all of them were in their knees las looked at them 5 people [hmmm lets ask the oldest man first ] " you the old man come in front of the others " the knights lead him in front of the other people

"so your the leader ? aren't you " [lets try to get something from him ] the man looked up to the lord " no i'm not the ladies are the leaders lord"

"so the ladies ? who sent you to spy on my territory ? lets do it the easy way alright " the woman from before with the purple hair spoke up "we didn't spy !!!!!"

"oooo... you didn't spy then you just happen to walk towards an area that is forbidden to be ? " las looked toward leonard "where did you arrest them"

" it was in the new iron production factory that is being build, they realized that the security is too strong so they tried to bribe the guards , in return the guards arrested them " las smiled hearing that "william reward the guards give them money and give them a rank in the army " "yes my lord i will handle it "

las tried to get them to confess but they insisted that they weren't sent from a noble to spy , las finally lost it "alright this is not going well you are not saying anything so we are going to do this the hard way " the old man knew very well what this means so he looked at the 2 women " ladies we must speak or it won't go well for us "

the other woman with the pink hair who seem younger talked to the other "we must speak they are going to torture us " "yes i understand "she looked up into the lord "can you let us get up please ?"

las moved his right hand to give a signal to the knights all of the 5 people got up the old man introduced himself "my lord im from the kansberg empire im the knight commander of the house novers the rulers of the marquessate in your border in the east and the lady with the purple hair is the daughter of marquess novers "

william was surprised hearing that a daughter of a marquess is in the helstain territory las looked to the other woman with pink hair and the other two men "my lord we are knights of baron lasbourg " [what baron lasbourg ?the man who didn't take land from me when the other 2 houses did ]

then las looked to the woman with the pink hair "im the daughter of baron lasbourg my lord my apologies for coming into your land without informing you, house lasbourg will sent a formal apology

"hmmm so i have arrested 2 young ladies of noble houses " the one with purple hair looked at las "and what are you going to do go against a marquess ?"

"o i can't go against a marquess but i have arrested the daughter of my neighboring baron who spied on me will a baron go against a viscount like me ? "

the daughter of the baron was scared hearing this but the other woman tried to protect her "what are you talking about you are going to use her for you advantage im from a marquessate and im going to protect her and house lasbourg "

arthur was starting to get annoyed with them "ooo your going to protect her with what justification we have one ,the direct descendant of the head of house lasbourg tried to spy in our secrets but you what justification will you use to intervene you are from another empire i can't do much to you but she is from my empire ?"

the woman froze she didn't expect someone to talk back to a daughter of a marquess and never a mere butler las looked at them "so why do the 2 of you have only 3 guards ? the one may be a knight commander but still its just 3 men ?"

the knight leader spoke "we got ambushed my lord so we ended up here " las paused for a minute "so you got lost this is easy to happen but why did you try to spy on me ?"

no one spoke "if you don't talk i can force you to , remember i have a justification when you don't so speak i have 2 guards and a daughter one of them will speak so just talk the easy way "[its not a good idea to make an enemy of lasbourg but my economy is more important what if they have find something ]

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the woman from novers got in front of the woman from lasbourg "im the one who wanted to spy on you lord helstain " las was confused "why ...." arthur whispered "my lord she may be lying to protect the other one " "im not an idiot i know"

the knight commander looked at arthur and las "i guarantee to my honor as a knight that this is the truth lord helstain " arthur was shocked in everden the land of knights honor is very important even more then the life of one

las smiled a little and continued "so why did the daughter of a marquess from the kansberg empire wanted to spy to a weak viscount from the azeldian empire "

the woman smiled and looked up "my lord i wouldn't say weak i saw what those long iron pipes with wheels can do you crashed an army 4 times your size the enemy soldiers had given up the moment those things roar they thought that god was giving them punishment , what were those magic items you know my lord the church will hunt you down if they found out that you are using magic "

magic the greater weapon the reason that the population in the amivara continent is so big compare to medieval europe is magic in the old times wizards were all over the place and with their magic they cleaned forest build roads and helped farmers the wizards were able to cultivate huge parts of land with so much food the population increased and when the numbers of the magicians decreased all this people took the land that their former masters held another thing that magic helped in is building the normal homes for commoners are different from europe because the wizards could build them very fast so they wanted them to be good building

slowly the number of wizards decreased and the mana in the world too some say that this was because the ancient dragons disappeared who were masters of mana other say its because the elves did something to the world trees some even say its the demons fault but whatever is magic in this days is not used everyday only high nobles can have them

but when the wizards started to disappear the church took advantage they started to to say that people who used them were manipulated by demons as they did in medieval europe the people hated the demons more then they loved the wizards so they hunted them down and we reached today there are places like the magic towers who have wizards and some high nobles have some but they mostly disappeared and when one is born they are killed or burned as they did in europe but most of the commoners in the north have never even heard of magic for them its just something that children say

there is still something like magic those are the blessings in those things are used by the church and it doesn't use mana but faith so it survived knight use mana too and they have things like mana swords but they were never hunted because they never started to decrease and they don't really need mana but by just training can they bacaume knights not any can break and reach the mana blade or higher so with the protection of the nobles they were left alone

in the azeldian empire not even the emperor uses magic nor to the kansberg empire

arthur looked at her " o my my its funny that a prisoner is threatening to report us to the church if we wanted we could get rid of you and the marquess would never suspect a thing so don't play with luck lady "

las looked at her "even if you report me to the church nothing will happen those thing are not magic tools or something like this they will come and find nothing , so why did you wanted to spy at me "[sooner or later word about the cannons would come out lets hope she just saw it when spying on me and the commoners or the orberg and elberg houses know nothing of it she does not know that im going to war with them soon so she won't contact them for now]

"metal " las looked at her with confusion "what did you say "

"metal i heard that you are build something that can produce a large amount of it " [so word came out ] las looked at samuel "find the one that spoke and make an example of him don't kill him but make sure that no one speaks again "

"yes lord helstain i will ask our guest later "

"and why did you wanted to know about this i get nothing from trying to hide it now "

the woman smiled hearing this "so you really are going to produce a large amount of metalwork like tools and weapons "

"yes.............................."

"perfect perfect can you help us when will you be able to produce them ?great viscount helstain " arthur looked at the lord "why is she so respectful now ?"

"i want to know this too , so why do you care i know that the house of novers has not even a single iron mine to use it in the first place and you can buy weapons from your empire not from another so why? "

the woman spoke back "my lord in the west of the kansberg empire where the novers house is war is about to break down between 2 sides the one who produces most iron is the count in our south but he is in a different side so our army has no weapons we have fallen in power we only have 11.000 men when a normal marquess has 20.000 we can't buy from anyone else ,so we can buy from you we have a very small border with you its only in your city in the east from here and its shared between us and the count with the iron production i heard that he is making problems in your city so its good for you to sell us weapons to fight him my lord " the young lady seem to be very happy with this outcome

[she is very smart everything she said its the right but when does she needs the weapons i will start production in a months and a little more if i can sell to them i can buy food from them i know that the land under the novers is very fertile ]