Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

T/N: I was swamped with assignment yesterday. I completely forgot to post this chapter. Sorry!

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“Baron Kupfernagel and the Guards have taken care of the demons in the Eagle’s Nest inn. They had 7 casualties.”

“The 5th squad of the 1st Division who went to Count Eggert’s residence reported that they had subjugated a devil disguised as the Count’s knight.”

“The 3rd squad of the 2nd Division had successfully taken control of Baron Stahl’s residence. The devil that was disguised as the Baron had also been killed. They had 8 casualties.”

Messengers were coming and going to the large conference room in the palace. Various pieces on the capital’s map on the table were being constantly moved as the Crown Prince and the ministers exchanged their opinions and gave out new orders. They were nervous, of course, but since they knew the kingdom had the upper hand, none of them looked grim.

The Crown Prince Hubertus, who had given several instructions in quick succession, smiled at Count Zeavert who was standing beside his Royal Father.

“Count, you have an excellent son.”

“I am grateful for your praise.”

Unlike Welner, Ingo had a long experience in the royal court, so he wouldn’t show his expression easily. Yet currently, he could not hide his bitter smile.

“Exactly. I heard your son was a hard worker, but I never thought he would be this excellent.”

From the other side of the room, Marquis Schindler, the Minister of War, commented so. Inside, Schindler couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat when he thought about what would have happened if Welner didn’t introduce the high-quality equipment to the kingdom. The reason there were so few casualties in the Finnoi defense battle and the current operation was all because of the high-quality equipment. Schindler felt it was Welner’s foresight that allowed the knights of the kingdom to change their equipment to high-quality ones, and Schindler thought highly of Welner for this.

“Not only did he notice that there were demons disguised as humans in Finnoi, he also noticed that there were demons that infiltrated the capital. Count, your son is truly amazing.”

“Too much praise might make him arrogant, so please make sure that my son will not hear your excessive praise.”

The Count answered Duke Grunding’s praise. He stopped hiding his bitter expression because he sensed that both Duke and Marquis were trying to rope Welner into their factions. The nobles were broadly divided into civil and military factions, but the two factions could further be divided into smaller fractions. Listening to their conversation, Grand Duke Seyfart shrugged his shoulders.

“I was wondering where did Sir’s son learn the existence ‌of such magic tools?” (Seyfart)

“I do not know. My son was interested in both the military and literature, after all.” (Ingo)

“A truly promising young man.” (The King)

When the King, who was clearly in a good mood, interjected in the conversation, Ingo bowed lightly.

Without the anti-demon medicine that Welner had introduced, it would be difficult for the kingdom to tell who had been demons disguised as humans. The second the information about the anti-demon medicine reached the palace, the King ordered the internal affairs officers to buy as many anti-demon medicines as possible.

Unfortunately, because the kingdom had to move carefully so that the infiltrating demons didn’t notice their cover had been blown, the number of anti-demon medicines the kingdom had successfully gathered was not a lot.

Nevertheless, the second the kingdom successfully gathered some anti-demon medicines, the kingdom’s upper echelons made several decisions. First, they decided to silently identify as many demons as possible. Second, they planned to use the ‘victory parade’ as an excuse for the knights to be fully armed without earning the suspicion of the infiltrating demons. There was a possibility of information leak, but the kingdoms’ officials could deal with those who leaked the information one by one.

The method used to silently identify demons here was to sprinkle some anti-demon medicine in several places inside the palace and then identify the people who avoided those places. After that, the kingdom’s shadows would tail them for further investigation, which involved finding out who had come into contact with them.

The internal government inspector, the stealth force that controlled the kingdom’s shadow, the scouts’ division of both the Royal Guard and The White Dragon Knights, all moved in unison.

With that, the kingdom succeeded in gaining the upper hand against the demons without alarming them. The people in charge of this job ended up having to spend several nights without sleeping, literally.

“I also never thought magic tools which allow fast transport existed.”

“From now on, if those kinds of magic tools are excavated from the ruins in our kingdom, we must prevent them from being sold to another country.”

“I do not think we have any unexcavated ruins left….”

Remembering the precious magic tools that the kingdom had sold to foreign merchants, the Minister of Internal Affair, Aundenried, and Prime Minister Falkenstein sighed.

The discovery of the use of Skywalks created an uproar among the nobles, especially among the military. The reason the Skywalks weren’t sold in the Bain Kingdom was that when the Skywalks were excavated from the ancient kingdom ruins that were located in the Bain Kingdom, the kingdom sold them to foreign merchants because no one knew their use.

Countries which had a large amount of ancient kingdom ruins must have known of their use, but every one of them kept that information as a tightly guarded secret.

To make matters worse, recently there were no new ancient ruins that could be excavated near the Bain Kingdom. This was extremely regrettable.

The Skywalks that the kingdom used so they could purchase the anti-demon medicine were something they had gotten from the mercenary, Oliver Gekke, who had stayed in the capital.

Frenssen told Ingo that Oliver Gekke had traveled with the merchant party so he might have purchased some Skywalks for himself, and Ingo conveyed that information to the kingdom. The kingdom bought some Skywalks, albeit with high prices from Gekke.

The kingdom sent people to purchase anti-demon medicine and Skywalks using the Skywalks they had brought from Gekke.

When the messenger asked Gekke why he purchased those Skywalks, Gekke answered, “It’s that Viscount we are talking about. I’m sure he won’t buy something useless.”

“Some diplomats of other countries who have been stationed in our country probably had Skywalks in their possession.”

“And here I was wondering how the information about Finnoi spread that fast. In any case, it was good that we managed to settle the matter in Finnoi swiftly.”

Hearing the conversation between the Minister of Work, Rademacher and Schundler, The Crown Prince and The Minister of Foreign Affair, Equord exchanged glances and let out a wry smile. After all, the work that the two did to prevent any foreign interference in the Finnoi Defense Battle by no means was easy. Both sides, the civil faction and the military faction, thought that their work was the hardest.

“In the future, we need to re-investigate the ancient ruins in our kingdom.”

“It will be the best if Sir Welner can take part in that reinvestigation.”

The Crown Prince commented after he took a quick glance at the Grand Duke and Rademacher, who were in charge of the ruins, responded. The Minister of Work, Rademacher, first heard Welner’s name during the aqueduct construction project and once again became interested in Welner after Welner created the patrol procedure. When he saw the patrol procedure document, Rademacher was quite surprised. He was not an idiot. He, of course, knew the value of the procedure. If he could create such a procedure for construction work, the preparation of the construction, the workers’ management, and the process of transporting materials would become easier.

As for Aundenried, the Minister of Internal Affair, he was impressed by the bonds and five-home system that Welner had proposed. The idea of citizens monitoring each other was far too foreign in this world. Plus, Welner showed he understood that the five-home system he had proposed would only be effective for a limited amount of time, otherwise, there would be a collision among the people.

Audenried had completely acknowledged Welner’s ability as a civil administrator.

Both of them were overestimating Welner’s actual ability, though. What Welner did was only to randomly use the knowledge from his previous life.

In fact, it was the kingdom’s ministers who were amazing since they were able to put the random, half-baked idea that Welner had into practice.

Actually, people had started to notice Welner since he created and submitted the proposal about gathering high-ranking equipment to the Crown Prince. Since Welner created a proposal, any upper echelons of the kingdom would be able to see his plan. Students of his age would normally be incapable of creating and submitting a proposal like Welner, even if they were also an heir of a noble house.

For Welner, who was a former office worker, it was only natural for him to create and submit a proposal, but because he was currently just a young student, his action ended up making him stand out among his peers.

Furthermore, Welner successfully put his proposal into action and produced a satisfactory result, which garnered even more attention from his surroundings. Others would now constantly evaluate and judge his actions.

Welner himself was oblivious to this, though, as he was single-mindedly focused on his aim. Not to mention in Welner’s mind, his actions were nothing strange as a former office worker. Welner seemed to forget, or perhaps he simply didn’t realize how impressive his actions were since it came from a young teenager.

Just as another person was about to open his mouth, a small but clear vibration echoed throughout the room. Everyone fell into silence and not long after, a knight rushed into the room.

“Report! A battle has broken out in the Royal Mage Research Building! The devil there was stronger than normal devils!”

“Calm down! We already predicted that a battle would break out there. Tell Vilsmaier to mobilize the knights and the Mage Unit!”

“Yes, sir!”

As he was observing Ingo and Duke Grunding, who continued to talk on the side, Huber calmly gave his order. He had prepared double and triple measures to protect the heart of the palace, just in case something happened. Now, Huber’s thoughts had shifted to how he would take care of the political issue that would arise after this operation was finished.

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