ocean-life Book 2: Chapter 1-2: New People
Book 2: Chapter 1-2: New People
Book 2: Chapter 1-2: New People
Understood. Then I entreat you to allow us 53 Fire Foxes to shelter ourselves in this country. All we ask is for the minimum of food and shelter. We have brought compensation.
Compensation? Before we talk about that, I need to confirm what standpoint you are talking to me with Kuu. As the representative of my country I need to understand this before our discussions begin.
Cyril-kun..noCyril-sama. I amKuu is the Fire Fox head. Please take my words as that of the Fire Fox Chief.
She spoke with resolve and strong will.
I see. I understand. I will treat you as Chief and not as a representative. This means that the Chief die..the Fire Fox Chief lost correct?
At my words the Fire Foxes faces all warped with sorrow.
That is correct. The men who could fight resisted to the very end to buy us timeand those who could not fight or make the journey with us were sent to their eternal rest by our very hands so the Empire could not rob them of their magic stones. Those stones bearing their souls were brought away by us. This is one portion of the compensation we brought here to Erucy.
Kuu managed to force those words out.
It must have been a bitter choice for the Fire Foxes to make.
Firstly they let the women who could bear children escape and had the men fight. That much was fine. However, there were still the very young children and elderly.
There were 80km between our village and the Fire Foxes. The journey would take them through tall mountains and deep forests. They wouldnt have much food and barely any luggage so they could escape.
In that case there was a chose between having their hearts torn out by the Empire and used against their people or choosing to die. There must have been those who wanted to do what they could for their friends and family before they died and chose such an option.
I seeIm sorry.
Why are you apologizing Cyril-sama?
Lets leave those matters as they are and begin the discussion. Ive heard your requests. What are you offering in exchange?
Firstly are the fire magic stones of our fallen. Unlike humans we cannot use magic not of our affinity, but I believe they will be useful at some point. I offer these. If they can be used to deal the Empire a blow then I believe they would not think their deaths in vain.
Magic stones had various uses.
An example was their usage as a catalyst for low affinity humans to use elemental magics.
If these magic stones filled with magic power were used as a one time consumable they could produce incredible and powerful magic spells as well.
If they had been used as such by the Fire Foxes this time then there was a possibility they could have defeated the Empire this time.
The second is mining rights to our salt mines. You can take as much as you can carry. It wont be the small amount we sell normally either. We will teach you the location of the salt that we have protected for generations and allow you to mine it as you please.
For us this was an extremely attractive proposal.
Salt was a particularly precious commodity in the village and we could barely get any. If we could get a free and stable supply of it that would be incredible.
Lastly we offer our lives. We will work for this country and fight for it. The only condition is we be treated humanely.
Fire Foxes had incredible fighting strength and for the specialty product I was thinking of for the village someone proficient in flame magic was extremely important. Also I needed more people for different projects so this was in fact a godsend.
Fine. With these conditions I can agree to this.
Wait Chief Cyril!
Roleau cried out.