[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-isekai-nonbiri-nouka":3,"chapter-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-915":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Isekai Nonbiri Nouka",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1395498,1848,"Chapter 915: Yunodenna Kingdom","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-915",915,"\u003Cp>—Country Introduction—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>● Gozlan Kingdom\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though its internal affairs were upheld by civil officials led by the Third Princess, they are currently on the run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>● Jidoen Kingdom\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expanding realm of the so-called Conquering King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It conquered the Gozlan Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>● Iji Kingdom\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful nation appealed to by the desperate Gozlan Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A great kingdom ruled by yours truly—this story’s narrator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am the king of the Yunodenna Kingdom, ruled by humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allow me to share a few words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our Yunodenna Kingdom is a major power, but just beyond our borders lies a chaotic region teeming with around forty small nations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be frank, even calling them “nations” is generous. These countries are so small you could walk across one before breakfast. Still, as long as there’s a king, it’s considered a country—no matter how tiny the land is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, these nations? They don’t get along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’ve been at each other’s throats for generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they were proper human nations, you’d think they’d unite to face the threat of the Demon King’s Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no. Not even a hint of unity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounds like the kind of place ripe for invasion, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Easy pickings?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding countries don’t dare touch that region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if you strike one, they all strike back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you only pick a fight with one, the rest come swinging too—some just for the thrill of it. It’s like the moment you step on one toe, the whole foot stomps back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crush one or two, and it doesn’t end there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They keep coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They will attack regardless of gain or loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re constantly fighting, so their soldiers are hardened, experienced, and aggressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, any nation foolish enough to intervene usually ends up abandoning the conquered land and limping back home with nothing to show for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once the foreign invader leaves, the locals?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They go right back to fighting each other again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not touching it. No way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This chaotic region has been seen as dangerous for generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And despite all the fighting, no one ever managed to unite it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because nobody in that region has the ability to govern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their nations are too small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no chance to develop administrative skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even when one country gains territory, it doesn’t take long before things fall apart again and everything splits back into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not everyone there wants it to stay that way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some wish for stability—like the old king of a small nation called Gozlan, about thirty years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out beyond the region, pleading for help from a major nation—the Iji Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please,” he said, “send us someone who can govern”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, that sort of request would just be a nuisance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Iji happened to be dealing with a succession crisis at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had a mediocre First Prince and a brilliant Second Prince.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tensions were high, and if left unchecked, civil war might’ve erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the then-king of Iji made a choice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He named the Second Prince as heir and sent the First Prince away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t called exile—nothing so dramatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was officially a military dispatch, or maybe a diplomatic mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his faction of retainers went with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the prince himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one really knows what he was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe he planned to take over Gozlan, maybe he was just a decent guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he helped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He helped govern the country alongside Gozlan’s leadership.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His retainers helped too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some records say he looked more alive there than he ever did back in Iji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And under his influence, the Gozlan Kingdom began to grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It studied and learned how to govern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over thirty years, it grew to nearly three times its original size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People began to think—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Give it another hundred years, and Gozlan just might unify that chaotic region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth was… quite different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gozlan hadn’t learned how to govern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had dumped everything on the First Prince of Iji and his retainers the moment they arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worried about being taken over?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apparently not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their attitude was more like: “Be our guest!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why didn’t the First Prince actually take over?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe he figured it wasn’t worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or maybe he just wanted to avoid conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of conquering, the First Prince of Iji ended up marrying a commoner girl from Gozlan and having a daughter with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That daughter later married the son of the king who had originally begged for help from Iji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his second wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that second wife gave birth to Gozlan’s famed Third Princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was helping manage the kingdom by the time she was five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, she wasn’t doing it alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of the retainers who had followed the First Prince from Iji—or their children—were still there, supporting her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the fact that her name reached our ears speaks volumes about her talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll be honest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until recently, I had no idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past few years, Gozlan had essentially been ruled by that Third Princess and her inherited support network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a way, she had taken over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would the First Prince of Iji have thought about that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, both he and his daughter have passed away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’ll never know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This has gone on a bit, but this is where the real story begins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that chaotic patchwork of petty kingdoms, one country began expanding its borders at an alarming rate:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jidoen Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its ruler calls himself the Conquering King, and in just ten years, he’s made his territory more than four times its original size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, I mean that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just managing to hold that together is something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must’ve been lucky enough to have someone good at domestic affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or maybe he went out and found someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But… his luck was running out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone assumed he’d collapse like all the others before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Expand too much, too fast — and boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one can manage it. That’s how this region works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s what we all expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then, some idiot decided to tip him off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They whispered in his ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know, the Third Princess of Gozlan is really good at governing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucky for Gozlan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlucky for Jidoen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two nations had recently become neighbors, thanks to all that expansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the Conquering King made his move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tried to negotiate for the princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Gozlan refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accepting would’ve meant handing over everything they’d built in the past thirty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more importantly — to the king of Gozlan, she was his daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Born late in his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precious beyond measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way he’d let her go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, rather than stand his ground… he attacked first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Full-scale war broke out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the end, the Gozlan Kingdom was destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swallowed whole by the ever-growing Jidoen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, if that had been the end of it — if Jidoen had successfully taken the Third Princess — I wouldn’t be telling you all this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jidoen would either go on to unify the region…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or crumble somewhere down the line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would’ve just sat back and watched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately for all of us, Jidoen failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t get the princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The King of Gozlan — smartly — had her escape before the war started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe she fled to Iji, where her bloodline runs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We don’t know yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only that she escaped with a significant number of retainers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that changes everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the Conquering King of Jidoen finds himself in a kingdom too large to govern…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With too many moving pieces…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too few capable hands…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And no princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has charisma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no administrative power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one to actually run the thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s going to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It has to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one can keep a kingdom like that afloat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it just toppled over quietly, we could ignore it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s not how collapse works —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>especially not for the people who live under its roof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’ll fight it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which brings us to this letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「To the Yunodenna Kingdom,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jidoen Kingdom surrenders to your nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that is not acceptable, please send someone who can help us govern. 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—That was the entire letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No summary here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s all it said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a message between nations, it’s absurdly brief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Personally, I appreciate the simplicity, but the content?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrender?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the circumstances, it means our country is now involved in that region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not just involved—we’ve taken a side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’ve sided with Jidoen, and in doing so, we’ve offended everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please don’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—wait. We’re a great nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We could win a war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We could swallow up that whole region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forty-some small kingdoms? No problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s it. That’s all we’d get.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That region—if you add up all the territories—it’s over twice the size of our own lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way we could govern it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if we conquered them, they’d never listen to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be our kingdom that would collapse next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Territories are meant to be expanded gradually, over decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can’t just gulp them down all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why Jidoen is asking—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Send us people who can help govern.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How vile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are they angels or something?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just because we’re a large kingdom doesn’t mean we’re overflowing with talent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite the opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s because we’re a major power that we’re suffering from a shortage of skilled people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’re trying our best—building academies, developing talent…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And still, it’s not enough!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, under the banner of preparing for war with the Demon King’s Kingdom, we’ve been sending our best minds and warriors to the front-line nations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’re the ones who need help!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ugh, seriously… What are we supposed to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massacre?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just wipe Jidoen off the map?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we do that, we become the enemy of all humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’re currently part of a Grand Alliance—formed to protect humanity and wage war against the Demon King’s Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we annihilate another human kingdom?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We lose our moral authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if things weren’t messy enough with this new, bizarre “Six Dragon God Kingdom” stirring up trouble lately…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell do we do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the worst part is—I know what’s coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we stall too long, Jidoen will go through with their surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Someone who can help govern”…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No. We can’t give them anyone like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people who handle our internal balance of power—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if we send even one of them away, we risk civil war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So maybe… maybe we send someone who can just read, write, and do math?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would that be enough to placate them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I underestimating them too much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sent twenty people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who could read, write, and do basic arithmetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They thanked us profusely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overwhelmingly, even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…So that’s all it takes, huh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leaders of past great nations were right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t get involved in that region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t try to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolutely not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I engraved that lesson deep into my heart, and turned back to today’s government work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minister: If that region gets unified… wouldn’t it be dangerous having a superpower as our neighbor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King: If they actually manage to unify it, they’ll be stuck for the next fifty years. We’ll be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minister: And what about fifty years from now, when they’re not stuck anymore?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King: By then, I won’t be the king anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minister: ……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King: Don’t glare. Of course we’ll take countermeasures during those fifty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AN: And once again, not a VC story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, the story will shift to either Big Tree or Village Five.\u003C\u002Fp>",1954,"2026-06-05T23:08:41.452Z",1,"novelbin.me","9c8a836998004b1f349693032cfeefdd12863cce8ebefc4493e712ed79e25138","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-993","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-992",1036,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fisekai-nonbiri-nouka-cover.jpg"]