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Literature, art, language, technology, games, religion, customs, ways of life, architecture, and so on.

Thus, culture comes in many different forms, and its power is too strong to put into words.

A good culture makes people follow it 'voluntarily.' Like a drop of ink falling into clean water, the power of culture slowly influences people from within rather than from without.

It is not some shallow notion implanted through brainwashing or education; people naturally follow it after encountering that culture, so its effect is bound to be powerful.

And in this world, which is close to the medieval era, the most influential form of culture is undoubtedly 'art.'

As I explained before, art includes music, painting, sculpture, and crafts, and the masters hailed as the best in their respective fields possess an imposing status renowned throughout the world.

The art world includes not only humans, but also the elves who laid the foundations of civilization and the dwarves, known as the race of craftsmen.

The beastmen were a warrior race with little interest in art, while the demon race had focused on the human rights movement (?) rather than art and had nothing in particular to boast about.

The Kingdom of Ters, the land of culture, recognized the power of culture early on and devoted itself to cultivating it. As a result, it grew into a powerful nation that even the Minerva Empire could not treat lightly.

The Minerva Empire could not pressure the Kingdom of Ters by flaunting its powerful military and economic strength, because the culture that had originated in the Kingdom of Ters had already seeped into the very roots of the Empire...