Battle for the Sage’s Seal (4)
It seems to be faster to find parts without fancy decorations.
A cloak engraved with a flying eagle pattern, a jacket with gold rims, and red-brown cotton pants under a shirt with a voluminous frill. There were all kinds of jewels all over the clothes.
Loose jewelry and ornaments usually symbolize one’s vanity.
This is because the most direct way to show full wealth and high honor is to make the appearance luxurious.
But strangely, Crepin Roth Taylor looks solemn and shrewd even in such a dazzling outfit.
A sharp jawline and sharp eyes that are unsuitable for their age. He is a bizarre person who has no frills in his movements, and at the same time, on the other hand, has a soft elegance.
Even if you pretend to be, you can intuit at once that you are not an ordinary person.
Crepin Rothtailer, the head of the Roth Taylor family and one of the powers of the current Chloël Empire… has the spirit to make others feel embarrassed just by meeting him like that.
“It is a pity that Principal Obel did not attend in person. I am very worried that your health has deteriorated. I hope you get well soon.”
“thank you. I’ll make sure to tell the principal that Duke Crepin said hello.”
Crepin, who took a bite of the soup in a dignified state, expressed regret to the vice principal Rachel, who came out as acting principal.
It was a disgrace among disrespect that the head did not come out directly even though Crepin personally came. Nevertheless, the reason I ended up just expressing my regrets was that the person who was taller than Crepin in this place didn’t say anything.
“I am very glad that you are looking good. Your Majesty was very worried about the princess who came to study abroad.”
“Thank you, Crepin. I hope that Abama-mama can tell me that I am well-adjusted and studying hard.”
“As ordered. And, it’s been quite some time now… I haven’t been able to formally apologize. I heard that you suffered a lot because of one foolish idiot in our family. It has been a long time since the excommunication was dealt with as instructed, but I was very concerned that I still could not properly apologize for the disrespect.”
“it’s okay. Crepin. Don’t take it too seriously.”
Princess Penia refused to apologize for the crepin with a hardened face.
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Meanwhile, Lortel was sitting at the luncheon watching them without saying a word.
Crepin didn’t even seem to care about Lortel.
Deputy Principal of Sylvania, princess of one country, head of the duke family.
It is a meeting of noble people who kneel down no matter where they say their name.
Lortel, who came from the poorest of the slums, was literally blaspheming the nobility just to sit here and be humble, so it was natural not to open her mouth hastily.
The job of being the supreme leader of the Elte Chamber is by no means an easy one, but it is not an official title.
Elte’s downfall is almost certain, and the next owner will be on Lortel’s side.
However, it is ‘yet’ entirely internal to the company. There is no official announcement, so it is natural to be treated this way yet.
Therefore, Lortel simply smiled and lowered her head… and looked at Crepin with her eyes sharp like a knife in her hand.
This is the man who was born of the same bloodline with that Ed Roth Taylor.
He was a noble, dignified, benevolent, and wise headman who made a name for himself.
Indeed, the reputation was not wrong… There is sincerity in the behavior of the vassals who followed Crepin.
Everyone showed respect for crepins in each and every appearance of the attendant.
“Is that… a representative of the Elte Company?”
“My name is Lortel Keheln. It is an honor to be present with the body of the Buddha.”
“You are the only daughter of the Golden King, Elte Keheln. His insight and challenging spirit have been well-received and I am well aware of it.”
It was a crepin throwing a ceremonial compliment, and Lortel was honored with that compliment with a commercial smile.
They are probably well aware of the situation Elte is in inside the company, but nonetheless, neither of them smiles.
“I didn’t know you were paying attention to the sage’s seal. After all, is it a corporation that attracts merchants with good insight to good properties?”
Lortel gave a modest smile to Crepin, who spoke skillfully.
“We go wherever money smells. If there is a property for sale that can make a good profit, it goes anywhere.”
Soon after the luncheon was over, the real seal of the sage was delivered to the central conference room of the Trix building.
After investing a little time, the magic book scholars brought in from the Elte Chamber and the Roth Taylor family had time to verify the authenticity of the seal.
In addition, after taking time to report the status of Bongseo, the amount of magical power, and the status of the responder, the story moved on to the main topic.
“The situation… I won’t go into detail.”
The current situation of having to sell the Sage’s Seal is a great disgrace for Sylvania.
I don’t want to make it big, but I can’t sell it to people who don’t have the purchasing power at a cheap price.
“From our point of view, we want to avoid a situation in which unnecessary rumors circulate because negotiations are delayed. So, as we saw in advance last night, if you write the amount you want and submit it… I will decide to sell it to the person who bids a higher price.”
A piece of parchment was delivered to Lortel and Crepin, who sat far apart in the meeting room.
The parchment, which was carefully unfolded, was endowed with all kinds of preservation magic.
This was to prevent the trick of changing the text in the middle using magic ink.
Crepin swept her chin once, then fell into trouble.
Lortel also closed her eyes.
The sage’s seal is a unique and one-of-a-kind item, but there have been quite a few trades of books of a similar size in the history of commerce.
Book deals on an unusual scale are all loretells. Such price knowledge is no different than multiplication tables. It was only natural that I was sulking.
The rare alchemist Carl gave more than a dozen synthesizing magic to the ‘Music of Order’, and the winning bid was 8,100 Plan Gold Coins.
The only one in the world that is kept in the Imperial Library is the ‘Book of Inertia’, a copying magic analysis book, and the winning bid is 6730 Plen Gold Coins.
Archmage Glockt’s handwritten notes on magic while exploring an unknown continent in the south, the winning bid was 7020 gold coins.
The value of the inherent magic, the value as an academic material to be studied, and the value as a simple luxury must all be combined and judged.
So, how much profit can be left is the key.
Watching the two quietly looking down at the parchment, Princess Fenia, who came out as a notary, carefully lowered her gaze.
“The winning bid has been delivered. Thank you to both sides for your valuable comments.”
The school staff politely bowed, and after a while, the vice-principal Rachel unfolded the parchments from both sides.
The result was the exact opposite of Princess Penia’s expectations.
Invitee – Crepin Roth Taylor (Roth Taylor’s side)
Offer: 8,900 plan gold coins.
Initiator – Lortel Keheln (from Elte Company)
Offer: 9,400 plan gold coins.
*
“For once, you just have to raise the amount arbitrarily. As long as you hurry up and bring the sage’s seal, there’s no harm in doing it.”
“Is that so? But don’t you know that?”
Ziggs, who were sitting next to each other by the fire, handed over the soup again.
By the second day, I felt like my body had some energy back. After untangled parts of the magical power, my body seems to be improving rapidly.
“It’s not like the Elte company does business by digging in the ground, right? If you can’t sell it at a higher price than you bought it, you’ll lose money, but I didn’t know that Lortel would accept your offer so smoothly.”
“Anyway, no matter how high you call it, the Roth Taylor family will buy you back. In any case, there will be no loss.”
“Does the Roth Taylors place such a high value on the memorandum? No matter how much it costs you to buy it again?”
I looked at Ziggs and nodded.
However, it is a lie.
I don’t know how much the Roth Taylors plan to spend on the sage’s memorandum.
If Lortel really bought the seal at a ridiculous price, the Roth Taylor family might give up on the seal.
Anyway, in the magic of eternal life that Crepin is researching, the sage’s seal related to the Holy Spirit magic is a research material that only serves as a supplement. Just because you don’t have it doesn’t mean you can’t do research.
There’s no way Lortel, an outsider, would know about these things. Nevertheless, Lortel gave in to my impulses.
There are two reasons.
One is that Lortel had a dark heart for me as a reason.
Another is that I bet on the specificity of my position as a member of the Roth Taylor family.
I thought I knew some of the insides of the Roth Taylor family, so I invested in my opinion.
If I just listened to the explanation, I might be too trash.
This is because it seems to make Lortel wasted an astronomical amount of money in order to exclude Crepin from the competition to buy the Sage’s Seal.
Well, most of the amount can be returned if you sell the seal, so it won’t be as big of a loss as you think… Still, it’s not a small amount of money.
Still, in my defense, it doesn’t matter how much Lortel calls in the first place.
Because there is nothing to pay for it.
Anyway, the sage’s seal is stolen by Professor Glast before the sale date comes. In the end, the deal won’t happen.
It just needs to be able to somehow rule out crepins that have slipped into the flow of the story.
– rust
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the side of the grass. When I and Ziggs turned their heads, a girl with a familiar face was striding towards the camp. It felt like I was running pretty quickly as I was out of breath.
“Hey, Yenika-senpai. It’s not even lunchtime yet, have you already come all the way from Gwak-dong?”
“yes! Morning class is over! There is no class to attend, homework will be done at night!”
“Still, you can come and have lunch…”
“I’m not hungry!”
Yenika smiled bashfully, brushed her clothes, swung her kinky pale pink hair, and often walked to the campfire with gait.
“Ed! You are sober!”
“Oh, Yenika. I’m sorry for worrying you. I’ve heard all the details from Ziggs. I heard that I caused a lot of trouble…”
“yes? no no!”
Yenika swung her arms in an exaggerated gesture, then shook her head and looked into my complexion.
“I really didn’t care at all! Don’t be sorry I made you worry! really! none! I didn’t care at all! I didn’t even care!”
“No, Yenika-senpai. There were even rumors circulating that I had a broken heart while running around in bachelor’s degree. And the last time I broke into the academic conference room…”
“Wow!! Wow! You’re talking funny, Ziggs! But today! The weather is very cold!! I have to be careful!! In order not to catch a cold!!!!”
It seemed that I was sorry that I was sorry for the subject that I was already out of breath while running through the forest.
She is definitely a sweet girl. I was worried, but I don’t want to hear you say you’re sorry for worrying you.
Yenika, who was waving her eyes back and forth, took a few deep breaths and sat down on the other side of me.
As soon as that happened, a bat of fire jumped out of Yenica’s back.
[ Kill me! Master Ed! please kill me! This candle mug, I didn’t realize at all that Master Ed had been working too hard up to this point! ]
“What, what? mug. Were you there?”
[In my heart, I wanted to jump right out and bow down to apologize, but I was receiving the magical powers of Ms. Yenika because I was afraid that this unholy body would manifest itself at will and adversely affect Ed’s magic! ]
Yenika nodded at that and looked at me.
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Mug flew off and landed near my knees, waving tears of apology.
“Why is he so fussy?”
“Ed-senpai, if you think about it when you are fainting, this is not even a fuss.”
At Ziggs’ words, my complexion hardened. It was said that it was almost like a corpse, but when I think about how ugly it must have been, no words came out.
“Well… if you’ve passed out for ten days, that’s okay…”
ten days.
“Hold on… Ten days…?!”
I quickly got up from my seat. Although the strength has not yet fully returned, I checked the crypt that had been dug for meat preservation with a slow movement.
The hard-smoked meat… The rotten smell stung my nose.
“Ugh, ugh!”
I frowned and quickly covered my nose.
The smoked meat could be stored for about five days without any problem, and it was consumed one after the other according to the preservation period…
When I went out to the river and looked at it, the fishing nets were also torn because they were not maintained. All the fish that had been farmed left in search of freedom.
“You have lost all your food.”
I sighed deeply and returned to the fire and sat down. Well, I can’t help it because it’s my own profit to not take good care of my body.
Do you have no choice but to use the money you have saved for food to eat right now? It’s not a huge loss, but in the long run, it’s a painful mistake.
When I think about the coming of winter, there is still a lot of work left to do, but when such a regression occurs, I can only breathe deeply.
“I’m going to overdo it again, Ed.”
Perhaps she even read my thoughts, Yenika rushed in.
“It’s okay, Ed. I will help you.”
“I also have work left until the next exam. We can help with simple hunting and carpentry. Sir Ed.”
Ziggs said while joking around poker as if it wasn’t a big deal.
“In the beginning, if you work things out in a random order, something will happen, isn’t it?”
He said that and smiled like a guy who had experience living in the wild.
Obviously, once you solve everything in a random order, something will happen.
Sitting by the fire, looking up, I saw Yenika and Ziggs putting their heads together, contemplating what to do first. The scene that comes to mind is the spring of last semester.
It was the figure of me, penniless, sitting in the forest, hugging myself and sleeping under the improvised wooden shelter with nothing.
He realizes that the image of him sleeping alone in the dark, torn by bugs, without a place to lean on, was not as far-fetched as he thought.
okay. There are many things that have been sluggish, but in any case, there are many more things that have been solved while surviving.
The flow of love affair has also gone awry, but it’s not like I’m just lamenting too much since I’ve been able to resolve major anomalies.
It’s a survival activity, you have to recover slowly with the help of the two of you,
It’s the flow of the story… If Crepin loses the bidding competition, there will be no other variables, so it won’t be a big problem.
Still, if you don’t know, don’t be vigilant.
*
With the bidding of the Elte Chamber, the negotiations to purchase the Sage’s Seal came to an end.
Crepin Rothtailer looked bewildered, but soon erased that expression and looked at Lortel softly with a smile.
Lortel also accepted with a smile.
There were very few bookbook transactions in which money of this size came and went.
Of course, the Roth Taylor family must have come to estimate the market price.
Even if it were a transaction that recorded the highest increase in magic book transactions, it was around 8,000.
In other words, if the essential purpose of Elte Trading is to ‘make a profit’, it will not charge more than that.
That’s why crepin was priced at 8,900 with room for the highest price of 8,000.
And, Lortel read up to there and called a slightly higher sum to beat Crepin.
It was a battle that Crepin had to lose from the beginning.
This is because the purpose of the Elte Chamber was to ‘make profit’.
‘The profit was not the goal…?’
Princess Penia sat in the observer’s seat and her expression hardened.
A merchant is one who acts in the interest of profit. The amount of 9,400 that Lortel suggested is unreasonable considering the break-even point.
Considering the historical price of the magic book transaction, it is very unlikely that you will be able to sell it at a price higher than that.
Lortel is not the kind of person who would ask for money on a rare possibility.
It has other intentions other than making a profit.
However, Princess Penia’s eyes cry out. The human essence of Lortel consists of greed for gold coins.
If making a profit wasn’t the goal, what would that foxy girl act for?
In the first place, it is difficult to use the power of the sage’s seal unless you are a proper responder, and even if you do not have a proper understanding of Aspect Magic, even a sensitive person is meaningless.
It is not possible to utilize the magical power of the seal, nor does it value academic value, nor does it create a profit in terms of property.
Ignoring all such conditions, what was the reason for Lortel’s unreasonable bid for the seal?
If all such values are excluded, what does it mean to bid for the seal?
“Hmm….”
It wasn’t a crepe-like expression.
With a somewhat embarrassed face, he politely greeted the crowd and left the conference room as it was. It didn’t feel very good.
Only then did Princess Penia begin to feel a surge of energy in the back of her head as if struck by lightning.
In the end, if we give any meaning to the purchase of that sage’s seal, which seems meaningless, it is meaningful in that he checked the situation so that it did not go the way Crepin Roth Taylor intended.
This is the part that Princess Penia was so concerned about.
– ‘Princess Phenia. In this case alone, we are allies. We must first push the public enemy of the Roth Taylor family out of this Aken Island.’
That line of Lortel tickles the heart of Princess Fenia again.
However, the strange thing still remains.
The reason Lortel tried to check the crepin was to buy Bongseo at a low price.
However, if you buy Bongseo at a low price, isn’t it meaningless to check crepins?
In the first place, if you didn’t care about the purchase price of Bongseo…?
What if he was just trying to keep Bongseo out of his hands?
There is no explanation other than that. Otherwise, Lortel, who lives on profit and dies on profit, cannot afford to buy that seal at that price.
Then a new question arises.
Why on earth is Lortel checking Crepin?
Princess Fenia knows. Crepin is a dignified and benevolent peacock on the outside, but inside, he is a villain hiding a dark conspiracy.
However, even with the authority and power of the princess, there was no evidence to finally reveal her snarky inner feelings to the world.
Crepins are so deliberate that their tails are never trampled on.
No matter how influential you are, there is no way that you can dig into the darkness of crepins that you have not been able to reveal even if you use your high authority.
Even if they had dug it up, there was no reason for Lortel to step out and stop the darkness of Crepin.
Because there is no reason to set up a confrontational angle with such a powerful person.
What is needed is a sense of justice against injustice. Or, it is a sense of duty to punish the wicked.
Those things are… far from Lortel. In other words, it is not Lortel’s intention to stop Crepin.
“However…”
Fenia muttered in the stormy stream of thoughts.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t that mean there’s someone behind the scenes… who uses or controls even those lortels?
As a merchant, a golden daughter who was born with a rare talent… Who the hell can teasing her hand?
Lortel is, to say the least, a being who reigns, not the kind of person who moves under someone’s hand. I thought she was a wild wolf girl who would never be tamed by anyone.
“Princess Penia, you have a bad expression. Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?”
Fenia was quietly bowing her head in the corner of the conference hall. I didn’t have to answer Claire’s words.
There was a person who tried to stop the sage’s seal from entering Crepin’s hand.
For that proposition to hold, there is a necessary premise.
You must be someone who knows the dark nature of Crepin Roth Taylor.
If such a person exists in Sylvania…
“Princess Penny?”
– ‘I’m worried that this might be a presumptuous thing, but I just wanted to convey the fact that it was speculation that Ed was attached to the Roth Taylor family.’
The words Lortel uttered while surrounding Ed, flew into the princess’s chest like a dagger.
If there is a person who has struggled to the point of being excommunicated from the family, thrown into the wild, and toppling over from overwork, who has tried to fight the darkness of the Roth Taylor family.
It was Fenia Elias Chloel himself who drove such a person into the abyss.
*
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Certificate of conclusion of the sale transaction
Buyer: Lortel Keheln (Elte Trading Company)
Seller: Obel Forsius (Sylvania side)
Transaction Value: 9,400 Plan Gold Coins
Execution date: 7 days after signing of the deed, the responder is transferred.
The following contract details
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As he rolled up the signed deed of sale and put it in his bosom, Lortel smiled.
According to Ed’s message, no matter how expensive it is, the Roth Taylor family will buy it back anyway. Believing that, he bid harder.
I was half willing to trust Ed. First of all, he’s an insider of the Roth Taylor family.
So, what is the other half… Anyway, if Lortel’s skillful skills don’t go according to Ed’s message, you can sell it back for at least 8500.
The difference is said to be a loss of about 900, but if you think of it as an ed free pass, this is not a cheap price.
“Anything… anything…”
Lortel was unraveling her hair and bringing accessories to her hair.
The mysterious fox-like figure she showed at the negotiation session was nowhere to be found, except that she was adjusting her blue rose-shaped headband in front of the mirror.
“…anything? really?”
And his face is blushing for nothing.
Even a devilishly cold face on the negotiating table turns into an innocent girl who doesn’t know anything when it comes to a tug of war between a man and a woman…
Due to the gap, even himself could not come to his senses, and he was just looking at the newly received ornaments on his head.
When the princess saw it, it was a sight that would have left her with bloodshed.