Chapter 147 – 143 Saint Farhists
There was no difference between a southern farhist and a northern farhist.
People who seem to be travelers are crowded along the roadsides and shopping districts just like in the north, and shop owners are busy doing business with such travelers.
Among them, Aruru led Hwanin and Isilite to a street where buildings in vivid primary colors of red, blue, yellow, and green were gathered.
A- or U-shaped buildings that look like three-story dormitories at first glance.
=The building with a triangular roof over there is an institution for magicians. The red building is for the red magicians, the blue building is for the blue magicians, and the green is the institution building for the green magicians.=
“I heard someone calling himself a wind sorcerer. But here, it seems to be a green sorcerer. Do you know why?”
= Yes? Uh…….=
Aruru, who showed a moment of bewilderment at Hwanin’s question, took out her notebook from her bosom and flipped through it, her eyes twinkling.
=Yes. It is said that those who call it yeom-sul and wind-sul are fundamentalists, and those who call it red-sul and green-sul are modernists. …… Well, but I wrote down the words of adults, so I don’t know what fundamentalism and modernism mean…….=
If study exists, it is only natural that schools exist.
The Hwanin explains what he understood from Aruru’s explanation according to Aruru’s level.
“Simply put…… Take that apple as an example. Fundamentalists are those who claim that an apple is an apple if you eat it as it is. Modernists are people who say that cooking using apples, apple pie, apple juice, apple candy, and apple powder are also apples.”
= Oh…….=
= And…….=
It was a very simplified explanation to fit Aruru’s eye level, but Isilite’s eyes also turned round.
Anyway, it was a story that the shape of the roof divided the sorcerer and the mystic, and the color of the outer wall divided the type of alcohol.
In other words, the blue outer wall building with a triangular roof means the wizard’s union/institution/association building that handles water, and the blue outer wall building with a roof means the mystic’s union/institution/association building that handles enchantment.
= Hwanin. Here it is.=
A blue building with a signboard on the blue exterior, and a magic tool store with the words [Mystic Association Official] Engraved on the signboard in gold, Aruru enters first and greets them vigorously.
=Hello~!=
Hearing the strong greeting echoing through the door, I asked Issilite.
“Is there anything else I need other than a box for storing seasonings?”
=I wish there was a separate preservation bag for food.=
“Then you can buy a big preservation bag and get a separate box to put the seasoning in.”
=Oh, that would work.=
“I get it. You must guard emergency food and kurti here.”
First of all, the things to buy are a slightly larger subspace bag, a condiment preservation box and a grocery preservation bag that Isilite hoped for.
When I entered the magic tool store, wondering if there was anything else I needed, Hwan-in was greeted by the atmosphere of a small teahouse rather than a store.
Aruru was talking to a woman in a gorgeous blue lace robe at the counter, and as soon as Hwanin opened the door and entered, she pointed at him and shouted.
=That’s him!=
=Oh, welcome to Ascion Magic Tool Shop. Our magic tool store is a licensed store that has joined the Farhist Enchantress Guild and officially distributes it.=
In response to the shop owner’s hospitality, which is full of the lady’s charm, Hwanin also took off his hood and greeted politely.
“I came with an introduction from Miss Aruru. I want to buy some magic tools.”
I said and looked around the inside of the magic tool store, but there was no product. There are four tea tables and chairs, vases and flower pots, a cozy rug covering the floor, landscape paintings hanging on the walls, and some portraits.
= Welcome. The magician who signed a contract with our magic tool store is a 5th grade spatial magician. We guarantee products of satisfactory quality. Come over and sit down.=
The noble shopkeeper pulls a chair to make room for her. After sitting there, the lady moved to the counter for a while, and Aruru bowed to Hwanin and left the magic tool store.
After a while, the lady shopkeeper approached again, holding a silver tray in her hand, on top of which was a thin hardcover booklet like a restaurant menu board and a steaming cup of green tea.
I thought she was like a teahouse, but I never thought real tea would come out.
She looked at the contents of the teacup, which was a vivid pale green, and picked up the booklet.
“…….”
She flipped through about 10 sheets of cardboard and looked at them one by one, and realized that Hwanin was doing business quite systematically.
In the booklet, the basic price for each item is written, and when options are added, the price is separate, and the shape and color can be selected. It also says that the production of the product begins immediately after the order is placed, and that it will be completed in 5 days.
It is literally a pamphlet.
“I want to buy this and this and this.”
=20 gold coins because it is a 3m*3m*2m space expansion, weight leveling, waterproof optional bag. Similarly, 15 gold coins in a waterproof preservation bag of the same size. 1 gold coin for 5 intermediate light sticks. That’s 36 gold coins in total. Which leather material and color would you choose for your bags and pockets? If you choose Beast Hide, the durability and price will increase slightly. Some leather has a specific effect, so if options and effects overlap, the price may go down even more excluding the options.=
“Is there any leather the store owner recommends?”
=If you are thinking about exploring the labyrinth, I recommend Murhis’ snakeskin.=
Murhis leather was supposed to add one row of silver coins per cm area. It is the most expensive leather.
“It’s difficult for the light to reflect on the scales.”
=Are you against snakeskin? If so, I’d recommend doing a matte finish. Murhis’s snakeskin has its own waterproof function, so you can exclude the waterproof option from the purchased item. Then…… The cost is reduced by 1.5 doubloons, making it 34.5 doubloons.=
Hwanin, who roughly substituted the price of the magic tools he knew, noticed that this lady was doing business quite conscientiously. There is a lot of good feelings in the eyes, is it because of that?
“Then I beg of you.”
=Thank you for your order. Are you looking for a made-to-order, or would you like to receive your item straight away? For order production, you can enter into production after signing the contract and receiving the advance payment. If you would like to receive the item immediately, we will contact you after checking if the cooperative has stock.=
In the latter case, it hints that the size can be adjusted slightly.
‘That’s why we set the standards for each item.’
After thinking for a while, Hwanin asked the lady store owner.
“What method does the store owner recommend?”
= Do you trust me? Whoops. The former is good if you have the time. It’s because you order according to your taste. But the latter isn’t bad either. Usually, it is a magic tool whose purchase has been canceled, so it is no different from a new product with no actual use.=
It was just an answer that the taste was not reflected and the options could be slightly different.
“Please make to order.”
=Thank you for your purchase decision, adventurer.=
He smiled brightly as he answered, but it was a smile full of good feelings, enough to let a person with dying love cells know that he had a crush on him.
Hwanin also responds with a soft smile, signing a contract to receive the product 5 days after ordering, and paying 10% of the order amount in advance.
After that, putting the magic tool pen into her bosom, she asked the lady shopkeeper as if she was trying to get lucky.
“Do you know anything about the Farghist Labyrinth?”
In Wayford, in order not to reveal his identity or identity, to avoid being caught, and because of his lack of common sense, he carefully gathered information about the labyrinth where light did not reach.
But now there is no reason to do so.
It was because I learned from my travels that there were people who only explored the labyrinth while going back and forth between towns and cities, and I realized from the stories of the diners in Carton that people without an aura like me gather information about the labyrinth. Because.
=Is the guest also a labyrinth pilgrim?=
“Because the labyrinth is where men’s romance and romance reside.”
It was not a matter of revealing the truth, so it was Hwanin who was vague, but rather, he started to look at Hwanin with soft eyes as he laughed, as if that had broken the lady’s vigilance.
= I am surprised. A person with a profound charm like a guest has a childlike innocence.
“In the eyes of women, men are just children no matter how old they are.”
=Huhuhu.=
In earnest, good feelings began to appear in the eyes of the shopkeeper.
He has a polite appearance and is a hairless race like the Fleur man, but he has a masculine face line that doesn’t feel feminine at all like the Fleur man. In addition, he even has a wit that suits his taste.
It was a strike in the lady’s taste zone.
Her Hwan-in calculated that if she talked a little more about her privately, he could drag her into her bed within her today, but she didn’t cross the line.
Isilite and Aruru are waiting outside the building, and there will be an opportunity even five days later.
= Eh……. The name of the labyrinth adjacent to the city is Gottmogg the Udum’s Prison. It’s a class 4 place. As you might have guessed from the name, it is a prison-type labyrinth and there are two types of heterogeneous species: skeletons and walking corpses.=
Is it a labyrinth where the undead appear?
“If it’s 4th grade, it’s less than the 20th floor.”
=Yes. It has 19 floors underground, but it is not recommended to enter the labyrinth at this time. During the great festival period, people like idiots flow in, so the number of missing people in the labyrinth increases drastically.=
“The garrison must be pretty nervous.”
= Yes. If more people die in the labyrinth, it will fill the stomach of the labyrinth and lead to an increase in management difficulties. Moreover, since it is a labyrinth of the dead, that tendency is even stronger.=
The heterogeneous species appearing from the 1st floor to the 19th floor are the same, but due to the nature of the labyrinth where the dead appear, some workers who have died inside may arise as corpses, raising their eyebrows slightly.
=Nevertheless, if you are going to enter the labyrinth, it is better to buy a mask or mask to prevent bodily fluids from splashing on your face. A mask made of cloth that has been soaked in holy water for several days and blessed is better than a normal mask. It is useful to have a magical tool that hides the warmth so that you can rest comfortably. Preservation bags are nice too, but you already bought them…… You might want to visit a temple or an alchemy shop to stock up on disease resistance potions. And again…….=
After listening to the lady’s story, her face with her eyes slightly drooping is her charm point, her Hwanin gently held her hand and kissed her on the back of her hand, then shared her gaze with her and kissed her softly. Answered in a voice.
“Thanks for the advice. Thanks to the lady’s care, I’ll be able to prepare for her position much more comfortably.”
=Bye, don’t say anything…….=
As if slightly surprised, she makes eye contact with the lady whose cheeks are subtly blushed and smiles at her.
“Then I’ll see you in five days.”
= Yes…….=
Leaving the store owner with her face slightly loose, Hwanin, wearing a hooded hood, thought as he left the Madou store.
Since I had no intention of going down to the lower floors in my first exploration, I had to put off getting more magic tools after that. I spent a lot of money buying preservation bags and subspace bags.
When Hwanin leaves the magic tool store and gets on the back of the emergency rations, Isilite and Aruru also get on Kurti’s back.
“Next, let’s go to the temple.”
=There are two temples in the south and north. Which way should I go? Doing the same thing in both places =
“Then let’s go north near home.”
Originally, it was planned to spend a few days wandering around Farhist, collecting information about the city of Farhist, the news of the Tribal Union City, and the labyrinth adjacent to Farhist.
However, thanks to the lady at the magic tool store, the schedule was moved forward a bit.
‘If the labyrinth is infested with pests, it’s a good opportunity to try the human experiment of the human soul code.’
Even if it wasn’t so, I always regretted not being able to experiment because of Baek Ryogang and Resim’s gaze in the labyrinth where light doesn’t reach, but I think I can solve that regret this time.
Hwan-in, who came out of the crowded shopping area and came out to the main street, saw a gray soul swaying like a lifeless person among the crowds, and proposed to Aruru.
“When you come down, you came down via the west side, so when you go up, let’s go east.”
= Yep. There is also a graduate school near the eastern riverside, so you should have something to see.=
Saint Parchist was a good city to live in, where what I saw from the outside and what I felt from the inside matched, even by the standard of a visionary.
The city is surrounded by high walls, and the land and houses are spacious, so it feels full of leisure.
It has a population of about 1 million and an urban area of about 30 square kilometers.
Considering that the population of Jeju Island, which covers an area of 1850 km2, is about 700,000, the land is only 1/61 of the size, but the population is roughly 1.4 times larger.
The difference between the population and the area is huge, so I think it will be quite cramped and crowded, but there was a lot of space left for the farghists, and the streets and roads were wide.
‘It’s probably because the population per household is several times larger than that of Jeju Island.’
In this world, on average, there are as few as three to as many as seven or eight people in a household. In the case of Jeju Island, there are not many actual residences, so if you fill the gap, this result will come out.
Anyway, the roads where people live were well paved in the Roman style, even the small alleys, and wells for water supply facilities were also visible everywhere.
Citizens’ expressions were relaxed and generous, and the people of Farghist were kind, as if proving that people’s hearts come out of their rich wallets.
More than 500,000 of such a population of 1 million are engaged in primitive industries, and the rest are making saints and farhists alive in all walks of life.
Among such people, there were many who made a tertiary industry for outsiders like Aruru.
A kind of tourist city that was completely self-sufficient was a farghist.
Crossing the Hololen River that separates the northern and southern parts of Hwanin’s eyes, he noticed an academy-like building in the background.
“Miss Aruru. What kind of building is that?”
= Yes? Oh, that’s the graduate school I mentioned earlier. It is a place where very smart people and awakened professionals study while receiving support from Seongju. Even rich children study there.=
‘Literally, the academy. Is it different in that it is a comprehensive curriculum, not divided into elementary, middle and high schools like the Earth?’
When I asked, I heard that there was a maid training center here, but I turned my attention to the explanation that it was a branch school that was not much different from Wayford.
On the way, I saw the field of the Expert Tournament, saw the secondary industrial cluster, and saw the streets of wealthy villages where the high-ranking members of the Farhists live.
‘Affluent Street was no different from Wayford’s Gojok Street.’
The difference is that Wayford is off-limits to the general public, and here you can roam the streets, even though you have to go only on designated paths.
Traveling around using the wagon road with emergency food and kurti saved a lot of time.
If he had been walking around, it would have been evening when he stopped at the magic tool shop in Farhist in the south, but the sun was still far from setting.
= Hwanin. This is the temple.=
And the temple of the beast god arrived.
If the temple in Wayford was Greek-style, the temple in Farhist here felt like a Catholic cathedral.
A gigantic body reaching 10 stories in height.
The pointy tower piercing the sky and the arches carved on the outer wall of the building, as if showing the gothic style with the whole body, felt like they were not of this world no matter how much I thought about them.
Staring at the temple of the architectural style popular in medieval Europe, Hwanin shook his head slightly.
I thought of the possibility that the architectural style and culture of this world flowed into the earth, but the reliability was low.
‘But I don’t understand why the invention of electricity is still in the yard where modern civilization is visible.’
Since he was a liberal arts student, he did not know much about electricity, but he did not think that there would be no science students among those who came to this world.
‘As expected, is the leadership of the tribal alliance suppressing the development of technology?’
Most likely. Those who have tasted convenience are bound to seek greater convenience.
Why are the people of the Tribal Alliance blocking the development of technology?
Do you think that people who crossed the dimension can lose their vested interests through the discovery and invention of electricity and the evolution of civilization? Or because the oracle came down?
Hwanin, who thought it didn’t matter either way and climbed the 30 steps to enter the temple, witnessed a cemetery attached to the side of the temple.
It wasn’t a graveyard like a park in Wayford, but an ordinary graveyard that Hwanin knew well, with tombstones placed on the lawn.
“…….”
Strangely, there was not a single soul there.
Hwanin stared at the cemetery covered by an iron fence for a while, then passed through the huge arched entrance of the temple along with other visitors to the temple.
