Chapter 42 – Interrogation – 3
Franz’s manor is the largest manor in the area.
Under the Great Mountain Range, this area where danger is always a daily occurrence has been eaten by the Franz family since a very long time ago.
Instead, every day was a mess.
When it comes to Franz estates, the first thing that comes to mind is the Great Mountain Range. Because it is a place overflowing with huge monsters, the only people who enter the Great Mountains are suicide hopers, adventurers looking for the real unknown, or adventurers looking for special products and magic stones that have grown due to high-quality magic.
In any case, this great mountain range is commonly referred to as the western region, and the region is divided in half. It is divided into Northwest and Southwest. Among them, if people in the Southwest want to go to other regions, there are three routes.
One walk.
There are three roads that people in the southwestern region use to move on foot, really on foot, or by carriage, one of which is a kind of highway that Franz polished and polished, and the official name is Franz Avenue. Closest, fastest. Through this highway, people from the southwestern region can pass through Franz, pass through Bohring, and go to the Brahms capital or other countries.
As a result, it is not as good as Boring, which is connected to other regions and has developed distribution, but quite a lot of people pass by Franz.
Huh? The other 2 routes?
To live or die, there are crossing the great mountain range and writing a will and crossing the sea.
At least for the former, if you are lucky, there are people who actually pass through, and there are people who live as guides. Most of them are short-lived, but…
The latter…
Sea is more dangerous than land. Even fishing in this world doesn’t go far, it’s only done in the nearby sea, and it’s still dangerous, so the risk allowance is pretty good.
And no matter how magical you are, even aristocrats have to risk their lives to fight sea creatures on the sea, let alone ordinary fishermen.
Anyway, because of that, there are many people whose purpose is Franz, but there are also many people who passed through Franz for other purposes. Was it the large-scale inbound, caravan I mentioned before? Originally, it seems to be referring to a group in the desert, but I can’t think of the right word, so let’s say it’s a caravan.
The caravan roams the southern provinces and trades various goods with each other, but Franz is the area where people from the southern and southwestern provinces mainly exchange. No matter how far away Boreng is, it’s quite a distance from here. It is difficult to trade directly, so we trade primarily with the caravan, and the caravan transports goods from the Southwest to the South… In particular, trade mainly takes place in Borang. Still, Franz had a few specialties he was proud of. For example something like that.
“Five. That guy, that one.”
“It’s a long-necked black-scaled turtle. It’s also quite large… It seems that the most important carapace has few scars, so it will be sold at a high price at this auction.”
There is a carcass of a huge animal in a wagon pulled by a cow-like animal. It is wrong to describe it as an animal. Must be a monster In this world, if you have magic, you’re a monster, and if you don’t, you’re an animal.
“Was that guy a middle class?”
“Yeah. Since there was no contact from the Knights, the adventurer must have caught it. It must have been pretty difficult to catch. It seems to be a famous clan.”
Animals on huge wagons… No. There was a huge medium-sized monster. In terms of body size, it is smaller than the aforementioned large-scale monster, Black, but it is enormous, the size of a three-story building.
It walks on four legs, has a long neck, and is characterized by a shell covering its back. I don’t know why it’s called a turtle, but first of all, it’s a creature that lives near water, and apart from other things, it’s hard to catch because it has so much vitality. Still, other materials are not bad prices, but anyway, that shell sells expensive. It is very hard and is used in many places. That’s why it’s the most important thing to have less scars. However, there is something else that I think is the most important.
That guy’s meat is pretty good. In particular, the steak using the tail meat under the shell is no joke. No matter how noble you are, it’s hard to eat often because you don’t have enough. Well, though I ate a lot of other delicious meat.
I looked around for a moment and saw people flocking to me. In front of the already complex city gate, it became even more complicated. I watched slowly from a little distance.
Haha! If you ask our giant Eagle Wings Clan, you can get enough monsters like this!”
A man with a gigantic build was shouting loudly. Looking closely, there was a flag with wings drawn on the lead small carriage led by a huge carriage. If the adventurers who are mainly active in the minority become the majority, then it can be called a clan that carries a flag representing the symbol.
That tortoise would be enough to make such a loud noise. Seeing him say that he’s pretty good even with the cloche that was salty in praise, the angle comes out. In fact, people around me are cheering.
It’s bad manners to do something like that in front of the castle gate, so usually the soldiers warn him, but at that level, he’s not an easy guy to see in the eyes of ordinary people, so it seems like he’s okay with eye candy.
In fact, even if you exclude the adventurers dressed similar to that man cheering around, ordinary people and merchants are also watching.
That’s Franz’s specialty… It is a specialty of Daesanmaek rather than lagi. Depending on the geographic characteristics of being under the great mountain range, there are overflowing small and medium-sized monsters, so adventurers for their purpose gather. There is a city that is closest to the actual Great Mountain Range, but at that level, the auction in Franz is the most expensive.
Anyway, it’s a clan that catches him like that. Were you going to bring Isabelle? I just had to ask.
Some people were injured, some were carried away, but seeing as they were smiling while in pain, no one died, or there were very few. Killing a medium-sized monster with that much damage is really good, and it must be a pretty famous clan.
Hmm, the giant eagle-winged clan.
“Come to think of it, couldn’t you draw animals themselves?”
“Yeah? Absolutely. It is an aristocratic title. Your neck will fly.”
I cleared my throat at Chloe’s words as if asking me something strange.
The symbol of the main aristocratic family in this world is an animal, and as Franz said of a golden lion, the magic color and animal are mainly determined. As a result, clans similarly use animals as symbols, but depicting whole animals is forbidden. However, it is permitted to describe a part of an animal, such as an eagle’s wing, as it is now, but color is prohibited instead.
“Still, I couldn’t see the lion’s pattern.”
“Do you know about the clan?”
“… Great.”
Uh huh that guy really It looks delicious.
“Ha. Well, I don’t think anyone around here would be so bold as to call a lion. Still, it’s not like it’s not there if you go somewhere far away.”
“Right?”
Although the lion is not the lion I know. First of all, an animal that feels like the king of beasts is right. It looks like a lion. Just looking at that long-necked black fur turtle, it would look very different from the lion I know in real life.
I’ve seen it in pictures, unfortunately, but I’ve never actually seen it.
First of all, since it is a large-scale monster, there is only information that it was witnessed a long time ago in the depths of the great mountain range.
“But are you going to stay here?”
“Well. Right.”
I saw something good as an eye candy, so I looked around for a while. You did a good job getting off from a distance. If I went nearby, it would ruin the atmosphere because of me.
Using the magic manipulation that blocks the gaze of the people he enjoyed with his older sister Grace, he killed the presence and approached the bottom of the castle wall. As you can see from the countless crowds at the gate, there are not just one or two soldiers or knights working here. Of course, the building that is operated as a unit and waiting is sometimes a place to hold suspicious people for a while.
As I slowly approached the building a little far from the gate, the knight who had contacted me in advance and was waiting in front of the door felt my magic and turned his gaze to me.
“Greetings! This is Serene Poena!”
“Well. Nice to meet you.”
I immediately conveyed to the female knight, who took the bow, to make it easier with a gesture. Even if there’s a distance, it’s annoying to draw people’s attention.
At that moment, Chloe felt a moment of hesitation. Do you know the sign?
Chloe hesitated at my gaze, then looked at the female knight named Serene Poena. The female knight stood there with a nervous expression.
“It is a motive.”
“Ah, motive.”
“Yeah! I shared the same room with Chloe as a motive!”
She’s shouting with a hard expression, but does she know what she’s talking about? I don’t think it’s necessary to say that we share the same room. I heard Chloe sigh behind me.
Was this Chloe’s motive, the female knight, Serene? She seems to be very nervous about something. After all, Chloe would be a rookie anyway. She won’t have anything to do with me. No, has she participated in the test before?
“Unfortunately, I was absent.”
“Yes?”
“Yeah. I was away because I had an assignment. However, he is an outstanding knight who is not inferior to me in skill.”
At least, it seems to be a motivation.
I looked at Seline at Chloe’s words. In fact, even if it’s skill, I don’t know much about swordsmanship, and at most I can grasp magic power. The amount of magical power itself is similar to that of Chloe.
Chloe isn’t the type to talk empty-handedly, it must be a promising article.
“If Chloe says so, she must be a promising knight indeed. You are working hard today for Franz.”
– Tuk-tuk.
He patted her on the shoulder and comforted her for her hard work. Wait this
No, I do this myself, so somehow…
It feels like the high-ranking people who suddenly came to me when I was private are telling me that I did a good job.
As I glanced at Serene, I saw that she was breaking out in a cold sweat and casting her gaze into the void.
… Holy shit.
I’m in the same position as those guys. I got bored for a while.
