chapter 20
Chapter 20 Discord does not break the peace
From the next day, Arzu wielded a sword in the backyard.
She doesn’t know much about swords, so let’s just leave it alone. She is swinging hard.
She’d be fine with a teacher, but she’d be reluctant to teach slaves, whether at the dojo or private lessons.
You’ll get ripped off or you’ll get into trouble.
Both are dangerous.
She makes Elsa do things like making holy water and working at the clinic.
Surprisingly, it makes money.
There are few clinics in this city, and you have to pay an offering to receive treatment from a priest of the Sun God Church.
If you do it too openly, there will be problems, but if you do it in the neighborhood, it will be fine.
There is no church in this district.
Still, if you say something, then you just have to stop.
She received a request from her guild in her spare time and sent two slaves. She, of course, also made me explore the labyrinth.
If there was an easy request, I ordered them separately, and if not, I sent them both together.
As for Elsa, as she is a clergyman and a priestess, she has achieved stable results. Azudo she made more achievements day by day.
She also increased the amount of food she ate a day. Is it a growing period?
There is no problem as the income is also increasing. I’ll let you eat all the meat and vegetables.
The income of the two has reached the level of an intermediate adventurer beyond the low class. But it is still small.
Still, instead of paying for food, clothing and shelter and reducing expenses, the way I collect all the rewards I get through the quest is making a profit.
Even excluding that brooch, the commission fee minus the expenses is already in the black.
As for subjugation-related quests, Azu’s contribution is particularly large.
Of course, the overall surplus is still far away because Elza was bought at a high price.
I thought while recording the ledger.
As for the management policy, there are many options ahead.
First, buy more slaves and make a lot of two-person parties like Az and Elza, and make money by processing requests.
But this will definitely be stopped by the adventurer’s guild.
It is an act of excluding other adventurers. Even low-level adventurers.
It is like pruning the buds of the future.
Besides, if my influence against the adventurer’s guild grows stronger, I’ll buy you a pointless grudge.
You should choose quality over quantity.
I contacted the slave dealer about mage work, but no good reply came.
It’s hard to find, but it sells out quickly.
To be honest, I only sold Elsa because I thought it would be better to sell it to me rather than Chang-gwan.
After living like that for a while, I entrusted the two slaves with increasingly difficult requests.
As before, there are no trump cards, so keep going, while minimizing risks.
Well, if it’s a lower-intermediate quest, just two warriors and a priest will be able to overcome most things.
I told you to run away if necessary.
To put it mildly, peacefully. To put it badly, I continued to earn normally.
A commotion occurred in an unexpected place when I thought it would be a decent profit if I combined it with my main job.
… This country we are based on, the Deiancle Kingdom.
To put this country in one word, it is a country where everything is normal.
Agriculture is normal, mining is also normal. Industrial technology is neither inferior nor superior.
The sea is neither near nor far. Military power is average. He doesn’t have much ambition, but if someone hits him, he strikes back.
It’s not bad as a trade route, but there isn’t really anything worth living in this country, so the benefits are small. It’s just a passing road. Tariffs are said to be cheap.
The strength of the monsters is average, too.
Only Goseong, where the king of ashes lives, is exceptionally powerful. He is not high level, so even if heroes gather, he cannot be captured.
For this reason, adventurers move to other countries when they become stronger.
Advanced quests tend to be surplus, so if it’s a little bigger, it’ll be a good money maker. It would be difficult without a mage.
It is such a country.
And two countries bordering each other.
The Ambishir Empire, which holds the hegemony of the continent, and the Sun Alliance, the headquarters of the Sun God Church.
There are not many exchanges with other countries because it is separated by a very dangerous mountain range.
Right now, the Deiancle Kingdom is having some friction with the Empire diplomatically.
The reason is, to put it simply, it is mutual interest adjustment for iron and other ores. Differences of opinion seldom narrow.
In the process, the voices of the imperial extremists grew louder. Conversely, the king, who was the head of the moderate faction, was suffering from a disease, and his checks were weakened.
As a tool dealer, I obtained trivial information. There were things I had to buy through trade, so I was keeping an eye on the trend, but it seems that a small battle has finally begun.
The feudal lords are still fighting each other by mobilizing troops, but if it gets worse, a full-scale war will break out.
… In this case, the adventurer takes on the role of a mercenary.
The Adventurers Guild is already requesting such a request.
First of all, since adventurers are free people, there is no coercion, but if you accumulate achievements, you will be rewarded and your reputation will be good. Among other things, he becomes involved with nobles.
I often heard that private requests from aristocrats cost a lot of money.
I don’t really want to get involved with the nobles, though.
I put the mercenary request document down on the desk.
In the first place, Arzu can’t kill humans, so it’s impossible.
Elza will do it if necessary. She’s a pretty bold brat.
I don’t think I’ll ever forgive things like wind.
There are so many things to think about that my thoughts bounce around.
Mercenaries are impossible. Azu’s mental power shouldn’t be broken after cutting someone’s head.
Now I’m earning quite a bit.
As a result of consulting with the Adventurers Guild, I took on a troublesome request.
When it comes to annoying quests, it’s something I hate. The pay is low, but it is urgent.
I’m not doing it, I guess it doesn’t matter.
I called Azu and Elza into the room and handed over a large number of requests.
From the look on their faces, it seemed that they both disliked each other.
Do the work.
It took the two slaves about two months to process the troublesome request.
In the meantime, the battle was over, and the kingdom side was surprisingly victorious.
I thought the Empire would counterattack, but it seems they gave way to the Kingdom.
Even though he held the hegemony of the continent, the empire was so large that it seemed to have more problems than a peaceful kingdom.
Meanwhile, a message came from the slave trader that they had secured a new slave.