So the Medieval Age Has a Split Inheritance System…
Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Derpy
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Chapter 83 – Preparation Period
It was often said that peace was the period between wars, but there were some special cases. If the opposing forces were literally wiped out by war, then the next war would surely be a civil war. It depended on how competent my descendants would be, but since the whole continent was unified, there would probably be a peaceful period of about 200 to 300 years — and if the national consciousness grew properly, then the period of war would be short. As long as the succession of power from the first generation to the second generation went well, the later generation should be able to handle things by themselves.
The successor nomination system prevented fools from climbing to the top of a nation. Since the Palpal religion approved of polygamy, the destruction of the family line wouldn’t happen so easily. As a result of the second stage of the five-year plan, the food self-sufficiency rate increased significantly, and the nation became overwhelmed with goods.
Three years ago, the first famine after the unification of the continent occurred due to cold weather causing a lack of sunlight, but thanks to the sufficient reserves from the previous year and the fact that there was plenty of food for consumption even if the production rate fell below 50%, there was no particular problem. Since the establishment of the navy, shipbuilding technology has continued to develop, and the fishing industry has flourished, so many marine products are served onto the tables of people.
It seemed that sashimi had taken root in some areas, something I was personally happy about. As always, I only ate it with salt instead of soy sauce, though.
The population level was also recovering, increasing from 90 million to 102 million in the last 10 years. My approval rating was still 100% as always based on the census, so if I wished for it, I think I could continue to live comfortably until the end of my lifespan. Though, I got that 100% executing people who voted otherwise.
Pierre, who recently turned 10 years old, had steadily improved in his swordsmanship and water magic and was now capable of using ice magic with considerable power. However, his mana capacity was still low as usual, so he ended up as a disappointing magic swordsman who ran out of gas after using one shot of magic; but since he had the mighty strength characteristic, his swordsmanship was quite powerful.
I planned to send Pierre to the Ray Kingdom, which was located on the southern continent. It was a state with a population of 50 million people and a territory so large that one wouldn’t think it was on the scale of a kingdom. But the culture was different there in the first place, so the concept of kingdoms and empires was different as well.
We didn’t have any official correspondence, or rather, we didn’t have any contact on the surface. We were separated by a considerable distance, and they were busy fighting wars with other nations on that continent, so they wouldn’t attack our continent. Moreover, it had loose security since people could be smuggled in easily — I sent spies from Deal Empire over the course of 10 years to the Ray Kingdom and let them settle there.
After this, Pierre would live in the Ray Kingdom for about five years, and then he would join the Hero Party to defeat the Demon Lord Palmer. The Hero that was summoned for the previous demon lord was still there, but since his blessing wasn’t based on my karma, he wouldn’t have enough blessing, so I should kill them quickly to let another hero be summoned, one that was powerful enough to kill me.
“I think sending a child away from their parents at 10 years old is a little too early.”
“Didn’t Linde also leave your family house around 11 years old? Well, I’ll make him visit here once a year, then 6 years later, he will be sitting on the throne.”
“…Are you intending to die?”
“No matter how much good karma I earn through domestic affairs, I was already beyond saving the moment I killed 8 digits worth of people. The goddess contacted me for the first time in a while and when I asked, she told me my current karma value is minus 7,000 x 10^52.”
Linde-san didn’t strongly oppose Pierre’s departure, but when she heard he would be succeeding the throne 6 years later, she had a complicated expression… Most likely, the next hero summoned based on my karma would receive a considerable blessing.
I had no idea how the calculation for the karma value ended up as 7,000 x 10^52, but I was told specifically that killing one person gave a person minus 10,000 karma, so I have to figure out the mysterious formula to count it. It seemed like the more people killed, the negative karma counted per person increased exponentially more, so it wasn’t surprising that the final number ended up with 10^52. The fact that most of the people I killed were on purpose to show off my authority should also count into the calculations.
In order to summon the hero, we would strengthen our military power using the third stage of our five-year plan. Battles could be ended easily by just dropping bombs on them, but rather than that, I wanted to mass-produce warships, create fleets, and float them out to sea. I wanted to overwhelm them with overwhelming military power. While the other side was busy fighting using swords and spears, mowing them down using cannons and rifles from a long distance sounded like fun.
Especially the nuclear-powered battleship, didn’t that sound like a lump of romance? I’ve gotten a lot of national power, so even if I made toys that float on the sea like this, no citizen would oppose it. If they do, they would disappear alongside their village after all.
…Over the last 10 years, 8 villages and baronies attempted an uprising. All of them were blown away equally with magic bombs, so I guess this was beyond what we’d call a tyrant. In the next 5 years, we would increase the number of military personnel by spending national funds, and we would start building battleships powered by magic bombs, so there would be even more uprisings. Having it occur one after another was a pain to deal with, so I wanted to detect them in advance and deal with them as soon as possible, but accusations often didn’t reach the top brass, so it was hard to deal with.
My karma value remained negative, which was consistent with my understanding of my own value. Although the number of people I’ve massacred in war had reached 100 million, that number has now reached about 120 million, but there was no one who ended up hungry or couldn’t make ends meet. The food culture was enriched, and the literacy rate was also on the rise.
If I was asked if that was enough to justify the 10 million people I killed to push the matter through, I could say for sure that it didn’t. I didn’t indulge in anything, and the system-san of this world seemed to have a sense of value closer to modern Japan. Rather, regardless of the world, it was obvious that murder was considered the most serious offense. Come to think of it, there were times I attacked without declaring war, so I couldn’t even use war as a justification for the massacre. Of course, my negative karma snowballed like that.
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