Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 214



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Episode 214 Sky Fairy (5)

“Is it okay if I listen and answer?”

Galen asked back. For him, who had always been motivated by curiosity, the fairy’s request was enough to attract his interest.

“Of course. How could I ask for help without even telling you?”

“If it’s something that requires the help of a Gem Wizard, it’s a little scary.”

“If it were something that could be solved by force, I would have done it myself.”

Shamita let out a short sigh. She opened her mouth, soothing her stomach with the still-warm tea.

“If this is your first time in this area, are you completely unaware of the situation here?”

“Actually, I guess I don’t know anything. I just rode a carriage all the way to Tamaka, and spent a few hours looking around the towns I stopped by along the way.”

You will understand it better if you read the booklet that was in the bag and that you received from the top of Kalia earlier.

Rather, it might be better to listen to it in a blank state that you haven’t read yet and compare it later. After all, the report at the top of Kalia will probably be written from a human perspective, and Shamita will speak from a fairy perspective.

“I see. In a word, you could say that this place is on the eve of war.”

“…yes?”

“yes?”

Galen and Lilia blinked amicably at the word that suddenly popped out.

“What war?”

“Humans and us.”

“Uh… Are you talking about the sky fairies?”

“okay.”

Shamita calmly explained to the two bewildered people.

“This area, or rather the plateau, was originally our territory. It has been less than three hundred years since humans first arrived.”

“Three hundred years… … .”

“It may seem like a long time ago to you, but there are still those of us alive who remember those days.”

“Hmm.”

“Of course it’s not my story! Do I look that old?”

“No, I didn’t say anything.”

“His gaze was rude.”

Galen, who had been unfairly misunderstood, kept his mouth shut. He had just looked at her out of curiosity, wondering how old she was.

Lilia smiled bashfully and lightly lightened the mood.

“I think I’ve heard of it!”

“is it so?”

“Did you read it in the Vatican Library? It was quite interesting because it had some similarities to Abaca.”

The eastern frontier and the northwestern plateau, although different in size, had one thing in common: they were originally uninhabited places that had been developed.

I had kept Lilia in mind because I thought she could be a kind of role model when drawing a picture of the future of the pioneer zone, which was still in its infancy compared to the plateau.

“Of course, the situation is quite different from the East, where only evil spirits live there, so you just have to kill them all. I heard there aren’t many evil spirits in the highlands?”

“That’s because we killed everything we saw. Of course, the plateau is so vast and our numbers are small, so we couldn’t wipe them out completely.”

“Anyway, so what about the war? Is it something like a territorial dispute?”

“Similar. I don’t know if you could call it a ‘quarrel’.”

Shamita sneered.

“They say the plateau was our territory, but as I just said, our numbers were small, so we had no desire for land. As long as we had enough to graze our livestock, that was enough.”

Galen’s mind was instantly drawn to the image of a Mongolian elven cavalry. Well, even the small-sized earth elves worked in mines, breaking rocks with their hands, so you shouldn’t judge them by their appearance.

“So when humans migrated to the southern part of the plateau, they didn’t really care. They didn’t even encounter them.”

“And then three hundred years passed.”

“That’s right. For three hundred years, humans have continued to increase in number and territory, and now they have encroached on more than half of the plateau. I think it’s been about thirty years since they started warning us to stop.”

“Did you hear what I said?”

“Did you hear that?”

“Since you didn’t listen, the history of warnings must have been thirty years. That’s a bit harsh.”

“If we were to consider even the smallest friction, we would have clashed thousands of times. We gave in every time. Now, we have reached our limit.”

I don’t know how the humans would argue, but that’s what the fairies argued.

Instead of cleaning up the people who keep gathering, they just retreat and tell them to go somewhere else to graze. They avoid it because it’s dirty, not because they’re scared. It’s the same idea.

Even after thirty years, the humans were not restrained and were becoming more and more violent, and it seemed that even the fairies had run out of patience.

The problem was that this wasn’t because fairies were weaker than humans.

Of course, if you look at the entire race, they are no match for them because they cannot overcome their numbers, but if you limit it to just one archdiocese, the difference in quality is so great that you can ignore the quantity. At least that was the case with the earth elves.

“How do you compare the Sky Fairies to the Earth Fairies? Can we consider them to have similar power?”

“If there isn’t much difference since the last time we made contact, then it’s probably equal. Do you know their power?”

“There was quite a bit of exchange. The problem is that only we know about it.”

Even Damus, who had ruled the Northeastern Archdiocese for a long time, knew less than the two men who had personally visited the elven realm.

Since there is no window to get proper information, you can only come across superficial information. So you must be making fun of fairies.

“I understand the situation.”

Galen nodded.

“What do you want to ask? Surely you don’t want us to join hands and fight a war?”

“It’s the exact opposite. I want to prevent war.”

Shamita spoke firmly. Instead, Galen looked puzzled.

“I thought you were saying that you couldn’t stand it anymore?”

“That’s what most of us think. Not me.”

“I think it’s time to blow it up… … .”

“What would I do if my brother said something like that?”

A terrified Lilia slapped Galen hard. Galen slapped her palm and protested, twisting his body to avoid the blow.

“Will those who have not been able to communicate with each other for decades listen to me now? They will come to their senses only after they have been taught a lesson.”

“That’s true! But still, war is not okay! You have to think about the innocent people who will get caught up in it!”

“I’m not saying that I’m causing it, but I think the sky fairies are thinking that way. Isn’t that right, Shamita?”

“right.”

“You see. How could I possibly like war?”

In fact, even if a war breaks out, it is unlikely that there will be countless civilian casualties.

If the Sky Fairies come out like that, a real human alliance will be formed and it will develop into a race war, and it will end with the extinction of the Sky Fairies.

They will probably only pick on the families that are leading the development and start a fight, and then it won’t be much different from the common family-to-family fights among humans.

The result is obviously a landslide victory for the Sky Fairies. Fairies don’t have a separate class of warriors or magicians like humans, but the entire race is born as Silver-level. They’re not from a prestigious family, so even if a prestigious grandfather comes, they can’t beat them. A prestigious family that has jewels? Even if Sky Fairies have jewels, there’s one right in front of you.

The aftermath is… well, who would hold the Sky Fairy responsible for proving that she has the power to trample on a prestigious family? She had a justification. Rather, she would be busy swallowing up the vested interests that the ruined family had.

“That’s why I said it was time to blow it up. Honestly, it wouldn’t have been strange if it had blown up a long time ago. It’s amazing that you’ve endured it for thirty years.”

“Wow… Now that I hear it, you’re not wrong… … .”

“Of course, it would be best if there were no war. Lilia is right.”

Galen gently hugged and patted Lilia’s slightly slumped shoulders. Lilia’s expression quickly relaxed, and Galen turned his gaze to Shamita.

“Anyway, if you insist on preventing war despite the circumstances… I don’t think you’re such an extreme pacifist. You must have some reason to avoid war, right? Something that only the higher-ups know about… something that the other sky fairies don’t know about?”

“Is it possible to reason that far? That’s amazing.”

Shamita admitted it obediently, with a slightly bitter smile on her face.

“You’re right. I can’t give you the details, but I don’t want to pay any attention to the outside world right now. But I can’t just sit by and let humans be so reckless any longer.”

“If so, is there anything you would like to ask for?”

“I would like to borrow your wisdom to handle things without making a big deal out of them. You are noble and have no ties to the people of this area, right?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Galen scratched his cheek with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“Rather, that’s why it’s more difficult to interfere. If they tell you to just ignore them and get out of here, there’s no way to interfere without using force… … .”

He looked back at the person next to him, his voice trailing off.

The safest option would be mediation through the church. I was skeptical that they had ever tried that before.

“Have you ever had any contact with the church?”

Lilia asked. Shamita shook her head.

“A few times. Although it didn’t really work.”

“Oh, really?”

“It felt like they were a little troubled by the large families that humans call noble families being intertwined.”

“Well, even so, if it had come to the brink of war, I don’t think the Archbishop would have stayed still. I don’t know him personally, but… … .”

“Aren’t you familiar with the situation on the ground?”

Galen, who had been listening, blurted it out.

“If petty disputes have been going on for decades, it’s easy to become numb to them. They become routine.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“How can we know from the outside whether the patience of the Sky Fairies has reached its critical point or not? Didn’t Shamita issue an ultimatum or something?”

“What is that?”

“If you touch it one more time, it’s war, that’s the kind of warning it is.”

“I never used the word war, but I did send out a lot of warnings.”

“Then it seems like you blew it too many times and it lost its effectiveness. It would have been more effective if you had hit it once after the first blow.”

“At the time, it was still tolerable. It has only gotten worse in recent years.”

Shamita could not have predicted that humans would lie down with their faces covered with iron plates for such a long time, but it made things a little more difficult.

“If Lilia were to speak out, her words would carry more weight… … .”

“I don’t know if people who have already ignored many warnings will listen to what I have to say.”

“If you don’t listen, we’ll just end up going back to the situation where we have to force things.”

“But we should try it anyway! If it doesn’t work out, we have no choice but to do it!”

Lilia said cheerfully. Galen patted her head and turned to Shamita.

“Let me think about it a little more first. Once I understand the situation here in more detail, I might think of another way.”

“Thank you. If things work out well, I will definitely repay the favor.”

Shamita, who was politely bowing, suddenly remembered something.

“Oh, I can help you understand the situation a little. What I asked the Kalia boss earlier was the power dynamics in this area.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“I also agree that the more detailed you are, the more likely you are to find the answer.”

Galen, who had been pretending not to know and asking the question naturally, smiled brightly and said.

“We’ll just accept your offer. Actually, we were asking for similar information.”

“okay?”

“If you come to a foreign country, you should know the local situation first. We probably have more information than you.”

There was no need to compare the thickness of the booklets that came out of each other’s arms. Shamita looked slightly embarrassed.

“While we’re at it, should we take some time to read?”

“good night.”

Shamita read the report in her own way, and Galen and Lilia also sat together and read the thick report.

As expected, the details were a bit excessive, but the two still managed to get to the point without much difficulty.

“The two families are key. The Proteins on the eastern side of the plateau, and the Typhons on the western side of the plateau.”

“They both possess jewels… and they maintain a pretty tight relationship, continuing to expand their territory to the north… This is the first time I’ve seen two noble families on such good terms.”

“Is it because there’s so much land left? It’s too big for one person to eat alone.”

“It’s big enough for two people to eat. It’s much larger than the territory of an ordinary noble family… … .”

Perhaps because of this, the two families were somewhat unusual for a prestigious family.

The average prestigious family manages by establishing its headquarters in the largest city and dispatching personnel to the remaining cities.

Protein and Typhon are like vassal states, with dozens of small clans under their control, outsourcing development work.

It was as I was reading down the pages listing the names of such petty families.

“Huh?”

Lilia tilted her head. Galen tilted his head as well.

“Why are you like that?”

“Somewhere… Ah.”

Lilia unpacked the backpack on her back. She rummaged through it and pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper.

It was a report I received from a messenger a few days ago.

The Brave Mercenary Group’s current status was written.

Who is currently employed by the mercenary group and where are they located?

Lilia’s eyes sparkled as she found the same words in the booklet as the names written in the one-page report.

“Can’t we tie this together?”