Episode 31 – Find Talent (1)
The capital of the empire, Darkhan.
It is the center of the Charlotte Empire, which boasts vast territories.
The heartland where all important matters of the empire are decided.
“I don’t know how soon the capital will come.”
Xian looked at the scenery of Darkan and muttered.
From Lucia to the capital Darcan.
Xian was able to arrive without any problems.
No, to be precise, it wasn’t without problems.
“I honestly… thought Count Crowd would make a fuss.”
Amelia, who was next to her, gave a look of surprise.
At Amelia’s words, Xian also nodded.
It was none other than the incident that took place in Lucia.
Reminton, the second son of Count Crowd, was agitated in the social world when Xian destroyed Reminton.
Naturally, it reached Count Crowd’s ears,
It is said that Count Crowd was quite angry.
Reminton was Count Crowd’s prized son.
Because I gave such a son a piece of sh*t.
Xian expected that Count Crowd would come to Xian and play a joke.
And as expected.
Count Crowd had just come to Xian.
But what
‘Our son has committed disrespect! I’m really sorry!’
He apologized to Xian for becoming Count Crowd.
Amelia, who was watching him from the side.
‘······ to?’
Amelia’s expression at that time was…
I couldn’t explain anything.
Xian also wondered what this was doing.
That’s why I’m still staring at Count Crowd.
Could I have misunderstood Xian’s appearance?
‘Well, my son doesn’t know the world yet! Please… Forgive me only once with broad generosity…’
At the same time, don’t you hand the money bag to Xian?
The confirmed amount was 10,000 gold.
‘uh···.’
Xian really wanted something like this.
Apparently, I thought it was handed over in the name of settlement money…
Maybe it’s because they’re a family with the largest granary in the empire.
The level of settlement was extraordinary.
But why did Count Crowd hand over the settlement money?
Looking at Count Crowd, wanting to know what it really is.
‘I put a little more sincerity…!’
Isn’t Count Crowd suddenly adding 10,000 gold?
Perhaps he misunderstood Xian’s blank expression.
‘Please forgive me…!’
And Count Crowd bowed his head.
A high-ranking aristocrat with the title of count apologized this far?
Even for those who haven’t been formally titled yet?
This was impossible.
And 20,000 gold as a settlement.
To be honest, this wasn’t too much.
However, this was not the case with Count Crowd.
If only we could escape the crisis of extinction by breaking our pride once and for all.
If only I could buy it with 20,000 gold.
Because it was incredibly cheap.
of course.
‘Why is he doing that?’
‘I-I don’t know…?’
Sian and Amelia didn’t know the details.
‘What did Isabel say?’
‘Well… I could do that if I was conscious of the external gaze.’
I’m just guessing.
well, anyway.
It is also not polite to refuse the money given.
Xian readily accepted the money.
‘thank you! thank you!’
Then Count Crowd was thrilled.
There is no time to question why I am thrilled even after giving money.
It seemed that Count Crowd would never be fooled in front of him again.
Empty, Hani disappeared.
‘What, what is it…?’
‘I don’t know either.’
Xian doesn’t have that much problem(?).
I was able to arrive at Darkan, the capital of the empire.
“Chicken skewers that both die while eating are only 1 silver!”
“Come on, it doesn’t come every day! We have everything except what we don’t have, so take a look around!”
The streets of Darkan already had a festive atmosphere.
National Foundation Day event held every four years.
As well as nobles from all over the empire,
Even ordinary people who come to enjoy the event.
Truly an incredible number of people flocked to Darkan.
However, I didn’t get the feeling that Darkan’s streets were so complicated compared to the people who came in like a tidal wave.
That’s what the neatly arranged roads and the buildings that fit the plan made it that way.
“I don’t know when our Ruben will become like this.”
“Even now, it is a great development. And isn’t it a bit harsh to compare it to the capital of the empire?”
Xian shrugged.
“By the way, that chicken skewer. If they both eat and both die. Is it okay to eat it?”
“It must be that delicious.”
“I’ll buy you one, so would you like to try it?”
“······ no. It’s because I don’t like chicken skewers very much.”
Amelia’s expression on her face.
Xian burst into laughter.
Amelia shook her head once and asked Xian.
“What are you going to do now? There is still a lot of time left until the National Foundation Day event.”
Xian and Amelia arrived in Darkan earlier than expected.
Thanks to the rush from Leuven, we have about a week left.
“If you have nothing else to do, how about enjoying the festival in the meantime? You made a lot of money this time.”
“Um… is that so?”
That’s why it didn’t seem like a bad idea to enjoy the festival in the meantime.
The National Foundation Day event comes around once in four years.
In addition, this event, which is just one thousand years old, was an event that will remain in history.
That time when I was about to step out with Amelia.
Tring!
I heard the cheerful notification sound of my smartphone in my arms.
Xian took out his smart phone from his bosom.
And the screen that popped up.
《Elodie’s Laboratory Lv.1 Completion!》
“Ah, it’s finally finished.”
“yes? What is done?”
“Wait a minute, Amelia.”
Xian stopped walking for a moment and executed the mobile lord.
《From now on, you can research the skills needed to develop your territory!》
At the same time, items that could be studied were listed.
《Research on manure farming methods》
▶You, by any chance, do you think that farming means simply growing crops when you plant them?
isn’t it? right? Aye, please
If so, reflect immediately!
As well as various farming methods that help crops grow well!
The energy of the land absorbed by the crops needs to be replenished periodically!
There is no such thing as a holiday for nothing!
yes?
Is fallow a rest experience?
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Just study this!』
– Required Facility: Fertile Farmland Lv.1
– Research effect: Farmland production +500%
– Duration: 15 days.
– Required cost: 1,000G
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『＜＜Research on professional animal husbandry＞＞
▶ Pastoral farming is not just about raising animals!
It starts with selecting animals that can be domesticated!
Livestock should be able to eat grass, pests, and leftovers that people don’t like to eat!
Through repetitive mating, they continue to produce offspring!
And it must grow fast!
These animals are not easy to find, but…
By the way, there are already such animals in your estate, right?
It’s not an animal… but!”
– Required Facility: Beast Ranch Lv.1
– Research Effect: Beast Growth Speed +500% (Tame Beasts can be used as labor.)
– Duration: 10 days.
– Required cost: 2,000G.
『Soap Research』
▶ I’m asking just in case.
you! Could it be that soap hasn’t been developed yet?
yes···? Didn’t really develop it?
oh how can that be!!!!!
This is… this is blasphemy!!
You who did not develop soap!
You don’t deserve to be a lord!
Soap is the rule of the country!!!』
– Required Facilities: None.
– Research effect: Hygiene effect +700% (no more contagious disease in the manor!)
– Duration: 10 days
– Required cost: 500G
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In addition to this, smelting secrets, iron technology research, and so on.
Of course, it boosts the efficiency of all facilities.
There were numerous research technologies that could be developed into higher-level facilities.
Innovative technologies that can advance from village to manor.
After all, it deserves the name ‘Elodie’s Laboratory’.
however.
“soap? What is that, making such a fuss?”
Sian asked Amelia.
“Amelia, do you know what soap is?”
“Soap? Um… no. I am hearing it for the first time.”
“You don’t even know Amelia?”
“yes. I hear it for the first time.”
Amelia, who wandered all over the Empire.
If Amelia didn’t know, at least it had to be regarded as something that didn’t exist in the Empire.
Xian looked at the smartphone screen again.
I don’t know what it is, but it seemed pretty good when I saw that it was making a fuss.
“Can you bring it and sell it?”
I thought it would be nice to try making one.
Even the research speed is also receiving +10,000% effect as the basic effect of Elodie’s Lab Lv.
10 days lead time for soap research.
This was originally meant to be a 1,000-day study.
So, I must have sold the mana stones as well.
I must have received the settlement money from Count Crowd.
Now that my pockets are full.
There was no reason not to do it.
Xian currently available research items, including soap research.
About 10 of them were selected.
and hold on
bought all of those things.
Chara la la la rock!
Then the amount of 10,000 gold evaporated.
《Research Sijaaak!!!》
The notification window of the mobile lord who had seizures came to mind.
If so, when the National Foundation Day event was over and I went back to Leuven.
Ruben must have faced another revolution.
It might have been developed to the level of the territory.
‘I’m not good at this taste.’
Xian nodded his head in satisfaction.
That’s when I tried to put my smartphone in like that.
《Error: Research cannot proceed.》
Suddenly an error window started popping up.
The moment I tilted my head for something.
The mobile lord’s notification window came to mind.
“oh! Could it be that there are no researchers in the laboratory?”
《There are no researchers in the laboratory right now, so did you think we could conduct research?》
“No way! It can’t be!”
《Research using Elodie’s knowledge requires talented people who excel in sorcery!》
“ah! Of course, even if you don’t have such talent, there is a way!”
Tring!
《Instant Soap Research Completion Ticket – 3,000G》
《Voucher for immediate completion of manure farming research – 5,000G》
《Voucher for immediate completion of specialized livestock farming research – 7,000G》
《Immediate completion of research on steel smelting – 6,000G》
《Right to complete land surveying method right away – 5,000G》
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Tring!
《When you get stuck while proceeding, try the hyeonjil!》
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“…… Damn it.”
Xian murmured involuntarily.
it’s sh*t
There really was no such thing as this!
How can the instant completion right be more expensive than the research fee!
What kind of researcher’s labor cost is that much?
‘Considering the ransom of wizards…’
Well, it seemed possible.
anyway.
That wasn’t it.
And that mobile lord’s notification window.
Could it be because of the fact that he was defeated in the last fight?
Tring!
《If you get stuck while proceeding, why don’t you try a hyeonjil!》
Somehow, it seemed that the tantrums had gotten worse!
“······ sh*t.”
Xian let out a deep sigh.
Anyway, in order to run Elodie’s laboratory, a high-level magician or sorcerer was needed.
It wasn’t really something that could be replaced.
No, there was.
Hyeonjil.
Even all future research had to be diligent.
so now.
Darkan, the capital where all the talents of the empire gather.
“What kind of a festival is a festival!”
Xian shouted harshly.
“Amelia! We are looking for talented people who will lock themselves in the lab from now on!”
“yes? Are you looking for talent?”
Amelia tilted her head involuntarily.
Xian’s words to find talented people.
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand the meaning.
What’s the problem all of a sudden?
“let’s go! Let’s start with the Mage Towers!”
Xian’s eyes flashed.
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The Magic Tower was a term used to refer to a space where wizards gather.
To be precise, the good organization of wizards.
To put it simply, it was a term referring to the ‘Wizard Guild’.
Various activities were conducted in this mage tower.
Magic research, trading of magic tools.
Services using various magics and political activities of wizards were those.
And depending on the faction, there were countless mage towers, and the methods each mage tower pursued were also different.
And of all the mage towers, the most apex mage tower.
It wasn’t exactly the magic tower.
From the Wizard Guild to the Mage Tower.
Also, the only family in the empire that has developed into a family that cannot be approached in the Mage Tower.
The two pillars supporting the empire were the Lorsilt family.
The current head of Lorsilt, Egritte Lorsilt, is an archmage who has reached the 8th level.
The greatest wizard of the empire,
He was a skilled man equal to Durak Ellandur, the head of Ellandur.
Excluding the imperial family, the only family that can be compared to Elandur.
Elandur of the famous swordsmanship.
Lorsilt of the Magic High School.
In this way, the two families were the pillars that supported the Charlotte Empire.
Anyway, the existence of such a mage tower.
Xian looked around almost all the magic towers located in Darkan over three days.
and.
“None.”
There was no
I went around for almost 3 days, but I couldn’t find the talent I was looking for.
“There’s no way you can find it that easily.”
“I thought it would be there if I looked for it.”
Sian smiled shyly.
Of course, it wasn’t nonexistent.
Darkan, the capital where talented people who say they are good at gathering.
Those who are called geniuses were really numerous.
So, it was true that I had hope.
“There’s no way another family would leave such a talented person alone.”
All of them had a place to belong to.
That would be the case, and the wizard was a truly precious talent.
Even a wizard who reached the first rank receives love calls from numerous families.
Even more, those who are called geniuses are impatient to take each other with them.
Even if you don’t belong anywhere.
“And who would want to come to Leuven?”
As Amelia said, no one wanted to come to Ruben, located in the Dark Forest.
“Amelia, you walked in on your own.”
“That’s me…”
Having said that, I had nothing to say.
“I was going to buy it with money if it didn’t work out.”
Xian took out a bag of money from his bosom.
300 platinum coins in the heavy money bag.
It contained 30,000 gold.
20,000 gold from selling mana stones in Lucia.
20,000 gold given by Count Crowd.
And it was the amount minus the 10,000 gold that he had invested in the research institute.
With 30,000 gold, I could buy all the facilities in the current mobile lord.
“Did you think that would happen?”
It was not enough to buy the pride of the wizards.
In mobile lord, you could buy anything with gold.
But the human heart could not be bought with money.
of course.
‘If you give me 20,000 gold like Count Crowd… I can tolerate insults’
Xi’an was an exception.
well, anyway.
“Now this is the last time…”
“Do you still have places to stop by?”
Amelia shook her head in disgust.
It was already the 3rd day.
Why are there so many mage towers in the capital?
It seemed like everything that wizards were precious was a lie.
Amelia slowly raised her head.
and.
“This is… the Magic Tower, right?”
I could see a very shabby mage tower.
No, it was so shabby that I felt like I was about to collapse at any moment.
In general, wizards were generally poor.
Due to their nature of focusing only on research.
It was because I didn’t know the flow of money.
But that was the usual case anyway.
It wasn’t the mage towers in Darkan, the capital of the empire.
They are the ones who receive a lot of support from their respective families.
But what is this…
“Let’s go in first.”
Xian slowly moved towards the shabby mage tower.
profit.
With the screams of the rusty hinges, Xian was able to enter the Mage Tower.
“Who are you?”
Then a gruff voice is heard.
There was an old wizard full of annoyance sitting there.
“I want to meet the Master of the Magic Tower here.”
“I am the owner of the Magic Tower.”
It’s a magic tower where the owner of the magic tower comes out directly.
It was a part where you could immediately know what the situation was like at the Mage Tower.
That’s why Xian showed a glimpse of an intuitive money bag rather than giving useless explanations.
Then it seemed like when.
The old wizard’s expression bloomed.
“Ha ha ha ha ha. I didn’t recognize the honored guest. Come this way.”
Even the tone of voice has changed.
Xian slowly followed the old wizard.
But just then
Kwaaang!
Suddenly, a loud bang sounded from one side.
Want something for a while.
“Jerry!!! Did you do that strange experiment again?!”
The old wizard started shouting furiously at the place where the explosion came from.
“Oh, no, this is… that’s why…”
And a young voice coming from inside.
“Sorry, but hold on. Could you please wait a moment?”
Soon after, the old wizard disappeared somewhere.
“Why are all sorcerers strange?”
“Maybe that’s why I was able to become a wizard.”
Xian shrugged once.
While waiting for the old wizard, Xian calmly looked inside the mage tower.
Unlike other magic towers, there was nothing special about it inside.
At least there were a few things that looked like magic tools…
“hmm?”
At that moment, a magic tool entered Xian’s gaze.
A unique shape compared to other magic tools.
I didn’t know how to use it, but…
The structure inside is quite sophisticated.
Although Xian did not know much about magic,
It was enough to know at once that it could not be implemented with tolerable magical knowledge.
and.
“I don’t know who you are, but you have great skills.”
The same was true of Amelia, who had come into contact with magic tools quite a bit as a merchant.
Right then.
“Because of you, the mage tower won’t survive! I can’t stand it any longer!!”
The old wizard, who had disappeared from sight with a loud voice, reappeared.
And someone was being dragged into the hands of such an old wizard…
15 years old? Was it around 16?
He was a child who hadn’t even reached adulthood.
Literally, the word boy is just right.
“Ha, please forgive me just once! Now again…!”
“Noisy! I don’t want to look like that, so get out of here!”
The old wizard grabbed the child and dragged him away.
Then, he threw it out of the door of the magic tower.
“At least he knew how to make useful things and collected them, so what is this…! f*ck off! Don’t even come close again!”
“Hey, hold on!”
bang!
and closed door.
“sorry. He was the one who took it out of pity…”
The old wizard shook his head as if he was in trouble.
And it seems like when.
He approached Xian with a smile.
Xian asked the old wizard.
“this. Where are you going to use it?”
“What are you talking about…”
The old wizard narrowed his eyes.
And when he found the magic tool Xian was holding, he shook his head.
“That’s… a magic tool that has the ability to purify the air.”
Then, the old wizard slightly stretched out his hand.
Soon, bluish mana flowed from his hand.
It permeated into the magic tool Xian was holding.
Hee hee…!
Then, the magic tool began sucking in the surrounding air.
Then, he exhaled fresh air through the back.
When you put your nose to it, you can feel the freshness.
“As you can see, it’s more useful than you think.”
The old wizard closed his outstretched hand,
At the same time, the magic tool also stopped working.
“I’ve never heard of a magic tool like this…”
“That’s because it’s not on the market. It’s something Jerry made.”
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Jerry?
“If you’re Jerry… are you referring to the kid you just kicked out?”
“That’s right.”
The old wizard nodded awkwardly.
“That kid made this?”
“That’s true, but… He’s a guy who usually only makes useless things. It’s just breaking the bone. Confucius is not someone to worry about. Rather, our mage tower…”
The old wizard quickly changed the subject of Xi’an.
but.
“I would like to meet that child.”
Xi’an’s attention was already focused on Jerry.