The Western Turmoil (3)

Two days south of Witzza, the capital of the Vilestrika Republic.

I boarded a ship at the Vilestrika Republic's largest port and headed west.

But this wasn't the clandestine passage I had originally planned.

After arranging legitimate passage, my destination was neither the western lands nor the southern island nation where trade was conducted, but the west-central region.

More specifically, it was Jilchias, a country that made worship of the Fertility God its state religion and where I could presumably visit without hiding my identity.

The reason I had gone to the trouble of taking a ship without heading directly west—or rather, without going to the southern island nation to find a ship bound for the west—was that I wanted to visit the country in the west-central region said to have been occupied by the elves.

Of course, if the elves had taken up arms in response to their own hardships and occupied a country, it was not my place to interfere.

However, if Win was involved in fighting the Western religion as part of a coalition of several races, I decided I ought to learn about the circumstances of the west-central elves, who faced a similar problem.

If the west-central elves happened to want help in some form, I thought I could lend them my strength—provided, of course, that doing so did not go against my wishes.

Then again, there was apparently one more country between Jilchias and the country the elves had occupied: Kazaria, whose state religion was the Western religion...