Many territories made use of the Sechs empire's technology, but especially, Norad didn't need any of it, and the reason was quite simple.
Norad was said to be the land where life on Futhark had taken its first steps, perhaps these were all mere legends, but when one became aware of Norad's history, it was something else.
It was a fact that Norad was the oldest and strongest kingdom in the world, although it was not uncommon to see talented knights and people with talent on the runic path, Norad was a nation fully versed in the aspect of magic and its development, if anyone looking for a wizard or witch, he could see a huge number of them prowling the roads and streets of Norad.
But especially, it was where both the royal magic academy and the magic research center were located, those places were practically heaven for anyone who wanted to get caught up in the path of magic, which made people from all over the world they went to Norad in the hope that they could be accepted or absorb the slightest knowledge of those places.
In Norad it was not strange to see the advances of magic anywhere, the most attractive aspect of that would be that the royal castle of the kingdom was floating in the air giving a fascinating sight for any tourist, even for the natives of the kingdom.
But ignoring all of the above, there was one more important aspect, and that was that Terrable, one of the four elder dragons, had always resided in the land of Norad as if it were its protector.
And remembering all of that, the mere thought of two great powers like the Sechs empire and the Norad kingdom having a bad relationship was enough to make the world pay attention to any interaction between them.
But besides that, out of the various clashes between them, there was something that also needed to be mentioned, and that was the intervention of the Zzyzx empire to benefit from the final result.
This empire was something quite peculiar, not only because its name was quite strange, but because it was practically a closed empire. It was as if it had appeared out of nowhere and began to gain power until it seized the territory to the south of the Uruz continent.
Any information that had been tried to obtain from it had been in vain or was so little that it was not worth mentioning, the most notorious thing was that nobody knew who the ruler of the empire was, even the soldiers who went in and out of foreign land seemed to be emotionless dolls and if any were captured, attempts to gather information were futile as their knowledge seemed to be nil or they would simply take their own lives without hesitation at the slightest chance they got...
That relationship between those forces had lasted a long time, and although there was currently relative calm and balance, everyone was aware that this could change at any moment.
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All the women in the room were aware of that situation, and even though Laguz was a neighbor of Uruz, all those conflicts did not seem to affect beyond their own territories.
"Anyway… Even though I still helped out if the messaging department needed me, that didn't stop me from touring Uruz, and I must say that the trip really expanded my knowledge. The views of the different places in the territory, and the aspect of magic were very remarkable, I even had the opportunity to measure my strength with various wizards and witches during my travels. There were incredible places, I toured the islands near Norad, I was also able to see the famous sky whale, it's something that I really have no way of explaining and…" It seemed that Mei had already finished with everything important and now she was expressing everything she had experienced in their travels making Shino very curious while Marjorie nodded since most things were not unknown to her. "And I think that would be it, the last few years I had actually settled in the village of Kardia in the kingdom from Norad, I had spent a nice time in the past there and I felt it was the perfect place to rest."
"If I remember correctly, that's where the Lawrence brat also lives, I guess you have a close enough relationship with him that he allows you to be the master of his son and take him with you."
"Oh... Did someone steal your heart, master?" Listening to what Marjorie said, Shino came up with some pretty funny ideas that took Mei by surprise.
"…" Both Marjorie and Shino thought that Mei might have the usual poker face of hers, but when they saw how her complexion showed a blank look in addition to almost non-existent nervousness, they widened their eyes in surprise.
"Hey, are you serious?" Marjorie had to ask that question because of the situation.
"N-No, it's not what…!" But it seemed that Mei had already dug her own grave.
"Oh... Ufufu, it seems that the master likes young boys, I'm very happy for you." Shino was sure that what she had seen was real, so she was not going to stop teasing Mei now.
"Wait!" Mei was panicking.
"Now I understand everything, first you want to win the son's affection before attacking, it's the first time I've seen this side of you. You always said that you were against polygamy, my view of you just took a big turn." Marjorie was also having fun, so he was not going to miss the opportunity that he had appeared in front of her.
The laughter did not take long to appear and the jokes did not stop falling on Mei, she wanted to explain that it was nothing like that, but she also did not understand why she acted like that with the simple fact of remembering what, before her eyes, was a simple boy who bothered her all the time.