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After the ceremony at King Cerda's, Hercule and the others traveled by carriage southwest from Edelna.

They arrived at ......

Welcome, Lunalee, Scheherazade! Our old home, the land of our fathers, the land of our beginnings! The city of Lemuria!

Oh!

Wow!

When Hercule arrived at Lemuria City, he led Lunalie to the highest of the seven hills.

He showed her the view from the top of the hill.

Lunalie gulped and gave her impressions to Hercule.

”It looks like only ghosts live there!

”It's even more deserted than I imagined!

”Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there were ten or twenty thousand of them.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10,000 or 20,000 of them.” Hercule smiled at their honest impressions.

Lemuria, the city of white light.

Lemuria, the city of white light, a marble metropolis with a population of over a million.

People from all over the world gather here, and a festival is held every day somewhere in the city.

There are no walls, perhaps because there are no foreign enemies.

Everyone laughed and enjoyed the peace.

The eternal city of Lemuria.

......

......

That was a long time ago.

A world city with a population of over a million now has a population of less than five thousand.

The marketplace, which was once crowded with people and merchants touting their wares with shouting voices, is now filled with stray dogs, cats, and rats fighting among themselves.

Well, the Lemurian Empire's building techniques are excellent.

After all, the natural concrete produced by the Lemurian Empire is such an excellent building material that it will not collapse even after a thousand years.

This is why the Insula, a high-rise housing complex where many citizens were packed in sushi, the amphitheater and chariot arena, which were once filled with hundreds of thousands of people, and the aqueduct, where not a drop of water flowed ......

The whole place remains in disused form.

There are no people.

There are no people, but there are signs that people were there.

This is why the city is so creepy.

”The only place where people live now is around Lemuria Cathedral. And they're monks.

There are a few pilgrims, but ......

There are some pilgrims, but they can't stay overnight because the city's infrastructure and security are completely dead.

Moreover, bandits are everywhere along the way.

So, unless you are a dedicated pilgrim, you will not be able to come here.

If I were King Edelna, I'd make this a holy place and take money from the pilgrims. ......

The military road from the time of the Lemurian Empire is still there, though deserted.

If it's repaired, it can be used.

Traffic shouldn't be too bad.

The aqueduct could be repaired.

The houses are decrepit and must be demolished. ......

The building materials can be used as they are.

It is possible to revive the city if you have the money.

The birthplace of the Lemurian Empire, the place where the first medium was martyred, and the place where the medium now lives, is ......

It is a great tourist destination.

If the city is revived, security is restored, and bandits are exterminated, pilgrims will come.

Then the merchants will come to see the pilgrims.

The taxes from the pilgrims would be enough to make the city profitable.

If it were Hercule, he would revive this city even if he had to borrow money from merchants.

But ......

It seems that the Kingdom of Edelna has no intention to touch the city of Lemuria.

The Kingdom of Edelna, whose state religion is Western Messianism, probably doesn't want to get involved in Lemuria City, the home of Orthodox Messianism, even though it is the largest authority in Messianism.

”Or rather, Your Majesty. Is this a territory of the Kingdom of Edelna?

I'm not sure what to make of this, but I think it's a good idea. It's actually the territory of the Mediums.

The city of Lemuria and the surrounding area is under the jurisdiction of the Lemurian Empire.

The city of Lemuria and its environs are actually under the control of a medium.

In fact, they have the right to judge and collect taxes.

Since there is no concept of a ”sovereign” nation in this world, there is no clear standard for what constitutes a nation. There is no clear standard for what makes a country, but ......

If you have the right to judge and collect taxes, you can call yourself a country.

It would be perfect if it had the endorsement of a foreign country.

However, the economic base of the medium is probably the endowments scattered all over the world and the taxes imposed on the kings and lords of each country in the name of donations.

This ghost town, at least, has no economic value.

”And the city of Lemuria is warded for exorcism. Scheherazade beware.

The city of Lemuria is now effectively controlled by the mediums.

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By the way, are you sure you didn't bring Karolina with you?

She's been with me a few times and I've seen her. And she's very patriotic. The current situation in Lemuria is not something you want to see.

That makes it sound as if Hercule is not patriotic.

In fact, Hercule is not patriotic.

I am a nation.

There is no use in loving myself.

That's what Hercule says.

Well, in terms of self-love, I would say that Hercule loves the Lemurian Empire.

For the Lemurian Empire, there is no monarch more dependable than Hercule.

For the people, it's a different story.

If you ask Hercule, ”What is the people?