country, it was a sufficiently merciful disposition, as it wouldn’t have been strange to kill her no matter what Tis said.
Meanwhile, Tis rebuilt the Kingdom of Anselus with his companions.
As if in some novel, one of the companions who fought with him was a member of the Anselus royal family.
Coincidentally, with the justification of being the person who defeated the villain who blew up the capital of Anselus, he essentially became the next King.
To be precise, I should say she became queen.
It wasn’t he, but she.
Moreover, she had feelings for Tis.
Because despair and frustration are often related to love, I’m detailed about such expressions.
But the situation is quite complicated.
The relationship diagram between men and women was quite complexly intertwined, and it wasn’t a situation where they could marry simply because of feelings.
I don’t know exactly because I only see from Tis’s perspective, but there seems to have been many other problems too.
So while postponing day after day.
Some nobles revealed their ambitions.
It might sound strange to suddenly say ambition, but we need to look at the overall context.
First, the Kingdom of Anselus wasn’t devastated as a whole country. Only the places where the Future Hope Church invaded suffered great damage.
It means that except for the path they advanced on and the capital, the rest was unharmed.
And even if they were proper subordinates when the kingdom was intact, when the leader’s position becomes vacant, people who think differently naturally emerge.
Yes, that’s right.
Eventually, a civil war broke out.
To be honest, I’m not good at guessing such political things. But I can hear from others.
Since Tis was a key figure in the current royal family, he could participate in meetings, so I could hear various stories. This is why we should bless high-ranking people, I guess.
Anyway, no matter how ambitious they were, whether because they were people of the Kingdom of Anselus or because they lacked justification if they completely pushed out the royal family and became king themselves, they didn’t think of killing all the remaining royalty and becoming king.
They just declared that the current queen’s inner circle was a puppet moving the queen like a marionette.
It’s funny that they actually intend to make the queen their puppet too.
Moreover, the person who became the current queen is still a girl.
She’s at an age where it wouldn’t be strange to force her to marry. In short, it means she’s a living crown.
To obtain that crown, two families in the Kingdom of Anselus, a count family and a marquis family, each raised their flags.
I thought it was just a rebellion by humans who weren’t even Dukes when they said count family and marquis family, but here the ranks aren’t in order according to class.
The marquis family is understandable.
I thought the count family was too low.
But it turned out to be the largest force in the Kingdom of Anselus.
Their domain has an iron mine and a silver mine. Moreover, their domain is at the southeast border. It means they’re located on a route that must be passed when trading.
So they were a strong noble family.
Then, what are the rest of the nobles doing?
They kept silent.
If one side becomes King, they don’t know what the future will be like, so they pulled out saying they don’t know whose words are right.
This was especially so because a girl who was practically impossible to become queen originally became queen.
In other words, it means it’s a very dangerous situation.
I’ve thought this since I first met Tis, but this is like a story rolling with Tis as the protagonist.
But seeing it directly through Tis’s eyes, being a hero isn’t something anyone can do.
Tis suffered so much that he barely stayed alive because he really has regenerative power.
In most works I’ve seen, they spend time communicating with companions, and when a crisis comes, they fight to solve it. Then they gained wealth and fame.
But it wasn’t that easy for Tis.
Tis had to oversee the preparation process until that fight, and at the same time handle the tasks of running the country, all of that.
Originally, there would have been people to help with that, but they were all killed when the royal capital fell.
Wide and the other blessed people killed everyone alive in the royal castle, to the point of being paranoid.
That day, over a hundred thousand warmths came to me.
Hehe.
Ahem… Anyway, so people were lacking, and to fill that, the living people had to work without rest.
Wow, regenerative ability is really an amazing ability.
Otherwise, Tis would have died from overwork long ago, before fighting the nobles who raised their swords against them, let alone the Miriga Order.
While working like that, suddenly two noble families issued statements and pointed their swords.
The first to fight was the marquis family. Their domain was relatively close. So they arrived at the capital first.
The fight itself ended quickly.
Because the people in the capital were already elite troops who survived fighting the superhuman corps, and except for a very few, the marquisate’s soldiers were people who had never properly fought before.
The marquis was instantly arrested and immediately imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon.
But the County was a very overwhelming opponent.
They didn’t immediately raise an army and come, but slowly tightened the economy first.
No matter how good the land the count family grew their power on, it’s hard to push out the royal family. I didn’t know, but in a meeting Tis attended, the queen raged that no one was helping.
She lamented that if they kept fighting like this, victory couldn’t be guaranteed. And if they fought as it was, it was certain that Tis would lose.
Why, you ask?
Do you remember the people who parted from Wide? The blessed people who suffered a crushing defeat to those led by Tis and fled east together. They judged that they couldn’t trust Wide, who had lost the authority of power, and fled.
After parting with Wide, they drifted southeast.
I said earlier that the count family was at the southeast end, right?
Exactly 17 people.
The count family absorbed them.
If there had been an experienced older person among them, the result might have been different, but they were blessed ones of child origin like Wide.
It was simple to persuade them, as they were just strong children.
Yes.
When you suddenly gain great power, it’s natural to become greedy.
The count seems to have decided to seize the current royal family by force because of that.
They advanced on the capital, putting the blessed ones at the forefront.
But unfortunately, the count made the wrong choice.
It was still a time when resentment towards the Future Hope Church remained. And the state religion of the Kingdom of Anselus is the Holy Spirit Religion.
It’s a country with many devout people who once erased a religious state called the Luminous Theocratic State from the map for the sake of faith.
The nobles on the opposite side of the count, based on the capital, joined the war.
There was a chance of victory.
And at this point, a very interesting thing happened.
Isla decided to fight together with Tis. She joined with the reason that if Tis dies, Wide might not invade.
Hehe.
Of course, I know the real reason. Because she was lonely.
Isla was trapped in a semi-confinement state in a remote place where she knew no one.
She wasn’t actually restricted in movement, just had surveillance when going out? That was all. Even that disappeared when the marquis family invaded.
But when the surveillance disappeared, Isla became even weaker. You’d think she should be happy to be free when the surveillance disappears, but Isla wasn’t.
She seems to be in pain when alone.
So she joined the group. Of course, she made excuses to Tis and the people around him, saying her body would rust like this, or that she needed training to kill Wide when he came.
Isla was trembling in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, clutching her blanket and saying she didn’t want to be alone.
That must be the reason.
Isla joined, and nobles who came from the north and west also joined.
And not long after, the fight began.
Many people died in that fight. Tis, of course, and Isla and the remaining 17 killed people.
In other words, they gave me a lot of warmth.
Hehe.
But a fight is a fight.
The 17 were reduced to 8, and Tis also lost his friend during the battle.
Only hatred remained on the battlefield, and they couldn’t retreat any further without seeing the end.
At that time, surprisingly, Tis proposed negotiations.
He said we’ve killed too much, let’s stop fighting.
The backlash was fierce. Especially the nobles who joined shouted that they must brand the count family as traitors and kill them.
But Tis forcibly proceeded with negotiations. However, it would have been meaningless if the count didn’t accept those negotiations…
The count accepted the negotiations.
From the perspective of Tis and Isla, and the remaining 8, I think it might be because too many died on both sides.
They first agreed to stop fighting and clean up the corpses that filled the battlefield.
And only then did people finally see the battlefield through Tis’s eyes.
A plain that was once a forest but is now charred black. And decaying corpses with wild beasts feeding on them. It’s a scene that would naturally bring lament to a sentimental person.
Both sides stopped fighting and cleaned up the corpses.
For two weeks.
And only after that did they agree again to do it in a different way rather than fighting like this. And they decided to go home.
But do you know what?
This moment was when the Kingdom of Anselus was at its weakest.
It was while Tis was returning to the capital with his people.
Wide appeared with the Miriga Order to kill Tis.
It was a very dangerous situation. The pseudo-religious warriors with superhumans sparsely mixed in were incredibly powerful enemies to soldiers who were already very tired.
The nobles supporting the queen and Tis and his friends.
They were attacked at the point when the most important troops were gathered in their weakest state.
Let me shift the perspective a bit.
Originally, Andrew was planning to somehow soothe and placate Wide from attacking the Kingdom of Anselus. But the times flowed favorably for Wide.
A civil war, of all things?
On top of that, the queen’s side and the count’s side were evenly matched, so the fight dragged on. From then on, Andrew grasped the trends well and sold drugs to Wide, saying he would make his wish come true.
And at the point when the fight stopped, Andrew immediately poured out all the fanatics he had gathered with Wide and the blessed ones.
That’s how Wide, Tis, and Isla gathered in one place.