Chapter 202 – 45. Chapter 4. (2)
The continent has not seen rain like rain for three months already. At least, except for the drizzling rain that fell like rat pee a month ago.
The well had long since bottomed out, and at least the river that runs through Vermandois was barely alive.
It was a drought. Severe drought.
All kinds of fortune-tellers put the heads of various animals on the altar and performed sword dances or drowned live animals in the river in order to hold a ritual for rain. … Of course, such hard work must be happening not only in Vermandois, but throughout the continent.
However, in spite of all the efforts of the continent, the sky was indifferent, not even a drop of rain fell, let alone a cool drop of rain.
It is no longer possible to just rely on prayer. People are starting to face reality.
In the yard where there was not enough water to drink, there was no way there was water to grow crops. The crops were withered and twisted before harvest, which meant food shortages would soon arrive.
Grain prices began to double, triple, and then break through five times.
Nonetheless, no one willingly offered to sell their crops. No one knows how long this drought will last.
…… One year, just one year. It doesn’t last very long. But it will be a terrible ordeal.
This drought is attributable to the fact that all the rainfall over the past year poured as snow in the unknown land in the northern part of the country. The snow that had fallen in Vermandois before had such a minor effect.
Allen, who knew all this, had stockpiled not only the grain that the mercenaries would consume in the meantime, but several times more than that. That is one of the many reasons why Charlotte has been sent to Danju, Calihill, in the south to receive a large amount of grain.
Grain prices have already jumped fivefold, but Allen still hasn’t solved it. …… Sooner or later, the time will come when grain will be worth gold.
You will not die without gold, but you will die without food.
For Allen, this was an opportunity to make a fortune. … Just as Allen’s distant ancestor bought a baronet over 100 years ago by selling grain stockpiled during the great famine.
Money is the thing that presents the easiest path. Of course, the more, the better. Especially from Allen’s point of view looking at the 10 River.
As soon as word began to spread that food was running out, grain prices skyrocketed. At least, Danju Viola was enduring by consuming the grain she had stored in case of an emergency, but the other mercenaries were not like that.
Mercenaries that went bankrupt after not being able to pay the ransom for the members, let alone food, began to appear one after another. Even the top 10 Gione Danju has to tighten his belt.
As a result, the mercenary market began to sell a huge number of items for sale. Most of the people who don’t even need a ransom and will work even if they feed them.
Allen, of course, did not miss this opportunity. In a way, this is the best discount event that is hard to go through again.
Not only the Gione-Mercenary Corps, but also the Viola-Mercenary Corps were released for sale to organize the list. Even the price was exceptionally cheap.
Allen shrieked happily over the various options, picking and choosing as best he could. If he had any irritating traits, he boldly brushed them off, and if the price wasn’t right, he barely bargained. At this moment, he was overwhelmingly the best.
That’s how I recruited a total of three mercenaries at a transfer fee close to cheap. The ransom has also been cut by almost half compared to before.
1 row shield holder. Former viola-mercenary’s ponytail Enoch.
2 row axe. Former Zione – The mercenary’s cutthroat Karanos.
2 row bowser. Former Gione – Anne of the Mercenary Corps’ archery.
In particular, Enoch the Ponytail and Anne the Archer are characters that are used quite well in [Guild Master].
Honestly, if it wasn’t for the roster arrangement, it would have been impossible to recruit them at such a low price.
And around that time, Allen auctioned off some of the grain. Naturally, by open bidding.
The final price is 10 times higher than normal. In terms of the actual purchase price, it reached 20 times.
Thus, for the first time, Allen held more than 10,000 real gold coins in her hands. …… There were definitely different impressions.
Of course, due to the drought, the magic power business was not very fun, but it was also accumulated one by one. After all, it doesn’t rot away like grains if left for a long time.
Allen invested the money she earned back in her business. This time to the building.
He looked at the building whenever it came up for quick sale. In particular, I never missed the surrounding buildings as I could see the river.
So, Allen bought a building on the riverside, not far from his current hideout, at a very low price. Of course, its use is also a high-class inn. However, as customers completely stopped visiting, and the financial damage was severe due to repeated losses, the landlord eventually closed the inn business.
The most crucial reason is that building prices are starting to drop. In short, they want to sell it before the price drops further.
Naturally, everyone was puzzled by Allen’s choice. If you buy the inn building now, it will inevitably be a loss.
Of course, he had no intention of running it normally right now. Currently, the inn building he had is almost flying only flies.
But he prepared for the future. The future, one year at the earliest, two years at the latest….
Only two buildings bought in a month like that. Nevertheless, money from the sale of grain still remained.
At the same time, Allen gradually expanded his influence in Vermandois. Danju the viola had no intention of stopping it in the first place, and Danju Gione also had no time to do so because his nose had grown to three right away.
Still, the entire continent was not in a very serious situation. …… However, the upcoming winter and still high taxes are a problem.
Until now, even if you managed to survive by digging up plant roots, it would be a different story if you ate the seeds to be sown next year. It looks like I’m going to starve to death right now, so how can I prepare for the future?
But even if you manage to survive the winter and sow the seeds next spring, it’s not like you can harvest right away in a month or two….
The empire encouraged the relief law to relieve the poor, but what kind of aristocrat willingly opened my barn?
…… It was a disaster caused by the worst combination of unavoidable disaster and lax attitude. And it is currently in progress.
Only after the poor have been massacred, the nobles will barely survive by boiling grass porridge to survive even worse than that beast. To roll like a slave in the field all my life with invisible shackles.
… That’s when he’ll show up soon.
Allen anticipated the appearance of the cultists that would signal Chapter 4. … And after a while, a rumor hitting Vermandois.
– There is an apostle of God who turns stones into meat!
A fake apostle appeared.
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Monua, a paladin who had accumulated distrust in the Holy Kingdom, could no longer trust the Holy Kingdom.
Of course, he didn’t mean that he didn’t believe in God. She is still a devout believer. …… However, there was no god in the Holy Land.
She was not so distrustful of her kingdom when the drought seemed to be prolonged.
However, even when she saw the hungry believers, she witnessed the bishops filling their stomachs, thinking that it was God’s will, and she realized that God had already left the Holy Land.
In the first place, even in the situation of the undead, Seongguk was nothing more than a bystander. Seongguk was in a hurry to avoid the problem, let alone solve it.
The top water has already rotted. They were not believers in God, but just powerful people who were tired of money and power.
Realizing that, Monua felt both her disgust and sympathy for herself for working for her kingdom.
For what purpose did I become a pawn of the Holy Kingdom until now… !
In her ears, which was so deeply agonized, one of her rumors was heard.
– The apostle of God who works miracles.
Of course, Seongguk denounced him as an impostor and called out God’s punishment. However, she already knew that there was no god in the Holy Land, and she wondered if he was the true apostle of God.
… Perhaps the Holy Spirit, who had compassion on the continent, might have sent his apostle to this land… !
So, she abandoned the title of Paladin and embarked on her penance.
To see God. To find God’s will.
And after a two-month journey, Monua saw a man called God’s Apostle.
The masked man already leading a huge crowd.
After a long ascetic journey, she stopped in her tracks as she ran towards him with high expectations.
…… She then turned around and started retracing the way she had come.
Monua smelled a terrible stench from him.
He was not an apostle of God.
…… In this land, there were no apostles of God.
After a long ascetic journey to meet the messenger of God, she lost her goal again.
She needed help now.
To save the self abandoned by God, the continent….
Who us….
Please me… !
A man immediately comes to mind.
The smell of the man still lingered in her nostrils.
Monua suddenly had this idea.
… Perhaps, the true apostle of God,
Not that masked man with a terrible stench,
He might be that man….
Monua left without regret from the group of false apostles and went on the path of asceticism again.
Toward Vermandois—.
