Chapter 119: The Return Carriage
For the next few days, I stayed at the base.
It seemed that the work of building a castle on the front line was too much for an old man in his eighties, and my grandfather did not seem to be in good shape.
Nobles can stay in good health as long as they have magical power, but they can become ill when they are under stress.
It is said that wounds caused by battles between people with magical powers accumulate in the body even if the wounds are healed on the surface.
My grandfather had a history of fighting since he was a young boy, which probably left him with a number of invisible scars under his skin.
The fact that his physical condition deteriorates even with the amount of magical power of his grandfather is proof that he has fought against so many nobles.
It is what we call an old wound of honor. The wounds themselves are healed by healing magic, so you can't see them.
And unfortunately, this one cannot be healed even with powerful healing magic that makes use of my magical power.
Perhaps it is not because of physical trauma, but because of the accumulation of magical residuals from the attack magic, which is making my physical condition worse.
It is similar to the relationship where it is easy to heal a cut, but difficult to heal a body affected by mineral poisoning.
When I was concerned about the deterioration of my grandfather's health, who is currently slaughtering the nobles and knights of old Vojstra, he came up to me.
He said, “Wilk. Take care of this. This is for Fanny.
Yes, sir.
He received a letter from his grandfather her addressed to his father and a souvenir for Fanny.Fanny had given her grandfather her a fur winter coat as a gift, which he had given her in return.
The gift for Fanny came in a small wooden box, the contents of which were unknown to me.
When he noticed that I was trying to guess what was in the box, he put a bulging burlap sack on the desk.
Here's your allowance.
Thank you.”
The jute sack, which was so dirty that it was not often picked up by aristocrats, was a picture-perfect coin purse. When I untied it and examined its contents, I found it to contain a large number of silver coins.
What's this?”
'It's what I've accumulated while patrolling the neighboring villages. At first the villagers would offer their daughters to me, but when I refused, they would give them to me.
My grandfather did not go around the village to collect the silver coins, but he accepted them without saying a word because he did not want to be bothered with them.
Perhaps the villagers, frightened by the arrival of the Quardenze army, had given up what little they had in an attempt to curry favor with him.
If I had accompanied them, they would have been satisfied with just having sex with the village girls, but it was bad timing.
I gave the other food and wine to the soldiers. I gave the other food and liquor to the soldiers, and the silver to Wilk.
It was a very public and private thing to do, but no one could point that out to me. I was grateful for it.
It was wonderful to see a village offering its daughter to me. Next time I come here, I would like to accompany her by any means necessary.
If you think about it, if you can get the seed of a nobleman, your village will have a child of your cousin. Perhaps the people of the village are more clever than we thought.
The idea of offering a daughter to a grandfather in his 80s to be sired by him is amazing.
Come to think of it, in a village I once visited with a tea plantation, people were always encouraging me to hold their daughters in my arms.
I wonder if she is still going strong.
I touched the silver coin with my index finger with my crotch half erect.
This is a silver coin of the empire, isn't it?
It was not the silver coin commemorating the founding of the empire that I had found earlier, but an ordinary imperial silver coin in general circulation.
Since this area was originally imperial territory, it seems that imperial silver coins are still in circulation.
The Levios Kingdom occasionally changes the design of its gold coins, so there are many types of gold coins.
Ah.The reverse side is……”
When I picked up one of the silver coins to see what kind of silver coin it was, I found that the reverse side was rough as if it had been filed down. I could not decipher the design that might have been on it.
I picked up a few other silver coins to see what they looked like, but they were all the same.
The profile of the first emperor, Zin Kaen, on the front of the silver coin is still there, but the reverse side is not recognizable at all.
The reverse side must have been the profile of the third emperor, since most imperial silver coins in circulation have the profile of the first emperor on the front side and the current emperor on the reverse side.
As I was playing with the silver coin with my fingers, my grandfather opened his mouth.
The reverse side is not necessary, but it can be used. Don't save it, use it up at the Nambonan market.
I understand.”
In other words, this must be a part of the negative campaign against the third emperor.
The silver coins with the face of the third emperor smashed on them are circulating in large quantities in the empire and the kingdom, and this will ruin his reputation.
Judging from his grandfather's familiar tone of voice, perhaps he had done something similar in the past. The image of a soldier being forced to perform the chore of shaving the reverse side of a silver coin with a file endlessly came to my mind.
As my grandfather said, the silver itself is valuable, so there is no problem in using the coins because the value does not decrease that much even if the silver is a little worn out.
Since I had received the silver, I decided to spend it quickly at the Nambonan market.
If we are going to help a negative campaign, we want to use it in a way that spreads the word to as many people as possible.
After receiving the jute bag containing the silver coins, I headed straight for the carriage that Tesh and Odie had prepared for me.
Around the carriage I boarded, soldiers from the base were waiting to see me off.
I said goodbye one more time to my grandfather and got into the carriage.
I looked over and saw a bundle of letters in the corner of the carriage.
The military officers of the Kuordenze Army usually live in their quarters in New Neri, so they exchange letters with each other from time to time during the expedition.
I look out the small window, greet my grandfather one more time, and instruct Tesch to start the carriage.
The carriage soon picked up speed, and the soldiers at the base were getting smaller and smaller.
I somehow look out the window and notice that it is already going quite fast.
Since Tesch is a magician, he uses his magic to drive the carriage.
From the sensation of the wind blowing against my face when I looked out the window, I felt that the speed was about the same as a moped at full throttle in prehistoric Japan.
The road was mountainous and the terrain was not very good, but he didn't seem bothered by that.
He was going forward as if he didn't care about that. How would you like your bag?
Oddie, sitting diagonally in front of me, looked at the bag of silver coins on my lap.
I closed the small window, turned to her, and held out the bag of silver coins.
Put it down somewhere.
Yes, sir.”
After receiving the bag of silver coins, Odie bent down to place it in the corner of the carriage and began to adjust the placement.
In a carriage that hardly shook at all, only Odie's hips wobbled. He seemed to be having trouble rearranging the baggage in the narrow carriage.
During my stay at the base, I had sought out Odie's body his every night and poured my seed into him.
I took advantage of this opportunity to seed him, since I would not have as many opportunities to hold him once I returned to Nambonan City.
Oddie, who considered himself a stone woman, would say things like, “You're wasting precious sperm,” Just before I held him every night, but I completely ignored his advice.
I completely ignored his advice for him.
It would soon accumulate anyway, so I should take it out when I can.
