Imperial Reincarnation: I Came, I Saw, I Survived Volume 3 by Masekinokatasa

Author:Masekinokatasa [MASEKINOKATASA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Sheep? As If.

The first batch of construction workers had finally left for Chelán Hill. Fabio would be the on-site commanding officer, with the Ramitead soldiers acting as his escorts.

Meanwhile, Count Chamneau’s army remained in the west, and Duke Warren’s forces maintained their defense of the imperial capital. Rather than simply remain in the city proper, however, we’d spread them throughout all of my direct holdings in the region.

Lastly, I’d dispatched the highly mobile Atúr cavalry—who I’d kept on standby at the capital’s outskirts as a reserve force—to further secure the region around Chelán Hill. All in all, the defenses around the imperial capital were the weakest they’d been since the civil war had started.

Despite that, I honestly hadn’t expected someone to seize the chance to slip in.

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I was walking down a hallway somewhere in the imperial demesne, headed for a ransom negotiation with a merchant. Things were so busy, however, that I was using the travel time to receive reports and advice from Timona and Salomon, who were flanking me.

“Are you certain you wish to entrust such a vital matter to a foreigner such as myself, Your Majesty?” Salomon asked.

I smiled in response. “We consider the Empire and the Kingdom of Belvére to be one in all but name. And if compensation is your concern, rest assured—your efforts shall be duly rewarded.”

As it turned out, our recruitment effort had hit a stroke of luck and rustled up several magically capable individuals. In addition, several of the lesser nobility and their subordinates were mages, with whom I planned on negotiating their release or a reduction in their sentences in exchange for their participation in the war effort. I’d entrusted Salomon with their training.

“The majority of the Empire’s military mages are in the service of Agincarl or Raul,” I pointed out. “Your expertise would be invaluable.”

Eventually, I wanted to establish a mage force that recruited from every corner of the Empire, modeled after the Kingdom of Belvére’s methods—albeit it was less for martial purposes than it was for the sake of magical research.

On that, actually, my cursory investigations had revealed that the concept of thaumaturgical research was relatively basic in this world. It existed in the sense that people were always—if loosely—on the lookout for stronger or more convenient spells, sure, but as an established scholarly field? Not so much.

I attributed this to two possible reasons. The first was that, since magic had traditionally been proof of noble blood, any given house’s spellcraft had likely been passed down from parent to child in secrecy. That would only be doubly true if it was combat magic that qualified as a military secret. Of course, all the mage pedigree in the world didn’t necessarily guarantee one’s offspring would be magically capable as well. Even if they were, there was a possibility that they could be talented in every field except their family’s magic, causing it to be partially—or completely—lost forever.

The second reason was that, since magic was so heavily dependent on the caster’s mental image, the very act of teaching might be prohibitively difficult.

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