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65 - Meanwhile, in A Empire (Final)

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From here onwards, we'll talk about the incident and its behind-the-scenes that will be engraved in history.

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The policy of A Empire, jumping straight to the conclusion, has failed.
If it's low-rank dungeons, it's possible to investigate them with only magic tools.

But when it comes to investigating C-rank and B-rank dungeons, it’s not so easy, they didn’t succeed in not only securing materials but also in defeating monsters.
Whether it's a magic tool or not, monsters will attack back any object that attacks them.
As the finishing blow, the number of monsters increases overwhelmingly. Before they can carefreely attack them, the C and B-ranks would crush their magic tools with their numbers.

...Furthermore, what they call investigation is only securing materials and subjugating monsters.
Their technology hadn't caught up with using magic tools to determine whether the dungeon was activated or not.

One of the D-rank dungeons around A Empire has begun to activate.
Still, the activation of a dungeon of this rank would have been fine.
Despite the fact that magic tools went out to the front line and the initial mood of a comfortable victory.
Because they only focused on that, they were late in dealing with monsters that overflowed from other dungeons and became wilds.

In order to break the vicious cycle, the government mobilized the knights, but that also backfired.
It gave the so-called commoners who didn't have the skills to be adventurers an opportunity to revolt.
Magic tools were dispatched to deal with the dungeon activation. And the knights are busy dealing with monsters. It’s now or never.

Ironically, with Josiah's wisdom, the commoners who endured disasters such as poisonous rain and acquired magical skills descended like an avalanche. It was as if someone was responsible for their good execution and quick judgment――In just a few days, they invaded the middle and upper class region and conquered the castle. It was said that they took the head of the upper echelons, including the royal family.

With this, A Empire collapsed.
It will be established as the reborn A Country, but the civil war will continue for a long time until then.

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“I never get tired of it―what the old man does. It's so nasty~... Ah, only indirectly though.”

In W Country.
Randy, a black-haired young man who was looking through newspaper articles, said that.
In front of him was another person, a straight-laced male with a sour-look on his face. A maid familiar made from a grimoire was preparing tea and sweets for him.
The straight-laced man snorts and says, “Hmph.”

“That's only in hindsight. Unexpectedly, Josiah is a good-natured person. I'm sure he doesn't really give a shit inside, but his behavior of giving empty compliments will have an effect in the future... I think it will be the same with this country. When I did an undercover investigation here before, the behavior of the guild and the adventurers should have been in the state of an inept noble’s boat made of mud.”

“Eh. Undercover investigation? You did?”

“Because I have a dark-element, I'm good at breaking magic circles. It took me a while to break E Kingdom’s barrier that was put up in W country, but they won't find out.”

In fact, the straight-laced man was one of the adventurers who was mainly involved in undercover investigations and assassinations.
His Job is Assassin.
Also――he was one of the few former A Empire adventurers who succeeded in escaping the country during the previous adventurers' revolt.
Randy looks somewhat happy when he hears about Josiah from him.

“It doesn't mean that the places where the old man is involved are more or less interesting. Even so, the old man probably won't return to W Country.... Do you think it will happen to I Confederacy as well? Umm.”

“My name is Garuda... I Confederation is a troublesome country in many ways. They are, after all, a collection of nations. The culture is different depending on the regions, the laws are also different. They also have a lot of lawless areas.”

“Hmm. I see~”

“...What are you going to do after listening about him?”

“Now you ask? Well, the old man didn't talk about himself at all. I was surprised to hear that he was actually my peer (the same age as me). Ah, so~... there's something I'd like you to tell me.”

“Depending on what it is, I'll ask for money.”

“Then I'll pay you the tuition fee. Can you teach me how to break the magic circles?”

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A while after that.
Randy Leimbacher left W Country without permission and disappeared.

After all, he was in the same position as the nobles who had been deprived of their rights as adventurers, as he was almost disinherited.
If he stops being an adventurer, he’ll become a commoner. In the worst case, he would be sent to a coal mine, he knows that, that’s probably why he left the country without permission.
He will come to be called the second coming of the Magic Circle Breaker.

Like that, Randy Leimbacher... no, Randy caused all sorts of commotion around the world.

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