Hello, Nisarah is here! So I once again hope to ask the readers wisdom!
The center of the religion in the novels world is called the Great Temple Finnoi but in the novel, both temple and church is used interchangeably. So I was thinking of just using temple to avoid confusion, but what do all of you think?Ive always translated as demon because:
1. their leader is demon king
2. in the earlier chapter, Welner ntioned monster without using the kanji so I assud and monster were different species
But in chapter 111 Welner ntioned a demon nad Minor Demon so Ive been thinking of changing into monster or translating Minor Demon into another words, or just kept both but what do you all think?
Tldr: Should I change all church into temple and demons into monster or not? vote here!
The next day, I was stuck in this eting room in the morning. Even His Majesty was taking part in todays eting, so it was pretty important. I was only standing silently in the corner, though. I was only attending todays eting because I was told that I had to attend no matter what, not because I particularly had sothing to say.
The first agenda of the eting was the award ceremony. The highest commander of the Finnoi defense battle, Duke Grunding, was granted the mining right of the Zarsden Mine. From what I rember, the mining right of the Zarsden Mine originally belonged to the Bachem house, so the royal family lost nothing by giving that mines rights to the Grunding house.
No matter who held the mining rights, the amount of taxes that should be paid to the kingdom remained the sa, so the kingdom as a whole would also lose nothing. Plus, the Zarsden Mine wasnt located in the Grunding Duchy, so it would be easy for the royal family to monitor it. The only advantage Duke Grunding would have by having this mines rights was that his inco would increase.
On the other hand, this announcent would also act as a warning to other nobles, a kind of announcent that the Bachem house would be punished for its action.
Next, Ingo Fati Zeavert. The work that Sir has done is worthy of praise. As such, in addition to the reward money, we would also allow Sirs family to have an ornantal fra on the family crest.
Surprised gasps filled the room after His Majesty finished his words. For , though, I was trying my hardest to hold back my bitter smile. The royal family was too cheap.
It was said that once people had enough food, clothing and money, they would start chasing honor. This was exactly the case for nobles. There were even so noble houses that would even put their family honor above the life of their own family head.
And in this muscle-brained world, military honor was considered more valuable than so land in the eyes of the people of the court. Our ancestors sure did a good job making people think of honor like this. After all, it would cost the royal family absolutely nothing to give honor.
In my previous life, the subject of the nobility family crest was pretty complicated. Its design involved the history and the characteristics of the mbers of that house. You needed far more than one book to explain all that.
But perhaps because this world was originally a ga world, the subject regarding the nobility crest in this world was simpler. In one word, the nobility family crest was proof of the family origin, just like the Kamon in Japan. The nobility family crest didnt even appear in the ga.
(T/N: Kamon is a Japanese family crest.)
Long story short, family crests existed in this world, so wearing random family crests wasnt allowed. What I think was unique to this world was that no family crests depicted mythical beasts like Dragon or Griffin. I an, in my previous world, they were considered mythical beasts, but here, they were a real enemy of humans.
The old noble family used animals or plants as their crest, while the younger noble family used objects like musical instrunts or weapons as their family crest. The newly erged noble family often used simple patterns like stripes or polka dots as their family crest.
The difference between the family crest didnt an that older noble family houses always had more influence in the court compared to the erging ones. There were several erging noble houses that had a huge influence on the court.
The fra that surrounded the nobles family crest was sothing that reflected their standing. No fra ant the family was an honorary noble family, monochro fra ant the family was a normal noble family, and gold and silver fra ant the family was a superior noble family.
Lastly, the decorated fra was the highest-ranked fra. Giving the right to use the decorated fras to the Zeavert family ant that the royal family acknowledged the Zeavert family as the top-ranked family among the Count houses. But that was all. There was no additional benefit to having this fra. Ah, no there was one. Your seat arraignnt in the banquet would change what a useless benefit.
Those who think of it as important would be elated to have the right to use decorated fras, but unfortunately, I wasnt one of those people. I an, other than the so-called honor, the crest fra was practically worth shit. Furthermore, the nobility around would be observing and judging more harshly because of this crest, so for , having it was more of a curse than a blessing.
That was why, dear honorable nobles, would you all stop looking at with those gazes!? Although no matter how much I disliked it, I would wear that family crest in the future.
After that, other noble families were also given various rewards. Then suddenly, the air turned cold.
We will now announce the families that would receive punishnt. First, Knap Marquis House.
Yes!
The current Marquis Knap, Frank Pablo Knap, stepped forward. He then kneeled and lowered his head. I personally think he was more of a victim here, but since his nephew, Mangold, caused the battle to be waged in the capital, others wouldnt be satisfied with letting the Knap Marquis house go without any punishnt.
One of Sirs family mbers gathered soldiers without the royal familys permission and caused damage to many other noble families. Head of Knap house, do you have any excuse!?
No, I have no excuse!
The devils that entered the capital because of Mangolds action caused so noble families to lose their most skilled knights and worse, so noble families even lost their family heads. So the royal family had to punish them here.
But I still felt sorry for the new Marquis Knap. After he got the Marquis title, all he did was to stay in his territory to rebuild the Knap house and take care of the refugees from the forr Triot who ca sporadically to the Knap Marquisate.
If that is the case, we would give the Knap family a suitable punishnt. The current Knap Marquisate would be confiscated and we order Sir to rebuild the forr Fleethem County. The position of Count Fleethem would remain, but as the head of Fleethem remained missing, the position would be left vacant.
The room beca noisy again. Essentially, Marquis Knap was ordered to rebuild ruined Fleethem County, including the half-destroyed Valeritz, on his own.
In addition, the Knap houses territory was reduced by a large amount to the point that a random Count House would have more territory than the Knap house. This was a quite severe punishnt.
But I felt that the royal family did well by deciding on this punishnt. With this, the Knap Marquisate was now a territory under the direct control of the royal family, so they could now build a defense facility to prepare for Gezariuss attack with no hindrance. However, this one benefit wasnt sothing I could announce to the public now. The kingdom reaped a lot of benefits with this decision.
Then
His Majesty ntioned about 20 noble houses of various sizes. They were all noble houses that the devils had successfully infiltrated. They were the victims of Mangolds plot but they have to receive punishnt for letting themselves be used by the devils.
Still, since this many noble houses beca the victim of Mangolds actions, it was no wonder that the royal family decided to severely punish the Knap house.
Originally, we should have given punishnt to all houses that we had ntioned before, but as the number of the houses was large and we have acknowledged that many of them were only unwillingly being dragged into a conflict, we have decided to give Sirs a chance.
As His Majesty said that, a map so large to the point it could be mistaken as the wall tapestry was brought out. It was the map of the capital and I recognized most places marked on it. In any case, how big would a demon need to be to produce this kind of demonskin paper?
As Sirs could see, this was the map of our capital. The places marked on the map were places where there were so problems with the roads stone pavent, or so renovation was needed.
The locations marked on the map were the locations that were ntioned as having various problems in the daily report of the orphans and the refugees who were cleaning the street. I made a list of those locations and submitted it to the kingdom on the sa day as the prototype weapons demonstration. A public facility that wasnt ntioned inside my list was also marked on that map, though.
If Sirs could repair the places marked on this map using Sirs own money, we will not ntion the matter of the punishnt in the future. Of course, the record of Sirs family ever receiving punishnt would also be erased. Furthermore, we would also allow a naplate for the person responsible for the renovation of a certain place to remain there.
As soon as His Majesty said that, many nobles imdiately raised their hands and actively offered themselves to take part in the renovation work. The nobles reaction was quick.
We are pleased by everyones eagerness, but for this renovation project, we have one condition. Sirs must hire the capitals citizens and the refugees as the workers for this renovation project.
No one was dissatisfied with that condition. Everyone was fired up as if they were fighting for a precious seat. It was getting chaotic here.
As I was watching the situation in front of that exceeded my expectation, His Highness looked at with a smile hidden in his eyes.
The royal familys decision to do this was killing more than 2 birds with one stone. First, rather than giving the noble families disgrace by giving them punishnt, the royal family gave them a chance to carve their nas in the capital. For the noble families that value honor, this was a great gift, rather than punishnt.
Second, this renovation project would ease the citizens hearts. The citizens didnt care where the money for the renovation ca from. What they cared about was the fact that the royal family cared for them, so this project was a good opportunity to overwrite the citizens bad mory of the capital almost breaking into a civil war.
And the most important thing was that the economy would move with this renovation project. The basis of the economy was to make the money circulate.
It was hard to make the money circulate properly because of the demon king invasion and the attack in Finnoi. However, if the nobles money were spent on doing this renovation project, the money would end up in the peoples hands, who would in turn buy goods and with that, the economy would start to move.
In addition, this renovation project provided job opportunities to the refugees, so the renovation project could also beco one of the counterasures against the problem of refugees. The refugees would use the money that they earned via the renovation project to buy goods in the capital so the economy would move again. The renovation project could also provide job opportunities to poor people. Not to ntion, by working in repairing the stone pavent, anyone would also be able to gain so experience as a mason, so even poor citizens without any education could finally gain so work experience.
There were many other benefits.
Well, the prices of consumable things, especially food, might rise, but since the royal family currently had a lot of financial leeway now, everything should be fine. I an, the royal family didnt have to spend any money on the renovation project.
However
His Majestys cold voice overwheld all the people in the room. This might be rude, but maybe because my impression of the king was soone who threw all his responsibilities to the hero, I never thought that the king could make that kind of voice.
Count Bachem, who is not in this room, would be excluded from this renovation project. We will announce our decision regarding Count Bachem in the future.
Decision was a roundabout way of saying punishnt. For His Majesty himself to say this word ant that Count Bachem would receive a severe punishnt. Understandably, His Majesty seed to be really angry at Count Bachem.
Still, I was curious. Did the Bachem family was used by Lestlatga while their only aim was to bring Lily to their own territory, or did they plot to bring Lily to Lestlatga from the very beginning? I didnt have enough information to find that out.
We will also divide the forr Knap Marquisate into several parts, and will appoint people to act as governors in our stead. First, Viscount Welner von Zeaver.
HUH??
I was surprised because my na was suddenly ntioned while I was lost in my thoughts.
We will officially appoint Sir as Viscount, and as a governor under the royal family. Sir would be in charge of Anheim region of the forr Knap Marquisate.
I will humbly accept the order!
I deserve praise for barely being able to react. I got a feeling that my manner was strange today Ah, I didnt know. My head was blank.
How did this happen??
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