Chapter 36 – Episode 36 ― Everyone Has a Secret (1)
Episode 36 ― Everyone has a secret (1)
A fairly large water bird, like a wild goose or a heron, knocked on the window.
The bird looked into the office carrying a small package like a backpack and met Roan’s eyes.
The soft light flowing from the whole body proves that this bird is not a real bird.
Roan opened the window.
Then the bird moved into the room, stepping on the window sill with its long legs.
The bird, which had been slowly looking around the room, looked at Grunent and raised its leg. It’s like a ring on his ankle…
“The royal family of Arteala!”
Grunent exclaimed in admiration. The royal family responded directly to a letter sent to an aristocratic acquaintance.
Looking at Grunent, who was about to get up, Diobe said.
“Grunent, I’ll be back.”
“Yes, tell Carol and she will bring you the seal.”
Apparently, the seal is needed for that bird to release the package.
Amazing.
Roan for a moment forgot his worries and looked around the magic bird.
The bird, which hadn’t even turned a blind eye to Roan, who was making her nervous, jumped back with a strange cry and spread her wings wide the moment Roan tried to touch the package.
Roan involuntarily reached for the sword at the harsh sound of metal scratching.
At that moment, Grunent stopped Roan.
“Your majesty. It’s a bird warning. If you do it twice, it may disappear as a package.”
“Hmm. I’m curious, stop.”
It is unknown whether Roan’s embarrassed apology was directed to the bird or to Grünent.
Lauca giggled and smiled at the sight as she leaned against the corner of her office.
Grünent looked at Roan with a loving expression. Even his boyish appearance seemed cute.
“Haven’t you tried the magic bird?”
“Hmm. Magic like this is common in the kingdom. Black magic is widely used in Evirgio. And…”
Roan managed to swallow what was about to come out of his throat that he couldn’t use such a magical bird because he was knowledge 41.
“I don’t need to send it myself.”
“Yes. There is no need for Your Majesty to send the letter himself.”
Then Dio Ve returned with her seal.
As Grunent approached, the bird that had been standing at a distance raised its ankle again.
Grünent took hold of the handle of the bird’s backpack and placed the seal on the ring of the bird’s ankle.
And at that moment the bird disappeared.
There was no magical ‘pop’ sound effect or glitter powder.
It just disappeared as if it never existed.
Grünent smiled and stroked the cheek of Roan, who was looking at it with a little surprise.
“Your majesty. I’ll show you again next time. Then try using His Majesty’s seal.”
Roan, embarrassed to say now, ‘I’m not really curious!’ Just nodded his head.
“Hmm. Do it I’ll have to go to the breakout room and open this package.”
“Yes. All right. Your majesty.”
Roan accepted the load. Feeling a little heavy compared to the size, Roan wondered.
I’m a little curious about the contents, but let’s see it together in a place where there are many people.
After hearing that the emperor was waiting in the small meeting room, the chancellor, the treasurer, the knight commander, and the corrections officer all gathered together.
Inside the package was a small mechanism of unknown use and a letter.
When the letter was delivered to Grünent, who was the sender, Grünent opened the seal and returned the letter to Roan.
“It is right that Your Majesty sees it first.”
Roan started reading the letter.
The thorns on Aranya’s arms began to snap, and by the time I heard the small sound of Lylon groping her jaw with the bones of her fingers.
Roan handed the letter to the chancellor and said in a bright voice.
“Now I’ll have to organize a pirate crew.”
Aranya received her letter with her bright face.
The contents of the letter containing gratitude to Grünent and admiration for the demon king (which is hard to receive from humans) were as follows.
―I couldn’t sell this guy’s wheat because I was paying attention to Merde.
She is a bit sorry for the princess, but she is a troublemaker because she is a bully who doesn’t even want to buy Merde and doesn’t let others sell her stuff.
―Oh my God, Yuri from Evirgio!
Isn’t it the best glass on the Moira continent!
It’s a must-have item to make our magic devices work.
I admired the sample attached to the letter.
We are willing to continue to lose wheat and other necessary items at sea, if His Majesty could please send Yuri. Also those people you mentioned.
― For smooth communication in the future, we will send you a magic device.
Her Highness will know how to use it.
Please consult with the magic device for details.
Soon, Roan was able to talk to the king of a foreign country for the first time. The first thing that happened after the demon king ascended the throne, the servants of the small meeting were excited again.
To think that His Majesty would engage in diplomacy with other countries!
If it was like before, I would have been worried, but now I have more expectations.
The conversation went smoothly because Grunent, who knew the king of Arteala, was present.
In addition, Arteala was very happy to resume trade and obtain rare glass.
“Glass is essential for making the small devices you are receiving and using now. They said it was needed to hold the magic in a small space.
Of course, the details are known only to the old people who shut themselves in the tower…
Anyway, thank you for making a relationship with Evirgio like this. We will prepare the ship as soon as possible as requested by the Emperor.”
As a result, the meeting suddenly became busy.
They were spending their days very busy organizing the ‘pirates’ and preparing the goods to be loaded onto the ‘stolen’ ship.
In the meantime, Roan constantly attended small meetings to learn and understand the situation in which work was going on.
“Wheat entering the port is first moved to Basel and then distributed. It is the finance minister who is in charge of that.”
“You’re right. Your majesty.”
Roan, who was looking at the map to see the route of the wheat to be brought, suddenly asked Aranya.
“Then, is it possible to supply the frontlines by winter?”
“Yes. Your majesty. We plan to send some of the food stored by Basel to the front. But basically, the lords are supposed to cover food and supplies.”
Roan thought for a moment.
Evirzio is dry, so I heard that the winter is very cold and long. Out of the 12 months like the Earth, six are the months of winter.
Soldiers can’t live just because they have food, so are other things okay?
We’ll have to figure out how far we need to touch it from the center later.
Roan consciously tried to focus on his work.
I spent each day believing that it was a day to get away from the enemy of the hero one step at a time.
Otherwise, he seemed to be weighed down by the fact that there was only one year left until the day the demon king was killed.
The warrior comes closer and closer.
Roan was getting more and more suffocated.
‘Even though I’ve acquired the skill, how useful it will be.’
[ — Will (will):
A skill in which the desire to achieve something is expressed in the form of power
In the process of carrying out what you have decided on, you gain from within yourself the strength to overcome outside influences.
Depending on how long and earnestly you have been thinking about it, the power is displayed in a thousand different ways.
— Listen (傾聽):
Listen to the story of the target and understand the heart
You can more clearly grasp the intentions, emotions, etc. Of the target in the story]
‘Will’ is a skill that was copied like a warrior, but ‘listening’ was suddenly born.
Skills in the game were created based on frequently performed actions.
If you fight a lot, combat skills are created, and if you use magic and develop a character like a scholar, knowledge-based auxiliary skills are created.
‘Maybe it’s because I’m not fighting here, just talking.’
I tried to listen to other people’s stories, but I guess I developed a skill.
Roan read the skill description again.
[ — [Derivation] Appeal (呼訴) Lv1 :
【Creation Condition】 Will (will) + Listen (傾聽)
After knowing the other person’s feelings and situation, the words conveyed contain the speaker’s intention and move the listener’s heart.
The other party who listens to the caster can clearly understand the intentions and emotions derived from the caster’s ‘will’, just like using the skill ‘listen’]
In other words, it is a skill to ‘listen’ to others.
Since he was a hero who could absorb skills not only from the main attacking characters but also from NPCs, there are hundreds of skills that can be seen in the game.
I’ve played hundreds of hours of playtime and several times, but I’ve never seen a derived skill.
There is a skill called ‘persuasion’, but basically it doesn’t work if others don’t intend to listen. It is similar to ‘Miheun’.
However, ‘appeal’ is basically equipped with an element that makes the other person listen. It deserves to be said to be a higher level skill than ‘Persuasion’.
‘There must be at least some time for the hero to open his mouth before swinging his sword… Mmm. No way.’
When I was playing, I saw all the lines of the demon king, but
A real hero might skip the lines of the demon king and rush into the question and answer dance.
That’s why Roan once again focused his eyes on the scattered materials on the desk.
In order to take a sure way to survive, although it consumes a lot of time and energy.
*
Merde’s borders were bleak.
On a warm summer night, despite the wind, the soldiers have long since lost their voice at the news of a series of defeats coming from the front.
Two of them were looking out into the darkness across the border.
One of them, who was passing the time with some trivial chatter to overcome boredom, was talking about a rumor he had heard from someone.
“You know Cook Martin, right? His cousin is in the Navy.”
“I know Martin, but I’ve never heard of a cousin. But why?”
“The fortress navy is in trouble because of the pirates.”
“If it’s the Navy, is it South or North?”
“North.”
The soldier who heard the story was bewildered.
To the north are the ports of Arteala and Evirgio, but pirates cannot come out of Evirgio.
This is because monsters place importance on individual strength and it is difficult to unite. I heard that you can’t use your strength properly in a naval battle where many people have to drive the ship as if they were one body.
“Could it be that you are piracy in Arteala?”
It could be because they are people who risk their lives for money. But the soldier’s words were dismissed.
“No, my God. There is a monster pirates.”
…What bullshit is this?
The soldier who was listening to the story thought for a moment and then smiled.
I heard it from someone, so I listened intently to what it was, but didn’t Martin hear it and spread it?
“What nonsense are you talking about, man? How the monster drives the ship. Those guys don’t have enough brains to live in a group. Didn’t they attack each other even in battle?”
“But that doesn’t mean he did it. Besides, those bastards know that they are at a disadvantage, so they say they aren’t targeting our navy.”
The soldier listening to the story asked, narrowing his eyes in doubt.
“Then?”
“Our territorial waters are not invaded, but they are entering the sea of Arteala.”
“…There’s no way Arteala guys would stay still after their things were taken away, right?”
It was a fairly reasonable reasoning, but the soldier carrying the rumor shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t even know about that. Because you can’t see it in Korea. Anyway, it’s not ours, and it’s not Arteala’s ship, so it must be Evirgio’s ship. They say that they are going in and out of the west side of the fort and overfishing Arteala’s ships.”
The soldier who heard the story already dismissed it as a rumor in ‘I don’t know that much’, but after a while, Arteala officially announced a statement to Evirzio, ‘I would appreciate it if you could return our people who were abducted.’ It became true.
