Vol 4 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Volu Come to Such a Time, Hesitation is Forbidden”
———— Near the Plains of Scilla, in the Forest, Caade
Mercenary Survivor: “The torch lights are drawing closer They must think we are still at the fortifications Distance is four and a half miles”
Small Mercenary: “We can still draw them in closer”
Elder Sister Maid: “No, it’s not necessary Please prepare the fire arrows”
Mercenary Survivor: “Is that really alright? We can take theo”
Disciple nobleman: “……”
Elder Sister Maid: “I believe that option will lead to high casualties, it’s a very harsh option as well If you think about it, it doesn’t fulfil our objectives either…… Moreover, the risk involved is quite high If we attack theht only be able to take down 500 or maybe 1,000 of them”
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Elder Sister Maid: “I’ on you”
Mercenary Survivor: “Alright, let’s do it Archers!”
Rustling
Mercenary Archer: “Is this alright?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Sulphur, saltpetre and charcoal Yes”
Mercenary Survivor: “Is sulphur and charcoal really okay?”
Elder Sister Maid: “According to my Mistress, the real stuff requires a composition of 50-70 saltpetre, but we don’t actually require that sort of explosive power To put it extre as we can exhaust the saltpetre, which is the source of all the trouble”
S yet?”
Young Mercenary: “It’s burning, isn’t it?”
Mercenary Archer: “I can confir”
Resourceful Young Man: “So a tremendous noise”
Elder Sister Maid: “I think it will”
Resourceful Young Man: “Eh?”
Elder Sister Maid: “I think it will Let’s leave quickly”
Mercenary Survivor: “I suddenly really want to hear this tre about”
So We’re about to run into the Holy Crusaders froet discovered really quickly if we don’t leave”
Young Mercenary NODS
Mercenary Archer: “That’s true”
Resourceful Young Man: “Cheh”
Disciple nobleman: “Seems like it’s about time”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yep” Nod
Mercenary Survivor: “?”
BOOM!!!
Small Mercenary: “!”
Young Mercenary: “!”
Mercenary Archer: “!?”
Resourceful Young Man: “Wh, hat the hell!?”
Disciple nobleman: “O My ears hurt”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yep”
Resourceful Young Man: “What was that! That really surprised the hell out of me!”
Disciple noble man”
Mercenary Survivor: “There’s no need to be that surprised”
S”
Elder Sister Maid: “Will you recognise me now?”
Boo!
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Elder Sister Maid: “Will you recognise o with ers which ill have to overcome”
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Small Mercenary: “…… Yeah”
Young Mercenary: “I will recognise you”
Mercenary Archer: “There’s nothing for it”
Resourceful Young Man: “Hey, hey”
Mercenary Survivor: “I’m sure you can see the consensus is that we cannot reject such a treasure as a leader like you In that case, we’ve got no choice Please continue doing soood work like you just did”
Elder Sister Maid: “In that case”
Mercenary Survivor: “Yeah”
So strip those Light bastards of their equipht Isn’t that right, Substitute?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yeah We’ll gather information, and then…… we’ll snatch some shi+ps” Smile
——— The City of the Gate, Consulate of the Merchant’s Union
Disciple Engineer: “Whoaaaa!”
Creak
Disciple Engineer: “That’s not it More, over here! Hey! Come over! Hey, hey! That’s more like it!!”
Bam
Fire Dragon Lady: “…… You, what are you doing?”
Disciple Engineer: “I can’t let my teacher see such a sloppy lay out No way”
Bam!!
Disciple Engineer: “!?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Look here, this is the study of the Union Just who are you?”
Knock knock
Shrewd Accountant: “Ah, Disciple Engineer”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Disciple Engineer?”
Disciple Engineer: “Yeah, I’ineer”
Shrewd Accountant: “This here is the Fire Dragon Lady She on Tribe On top of that, she also holds an i Council of the City of the Gate”
Disciple Engineer: “F, F, Fire Dragon Tribe!?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “What’s up with that?”
Shrewd Accountant: “?”
Disciple Engineer: “You ht Great Tribes…… And on top of that, the purest blood lineage How terrifying Whoa”
Fire Dragon Lady: “It’s quite tragic for you to say such a thing”
Shrewd Accountant: “Eh?”
Disciple Engineer: “Huh?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I am already a citizen of the City of the Gate It doesn’t overn the City as its Self-Governing Council”
Shrewd Accountant: “…… Madam”
Fire Dragon Lady: “What is it?”
Disciple Engineer: “This is a map of the City”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Map……”
Shrewd Accountant: “The Disciple Engineer is an expert on all matters related to construction Reed Merchant to build a bridge across the Great Portal? He was the conducting engineer”
Fire Dragon Lady: “My, ood work!” Bows
Disciple Engineer: “Eh Ah W, well Please raise your head”
Fire Dragon Lady: “No, it is because of that bridge that we are able to enjoy the prosperity brought about by the salt trade”
Shrewd Accountant: “Indeed”
Disciple Engineer: “Ahh”
Shrewd Accountant: “——–? Why have you turned completely red?”
Disciple Engineer: “That’s u world is almost completely male, and umm, I’m a Banshee with horns, so…… it’s just the Lady is really beautiful”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Hohohohoho, that makes me very happy”
Shrewd Accountant: (The Fire Dragon Lady seems to be very popular these days……)
Disciple Engineer: “In any case, I was invited by the Middle Aged Merchant to draw up plans for the renovation of this house I apologise for the intrusion”
Fire Dragon Lady: “And you’ve also been working on the plans of the city? This is…… a market?”
Shrewd Accountant: “Mmm”
Disciple Engineer: “Yeah, that’s right The Central Wholesale Market In this city, a large thoroughfare links the Southern Gate directly with the Northern Gate, a large nu areas are filled arehouses These warehouses form a business district In the middle of all of that runs the river, the confluence of which forms the first merchant’s quarter”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Mh the area every day”
Disciple Engineer: “City planning concerns the placement of facilities and the connection of these infrastructure”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Don’t these developrows?”
Disciple Engineer: “Of course, there are many cities for which such developments occur passively Rather, you could say that’s the natural state of things But, well, in cities like this, where we have a specific objective for the developn and a plan for better long-term results”
Fire Dragon Lady: “?”
Shrewd Accountant: “What do you mean?”
Disciple Engineer: “For example, this Third Business District sits on the river bank and has dense concentrations of warehouses; it’s also close to the residential district and the Western Temple, so it’s very popular, but……”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Yeah”
Disciple Engineer: “The residential area has been growing towards this direction, and at this point, there isn’t any rowth is not an objective We can try to organise the area as it is better, but this cannot be a long-terer area for the row further to the South”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Indeed”
Disciple Engineer: “And with the Municipal Halls of the Self Governing Council”
Fire Dragon Lady: “What do the halls have to do with it?”
Disciple Engineer: “These aren’t really halls, they’re actually the location of the Defence High Command”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Defence High Command……?”
Disciple Engineer: “Well, of course it’s fine to use theinally a fortress, right? In that case, it would be natural for the ht noith the influx of refugees, there has been haphazard develop closed, the lines have become muddled up”
Shrewd Accountant: “W, wait a minute What are these lines?”
Disciple Engineer: “They’re lines of human movement They include roads, but they essentially comprise any routes a person with an objective can take For example, this is the line from the Municipal Halls to the Southern Gate……? It’s quite a long, deviated path That’s because of the expansion of the First Market”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I can see that”
Disciple Engineer: “I talked it over with the Middle Aged Merchant…… We were thinking of rebuilding the city walls, but we don’t have money and the interior is in chaos”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Do you have any complaints about this city?”
Disciple Engineer: “No, no That’s not what I meant Well, it’s not, but a city is basically one…… advanced organisation”
Shrewd Accountant: “?”
Disciple Engineer: “In other words, where hus, they will search for ways to do these things easier and more conveniently However, what people do is dependent on their surroundings If co in sales, if imports and exports are also convenient then trade will becoht? And so they will go to where their profession isis ultih engineers are known as the Kings of Technique…… U?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I’o on”
Disciple Engineer: “The City of the Gate is basically a trading city dependent on the confluence of the shi+pping routes of the large river and the roads After that, in order to protect the trade and trading point, it developed a secondary purpose as a fortress city At present, having acquired independence, it is serving another purpose as a city-state To balance all these three purposes is by nothe city walls alone is already very difficult, not to mention expensive”
Fire Dragon Lady nods
Disciple Engineer: “Personally, I would hope for the Southern wall to be constructed along this line”
Fire Dragon Lady: “For what reasons?”
Disciple Engineer: “Firstly, it serves the purpose of protecting the teainst excess population”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Interesting”
Disciple Engineer: “Really?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “You’ve said sos”
Disciple Engineer: “For h”
Fire Dragon Lady: “You ?”
Shrewd Accountant: “Exactly These are massive projects There doesn’t see for it”
Disciple Engineer: “These are just empty blueprints”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Since nobody’s wallet is capable of paying for it, then how about we pay with a method apart from wallets?”
———- The Country of White Night, the Port
Elder Maid Sister: “It sure feels like they’ve let their guard down They don’t even have any security here, with this many soldiers, do they really expect that no one will ever come here?”
Mercenary Survivor: “No matter how you put it, they’re still farmers They only kno to live their lives of work and sleep The fear of the enemy hasn’t been put into their bones yet”
Small Mercenary: “Yeah!”
Trudge, trudge, trudge……
“Ahhhh Let’s hurry back to the dormitories to sleep”
“Don’t whine I’ve brought wine”
“That’s nice, it’ll warm us up”
…… Trudge, trudge, trudge
Young Mercenary: “……Seeone”
Mercenary Archer: “Alright”
Disciple noble really fast back there”
Elder Maid Sister: “Yeah,fast since I left the Grand Cathedral in the Holy Empire”
Mercenary Survivor: “…… Just what sort of experiences have you had?”
Disciple nobleman: “More than experiences, I’erous encounters”
Elder Maid Sister: “No such thing”
Mercenary Survivor: “So, what should we do?”
Elder Maid Sister: “Right As arranged, the Disciple nobleman will command an 80-man squad to take over a shi+p If possible, it would be best if the hold was stocked with food We don’t have the skills required to modify shi+ps, so we should pick a suitable shi+p capable of carrying all of us”
Disciple nobleator”
Elder Maid Sister: “Please”
Disciple nobleet it done”
Elder Maid Sister: “Then, as for our tea monitored the area for a while, I would say that at this ti in the custo as little blood as possible”
Mercenary Survivor: “Yeah”
Small Mercenary: “Understood”
Mercenary Survivor: “Shall I handle it?”
Elder Maid Sister: “Yes Thank you”
S”
Young Mercenary: “Got it”
——- The Country of White Night, the Customs House
Click, click
Mercenary Survivor: “I really can’t do this”
Elder Maid Sister: “You’re up next”
Resourceful Young Man: “Me!?”
Elder Maid Sister: “Yes, please go on”
Resourceful Young Man: “Why a……”
Small Mercenary: “Hurry up”
Resourceful Young Man: “Ugh What’s wrong with this lock”
Click
Resourceful Young Man: “Oh I did it!”
Elder Maid Sister: “Excellent You did well”
Resourceful Young Man: “This sort of thing I do before I even start breakfast”
Click
Mercenary Survivor: “Let’s go in”
Sed and ready”
Young Mercenary: “Point team in position”
Mercenary Archer: “Backup is ready”
Resourceful Young Man: “Don’t pretend to be professionals”
Soldier of Light: “Whoa!”
Mercenary Survivor: “Hmph”
Small Mercenary: “This room is secure”
Soldier of Light: “Who, who are you!”
Whack!
Soldier of Light: “Ahh!”
Young Mercenary: “Alright No problem here as well”
Mercenary Archer: “This place doesn’t look very different fro it What purpose do we have here?”
Young Mercenary: “Let’s get away quickly”
Elder Maid Sister: “Wait for a while We’ll borrow a boat later and ed ti……”
Resourceful Young Man: “Understood! Anything to get you from the Holy Empire!”
Elder Maid Sister: “No, no This is ierous tial s Robbery is bad, after all”
Mercenary Survivor: “Then, why are we doing this?”
Elder Maid Sister: “We’ll borrow”
Resourceful Young Man: “Huh?”
Elder Maid Sister: “We’re just borrowing some capital”
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Small Mercenary: “……?”
Resourceful Young Man: “How is that any different from robbery?”
Elder Maid Sister: “I’ll write up a notice of debt”
Scribble, scribble
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Young Mercenary: “……”
Resourceful Young Man: “Hey, is this girl serious?”
Mercenary Survivor: “Was the Disciple nobleman serious about this?”
Small Mercenary: “It’s fine She’s our Substitute after all”
Young Mercenary: “The shi+p has already sailed on this, just accept it”
Scribble, scribble
Elder Maid Sister: “Done I’ll just leave this notice on the table Uold We don’t have time to count it, so let’s just take these five chests They’re heavy, but that shouldn’t be an issue If they’re too light, then they’re probably being used for so else We wouldn’t want to have to come back”
Mercenary Survivor: “She see this”
Small Mercenary: “Really”
Elder Maid Sister: “We’ll use this money as a sort of compensation to the crew of the shi+p We’ll also buy over their food stocks, to the Polar Continent”
Mercenary Survivor: “What? Polar……!?”
Elder Maid Sister: “Let’s head to the Deot a whole s we need to do”
———- The Kingdom of Metal, Craftsman’s Street, in Front of the Guild Office
Flash!+
The De: “Ah”
The Chief Maid: “My legs are numb”
The Hero: “It’s tough doing this three times in a row, huh”
The De: “Yeah, my head hurts”
The Chief Maid: “My vision is really blurry”
The Hero: “It’s just a ”
The De: “Sorry Next time, let’s just walk there”
The Hero: “Don’t worry about it Aren’t we in a hurry?”
The De: “Yeah, this time, we’re not after mass production I fear that up till now, they’ve only been producing blades, for them to produce such prototypes in just a month is probably impossible, but……”
The Hero: “We won’t know for sure until we ask the craftsmen”
The Deo Come, Chief Maid”
The Chief Maid: “Yes, your Majesty”
The Hero: “Go!
The De: “Ahh, Hero!”
The Hero: “What is it?”
The De: “Today, we only have an appointment with theI have heard that the bars and eateries in the area are soet back home by today”
The Hero: “Understood”
The Chief Maid: “Don’t eat too nificent feast today Consider it a reward for your work, and a celebration of your return”
The Hero: “Got it! Alright!”
The Deo Wait for us!”
Step, step, step
The Hero: “Sigh……”
The Hero: “Even if you say that……”
——– Until the De comes back, I want to share a pilloith you
The Hero: “Don’t tell ht?”
The Hero: “I sure a so , it didn’t feel like this What should I do? What should I do? —– Calot to calm down first”
The Mage nods
————- The Kingdom of Metal, the Craftsman’s Quarter, an Alleyway
The Hero: “B, behind me!?”
The Mage: “Hehehe”
The Hero: “Where have you been!?”
The Mage: “……I had some business”
The Hero: “Where have you been?”
The Mage: “…… I had some business”
The Hero: “What kind”
The Mage: “…… Entry”
The Hero: “I don’t understand”
The Mage: “…… ……zzz”
The Hero: “Don’t fall asleep” Shakes the Mage
The Mage: “…… Ah”
The Hero: “Are you awake?”
The Mage nods
The Hero: “Somewhat”
The Mage: “…… Hero”
The Hero: “Yeah”
The Mage: “How are you?”
The Hero: “Busy”
The Mage: “…… Hehe”
The Hero: “And how are you?”
The Mage: “…… Same”
The Hero: “Right It’s good that you are well”
The Mage: “……”
The Hero: “?”
The Mage: “……”
The Hero: “What have you been doing?”
Star Sparrow: “Chirp, chirp! Myand hard! Chirp chirp! What have you been doing, mistress!”
The Mage: “…… Noisy bird”
The Hero: “Is this your familiar?”
The Mage: “…… My alarm clock”
The Hero: “Even with an alarm clock, it’s not like you wake up on time”
The Mage: “…… With an alar”
The Hero: “That’s irresponsible!”
The Mage nods
The Hero: “……”
The Mage: “……”
The Hero: “Is so up?”
The Mage nods
The Hero: “Are you troubled?”
The Mage: “…… Somewhat”
The Hero: “Let’s hear it”
The Mage: “…… Econorowth, the econoovernmental and technical expertise Moreover, for these overall effects to influence economic systems, a certain amount of time is required On one hand, there could also be undesirable influences on other layers or sectors froovernmental lapses But these drawbacks, if they are minor, will dissipate in ti policies, or otherwise by overwhel the population”
The Hero: “……?”
The Mage: “Military attacks will leave a large scar on affected laters The technical layer will suffer less dae is fore It can even be sury flourishes in tiical research becoy once created, cannot be easily destroyed However, overnovernreatly behind This is because of the needless exhaustion of ‘wealth’, the collection of the econo force On the cultural layer, due to the possible extermination of some ethnicities, entire cultures may be irrevocably obliterated Because of this, the application of thesaid”
The Hero: “…… What’s this?”
The Mage: ““Exceptional questions require exceptional answers””
The Hero: “……”
The Mage: ““Why is it that the Hero and the Deether as individual entities?” For exas and no Hero, hoould things be different? Or why can’t there be three Heroes and s?”
The Hero: “Eh?”
The Mage: “Such a situation has never been recorded in history”
The Hero: “Why……?”
The Mage: ““Why do the Hero and the Deht?””
The Hero: “We aren’t fighting”
The Mage: “…… This development only happened this time, until this time, the normal state has been war It’s best to think of it as a special exception”
The Hero: “I don’t understand”
The Mage: “……”
The Hero: “Hey, Mage”
The Mage: “The approxi”
The Hero: “Eh?”
The Mage: “The Hero of the De of the Human World is the Hero It’s not that either side has been atte to imitate the other, but the essence is the same The same, but two Why two? Why the sa differential factor?”