Chapter 52 - Mills Ruins raid begins (1/2)

Mills Ruins raid begins

The entrance of the ruins were surrounded by fences.

It seems that the most of the ruins everywhere were managed like this.

Mills Ruins is managed like this by the marquis too.

There was a building erected near the ruins.

It looks like a tiny fortress.

The people who looks like they’re the ones managing the ruins is going in and out of the building.

Most of them were armed.

It is said that they also are preventing monsters from breaking out of the ruins.

[Speaking of which, isn’t the Marquis going to send his own soldier to raid this ruins himself?]

Before I entered the ruins, I asked that question to the officer who is in-charge of checking of luggage.

[There are some mercenaries that may be recruited by Creed-sama as his private soldiers. For the mercenaries that had went here, this ruins raid is a great way for them to appeal for him to recruit them.]

A rootless mercenary.

The private soldier of a noble family.

If people would get to choose, most of them would want the latter.

[Most of all, raiding the new floor of the ruins is also accompanied by danger. Creed-sama doesn’t want to lose his private soldiers that he’s already familiar with as much as possible.]

That means that these mercenaries that they’re sending were just disposable pawns, huh…

I was honestly impressed.

[You’re a man who sees through what’s hidden beneath the surface huh.]

[W-Well yeah.]

An officer who doesn’t have a remarkable face.

He’s trying to suppress his face from slacking.

There are some people who act sloppy after being praised.

Just like Oyamada when he was praised by the goddess.

The check officer glances around the surrounding area.

The officer then softly whispers.

[I’ll only tell you this, okay? Actually, you could make lots of money if you sell something like a map of the ruins that you had created or the information on where the monsters live. Creed-sama will buy it later. Well, it’s basically first-come, first-served so you have to be fast when you want to sell these information.]

He talked about a way to make money behind the scenes huh…

I feel that I can now understand how their system works.

They would first send mercenaries as the advance party in that new floor.

They would then try to obtain the information about the new floor from the mercenaries.

The strong monsters were being defeated by skillful mercenaries.

These things would ensure the safety of the raid as much as possible.

Later, the marquis would send his private soldiers to search for the next floor.

And if they had found another new floor again, then another set of mercenary recruitment would happen again.

A well done plan.

[Hmm? What’s this?]

The officer found Pigimaru in his crystal form.

[It’s a tool for my business. Though I’d like to say that, I’m just in the stage where I still think that “It would be nice if I could get used to using this in the future.”… I’m still a novice when it comes to this.]

I said it as shy as possible.

[An apprentice fortune teller huh? You’re quite multi-talented. Good luck with that.]

[Thank you very much.]

The crystallized Pigimaru passed through the check easily.

The last process they conducted is a body check from the neck down.

I’ve also passed through this without any problem.

By the way, a man is in charge of checking a man while a woman is in charge to a woman.

It seems that they put some considerations in this.

The officer in charge finally completes the process of registry.

[Be careful in there.]

[Thank you also for that valuable information.]

While I was being checked, I’ve also gained some more information.

When I asked about the other mercenaries, he said that most of them were impertinent people.

Some of them just openly looks down on others.

That’s why I feel that it’s a good idea that I acted low-key earlier.

I touched the walls of the ruins.

[It seems that I won’t be needing the light from my leather bag while I’m here in the upper floors.]

There are some stones that were buried in the walls that lightly glows.

It seems that it wouldn’t be necessary to use a torch in this floor.

An underground pyroxene.

When you dig them out of the wall, they would lose their light.

It is said that they would lose their light even if you remove all of the surrounding walls.

I heard that they also don’t know the principle of why this happens.

These pyroxenes weren’t even spread out through all the floors.

Therefore, you would still need sufficient lighting in those areas and the deeper parts where these pyroxenes don’t exist.

These were some information that I had also heard from that officer.

[Burrgguuaaahhh!!!]

A monster’s roar.

Coming from deep within one of the passages, I saw mercenaries running away.

[Hiiiii! It’s a Kogyuuki! There’s no information about this monster being here before! It probably came out of the new floor!]