Chapter 116 – 113 the Ganin Plains
After having an early breakfast, Hwanin checked out of the hotel and outfitted the emergency rations in the vacant lot in front of Kue House, an annex of the hotel.
“Even if it’s stuffy outside, keep wearing it.”
Coo.
As I put the Valkyrie Helm and her winged helmet on the head of her obediently answered emergency rations, Issilite admired as she brought her own straw-colored Que.
= With. Emergency food is cool~.=
Quet!
As Isilite’s straw-colored Que stood next to the emergency rations that shrugged and shook their tails, the comparison was clear.
The size is a little bigger than the straw-colored Kue, but the wings and wing feathers are superior to emergency food. However, as for the thickness of the legs, the straw-colored Kue looks a little stronger.
Even though the body of the straw can accommodate two people, only one person can burn emergency food.
However, this difference will be reversed when emergency food grows to the 4th level.
= Master. I’ll load the bag.=
Isilite received Hwanin’s leather bag and firmly connected it to the junction built at the rear of the saddle for emergency food, and her black spear also covered the spear edge and attached it to the side of the saddle.
And she asked Hwanin while holding a straight stick that was shorter than a black spear but longer than a decent long sword.
=Is this your new wand?=
“I just threw my head away. They say that deer antlers are decorative and have no effect.”
At first, the deer antlers head got in the way, so I sold or threw it away and tried to buy a stick or rod that was easy to carry.
However, she visited a magical pottery store and tried many kinds of wands, sticks, and rods, but none of them felt as warm or cool as a deer antlers wand.
Rather, I felt no energy as if something was blocked, and I even felt stuffy.
In the end, he requested an analysis of the cane he was using, found out that the deer antlers were just decorations, and dismantled and finished the seams.
Thanks to that, it turned into a stick like a stick, but Hwanin rather liked it because it was simple.
Things like flashy decorations stand out and get in the way.
= That’s right. I also didn’t like the shape of the deer antlers. It seemed that only the brainy heterogeneous species of the tribal unit would like it.=
When I criticized the appearance that I didn’t like at this time, Hwanin replied with a smile.
“It must have been natural since Hob stole what he used.”
=Ah.=
Issilite also smiled brightly and gently stroked the neck of the emergency rations.
=Okay, that’s it.=
Que~.
And he began to load his burden on his own Que, Kurti.
‘Ugh. I really like this.’
Thanks to the subspace pocket, the sleeping bag for two people, which takes up most of the volume, clothes, tableware, and food for the owner, himself, and two Que, so compared to the luggage of ordinary travelers, the outfit is incredibly light.
=I really like the sub-space bag that Mr. Lesim gave me as a gift. If it wasn’t for that, the volume would have been so huge that it couldn’t be loaded.=
Reshim, who came to visit yesterday, gave her a subspace pouch as a gift as a sign of gratitude and sincerity.
The weight of the loaded item is not reduced by 1%. It was a simple subspace bag with no preservation function, but it was an item that could hold more than 10 gold coins in just 1 square meter.
In the case of villages, one gold coin is a lot of money that can be spent for a lifetime if it is properly saved, and in the case of a village, it is money that can be played and eaten for 30 years.
10 gold coins is enough money to feed 10 generations in a village and 3 generations in a village.
It’s a different story that Isilite felt the rich get richer after seeing him lightly giving it as a gift, and she clicked her tongue.
‘Anyway. I just have to trust and follow the master.’
Isilite, who returned after disposing of 21 weapons yesterday, was shocked to hear how much money her phantom had made while she was training as a maid at the Technical Institute for 40 days.
’40 gold coins.’
The money she spent on her own equipment alone was close to a gold coin, and even that equipment for emergency food seemed expensive.
You can tell just by looking at the emergency rations from other guests or hotel staff passing through the house.
If you add up all the money she spent in Wayford for 40 days, she would be close to 5 gold coins, but how did she earn more than 30 gold coins besides that?
“To earn money while exploring the labyrinth, she needs to collect heterogeneous corpses, so it would be good to have some more pockets of space.”
Afterwards, Isilite, who realized that she had a schedule, left the bandits.
=I can carry about 200kg, and Ku also carries about 200kg……. If you buy 3 more subspace pouches like this, you will be able to pack a lot of heterogeneous by-products in the labyrinth.=
“She has no intention of becoming a worker,” She said. Let’s get one more suitable pocket in the next city.”
= Yep. Master, preparations for departure are complete.=
At the story of Isilite, who puts a suitcase on the back of Kurti’s saddle and even carries a saddle-stitched greatsword, her Hwanin moves lightly on the back of the emergency rations.
Just looking at it, thinking that that movement was beyond the level of an ordinary soul master, Issilite followed and climbed onto Kurti’s back.
“Branch.”
When Hwan-in touches her side with her stirrup, her emergency rations take care of her, and she turns around and walks down the street.
Since it was the Sabbath, on a road with more traffic than usual, when emergency rations skillfully slipped between wagons, Isilite drove her Kurti and naturally followed her next to her, asking,
= Master. Where is your next destination?=
“The city of Parchist is three weeks south of here.”
= Oh. Are you planning to participate in the grand festival that will be held in two months?=
“Okay. They say there will be a tournament during the festival, so I’m planning to find a teammate there.”
= Colleague…… Are you?=
Pounding, Isilite’s heart beat loudly.
What am I to the owner?
She is a maid now. It would be more correct to say that she was a maid and porter.
She knows that this ideal is greedy, but responding to the word she is a colleague, she is saddened by herself, but glad that she can be by her master’s side as a maid.
“Okay. I plan to listen to your opinion at that time, so think about it for a bit.”
…… Huh?
You said that now, thinking of me as a colleague, right?!
=Yes, yes.=
Isilite squeezed the reins and desperately suppressed her mouth, feeling that if she let go of her tension, she would go wild with her cheers.
The capital of Parchist and the small city of Wayford belong to the plains of Ghanin.
And the East and West Rottings Jungle overlap Wayford and Farhist on the left and right.
If you go all the way north along the West Roatings Jungle, you will come to the Lake of Allzot, a 6th grade forest labyrinth, and Yulkam.
If you go straight east through the eastern jungle of Roatings, you will find the port city of Praber, which is ruled by Baekryeogang’s parents, and Aleughel Lake, which is as wide as the sea.
If you go all the way south along the plain, you will see several villages and villages, and beyond that there is a high-class city, the capital city of Farkhist.
Hwanin, who was going down the road naturally created by many carriages and travelers, looked down at the hard-packed unpaved road.
If you deviate from the left and right of the road, it is partly because the Roatings jungle exists within a week’s distance, but it is a road that was created thanks to the fixed movement of relatively flat hills and plains between the two cities.
Hwanin and Isilite followed the road to the horizon and talked about various things.
“Do you know anything about the Farghists?”
= I heard it when I was learning current events and common sense at the Technical Institute. The reason why Farhists were able to become saints was because there were many veins of gold and silver around them.=
A city that naturally became a saint has several small or mid-level cities around it and dominates countless villages or villages, but Farhists, on the contrary, became saints by devouring their surroundings.
=In terms of the size of the city, Farhist won a landslide victory, but it is said that the number of villages and villages around it is similar to Wayford.=
“Did he become a saint by gathering villagers with money and expanding his territory? Not a small problem would have arisen that way.”
Wayford is a fairly large city in this area. Even the number of villages and villages under his control was close to three.
If you are a saint, you should have more villages or villages to control than the small city of Wayford.
It is only natural that a few mid-range cities and small towns should also be commanded.
But Farkhist has fewer villages and villages than Wayford.
=Thanks to that, there is only one small city that is in control, and its history is shorter than Wayford. Because of that, the teacher at the Technician informed me that Weiford and Farhist had a bad relationship.=
“I don’t get along…….”
Hwanin suddenly remembered the story of a peddler he had heard at a tavern.
If the distance is relatively close and the city is close, they will join forces to pave the road.
When paved roads are created, it is easy to generate various arithmetic benefits from logistics transportation.
However, if a war breaks out for some reason or a backflow of the labyrinth occurs, it immediately becomes a route for invasion, so there is no paved road unless you are very familiar with it.
‘Saint Parchist is a high-class city close to Wayford in terms of distance, but the relationship can never be said to be good. That means roads will never be paved.’
This is because laying pavements is usually done in the form of a higher-rated city reaching out to a lower-rated city.
In other words, the lord of the Farghist castle, a 7th-class baron, laughed at the fact that the lord of a Wayford castle, who was only a 4th-class noble, did not bow his head.
I don’t want to bow down and enter the castle lord of Wayford, who is a 4th grade, who bought his rank with money without history.
At the same time, Hwanin felt that the last piece of the Bloodhide Clan – Lianarin Company incident was being prepared.
“That’s why Aldzin Beret moved so fast.”
=Yes?=
“It is an overreaction to mobilize forces that can take down a large trading company in a matter of hours simply by the fact that a relative has been attacked. Lianarin’s is one of the three largest stores representing Wayford in name and color.”
Normally, it would be normal to pay a huge sum of money to Aldjin-Bere, who is superior to him through a judicial transaction, and draw a picture of being forgiven.
Of course, it is a big problem that the daughter of a 6th-class noble family was attacked, but if one large merchant collapsed, not only would it have a considerable impact, but it could also deteriorate the city’s profits.
Hwanin understood well that sometimes money should be prioritized over fame.
So, Hwanin was not understood a bit. That everything was over within 4 hours of the incident.
“But if that happened behind the scenes, of course it would happen.”
= Uh…….=
At the sudden jump in the story, Issilite doesn’t understand and puts on a bewildered expression.
“The reason why Aldzin Bere ate the Lianarin store. It means retaliation.”
=…… ?=
“…….”
Hwanin closed her mouth at the sight of Isilite who blinked her eyes with a face that did not understand at all.
Isilite was fine with her ability to acquire her knowledge and put that knowledge to use.
For example, if given an egg, he recalls the egg recipe he learned and becomes good at cooking eggs.
However, she was not good at inferring new facts through association from given information.
Hwanin began to explain in a more relaxed manner so that Isilite could understand.
The relationship between Wayford and the Farghists, the Bloodskin Clan connected with the Lianarin Firm, the raid on the young lady, the fast-moving regular army of the Wayford, and the main products that the Lianarin Firm handles.
“Aldzin Bere doesn’t like the Farghists. The reason is more than the depth of history you mentioned.”
=What is it?=
“Since you’ve heard that the Lianarin Firm plays a role in bringing trends from farhists and spreading them to Wayford, you should know.”
=Yes.=
“Sanghoe makes money by buying goods from Farghist and selling them to Wayford. And with the money I earned, I buy things from Farhist and sell them to Wayford. That means Wayford’s capital flows unilaterally into the Farghest.”
= Uh…….=
It wouldn’t have been a problem if the goods produced in Wayford could be sold to the Farghists, but it’s rare for a lower city to export back to a higher city.
Moreover, Wayford has not been promoted to a mid-level city for a long time because it has nothing special.
Thanks to the difference in scale, most of the things that can be produced in Wayford can be produced in Farghist, so there are no items to be exported.
Aldjin = From Bere’s point of view, he probably didn’t want to see it.
If you work hard to fatten the city, the nourishment will only go over to the farghist.
For that reason, Aldjin=Bere must have been keeping an eye on the nerdy Lianarin Company and the Bloodhide Clan for a long time…….
“As soon as the awaited event happened, Aldgin Beret moved.”
= 6th grade noble lady labyrinth raid case…….=
“Okay. There is a justification for it, so we legally destroyed the Lianarin Company without complaints or backlash from the citizens.”
=Well, can’t you just tell me to clean it up because I don’t like it? It’s Seongju.=
“By the time Lianarin is in business, there is a high possibility that he will be connected to the high-ranking Farhists. Either through one leg or through two legs. Hitting such an association just because you don’t like it gives you room to intervene from the other side.”
=…….=
At this point, Issilite, who barely understood, let out a sigh while holding her cheek.
= That’s right……. It’s not that simple.=
“At the time of a large store, the annual income would be thousands or tens of thousands of gold coins. That’s all Weiford’s flesh-eating fortune. How would you feel if you were the lord of Wayford?”
The justification is on this side, and the practical benefits are sufficient. It kills two birds with one stone, so there is no reason not to do it.
Susa left in a hurry because there was a problem with a business item related to Lianarin.
Isilite opened her mouth slightly.
She was surprised by the higher-than-expected income of a large company, but she was surprised by Hwan-in’s intelligence, who had guessed this far with only a few knowledge.
Isilite didn’t think she was that stupid.
Are you just like everyone else?
That’s also true, since most of the stories he picked up while wandering around the general district and downtown to sell weapons yesterday were at a similar level to his own thoughts.
– They say that the Lianarin Firm and the Bloodhide Clan are all in one!
– I heard that the Bloodhide Clan attacked the 6th-level noble lady?
– I heard that our castle lord destroyed two places as an example.
However, the master was different from himself.
Aldjin: I figured out the inside story of why Bere crushed the Lianarin store so much, and why he destroyed it like roasting beans with lightning.
‘I’ve thought about it since the other day, but the master is absolutely not an ordinary person.’
It was like that when I was talking to Brillitt and Leshim yesterday.
He, who was listening by the side, wondered why the conversation was so interrupted and stopped talking, but Hwanin understood everything.
‘Ugh. They say men hate women who are too stupid…….’
I don’t want to be as smart as my master. I just want to be smart enough to understand what my master says.
What should he do to do that? Isilite’s worries increase.
The move was not so peaceful.
It was because during the three days, a monster that seemed to be of a heterogeneous species had attacked several times, and several times found bloodstains and broken traces of wagons and wagons.
=It seems that the labyrinth where the overflow occurred has not been cleaned up yet.=
“It won’t be an easy thing to do. It would be impossible to track down a heterogeneous species that has escaped the labyrinth, even with decent troops.”
That said, the trip wasn’t difficult.
It is because he easily defeated the heteromorphic species that attacked him by using skills to master the soul arrow, soul explosion, and soul shield, which he had not been able to do in the past.
The hides and by-products of the monsters and heterogeneous species that were defeated were tanned by Isilite and placed in subspace pockets.
‘The power of 38 soul marbles is amazing.’
Even if you fire only soul arrows, about six or seven of the 2nd or 3rd grade heterogeneous species will not be able to approach you and will die from holes all over your body.
When you enter the labyrinth, it is very easy to get soul beads because there are overflowing heterogeneous species, and since you can collect the surrounding spirits even outdoors, there is no shortage of soul beads.
Hwanin remembered the party composition.
‘If I were to play the role of support/distance dealer in the back line and Isilite would take on the role of close range dealer with strength, what I would need would be a tanker and healer in the front line.’
In a party of 4, you don’t even need to have a lot of parties because you can get the same level of combat power as a party of 6 even if you just cast a decree on the party members.
‘We need a small number of elites. It would be nice if I could find a good shield role in the Farghist.’
While thinking about this and that, Hwanin and Isilite encountered another trace of an attack.
=These people must have been attacked by the Heterogeneous species.=
Isilite frowned at the sight of half-eaten people, half-destroyed carts, and trashed luggage.
Sometime after the labyrinth reflux happened, I still can’t sort it out. Are the central barons really just idiots?
While Isilite was internally cursing the baron’s incompetence, Hwanin took a closer look at the traces left at the scene.
And…….
“Emergency food. It’s not eating.”
Sniff, sniff, said Hwanin, who pulled the reins to stop the emergency food that smelled of the corpse.
“It was attacked by people.”
=…… Yes?=
“You must have been attacked by a heterogeneous species while taking care of yourself after being attacked by a person. Human scum pretending to be ordinary travelers is nearby.”
At Hwanin’s words, Isilite belatedly found traces of the person who had dug through the luggage.
If you look closely at the body, you can see cuts and traces of being beaten in the back of the head everywhere.
= Children who do not even know this morality…….=
Hwanin asked, staring at Isilite, who frowned fiercely and muttered as if chewing.
“What did you do in this situation when you were the boss of the thieves?”
=Yeah, like now, if there is a large increase in xenomorphs around the labyrinth, I go hunting for xenomorphs. The roads need to be safe to operate normally. Then, when he finds a traveler or a peddler who is being attacked by Lee Hyeong-jonghehelps.=
“Are you selling the by-products obtained by catching the Heterogeneous Species?”
=Yes. Villages where by-products can be traded are far away or impossible to enter, so I sell them to the peddlers who helped me. I didn’t get ripped off though! It was only about 10% more than the market price.=
From a peddler’s point of view, it would not be a big deal, but since he saved his life, he must have accepted the deal without complaint.
Hwanin nodded his head and lightly touched the belly of the emergency ration with the stirrup.
It was a signal to walk, but the emergency food turned his head to look at Hwanin, and started running forward with a snort as if he was happy.
= Ugh. Run again? Emergency Food I really like running.=
Isilite follows behind him and stands side by side.
Quet!
Que.
Coo?
Que~.
As you run, the emergency rations squeak as if talking to Kurti.
Seeing that, Hwanin felt a bit frustrated and looked around him.
‘It’s a bit frustrating since there’s no surveillance and reconnaissance from the sky.’
Its ability to detect the presence of emergency food is superior to that of wild herbivores. A level that can detect life at a distance of almost 50 m.
However, the range is less than 1/10 compared to when emergency food flies around to find enemies.
If there is a downside, there is also a satisfying point.
The feeling of riding the emergency food was like riding in a luxury car with perfect suspense. Unless the emergency food shakes the body on purpose, the shock hardly rises.
You can tell just by looking at how great this is.
If you are not familiar with horseback riding, your waist and the waist of the horse will be damaged, but the two-legged beast, Que, is very comfortable for beginners without riding skills.
Queet!
The emergency rations, slightly off the road and standing on top of a slightly elevated hill, run down excitedly, then jump and flap their wings to continue their slow flight.
As it flew hundreds of meters in an instant, Kurti and Isilite both opened their eyes wide and looked at her, exclaiming with envy.
Koopi~.
= Wow. I want to fly too…….=
The feeling of flying (going down) on a living creature was better than I thought. It was a different feeling than getting on a plane.
Hwanin enjoyed the strong wind blowing from high up and put a smile on his lips.
And erased the smile
’13 people. Two professions, five melee, and six far.’
It was because while flying in the sky, he witnessed armed robbers hiding behind the hills exquisitely obscured from view.
