Episode 643 Rising public sentiment, Hafman’s majesty of the upper ranks (1) Whether
or not he knows that the manpower of the upper ranks has begun to move busily because of himself.
Lacia stretched herself out for the first time in a while.
“Now then, where is the group that is bothering my older brother?”
The South had a large slave market.
slave slave.
Dwarf Slave.
elf slave.
And, although rare, there are places that deal with vampire slaves.
There are quite a lot of different types, so I couldn’t touch any of them.
‘If I run away, I lose face.’
I had to hit it with one stroke.
If you give them even a little time, they will either bring their troops or run away quickly.
Arriving in the southern region, Lacia looked around once.
nightlife.
Pub.
motel.
auction house.
Shops located in the southern area, enough to be called the entertainment district, tended to be biased.
Among them, the only place that stands out is the auction house.
An auction house out of the blue in this place called the center of the slave trade.
It was clear to the eye what items were being sold.
‘Let’s take a look.’
Let her try to enter the auction house.
A man with a good physique stopped him.
“Little girl. Do you know where this place is?”
“sure. He looks young, but he has some money.”
“You cheeky girl. We cannot guarantee safety for what happens inside. Still, if you’re determined, I won’t stop you.”
“Your body protects itself.”
I took a step with a single word.
Let’s enter the auction house with the man’s strange gaze behind us.
Warm heat blew into her face.
“A thousand gold coins!”
“I pay 1,200 gold coins!”
I see people who look desperate for something and a moderator who induces a long-awaited bargain on the podium.
“Twelve hundred gold coins! Are there any more? It is a precious medicinal material imported from the western continent! It is said that even the dead can come back to life if you brew a potion with this, and there is no other lifeline like this!”
medicine?
At those words, Lacia’s gaze turned to the small herb placed on the podium.
‘…A drug is a medicine.’
It is also a terrible drug.
There are no side effects that ruin the body, but it is highly addictive, so if you inhale it once, you will become a waste of life depending on the drug.
To think I could buy something like that for 1,200 gold coins.
obviously crazy
Let’s shake our heads and wait for the next auction.
The host at the podium brought a woman who was hanging a thick piece of iron this time.
dejected facial expression.
However, his spirit was broken, and his ears drooped.
“I am an elf.”
At the word of the society, the left was agitated.
“Elphany. Isn’t that a bit dangerous?”
“How are you? It’s an opportunity to lead an elven slave.”
As in other regions, it is a matter of risking one’s life to lead an elf in Celia.
Elves do not just give up when their people are in danger.
If it catches your eye or hears rumors about it, elven villages everywhere might send a kill team.
But even so, the different race called elves are attractive.
The bargaining of the people with the money bags continued.
“That hundred gold coins.”
“joy. Five hundred gold coins.”
“Then I will pay you a thousand.”
“Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like the product is as good as other elves. One thousand hundred.”
“One thousand two hundred.”
“One thousand five hundred.”
As bargaining prices increased, people in ordinary clothes quietly lowered their hands, and the bargainers were mainly nobles.
It was impossible to recognize who it was because they were wearing masks, but it was a good example of how rotten the nobles of Silia are on the inside.
Lacia didn’t want to go along with this pathetic behavior, but she knew that if she attacked openly, the other side would respond, so there was no other way.
She carefully lifted the seomseomoksu and said in a hint.
“Two thousand.”
Considering that the average transaction price of elves is 1,500 gold coins, this is a considerable price.
The other nobles flinched at her quiet words.
“I will give up.”
“I give up too.”
“It’s a great possessiveness.”
The presenter put a smile on his lips as he saw the unexpectedly wide open board.
“Two thousand came out. Any more?”
“….”
“….”
“The elf then goes back to the owner of table 27.”
Lacia sighed and handed over the check guaranteed by the Halfman Company.
Society then checked the check and soon brought the elf woman to her.
“Be careful when handling. I still have some poison left.”
“yes. Let it be.”
He speaks and hands over the slave’s seal.
It wasn’t too difficult since he kindly told me how to use it.
After wasting all the gold coins she had secretly collected, Lacia eventually left the auction house with the elf.
“It’s difficult.”
Things went wrong.
I went in to find out how the auction house works, but I used up all the necessary funds.
This made it impossible to buy even the tools necessary for magic research.
Lacia looked at the elf for a moment and then loosened the metal from all over her body.
Clack-
“Now, go somewhere.”
The elf put on a suspicious expression as she robbed her of all her possessions and said she wasn’t interested.
“human. If this is the case, why did you buy me?”
“That is foolish. I never bought you.”
At those words, the elf’s mouth naturally closed.
The girl in front of me was telling me to erase it from my memory.
It means being dragged into the slave market and almost falling into slavery in earnest.
What she bought was not herself, but the freedom she could enjoy.
The elf let go of her guard when she couldn’t detect the slightest lie in her words.
“…thank you for saving me. But there is nowhere to go back to.”
“It must be the work of slave traders.”
It is not uncommon for slave traders to raid small elven villages and rob them.
Of course, there are few cases where it succeeds.
It is common for elves whose villages to return to have been burned down to commit suicide or spend their lives wandering in search of new villages.
However, looking at the mana that felt quite weak in her body, it seemed that a life of wandering around avoiding slave traders would not suit her very well.
Lacia thought for a moment and then nodded.
“It’s not what I want, but I guess I can leave it to Aira at times like this.”
“…yes?”
“It’s an elf village with high elves. I don’t like it, but there won’t be many places to match in terms of scale.”
elven village?
And a high elf?
without her even saying anything.
From afar, those in the upper half of the class ran with tabi.
In addition to those running with wagons, it was a spectacular sight to see people armed with plate armor running out of breath.
“Ah, lady… You are too hot… Heo, heo-”
The branch manager breathed in his breath despite his old age.
to come on horseback.
“It’s just fine. branch manager. Please take care of this elf.”
“Elf?”
Only then did the branch manager realize that there was an elf by Lacia’s side.
long ears.
unusual appearance.
And the faint smell of the forest proved that she was an elf.
he expressed disapproval.
“But we cannot turn our forces here.”
“I alone am enough. You may go back.”
“You don’t even know what to do here, my lady. I will lead the elves, but I can’t turn the troops around.”
At his stubborn attitude, Lacia pondered.
“Then let’s go together. Even though the southern region is famous for its slave market, there won’t be many soldiers because it’s just an entertainment district.”
“If I don’t take care of the lady’s safety, I will be beaten to death by Danju. We will be in charge of this place, so the lady will die.”
“How can you call yourself a younger sister if you leave the group that harms your older brother alone?”
From those words, the branch manager realized.
‘I can’t stop it.’
The girl in front of me will go ahead no matter what.
In that respect, he is very similar to Ray.
Did their personalities become similar because they grew up in a similar environment?
The branch manager let out a long sigh.
“Even if I told you it was dangerous, you would reject it.”
“It is not dangerous.”
“I don’t know if Taesangdanju is here… It’s impossible to do it alone.”
“Do not worry.”
Lacia rolled up her sleeves a little.
He raised his hand and spewed mana.
she said quietly.
“The point is that you don’t think you’ve been attacked by us.”
“That’s true, but how the heck…”
Du-du-du-
du- something like the sound of a horse’s hooves came from afar.
The sound grew louder as Lacia’s mana grew stronger.
The head of the branch turned away from the untimely turmoil.
Quite a number of monsters were coming from the distant mountains.
“That’s that…!”
“It’s a monster! Monsters are coming!”
As the frenzied monsters rushed in, the guards became very nervous.
The branch manager turned his head quickly enough to make a jerking noise.
“Oh, is that what you did? Can you control the monsters!”
If that’s really the case, I’ve lived!
Since she can overcome the lack of troops, she should be able to subdue the southern region.
As the branch manager’s complexion suddenly brightened, Lacia smiled and shook her head.
“Whoop whoop. I don’t know how to control it. We just summoned the monsters, so we can use this opportunity to achieve our goal.”
At those words, the branch manager’s expression hardened.
“That means…”
“Yes. Those monsters don’t identify friends. It’s just running towards the mana I’ve sown. Well, in that amount of time, the lower classes would have been evacuated, so there would be no damage.”
The head of the branch opened his mouth wide at the words of Lacia, who spoke as if it were natural.
They said it was all right if you didn’t think you were attacked, so you’re trying to make people mistaken for being attacked by monsters!
It was a great ploy, but at the same time it was crazy in that it did not discriminate between friends and family.
The branch commander quickly took over the troops.
“Back off! Evacuate the people and we help the guards!”
Hafman’s upper house was focused on saving lives at an unexpected time.
