Chapter. 14. One Empire, Three Legends (4)
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The luck in Professor Park’s life was usually nothing more than barely surviving from unbelievable crises and misfortunes. For comparison, ‘Oh, I’m lucky today!’ and ‘Thank you Lord Shiva! It sucks, but thank you for saving my life!’ Would you say it’s the difference?
“What is this?…”
To him, the current situation was extremely unfamiliar and awkward.
Things are going well. No, not only does it work out well, but something keeps finding its way into my pocket.
When I chopped down a large tree to make a cart,
it roared!
‘This… is the fruit of the Dunas tree. It is a rare tree that can only be found in areas with strong magical power. The tree itself is rare, but it bears fruit only three days a year, so even in my hometown of Kaneran, when I found Dunas fruit, I would offer up a prayer of thanks to the forest. Dunas in this ordinary forest, not even the Blue Line. ‘It’s a strange thing.’
The precious fruit that is said to be used only in elf coming-of-age ceremonies fell down.
I made a small altar out of three tree branches, left Idrasil praying, and split the tree –
roar!
‘Hey warrior! ‘Hold that!’
‘professor! That bug! That’s the Gold Beetle, which is rumored to be hard to find among alchemy warlocks! He is also called the Living Philosopher’s Stone! ‘How can something that only lives in desert terrain end up in the forest?’
Aren’t there a group of deer beetles the size of a fist that exchanges gold for the same amount of gold?
‘Uh… I’m not sure where to go from here-‘
‘Hmm? traveler? If you are on the road to Haunuman, keep going straight and turn right at the cracked rock and you will see a road.’
‘Yes, that’s right. And these days, Haunuman is a festival season, so there are a lot of rough guys and petty thieves, so be careful!’
Just as I was about to get lost, two bundle merchants appeared from nowhere and even taught me what to watch out for when taking shortcuts!
It literally felt like the world revolved around me. It’s as if the world is saying, ‘This is too much grace for someone like you, but try to feel what it means to be the main character.’ It feels like I am being served!
So the whole time I was pulling the cart, I was so burned out that I felt like I was going to die.
“Lou Lucilla. You said it would take about four days to get from here to the capital, right? “If I run like crazy now… won’t I be able to reach the capital before the sun sets?”
It was even more disappointing because I loved it so much. There is a ridiculous buff called Luck Lv. 7, but since you are moving, you lose it all by dumping miscellaneous items!
[It’s not a miscellaneous item. They say that almost half of the trade goods were unusable due to the equipment falling off, but thanks to that golden beetle, they no longer have to worry about money. Even if you buy it at a cheap price, you can prepare as much as any high-ranking noble?]
‘So! This piece of luck is solving the problem we are facing right now! If we immediately break down the gate of the imperial palace and say [Let’s go to war!], I have a feeling that the empire will go to war and say [Uh… I guess so?]! ‘I can’t believe I’m wasting such an incredible opportunity by chopping down trees in the forest!’
[If you come to the right place and time, that would be Lv. 15 luck. Let’s be satisfied with what we have.]
Unlike the professor’s urgent mind, Hyde’s voice was extremely relaxed. The professor also felt his heart sink at the sound of that voice.
“Okay… there’s still plenty of time. “There will still be a chance to pick a mulberry.”
The professor steeled his resolve in front of Haunuman’s aggregate walls, having arrived much earlier than expected.
A long line of people and loud noises in front of the castle gate. A castle wall exuding the scent of the wild, made of leather, bone, stone, and earth.
It was once the city of Kun Tagiz, the great warrior of the steppes who unified the barbarians of the western plains of the empire, and is now a vassal of the empire.
It was Haunuman.
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Contrary to my desire to run away in a month, the cart carrying my companions and luggage had to stop a long way away from the castle gate.
This is because a line of people of all races lined up like a snake in front of the gate leading into the city.
“Huh. The line was longer than in front of the checkpoint of some imperial capital. “Is Haunuman really so strict with inspections?”
Otman sighed as he looked at the crowd of people lined up in front of them. Fortunately, the cart was strangely well-made for a half-baked one, and even had a triangular roof made of boar skin, so the rest of the party, except for the professor pulling the cart and Notum Borka, who was not the right size, were able to comfortably see the sights and people of Haunuman inside. there was.
“well? “As far as I know, I heard it’s much more lax than other cities.”
“Then it must be because of the festival the merchants mentioned. “In addition to us, we passed many people carrying bundles and people with flags on their carts.”
“If the hero hadn’t been in a hurry, we could have talked more with the other merchants. See, I just exchanged a few words with the merchants I met in passing, but the journey to Haunuman, which I thought would take a full day, was reduced to four hours. “Everyone was nice and kind, so it was okay to come and hear a little bit about the area, right?”
“That’s right. Just when I was about to show the wizard that he had some good items, didn’t he pass by in the middle of nowhere? “Is there anything urgent going on in Haunuman?”
‘It’s cancer. There is. I don’t know what it is, but it must be something much better than the surprise discounts from street vendors.’
– It was clear that everyone would treat me like a crazy person if I told him what I was thinking, so the professor just gave a vague statement, saying that he just wanted to see what a barbarian festival was. There was no time to worry about anything else right now.
I had to visit all Haunuman’s attractions and NPCs in the shortest possible time and distance before the luck effect ended.
“there! Merchants with the flag at the top, come out of the ranks and come to the big door! “During the festival, you can use the big door at the top!”
The professor’s thoughts were interrupted by the shouts of the gatekeeper orc. At the same time, the professor, bending deeply, lifted the cart.
“Wow! “What is it!”
“I want all the top carts to come forward! “If you’re later than the other tops, you’ll just have to suck your fingers while they inspect their stuff!”
“So why are you in such a hurry!”
“Chu Festival! A festival of greenskins and imperial minorities! Wow! “I miss you so much that I can’t stand it?”
As soon as I thought I was running out of time, a separate entrance for merchants opened. It felt like the luck effect was urging the professor on, making him more anxious. Under the command of a sturdy orc, a door resembling a shield made of leather opened in front of the group carrying the entire cart.
thud!
The screams of Lucilla and the wizards were heard from inside the hastily placed cart.
“Hold the biggest inn here and wait. Understand? “I’ll be back soon!”
The professor ran into the crowd of people in an exotic city, leaving behind the voices of his companions mixed with complaints and swearing.
“…Do you have a lover that you left behind here?”
“Ah… I guess there’s something there. “I need to prepare my mind a little, right?”
“okay. “I’m going to come back with a lot of accidents, so let’s start by looking for a place where we can escape out of the city other than the main gate.”
“I guess so. Ah Hydrasil! If anything happens, please contact me!”
Lucilla shouted at the back of Idrasil, who was hurriedly running after the professor.
The group members could only hope to cause an accident that the professor could handle with one mind and one mind.
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Haunuman.
It is the hometown of Khun Tagiz, the great warrior of the steppes, and the borderland where the most blood was shed between the empire and wandering peoples in the past.
Although the city is now a vassal of the empire and has been guaranteed a certain degree of autonomy in return for paying tribute, there is still an atmosphere of hostility toward the empire.
Is it because of that rebellious temperament? This city is home to many by-products of the war of imperial expansion, from the neglected beastmen to the thinkers dreaming of criminal rebellion.
The only character who succeeded in making it out of Wuthering Heights alive was that Haunuman was chosen as the next target of [Heart of the Wind], which had only targeted Wuthering Heights from the beginning, probably because it fell in love with the free spirit of those wizards. Those who are freedom itself and those who struggle for freedom. What difference will there be in that beauty?
It is clear that this journey will be difficult, but since you call yourself the Heavenly Demon of Color, you cannot bend. Moreover, since we have shared everything with those who live according to our wishes, shouldn’t we have learned something from them? Today’s record is about the relationships we met in Haunuman, a rough, barbaric city….
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“It’s a disaster! hey! “Someone sent this!”
Tiring!
While the professor was rushing, he looked at the information delivered and frowned.
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– takealook: Haha. Still, that’s the most famous piece of quality information.
– professor: It’s all about quality and nonsense, and it’s all about women! Even though there are famous buildings and legendary events, there is almost no information about special products!
– takealook: Put down those prejudiced eyes, you guy! He laughed at all the famous female NPCs in the city! This is no different from targeting NPCs equivalent to half of the city!
– professor: Hey, it’s not that kind of thing, it’s an event! Something that can extract 200% of the luck effect! No time!
– Jokass: Well. Is there anything else Haunuman is famous for besides leather and green skin?
– Namba Three: They are famous for being fierce warriors and loyal.
– Holly: Leather… maybe? I heard that the leather clothes there are pretty.
– takealook: In the first place, there were few users who expanded their scope of activity from World 3 to the Empire, but there must have been a few people who saw the event of a vassal state stuck in the Empire’s mouth. The only thing known was what was good through the merchants’ rumors.
– Noru Drug: Saekcheonma does that difficult thing.
– Gunpowder and blood: Isn’t wasting talent considered art at that level?
– takealook: Grandpa Yas is a legend….
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‘There is no help when you really need it. Help!’
People in the community are raising their voices among themselves, sharing extremely suspicious information, and Dana is not in the chat room as if there is something else going on.
In the end, he had to find it on his own, so the professor ran around the city, taking in every place he could see.
I was fortunate to have Hyde. If I just glance at it with my eyes, Hyde will organize and tell me the things that were in the distance he passed by, and all I have to do is pick out the highlights among them. I was able to explore the city faster by boat than when I explored it alone.
[Let’s see… The place where people were crowded at the entrance is the post office at the end mentioned in the records. Haunuman said that it was not an imperial territory 90 years ago, but that the influence of letter magic only extends to the entrance. It seems that people who send letters to Haunuman can send them over there and the staff there will personally deliver them.]
[Oh, it’s fascinating. I think that’s the ‘good store to buy favorability work gifts’ that Saekcheonma mentioned? They say this is a place that sells things people like to use at cheap prices. I guess that animal skin and hard cheese are specialties here?]
[Ah! That announcement I just passed by!! There’s a Mithril mine right next to Haunuman, but there’s no one there right now because of the festival, so I’m urgently looking for workers! Since the mine is not running right now, they say they will hand over 10% of the mined amount to anyone who comes? Hey, wouldn’t we be able to destroy the mine within a few hours?]
‘No, nothing like that! Find something decent! There really is no chance if it’s not now!’
Hyde continued to sound excited, as if GG’s return after a long time was in a happy mood, but the professor was anxious. There was no time to waste on Mithril specialty tourist attractions. A secret legendary item hidden in the city, or at least something related to the battle for the throne…!
[If it’s not now, there’s no chance… Then how about this?]
Quagagagagaga!
“Kiik!”
“It’s a fight! “It’s uproar!”
“A big human is destroying the road!”
Before I could ask what it was, Hyde’s nails sprouting from my ankles stopped my body like a brake, and I heard the goblins around me running away in surprise through the clouds of dust.
‘hey! Are you protesting to the city guard to arrest me?’
[Hehehe. You seem in a hurry. This is what I said. Proof anniversary speculation contest. There’s a festival going on here. Isn’t this the main event? After reading it roughly, it seems like the festival was held because of this.]
‘Speculation… competition? arena? tournament?’
I didn’t know anything about Haunuman, but just looking at the surrounding atmosphere, I could tell at a glance that it was a militant city.
Exotic buildings made of bone, leather, wooden pillars, and mud walls.
The residents of this world, regardless of gender, carry at least a dagger, but it was common for the residents here to carry two swords or sharp axes as tall as a person.
It was a fighting contest in a place that looked like a fighting city at first glance. It was a competition so large that it held a festival like this…
I got the feeling. This is it! I feel like I want to.
The professor slowly read the parchment hanging right next to where Hyde was forced to stop.
“A festival held in commemoration of the day when Tagiz, a great orc who overcame the limitations of his species, was a great warrior and unified the wandering people of the grasslands, and swung his last ax as a warrior…. All races that visited Haunuman can participate, and the last Whoever wins… will be given the right to choose and own anything belonging to this city?!”
This is it!!! Now it’s not a feeling, it’s a certainty!
[uh? They say the application deadline is the night of the first full moon of this month? There was a full moon yesterday. Isn’t it too late?]
“Probably not. There’s a festival atmosphere in the city right now, but it’s a bit lukewarm. There’s no way it would be this quiet if the fighting competition started. I think the moon was a little less full. “You have until today to apply. It’s not too late!”
If I had to choose just one of the many opportunities to receive help from luck, this would be it.
I was going along and crashed, but the place I ended up in was a day away from a city where a festival was taking place.
Moreover, thanks to merchants who happened to be passing by, they had already arrived in the city, which should have arrived tomorrow, so they were able to check the news of the speculation contest at a time when the application deadline was not far away.
“It’s a flow. It’s… a flow! Luck has given me fortune! “If you go to the arena, it will be good luck!”
Convinced, the professor approached the goblin merchant who had set up a stall nearby.
The goblin, who had just seen me come to a halt on the road, was hesitating as if on guard and was pulling the seat toward himself.
“Ki ki geek?!”
“Wow. Don’t be surprised. “Let’s ask a question.”
“Kiik! “When talking to a merchant… you must be polite!”
The goblin was still stuttering as if he was afraid, but to ask a question, the goblin opened the stall it was pulling as if asking to buy something.
When I paid for a small item that seemed to be a bone crystal, he opened his mouth with a satisfied look on his face.
“Ask anything, anything!”
“He’s like a day robber… On the bulletin board at the arena over there, the place to apply is written as ‘Tuskclaw Tribe.’ Where is that?”
“Geekigeek! Oooh…. Arena! You too are a volunteer fighter! Sigh….there isn’t much time. “A mountain of desperate-looking tribal warriors came in like a mountain, and the number of applicants exceeded the number!”
“No, I want you to tell me quickly! Where are you? Tusk claws!”
“Keeeeee…”
The goblin laughed darkly at my urgent words, made a circle with one hand, and held out the other palm.
“Kehihihi…. If you don’t know the location of your fighter tribe, you can’t prove you are a fighter! Time is urgent! Expensive information! Lots of silver! great deal! Kehihihi!”
My small eyes greedily scanned the silver coin pocket on my waist, and my hand flicked. I thought it was strange that they lined up cheap items that no one would buy and set up a stall in an alley with little foot traffic…
‘Now I see that that bastard deliberately set up next to that notice.’
[What do you want to do? If you swallow it whole, no trace will remain.]
‘Don’t eat junk food.’
The professor calmly reached into his silver coin pocket and took out three silver coins. He took out 30 shillings worth of silver coins.
There was disappointment in the goblin’s eyes, which sparkled like the scales of a dead fish.
“Kikigeek. Not full yet. “I don’t negotiate.”
“okay? “I think three would be enough.”
The professor placed one of the three silver coins on his thumbnail and flicked it with great force on his knuckles.
Piing-
Crispy!
The silver coin that was fired out like a flash of lightning got lodged between the man’s crotch.
“Keh….Keruk?”
“Hanaa~”
Piing-!
Knock knock!
“Dul~”
As the silver coin stuck exactly one space higher tore the goblin’s thin cloth pants and lodged under his buttocks, the goblin, knowing where the next silver coin would be paid, began to back away.
“Kkihiik! Outside humans attack the good goblin merchant! You’re in big trouble! The tribe’s fearsome fighters….”
“See-et-”
Goblin merchant Tekanu felt the sincerity of the fighter in front of him. There was not a single hesitation in the hand that rolled the last remaining silver coin in the palm of the hand over the fingernail, with the thumb aiming precisely at the crotch of the backwards man.
‘But…three sparkles are too few. Three is too few. Three…. K-Ik!’
While the greed engraved in the species’ instincts was struggling, the large human fighter smiled and began to tighten his fingers. Yes, three is too few. Still a young goblin, his family had only one son and one daughter. My wife, who was strangely excited because it was the festival season, seemed eager to expand the family.
Three is too few. Tekanu wanted to make a lot of money, have more wives, and have ten to twenty children. Three children were too few to be cut off for that one silver coin right now.
So I was able to open my mouth before the professor counted to three.
“I’ll give you a discount! Two is enough! “Teach me!!!”
“okay?”
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“Um… three.”
Paaang!
“Keuuuuuu!!!!”
The goblin trader’s eyes ask ‘Why?’ He was tinged with despair along with the question, but instead of cutting off the goblin’s belt, the silver ray of light shooting out from the professor’s fingers narrowly stuck under his hands, which instinctively covered his lower body.
The goblin’s trousers became damp as three silver coins were stuck side by side on the wall.
“Keek kehek! Kehehehehe keeek keeeek….”
“Now that I think about it, you’re right. It’s valuable information, so you have to pay for it. yes?”
“Kehehehehe… Go east to the east, evil human fighter… The Tusk Claw tribe is in the biggest red tent in the east…” “
Oh, I think I saw it while passing by. thanks. May you prosper.”
The professor patted the shoulder of the goblin, who had wet his pants and even his seat, and then took a leisurely walk away.
“Khehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe…”
Goblin Tekanu cried sadly, pulled out the three silver coins embedded in the wall, wiped them thoroughly, then untied the turban wrapped around his head and took out the paper contained within it.
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[Haunuman Warrior’s Certification Chart]
『Three Fingers Tribe』
– 1. Bear Beast Man Fagurth: A fighter who uses a large two-handed mace with the power of a bear beast man. He killed a wild boar with his bare hands.
– 2. Third Finger Ishtum: The third leader of the Three Fingers tribe. Fight well. win a lot
– 3. Human Gorgonil: Origin unknown. It has something like a chain wrapped around its body.
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『Open Rib Tribe』
– 1. Blue Mane Tushan: Affiliated with the arena. It’s strong. win a lot Dividends are low.
– 2. Foolish Omon: Affiliated with the arena. big. strong. Dividends are low.
– 3. Blue Mane Marka: Belongs to the arena. It’s strong. Win smartly. I got hurt a lot in a game a month ago.
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『Tusk Claw Tribe』
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“Kehuh… Ke… Kehihihi…. Human fighter…. Still, I make money….”
Tekanu cherished the three dented silver coins. As he put it in his pocket, he wrote something like a child’s scribbling on a piece of paper.
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『Tusk Claw Tribe』
– 1. Imperial Swordsman Romeus Damianus: You’re an idiot. It’s stupid. Die. Dividends are high.
– 2. Sharp Chiquitianu: Sharp. Other than that, I don’t know. The bad guy who stole my money!
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– 4. Large human being, bulging white clothes, black claws: Outsider. It is evil and does not choose any means. scary. Aim for Gogan. Snap your fingers and hit the coin on the wall. strong. A human being for the first time. Dividends will be low.
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“Kihihihi…. The gatekeeper will know your name. Information about opposing fighters that fighters can never know… This can be sold at a high price! In the end, it’s the goblins who make the money in the end! Kehihihi!”
Tekanu laughed happily, completely forgetting about urinating in his pants as he thought about making a big contribution to this festival.
A white, thin hand secretly approached the nape of his neck.
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After a while, Idrasil was putting the goblin’s disgusting paper in his arms.
‘Lucilla asked me to keep an eye on her to make sure there are no accidents.’
She was a person too. One similar experience at Wuthering Heights was enough, and the suspicious goblin in her eyes was enough to be the starting point of that ‘accident’.
It was Hydrasil who had just learned that the professor’s silver bullet was very effective and that it could be a little too extreme depending on the opponent.
Idrasil, who had erased from his mind the empty look in the goblin’s eyes as he was tied up with a thin rope, started running after the professor again. It was a scene that would have made the godmother beat her heart and regret it if she had seen it.
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