Chapter 239: Deadline. (1/2)

Chapter 239: Deadline

“Please follow h the gate of thethat he noticed is that the nu the usual arainst anything than other hu spears with a couple also having a side blade strapped to the side Fro to expand his personal forces The h There weren’t that many people over a hundred in levels and quite a few haven’t reached their first tier 2 class

‘I guess he doesn’t have the ather a proper battalion but this is a start…’

There was no tier 3 class holder here, without one working under a noble, they would not be taken seriously by the other aristocrats The guards here could produce an artificial crowd to make the lord look better in the eyes of the coh-level retainers could they be called proper nobles

This could be attained in a couple of ways, the most common one was, of course, wealth Powerful adventurers would swarhts as a retirement plan In certain aspects, it was safer to become a soldier of a noble than to battle sware and influence, under a powerful house the soldiers and retainers would have various perks Soh, but Arthur Valerian lacked all of these in the eyes of the masses Probably only with ht be the highest level ‘lackey’ that he has but not like I’m loyal to him, it’s only a matter of convenience for now’

Roland wasn’t sure what to do with the Arthur situation Even though he was a hidden noble that didn’t mean that he couldn’t be a retainer of another one He could easily beco a coo

There was another way, if Arthur actually becaiven land and a title of his own, just like his father did before hi many accolades in battle, the aristocrat that he was subservient to had given him a title as a reward

He was solad to take hiet locked down by another person, his life as a craftsh the as hard, he was still working towards his own dream and not someone else’s as he used to

“I see that you have already noticed, Mr Wayland”

“Yes, the i?”

While walking towards the entrance of themaid called out to him Besides the increase of the soldiers, he also spotted a surplus of builders The walls were being expanded and he could even see a featchtowers springing up here and there This place used to be the house of the city Mayor so it did lack some defensive features that a noble would use assassination atte aristocrats were quite co out of the ordinary

“The world is a scary place Mr Wayland, now even more than ever with that cult on the loose, but you probably know more about that than me”

He just nodded at the statement as he wasn’t quite sure about how much of the information he should disclose If anyone found out that he had a skill to counter the cult relic, he would probably be a dead o through in Reeka, he knew that they would quickly swaret to the bottoe cult wasn’t so to take Luckily he could just shi+ft all the responsibility to the church that was also here Loreena was the perfect scapegoat

“Yes, there is an important fact that the Lord needs to know”

“Then let us not delay!”

Mary clapped her hands together while suided through the busy Mansion that was going through so set up behind the main one, perhaps withto the h funds and if he did, then where was he getting them from

‘Did he take a few bribes from the merchants or did he perhaps increase the taxes?’

There weren’t thatmoney in this city besides the obvious ones The most lucrative ones were probably related to adventurers and the resources in the dungeon Arthur would probably make a lot oflocation

‘On the other hand, he could have finally taxed those dwarven eon…’

Before Arthur appeared in the city, the dwarves along with thethe mines They could easily fake the nu the officials Roland was sure that Arthur would probably go through a purge of those officials, perhaps during his time spent in Reeka this had already taken place

Without anyone faking the nu noble This didn’t mean that he couldn’t work a deal out with the dwarves that would be more lucrative for the both of them With official records out there, he would need to send a large chunk of those earnings back to the main house Instead, he could pocket all of the bribes for hi the other side a better deal than if they did everything by the book

‘That would explain why he got so much cash to spend and why he hadn’t been that active…’

Roland knew that Arthur had locked himself in the ht that the bastard son of the duke was just scared to h all the records and probably sent a large portion of the city officials to prison

This also put hi inforh he was not a city official or a proper retainer, this wouldn’t ed to the nobles It was si to aristocrats, it was so that could be punishable by death

Roland was still willing to risk it, it was the fastest way of reaching tier 3 If the need arose to gain more money it was still possible to unload the rare ores on the blackdiscovered Luckily in this kind of world, it was not that hard to co to his ho

“Please wait a moment”

Finally, they had arrived at Arthur’s main office, this was the first ti it Previously he only came across the city lord at the auction house but these tays followed after hih compared to him but if the Lord actually needed protection he did not know Like h places, he wore an artifact that jumbled up his identification skill

“Co you”

“Excuse reeted by a large desk that rese behind it was a lot s through Bookshelves with thick books and documents were everywhere, he could even see some of the hard and still going through the records

“Mr Wayland, please take a seat, I’m sure you knohy I requested your presence today”

“It’s about Reeka, isn’t it?”

“I’e, would you be so kind to describe the events that transpired in that city, please don’t leave any details out!”

Arthur was not beating around the bush, the work seeive him a recount of what had happened Normally such information could actually be sold for some coin but he also needed to show some respect to his new landlord There was no reason to push his buttons just to gain a few gold coins that he could earn by inscribing a few runes in five minutes

“Very well, but this could take a while to explain… and also…”

“Mr Wayland?”

“Sorry my lord, you must understand that this inforuarded secrets… are you aware of the consequences of this infor?”

In all honesty, Roland orried about giving away the secret Luckily the rumors spread by everyone would cloak the people with the true scoop Yet if the Abysall Cult pinpointed a ru spread from this city, it would put a bullseye on everyone

“Hot me interested in this Mr Wayland but worry not, whatever is said here will not leave this room, you have my word for it”