“Armstrong, Burkhart, Associate Baron Baumeister, the three of you, have together successfully concluded the mission of subjugating Grade Grande. We graciously thank you for your hard work on this endeavor.” (Helmut)
Ten days after defeating Grade Grande, we, who participated in this mission, once again had an audience with His Majesty as result.
“Thanks to this, there are good prospects for Palkenia Grasslands to become a grain-producing region.” (Helmut)
His Majesty’s facial expression showed a happy mood.
Despite it needing many years before favorable conditions would appear, it was finally possible to develop the region, which would have been impossible before considering the obstacle called dragon.
Additionally, the subjugation of the remaining monsters still continued until now. The majority of the monsters in the former domain were already exterminated.
Nonetheless, the strength of Grade Grande, who ruled over the Palkenia Grasslands, was indeed great.
Now the monsters weren’t able to move as a group at all. The soldiers and adventurers thus hunted them down one-sidedly.
The amount of casualties was up to 200, but that was most likely something that couldn’t be avoided.
“As for the victims, We have arranged abundant reparations for the bereaved families. Although it might be considered as hypocrisy, it is still better than nothing.” (Helmut)
“This Armstrong is deeply moved by the kindness of His Majesty. I admire you.” (Armstrong)
You could certainly call it hypocrisy, but it was still better than ignoring it completely. (T/N: Yay! for repeating sentences)
Besides, such was the work of soldiers and adventurers to begin with.
Particularly the adventurers, it was said that there were about 1000 casualties yearly.
Given that they weren’t able to do any other work in order to make a living, just because they failed in obtaining the gratuity of money and prestige in their life, it didn’t mean it would be reasonable for them to complain about it afterwards.
There also were many adventurers, after judging their own skill calmly, decided not to participate in the military operation this time.
Furthermore, considering the scale of the dispatched troops for this military operation, the number of casualties could be called few.
His Majesty had also ordered the church to provide as many healers as possible for this campaign.
Especially those clergymen who were able to use holy healing magic, in contrast to the water healing magicians the church usually deployed outside of office.
Practitioners of both healing magic systems in large quantity were summoned by the church using its powerful connections in order to deploy them for this campaign.
That in itself wasn’t surprising as the church would profit by constantly establishing new churches as the development of the Palkenia Grasslands advanced.
The establishment of new churches naturally meant that there would be a proportional increase of parishes and priest positions. Officially it could be said that they abided to His Majesty’s decree, but in reality they were rubbing their hands together due to receiving such a request.