I Entered a Gacha Game That Had Been Abandoned for 10 Years chapter 95

95 – Hot Springs (2)

The lives of most mercenaries in the labyrinthine city of Lartania fundamentally share a similar context.

Right away, during the day, they would either organize parties or individually enter the labyrinth to hunt diligently. After hunting for a while, they would come out with magic stones and exchange them for money.

And with that money, they would go to a bar and have a beer or go to an inn and take a nap. It could be said that this was the basic routine of most mercenaries.

Of course, recently, thanks to the magnifying glass that appeared newly in the Lartania Territory, there were mercenaries whose routines changed slightly. However, most mercenaries still maintained this routine.

Naturally, Allen and Tuscar were no exception.

“Did you get anything good today?”

“No. What about you?”

“Me too.”

“Sigh.”

Having a conversation with Tuscar, who was constantly pulling magnifying glasses, about two to three times a day since the ceiling appeared, Allen was once again lamenting the disastrous gacha and having a beer at the bar.

“Do we really have to pull ten in a row with the magnifying glass?”

“It’s not like the chances are any different whether you pull ten in a row or not. Why pull ten in a row as if it’s something special?”

For a while, the two of them exchanged words over a beer, discussing the meaningless question of “how can we pull good items with the magnifying glass.”

“Oh, were you here?”

They turned their gaze at the sudden voice.

Soon, they saw a woman with a thief-like black hair, who sat down in front of them and pretended to brush her hand.

Though she had a scar on her temple, she had a refreshing smile and a cat-like face. The two of them, who had momentarily frozen at her appearance, had a puzzled expression.

“Why are you reacting like that?”

“…Could it be, Saul?”

They soon snapped out of their daze and responded.

“Well, who else would it be if not me?”

Saul naturally joined them at the table, hitting the nail on the head.

But both couldn’t take their eyes off Saul’s face.

No wonder, because the Saul they had seen until now was not a beauty like this, but a rogue with a beggarly appearance.

So.

“…Were you not a complete bandit guy?”

“It was almost like getting hit head-on with a bomb.”

Alan and Tuska, who judged appearance without reservation.

“What about these guys?”

They quickly turned the conversation away at Saul’s words, frowning.

“No, that was the past. You’ve actually been hanging out with them constantly, right?”

“Now they say she’s pretty.”

“…”

Alan and Tuska, who hurriedly discussed, immediately changed the subject while looking at Saul, who still seemed annoyed.

“More importantly, why did you suddenly become so neat? Usually, you don’t even bother to wash.”

“It’s freaking annoying. I told you last time, it’s not that I don’t wash, it’s just that the environment to wash isn’t proper in the first place!”

“There’s enough environment to wash at the inn, isn’t there?”

“Only cold water comes out. And they don’t even wipe off monster fluids.”

“Well, that’s true, but… Anyway, how did you become so neat then?”

At Allen’s question once again, Saul finally smiled slightly and said.

“I went to the hot springs.”

“…Hot springs?”

“Yeah, hot springs.”

“Wait, did you go to a different territory or something?”

“What other territory? Are there even any other territories nearby? All the surrounding territories don’t have hot springs. I went to the hot springs in the Lartania territory.”

“…Huh? Hot springs opened in the Lartania territory?”

“What? You didn’t know?”

Saul nodded in response to the question, and Allen suddenly seemed to remember something.

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“Oh, come to think of it, I did hear a rumor about them building a facility outside the village. So, that was the hot springs?”

“Correct! The hot springs were really amazing. The best hot springs I’ve ever been to were in the Brando territory of the Eastern Union Clan, but this place seems even better by several hundred. You guys should go check it out.”

As Saul spoke, his eyes lit up, and Allen and Tuska exchanged uneasy expressions.

“Well, I’m not so sure about that.”

“Me neither.”

“Why?”

“Well, why would we go to an expensive place like a hot spring?”

“Yeah, even if it’s not that fancy, just the name ‘hot spring’ alone means you have to pay at least 10 gold coins just to enter.”

Of course, they also knew that hot springs were good for them.

In this world, although hot springs were immediately divided by class, any hot spring would heal wounds quickly once you entered. And among them, there were some hot springs known as the best, which offered special effects to those who entered.

However, the reason the two of them felt uneasy was that hot springs were originally a luxury cultural content enjoyed by the wealthy and the upper class.

“To be honest, wouldn’t it be more profitable to buy ten magnifying glasses with that money?”

“I agree for once.”

Therefore, Allen and Tuska talked about it, but Saul, on the contrary, smirked.

“1 gold coin.”

“What?”

“The amount for the hot spring. It’s called 1 gold coin.”

“…What?”

“1 gold coin? Really?”

“Yeah.”

So they talked like that.

“The hot spring costs only 1 gold coin?”

“Yeah, do you think I’m lying? I just went today.”

“…No, it doesn’t make sense.”

“That’s why it’s good. I’m thinking of bowing towards where the lord is every day from now on.”

With a smile that seemed very pleased, Saul spoke, and after seriously contemplating, Allen responded.

“No, isn’t 1 gold coin too tempting?”

In fact, 1 gold coin is not a small amount.

Even if you have only 3 to 5 gold coins right now, you could live comfortably for about a month.

However, despite that, the fact that the cost of entering the hot spring in this world, due to the culture enjoyed only by the upper class, is 1 gold coin, was a new shock to them.

Only then did Allen and Tuska notice that some of the mercenaries in the tavern had a very clean appearance.

And.

“…Ah, also, it seems like the lord’s Kaderline, but when you enter the hot spring, the probability of picking up good items from the magnifying glass seems to increase, doesn’t it?”

At Saul’s continued words,

“Let’s go.”

“We must go.”

The two mercenaries, engrossed in their magnifying glasses, rose from their seats without hesitation.

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About 3 days later.

“… Today’s earnings from the hot springs alone amount to 6800 gold coins…”

Kim Hyunwoo, who heard the story from Elena, who brought the guard’s report again today, smiled broadly.

At first, no one visited, but as Kim Hyunwoo actively spread the rumors, he thought about the rapidly accumulating money every day.

“Indeed, this was the right choice.”

In fact, what Kim Hyunwoo did was nothing special. All he did was drastically lower the fees for the hot springs, which were considered an expensive culture in this world, and add a bit of (?) medicine during the process of promoting the hot springs.

“In fact, I didn’t have to lower the hot spring prices this much.”

The reason Kim Hyunwoo lowered the price of the hot springs to this extent was due to the characteristics of the territory.

Currently, most of those engaged in economic activities within Lartania were mercenaries farming low-grade magic stones.

From Kim Hyunwoo’s perspective, targeting the overflowing mercenaries within the territory was a much better way to do business than upscale the hot springs.

And as if affirming that Kim Hyunwoo’s choice was right, the income from the hot springs was rapidly increasing day by day.

“I really have to thank the heavens.”

Kim Hyunwoo, seemingly unaware, muttered with a smile as he glanced at the suddenly fallen meteor.

“Oh, my lord. By the way, do you plan to maintain the current state of the hot springs? According to the guard’s report, there’s no space in the hot springs now, and mercenaries can’t get in.”

Kim Hyun-woo responded to Elena’s words.

“First, since there are still remaining materials, let’s use them to further expand the hot spring. Once all the additional expansions are done, we can start making and selling some items at the hot spring.”

“…Selling items at the hot spring?”

“Yeah, like, for example… refreshing drinks.”

As Kim Hyun-woo spoke, he smiled, envisioning a new business.

At the moment when he pondered over the new venture in the territory.

Outside the territory, on the hill.

“Hey, let go! I said let go!”

“The hot spring is something I created…! You idiots, let go-!”

“What kind of nonsense is this…! I used magic to dig the ground!”

Observing Kim Hyun-woo feeling genuinely thankful for the creation of the hot spring and even smiling, there were three heroes, grabbing each other’s hair, appealing that the hot spring was created because of them.

“…”

“…”

Assisting those heroes were Kiral and Loreiel.

And Adriah, witnessing the absurd fight of those three heroes, sighed.