Chapter 48: I’d like to apologize to you


    When the feast was over, we were guided to a certain location.


    It was a residence that looked exactly like the vige chiefs own home.


    <em>if my memory serves though, I dont think there was anything at all here when we were shown around the vige earlier</em>


    It was likely thanks to Luke-samas Gift. Still, for a building as splendid as this to be built in such a short amount of time, it was nothing short of unbelievable.


    Feel free to stay at this ce. I think its big enough tofortably amodate your guards as well.


    Thank you very much, Luke-sama.


    We entered nervously.


    Just like the outside, the interior was built well too. Not only that, there were even furniture and other furnishings ced already.


    There were other unbelievable things too, like proper indoor bathrooms andvatories. His Gift was just incredible.


    Be frank with me, what do you think about this vige?


    While sitting in a couch in the living room, I asked so to Bazara who was sitting across me.


    Its abnormal, to say the very least.


    Ipletely agreed.


    But then again, everybody in whole world would probably agree as well.


    Dant-sama, Id like to apologize to you.


    What for?


    Before we entered the vige, I promised you that as long as we were near, no harm will evere to you in this ce. I would like to retract those words.


    Bazara was a skilled and seasoned soldier, yet he still told me so.


    we just dont stand a chance. If they decide to attack us, all of our elites here wont be able to hold them off for long. Retaliating with the rest of the troops back home is not only ill advised, Id say its suicidal.


    O-ohh


    I vaguely suspected it already, but it was undeniable now: this vige really did have more war potential than any ce called a vige could possibly have.


    I cant believe that they have so many people withbat-type and magic-type Gifts. Especially if what they said is true: that most of the people here were refugees from the west and from our own territory.


    Maybe they can bless all of them without restriction?


    When I thought about it, there was a building that looked like a church. For some reason, they didnt talk about that building. Naturally, it seemed odd to me, but I didnt think much of it. I was overwhelmed as it was after all.


    But then, where can they have gotten a priest who will perform the rite?


    Without exception, all priests who had the Gift called [Oracle] were all managed by the church. After all, to receive the Gift of [Oracle], the church had to perform a blessing on them first.


    I couldnt imagine the church agreeing to bless all of these vigers.


    However, if for some reason an exception was indeed here in this vige


    but supposing ordinary vigers can get blessed, will this many of them receive Gifts?


    Im not sure. The church has always imed that even ifmoners are given the rite of blessing, less than 1 percent of them will receive a Giftif thats not true though


    oh my


    If, or rather when, the church learns of this vige, they wouldnt remain silent.


    And unfortunately for this vige, the church still had some level of influence even in this age of constant warring.


    So then, what do you n to do with this vige, Dant-sama? After reporting it to Lord Albert, of course.


    No, I wont even make a report.


    Really?


    Bazara stared at me with his eyes wide open.


    Lord Albert is currently busy preparing for his next war, so domestic affairs like this will likely be entrusted to Raul-sama.


    And in the event that Albert house wins against the Schneger house, it was highly likely for Lord Albert to stay in his newly acquirednd and govern it at least for some time. If so, Raul-sama would then likely be put in charge of all affairs in the present-day Albert territory.


    In other words, my report will almost certainly go through Raul-sama first. Ive heard Raul-sama is quite antagonistic of his step-brother. So, I suspect he doesnt want Lord Albert to know of Luke-samas sess here.


    Thanks to having inherited [Sword Master Techniques], Raul-sama was set to be the next lord of the Albert territory. However, it still wasnt impossible for Luke-sama to steal that away.


    Raul-samas going to try to crush this vige before Lord Albert has any idea that it exists.


    While the church was a threat for this vige, Raul-sama undoubtably posed a much more significant one.


    But Dant-sama, if it gets discovered that you tried to conceal the existence of this vige


    I was a servant of the Albert House.


    If it bes known that I acted on my own in this matter, my life would be over.


    Even so, Im choosing to take a chance on this vigeon Luke-sama.


    As governor, I had always managed thisnd exactly as how the Albert house wanted me to.


    When I was told to impose heavy taxes on my people, I did so, sometimes through force. I had convinced myself that I had to, that I had no other choice.


    Yet, cowardly as I was, I was willing to take a chance on this vige in the wastnds.


    Instead of Raul-sama, I think it is Luke-sama who should be the next head of the Albert house. I think Luke-sama will be a greatest lord thend has and will ever have.


    Unbeknownst to Dant and Bazara, there was someone lurking beneath the floor of the living room that they were in.


    Depending on their conversation, this lurker might make it so that the two would never be able to return to this vige in this wastnd.


    In other words, thanks to Dants deration, he unwittingly escaped death.


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