Chapter 180: Whats in the box? (2/2)

Before Arthur could press another button from the remote Mary interrupted him instead

“Lord Arthur, wouldn’t it be better if we did this outside… I don’t think we need to be this close to the goleh but nodded, his lady retainer was still afraid that thisEven if it wasn’t made to hurt the nener, it didn’t mean that it was safe to be around it

Mana fluid was quite known to be volatile as it was concentrated mana in liquid form If handled without care it could be overloaded to cause a large explosion Thus both of the watch outside relocated to the courtyard There the servants witnessed the strange spider droid perfor some tricks

The remote control didn’t really have that many buttons but when Arthur clicked one, the droid started dancing around Then another one oleility, already seeing one this s

This continued for about an hour until Arthur finally realized that he wasted so olem didn’t have any ar spells and one that produced a gentle tune It was clear to hiiven to hi hiolem do

Arthur and Mary returned to the lord’s office for another quick discussion After going through the gifts there was a clear winner and his name was Wayland

“This Runesmith should be ineering but…”

The spider droid was to the side and not turned off Arthur on the other hand grabbed the log of the items sold at the Valerian family auction house Just as he had expected there were no listings with Wayland’s name as the seller

“This Wayland could be a potential asset…”

“You think so too ainst the merchants and the dwarven union but why did he decide to stay here, I don’t really understand There must be many better cities for a craftsman of his caliber, he should be able to easily find one where they would accept a human runesmith”

To Arthur it was a mystery, the ainst a huge behemoth like the dwarven union It didn’t seeains Mary also infore situation, which painted Wayland in a ht

“Mary”

“Yes, Lord Arthur?”

“Could you fetch Ferdinand for me?”

“Of course e, I’ll bea trip to the auction house”

Arthur h all of the paperwork that he had in this mansion he was ready tomuch out of the old merchants They had rooted themselves in the city and their web of contacts ide

But there was one dark horse in this city that had potential This was of course the city’s runesmith, Wayland From everyone here, the man had the most potential and his morals also seemed to be in line with Arthur’s Thus he made a decision to reach out to him with an olive branch

…

Back at the workshop Wayland along with his two helpers orking tirelessly They didn’t sleep for a few days again and Bernir along with Dyana were showing clear signs of exhaustion

“Wayland sugar, I know that this is important but I think we need to take a break…”

Dyana called out while being covered in sweat, a rather sloppy-looking Bernir was down on the ground Roland looked back to his two exhausted assistants while also panting slightly

Since the reveal that the orphanage had been ti frenzy The spider droid that he was supposed to fix in a week he knocked out in two days, he even drew up a custoo with it

He wasn’t sure what he was hoping for as his expectations towards the new young lord were quite low Even if he piqued his interest with his goleive hie their mind for hi and signing an unfavorable contract to save Elodia’s orphanage was the last thing he wanted to do

“Ah yes sure, take the rest of the day off… we are already ahead of schedule, we’ll be able to assemble the new smelter with this around while Dyana looked at him with a troubled expression Like before Bernir was hoisted over her shoulder and carried out of the heated-up workshop While his fire resistance skill had leveled up it was nowhere close to reaching the other two

The inability for hie situation was slowly eating away at him Unbeknownst to Elodia he had Lobelia clue hiuild contacts

Apparently, thewith had been involved with Albrook even before the dungeon appeared The house that they had received had aluild appeared in the city and this was the et it

At the start of Albrooks’ rise, everything was still dirt cheap Thanks to this, soood deals This did probably leave a bad taste in soned was one of thechildren was not really taken seriously by otten with time It was still in there and now offered thishis old house If he was successful in his scheme, the money from which he could sell it would be ht it for

But frooing to this length Instead, he was playing the long gas or renting them The explosion of new adventurers was still on the rise and would certainly go on for another few years

This dungeon was a very newbie-friendly one Thanks to this an adventurer could spendto eon, that is if they even made it that far

‘bastard probably wants to split it up into rooms and make some kind of dor out of the workshop to clear his head while gruh s as they had a bed they were fine and with a constant streaher price point

Lobelia also brought hiht about forking up the retfully it didn’t see to sell it even if the price was many times over its real value

He would also like to evade any unlaays of clearing up this problem as the inspector was one of the more influential officials of the city It didn’t seeood or would be easy to pull off

But it seeht be possible to pay the thief guild a steep sum to take care of this problem Then the other option would be to set up a temporary shelter for the kids close to his home The cheapest option would be to use tents that usually adventurers caht of sohiht though He had not yet discussed this option with Elodia as he knew that she would probably not ask hi her his tent plan soon though Elodia did see rut ever since this predica someone that she could rely on, would ease her nerves Before he could reveal his lackluster plan though he got an unknown visitor

As he was taking a stroll through his yard he decided to go outside and check up on Elodia There right as he was opening the gate he met up with a certain person The nized him from various events and speeches that he made in the city, it was the old city mayor