208 – The Place to Return (8)
Chapter 208 – The Place to Return (8)
“Processing itself shouldn’t be difficult. However, it is easy to wear out as much as it is easy to process. We need a way to compensate.”
“Make it like a coin and make a metal ring on the rim. It will wear out a lot less.”
While the mixed-race beastmen are settling down. Some Dwarf artisans, including Garon, were on a mission to make currency out of plastic bullets at the request of the General Council.
The technology itself was sufficient. It was not that difficult for the dwarves to do reinforcement work, such as processing plastic into a small coin shape and covering it with a metal rim.
Besides, now that the currency would only be used in Eden, there was no need to make it in huge quantities.
“So what are you asking me to do?”
“Crush it coolly. I think it would be faster that way.”
Garon asked Naria to do one thing. That request is none other than to shatter the plastic bullets he got from Serenian.
The coin is about the size of a finger. It could be made with just one bullet, so the first step was to cut it into pieces for processing.
“It doesn’t look very solid.”
Naria snorted at her and clenched her fists, raising her mana. Hitting her ground, she leaped into the air, thrusting her thrusts at her bullets, and instantly her plastic bullets cracked from the marks of her fists and shattered and splintered and splintered in all directions. Scattered
“Come on, let’s sweep it all up. Hurry!”
Garon went to work collecting the broken fragments with her colleagues. It was not a particularly difficult task for the Dwarves, so the prototype appeared immediately that evening.
‘It is a mysterious money that is different from gold or silver coins.’
Garon held them in her hand and touched them. The currency of Eden, which is mysterious even to Dwarves who are accustomed to gold and silver coins. It was a currency that could only be made here, made from a god-given material.
Garon took them and found Serenian right before she fell asleep. She, too, gave only good reviews to the currency created.
“Proper use will be decided after it is shown to others at the General Assembly, but it is likely to be used. So please make enough.”
“Everyone is working hard.”
At her words, Garon nodded her head. If the quality is acceptable, the next step is to adjust the quantity. The Dwarves who were already in charge of making money were working non-stop.
‘It might be used sooner than I thought.’
And Serenian, who was watching Garon’s back as he returned to the studio, smiled faintly while holding the coin in her hand.
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“So you’re saying you won’t come back?”
[I can’t help it. I couldn’t believe they had the ability to wield such a gigantic beast. It is impossible for us to take revenge unless we find a way to destroy it.]
“…But in the meantime, the kingdom has no choice but to act according to the will of the elves. Right now, we have to negotiate to get back the prisoners they’re holding.”
[You have no choice but to cheer up next to the young King]
The dove of Stas finished his words and flew away. Benert, who was talking, kicked his tongue and turned his body.
‘I don’t think I noticed, but did I get a sense?’
Stars said that when the giant golem, the masterpiece of conversion they had created, was defeated by the elves, he would not come back from the shock and grow stronger and challenge again.
Thanks to this, Benert, who pretended not to know and tried to set a trap to catch him, had no choice but to withdraw the operation.
I have a lot of other things to worry about right now anyway.
“Even if I read it, I don’t understand it well. Why do they want to build a new city on the frontier?”
“They do not want to pass this war off as a passing event. Just as the previous king did not intend to burn down the entire forest just because he occupied the Great Forest, he is trying to trade while gaining the upper hand.”
After a fruitless conversation with Stas, he went to the king’s office and talked to a young boy who succeeded the previous king and became king half-forcibly.
The boy king was groaning while reading the document formally proposed by the elves.
In return for the return of the captives, the elves demanded that they use the captives and their families to create a jointly managed new city in the border area bordering the Great Forest.
It was a decision that surprised even Venert, who had already made a secret pact with Serenian, so it was only natural that the others were confused.
“Then, did we lose our territory after all?”
“You may feel that way, but I think it will be an opportunity. It will be an opportunity to come into contact with things that come out of the Great Forest beyond our imagination.”
Bennet appeased the king with a favorable view of the proposal.
The reason why the elves’ somewhat unusual request was eventually accepted was his strong cooperation.
The king was also replaced, and the existing great lords, Narg and Rubens, who had seized power through a great war, were completely overthrown. Thanks to that, it was possible because no one had as much position as Benert in the center.
In the end, as agreed by both sides, a new city began to be built on the plains near the border of the Great Forest, where prisoners were mobilized on all sides.
“Ghmm, I don’t know if it’s good or not.”
“It would be nice if you saved your life, what more do you want?”
Negotiations proceeded quickly with Benert’s active cooperation. The land where the results are unfolding is actually a plain in front of the great forest that has been used as pasture.
Tens of thousands of people were mobilized and construction was taking place in a place where the remains of a giant golem that had stopped its activities existed like ornaments.
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Those who participated in the war, surrendered, or were captured and captured. Captured by the elves, instead of saving their lives, they had to be mobilized for labor regardless of their status.
I couldn’t openly express my dissatisfaction because I was in a position where I should be grateful just for saving my life, but it wasn’t like there was no dissatisfaction at all.
“Why should we care how they feel? They are prisoners. They invaded us first and then were defeated in reverse.”
“The war is over, and the queen and the human king have formally signed an agreement. We are no longer enemies. I need to look into it to some extent.”
Leon, who was sent here as one of the people in charge to manage the prisoners while he injured his leg and revive what he was accustomed to with them, persuaded the other members who were against the idea that they should look into the prisoners’ complaints.
“You won’t even need that much.”
Leon called several humans as if he had an idea. All of them were knights and wizards, and they had previously held positions of commanders, such as captains or corps commanders, and were still the representatives of the captives.
“Everyone must be having a hard time. This is the end of the matter, so don’t worry too much.”
“Go, hardships. It is something we must do.”
“A voice that is not even in the heart.”
One of them laughed and waved his hand at Leon’s words, which were rhymed with nonsensical words. However, Leon now had the insight to recognize such pretensions of humans at a glance.
“I know there are a lot of dissatisfied people, but Zven, as you said, this is your duty as well. But the Queen’s purpose in creating this city is for all of us, so it cannot be ignored. So I thought I would repay the person who can solve the problem.”
Leon smiled faintly as he got to the point. Now, in this situation, the elves of the Great Forest. It wasn’t just because he was the winner of the war.
Actually, elves had a lot of things.
What Leon offered as a reward for internal control was none other than a kind of advantage that Serenian had promised to provide.
“I thought I’d give you the qualifications to officially receive and handle the things you’ve been aiming for in the great forest, lumber and rare herbs, as well as many more items at the risk of invasion or plunder. You are free to receive them from us and use them wherever you want.”
“Is that true?”
This is how the first part of Serenian’s plan to expand his influence began to operate. It is to embrace humans who move freely on the continent.
For the elves, going up is still difficult and unfamiliar. So, it was my idea to find some people who were familiar with going uphill and entrust them with the work.
Serenian and even Leon were sure that those who had the desire would not refuse this offer.
“Zven, you also complained to me that working in the magic corps was not very profitable. You have to work more to feed your family. Isn’t that a good opportunity?”
“That is…”
Their eyes fluttered at Leon’s words. It is an established theory that the livelihood of those who ate only fighting rice in the yard that the Great War is over and the war with the Great Forest will not improve.
However, if he was defeated and became a prisoner and was given this opportunity, there was enough justification for him to change careers.