Skeleton Knight Volume 06 | Silver Lining Translations by Hakari Enki

Author:Hakari Enki
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Overlap
Published: 2018-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13 「Moments in the Fort」

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Since we were part of the princess’ guards, two rooms in Fort Hill were provided to Ariane, Chiome and I.

Because the rooms were usually reserved for soldiers or officers they were rather narrow and sparsely furnished.

When I sat down on one of the bunk beds in the room, it strained under the weight of my armor and collapsed in on itself.

Since we’d been acknowledged as mercenaries that had been hired as the princess’s escorts, Ariane and I had been invited to the dinner table, but I declined. I was more interested in mingling with the soldiers stationed here.

Despite this being a fortress situated along the front lines, I was interested in seeing what they would serve to a princess, but I wanted to avoid causing another commotion in human territory.

That’s why I was eating tonight’s dinner in my room, with the full course lined up on the table in front of me.

The scent of freshly baked buckwheat bread wafted into my nose. The soup consisted of boiled vegetables and beans, and there was a piece of thigh meat.

I imagined that something rather simple would be prepared as dinner in a fortress, but apparently my expectations had been proven wrong.

According to the person who brought me my meal, those who had been doing business with the soldiers had gathered along the outskirts of the fort and built a small town and field nearby.

Thanks to that, the fort was supplied with freshly harvested vegetables and bread from the nearby fields.

“While the dish itself is rather ordinary, the ingredients are as abundant as the server suggested.”

Ariane removed her cloak and exposed her pointed ears as she sat in front of me, muttering her impression of the meal in-between spoonfuls of soup.

Chiome, who was tearing into her dinner, agreed with Ariane’s mutterings.

“That seems to be the case. My clan doesn’t have a grasp of the geography around here.”

Chiome said that after lowering her piece of thigh meat.

The Dimo Earldom seemed to control the peninsula that stretched into the Southern sea which had been originally a part of the Nozan Kingdom. However, after Lord Branier of the Salma Kingdom conquered the connecting territory, the grand wall was built to protect them from invasion.

Another benefit from that decision was the decrease in monsters within the peninsula, allowing more land to be cultivated and explored.

However, the large wall wasn’t able to form a complete blockade.

When I asked the server about it, he managed to peel his eyes away from Ariane and answered me.

The western section of the Ruan Forest spread into the peninsula’s roots and it was impossible to build their wall due to interference from the elves.

Whenever Salma forces tried to enter the earldom through the forest they’d inevitably confront the elves. Lord Burnett didn’t want to give the Earl and the elves a reason to unite against him, so he stopped meddling with the forest.

Due to that, towns on the peninsula still needed to be surrounded by a wall as monsters were still able to invade from Ruan Forest.

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