Only then did Viscount Boyd turn around and enter the government building.
Inside the building, where offices of various ministries were lined up, many people were busy coming and going.
There were also a few familiar faces there.
“Uncle Boyd!”
“Please call me the First Court Wizard here.”
In front of the old gentleman wearing red sunglasses exuding a strange atmosphere, wearing a neat suit and holding a cane, the third princess, Giuseppe, with gorgeous blonde hair and pants, approached.
Since they had known each other for a long time, they thought of each other as a disobedient kid and a stubborn man living next door.
“Did you hear? A civil war has broken out in Cyphers.”
“Isn’t that like a good morning greeting in the Far East? By the way, what does the aristocratic house say? Apparently, the third prince there sent a wedding message to the princess very positively.”
The arrogant Princess Giuseppe’s face began to smile refreshingly. It was because the Viscount Boyd in front of him had overturned the marriage talk so that it was not funny.
But instead of answering, she explained the situation.
“Can you believe it? The second prince, Harman Cyphers, is armed with gunpowder weapons and driving the government forces.”
After hearing Princess Giuseppe’s story, Viscount Boyd looked at the people standing together. They were the Minister of Foreign Affairs and working staff of the House of Nobility.
“Where is the gunpowder weapon?”
“It is difficult to distribute a full-fledged quantity enough to arm soldiers without permission from the elves. Perhaps it is his work.”
“I don’t even need to hand over the gunpowder weapons… … .”
After speaking, Viscount Boyd shut his mouth. This seemed too risky an idea to let loose.
“To cook, there are too few ingredients. Didn’t our side’s intelligence bureau agents also be dispatched?”
“of course. In addition, we have also commissioned adventurers in cities near the border to collect information.”
Hearing the story, Viscount Boyd suddenly remembered Crank’s words.
Would you like a little help?
“Can wild adventurers do that right? You probably haven’t learned anything properly, but it’s questionable if you know anything about writing.”
“Named adventurers are pretty trustworthy. You don’t have to worry about that.”
After some people helped, Viscount Boyd muttered reluctantly with a relieved face.
“It wouldn’t be bad to educate them in advance and use them as local agents in times like these. All right, where are the other court mages? Before reporting the agenda to the king, we should settle our mouths.”
As the wizard of the 1st court of Lisnet moved, many people gathered around him started to move together.
* * *
On the other hand, Cyphers in the Far East desert region was not in a frenzy right now. Screams, gunshots and explosions do not stop everywhere in the city formed around the oasis.
bang bang! bang-!
“Aww!”
“Ah!”
“Kyaooook! Roaring!”
Wyverns flying in the sky with people on their backs and spitting fire from their mouths were occasionally seen, but they were often exploded in the air or shot down by dozens of artillery fire from the ground.
Kwaaang! Whoa!
Climbing up a rocky mountain without a single tree, Gustav with his legs raised on the stone and his arms crossed is looking down with disgust at the street fighting going on below.
Behind him, quite a few people were busy coming and going, drawing magic circles on the floor or taking care of the people he rescued.
“I am ready!”
He put on a hood to avoid the scorching sunlight, but his protruding ears tell him that he is an elf.
Hearing that voice, Gustaf turned his head.
His face was so bloody that people refused to make eye contact with him. He looked around at the people gathered in the clearing of the rocky mountain and said.
“A rescue team?”
“All have returned.”
Gustav raised his thick finger and pointed at the locals on the wagon pulled by a large lizard.
“Who are these guys? Are you my target?”
His drooping right hand swayed near a large pistol that glowed silver.
The children and women in the wagon were frightened and looked at the dwarf with a terrifying face. Elves who had carried weapons with him earlier came out to cover them.
“They are local collaborators. Without them, we would not have been able to rescue our captives so easily.”
The elves, as well as the rescued people, came out to stop him, who seemed like he would pull out his pistol if necessary.
“Gustav, don’t do that. you endure You helped us.”
When the old dwarf beckoned, Gustav turned his head and put on a teary expression.
“What is that face? Did you make them work without even feeding them properly?”
“hehehe… … . We’re better off though. Elves suffered worse.”
Looking back at the dying elves being treated, Gustaf clenched his teeth.
Cyphers was the only country on the continent that actively practiced slavery. It did not stop with its own people, but it also applied to people from other countries as well as other races.
In particular, heterogeneous slaves were very popular. Among them, Dwarves with good hand skills and Elves with beautiful appearance were traded expensively and consumed in Cyphers.
Because of this senseless system, relations with other tribes as well as neighboring countries were in a mess, and protests and threats were heard and spilled.
In the first place, since the country was so large and the nomadic life of tribal units was the basis of society, it was impossible to listen to a person who suddenly appeared and claimed to be the king.
In the past, there was a time when he tried to change his habit through war, but lately there was a lot of trade going back and forth behind the scenes, so he couldn’t touch it carelessly because the upper house opposed it.
As with the human position, the Elven Presbyterian Council and the Dwarf Alliance were surprisingly passive about this, but they ran out despite warnings not to get involved with them in the first place, so they maintained such an attitude to alert the clan.
So it came to the point of rescuing abducted people on a regular basis, as now.
Gustav looked around.
“If everyone is gathered, escape now. Wait a little longer and I’ll jump in there too. Move people and supplies to the magic circle.”
People were busy moving wagons and supplies into the completed magic circle. When the work was finished, the magician, a young elf, tore the scroll and shouted loudly.
“Warp!”
Ching-!
In an instant, their views changed. It was in a forest full of greenery everywhere. The elves and dwarves immediately let out a sigh, and the local collaborators and families who followed them looked puzzled.
Gustav, who took a flare from his pocket, held it up and pulled the string, causing a blue ball of light to rise.
Tung-!
Throwing away the empty barrel, he raised his head.
“Who is your representative? Can you speak to us?”
A man with brown skin color typical of the Cypher people stepped forward.
“I know how to do it.”
Glancing at the young man, Gustav looked around at the people who followed and said,
“We decided to move you to a safe area, right? Then that’s it. Take care of yourself and live well.”
A young man looking around asked.
“Where is this place?”
“It must be under the Bourne Mountains in Wales, near the eastern border of Lisnet. Hey, can you see it? Beyond that mountain is Cypher.”
Gustaf stretched out his arm and pointed to the Bourne Mountains, which served as the border of Wales, but the man did not see them. This is because a huge airlift appeared and covered the mountain.
Whoa-!
“I’m here! I’m here! I’m going home now!”
“Ugh… … !”
People who had been kidnapped during their travels and endured all sorts of hardships looked at the transport ship floating in the sky with tears in their eyes.
One of the dwarves staggered up and approached the cyphers who had helped. He looked up at the girl sitting in the carriage and said.
“Myorina, thank you. be healthy. Right now, I hate humans to the point of tearing them apart, but I feel grace only for you guys in front of me. It’s a strange feeling.”
“Finally, the senile crab! Let’s go. Let’s go home and listen to some stories while eating beer and meat.”
As Gustav brushed it off, he laughed and shook his hand at the crying girl, Myorina, and walked to the landing transport.
Leaving them alone in Odokani… … .
* * *
Carrot, who arrived at Argon Square through the bronze gate, raised both hands and hurrahed.
“My neighborhood is the best!”
Behind him, Crank said while holding his neck.
“I didn’t do anything, but I feel sore. Let’s go and get some rest.”
“When is the adventure going? work?”
Crank looked back at the flustered Ariete and said.
“You are like a windswept reed field. When the wind blows, it sways to and fro.”
Carrot took the word for it.
“But the roots are deep, so they don’t break. Like you now, let’s go leisurely. Life is long.”
“No, the words keep changing. You used to say that after 100 years, everything would melt and become one? Talking with you makes me very tired. Why is that?”
“That means you lack common sense and flexibility. I guess I wasn’t very good at studying.”
With the crank in the lead, running began once more. Ariete, who was genuinely enraged, pursued him with her longsword in sheath.
“Stand up! you insulted me! No matter how I look like this, I graduated second in the knight school! That’s elite! I also received several letters of recommendation from the military academy! Stop treating me like an idiot!”
Thanks to the enraged Ariete, I arrived at the workshop in no time.
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She muttered as she knelt on the floor, gasping for breath.
“Huh! omg… … ! Shion, why can’t you catch up with Crank? We need a conversation.”
Zion did not answer. Ariete let out a big sigh and stood up from her seat.
When Crank opened the studio door, Tuna greeted her and stood up.
“Oh, oh oh! Welcome wow!”
Cheeky!
Dodo ran out, but Tuna tripped on a box rolling on the floor and fell again. Crank, now beginning to feel pathetic, walked over to Tuna, who was rolling across the floor holding her leg, and examined her feet.
“Did you stamp your toe? I’m cleaning the floor, but don’t go barefoot.”
“Kuuu… ! it hurts! it hurts… … !”
“I’ll do it, ho-oh!”
Carrot came over, looked at Tuna’s stamped toe, and breathed in a cheer. Even though she was in pain, Tuna started to smile while watching it and brushed Carrot’s hair a little.
Crank said after lifting the box that had fallen to the floor.
“What is this?”
“What is all this?”
These were Ariete’s words as she entered the studio. Crank, carrying the helmet, stood up with the box and forgot to say anything. Dozens of boxes of the same shape were piled up here and there in the workshop, which was starting to get cramped due to clutter, making it look even more cramped.
Charles, wearing an apron, walked with a box.
“He left and started arriving the next day. These are all hair.”
“Hmm, hair?”
Charles handed out a letter. It was a letter with the seal of the Adventurer’s Guild Master. Crank’s shoulders drooped as he read it.
“People who were moved by reading the storybook cut their hair and sent it to me. He said he wants you to make the automaton’s heat-dissipating wig with your own hair.”
Carrot liked it.
“and-! We won’t have to worry about our hair for a while!”
“This is why I didn’t want to be famous. Thankful nuisance pours out.”
Tuna smiled and said.
“Well, then can I use some? A woman’s hair makes a good material, Joe.”
“That is not right. I can’t lose the hearts of the people who cut and sent it.”
“Oh, oh. Lo, romanticist.”
Carrot smiled happily as if he were a giant. Ariete opened a box and examined the hair inside.
“Then are you leaving them here?”
Crank looked around and turned his head.
“No, there are too many of them, so I will have to rent another warehouse to store them. How many are there?”
“Up to today, there are 57 of them.”
“today? Are you still coming?”
In response to Carrot’s question, someone’s voice is suddenly heard in front of the studio.
“excuse me. I came from the post office. It is a courier.”
“Yes-!”