Chapter 274 - Settling in (2) (1/2)
Mars looked at the horrified woman merchant and gave a smile as he unfroze time for the other two merchants and smile as he spoke
”Now then, with that over and done with I would like to introduce one of Ular's new products...”
Mars waved his hand and a rifle appeared mid air which soon was affected by gravity and fell down into his hands, the fat middle aged merchant gave a glance to the woman merchant and realized something was wrong but still he asked
”And what's that? a walking stick?”
Mars gave a smile and rose from the couch as he spoke
”Please follow me, I'll show you all what this puppy can do”
As Mars showed the three merchants to the firing range he spoke about the basic information on how a rifle operated, the three merchants exchanged eye contact and saw the greed that was in eachothers eyes, if this so called rifle was as good as Mars told them they had to get it, no matter what, soon the group arrived at what was the magic practice field where a firing range was sat up, Mars then proceeded to demonstrate how to use the rifle before he handed it the the fat middle aged merchant and spoke
”Try it out for yourself”
the merchant gave a nod and took a somewhat amateurish stance before he fired off a round that landed nowhere near the target, but he was not discouraged and quickly took aim again before he squeezed the trigger again, meanwhile Mars made another rifle appear and handed it to the young merchant and gave him some basic instructions before he walked over to the woman merchant that still seemed a bit weary of him
”Now then, have you had time to cool down?”
”...What do you want?”
”Well first of all I want to praise you, your mind is simply more tenacious than what I expected from a mere mortal...”
The woman merchant gave a slight frown before something lit up in her eyes and she spoke
”The carrot and the stick?”
Mars' smile widened
”Exactly, I knew you would get it”
”But why go through so much troupple?”
A cold light flashed in Mars' eyes as his smile widened a tat
”Because it's insulting to think that you thought you simply could take what was mine without paying the price”
The woman merchant gave a nod and spoke
”I want you to introduce new technology like the rifle through our company first”
”Sure... We can meet another time and discuss the details, for now why don't you try out this one?”
Mars snapped his fingers and a small handgun appeared and fell into his hand before he handed it to the woman merchant...
As the three carriages left under Mars' eyes he asked Jane that stood next to him
”It was you that told them about my capital right?”
”...Yes it was, how did you figure it out?”
”By process of elimination, Juliet, your new bodyguard is in another realm fighting for her dear life... Thus you are the only one that knows about the crystal card other than the one's from the NNE”
”I see... What will my punishment be then?”
Mars gave a smile and spoke
”I won't punish you... I would have exposed my capital soon anyway to attract merchants anyway... but since you want to be punished let's see... face me”
Jane faced Mars that wore a teasing smile
”Now close your eyes”
Jane then closed her eyes like Mars told her and soon she flet a flick hit her her forehead and opened her eyes again
”Punishment over”
Jane blushed slightly and lowered her head while she rubbed the spot where Mars had flicked her...
A couple of days passed without much insdent and eventually it was time for Mars to officially take over as governor, but before that he had to do something else, that was to receive Juliet (the guard he had show him the way to Jane the first time they met) from another realm
”Well in reality it's just another plane of existence... with flesh eating demons all over... I sure hope she's still sane”