Chapter 56 (1/2)

Chapter 56

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It took about a month and a half by sea from the capital to the Evron Grand Duchy.

By land, it usually takes as little as 4 weeks. It was based on an experienced messenger continually changing horses and running.

There was a way. However, on the way, you have to go through a vast barren land.

The Evron Grand Duchy was a large land with a low population of people. Wherever you go, no village will appear. Homelessness continued when moving by land, and it was cold and windy. It wasn’t an easy way for ordinary people to go.

So, from Spring to Autumn, most of them used sea routes for transporting goods and for people to travel.

In Winter, the port of Evron Grand Duchy is mostly frozen. At that time, exchanges with the mainland of the Empire declined.

That was the reason why the people of the Empire called the Northern people distinctly as Northerners.

“Really, it seems a little scary. It’s like a foreign country.”

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Alice said to Artizea.

The two stood on a boat going back up the river.

Artizea has crossed the sea in a large ship for over a month. And yesterday they changed into a sleek and fast ship that moved from the estuary to the main city.

The scenery seen by the river was as exotic and unfamiliar as Alice said.

There was a large river, so water was abundant and the plain was wide, but there was no village. They changed boats at the port and were moving fast for over a day, but she couldn’t see any area where people live.

Trees that stretched high into the sky formed forests. There were ice caps sitting in the mountain range that circled far away and surrounded the land as if to trap it. Drift ice could be seen from the sea.

“Oh, Madam, look over there! It’s a deer!”

“Don’t you get tired of seeing so much?”

“It’s interesting. They don’t run away even if they see people.”

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It was not easy to see wild animals in the capital. Though crossing the city boundaries, everyone lived in the area. There were mountains and forests. But it was all managed.

This place was completely different.

Artizea threw her gaze far away.

The sound of the waves and the wind deafened her eyes. Wrapped in this sound the whole time, she was about to forget what it was like to be quiet now.

“What are you looking at in the blowing cold wind?”

Cedric said, wrapping Artizea in a fur cape from behind. Artizea was surprised because she couldn’t hear anything.

“Ah.”

Fire burned to her cheek over nothing.

She got used to this too. Funny enough, it was all thanks to motion sickness.

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The ship Cedric used to travel to and from Evron Grand Duchy was very large, stable, and luxurious.

However, during the first 15 days, Artizea suffered from seasickness. As she lived with sugar water and chocolate, the weight that she had been slightly attached with was about to come off again..

It was useless to worry about using the same cabin as Cedric. She didn’t even have enough spirit to do that.

By the time her body got used to the ship, the awkward and embarrassing memories of the first night were roughly covered in time. She got used to Cedric as she climbed up and down the deck to breathe fresh air.

Artizea fiddled with the brooch that Cedric put on her cloak. With her head down, she didn’t know what kind of face she was making.

It took some time to pretend to be calm.

“Alice still seems to be fascinated by the strange landscape.”

“The atmosphere is different from the central region.

“Autumn is gone.”

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Unlike the mild Imperial capital, Evron Grand Duchy was a cold region.

When the Great Duke’s southern boundary, Elia Wall, was crossed, the air temperature changed from there. And the northern boundary line, the Thold Mountains, was also the northern limit line where humans could survive.

It was around late Summer when she had their wedding. More than a month has passed since then, so now the capital will be in Autumn.

But it was already Winter here.

“It’s Autumn here. It’s still a little better, but the wind is stronger when you go to the mainland. It will get colder in the future.”

“I won’t overdo it.”

“Your words are hard to trust. I would have liked you staying in the capital.”

Artizea laughed at the criticism.

“It’s kind of weird to hear that we’re separated as soon as we get married. And it’s better to stay away from the capital city.”

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Until the seeded conspiracies sprout and grow.

And for a while she needed to rest her head. When she returns, she will be busy harvesting.

“This is the first time you have left the capital, right?”

“Yes…..”

Artizea looked far away.

She did so in the past. Artizea never left the capital until Cedric showed her the fallen empire.

She was the one sitting in her dark back room, moving the chess pieces and pulling the threads.

There were times when what was happening in the Imperial Palace or in the social world needed to be done directly, but as the number of people increased and the scope of conspiracy widened, there was no direct movement.

She had never seen the endless horizon of the West, or the beautiful hilly map of the East.

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The same was true of the North.

When she thinks about it now, it was something she didn’t need to do from the beginning.

Seizing power and conspiring can be done in a room.

But politics is about life. She should have known that living lives exist separately.

If she had seen the world a little earlier, would she have done that?

“Tia, what are you thinking?”

“I’m not thinking about anything.”

Artizea consciously emptied her head.

Not yet. This was just the beginning. One’s life shouldn’t have been considered more than a number.

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