Episode 351 Pioneering a Shortcut (3)
After a while, the Orcs calmed down considerably.
It was unthinkable that they were bloody monsters known to engage in battle with ogres when angry.
Ray injected the drug into each one of them.
It was not easy to find the blood vessels of non-humans, but skillfully snatched the orcs and finished the injection perfectly.
The drug response came in an instant.
The blue bruised and internally wounded orcs’ wounds had visibly faded.
Is that all?
Even the orcs, whose facial complexion was not good, regained their health.
As the body shuddered and the pain disappeared, the orcs looked back at their bodies with questionable expressions.
“Chwii profit?”
Ray looked at him and nodded.
Although the formulation of the drug was difficult, the results were very satisfactory.
Moreover, the penetration was much faster than I thought.
The absorption power, which was expected to take at least a minute, spread throughout the orcs’ bodies before even tens of seconds had passed.
It healed not only the injured but also the residual illness, so Ray looked surprised even though he made it himself.
At this level, it can be commercialized immediately.
But it wasn’t without regret.
Still, it took a long time to invest in making one bottle, and it was expensive to pay to each soldier.
‘But I can’t reduce the ingredients… I guess I’ll have to think about it some more.’
It is a drug that can be said to be compatible with potions.
When the healing power of the potion was mixed with the medical drug, the drug’s natural ability also increased.
Although commercialization has not been possible yet, it could be said to be an unexpected income.
* * *
Since Ray overturned the mountain, the Hafman Merchants did not pay tolls even while using the mountains below the Holy Kingdom.
But I soon ran into another problem.
Some merchants scratched their heads as if they were embarrassed.
“The grass is overgrown because it’s only been a few days.”
“I can’t make a road and go there… This is very difficult.”
In the meantime, the mountain range used by merchants was being managed by bandits from Gleverine Mountain.
However, since they stopped paying tolls, they stopped managing the mountain range.
As a result, the grass grew thicker than before, and small stones placed on the roadside interfered with the smooth movement of the wagon.
As the wheel was damaged by the stone and the speed decreased, the arrival time of the goods, which could be called life for the merchant, became more and more delayed.
When credit diminishes, business ceases.
It was to the point where many famous guilds were defeated and those who restarted the guild would rather miss the days when they paid tolls.
This was not much different from the upper half of the half.
Small-scale merchants had few items to trade, so even if it was a little difficult, they might be able to go back, but even that was difficult in the case of the half-man upper class, which far exceeded the caravan.
Because of that, Hafman complained to Ray for half a day.
When the mana orb reacted, Ray opened the leather pouch.
“What happened again this time?”
When he asked, Hafman sighed deeply and explained everything.
The reason why you can’t use the mountain range even though you no longer have to pay tolls in the mountain, and even the loss because of it.
Ray, who had been listening to the story with his mouth shut, exclaimed.
“Ha, so you mean the loss is bigger than before paying tolls?”
– yes. Seongguk’s business is not unusual. Since the carriage cannot pass the road through the mountain range, it has to go round, but like the carriage, I will go round.
Ray thought for a moment at Hafman’s rhyming words.
“Yo, if the path comes back to life, there will be no problem, right?”
he shook his head.
– It’s not easy. Moreover, turning a rough mountain road into a level place where carriages can come and go is not something that can be done in a day or two.
“You won’t know until you try.”
– ….
Halfman looked at him with trusting eyes.
He is a sober man whose words and actions are always in line with each other.
I’ve been saying things that didn’t even sound like a joke until now, and I’ve seen countless cases where they really came true.
Now Hafman never took his words lightly.
He asked politely, changing his posture from the beginning.
– Is that possible?
It’s about making one way.
At the time when he created a troupe, there were countless merchant troupes that rose and fell because there was no carriage road.
As such, the upstream route was important to doing business.
And Hafman himself knew better than anyone how much effort it would take to make one.
When Ray smiled once instead of answering, Hafman also smiled back.
It’s not a relationship that needs long words.
It is a relationship with Hafman that has been going on since 7 years ago.
We only met eyes once, and our hearts matched.
– All right.
Halfman nodded once.
Ray told him before cutting off communication.
“I’ll try to pick up the present soon. Look forward to it.”
He was thinking of selling a new drug made by mixing potions and drugs at high prices.
I don’t know what the game will be like, but if it sells well, the upper half of the company will be able to buy more time based on its financial power.
Halfman laughed happily.
Freebies and gifts are always welcome.
It was an instant to roll my eyes at the word gift.
* * *
Ray, who had finished communicating with Harpman, was found alive again.
The bandits at Glevine Mountain, who had been hiding for a while, were startled when they saw him.
As they hurriedly put the scorpion in the wild, Chason, the owner of the wild vegetable, came out barefoot from the inside.
He rubbed his hands together and said hello.
“How did you get to this filthy place?”
‘Why did you come again, you bastard!’
Inwardly, he said to him who was forced to grind his teeth.
“After I climbed the mountain once or twice, it seems that the topography of this mountain is very rough. What do you think?”
Chason responded quickly to the questionable words, which were like a Zen dialogue.
In the meantime, I’ve been banditting, and I’ve been eating my eyes for more than ten years.
If you couldn’t see through this much, you couldn’t even climb up to the boss of the mountain.
he replied coolly.
“I didn’t like this mountain range from the first time I settled down. If given the opportunity, I would like to shave it off.”
“Then cut it.”
“yes?”
Chason was taken aback when he replied with a straight face to the joke thrown at him.
Are you cutting a mountain?
Do you think it makes sense?
The scars on his face wriggled hideously.
“Are you kidding?”
I asked with last hope, but the answer that came back was single-minded, like that of a faithful woman who only looks at one man.
“Cut it.”
I wanted to pick up my sword and fight right away, but I couldn’t because it was a monster that pulled out an aura blade as tall as a person.
Eventually, Chason shook his hands and nodded.
“Okay…..”
I am worried that my molars will be safe when I see them grinding their teeth so that their jaws are ground.
Under Chason’s command, all the bandits at Glevine Mountain were mobilized.
They took out farming tools from the warehouse they had been plundering and started digging up rocks and digging.
To be honest, the bandits were doubtful even while shoveling.
The number of bandits is over 2,000, but can they really transform this huge mountain road into a flat land?
Even if you work an extra week, it will be impossible.
However, Chason had the eye to turn the impossible into possible.
Chae-ju, the best in the wild, stares at him with lights on because his hands are cruel, but there is no way he can complain.
In the end, the bandits had no choice but to carve the mountain hard.
Ray looked at the bandits and smiled with satisfaction.
“You work hard.”
He is really carefree about the subject who made him work while threatening him with force.
After watching the bandits’ work(?) for a while, he slowly went into the mountains.
He had no intention of leaving all the work of building roads in the mountains to bandits.
What he entrusted to the bandits are chores such as turning the ground, clearing stones, and cutting grass.
No matter how numerous they are, they do not order the outrageous task of turning mountain ranges into plains.
In addition, there was no time to refine the mountain range for several months now, when the financial power of the upper half of the half man might run out.
‘I try to buy time with the new medicine, but that’s because I don’t know how it will turn out.’
Ray climbed the mountain and looked around several times.
Pick up a twig and poke it here and there on the ground.
Have you been walking around like that for an hour?
While measuring the strength of the ground with a branch, he drew a model of the mountain range in his head.
Then he put his hand on the ground and poured mana into it.
As the enormous amount of mana flowed into the mountain range, he recited the start language.
“Earthquake.”
Koo Goo Goo—!
A roar echoed across the mountain range.
With vibrations that make it difficult to stand properly, the shape of the mountain range is transformed little by little.
It looked like someone would be shocked if they saw it.
He was controlling all the mana in the mountain range with his own hands.
I measured the intensity based on the reaction force returned by stabbing the ground with a branch, and drew it in my head to calculate the range of magic.
There is a possibility of a landslide if you cast magic in a place where the strength of the ground is weak.
If that happens, it will be difficult for even people to pass, let alone wagons.
However, if magic is cast only in places where the intensity is relatively strong, it becomes possible to partially flatten a rugged terrain.
Ray memorized the starting language again.
“Air hand.”
With wind-type magic, he pulled out all the trees that were in the way and touched the mountain range, and in an instant, a flat land was created.
It’s also a stable road that stays level to the point of nonsense.
The width is also wide enough to be incomparable to the previous ascending road.
It seemed that three wagons could easily pass.
Chason, who was looking for Ray for a report, watched the ignorant figure.
His mouth stretched to the point where it couldn’t open any further.
‘You crazy bastard!’
He put his hands on the ground and turned the curved hill into a flat land in a matter of tens of minutes.
Is this really a human ability?
My spine felt chilly at myself for wanting to compete with him even for a moment.
If I had made fun of my mouth even a little bit, I would have blown my throat!
‘The only way to live now is to obey.’
It was the moment when Chae-ju of the notorious Glevine Mountains came to believe as much as Hafman.
