153 First, half a year and a half. (2/2)

Since it was originally a commercial town, Myrddin territory was only about gathering people together, there were no strong monsters around, and since we never got involved in a war, it was really poorly protected from the outside.

Walls were just a decoration . They are low and thin because they were built only to keep goblins out of the city.

There's no way we could have survived the war just like that.

So I started to rebuild the west wall.

I thought about doing it by hand ......, but it would be impossible to complete it before the war started, so I spent about half a year experimenting and building the wall using only creative magic.

I put a lot of thought into it, so I was satisfied with the result.

I'm pretty confident since I designed many tricks and installed a golem that keeps watch over us 24 hours a day without a break.

After the last explosion, I've decided to leave nothing to chance.

Just like this, the Myrddin territory has been changing for the better in the past six months.

But on the other hand, in the same half year, the empire had taken a turn for the worse .

The cause, of course, was the Philibert family.

The late master of the House of Philibert left behind many things that were very troublesome to the empire.

Ruined territories, over-exploited territories on the verge of starvation, borders with kingdoms that were barely capable of defending themselves.

I wonder how much money and time it would take to restore this to its original state already: .......

Of course, after I crashed the dungeon and made poverty even worse, there was no way I could think of a way to ignore it just because I was busy with my own territory, so I made sure to support it.

But since I didn't have enough manpower in my own domain alone, I only sent money, food and other relief supplies such as magic tools.

From now on, when there's room in my territory, I'll have to dispatch people to support them.

So, although the Empire is trying its best to revive the former Philibert territory, it hasn't been able to make any progress.

The reason for this is because the priority has been given to repairing and strengthening the defense base near the border of the kingdom rather than restoring the territory.

There is a good reason for this too: ...... What do you think will happen if we leave the destroyed defense base intact and rebuild the territory first?

If you think about it properly, you'll understand, but no matter what you think, the kingdom will gladly come to take the territory that the reconstruction is over: .......

Because he knew that would happen, the emperor decided to focus on the defense first, despite the public's disapproval .

Really, politics is hard work .

But it's not a person thing: .......

Maybe from now on, I'll be in charge of the vast western territory that was controlled by the former Philibert family and their subordinates.

Last time I was asked to bow to the emperor and make a request.

”I am truly sorry to impose on you, Leo, who has done so much for the empire in the past. But I'm not sure you're the only one who can do this...... please, when you come of age. I'd like you to run the West in the future.

Apparently, His Imperial Majesty, or rather, his idea of an empire, was to marry me off to Shelly as soon as I came of age, make me a duke with a long list of accomplishments, and as a member of the royal family, manage the vast, almost national, lands to the west that formerly belonged to the House of Philibert and its holdings that could not be entrusted to a nobleman, and make me a duke. The idea is to have the duke.

So, I'm going to be a duke.

Well, I suppose that's inevitable. When I decided to marry Shelly, I knew I'd have to work for the empire.

I just didn't realize that I would have to work so hard .......

So, until adulthood ...... now I'm twelve, so four years until I'm sixteen . It takes a lot of good people, a lot of money, and a lot of planning to manage a huge area of land and plan for recovery in such a short period of time.

Four years, or ...... by any stretch of the imagination, that's an overwhelmingly short amount of time. .......

Well, we'll have to do everything we can .

For now, let's wait until the territory we have now is completely developed before we start preparing for that one.

All right, we've made our decision. All we have to do now is work hard!