Chapter 126 – Episode 126: Five Princes
In the end, the mayor of Netsua came running. If you do well, you might be able to borrow the power of the Dark Ball of the Palmo Empire.
The mayor was impatient.
Coming to the luxury inn where Jason is staying, he showed an attitude of seriously trying to do business.
Jason also gave away all the information he knew.
He told the City Alliance that he was having trouble with the Kraken.
“Ugh. It’s true that the youngest son of the Wolf family is really good at business. I admired it. So, are you going to exterminate the Kraken?”
Fighting in the water was something that any adventurer was reluctant to do.
The City Alliance secretly commissioned the Adventurer’s Guild to fight the Kraken without spreading rumors that affected the business, but even a few high-ranking adventurers refused to accept it.
The super adventurer didn’t even look at this kind of request because money came in even if he was still.
“You can make money by doing something other than fighting the Kraken. We have a good business agenda.”
Then the mayor’s eyes turned ferocious.
“Our city association makes the most money on long voyages. If you do business only in close proximity, how is it different from those who do business on the ground? Have to compete I’ll make some pennies. We need your help to get rid of the Kraken!”
“If you need help that badly, I’m sure you’ll listen to my pretty much every request.”
“Nothing!”
Jason originally intended to seduce the city union with a product that would help with sex.
In addition, if necessary, there was an idea to support the pirates with about 100 million gold.
But now, the city union was more worried about losing the money they were earning, rather than making more money.
So Jason changed his persuasion method.
Depending on the situation he had to use the most effective method.
“We will defeat the Kraken. Then can you convince the City Alliance to attack the top of the Palmo Empire with pirates?”
“Hmm… Is there even a hated marine top? We will bury one or two ships in the sea.”
The market was mistaken.
He just thought that it was enough to settle the aristocrat’s personal grudge.
“No. To the extent that the Palmo Empire sent troops because they thought that the pirates should not be left alone like this.”
“Yes? What. Are you saying we should go to war with the Palmo Empire?”
“That is the best.”
“…”
The mayor was speechless.
Of course, defeating the Kraken was an urgent task for the City Alliance.
However, the Palmo Empire was a powerful country, and the City Alliance was just a collection of small cities.
“Are you scared? As far as I know, the Palmo Empire tried to bring the City Alliance into the empire from time to time, but I heard that it failed.”
Of course, in an all-out war, the City Alliance could not compete with the Palmo Empire.
However, the city confederations are all excellent sailors and could run away if need be and reclaim their respective islands.
If we fight hit-and-run, there is a chance of winning, just like Vietnam did against the United States.
If Vietnam has the jungle, the Cities have the sea.
“Dealing with the Empire… Possible but… There is no need to do that.”
The city confederations usually operated merchant ships and made money on long-distance voyages that other countries couldn’t even dare.
And the nearby also made money by operating merchant ships on a regular basis, and sometimes raided other merchant ships with pirate flags and robbed them of their goods.
The sea was the perfect crime scene with no witnesses left.
All the nations along the sea told the Cities to do something with the pirates, but the Cities shamelessly said that they were not under their control and did it again and again.
Instead, the City Alliance did not intend to go to war with any country, so piracy was in moderation.
“Even if it’s a war, it won’t take that long. If the empire organizes a fleet and goes out, it doesn’t matter if you lend me a ship and run away.”
“Hmm… If so.”
It was a good contract condition in many ways for the city association.
It would be nice if the Kraken could be defeated, and raiding the merchant ships of the Palmo Empire would also be a way to earn pocket money.
The mayor and Jason began to draw up a contract.
-If Jason Wolf succeeds in defeating the Kraken, the City Alliance mobilizes all pirates to attack the merchant ships of the Palmo Empire.
– When the Palmo Empire sends out ships for war, the City Alliance provides Jason Wolf with the best ships and crew. Beyond that, there is no obligation to engage in war.
It was the basic gist of the contract.
I wrote two copies of the same content and both signed them.
Now the two share it.
If someone leaked this contract, it was a scary paper that would endanger each other’s lives.
Jason will be put to death immediately for mutiny, and the entire island will be set on fire because the Cities are backing the pirates.
And each other could kill each other, so the two of them would never take this contract out of their lives from now on.
The mayor said curiously.
“At this point, it seems that Mr. Jason is not the head. Maybe on top of that? And if the fleet of the Palmo Empire sorties, it wouldn’t be able to stop it with decent troops. Is there any way?”
“Ah. Would you like to get more deeply involved?”
The mayor waved his hands and refused.
My heart was pounding just from this contract.
Jason was a dangerous-looking man.
It was clear that being deeply involved would do more harm than good.
“Oh my. I’ll just live without knowing. Please take good care of the Kraken.”
The mayor naturally thought that Jason would ask the dark ball.
At least several advanced adventurers were needed to catch the giant monster of the sea called the Kraken.
The best way to catch the Kraken was to ask the Dark Ball.
If the dark ball came out with the elite of the Wolf family, the Kraken would easily be defeated.
And Jason had no intention of asking his father for a favor.
**
‘I guess I’ll have to go up to a higher level now.’
Up until now, Jason had been deliberately delaying his advancement to a higher level.
With the ability to see the status window, Jason could see exactly when he could reach the advanced level.
So he maintained an intermediate level so that everyone else would look down on him.
Currently, he has a level 49 thief and level 10 warrior.
With a total of 59 levels, he could become a senior by just raising one more level.
And it was the same for his entourage.
Everyone was only 2 or 3 levels short of advanced level.
Jason went to the dwarf dungeon after a long time.
Up to the level that was safe for intermediate adventurers, the female slaves were catching monsters while training hard.
And Jason and his entourage headed beyond.
When you hunt monsters, your level goes up.
Jason knew the truth.
Other adventurers had to raise their level by 20 every time they raised their level.
And I didn’t even know how many levels I had left.
What you can see your progress on and what you can’t.
That made a huge difference in the rate of growth.
Jason and his entourage quickly reached the upper level.
The entourages realized that they had reached a higher level and were overjoyed.
Realistically, the final destination that most adventurers could achieve was advanced.
There was even a perception that superhumans could be reached by very few people, so there had to be some kind of chance.
‘It will take an enormous amount of time to become a superman now.’
Like an online game, the higher the level, the more monsters you have to kill.
Jason knew why so many advanced adventurers couldn’t become superhuman.
It was the level of a superman that could only be reached by hunting like crazy to the extent that patience was not enough to sustain it.
Jason told his entourage.
“Okay, then we need to catch the Kraken. Everyone has reached a higher level, so it’s possible, right?”
The Kraken was a high-level monster.
Of course, only advanced adventurers could catch it.
And the environment of living in water made even advanced adventurers nervous.
Even if it was possible to breathe underwater with a magic potion, it was several times more difficult to avoid monster attacks underwater.
But Jason wanted to catch the Kraken.
Jason’s aides have now reached a higher level and are welcome wherever they go.
But the place Jason’s women most wanted was right next to him.
When Jason asked to catch the Kraken, he obviously intended to catch it.
Jason was proud of his women, who were united by his love and loyalty.
“Then let’s go shopping.”
“Shopping?”
“Now that we’ve become seniors, shouldn’t we all go buy better equipment?”
Jason had already given instructions in advance to make the necessary equipment for the mage tower he had.
It was a luxury that only Jason could afford in this world.
The women shouted with joy.
