The border between Lindor and other countries wasn’t a clearly drawn line, but rather divided by natural terrain like rivers and mountains.
Ideally, each country would want to build a wall to mark their border, even in the middle of a plain, but constructing a wall spanning dozens of kilometers wasn’t logistically feasible, hence the current situation.
Currently, Lindor was uninhabited, as all its citizens, from the Royal Family and nobles to commoners, had abandoned the country and fled abroad.
Uninhabited territory… Under normal circumstances, it would be a highly coveted prize for any country, but none could reach out for it.
This was because Lindor had suffered the effects of Otherworld Summoning twice in a short period, draining the magic power from the land and rendering it infertile.
This meant that it wasn’t just crops that wouldn’t grow.
Everything, from the grass growing by the roadside to the trees that formed the forests, had withered and died.
The scene was like a vision of hell, and from the perspective of other countries, it seemed as if Lindor had been punished by the heavens.
Because of this, no country wanted the land.
However, they couldn’t just leave it unattended.
Even though crops wouldn’t grow and people had left, the buildings remained intact.
Such buildings were easy targets for criminal organizations.
Therefore, the borders of Lindor were as heavily guarded as before, if not more so.
However, for criminal organizations, the uninhabited Lindor was the perfect place to set up their base, and they were constantly trying to cross the border.
For each country, allowing criminal organizations to enter Lindor from their own territory would be a disgrace to neighboring countries, so the border guards were fighting desperately against criminal organizations every day.
Such battles were happening daily at the borders of Lindor and other countries, and finally, an organization managed to break through the security and enter Lindor.
How did they manage to slip past the border guards?
“Hah! Hah! Heh, heh, we did it! We finally swam across the river!”
They had swum across the river that formed the border by their own power.
Some of them were swept away by the current, but still, a dozen or so managed to cross the river and land in the uninhabited Lindor.
“Boss, where are we headed now?”
A subordinate of the organization asked the boss, who grinned and replied.
“Well, it’s gotta be the Capital City, right? The Royal Family’s castle is there.”
“Ooh!”
The boss said in high spirits, and the others cheered in agreement.
In reality, the Capital City of Lindor had been destroyed once by Kenta, and the castle was a temporary Royal Castle, but no one pointed that out.
Whether they didn’t know, or they thought that the Royal Castle would have been restored to its original state after four years, it was unclear.
Then, as they were putting on the clothes they had taken off to cross the river, they were about to head for the Capital City.
“Huh? What’s that sound?”
The boss noticed an unfamiliar sound coming from the sky.
At the boss’s words, the subordinates also looked up at the sky.
At that moment.
“…Eh?”
Those were the boss’s last words.
The sound coming from the sky was the sound of Kenta’s magic approaching.
When the magic appeared before their eyes, the members of the criminal organization were helpless.
The magic struck in an instant, mercilessly engulfing the members of the criminal organization, causing a massive explosion.
The explosion reached the border guards on the other side of the river, and the guards hurriedly crossed the border in boats and gathered at the explosion site.
“Ugh… Th-this is…”
What the guards who arrived at the scene saw were the bodies of the members of the criminal organization, torn to pieces by Kenta’s magic.
“This is… a magic mark, isn’t it?”
A guard who had never seen the traces of large-scale magic before muttered, and a veteran guard replied, “That’s right.”
“This scale… It must be the magic that guy unleashed.”
“That guy… you don’t mean?”
“Yeah. I went with him when he invaded the Demon Tribe Nation, so I know. This is the trace of Kenta Maya’s magic.”
The veteran guard stated definitively, and the guard who had muttered first looked at him with eyes full of respect.
“To be able to deduce whose magic it is just from the traces… That’s amazing!”
Hearing that, the veteran guard scratched his cheek awkwardly.
“Well, there wasn’t anyone among the Demon Tribe who could leave traces of magic on this scale. That’s why I thought it was him.”
“I-I see…”
Kenta, who was now recognized as an enemy of the world.
The guards were unintentionally terrified by the power of Kenta’s magic, who was considered an enemy of the world.
“…Haa. It seems that a criminal organization has broken through the border.”
“Are these guys from an organization?”
“I don’t know which organization, but judging from their equipment and belongings, it’s definitely them.”
“…That was close. We were about to become the first country to allow an invasion into Lindor.”
In reality, they had allowed it, but as the members of the organization that had crossed the border were all annihilated, the guards decided to pretend that the border breach had never happened.
“Even so, why did Maya-san help us?”
For them, who were on the verge of being branded with the disgrace of being the first to allow a criminal organization to enter Lindor, Kenta had killed the members of the criminal organization and saved them.
“Who knows… Maybe it’s because our country lifted his Wanted status, so he’s cooperating with us.”
Yes, they were from Weimar.
Kenta’s actual actions were simply because he was too bored and eliminated the people who seemed to be a criminal organization that had crossed the border, which was too absurd of a reason, so their speculation was completely off the mark.
However, even though it was different from the truth, the fact that they were saved was real, so the guards of Weimar were a little grateful to Kenta at this time.
And after that, Kenta’s magic blocked the intrusion of criminal organizations several times, and the guards on the Weimar side began to worship Kenta as a guardian who would not allow criminals to enter Lindor.
When the Royal Family began to try to please Kenta and follow his wishes, even those who had been dissatisfied with the Royal Family began to think that perhaps the Royal Family had been insightful.
However, that was only the case in Weimar, and the situation was slightly different in other countries.
Criminal organizations began to emerge from other countries as well, but Kenta eliminated them as if he were shooting targets.
However, unlike in Weimar, some people in other countries began to say that Kenta was not allowing criminals to enter because he was trying to take Lindor for himself.
In that vein, the talk that Weimar was secretly connected to Kenta began to spread, and the relationship between Weimar and other Human Tribe countries gradually deteriorated.
In this way, the world situation was becoming increasingly tense, with Kenta as the starting point.
Without Kenta knowing it.