Season.

Inadvertently shifted.

After establishing an alliance with Ottolo, trade between Vavasika and the other side began to develop rapidly in a short time, and a steady stream of horse-drawn caravans began to move in this direction, and West Coast merchants, who had long coveted the huge market of the West, quickly gathered here.

The White Fort, which had only a few civilians except for the soldiers, became crowded almost overnight, full of hawkers, caravans and abundant supplies made some adventurers come here to seek work, and some civilians also wanted to go west through the Grigory Rift to see the beauty of that side after knowing that the roads here were clear.

-- The tariffs alone made Charles smile from ear to ear.

The tea planters moved over, and Prince Edward, who had successfully allied with Ottolo, grew in popularity in Avenella, and he set out south in the last month of winter to report to the king in the royal capital of Initzburg. And the reason why it was delayed at this time was because Edward had to preside over the overall situation in Vavasika before the replacement commander arrived.

The number of troops stationed on the northern border increased over time, and the artisans and peasants who had come from Ashinir built numerous wooden houses in the open space in front of Fort Ellen in order to allow them to live a normal life.

The two walls built by Sivalier and Avenella blocked the relationship between the two countries and made it extremely difficult to trade, and the narrow entrances and exits set up to prevent the enemy from attacking the carriages with slightly larger entrances and exits could not pass, coupled with the annoying cross-examination, all this directly led to great dissatisfaction among the merchants in Avenella, but after the return of Prince Edward and the news of the alliance with Ottolo, they suddenly realized that this was a new business opportunity.

A real, powerful and vast empire.

The fertile soil of Ottolo is rich in food, flowers, livestock, spices, and a variety of precious metals and precious stones, and it is traded for magical materials and various items related to magical beasts.

The Grigley Rift was in a state of extreme busyness two weeks after Henry's departure, and many of the people who saw the opportunity took the opportunity to run there with their mobile stalls and live there, and people began to renovate the barren canyon in their own way. On the other side, Charles, the lord of Avasika, who had become fuller, not only replaced his soldiers with better equipment, but also spent a lot of money to hire a large number of stonemasons and carpenters to strengthen the walls on this side.

The Tambul Mountains, against which the city of St. White is backed, provide an endless supply of stones, ploughing oxen, pack horses and even donkeys in unison, and the sound of iron pickaxes striking day and night, as wooden carts carry stones towards the wooden walls.

And the black pine that has been growing in front of the Ehrensenburg for thousands of years has also fallen one by one and has been processed into walls or supporting pillars.

The iron tools used by carpenters and stonemasons are consumed, which makes the skills of blacksmiths come to use, all three need food, so cooks and butchers from all over the country also come here, and their safety needs to be guarded, and Avenella's own army alone is not enough to cover such a large area, so many junior mercenaries also come here to seek a job.

At this time, the royal family of Sivalier chose to close the border between the two countries and prohibit any form of trade.

Seeing that such a large piece of treasure was in front of his own doorstep but there was no way to get a piece of the pie, the major chambers of commerce in Sivalier felt that this was completely unbearable, and all kinds of criticism began to circulate among the people of the kingdom. Many clamored for Sivalier to attack Avenella and capture Vavasika for a shortcut to trade with Ottolo, while others scolded the royal family for not daring to attack.

After a few months of silence, the news of the collapse of the autumn in Acasta was turned over again, and the hesitant Sivalier high-level leaders could be said to have once again lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot, but what made people sympathetic was that they could only swallow bitter blood in their stomachs for the tide of dissatisfaction among these people.

-- Sivalier has never been a united nation.

This can be seen in the Sivalier-like aristocracy of Avenella, who have always stood by and left everything to Prince Edward alone, who are selfish, always trying to let others do the dirty work and then sit back and enjoy it themselves.

Therefore, when these statements appeared against the Sivalier royal family and the part of the high-ranking aristocracy that made the decision, they were not extinguished in the first place.

On the contrary, it is easy for people with a heart to see the shadow of those nobles and even bishops who smell the smell of interest behind these events.

If the king falls, who will be the next king?

As soon as someone starts thinking about it, the seeds of rebellion are planted.

Once the person thinking about this has a certain amount of power, then he will inevitably be ready to move.

And once ......

The whole country is full of such people.

Then the result will inevitably be that the left foot stumbles on the right foot, and if you usually get along well, but when you face a crisis, you will first mess up your own position.

This is the predicament of the present West Valier, and after deducing that the Padrossi have their eye on the fortress of Vavasika, the royal family of West Valier has chosen to selfishly distance themselves from Avenella.

They wishfully feel that Avenella, who has been relying on themselves, will definitely decline if they continue like this, and as long as they maintain their own self-preservation and have enough strength, they will be able to have enough say to coexist and prosper with them after the Padrossi people occupy Avenella.

As soon as the news of Yavenella's attempt to negotiate with Ottolo leaked, Sivalier immediately issued a bounty mission, and after the current mercenaries who went there were like mud cows entering the sea, there was a faint sense of bad premonition in the hearts of the high-ranking nobles.

But they prayed, prayed that the powerful empire on the other side did not take such a small kingdom on the west coast seriously, and prayed that even if Avenella had Otolo as a backer, they would not pay too much attention.

And we already know what the outcome will be.

The news of the alliance between Avenella and Ottolo was reported in a high-profile way, and the matter would have been unexpected by the West Valiers, after all, only because of a few variables. The kingdom of Avenella, which was small and as torn apart as Sivalier, had something that Sivalier did not have.

That's a leader who cares about the country and cares about these people.

It is unknown why Edward, who received a Sivalier-style education of "nobility is greater than heaven", became such a person, but because of his existence, Yavenella has barely managed to seize a glimmer of life from the fragmented ending twice in a row.

Perhaps it would not be appropriate to attribute the credit to Edward alone, for our sages also play a crucial role in this. But at the end of the day, it's someone else. A person who doesn't care about the country at all, or someone who doesn't have the ability to perceive Henry's affairs, then even if he and Mira are in Avenella at the same time, the absence of people will probably have no effect on the situation.

A series of coincidences may have been predestined for a long time, and the fate of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people has been rewritten by a very small number of people.

A few were happy and some were sad, and trade came to a fever pitch in the last part of the winter, and the neighborhood of Vavasika flourished. When news of Ottolo's alliance with Avenella reached the distant east coast of Mobigas through a caravan by sea, the restless Padrossi Empire also came to a halt.

The fruits of the selfishness of the Sivalyans can only be tasted by themselves.

The severance of trade on the side of Avenella and the inability of many high-value magical items to pass through this place led to a sudden decrease of twenty percent in business revenue this year, and the reduction of tariffs on this part of the caravan by the diversion of Ottoro also reduced the income of the city-states along the trade route of Inznir and even Protacia.

The workers who built the walls and the soldiers stationed there had to eat, drink, and be paid, all of which had to be paid for by the nearby lords, and their already shrunken purses, cut off from trade, naturally dried up day after day.

So the people of West Valier could only watch dryly as the walls on the other side of Avenella grew grander day by day, and could do nothing about it.

The banner of the mountain lion fluttering from the spire of the enlarged Ehrensenfort seemed to mock the invincible Sivaliers—the more it dragged on, the more prosperous Avenella became, and the worse Sivalier became.

Time waits for no one, but are you really going to attack on this?

The answer is obviously no, the Sivaliers know that Padrosi must slow down this time, and if they take the initiative to attack now, it will not be Sivalier and Padrosi who will fight Yavenella, but Sivalier alone against Yavenella and Ottolo -

Philip II, who was already known for his indecisiveness, paced up and down his magnificent Protacian palace day and night, and the selfish nobles took advantage of the opportunity to fan the flames.

Everyone knows that this will not last forever.

Even if it was just to keep his throne, Philip II had to do something.

And far away on the east coast, Padrosi, sitting on the well is certainly only temporary.

They had attacked Vavasika in the first place to contain the Otolo Empire, so how could they give up completely when their intentions were exposed-the temporary rest of the Padrosi people was just making more adequate preparations.

It's one thing to attack a small, defenseless kingdom in chaos, and quite another to have a huge empire to rival them.

Stagnant water is slight.

Like the named meteorite lake in Heinzswerm, where the Jetina Church of the Kingdom of Aurora is located, the land of the miracles of eternal night, beneath the seemingly calm surface of a thin layer of ice, the power of the nations is surging.

This lull won't last long, and all Avenella has to do is become strong enough before it's over.

"Whew......" Edward exhaled deeply, then raised his hand and knocked on the door of the palace in Initzburg.

"Huh......" and only a few dozen kilometers away from him, Mira, who had learned to ride a horse in the last days of winter, stayed with Henry on the southern border of Avenella, breathing in the air that had become warm, and looking back at the country where she had lived for more than ten years.

This day is the last day of the winter of 1329 in the year 191 of the Avenella calendar.

On this day, Mira turned twelve.

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End of the first volume.

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R: Two months and six days, the first volume is finished, which is considered a final. Recently, I have been very tired in rushing to catch up with the manuscript, and the manuscript has been exhausted, and my mother is also unwell. Out of consideration for her and for the sake of restoring the manuscript. I'll take a few days off and pause updates.

The resumption time is uncertain for the time being, because the time of my mother's physical recovery is unknown, and I try my best to try to do it within 10 days. Everybody's forgiven.