I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Cas

Peasant Arc

Chapter 70 - Magic and Status

「「「「「「「「「「Ice spear 」」」」」」」」」」

　

　The three of us, my elder brother Baito, Vargas, and I, were surrounded in the middle of the enemy army.

　

　The surrounding armored soldiers cast magic on us.

　

　[Ice Spear]

　

　This is the magic which is a specialty of the Fontana family.

　

　Yes, aristocrats have their own magic in this world.

　

　In other words, it is because they have magic that they can be aristocrats.

　

　There is no doubt that the ability to use magic other than normal Life Magic will make a big difference in your survival rate on the battlefield.

　

　Over the years, people with various kinds of magic have risen and fallen.

　

　In this way, those with powerful magic have somehow survived as nobles.

　

　In times of emergency, they would use their magical power to solve problems.

　

　It is because of this power that the people living in the area allow the nobles to rule the land.

　

　However, the amount of magic power that each individual has is limited.

　

　No matter how much magic a nobleman possesses and rampages as a powerful being on the battlefield, it does not necessarily mean that he will win.

　

　The number of people is a major factor on the battlefield.

　

　Therefore, the nobles would conscript people from their own lands to go to the battlefield.

　

　The commoners, who should be the ones seeking protection, fight for the nobles.

　

　This would make it difficult to understand why the nobles were allowed to rule the land, and might make the commoners angry.

　

　Therefore, it is said that at some point in time, magic was given to those who gained achievements on the battlefield.

　

　In other words, they would be rewarded with a family name from the nobility and could start a new home.

　TLN: So, to clarify, Ars isn't the founder of the "Getting named=magic" system. Seems nobles had been using them for years before.

　This became the reason for commoners to go to the battlefield willingly.

　

　If they worked hard, they could become one step ahead of their previous position as commoners.

　

　They thought that getting magic (which could also help their families) was worth their life.

　

　However, the nobles would not give away magic so easily.

　

　After all, it is dangerous.

　

　A being who can use magic is dangerous.

　

　Magic can be activated by simply casting a spell if one has mana.

　

　But what if that magic is not like Life Magic, but something that can kill?

　

　If you casually exchange a greeting or shake hands with someone and they activate a spell at the same moment, no matter how good you are at using spells or such, your life is in danger.

　

　In other words, it was as if one could use an invisible gun at any time.

　

　It is extremely dangerous to have such a person wandering around.

　

　I heard that there used to be a lot of incidents.

　

　It must have been a great dilemma for the nobles.

　

　They want to have soldiers to take to the battlefield, but in order to do that, they have an unspoken agreement that those who are worthy must be given the ability to use magic, but if they give magic to just anyone, it will disrupt order.

　

　As a result, there were stages to granting magic, and magic was granted to those who were judged to be trustworthy to some extent.

　

　Peasants like us had to go to the battlefield many times, and when our power was recognized, we were taken up as squires.

　

　A squire is supposed to be like a valet attached to a knight.

　

　After working under a knight for a long time, they are given a family name so that they can use magic.

　

　A knight who can use magic already is the one who can test the squire.

　

　In exchange for being able to use magic, a knight must swear an oath of allegiance to the nobleman who bestowed them the magic.

　

　If you are disrespectful to the nobleman in any way, in the worst case, you will be stripped of your family name.

　

　Stripping one of their family name.

　

　This means that the family is cut off from nobility and the use of magic other than Life Magic becomes impossible.

　

　In other words, you will lose the privileged position that you had previously held with the commoners.

　

　There are not many people who would want to lose their current position.

　

　So, in order to protect their status at the very least, they naturally restricted the use of magic so that it would not be abused unnecessarily.

　

　As a result, a system was established in which magic-using nobles ruled the land.

　

　What I did in Barca Village was, if I may say so, a subterfuge to exploit this system.

　

　The magic that was originally granted only to those who worked for nobles on the battlefield, risking their lives constantly, was suddenly made available to the villagers.

　

　It means that suddenly your status is raised from that of a peasant.

　

　Everyone would jump at it.

　

　But nothing is more expensive than something that is free.

　

　Everyone knows that.

　

　We all know that now that we have magic, we have to go where our lives will depend on it.

　

　Since I could use Earth Magic, I had to give the people of Barca the same Earth Magic.

　

　The Fontana family, on the other hand, is a family that uses Ice Magic.

　

　Raymond, the head of the Fontana family here, and the armored soldiers and knights around him seemed to be able to use [Ice spear], which is the specialty of the Fontanas.

　

　It is a magic that shoots out a large icicle from the palm of your hand.

　

　It is an attack magic that will definitely skewer your opponents' bodies and cause massive damage if they receive it without protection.

　

　That spell was fired from all around us at once.

　

　I immediately injected mana into my Hard-fang Sword and raised its hardness.

　

　It's impossible for one person to get rid of all the ice spears in the surrounding area.

　

　It was not only me who thought so, but also Baito-nii and Vargas.

　

　Without exchanging a word, we turned our attention to the icicles in front of us, protecting each other's backs.

　

　As I did so, I smashed the flying icicles with my Hard-fang Sword.

TLN: I can see some of you being frustrated with this drawn-out battle... and I kind of am too... welp.