I took the space portal with Armida to Braam, the desert city.

Braam is a city between Fort Kara and Polkin, with a population of 150,000. Although less wealthy and less populous than Kara, their influence on the entire Great Desert tribe was immense. Braam is home to the city's most densely populated office river and endless western plains.

Two million people in this part of the country are enough. Braam was their economic center and shareholder.

And now the river that you see to the east of Braam was the Office River. The Office River is a dairy line of western savanna that begins on the land of the northern ice and meets the sea through the southern coastal city of Assad.

What is it?

I stand on the tower observation deck of the portal, looking toward the paved road endlessly to the east. There was a long procession of wagons, containing underground canals, bricks, and gravel construction materials.

‘Oh, you're ready for war. Kara, there are enemies everywhere. ’

The biggest obstacle to the war against Kara in the future of the Kingdom of Robos was the horse's trade route, which lasted a month. The reason is simple, because there are few sources of water and grass for humans and Umar to eat and drink in the deserts spread across the entire Horse's trade route.

This makes replenishment impossible. We won't have enough grass and water to feed Umar to be transported, rather than food for combatants going to war.

So I needed to build waterways and pave roads. I needed to water my transport troops, and I needed to clear a path so they could move quickly without getting lost in the Great Desert.

‘But we're doing this in Braam. These bastards. ’

This is Braam and Kara competing cities.

Braam was a loser in the Western Great Plains, and Kara was the center of the Great Desert Trade Route. And they have long been spreading their influence to surrounding urban states and tribes using the power and the power of gold to unify the entire Great Desert.

The problem was that they were directly east and west of each other, and that boundary was the Ma's trade route. That is, they are too close to progress in expanding their influence, but due to the natural environment of the harsh Horse Trade Route, it is difficult to subdue the opponent due to war.

Thanks to this, Kara and Braam, the strongest of the Great Desert, have always been at odds and disagreements, and their aspiration to integrate the Great Desert, the country's greatest goal, is to dream like a summer's flame.

I mean, honestly, diplomacy is all talk, but what's the integration gonna be? We just keep going.

Perhaps this construction started in that historical context as well. If we overcome the natural environment of the Horse's Trade Route through paved roads and waterways, Braam is strong enough to drive Kara.

Braam doesn't have the capability to carry out this kind of work. After all, it's just a small desert city-state.

Nevertheless, the fact that we are doing this now is a sign that there is someone behind us.

The Kingdom of Robos.

The Kingdom of Robos is the second largest continent in Prosia, rapidly empired with profits from Great Desert trade routes and vast and fertile land. I can pay enough for this construction.

But why would the Kingdom of Robos invest this much construction money in Braam? Because if you hit Kara, you'll be able to extract more than that. Or is Braam's tofu so pretty?

Neither.

The reason why the Kingdom of Robos is attacking Kara in the future is to colonize the Great Desert. In other words, Kara not only needs Kara's money, but also needs the location of Kara's Great Desert Owner to start a war.

Braam was also one of the great deserts. So if the Kingdom of Robos strikes Kara, we must strike Braam as well. After all, Braam is a loser in the Western Plains. The Kingdom of Robos needed to get rid of Braam along with Kara in order to get the entire Great Desert intact.

‘What if I can't see the tiger behind my back because I'm blind to the food right in front of me. Tsk tsk tsk.

Then Armida came to me with a sad face.

“But brother? ”

“Yes.”

“I don't know if I can fulfill this quest. ”

“Why else? ”

“I'm a Valkyrie, right? ”

“But?”

“I'm not supposed to be involved in the world. ”

I scratched underneath my ear with my index finger. You shouldn't have followed me here like this. The extra portals I put in to get my sister are like four gold leafs.

“Then what can you be involved with? ”

“About catching spells, spreading faith, or finding the copy that left Chronos, the heavenly city? ”

“There you go. ”

“Why?”

“This quest is about finding your sister's friend. I told you before. If you do something exciting, you'll build a human network so you can find your sister's friends. Don't you know?”

“I've heard of it. Is that really possible? ”

“Of course.”

“How?”

I shrugged.

“That's the way the world works. Even if you're a complete stranger, you know everyone in a few steps. Everyone in the world knows about it after four or five steps. There must be a friend of your sister's in here. ”

“Really?"

“Yes. So we just need to build a human network and oil it with the money from the quest. Then someone else will find your sister's friend. ”

Armida's color brightens.

“Then we can do it. Okay."

“Then let's get down to Polkin Gateway, quickly. ”

As I tried to descend the portal's tower through the spiral staircase, Armida stopped me.

“Sister, aren't you going to take the portal? ”

“Uh. There's no Portal Tower at Polkin Gateway. ”

“No, why? ”

“Major military forts don't build towers for portals. Enemies can mount a portal to launch a sneak attack. ”

Armida expressed her curiosity with a strange expression.

“Is this the context of not having a portal tower in the Divinum Shrine? ”

“No. That's because it's a shrine. This place is sacred and sacred anyway.Doesn 't it look cheesy to move around in a portal? ”

“Oh, really? ”

I kept shaking my hands under the stairs.

“Anyway, come quickly. There's no time.”

Nevertheless, Armida survived.

“Why are you walking? Brother, don't you know who I am? ”

“I know, Valkyrie. ”

“So you know you can use magic to move space? ”

Spatial Movement Magic is an eight-cycle hard magic that allows you to travel long distances. Casting is very difficult, and managing formulas are very bad, so any decent wizard can't even attempt it.

I stuttered a little.

“Yeah, probably. ”

“That's enough to know. I'll take you to Polkin Gateway. ”

I looked at Armida with narrow eyes.

Actually, I didn't come here for expensive money because I don't know the magic of space travel. I can never trust Armida's magic of moving space.

If I make a mistake, I'll be stuck in the ground and appear on a puddle of cloud.How can I trust my sister and rely on magic to move space? I'd rather ride a wagon with angry wild horses.

“Do you have the coordinates? ”

“I don't know, but you can look at the spatial coordinates. ”

“When?”

“Perhaps around the time of the birth of the human civilization? ”

If so, they were coordinates at least thousands of years ago. This means that after moving, it is very likely to merge with buildings or trees.

“That's enough.”

“Oh, I'm fine. Wait. ”

Armida's sister rummages through her sub-space pockets. For a moment, she started to follow me gently with a handsome face. He watches my tone and whistles awkwardly. Probably forgot to leave the coordinates somewhere.

‘If I rely on the magic of moving Armida's room, I am not a person. ’

Shortly after, I left the entrance to Braam Castle, summoned a dark crooked horse in front of the bridge across the office river. A typical six-day walk from here to Polkin Gateway. If you run into the Dark Crescent Horse, you will arrive within half a day.

Armida also took out the giant essence and summoned her beloved horse. Overall, it was shaped like a black circumference horse, but unusually, black smoke, shaped like wings, was rising from the waist.

I looked at my sister's love alternately.

“Sister? Something's wrong. ”

“What?"

“Somehow your words look better. You're not giving me some degenerate version of yourself, are you? Then I'm really disappointed. You're not supposed to do that between you and me, are you? Right?"

Armida's sister shied her gaze.

“No. They're both the same. I wonder if it's the same name. He's a dark, crooked horse. ”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

“Then what the hell are those wings? ”

“Oh, it's like an accessory. She's beautiful.”

“Really? So if she flaps her wings, there's no way she's flying or anything like that? ”

“I don't know. It's been so long, I can barely remember. Probably not. ”

Seeing my sister who still couldn't keep her eyes on me, I made a grim face.

“Fine. I'll trust you for now. Come on, let's go. ”

“Yeah. Yeah, we better get going. ”

We started racing as fast as we could. But it's a little weird. Occasionally, she puts all four feet into the air, and every time she slips forward.

‘I think that's right. ’

By the time I ran like this, I began to see the Iposium Mountains as if it were a long solid line.

I slowly glanced at the Apozium Mountains, revealing their magnificence. Thousands of meters of cliffs and endless mountain peaks now border the continent of Prosia and the Great Desert, but it will serve as a barrier to the advancement of a large army of magic coming from the Great Desert in times of destruction.

‘Polkin Gateway. It's been a long time. ’

Later, I looked at Polkin Gateway, which began to appear as a dot.

The legend goes that this fortress of Jeonhae, which is 210m long, 90m high and 60m wide, was built by the saints of the earth who visited this place a long time ago.

I don't know if that's true, but at the time of the apocalypse, the wall survived a substantial number of attacks by the magical army and became a sanctuary of protection for the Prosians.

By the way, Duke Bastein, how's he doing? I'd like to see what you haven't done in years. ’

Duke Bastein is a great general who led the fullness of the Kingdom of Robos and is also the general commander of the Royal Army who will fight Kara in the future.

But ironically, I met Duke Bastein. At the Polkin Gateway Workshop in the Age of Doom, the General of Polkin Gateway and the Deputy Commander of Yosrahim Reinforcements. At that time, I was tasked with building and blocking the walls of a maze of magic bypasses, and I was often pierced and badly humiliated by Duke Bastein.

But this human is so dense that he's called a war genius.

From the military to deployment on the battlefield, the necessary military supplies, the military benefits and risks of the terrain in which the battle will take place, as well as even the changing landscape by weather, I was told what the duc was up to. If you dig a trap, the enemy will fall into a trap. If the battle starts, the enemy will collapse on its own.

If I'm wrong, Grandpa Cloud makes this assessment of Duke Bastein.

‘There's nothing to fight with that human, so it's best to fight. ’

Once Duke Bastein starts a war, it's over. The enemy resists desperately, but the duc only goes to find the victory he has created.

Polkin Gate Workshop was the time when the duc had the greatest value.

During the time of destruction, the Prosians first met here at Polkin Gateway, where Duke Bastein has defended it for over a year. At that time, the Mahmalt Army was unable to clear Polkin Gateway, the only passageway across the Iposium Mountains, and went back to the Northern Orc Plains, which allowed the Prosians ample time to prepare for war. And that is why the Prosians have survived the apocalypse for over two years.

But even a perfect duck like this has one weakness. He was the jealous old king of Robos.

My brother Josef did. Great Generals are regarded by the people as heroes, but powerful people are merely insignificant. Why? Great Generals have most of the conditions to be a king, such as administrative power, people's support, and military power. That's why my uncle, the emperor, hated Old Cloud so much. Of course, I was loved a lot in my previous life.

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