Episode 556 The Strange Soldier, Misunderstandings (5)
“Ahh!”
The knight tumbled to the floor.
Ray approached him screaming in pain and gently covered the knight’s mouth with his hand.
“Heh heh. It has calmed down a bit now.”
“Queuuuuuugh…”
“It doesn’t matter whether you guys are the marquis or the king. The dead don’t talk.”
I added strength to my grip with the intention of slightly intimidating him.
The effect was amazing.
The knight’s eyes, which had been filled with venom at first, were gradually softening.
When a fellow knight was completely subdued, the remaining knights raised their swords.
“this guy! Can’t you let go of my hand right now!”
“To touch the Marquis’ article! Do you want to live as an exile knight for the rest of your life!”
“Put down your sword and kneel!”
My ears stung when I shouted loudly with mana in my voice.
However, were they also just bluffs?
Like other knights, there was no act of taking off his gloves and throwing them in his face.
It seems that he is trying to reduce the difference in skill and call for a marquis.
‘When the Marquis comes, things get annoying.’
If the Marquis intervened now, when he was busy with the company’s work, there was a possibility that things would go wrong.
Besides, when the Marquis of Garen comes, Viscount Mace will also come.
If it was one person, it would take time, but if two people came at the same time, Count Sylvester or Ray could not be pointed.
Eventually, Ray decided to take a step back on his own.
“Hold.”
At his word, the bodies of the knights were bound with mana.
Intense bondage, as if pulling limbs from all sides.
The knights who noticed the abnormality in their bodies tried to shout something, but their mouths were already sealed with mana.
Ray approached them.
“If you call the marquis now, you’ll be in trouble. You guys should stay like this for a while.”
The posture of drawing a sword right now.
A posture where the sword was aimed and the whole body tensed.
All of the knights were quite awkward.
No matter how much mana was bound, it took a lot of strength to maintain that state.
Ray grinned and patted them on the shoulder.
“A day until it is released? Two days? No, a week… maybe a month. Hold on until then.”
be patient?
one month?
You mean you have to stay like this for a month?
The complexion of the knights turned pale in an instant.
I couldn’t even say anything.
‘No voice!’
‘This guy must have been playing tricks!’
‘Buy and save me!’
They all shouted in their hearts, but no sound came out of their mouths.
Were you satisfied with the results you created?
Ray shook his head as if satisfied.
“It’s fortunate that these knights know manners. After all, you have to be quiet in the gymnasium.”
As the soldiers watched in a daze, Ray waved his hand.
“Now everyone will do their own thing.”
“Where are you going?”
“I have business in town. I will be back before evening.”
“…Uhm. All right.”
The soldier frowned a little and pointed his finger, as if the statues (?) standing in front of the gymnasium were uncomfortable.
“That… what should they do?”
“Either you clean it up or not, you know. They also have to suffer for a while.”
“yes. Could this be magic?”
“It’s similar. Old men can do it if they know the tricks.”
If Ira heard it, she would have hit her forehead.
That’s certainly true, but it may take hundreds of years for ordinary humans to learn the trick.
Surprised soldiers widened their eyes.
“Awesome. I had never heard of such a swordsmanship.”
“Anyway, I’ll just go. It’s about time.”
“All right. We will take care of these people.”
“It’s a secret from the Count.”
When he said that with a strange smile, the soldiers raised their lips.
“I will handle it unnoticed.”
“That’s all right. Don’t bother too much. No matter how rotten these guys are, they are still dogs of the Marquis. There’s nothing good about getting known to the Marquis just in case.”
While talking, I did not forget to mutter, ‘Of course, if I even talk to the Marquis, I’ll have to make it hard this time for the rest of my life.’
The soldiers who had been patting the knights for a while laughed haha.
“Do not worry. It was a car that I wished there was something because the training battalion was broken.”
“I don’t know what to do since the knights themselves say they help us train.”
Excited, they quickly took the knights one by one to the inside of the gymnasium.
Ray, who had never seen them so happy while teaching swordsmanship, felt sorry for the knights.
* * *
Packing a lot of luggage and arriving at the village, Zahas, who had arrived first, was waiting for him.
“You’re late, Danju.”
“sorry. There were some things that deserved it.”
“I stopped by the store where I used to trade until the sweet lord came. The goods appear to be ready just in time.”
At that, Ray nodded.
I was worried about what would happen if it was delayed, but luckily the item seems to be fine.
Zahas asked.
“Would you like to go get the grain, which is the largest quantity? Or would you like to go see the sword you brought in from the forge?”
“Let’s go see the grain first. There are a lot of them, so I think you have to pay attention.”
“Then go. I will guide you.”
I suggest you take a seat in the driver’s seat of the wagon you don’t know where it was borrowed from.
Judging from the fact that it was a wagon, it seems that they rented an extra wagon so that there would be no shortage of seats when loading grain.
‘He’s good at handling minor chores like a ghost.’
If it’s a big job, you don’t know, but to be honest, it’s comfortable because he handles the small things neatly without having to touch himself.
Halfman seemed to know how it felt to be counting money while servicing the branch manager.
When I rode the wagon to the grain store, the owner of the store, who had been flirting with platinum coins, had already come out to meet me.
“I was waiting for you, adult.”
Before he knew it, his title was upgraded to Daein.
“Where is the grain?”
“The road is narrow, so I prepared it at the back.”
When Ray got off the wagon and followed his guidance, he found six wagons loaded with grain.
All of them are brightly colored and soft, and they seem to have been prepared as premium products.
Is this the power of platinum?
He doesn’t seem like a person who neglects goods, so I feel quite relieved when dealing with him in the future.
“thank you. In the future, please claim the transaction amount at the ‘Sylvesta Top’ in the center of the plaza. Show me this and I’ll let you take care of it.”
After rummaging through the clothes, he handed me a plaque he had carved out of wood himself.
It was a wooden plaque that he scribbled in vain, but the expression of the store owner who received it was unusual.
“This… is a dwarven craftsmanship.”
Even Ray was a little surprised by that.
Could it be that he was well versed in craftsmanship?
Besides, to find out about the Dwarven handicraft skills that would not have been well known in the world.
As I was looking at the store owner with eyes of surprise, he continued.
“I never imagined that he would be friendly with the dwarves. Besides, if it’s such an elaborate tile, the Dwarves must have put a lot of effort into making it.”
Under the shade, the identity of the wooden plaque, which he had carelessly carved while saying, “Sewol-ah, Na-wol-ah,” was transformed in an instant.
“To the extent that they, who do not open their hearts to the different races, cut their own cards. It seems that you are more of a great person than I thought.
In addition to that, your status has also risen.
The expression on the owner’s face as he looked at him was unusual.
If the eyes had been looking at the big hands in the store before, now it has become the eyes looking at the object of envy.
Ray, whose eyes were strained, quickly changed the subject.
“Anyway, if you show the card, I will give you the down payment. Come to the top once a month.”
“yes. But if the company’s name is Sylvester Company… the lord won’t like it very much.”
“why?”
“The Sylvester guild is not an arbitrary guild. It was dismantled because it was forced to be sold. No matter how much this place is Sylvester Territory, wouldn’t the lord be wary of using that name as it is?”
For the upper rank, going out of sight of the lord is the most important thing to avoid.
The owner said it out of concern for him, but Ray heard that there was no name like this.
It was because he was planning on entrusting it to Count Sylvester after being called up to the upper ranks in the first place.
he said carelessly.
“are you okay.”
“Please, I hope nothing happens.”
“thank you. I received the goods, so I will go now.”
“yes. Come again, man.”
Leaving behind the polite greeting, Ray returned to the carriage.
It seems that he went to the smithy while he was talking with the owner.
Zahas was struggling to load a leather sack full of swords onto the wagon.
“I thought it would be late, so I went first. It was hard to separate him from looking for sobriety.”
He cried out unansweredly.
After carrying the last load, Zahas patted his shoulder and said,
“But where are you going to put all these? With this amount, I don’t think it should be in any place.”
Ray answered him.
“I’ll take it all to the port.”
“If it’s a port… you mean the port in front of me?”
“no. There is an old port behind Count Sylvester.”
Zahas’ expression hardened a little at the stupid remark.
“It has not been used for ten years. It seems that the Sylvester Merchant Company used it for a while in the past, but how do you do business in a place where no one goes in and out anymore?”
The words were neatly arranged, but in reality, he was saying ‘Are you insane?’
What do you believe in and how confident you are?
He continued to nod at Zahas’ words.
“that’s right. There is no better place to do business.”
The Dongmunseo answer is back.
Now that Danju didn’t even know what he was doing, Zahas felt a little burning inside.
How can you decide to go around a place where there are no people, saying you are going to do business!
Besides, is it a port?
What kind of business are you doing in a place where there is no ship!
Zahas, who was about to say something, soon shut his mouth.
‘It would be good to have Danju experience the world.’
In his eyes, the young Danju in front of him tended to be overly optimistic about everything.
Even famous priests say ‘God will solve everything’ out of habit, but they don’t have that kind of composure.
Because they know that God can’t just snap a problem and fix it.
However, if you look at Danju, he was just calm and selfless as if he already had the solution to all problems.
One day, I will come to my senses only when I am greatly angry.
Thinking so, Zahas kept his mouth shut.
‘Sorry Danju.’
He apologized to Ray in his heart.
