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"Don't move!"
A group of fully armed soldiers aimed their standard-issue spears at Noah, forming a circle around him and pointing sharp spearheads at him from every direction. Unless he could fly, there was no way he could escape.
Of course, that was assuming he did not force his way out.
Noah merely stopped walking. Not only had he failed to flee before being surrounded, but he even seemed to be waiting leisurely for the soldiers to encircle him. Looking at the fully armed soldiers one by one, he grinned.
"Kingdom Army?"
The Kingdom Army.
As the name implied, it was the army that obeyed the Kingdom.
In this world, because magic power was on the verge of running dry, the use of magic had been forbidden under the King's compulsory orders.
Even merely possessing magic was considered a crime.
And in this world, so-called magic referred to Magic Weapons and magical tools embedded with Magic Crystals that stored magic power.
Therefore, as long as one possessed magic, once discovered, imprisonment was inevitable.
This order appeared to be like protecting endangered animals by strictly forbidding people from harming them, but in reality, it was merely the Kingdom's selfishness at work.
The King forbade everyone from possessing magic, yet within the Royal Capital where he lived, magic could be used freely, even abused.
This was practically monopoly in another form.
Yet there was only one Kingdom in this world, and everyone lived under its rule.
Naturally, the residents of Edolas, subjected to such blatant unequal treatment, could only rage inwardly and remain silent.
In order to keep ordinary citizens from