Vol 3 Chapter 1 ~ The Expanding World

“What’s wrong with seeing Girojiro!”

The big man raises a loud voice and comes to threaten me. I made up my mind and prepared.

The palm of the left hand is turned upwards, set up in front of the chest. The palm of the right hand is turned to the bottom, set up in front of the chest. Bring your hands together in front of your chest.

Lower back and bend forward. Then, from the bottom of your stomach, shout out with a strong voice.

“I was admiring him because he is so magnificent. Sorry about that.”

“Oh, oh.”

While rubbing both hands, I bowed down with a dent. The demoralized big man replied vaguely, confused…

“No, it’s an aura that overflows from the whole body or a personality. Husband, it’s just monjayaki.”

“Oh, oh. You don’t understand, hehe.”

The complimented big man scratched his cheeks with his fingers, seemingly not sloppy.

“My husband, please give me a drink as a sign of your approach.”

“Hehe, you know what you’re doing.”

Huh, I’ve got my GOMASURI. This man is too easy, too easy. But it’s not at all cute when a 2-meter tall man scratches his cheek in embarrassment.

It is the movement which I want the sports girl who is a manly man to do. I went to the table where the big man was while thinking about such a thing.

There were two other men at the table. A hunter-looking man with a bow propped up nearby. The other was a sharp-eyed, nice middle-aged man who looked good for an adventurer.

The big man, who seemed to be in a good mood at my praise, was named Gonz. The hunter’s name is Kimon. The nice middle man’s name is Albrecht.

Kimon didn’t talk much. He just nodded or shook his head when I spoke to him. I wondered if he didn’t like me. I thought he didn’t like me, but it seems he is always quiet.

Albrecht spoke softly and asked me to call him Al. He was smiling, but his eyes were not smiling. I think he’s wary of me.

After a few drinks, Gonz disappears up the stairs to the first floor with a familiar prostitute.

The tavern also doubles as an inn, but it’s filled with adventurers of the worst sort. The tavern also serves as an inn, but it is frequented by adventurers of bad character, who are too frightened to approach it.

It seems to be used by drunken adventurers to sleep off their drunkenness or hideout with prostitutes. A novice adventurer would be afraid to stay in this inn.

If you stay at the inn of the Adventurers’ Guild, you are a full-fledged adventurer.

After Gonz had disappeared upstairs with the prostitute, Al and I had a lot to talk about. I don’t know if he was starved for conversation or trying to find out about me from the discussion.

I don’t know which it was, but I learned a lot from it.

I told him I was the son of a freed slave in a rural area where bartering was the norm, and the money economy was almost non-existent.

To disguise the fact that my face was different from those of other Asian people, I pretended to be a descendant of slaves.

At first, I thought that I would be discriminated against if I said I was a descendant of slaves. At first, I thought I would be discriminated against. But I couldn’t think of any other reasonable excuse.

But my fears were unfounded. Most adventurers are ex-criminals or the second or third son who couldn’t inherit a farm.

It seems that many adventurers come from poor villages.

In poor villages, they cannot afford to pay taxes when they have a bad harvest. So they sometimes sell their families into slavery.

If you come from a poor village, you may have had a family member or close friend sold into slavery. They don’t look down on them extremely much because they are slaves.

“Kimon, the hunter, said to me.”

“My sister was sold too.”

He muttered and slurped up a bottle of sake.

It’s a relief not to be discriminated against, but the story is heavy ……. I feel like I’ve stepped on a minefield.

I regained my mind and asked Al about common sense that ordinary people would know. Al did not look unpleasant and explained politely.

The town of Rockcliffe, where I am from, belongs to Forrest Holy Forest Country. I thought it sounded like an elven country.

It’s a painful country that claims to be the largest group of small nations, with a forest called the Forest of Sanctuary in the north of the country.

You may feel uncomfortable talking about this because everyone will be angry, but please bear with me. Al then went on to explain the group of small states.

It is a peninsula surrounded by the sea to the west and south, rugged mountains to the east, and sanctuary forests to the north.

The people of the small states are the descendants of exiles and are despised by the continental powers. I’m not from a small nation, so I just let it slide.

Al was puzzled by my carefree attitude, but I told him that my roots were in my grandmother, who was brought here as a slave, and that I didn’t mind that the people of this country were descended from criminals. I said that I don’t care if they are descended from criminals.

Anyone who is told that you are the descendants of criminals would be angry. I think he was testing my reaction by telling me this. He is a tricky man.

Originally, this land was inhabited by beastmen, and the exiles lived in cooperation with them. Over the years, their numbers increased, and they grew in strength.

As the years went by, the people grew in number and strength, and the people started to wage war. They won the war and took control of the small kingdoms. Most of the beastmen who lost the war died or became slaves.

I was told that the town of Rockcliffe was founded as a fort to fight the barbarians. The barbarians, it seems, were the native beastmen.

They are killing the natives and taking their land in exile. It sounds like Australia, I thought.

I can’t believe they’d kill a mofo. For a moment, I was angry, but then I decided to concentrate on Al’s story.

There are only two human nations in the world, he said.

The Megado Empire, the west’s domination, and the Reegam Kingdom, the east’s superpower. These two nations have absorbed the surrounding countries and grown into a supergiant nation.

The human race has succeeded in concentrating its power as a superpower. They have driven out other races that have not consolidated their power and are monopolizing the continent’s habitable zones.

In the north of the area inhabited by the human race, Monster Heaven is a dangerous zone where high-ranked monsters live. Both the Megado Empire and the Reegam Kingdom are struggling with the monster invasion from the north.

On the other side of this monster heaven, the beastmen, driven out of the human race, have formed a huge nation called the Beastmen Tribal Union.

It is said that there are many different kinds of beastmen and that they are not unified, so they do not attack the human nation in an organized manner.

On the other side of the Kingdom of Regam across the monster heaven, Heaven is the Kingdom of Dwarves.

On the east side of the Reegam Kingdom and the east side of the Dwarves Kingdom, there is a huge mountain range, and on the other side of the mountain range, there is an unexplored land that no one has ever reached in human history.

The mountains are said to yield a variety of mining resources.

It is said that the elves have never left the great forests to the west of Megado.

The Megado Empire has sent troops to the forest several times. It was to capture the beautiful elves, who were long-lived.

However, they were met with a painful counterattack. It seems that fighting elves in the forest is suicide. The Megado Empire’s supposedly strongest soldiers were defeated and swallowed up by the forest.

The Megado Empire continued to invade. However, they have not been able to win a single victory. In today’s Megado Empire, the story of the Great Forest is a taboo subject.

To the northwest of the Union of Beast Nations, there is a country of the demon race. The name of the country is unusual: the Demon Kingdom of Reconciliation.

It is a country of demon kings, but reconciliation? I wondered. I’ve never been able to connect the demon race’s image with the peaceful word “reconciliation.”

According to Al, the demon nation is advocating human reconciliation. This is not when there is a common enemy of humankind called a monster, but human beings are fighting each other.

It is said that they accept all kinds of races with such a stance. Couples who have fallen in love with other species are curious and want to interact with other species. Many such people gather here, and the land is quite large.

When I heard that the human race and the beast human race are fighting, the beast-man Mofumofu, who had given up, has a light of hope! The tension went up, and “it’s a wonderful country,” I said, and Al explained to me with an expression like “do it!”

The demon race is said to be the strongest of all human races. They have a long lifespan, strong physical strength, and a huge amount of magic power. However, their fertility is weak, and their numbers are extremely small.

No matter how strong they are, they cannot expand their territory if their numbers are too small. So, by accepting many other races, they increased their national power and obtained a large land.

However, the critical positions in the country are filled by the demon race. It is said that many people look down on other races.

While appealing for reconciliation, they monopolize the key positions and look down on other races. All races, for their double standards, hate them.

Because the country is located in the north, it is very cold. They are proud of their strong bodies. The furry kind, the beastmen. For the rest of the races, life is hard.

There was no paradise, duh.

“I think I’m getting a bit drunk.”

Al, who had a red face, said that the sake had come around.

The ancestors of the small states were people who had been exiled. But not all of them are criminals. As the Megado Empire and the Reegam Kingdom expand, killing all the political prisoners and the former royal families who ruled them would cause resentment.

So they sent them into exile as a measure of compassion. However, they threw them into a region ruled by beastmen with nothing but their clothes on. In reality, it was no different from the death penalty.

But the exiled people were tougher than the Great Powers had thought. The exiled people were tougher than the Great Powers had felt, for they interacted with the beastmen and steadily built up their strength and conquered them.

When the people took control of the peninsula, the previously worthless land islands became valuable. The small group of states between the Megado Empire and the Reegam Kingdom became valuable as a transit point for trade between them.

The Megado Empire and the Regum Kingdom are at war, but commerce is different, and merchants will trade with warring parties if they can make money.

Because of the powerful monsters, it is not possible to go out to sea. However, they can sail along the continent.

It is said that the small group of nations flourishes as a transit point for trade between the Megado Empire and the Reegam Kingdom.

The land of Forest Holy Forest, where I am now, is the largest of the small nations, but it does not face the sea, and there are no major products other than agricultural products and spices.

The largest land area is not carved out of the ground by itself. It just happens to have a rugged mountain range that serves as a border.

The reason why it calls itself an ally is because it prevented the Megado Empire from advancing. It’s not that the Forrest Holy Forest Kingdom did anything wrong, however. It was the self-destruction of the Megado Empire.

In the first place, what is the Forest of Sanctuary? A long time ago, there was a time when humanity was more prosperous than it is now. Monsters ruled over far fewer areas than now, and humanity lived as champions of the continent.

An oracle was sent to every church of every religion. No one was allowed to enter the forest.

No one who ignored the oracle and entered the forest ever returned. The forest came to be known as the Forest of Sanctuary.

People feared and respected the forest, and no one dared to enter.

As time went on, the decline of humanity began. It is called the Age of Sorrows, and it is a period of massive civilization collapse. The human race is no longer in danger of extinction but is once again on the rise.

Among them, the human race became more powerful than other races. The Megado Empire, which had been expanding, set foot in the Sanctuary Forest’s inviolable territory.

The Megado empire is strongly centralized, so much so that the head of religion, the Pope, is appointed by the Megado Empire.

The Pope, the representative of God, is considered to be the closest thing to God. It is the second position after God, a supernatural being beyond human beings, and there is no one higher than God.

Even in the history of the Earth, religious leaders have sometimes had more power than the king.

However, the Emperor of Megado claimed to be a god rather than a divine being.

In the Megado empire, when an emperor ascends to the throne, he becomes a god. In the Megado Empire, when an emperor ascends to the throne, he becomes a god by performing a ritual he takes on a divine form. When the emperor ascends to the throne, he abandons his previous name and becomes the 100th emperor of Megado.

When the emperor ascends to the throne, he abandons his name and becomes the 100th emperor of Megado. I broke out in a cold sweat when I heard that story. It’s a bad thing. I don’t want to get involved with it.

Al gave a supplementary explanation as to whether it was on the face. There is no foolishness among the emperors of the Megado Empire. On the surface, it is said that it is the bloodline of God, but in reality, Emperor Megado, who has lost his power, has finished his role as a god’s yorishiro and ascended to Heaven to serve God.

That means that if he is incompetent, he will be killed without mercy. Extreme centralization collapses the moment a fool comes to the top. I’m sure he understands that.

I mean, Al, you know too much about the Reich. There is only one name that sounds German, and he is noble and smart.

Is he a former imperial nobleman or something? I was curious, but I heard that it is not legal to ask adventurers about their past. I’ll keep my mouth shut, so I don’t say anything I don’t want to say.

In Megado, the centralization of power is advanced, and the power of the nobles is weak, so incompetent people are forced to return to their territories without mercy.

Some incompetence is overlooked, but extreme injustice is punished severely. Although there are some regional differences, the country is safe and easy to live in for ordinary citizens.

I apologize for the digression and ask him to continue what he said earlier.

The Megado emperor is a human god, so it is safe to go against the oracle. So we invaded the small group of states by a route through the forest of the sanctuary.

There was also the option of attacking by sea, using ships. However, to control a country that is a penal colony and valuable as a transit point for trade and has a low level of civilization and the descendants of criminals, they did not take the means of a fleet of ships by sea would have cost a lot.

Also, the forest of the sanctuary has valuable fruits and medicinal herbs. However, it seems that none of those who were greedy enough to go deep into the forest ever returned.

It has been a long time since the forest was designated as a sanctuary, and the forest has been expanded. The expanded part of the forest is not a sanctuary and seems to be safe.

However, he said that if they were to get greedy and go deeper, they would be trespassing on the sanctuary, and the gods would probably punish them.

To keep costs down and take advantage of the sanctuary forest resources, he took his army into the forest, but none of them came back.

After the emperor, who claimed to be the God of the world, was punished by the gods in the sanctuary and his army was annihilated, the emperor’s influence was weakened.

The empire ceased its policy of extreme expansion and began to focus on stabilizing the regions it controlled. It is said that the Megado emperor of the present generation is slowly encroaching on the territory of the Reegam kingdom with the power he has accumulated.

The Forrest Holy Forest Kingdom, which was supposed to be attacked by the Megado Empire, defeated the hated Megado Empire, which had exiled their ancestors to the island.

They claimed that the gods loved them because the Forest of Sanctuary protected them, so they changed their country’s name.

The Forest of Sanctuary borders both neighboring countries. It just so happened that the Megado Empire marched in from the other side of the Forest of Sanctuary and destroyed itself. Still, it seems that they got carried away with having defeated a superpower.

The Forrest Holy Forest buys salt from the west and iron and other ores from the east. Because of this, it is in a weak position.

It does not have access to the sea, so it does not have a stake in the trade between the Megado Empire and the Reegam Kingdom. They are economically inferior to the rest of the world, but they are proud to claim to be an ally.

Therefore, Forest Holy Forest Country is ridiculed as a painful country. Yes, Al taught me.

I was listening to him talk about geography and history, but I was enjoying it. I smiled and thanked Al. I smiled and thanked him for sharing his valuable knowledge with me.

Al paused for a moment, then laughed and slapped me on the back. Al laughed for a while and then said: “Yajin, I like you.

“I like you, Yajin. I’m going to sleep in a good mood today.”

With that, he disappeared upstairs.

Kimon, satisfied with his drink, disappeared upstairs a few moments after Gonz with an unattractive and unhappy-looking prostitute.

Al, who had been talking to me the whole time, disappeared upstairs, so that was the end of it. I decided to pay the bill.

I paid the barman for my food and drink and my accommodation. One-fifth of the consolation money I had received from the chief was gone.

The fee from the head of the village was a lot of money. They drank like idiots just because they were drinking.

With tears in my eyes, I went upstairs.

I go into my room and bolt the door. Once I was safe, I jumped into bed to take a nap.