Episode 114. Anticipation is the root of a gift (3)
Tarragon’s drunkenness flew away. The eyes became bright.
“The elixir… Are there any more?”
Tarragon asked quietly, covering his mouth with his hand, in case others would hear.
Keter spoke in a coy tone, like someone selling a drug that makes you feel good when you eat it.
“I’ve been airlifting another one for my brother.”
gulp.
Tarragon wanted to be like this. Didn’t you already eat one of the spirit pills to go to Anis?
By the way, I’m going to take a look at the second elixir?
‘As expected, this time I have to yield to Anis. I couldn’t catch up with Anis-hyung even though I ate the blue spirit pill at that time.’
Tarragon, unaware that Keter sold the blue spirit ring to Anise, was frustrated that he couldn’t get over Anise despite borrowing the power of the blue spirit ring.
Keter, who was watching Tarragon’s eyes change in real time, whispered.
“You’re not trying to yield to Anis, are you? Are you crazy? If only Anise wins in the southern sword competition and you lose alone, what will others think?”
“omg… … !”
“Well, I just want anyone to take money.”
As Keter pulled away, Tarragon took his hand.
“Buy, live. How are you this time? Can I use an IOU?”
“170,000.”
Udangtang!
The chair Tarragon was sitting on moved backwards. My feet are twisted when I wake up. Fortunately, the drunken mercenaries did not hear.
Tarragon’s throat snapped. 17 million. I bought Cheongryeonghwan at a very expensive price of 90,000, but the elixir I bought this time was almost twice as expensive.
“What kind of elixir is it that is so expensive?”
“The lava group. I don’t know if you’ve heard or seen it.”
“It’s definitely the first time I’ve heard of it… … .”
“It is not artificially created, it is created naturally. Not even knowing.”
A vial came out of Kether’s bosom. Inside the glass bottle made of orange Amanthir, a reddish-brown Hwandan was showing off its lofty appearance.
Mulberry.
The mouth of the vial was opened. Then, the burning heat hit Tarragon’s face directly.
“omg!”
Tarragon trembled and held out his hand.
Keter closed the lid again. As the heat subsided, Tarragon looked around like someone bewitched.
“What is that fever? Did you come out of this illusion?”
“The lava group is what you mean. It was created by the natural condensation of the power of lava in the crater. More than a thousand gatherers a year die trying to find it. do you know why It’s great if you just find it. I can sell it for about 300,000 gold.”
“Four, 300,000?”
“It’s 170,000 with a little labor cost added to half of that. You can’t buy it at this price anywhere.”
Kether’s words are no exaggeration. You need more than 300,000 gold to buy a lava table at the auction house.
However, in liqueur, it could be obtained for 100,000 gold. That’s partly because you can ‘collect’ lava bands from liqueur, but that’s because lava bands have side effects.
“Originally, if you just eat the lava cluster, your body could melt and you could die. However, if you first eat the blue spirit ring, which has the energy of extreme negative energy, the blue spirit ring neutralizes the extreme positive energy of the lava stage. Even the undigested blue spirit pill melts together, so you can easily get 9 years worth of aura?”
“Nine years worth! That easy?!”
Tarragon’s voice rose again. It is Tarragon who looks around even after he speaks, not knowing what to do.
Nine years of time can be compressed into one day, no one hour, no one minute. Without any side effects!
Is there really an article that can escape this temptation? First of all, it wasn’t tarragon.
Swoop.
Keter held out a familiar pen and paper from within her bosom. Tarragon’s eyes were already stuck in the lava platform. He scrawled his signature without checking the contents of the IOU.
From noble mtl dot com
“ruler! wrote! Hurry up!”
“Sold.”
Keter, who had taken the IOU, held out a glass bottle containing lava clusters. Tarragon, who grabbed the glass bottle, was startled.
“Oh hot! Is it really okay to put this in your mouth? You can feel the heat even through the glass bottle.”
“Oh right. Don’t just eat it, you have to eat it while soaking in cold water. Otherwise, the body will be cooked to medium rare.”
“… If I hadn’t asked, would I be dead?”
“Don’t die. It would be painful enough to die.”
“I’ll go first. I don’t think I’ll be able to see Anis-niisama’s face.”
Tarragon wrapped the glass bottle containing the lava in a towel and left the restaurant in case the anise returned.
Keter, having picked up a lump of beef jerky, also left the dining room. Then, he went straight to Anis, who was breathing in the air with a confused expression, and held out a lava layer.
“Who needs this right now?”
* * *
the next morning.
The mercenaries, who ate well and had a good rest, went up on stage energetically, but were catnip.
“Did you take the elixir? Why did you become so strong overnight?!”
Anis and Tarragon, who ate the lava altar they received from Keter last night and have an aura equivalent to that of a 3-star knight.
Originally, the Platinum mercenaries easily won, but now they were no match at all.
One arrow per person. With a total of 15 shots, the anise, which had been continuously applied to the 5th squad of the 1st squad, faced the 2nd squad.
2nd squad with diamond class. Yesterday, I didn’t win even once, and I only had time to experiment with this and that.
But now it was different. Overall, the diamond mercenary struggled against Anis’s arrow, which had risen a notch.
The fight with Squad 2 took longer than expected. They did not easily compete with each other. The fight dragged on for a long time, exchanging each other.
On the other hand, Keter looks like he’s watching with his arms crossed, but in reality he’s doing ‘self-injury training,’ when an attendant pokes his face in from the side.
“Brother Keter. The lord of Ultima has asked to see you. What should I do?”
“Bring it.”
“yes.”
Today was the day the Ultima Merchant visited once a month.
Of course, Keter didn’t call Ultima. The thirsty guy was looking for a well, Ultima was looking for Keter.
After a while, Ultima from afar entered the parade ground with quick steps. He was not surprised to see the mercenaries filling the parade ground.
A merchant is a job that must be most sensitive to the situation of the country. He already knew that Sephira hired a large number of mercenaries.
‘huh? for a moment. That human, where have you seen this face?’
Ultima looked intently at the man standing at the head of the mercenary group on the other side of Keter.
‘Sweep, do I see anything else? Isn’t that burgundy? Are you a similar person? Hey, why would Burgundy be here?’
Ultima, who also has ties to the mercenary regional headquarters, had seen Maroon, the head of the headquarters, and Burgundy, the deputy head of the headquarters.
by the way-
‘Keter… You’re crazy.’
Keter’s presence was unrivaled. Among dozens of mercenaries, even in a desolate land, even under a blue sky, he stood out the most.
“Princess Keter. This is Ultima.”
With many eyes, Ultima got down on one knee in front of Keter and bowed politely.
swish
Keter, who greets you roughly with a hand.
Ultima woke up and whispered quietly.
“How about we talk separately in a quiet place?”
“no. Just talk here.”
“You have many ears to hear.”
There were quite a few mercenaries nearby, as well as attendants on standby.
“Go to the other side.”
Kether gave orders to the mercenaries and attendants. The two groups quietly moved to the other side.
“Tsk, Keter. You’re still buying and struggling. How good would it be to sit on a soft sofa and talk comfortably?”
“Did you get the elixir?”
Keter placed a separate order at the top of Ultima. He requested an elixir and a large quantity of food materials.
“They told me to save it even if it cost more money, so I saved it as much as possible. Thirty lower, eight middle, one upper. Superlatives are out of stock.”
“It’s a little disappointing if that’s for the best.”
“It’s ridiculous. save you Do you know what kind of potion an elixir is? Even the nobles in the Senate couldn’t find it, so it’s the elixir.”
“Hmm.”
Ultima didn’t notice.
that Keter had seen herself.
Keter was checking to see if Ultima could go into the liqueur and come out again, or not.
‘Well, if he had been able to come in and out like me, he would have been selling elixirs and elixirs from the liqueur to the outside world.’
With just a few words of conversation, Keter, who received the information that ‘even the godfather can’t easily let the liqueurs go’, moved on to the main topic.
“Why did you come again? You didn’t come here to praise me because you did a good job.”
“I came to give you information. It looks like they’re trying to do something by raising Anise and Tarragon, who are participating in the southern sword… … .”
Ultima glanced at Anis, who was fighting the diamond mercenary, and once at Tarragon, who was waiting.
“Certainly, it has grown tremendously compared to the last time I saw it. But no. If you intend to save Sephira, it is better not to participate in the Southern Sword Tournament.”
“Am I participating too?”
“Don’t lie. The application period for the contest has already ended. Before you come to Sephira. You cannot participate in the contest. No matter how forced you are.”
“If you don’t believe me, don’t. Is that what information is? Anise and tarragon are f*cking rice?”
“You must have known. The design to kill Sephira was tightly woven in this tournament. The Senate aristocratic family that supports me has also started to move. He wasn’t afraid to do anything stupid. In the city where the tournament is held, the only place Sephira can stay is the stable. This can’t help me either.”
“You mean there’s a lot of warnings that you’re going to bully me before the tournament even starts?”
“I will hire assassins and mercenaries to harass them. It’s best to abstain altogether.”
“If that’s the end, it’s disappointing. Any more novel sabotage?”
Ultima let out a deep sigh.
“I didn’t want to say this, but Sephira will be eliminated from the preliminary round. Even if there were only 20 knights aiming only for Sephira, that meant there were 20 of them. All of them are 2-star or higher. Are you still going to participate?”
Keter, who had been watching the stage, turned her gaze to Ultima. Then he put his hand on his shoulder.
“Ultima. It looks like you have something to do.”
“Don’t ask for help? If I do something so obvious, I will die too.”
“No, it’s just like trying to do something with a 2-star knight. Are there any 4-star knights in your family that support you? Please advise me to do my best.”
“what? no, crazy… … !”
“If there are no 4-star knights, try increasing the number even more. With only 20 people, whose nose do you put it on?”
“Are you really going to participate too? So, are you confident?”
If it’s Keter, it might be possible. I’m sure you have some plans. Isn’t it strange that a guy who should have been stuck in liqueur is stuck in Sephira in the first place?
Participating midway through the Southern Sword Competition did not seem more difficult than coming out of the liqueur.
Ultima looked straight at Keter. My chest was stuffy. His presence was so large and distant.
‘What the hell did this bastard do in a month to become so strong? Do you drink elixir instead of water?’
As far as Ultima could feel, Keter’s presence already seemed like a 5-star Master.
“If you really participate in the tournament, you won’t even be able to exercise after meals as a 2-star knight. I get it. If we take advantage of this tournament and turn the knights of the hostile family into idiots, the chances of Sephira surviving will increase a bit.”
“You’re all enemies anyway, but what’s the name of the family that looks after you? I need to kill them especially.”
Ultima thought for a moment. Whether or not to mention the name of the sponsoring family.
But the trouble didn’t last long.
In less than two months, Sephira has changed drastically. It was to the point where I could feel through my skin that not only Keter, but the entire family grew together.
The die has already been cast.
Ultima opened her mouth.
“Delmore, Iwin, Bristan, Galahind. This is your place.”
“Reception complete. Oh, and I want to build a new mansion in Sephira? 8 floors above ground and 3 floors below ground. required manpower and materials. Let me go as soon as the Southern Sword Tournament is over.”
“As long as you give me money, I can get it for you. But know that. No matter how cheap the materials are, since the scale is large, at least 400,000 gold will be needed. I know you’re rich, but you don’t have that much money, do you?”
“Ultima. Since when did we live small lives? cheap stuff? It has the dignity of aristocrats. Assume up to 1 million gold. I will prepare the blueprints.”
“One million?! Keter, do you really have that much money?”
“When have I ever taken money from a liqueur? there is no Trust me then.”
“hmm… . If it’s a large-scale project that costs 1 million gold, you’ll think that Sephira is finally crazy. I mean, you don’t have any money, but you’re building a new building.”
“If you say that you got 2 million gold by manipulating the ledger properly, everyone will like that Sephira will go bankrupt soon.”
Ultima nodded. I was thinking of manipulating it like that for Sephira.
At that time, exclamation burst out in the parade ground.
“Wow!”
“It’s over, this!”
It seemed that Anise’s arrow had been properly pierced by the diamond mercenary. Keter could see that Anise raised her bow and celebrated her victory.
Keter laughed and put a hand on Ultima’s shoulder.
“Come and watch the competition. Bite this tight.”
“Oh wait, me like that again… … .”
Wow!
“go away. Merchant Naburaeng.”
After talking well with Ultima, Keter suddenly grinds bread. Ultima ran out of the parade ground holding on to her chapped lips.
Ultima didn’t feel sick or humiliated. It was because of the smell. The smell of very steamed money.
‘Keter is the one who creates thoughts that don’t exist. Besides, due to his personality, he will definitely have a fight with the nobles.’
Originally, Ultima had no intention of going to the tournament, but changed her plan.
Ultima was willing to go wherever there was money, even if Keter was there.