Episode 400 The Second Temple (6)
Shit!
The marble, once cracked, shattered faster with each further step.
– Do not go.
The sound he heard was still mesmerizing.
– Do not go.
sad voice.
The earnest sound sent chills down his spine.
My steps were heavy and my mind was dizzy.
The weight of my feet touching the ground was so heavy that I couldn’t dare bear it.
When I tried to lift my foot once, sweat broke out on my forehead.
I didn’t give up and took my steps without delay.
Awesome—!
Fragments of marbles shattered.
– Don’t go… Don’t go…
The voice cut off little by little unlike the beginning.
As if there is noise.
Because the sound that is not perfect doesn’t connect like water.
Awesome—!
It was crushed slowly.
The meaning of the beads was gradually broken.
walked
I took a step carrying the weight of the demon.
second temple.
I took one more step towards the place I need to return to.
Every time that happened, the hard-looking marbles failed to maintain their shape little by little and were broken.
As I walked, the fog behind me cleared away neatly.
one step.
two steps.
When the steps that seemed to go anywhere stopped.
Splash—
someone’s voice was just a small sound of water.
What you got from the second temple.
Happiness in the name of opportunity.
Awesome—!
The wind that someone desperately protected.
Kwaaaang—!
broke the demon.
* * *
As the fragments scattered to the son-in-law, the high elves recovered Izzy.
“iced coffee.”
“Mmm.”
Even as they drool, their eyes stayed blankly where Ray was standing.
His condition was a mess.
His feet were crushed as if they had been crushed by something, and his knees were completely turned.
Enduring the pain, he killed the monster.
Without taking care of his own body, he stopped the monster’s breath with just one thought that he had to return.
As Ray collapsed on the spot, Aira hurriedly approached first.
Plunging—
Ray, who was gently embraced in her arms, fainted as it were.
Ira looked at him with a pitiful expression.
“Ray….”
He broke his promise to return in case of danger.
couldn’t come back
As if possessed by something, the sense of not being one’s own body blocked the very thought of returning.
Nevertheless, unlike them, he endured in the end and even resisted the monsters.
All the other high elves knew that.
They quietly bowed their heads.
as a high elf. As a superior race superior to humans.
They have only received help so far, and yet their arrogance has not been corrected.
It has endured by sucking the fresh blood of the little hero who had fallen in front of its eyes.
They voluntarily gathered around Ray without being told.
“Heal.”
“Heal.”
The soft green light that resembles nature embraced him.
Woong-woong-!
The mana was delighted and seeped into his body.
Bersia, who was ignoring Ray, and Hans, who were dissatisfied with him being at the altar.
All the High Elves who were able to awaken with his favor and help.
He exalted the small existence that was in awe of him who had fallen asleep while lying down.
* * *
If the Seongguk was stocking up on troops, the Hafman Chamber of Commerce was stocking up on funds.
When I started rolling to raise money by collecting the funds I had been dealing with the dark forces, the funds were growing like snow.
Thanks to this, the corners of Hafman’s mouth were raised more than usual.
“Heh heh. This is all thanks to the lord. I just bowed to the bronze statue every day, but the money keeps piling up!”
As he giggled and fidgeted with the gold coin, the worse manager stepped forward.
“Halfman, please save your face.”
“Does your body feed you? We don’t have to worry about anything, just trust and follow Danju!”
His faith, which was already burning, grew bigger than before as he started earning a lot of money.
Since I have money, my shit guts came out.
“If you’ve earned this much, it’s worth fighting the money against the dark forces or whatever?”
The way he moves with his legs on his back and crosses his legs is very similar to someone else’s.
The branch manager waved his hand and dissuaded him.
“Fix it! There will be a big trouble on the day Lord Lei knows!”
On the day Ray knows, even if Satan rises, it will fly very loudly.
On that day, Hafman might not be able to go to work.
Whether he knows it or not, Hafman just chuckles.
“ha ha ha! I made a joke! Could I possibly do that?”
He boasted that he could defeat the Lessian Empire with money, so it’s hard to believe that he was joking.
The branch manager asked with tears in her eyes.
“Are you really kidding? You don’t intend to put it into action, do you?”
“Have you been deceived? Because it’s real.”
“Even if I believe in everyone else, I will not believe in only the swindler and the sorcerer. No, I’d rather trust a swindler.”
“A merchant’s life is trust. A merchant who loses his trust is as good as dead. look at me No matter where you look, you are a promising merchant.”
He pounded his chest.
At that, the branch manager looked at the promising merchant.
what is the merchant
No matter how you look at it, it’s just a pig.
From a distance, his body was drawn in an attractive cylindrical shape, making it look like an orc was wearing clothes.
The branch manager put the papers down on the table, ignoring the harp as if it was worthless to say.
“All right. Please give me your autograph.”
“sign? What sign?”
“This is a confirmation of material support from the Holy Land. The Pope wrote it in his own handwriting. It seems to be his own way of thanking you.”
A personal letter from the pope is worth a thousand gold.
I couldn’t even look at the handwriting scribbled by the Pope himself unless there was a dire incident.
However, Hafmann was not even interested in it.
Instead, he picked up the parchment and sneered.
“Looks like you want something else. Anyway, I don’t like the way you notice.”
As expected, Seongguk sent a new letter.
In it, it was written that not only money, but also the common use of the product distribution channel, which could be said to be the life of a merchant.
The branch manager, who had been looking through the correspondence for a while, was startled.
“What is all this stuff about?”
The distribution route for products is a very important road that has been formed since the days when merchants ran around barefoot.
That is why other guilds cannot even be used recklessly, and even if they do, it is impossible unless it is a guild with a very high level of trust.
However, since Seongguk sent a letter asking them to share such a distribution channel, the company was full of energy.
The branch manager asked cautiously.
“Could this also be something that Dan Lord Ray planned?” “I haven’t heard such a story from Dan Lord. It was probably an arbitrary move by the Holy Kingdom. No matter how much Danju’s favor was backed up, this is too shameless. It must be that the pope is mad.”
Harpman lightly committed blasphemy.
The manager’s expression hardened slightly.
If the other person was a chatting party, it could be ignored, but if it was a letter from the Holy Land, or even from the Pope, it would be difficult to reject it right away.
“What do you plan to do now?”
Hafman replied nervously.
“What to do, what to do! Of course you should decline! Who do you know as Hogu? What will we eat if we let them use the distribution channel jointly?”
Trying to eat something like a merchant’s life every day.
The pope must have a hairy conscience.
“But what if the Seongguk even retaliates? No matter how much strength they have, a holy nation is a holy nation.”
Hafman clicked his tongue at the branch manager’s words.
“Dan-lord is keeping his eyes open, is it likely that the Seongguk will attack us?”
“If they try to eat us, there is no way to stop them, right?”
“There is nothing in the world that cannot be done with money. Even if the Holy Kingdom wants to attack us, we can just buy the Lessian Empire.”
Hearing his words, he seemed to be the next emperor of the Lessian Empire.
The branch manager, who had been reading the letter to the end, put down the parchment and said,
“I guess Seongguk is in a hurry. Seeing that they ask for material support followed by distribution channels, they seem very money-obsessed.”
“To counter the forces of darkness, you must have a corps that can move independently. There is no shortage of supplies, but in order to conduct information warfare or containment in future wars, we need more.”
Harpman read their thoughts keenly.
The branch manager’s unexpected glance flew by.
In this case, there was a very competent corner.
“Then what are you going to do? Are you going to refuse the Holy Kingdom’s request like this? As Dan Lord knows, there may be disadvantages.”
“disadvantage? joy! It’s enough even if I don’t have these guys. Our guild doesn’t go hungry for that much.”
“That’s true, but… there’s nothing good about falling out, right? I’d rather refuse this case and promise something else…”
The branch manager tried to roll him gently, but Harpman, who had made up his mind once, was unsteady.
“There is no need for that. After all, it was time to press the noses of the Holy Kingdom bastards. If the favor continues, people often try to use it to cheat the favor. I can’t tolerate anyone who dares to betray Danju’s business.”
The branch manager nodded his head broadly at his determined attitude.
It made sense.
It took a little while for the other party to be a holy country, but they couldn’t show their favor forever.
Merchants are profit-seeking beings.
I couldn’t give a big deal for something that didn’t benefit anything.
“All right. Then, I will send a letter to the Holy Land. Don’t worry, Danju-nim, count your gold coins.”
“You seem to have lost your manners lately. With the rudeness of talking to his immediate superior about gold coins or tax. Tsk tsk.”
Even as he clicked his tongue, he sat down at the table and counted the gold coins.
The half-man corps resolutely rejected the request of the Seongguk.
Not only that, but also drastically reduced the amount of support materials.
Thoroughly trampled on the diplomacy of the ascending kingdom.
Even though it was a business relationship with the same enemy, it showed a tingling taste to those who tried to cross the line.
Seongguk, which burned hotter than I thought, ‘Oh, it’s hot!’ and backed away.
It was a word I threw to conserve more strength, but I didn’t expect it to come back this big.
Inside the castle, a meeting was held because of that.
