#8 Monastic Practice (4)
Who Edward Wight was, and who he was, was so widespread that even a country boy could tell.
That’s why his biography was legendary.
heterogeneous and genius
It was a word that came along like a tag when describing Edward Wight, and indeed it was the most appropriate word to describe him.
Anyway, wouldn’t it be enough to explain that he was ranked in the top 7 on the continent with a force inferior to that of a knight?
His mother is Rebecca Wight, who developed the Western Armin Beltway.
Edward Wight had the mother of an extraordinary woman who changed the times, and he himself was a gifted man with indescribable intellect.
At the age of 10, Edward Wight mastered every advanced technology in existence.
At the age of 11, he became interested in the structure of a matchlock and dramatically reduced the loading time by remodeling the matchlock, which had taken several minutes to load until the day before yesterday.
At the age of 13, the concept he introduced succeeded in proving its terrible power with the outbreak of the Western War, and at the same time he sat on a money cushion.
14-year-old Edward Whyte did not stop there and set about developing new weapons.
However, it was a business that required a lot of capital, so much so that there was no other option than the money raised from selling modified matchlocks.
Then, his intellect shone once more.
-I will build a railroad that crosses the continent. with you
It was an advertising phrase that spread across the continent beyond the West.
It was absurd.
A railroad that crosses the entire continent is unimaginable how much money and time it will take.
It scoffed at most, but a few sharp-witted people focused on the paragraph entitled ‘With you guys’.
It was.
He created the concept of a ‘joint stock company’.
The method of investing capital in individuals and sharing a stake in the business was a shocking business operation unprecedented on the continent.
He was the first man who legally notarized and realized the concept of investment, which had existed as a rule of thumb until then.
It was something that could pose a threat to the feudal system.
Anyway, isn’t it a deformed structure that can exercise power as long as there is money regardless of class?
However, no one could stop his rampage.
It is because the major shareholder who invested in ‘EW’ at that time was the demon king Zerdia.
-Funny, try it sometime.
As the king of Nazak and the mighty power of the continent, he supported Edward Wight.
It had multiple meanings.
The biggest of these is that Edward Whyte’s conception has become ‘reality’.
The strong man of the continent called now and the seven rivers was a name that gave much credibility.
– Now, there is no chance to buy a stake in a company at such a low price! Invest now!
Edward Wight began attracting investments at an explosive rate under his shadow.
It was a success.
The railroad company ‘EW’ raised five times the amount of investment he originally intended and successfully went public, spreading the railroad throughout the West.
That only took two years.
The time it takes to work is bought with money.
Edward Wight was 16 at the time.
It was also at that time that the name of Ygret Cheolhwa, who was 10 years old at the time, was engraved on the iron fortress called EW.
-Now we will spread the railroad across the continent. We will also devise new means of force to end the war.
Eighteen-year-old Edward Wight declared that and succeeded in introducing one of the two, a new concept weapon, in just one year.
bolt action.
Instead of pushing gunpowder into the muzzle, they developed a type of firearm in which gunpowder is planted in a bullet.
Of course, commercialization was an impossible technology.
Its power is also powerful, but above all, it is because it required astronomical skills and capital to produce even one bullet.
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Finding artisans who make bullets, educating them, and lowering the defect rate to operate them in actual combat required enormous resources.
Edward Wight eventually abandoned commercialization of it.
However, it succeeded in supplying Armin’s elite troops.
It was a decisive event for Armin, who was the weakest on the battlefield at the time, to emerge as one of the top three powers.
On that day, Edward Wight was granted the title of duke.
He was widely known as the Duke of Gold, and also earned the nickname of Edward, the 7th Continental Continental, with a body that could not handle a handful of mana.
He bought power with money.
That’s 22 years old.
Then, at the age of 25, he completed the transcontinental railroad and spread his legendary biography all over the world.
A man like that
“I feel uncomfortable. a lot.”
Elric couldn’t let go of his tension.
“Do your business quickly. Rather, I should ask how you found me.”
Elric’s eyes glowed bloody.
Edward shrugged his shoulders with a smile.
“I forgot, is this railroad mine? Knowing who boarded where and got off where is a piece of cake. Besides, if it’s an important person, I’ll hear all the reports.”
Elric frowned.
‘So you’ve known since leaving the West.’
thought was short.
I should have moved while hiding my identity from the start.
“Yeah, but I was surprised. I never dreamed that the old sword ghost would be married. Sara, who pretended to die today… Heheuk! Don’t look at me like that.”
The moment he strangled himself to death, Edward crouched in fright.
“We aren’t bad friends, are we? yes? It was good on the battlefield… .”
“I thought I might as well return the knee.”
“Eh, ah… What a pitiful word.”
Edward laughed servilely.
“Where did I do that? That’s what our troops did.”
“You were the one who made their weapons. And you brag about it. Is that all? I remember that you were the one who commanded the battlefield that day.”
“It would be nice if you could see it as part of the business… .”
I didn’t like the sly attitude of trying to get away.
Elric tapped the cane with his index finger.
“Listen to the purpose of your visit. I have a group.”
“Oh, okay. Such a beautiful wife… .”
“I wish I hadn’t said more about it. try to be angry No, I am already angry.”
This situation, when Edward learned of Tyria’s existence, was too much of a bad thing for Elric.
It’s because there aren’t that many ways to stop Elric if he plays tricks.
I had to intimidate.
“If you play tricks on your wife, I can’t stop you. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything after that.”
“Yeah, that’s right… ?”
“First, you will be hired by Armin’s enemy without pay. I will stand at the forefront of the battlefield and bring down your country. Of course you won’t be hurt. EW is your cradle.”
Edward swallowed dryly.
Elric continued calmly.
“We have to destroy the railroad. They will kill your major shareholders one by one. Doing so will reduce the friendship stake. There will be people who want to sell their shares.”
“… .”
“It’s eating some. That’s how EW will come to you right before it collapses. After strangling them until they are most miserable, they slit their throats.”
It wasn’t just a threat.
Indeed, Elric was the one who would do all of the above if he did any harm to Tyria.
“Do you think I can’t do it?”
It won’t be. His stiff expression already said it.
It is ridiculous to discuss feasibility.
Sword Demon Kasha was such a name.
“Now, do you still want to talk about your wife?”
When asked, Edward corrected his posture with a more serious face.
“… Jeop, I didn’t come here for this.”
he scratched his head.
*
‘Ah, I think I’ll get tired.’
Edward feels breathless and Elric… I looked into Kasha’s eyes.
I thought I would have been a little bit harmful while recuperating in the countryside.
In fact, when he was chatting with his wife, he had the appearance of an ordinary young man everywhere.
‘It’s because he was wearing a mask.’
Does that man’s wife know?
That the person her husband decided to bite once was a murderer who would go to the ends of hell to tear him apart.
Edward let out a long breath and said.
“As you can see, I’m not here to fight. you know? If I was going to fight, I wouldn’t have come here in the first place.”
Sword Demon Kasha was the most worthy of the title of ‘strongest’ among the seven.
Excluding the situation of the empire where he is currently living in seclusion, would it be explained if there was not a single person who could beat him in a one-on-one battle?
Of course, the battlefield does not take place only in one-on-one battles.
That’s why the seven rivers remained in balance, and Edward’s neck was attached to this day.
Edward didn’t know that.
In this situation, he was clearly the underdog.
“If you’re not here to fight?”
“I’m here to negotiate.”
Edward said, sticking his head forward.
“I know very well that our old sword demon hates talking back, and I also know that he hates being humbled, so I’ll be honest.”
Edward took a deep breath and then got to the point.
“Please retire. Please don’t turn your eyes to the western battlefield again.”
The nape of the neck is cold.
“I wish the war would be longer.”
Kasha’s eyes softened.