Chapter 144 – Erfu
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The city of Erfur came into view.
It looked like a typical medieval fantasy city surrounded by walls.
“I think the name of the city appropriately increased the word elf….”
“Right.”
I just said it, but when Luna said it was real, she was taken aback.
“Is that real?”
“Yes. For quite some time, this place has been a place where there is active interaction with the elves.”
“Is this place?”
“Yes, and with the change of king, slavery was revived, and now it has become a city of slave hunters… No, elven hunters.”
As we approached the gate, the two guards standing in front of us were quite nervous and staring at us.
I was wearing black armor all over my body except for my head, and the elves behind me were wearing the hoods of their capes.
“Back, the two behind you… Huh, you have to take off your hood….”
Among the two guards, the younger-looking one spoke. At the same time, he looks at my eyes quite a bit.
‘Is it because of my physique or because of the magic armor… Is it both?’
It seemed like the thieves mistook me for a knight.
Anyway, choosing to walk around wearing armor was a good choice. It was far better to show this rigid attitude than to be ignored.
I didn’t even ask about my identity, as if the inspection wasn’t that tight.
It seemed like they were only checking faces before letting them in.
Ayla and Luna took off the hoods they were wearing.
A beauty with long silver hair and a gorgeous blonde appeared.
“Huh!!”
The eyes of the guards who saw them widened.
Seeing the guards staring at them as if possessed, it seemed that such a beauty was rare even here.
I said to the guards who were in a daze.
“Can I come in?”
“Yes? Yes. Yes….”
With the bewildered guards, they passed through the city gates and entered the city.
A neat medieval town with a stone floor appeared.
“You don’t have seizures.”
“Seizure?”
Ayla tilted her head at my words.
“Because there are so many humans, but they are quiet.”
“Huh. It might make you sick, but I have that much self-control.”
Slowly, the sky was turning orange, and I felt like I needed to find a place to sleep.
“Welcome to Erfu!! Great knight! I know a good place to stay.”
Just in time, a little solicitor approached.
The kid was skinny and looked nothing more than an elementary school student.
“Can you take responsibility for that?”
Although I subtly pressed, the kid flinched a little and answered confidently.
“No, of course!”
I liked that he didn’t feel intimidated in front of me even though he was a kid.
She is as confident as she is.
“Guide me.”
“Yep!”
The inn that followed her kid was in an alley off the main road.
“Mr. Owner, I brought you a guest!”
After the kid, I step inside and the son-in-law becomes quiet.
All the guests inside were staring at me.
I looked inside.
It was like an inn with a restaurant.
People were moderate.
Everyone at the table averted their eyes in fear of making eye contact with me.
This is a familiar thing that happened often in the original world. Even before he became famous, he was big enough to attract attention wherever he went.
(Ki, Kisanga?)
(That kind of armor is said to be unthinkable unless you are a knight. Looking at your face, it seems that you are not a trainee knight, maybe you are a free knight.)
(It’s big…It’s huge.)
(It’s the first time I’ve seen someone that big.)
With an unnecessarily sensitive sense, I can clearly hear the whispering around me.
“Three luxurious rooms. I would like the rice to be brought to the room.”
“A few days….”
“……This……I think it will be tied up for about three days. Count it as three days.”
“Yes, yes, 9 silver. Be well.”
I took out 1 gold and handed it to the owner.
“Can this even be eaten?”
“Yes, that is enough.”
“Eat in your room. Also, ask someone to guide you around the city tomorrow. Is it possible?”
“Yes! I will have it ready by tomorrow.”
The wizard’s money was about 40 gold. It seems that magic stones are valuable here anyway, so if it runs out, I thought I would be able to sell them.
The room was cleaner than expected.
However, it did not satisfy me who lived in modern times.
If you look at their lives, you might have to be aware of it even if it is this much.
Everyone gathered in my room to eat.
The taste of the rice at the inn was not bad.
However, I couldn’t say that it was so delicious to me who was accustomed to modern tastes.
“I will collect information until tomorrow or the next day, and if there is nothing special, I will go to a city called Slubber. If you guys have something to prepare, prepare it too.”
While eating, I spoke to Luna and Ayla.
It seemed that I would have to go around collecting information after all.
I didn’t expect much, but the elves were useless than I thought.
Luna or Aylana, living in a forest cut off from the human world for a long time, is only slightly better than me, a completely blank slate.
Ayla is rather negative.
‘I’m glad I didn’t get into an accident….’
“Something… The way you look at me is quite unpleasant….”
Receiving my gaze, Ayla grumbled.
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Next day.
“My name is Dorco, the guide. Be well.”
The innkeeper had no sense.
The guide was a skinny boy of about fifteen or six.
If you don’t like it and change it now, it’s a useless waste of time.
I couldn’t help it.
“Is there a store that sells magic books?”
“Eh, you mean a magic book?”
“Okay.”
“Yes, yes, I will guide you to McDowell’s magic shop.”
The guide, Dorco, took the lead in guiding me even though he was bewildered that I, who looked like a warrior to anyone, was looking for something like that.
“I consider it. Be well.”
McDowell’s Magic Shop.
From the outside, it looked like an antique shop.
In the show window, items of unknown use were displayed.
“I-I will wait here.”
It was a neat store with a luxurious signboard that contrasted with the lazy boy.
The guide boy didn’t know if it bothered him or if he couldn’t get in, but it wasn’t my concern.
– With my daughter.
When I left the boy outside and entered the magic shop, a bald middle-aged man looked at me and startled.
And he made a face of trembling.
It seemed like a human wearing armor came in.
Maybe I am mistaken for a knight.
“It is a wizard.”
“Eh, are you a wizard?”
-Szeuk.
He showed me how to take out and insert the staff of the slave hunter wizard from the inventory.
“Ah, sub-space….”
The owner’s eyes widened in surprise.
In Luna’s words, a wizard who handles subspace is a high-ranking wizard with at least 6 circles.
That is the same as saying that I can pretend to be a high-ranking wizard of the 6th circle or higher.
‘It’s a circle.’
As I sharpened my senses, I saw four rings made of condensed magical energy near the shopkeeper’s chest.
He was a wizard of the 4th circle.
“Tea, is there anything you are looking for?”
As I exercised my skills, the shop owner became much more polite.
“I want to see the magic book. Bring them by type as much as possible.”
“Did you even take me as a disciple?”
“Right.”
I answered roughly so that no more words came out.
“Roy, bring each type of magic book.”
“Yes~”
Not long after the answer, a freckled boy wearing a robe came carrying a book.
And I was able to learn quite useful features of the Dimension Shop.
The owner took out a book from the Dimension Shop.
I realized that if I compare it to the price of the Dimensional Shop, I can pick out something worthwhile.
It is a story that expensive items in the dimensional shop are worth that much.
The interesting thing is that there are things that are sold at a higher price here and cheaper at the Dimensional Shop.
That, of course, took off.
I thought the value set by the dimension shop was more reliable than this wizard.
Almost all of them were basic introductory spellbooks up to Circle 3.
“Isn’t there a senior magic book?”
“That, you have to go to the Mage Tower….”
It was annoying.
Well, wouldn’t an introductory one be enough?
Things that only know how to shoot things like ice or fireballs will be able to detect it at this level.
Again, the price was significant.
There were no items under 10 gold, and the expensive ones were over 50 gold. However, compared to the price of the Dimensional Shop, it was the same for me.
“A total of 284 gold.”
I was short of money.
“Do you get magic stones too?”
“Yes, Roy. Bring me a magic stone meter.”
A boy in a robe entered through the door behind him and brought a small box engraved with luxurious patterns.
He took out a C-class magic stone.
“Five. It is a high-grade magic stone.”
The magician puts the magic stone into that luxurious box.
I didn’t know what he was doing, but I just stayed still.
“It’s a little above average. The magic stone is worth about 415 gold.”
It seemed to be a box that measures the value of magic stones.
I’m sure he won’t cheat on a high-ranking wizard.
I swept the change and the magic books I bought into my inventory and asked the wizard.
“Do you know of a place called the Abyss Erosion Labyrinth?”
“Is it an Abyss erosion labyrinth….”
Hearing my question, he pondered and said,
“I have never heard of it. If it’s a slumber labyrinth, I know….”
It wasn’t much different from what the slave hunter and wizard said.
“Do you know where the information dealer is? Or is it a place that handles information?”
