Chapter 793 – 784 Niamad, the Port City
= You, you! Why… Why did you come to my house?! Seed… !=
The Selphin man who was about to shout fuck-hook—and widened his eyes as the ink-colored longsword was thrust into his throat.
= This, this is Durdane’s doubrill! How could you unemployed guys do this?=
= I don’t know. I won’t let you go if you talk arrogantly to the master one more time. Be mindful and play your tongue.=
=…=
He was a person who did not like it very much when he tickled at his master from the square in front of the labyrinth.
Until a little while ago, I thought I was a normal person, so I put up with it, but it turned out that I was a human who was involved with a criminal?
Isilite lightly projected his life force onto the Selpins, pressurized them, and after very lightly poking the leather on her uvula, retrieved his sword.
=… Colog.=
It was literally just a slight stabbing of her skin, and the force was adjusted to the point where blood dripped slowly.
The Serpin man rubbed his neck, realized it, and his shoulders trembled.
What kind of body control is this while being unemployed. It’s a difficult place even for knights to reach, but for what purpose…
Hwanin stood in front of the man who was sitting down and gave him a calm look.
“I am not curious about your past. I don’t want to know why my hands became like that, and I don’t want to hear why the Selpins made their own paper maps and turn people away in front of the labyrinth.”
=Yes, but why?=
When asked why he came looking for him, Anne answered on behalf of Hwanin.
=I heard that the injured lord of the Liche Merchant, Lambda, entrusted you with house and land documents? Give it.=
=… Is that bastard dead? Yes, it’s finally dead! Fuck you! Well done!!=
I woke up and like crazy, aaaaa!! The man who roared at the ceiling danced with joy while thumping like he was out of his mind for a while… He danced something he didn’t know if it was a riot or not.
=I must be crazy.=
At that scene, Ah-young, who was behind Hwan-in, muttered softly, and Hwan-in felt that the trouble was getting worse.
It was because the man’s actions and reactions matched so starkly.
I thought there was no way, but isn’t it just like the proverb about catching people?
I wondered if the underwater wave caused by the negative effects of the Sanctuary Tower was related to the case of the Baron Liche family, but when Lambda Sangju and the right-handed idiot Selpins got in between the two elements, a connection surprisingly appeared.
If there was no connection between the Sanctuary Tower and the Baron Riche family, it would have been a clean affair by simply robbing the Baron of Ridina and then sailing from Niamad.
However, if the work of the Sanctuary Tower is directly related to the baron family, the attention of the Niahmad aristocratic society, which they don’t want to attract, will try to grab their ankles because they intervened in the work of the baron Riche family.
Hwanin wiped his face once and acknowledged it quietly with a sigh.
“I made a mistake.”
=Huh?=
=Yes?=
“I should have waited for Ah-young to bring the investigation materials before moving. I moved too casually because of her irritation.”
It must also have the effect of not paying attention to trivial details because his strength has become stronger.
= Do-ryeong, is it dry? That… You mean something related to that?=
“Okay.”
Right!
=Kek.=
Hwanin, who stunned the Serpins by striking them in the head with a scale, who were dancing madly with their eyes closed, told them that they had made a mistake.
Niahmad society aristocrats who did not like the exposure of the sanctuary tower, those selpins related to the sanctuary tower, the lambda deputy lord who had ties to the selpins, and the lychee guild that such a deputy danju was working on, and the lychee baronial family that continued from there.
“It is a story that there may be fabrication in the failure of the baron family to go up on a large scale.”
=That could be connected like that…=
Hwanin walked across the small living room, sat down on a chair, and let out a small sigh. Then, in a corner of the house, timidly standing there, as if noticing notice, Hwanin pumped energy into the spirit of Sangju Danju and asked after materializing it.
I can roughly guess the timeline of the incident, but I need to confirm it.
Shouldn’t we block the annoying and troublesome situation in which the lord of Niamad is chasing after us?
“Tell me what kind of aristocrat you were sponsored by. If there is a noble who applied, the name of that noble.”
“Shu, Shu Heilo, Baron… Of, instructions… I was receiving.”
I told you to tell me all the secrets I was hiding when I retrieved that human with the soul orb, but I haven’t heard it.
It wasn’t a secret that I was hiding, so I didn’t tell you.
“What were the instructions?”
“Lee, write and defeat the Lycee Baron…」
“… Did you and Baron Shuheilo manipulate the deaths of the former Baron and his wife and the failure of marine logistics?”
“Yes?! Oh no! Absolutely not! The order I received from the baron was to properly clean up the guild that had lost its owner!”
… It is possible that the Shuheilo Baron conspired and proceeded with the two cases as separate cases.
“Is the former Baron Riche related to the Sanctuary Tower?”
“… ?」
Seeing that he didn’t know why the story of the sanctuary tower suddenly came out, Hwanin turned the question around.
“What kind of work does Baron Shuheilo do in the lord? Are you a butler?”
“Yes, yes. I’m the butler…」
“…”
Why do most of the ‘if not’ work?
Hwanin suppressed a sigh of relief as he tried to speed things up a bit, but the burden he had to deal with increased drastically.
If this fits, I’d rather…
“Did it feel like Baron Shuheilo was following the lord’s instructions?”
“That… I don’t know. Gee, it’s real! And orders always passed to Baron Shuheil! No other nobles on the course are mentioned at all! It didn’t look like anyone ordered it!!”
When Hwanin raised his spirits to the answer that he didn’t know, the injured lambda vomited out everything he knew, feeling like his soul was on fire.
“Tell me everything you know about the Sanctuary Tower.”
“Yes… ? I only know that it has the effect of preventing monsters and beasts from approaching, and preventing heteromorphic species from appearing at the entrance of the labyrinth…」
Suddenly, Hwanin stood up so fiercely that the chair bounced back and rolled over.
Without even looking at it, Hwanin paced around the living room, organizing his thoughts.
“…”
No matter how you organize it, you cannot simultaneously achieve the three goals of ‘not revealing your identity’, ‘not attracting attention’, and ‘quietly leaving Niamad’.
If you don’t reveal your identity, there is an 80% chance that you will be pursued after you leave the city, and there is a 100% chance that Baron Isha Riche will be killed.
Trying not to draw attention is already a failure. If you don’t kill everyone you know and achieve a perfect assassination, it’s impossible, and if you leave like this, your identity will be revealed and your actions can be transmitted as a passage.
You don’t know how far the flapping of the butterfly’s wings will spread.
As long as the previous two are not resolved, even if you leave Niamad quietly, pursuit and pursuit may follow.
Hwanin sighed impatiently and asked Hwanyeon to take action.
“Hwanyeon, place the spirits around Baron Isha Riche. If anyone tries to kill her, stop her and let me know.”
“I got involved in something very troublesome.”
“Because I tried not to reveal my identity, it turned out to be her handicap match.”
“I did it.”
Hwanin, who nodded, summoned the injured lambda, who was still trembling with fear, and asked a question in order to narrow down the category of enemies.
“Is there someone in Niamad who is aiming for Baron Isha Riche? Whether it’s the body, the wealth, or the position.”
“A little… A lot. I see the sales network and secrets of the Liche Merchants’ personal connections and movement routes as real assets… First of all, there is the second Young master in the lord’s lineage…」
After the second son of the lord, names appear one after another, ranging from people who are simply fascinated by the appearance of Baron Riche and aiming for his body, to other companies who are aiming for the know-how of the upper ranks, and even those who are aiming for property.
If you do everything, 10 people will pass.
Hwan-in memorized the list and asked A-young, pointing to the fainting Serpin tribe.
“I did some research on those Selpins.”
= Um… First of all, my name is Banain, and before the accident, I was a jewelry maker with a good sense of justice, an outgoing personality, and a promising future. I did…=
While making accessories to optimize the body condition that was commissioned, he accidentally discovered a problem with the sanctuary tower, and Banain took that fact out of a sense of justice and went to the lord castle to inform him that there was such a problem.
However, the lord’s castle dismissed it as absurd and kicked out Banain, who tried to publicize the idea that the issue of the sanctuary tower should not be buried like this.
=But even if a commoner who is neither a noble nor a semi-noble at least makes a public debate against the lord, the only thing that comes back is retaliation.=
“…”
= On her way back home with her fiancée in the middle of the night, they met robbers, her fiancée died and Banaine suffered serious injuries that her right hand was crushed. If he had a restorative spell, at least his hand would have been cured, but Banaine, who disappeared after being robbed, was found three days later in a bounce-back state…=
Since his physical strength and energy were low to restore his hand, he could not withstand the sex operation, so he took time to boost his energy first, but in the meantime, the wound was fixed and the period for the recovery operation was over, so the effect of the recovery operation could not be seen. It was a story.
=In the end, a promising accessory maker disappeared from Niamad, and people vaguely knew that there was something wrong with the Sanctuary Tower, but it was said that they were afraid of power.=
=… Looking back now, it’s really… Phew…=
Next to her, everyone talking, Anne looks down at the stunned Selpin, Banaine, with her face full of skepticism.
It is an expression that goes beyond Merianol and becomes disgusted with Nionebreth itself.
Hwanin stood silently for a while with his arms folded as Hwanin did.
If I had heard that story first, I wouldn’t have been put into such a troublesome situation. Hwan-in stood silently for a while, then spoke to Hwan-yeon and poured water on Bana-in.
= Puff!? Oops!=
After being hit by dozens of liters of water, Banain came to his senses and was unable to comprehend the situation for a while. …
= You are… Lol. What do you want?=
… However, he smiled servilely at Hwanin’s cold stare.
I don’t know who that person in front of me is, but just looking at the lambda and coming to get the house and land documents, he’s a powerful adventurer full of secrets.
Banain forcibly cut off the thought of expanding and prayed with a servile laugh.
=Didn’t the teachers say that Lambda piggy came to get the house documents returned in my name? We’ll bring it right now! Yes! Please wait!=
I was captivated by a sense of justice that wasn’t like in the past, and I couldn’t stand injustice and ran away.
The cost was the death of the woman he loved and the permanent disability of his right hand.
The brightly shining future became dull and the road to the future was cut off. The only thing left is a cockroach-like life that can’t die.
Banain went up to the bedroom on the second floor and brought the document hidden in the secret safe and presented it to Hwanin.
=Here it is!=
After checking her house and land documents and handing them over to Ah-young, Ah-young also checked her documents and nodded her head slightly.
=It even has a power of attorney stamp, so if you visit the administrator with this, it will be a transfer of name.=
“… Bananas.”
=Yes.=
“How did you become entangled with the injured lambda? Seeing that she lives in this house, it doesn’t seem like a simple relationship.”
= Ah… I borrowed money here and there to treat her hand, but it became a debt and it snowballed on her, so that’s what happened. The paper the teacher took, I make it at home, draw maps, and sell them to make a living.=
Banaine’s story was that she was weaker than Fingel Proud, but more dexterous than Selpin, so he could make paper with his left arm alone.
In fact, the basement was dotted with very primitive paper-making tools.
The bark of a tree similar to that of a mulberry tree is scattered all over the place, and there are pots and kilns for boiling the insides.
On the second floor, there is a lot of paper like Korean paper that is being dried in a well-ventilated place, and neatly bound papers are piled up on the other side.
Seeing that, Hwanin came down and asked Lambda, but the answer that came back was the same as Bain’s.
“…”
Is it to set an example by not killing and keeping Banaine alive, or is it a bio-trap to make sure there are no other fly bugs paying attention to the Sanctuary Tower?
Hwanin looked at Binine, who was hunched over, and left the house without saying a word.
Hwanin, wearing a cloak that hinders perception and circling the rest of the houses to avoid people’s eyes, collecting house documents and land documents, immediately attacked the Fire Fist organization.
The fire fist hideout was in the middle of a shanty town in a back alley of a low-class street, but someone dug a hole underground and made a rare, in case it wasn’t the city where the Prouds live.
= What is it… Ok!=
= It’s an attack! The water ghost puppies… Aww!=
“Hwanin, there are dog holes over there and there?”
“Isilite, Anne. Go and block it.”
=Yes, Master.=
=Yes.=
Hwan-in, who went down to the hideout with Ah-young after sealing two dog holes, wandered around the inside, which was trimmed like an underground labyrinth, and mercilessly beat down members who stood out.
Most of the members of the organization, which reached about 40 people, were unemployed, but some were professional, and the leader was a mixed occupation of a warrior and a red magician.
The equipment is poor like a back alley organization, so Hwanin’s divine spearmanship breaks his limbs like autumn leaves and falls down.
To him, these people are no different from hobbs and kolbs in the labyrinth.
Without blinking an eye, he calmly shredded the limbs of the gang members, and when he finally neutralized the leader, Ah-yeong, who was searching for the hideout, ran to him with a face full of energy and showed her the ledger.
=Brother, look at this ledger. Do you have records of contraband transactions with most of the upper towns and merchants? Hey, there are even traces of human trafficking.=
“If it’s contraband, it’s the equipment of dead adventurers or mercenaries.”
=Yes. Most of them are stolen goods recovered after killing the owner.=
“After.”
Hwanin let out a small laugh and pulled out Issilite’s old knight’s sword and struck the head of the leader who was stuttering with his limbs broken.
Then, summoning the spirit of Myeongria, leading the spirit of the leader, all members of the organization who had the experience of killing anyone were beheaded, their bodies buried in the ground, and all souls turned into red prison.
Hwanin took all the treasures and goods the organization had collected, but…
“Hwanyeon, just make a small air hole in the doorway and block all the doorways. Then, take this pouch and note to a higher-level land spirit and send it to the Church of the Earth God.”
“Here’s a map. Is this a bag of money? Are you using the Church of the Land God because it’s annoying to organize?”
“Okay. The church will catch and dispose of the small pieces on its own before using them for campaigning.”
“What if the church only takes money and doesn’t move?”
“It’s not my business. But there will be an opportunity to speak to Cardinal Leawen later.”
The water ghost wave was the same as the fire fist wave. The difference is that it doubles as a prostitute village in a back alley on a middle-class street.
In a sense, the water ghost faction was even worse. Because he cut off the tongue, thumb, and index finger of the woman he had caught outside and used them as prostitutes.
Thanks to this, the wealth found by Hwan-yeon and retrieved by Ah-yeong was well over three times that of the Fire Fist faction.
After arranging the bosses and executives in the same way as the Fire Fist, he took only 50% of the wealth and put the remaining 50% in his pocket and sent it back to the Church of the Earth God.
=Wow, the finances of the Church of Niahmad Land God must be very abundant.=
The wealth recovered from the Fire Fist and the Water Ghost Squad was so great that Ayeong said so.
= Since this amount of donations have come in, the church has no choice but to move no matter how heavy its hips are, right? Prostitutes should also be well cared for.=
=The Archbishop of Niamad has a high reputation as a person of integrity and benevolence. You must have been unable to move because the members of the Fire Fist and Water Ghosts became an obstacle, but I will move right away because Doryeong cleaned it up like this.=
When Hwanin, who destroyed the two largest organizations in Niamad, returned to the main street, it was the time when the blue sky gradually turned to sunset.
Knights and soldiers roam busily along the main road, and priests and priests are moving between them, so Anne stabs Ayeong in the side, saying, “Look at that.”
= Look at that. Move fast?=
= Woo. If that’s the case, I think they’ll try to find the person who sent the note.=
=The fact that you sent an errand boy to a higher spirit means that you won’t reveal this side’s identity.
=Still, if you start investigating in earnest, won’t you notice that the work done by the Liche Company is the same person?=
As we talked and walked leisurely to Baron Leechee, as if we had nothing to do with the commotion over there, the upper part of the main street and the upper street of Sanghoe were also agitated.
Isilite, who has good eyesight, informs Hwanin first.
= Master. Soldiers are guarding the entrance to the upper building of Liche.=
= It’s true… Uh, there’s a light shining through the window?=
=It seems that the knights and soldiers are searching inside. But you said that your brother stole all the important things.=
“Okay. A meaningless search.”
According to the information of Vice-President Lambda, who is now in prison after completing his mission, he retrieved all the booklets that recorded the ledgers, business partners, personal connections, and contact methods necessary for the business of the upper guild, and delivered them to Baron Riche.
= Ah Young. Are the contents of the book expensive?=
= It’s expensive. If you are a new guild, you will be able to complete a basic logistics route that will make money right away with just that?=
=How expensive?=
=I don’t know, but I think you can get hundreds of gold coins.=
= Hmm. Then all they will get is a corpse.
“… Go as a baron.”
Hwanin revisited Baron Riche’s family across the main street in an atmosphere where half of the city was in a state of agitation.
As soon as I opened the front door and went in, I noticed that the soldiers who had come with the Valkyrie Helm knight of the day earlier stood guarding the mansion.
The moment I was about to ask for a message from their sharp eyes, the mansion door burst open, and Isha ran like flying and jumped into Hwanin’s arms.
=Traveler!=
“… Lord Richie. Keep your head up.”
Hwanin sweated a little at the gaze of his girlfriends behind her and grabbed her shoulder to avoid violating her manners.
Isha, who regained her composure from that action, stole the tears that formed slightly around her eyes and bowed down to her nod, her phantom.
= I really wanted to say thank you to the traveler. The book the traveler found is full of the wisdom of her father and grandfather… When I read it, I realized how stupid and stupid I was…=
It is sad and depressed at the fact that she has squandered her family property, but it is not gloomy.
Hwanin pointed out the reason there and asked.
“You’re thinking of taking over the family business.”
=It will be very difficult, but the upper building, warehouse, and wagon are all right. There is also money that the traveler found, so no matter how hard and painful it is… I will definitely raise the Liche Merchant with this capital.=
It wouldn’t be impossible if that kind of motivation, prior knowledge, and capital existed.
Hwanin, who nodded her head slightly, put the bag containing the wealth of the fire fist wave in her recovered house and land document in her hand.
If you put all the documents together, it’s about 450 gold coins, if you add up all the wealth bags hidden around the city, it’s 570 gold coins, the 600 gold coins that Lambda hid in the top safe, and about 610 gold coins in the fire fist wealth pocket.
She gave her a sum of over 2000 gold coins.
= Three, my God. All this…=
In Isha’s eyes, emotion, emotion, and gratitude swirled, then turned into tears and flowed down.
There are trash people like Lambda in the world, and there are people like Traveler.
One important mindset required of a merchant becomes enlightenment and is engraved in her heart.
“It’s not enough money to restore the prosperity of the Liche Guild, but it’s probably a reasonable amount to organize the buildings, recruit workers and manpower, and prepare supplies to start the ascendance. If you learn the wisdom of ascending from the former baron, you will be able to regain the old castle even if it takes a long time.”
Unless he was killed by the lord.
Isha, who could not even guess in her dreams what her Hwanin had hidden behind her back, looked at her Hwanin like a maiden looking at her hero, and asked as she held her hands together.
=Why are you helping me so much? I, I am a bad woman who tried to do bad things to the traveler…=
0.1 seconds. Hwanin, who thought of the reason, answered in a natural manner that would not be strange to anyone.
She said, “I think it might be because she had a similar experience to the Baron.”
= Ah… !=
Of course, it’s not a true intention.
Similar to what happened to Isha, there were her relatives who tried to take away her parents’ inheritance, but Hwanin took them away as calmly as sweeping away trash with a broom.
‘… Then why did I help Isha?’
It’s a woman who tried to stab her own back. She usually thinks of her own personality, she doesn’t help, but kills her lambda, and it’s no wonder that she steals all her possessions and disappears herself.
… It’s a good thing.
Isha said she now considers herself a benefactor and will listen to anything she says. In addition, her wealth bag recovered from the water ghost faction with her side income is filled with various treasures worth 1500 gold coins.
A powerful caravel ship to go in search of 1500 gold coins and Adnevila. It’s not bad.
Now, if you find out what happened between Baron Liche and Baron Shuheilo and find the elements that get entangled in you, it will be over.
= Traveler? How about resting at my house today? I may not be able to give you a grand treat right now, but if you give me time…=
Hwanin, who was thinking of going back after only receiving the certificate from Lee Ji-na, tried to refuse Isha’s invitation, but shut her mouth as she felt a prick in her inner pocket.
Are you accepting her invitation?
“… Then don’t be afraid, but I’ll take care of it.”
Upon accepting her invitation, she happily followed Isha as he guided her into her mansion, and a small voice of delight flowed from her inner pocket.
「Hwanin. The carriage from the lord’s castle is coming this way. The humans riding it are the Selpin girl and the Valkyrie Helm female knight of the day, but looking at her outfit, I think she might be the daughter of the lord.”
“…”
The lady of the lord’s castle is coming at this time, what’s your relationship with Isha?
