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Chapter 429 - Fog of War

"You're Alcer, are ya!?"

Again. Why is everyone staking out in front of my house?

By now, Alcer felt like he was back in the jungle, with enemies in waiting all along his hunting paths at all times, in search of a moment of weakness. Every time he thought he was safe, with his home in view, someone would jump him from nowhere. However, when the veteran turned around, he found that this particular enemy didn't look too threatening.

A burly man had been waiting around...

Excerpts From the Constitution of Medala

Hello there. 

No new chapter today. Instead, here's some extended excerpts from Medala's new constitution, the one introduced in Chapter 371 - Miracle.

I've been going back and forth on most of this several times, so I'm sorta text blind to it all right now. So there's a good chance that this thing is full of simple mistakes and typos. I'll fix them as I spot them.

You'll also notice that I didn't write down some of the more common basic rights, but only included the...

Chapter 428 - The Other Side

When Alcer left the promenade for the side road that led back to his familiar neighborhood again, he breathed a deep sigh of relief. Finally, he was back home. At once, he felt the pressure in his head and chest ease. However, he was still troubled by the meeting in the ale house.

What to do?

Even after he had spent his entire walk back in thought, he still hadn't come to a decision. While he felt like he deserved to own the business he had built by his own so far, he als...

Chapter 427 - Worker Cooperatives

As Kyunya's story continued, the atmosphere around the table became heavier and heavier. Just in time, the flippant blacksmith chimed in again.

"Well, we handled the war just fine in the end, even without you," he joked.

"Wait, you were in the army as well, Mallku?" a surprised Alcer asked. Before, when he had been introduced as a war hero by Killari, the blacksmith hadn't said a thing. Yet now, he no longer hid his achievements for some reason.

"Of course. Fourteenth Infant...

Chapter 426 - Kyunya's Story

Inside the 'Tipsy Tradesmen', Alcer was shocked by Mallku's sudden invitation towards the man in the corner.

Wait, the drunkard?

Before Alcer could rue his decision, the aforementioned drunkard, who had been slumped in the corner of the ale house up until now, had already stood up and staggered up to his and Mallku's table.

"What do you want now, you rube?" he asked. " I just had a lie down and you are bothering me again already." Although the stench from his mouth ...

Chapter 425 - Partner in Crime

"Killari! How good to see you!" Alcer shouted, happy to meet his friend again after more than half a year.

Back in the day, the two of them had been comrades, who had fought together during the war against the central kingdom. However, ever since Killari had his leg injured in the war, he had been forced to retire from the army. As a result, they hadn't met since the start of the war.

Though despite his injury, Killari had at least found new work as a police officer. Even now, he ...

Chapter 424 - Dreams

The sharp smell of gunpowder covered his nose, like a snowy blanket over his surroundings. A constant, steady noise filled his ears, like endless waves made by humans and machines. The brown mud of the trenches and the light gray of the insurmountable walls in the distance drew in his eyes, like an inescapable whirlpool. His entire being was enveloped by familiar senses.

Alcer was back on the battlefield.

Confused, he stared around, while his cold, wet, dirty hands clutched arou...

Chapter 423 - Budget Proposal and Short-Term Plans

As the budgetary meeting continued, Corco got increasingly upset by their weak financial situation. Why had he spent so many years improving his country's income when they still ran out as soon as he wanted to spend a little. Annoyed, he questioned Brym. Surely, his money-hungry ward was exaggerating their problems.

"I don't see how we have so little money," the king began. "I know the war was expensive, but it's not like we won't have any money coming in for next year. I mean, we now ...

Chapter 422 - Fiscal Summary and Medium-Term Plans

Inside Rapra Castle, the year-end summary of the southern kingdom's government continued. Once Fadelio had organized his thoughts, Brym was given the floor once again, to continue his account of the accounts.

"As previously stated, crop yields are up by 7%, mostly due to an increase in the total area of farmland. For the next year, we can expect this trend to continue. The incentives we have put in place for the local farmers — reduced taxes for every piece of unclaimed wilderness the...

Chapter 421 - Year-End Summary and Long-Term Plans

A familiar pillow pressed against Corco's back. At last, the King of the South could sink back into his familiar seat, with the familiar desk of his familiar study in front of him. As far as he was concerned, he would have loved to just close his eyes and enjoy the long-lost sensation in quiet for a bit. However, there was no time to lose. As always, things needed his attention, and people presented him with problems he had to solve for them.

Thus, he once again focused on Fadelio, who ...

Chapter 420 - Funerary Festival (Part 2)

As Corco's wife stared back at him through her own mirror across the room, with her enticing eyes, Corco felt impulsive again. Though just as he turned around to continue their previous activities, Sumaci seemed to notice his plans and tried to change the topic.

"Right, let's go over the itinerary one more time, in case you forget," she said as she turned towards him as well. At the same time, Corco walked up to her.

"I never forget anything, my dear student," he said, while holdi...

Chapter 419 - Funerary Festival (Part 1 - Start of Book 7)

Unlike other rituals for the dead from around the world, Medala's Funerary Rites were not only about dealing with loss, or about remembrance. Rather than treating the dead like they were lost, Medala's funerals treated them like warriors going into battle. After all, their beliefs told them that the dead would make a long, arduous journey through the underworld, until they joined the stars in the sky.

Thus, writing eulogies on the dead was considered pointless. By the time of the funera...

Political Map of Yakuallpa and Surroundings (Spoilers for the end of Book 6)

Hello, hermit here.

Here's the updated political map for the epilogue of book 6.

I may have to zoom the map out in the next iteration, since more and more outside forces are getting involved, though for now, this one still seems sufficient.

Colors are the same as before: 

Light blue are areas directly controlled by Corco.

Dark blue are other areas of the southern kingdom.

Red are areas of the central kingdom.

Yellow are areas of the northern king...

Chapter 418 - Present and Future (End of Book 6)

With the signature of the Antila Agreement, ripples of peace spread throughout Medala.

After half a year of unrest, Sachay was the first to escape the clutches of war. Once Antila was taken and the Arcavians had surrendered, the King of the South continued to travel to the estates of each rebellious lord to force the old families of Sachay into submission one by one.

Shortly after the king's new constitution had been forced upon his lands, peace spread throughout the central kingd...

Chapter 417 - Winners, Losers, DNF

On the Forty-Seventh Day of Spring, in the sixth year of the Era of Strife, the civil war within the Southern Kingdom of Medala ended with the signing of the Peace of Antila.

In the final peace agreement, the two arcavian kingdoms of Cahlia and Borna gave up control over Port Ulta, their only possession on medalan territory. At the same time, the kingdoms agreed to retreat their fleets from the Verduic Sea, which acknowledged the Sea as Medala's sphere of influence for year...