The Hero and the Sage, Reincarnated and Engaged: Volume 3 by Washiro Fujiki

Author:Washiro Fujiki [FUJIKI, WASHIRO]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

The next day, after a sendoff from Lucas and Valk, the investigation team departed. The rest of the team’s training had been left in Wisel’s hands, as he would be in charge of leading them in battle. Raid and Eluria trusted they could figure out the rationale behind the training courses.

With that settled, the team of three special-class magicians and two students crossed the checkpoint closest to Palmare and finally stepped into the vast and lifeless desert.

“Whew. This place has seen better days, that’s for sure,” Raid remarked.

Having crossed from a land so abundant in water, they felt like they’d just wandered into another world. In stark contrast to Palmare, an endless expanse of sand dotted with weathered rubble and nothing more stretched before them. Any man-made structures they could see were barely maintaining their shape while buried helplessly under the raging sands.

“Hm... It certainly lives up to its bleak reputation,” Savad observed as he swept his gaze over the land of nothingness.

Beside him, Totori nodded in agreement. “Indeed... It’s hard to believe a country once stood here.”

“Was this really your homeland, Raid?”

“Yep. This is where the imperial capital of Altane stood a thousand years ago. Well, considering how close we are to Palmare, this was more likely the slum area on the outskirts,” Raid said, his mind wandering back to the past. “Altane’s capital was built here because this was the one and only area in the eastern region where mana was stable. The farther you got from the city, the poorer the land became.”

“Hm?” Totori tilted her head. “But you mentioned we’re close to what would have been the capital...and yet this was already a slum area?”

“Right. It was built that way on purpose.”

“On purpose...?”

“The slum residents were tasked with treating the sewage from the capital. Also, unstable mana meant that natural disasters weren’t uncommon. Sometimes, the river would flood, triggering a backflow of sewage. In these cases, the slum’s residents served as ‘dams,’ literally protecting the capital residents with their lives.”

“Hoh...” Totori squinted. “Perhaps I shouldn’t say this before a former citizen, but it seems Altane was poorly governed.”

Raid shook his head. “Oh, don’t mind me. I might have had some status, but even I could tell that Altane was your typical shitty country, rotten to the core.”

Because he had been taken in by a band of mercenaries at such a young age, Raid no longer knew the location of the village he’d been born in, and the capital was where he’d spent most of his life, second only to the battlefield. That being said, he wouldn’t call it something so precious as his “hometown.” In fact, every time he returned to the capital, he would have to put up with the aristocrats’ mockery. Even the soldiers called him a “suicidal battle maniac” behind his back.

Fortunately, that had only been the case for the capital’s direct troops who’d spent their days as leisurely as the parasitic aristocrats. Raid’s own subordinates, those who’d fought on the front lines, respected him greatly.

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