The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 4] by Fuurou

Author:Fuurou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, fantasy, adventure, battle, slice of life, family, fish out of water, farming
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

At The Border Station—Klaus

Today, as it had been every day of late, Klaus was overseeing the border station construction. They’d erected an impressive wooden gate, equally impressive defensive walls stretching out from either side of it, guard towers next to the gate itself, and a small hut for interviews and interrogations.

The border house’s well and privies were both of excellent quality and boasted proper walls and roofs of their own, and the stables were plentiful. They even had basic accommodations set up for any travelers to stay if necessary. As far as housing was concerned, the border station still relied on yurts, but Klaus didn’t think it would be long before they wouldn’t need them anymore. Little by little, Klaus’s own stronghold was coming together, and he was filled with the energy and enthusiasm to make it happen. He was always running here and there, and giving orders to the laborers and craftsmen who’d come to work from neighboring Mahati.

Mahati’s craftsmen were very good at building simple walls and homes, but there was much they didn’t know when it came to constructing military facilities, and so the well-versed Klaus was often thinking on his feet and considering the local environment as he directed the people working on the station. The craftsmen and laborers, for their part, never pressured him or spoke out of line; they simply went about their work and did as they were told, because Klaus treated them well and paid them well.

As the laborers worked, the dogkin were always by their side or around their feet, earnestly putting their small bodies to work and aiding the construction wherever they could. They were steadfast and obedient, and the laborers trusted them completely, which made work on the border station a peaceful and friendly undertaking.

Once Klaus had finished making the day’s rounds and issuing necessary orders, he climbed the ladder to one of the guard towers and took a look around to make sure there weren’t any issues that needed his attention. He looked left, then right, then off past the gates, and that was when he noticed a group of dogkin reacting to something, their ears shooting upwards and their noses sniffing the air. Klaus looked farther down the road towards Mahati.

The border station had only just been built, and it did not receive many visitors. When it did, the visitors were, by and large, friends of Baarbadal. The border station still had yet to welcome anybody who could be truly deemed a new visitor. But any visitors that did arrive would arrive by way of the neighboring domain, and so Klaus narrowed his eyes and kept his senses keen as he watched a horse-drawn carriage—likely a traveling merchant—trundle down the makeshift road towards the border station gate.

“Looks like a merchant,” he said to himself. “Four guards, two horses, and one driver. Doesn’t look to be anybody inside the carriage. But they’re only a small group, so what are they doing here, I wonder?”

The arrival of a merchant

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