Chapter 148 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and Shield (2)
Will the child be okay?
Today, Karna, who had piled up a lot of gold, silver, and copper coins on her desk, looked at the accounting and organized the documents, thought for a moment.
As the Black Wolf Mercenary Corps has high credibility and trust, when you are here, you can get all kinds of information.
Confidential information that cannot be shared with others. However, as long as there is a belief that it will not be disclosed to others, most of the secret information has been revealed to make a request, so a lot of secret information has come in, and based on that, a lot of secret information has come in. Looking at the situation, Karna slightly frowned.
Recently, the mission failure rate of mercenaries was increasing.
Rather than a simple credit problem, the number of mercenaries being wiped out or destroyed was increasing, and members of the Black Wolf were often saying that the monsters’ movements were unusual these days.
After putting together a lot of information, it was said that something unusual was about to happen, and Karna judged that it would be difficult for even a black wolf to survive at this rate.
I needed a place to lean on.
But where is the back ship that can be trusted?
And who will arrange such a place and us?
Karna, who was worried about that, just sighed.
For now, there is no other means other than to increase the number of members as much as possible, improve the armament and equipment, and stock up on food for preservation.
While spending a day or two like that, Karna was very welcome. However, he ended up with a reunion that he was never happy about.
He had previously saved someone from being captured, maimed, and nearly sold into slavery.
And the girl, who had a very bad experience and was seriously injured in the most precious place as a woman and was treated by herself, was reunited in a worse condition than before, suffering such a terrible thing even this time. Had been
At this time, Karna thought that if she asked this child, she would be able to connect him with the Countess, but she had done such a bad thing to her child. She said nothing.
As time passed day by day like that, the sign that something bigger was going to happen only barked, and one day it came right in front of her nose.
The girl who was really small became a mother who officially married and gave birth to her child.
But she nevertheless still appeared in a small form and asked such a wonderful question.
“Hey, Karna-san. There’s a nice guy out there. Wouldn’t you like to meet him?”
“To?”
A girl who lived a very unhappy life. Yuria came with a bright appearance as if she was living happily and well, and she was arranging a match for me.
It’s marriage
I’ve thought about it, but I haven’t had a chance.
Although, at the time of the founding of this Black Wolf, as the youngest, he did chores and ran errands, learned healing techniques even for his brothers who came back injured every day, studied accounting on his own behalf for his brothers who only knew how to use their bodies, worked as a blacksmith, worked in cloth and leather, etc. I was dedicated to supporting them so that they could work properly.
That is, one by one, the number of new recruits increases and the small mercenary corps are absorbed.
With new mercenary groups under her command, the size of the mercenary group gradually increased, and it reached this point without knowing it.
Come to think of it, before he knew it, he too was old enough to hear the story of an old maid, and more than anything else, could there be a man who would like a flawed woman like himself?
At that, Yuria smiled and said.
The opponent is very true, but the age is quite close, and he has already been married twice.
At those words, Karna frowned at her.
No matter how bad he went through and his age is a bit dangerous, he wondered if he would introduce him to that kind of person.
“Why don’t you try it once and decide? I’m sure you’ll like it.”
That’s how she met the Count, Karna never thought that she would be the Marquis whom Yuria introduced to her.
Looking at the current situation, it was at the forefront of danger, but the lord castle he wanted was a strong fortress with the best defense.
If she became the wife of the count she wanted, it wouldn’t be too difficult for her to bring the black wolf mercenaries into this territory.
No, even as Count Barran, this is an advantage.
The strength of the Black Wolf Mercenary Corps must be the best in this heinous time.
However, she left all of that and the more she met and got to know each other about the person she wanted, the more she came to know that she was a really good person, just like Yuria said.
It must be very difficult to create a person like this right now, not only for the black wolf’s nest, but also for Karna herself as she is missing her wedding day.
Slowly making up her mind, Karna went to visit the Count.
Just because she made up her mind doesn’t mean everything is decided.
No matter how strong the black wolf mercenaries are, he doesn’t know what he thinks of him, since he’s not a noble.
“If you’ve made your decision, there’s no reason for me to delay any longer.”
“Yes?”
“Otherwise, I was reluctant to take a noble family’s wife as a hostess to avoid political complications, and her second wife was also a commoner, but she was an underworld woman to encroach on our estate…”
“…”
“That’s why I’ve been trying to find a woman who I can trust and who is wise enough to rule this territory well with me, but I couldn’t find such a woman. It wasn’t until recently that Yuria brought you.”
At the Count’s words, Karna thought that it was fortunate, but she was a bit bitter.
In the end, he said that welcoming himself was due to a political problem.
“Above all, it is very great that my heart was shaken by your heart, who is considerate of my situation, even though it is desperate.”
What did Karna say about the earl’s words? She looked at the Count.
“So that’s what I’m saying…”
The Count pulled out a small box from her arms and handed it to Karna.
“I want to propose to you apart from this political affair, will you accept it?”
Even if it wasn’t, her chest, which had been a little pounding, thumped loudly at that moment, and she unknowingly accepted the small box with her thumping heart as her blushing Karna.
“Gladly…”
* * * * *
The next morning. Karna, who was unable to walk properly due to her throbbing lower abdomen and her back, felt something throbbing at the sight of Yuria looking at her with a strange expression on her face.
“Did you like last night?”
“You, you…”
“Even though we’ll cut off after a while, I guess I’ll have to call you mother for a while.”
Ah, Karna? And looked at the little girl in front of her.
“Come to think of it, she said she was adopted by Count Baran before, right?”
“Yes. It’s already been over 5 years.”
In the meantime, Karna saw the two boys hugging YuRia tightly next to her and a small baby in her arms.
“So, will I become a grandmother as soon as I get married?”
“Yes?”
She was Karna, who felt as if she had suddenly stretched out.
“What I want to say is this”
“Huh?”
“At the earliest, 10 years later. Within 20 years at the latest, the relationship between me and the Count will be cut off.”
“Huh?”
As if asking what that meant, Karna looked at Yuria.
“It’s hard to talk about the details, but we’re leaving for the Empire.”
“…”
Leaving for the kingdom…
You’re going to accept the title of nobility and leave it for the Empire?
It seems that the countess truly regards this child as her daughter…
“I also wanted to stay here if it was something that happened, but it wasn’t an ordinary job.”
“… I’m a little disappointed in you.”
“Someday you’ll find out. This isn’t for me, it’s for my kids and the people around me.”
Of course, there were some who went to benefit from the daughter who was too powerful, but more than that, there were too many people who would be caught up in the aftermath if they didn’t go to the empire.
Above all, it would be quiet for a while now that the people behind the souls had been rooted out by causing large and small disasters around him, but if this world was really a trash can of the world he lived in, he understood why this world hated him so much. If so, he was saying that there were so many people in the world who would still consider themselves enemies.
Those disastrous futures seen in countless possibilities are probably because of that.
In Yuria’s expression, Karna looked at Yuria with a thoughtful expression.
What is the matter?
However, judging from her expression, it seemed that it was not really her personal desire, so Karna wondered what to think of her Yuria.
“Therefore, I have a few presents for the Countess’ sister to repay her kindness.”
“Is she a present for me?”
What Yuria gave as her gift was quite enormous.
I could never have imagined that the top of the euro belonged to her, Yuria.
“In other words, if I marry the Countess, she will give me the Shelton branch of the top euro?”
“Yes. It’s not exactly Karna, but it’s for Countess Baran.”
At those words, Karna gave a slightly bitter smile.
“You mean to give it to the Count under the pretext of giving me a chunk that is actually quite large?”
“Even if I go to the Empire, I want to keep the connection between the Count and Karna and her sister.”
Karna sighed in response to those words.
“Okay. Seeing that you’re trying to do that, it doesn’t seem like a normal thing.”
“Also, I’ll tell you how to make onion flakes, as well as recipes for seasoned beef jerky and kang series, which are the main products of Euro’s top division. Also, a production license.”
“Huh?”
Karna was taken aback by those words.
With the growth of the euro lineup, they now handle a lot of things besides those products, but aren’t those products the signature products of the euro lineup?
Are you going to reveal it?
“Of course, on the condition that it must not be disclosed anywhere else.”
“Oh, no… That’s normal…”
At this point, I had to admit it.
I thought I was leaving because of a problem that was really unavoidable, not something like money.
“You’re really trying to hand over the Shelton Kingdom market to us…”
“Double, so the gashu allies too.”
“Really…?”
“Because the Imperial Market is enough for us. There is also the Northern Market.”
“Well, yes, but…”
She knew very well that it was human greed.
No matter how big the rice cake is in your hand, wouldn’t you try to grab the small rice cake in front of you?
Ten million.
Rather, it was human beings who wanted to own all the rice cakes that were somewhere out of sight.
Even if there were enough rice cakes to live without anyone going hungry if shared with each other, humans wanted to own even a handful more, and even if someone starved or even died because of it, there was no end to that desire.
On such a subject, his own is too sensitive and stingy to even lose a needle.
Of course, not everyone was like that, so I thought that Yuria belonged to that kind of good, too, but what almost changed my mind about this incident was that I decided to believe again when I saw Yuria boldly letting go of the large loaf of rice cake in her hand.
“Instead, there is one condition.”
“Hmm?”
“Please protect the academy, mage tower, and workshop that I will build here in the future. That’s all. When I go to the Empire anyway, I’ll give it all to the Count.”
Karna became more and more oblivious to her child named Yuria.
What is the matter?
* * * * *
She can’t even make a titan outright from scratch.
Above all, the technology, equipment, and people needed to manufacture Titan. The first time now without all of that, I had to lay the foundation through something else.
So, the first start was the establishment of an academy that pointed to a new magic formula created by Yuria herself, and a super-large workshop that was established by gathering all the artisans who could literally scrape together all kinds of bait.
What started right away was none other than a mass-produced metal wagon that had been made as a trial before.
There is also the purpose of doing business, but the important thing is to train as many high-quality craftsmen as possible.
That’s also the quality craftsmanship in the direction I want.
However, if you openly tell them about the metal smelting method and alloy ratio like back then, you will be humiliated for real this time. It’s already past the time to see only physical pain.
Since he was close to immortality anyway, being tormented with physical pain was not such a big shock, even if it left behind mental aftereffects for a while.
The really deadly things for me are the things that can directly impact my soul and mind.
Okay…
It is rape.
There is nothing that erodes my will to live as much as that.
I, who had already collapsed to the point of excessive collapse, was in a state of embarrassment to the extent that I would collapse and die if I was really abandoned by Roa, and to that extent, it was something beyond the trauma itself that Roa could not be proud of.
So, we have to do it indirectly as much as possible.
But in many ways, it was still a distant story.
Still a craftsman. Students too. Even the professor hadn’t arrived.
“It’s a building, even if it’s a little overworked, I built it first by using my abilities, but people are a problem.”
YuRia, thinking that she should keep playing with the buildings like this, decided to change her direction a bit.
Let’s gather the orphans and those who hope in the territory and point them at them.
About the knowledge and skills of a new workshop other than a blacksmith, or the newly developed magic system.
“What?”
Surprisingly, the number of children gathered in front of the academy building was very small.
Only four
YuRia, who looked at the children in front of her eyes through her precognitive ability, wondering what was going on, sighed, thinking that she had too many fantasies in this era.
I didn’t know the reality, but I didn’t know too much.
She was so foolish that she thought that if she taught me magic or skills, she would definitely come.
In this era, magic was not so easily passed on, and it was a very closed study.
In addition, rumors spread that sometimes wizards kidnapped orphans and experimented on human bodies, and a deep dig revealed that there were actually no such wizards.
Even if that wasn’t the case, learning magic itself was impossible in most cases because most of them were struggling to make a living right now, let alone learn magic.
There were only four orphans who gathered here for this reason and that reason.
Apparently, the black wolf mercenaries recruited a lot of people, and Loa opened the swordsmanship department, but about 20 people gathered.
There are five people who want to learn blacksmithing from the dwarf Tondef.
In this case, it was just because there were all five blacksmiths young enough to learn something new in this territory, but it wasn’t that they weren’t unpopular.
“I’m at a loss, what can I do even after 100 years, not 10 years like this…”
Even so, these four people gathered in front of me were children who had overcome even such circumstances and gathered here.
No matter how bad their circumstances are, these children should not be ignored.
“Hi”
* * * * *
Whoa…
It is said that the beginning is half half, but it felt like I couldn’t take even one step properly.
“Tiyaaaaa… I don’t know if mom is doing this right”
Our children are so smart no matter how you teach them.
Unlike Cashwynn, who was quite intelligent and did not reach the level of genius because he was very smart like Cashwinn, he was able to somehow match the level of learning of his children, Joshua and Hosea. Pointing was so difficult beyond imagination.
Thanks to that, the children are having a hard time, and you are having a hard time too…
“What do you really want to do?”
“Really… A mother who talks about her life to her baby.”
“But… Our Tina is actually the great Thebanoa.”
YuRia, who lifted her Tia high, turned around and put it back on top of the cradle.
“Since Mom has decided to go to the Empire, she wants to organize this place as soon as possible and go to the Empire, right?”
“That’s true, but 20 years is really fast, isn’t it?”
At her mother’s words, Thebe Noah put on a slightly salty expression.
“A person who is still in his 50s is talking like that, so it seems like he has lived for hundreds of years.”
“Is that so?”
Whoa… YuRia let out a sigh as she put her chin next to Tia’s cradle and looked at her.
“But…The past five years of being so happy passed by so quickly and leaked through my fingers in an instant… Twenty years seems so short when you consider that it’s only four times that.”
At those words, Tia let out a sigh of her own.
“Mom, calm down. 20 years is longer than I thought.”
At those words, Yuria groaned and tried to calm her impatient heart.
“Then what should I do?”
“Mom. How did Mom develop that tiny rural village?”
“Huh? Is that… Oh?”
Only then did Yuria realize what Tia was trying to say.
“I see… I was really in a hurry.”
YuRia, who finally realized what to do first, thought about what to do with her children, who had just started their education.
“Trust her older brothers, Elza and Liza. The amount that her mother taught her older brothers and sisters is enough for normal people to learn in 10 years. And ask Aunt Karna for help. To make her mother’s dream come true, she needs a lot of office workers like administrators and accountants, so she’ll have to gather a lot of students who are related to her.”
To that, YuRia is ah… And she realized again what she had been missing.
The rest of the overly outstanding self who can do it alone.
It is our own era where computers take care of trivial and annoying things.
Concepts that have already disappeared.
But in this day and age, these are the most important things.
The secret to Karna, who had no power whatsoever, was able to hold a high-ranking executive position in the outstanding giant mercenary group called the Black Wolf.
Yuria had forgotten about that very obvious thing.
“Thank you, Tiaya! After all, a mother can’t do without her daughter.”
“If you knew, could you hold a memorial service for me?”
“…Is it okay to build the temple of Thebenoa here for now?”
“Should I call the priest?”
Tia’s reaction made YuRia drenched in cold sweat.
It was not just a joke, I wonder if it was sincere.
“Yes. Take this opportunity to benefit from our daughter.”
“I’ll accept all the discounts that my mother gave me last time because she was having a hard time.”
“… Ghmm. Okay. Yes, our hungry daughter. How much do we have to give?”
Tia smiled lightly for a moment and then conveyed her thoughts.
“Forty bulls.”
“It’s expensive…”
“You can replace 2 bulls with 3 sheep or goats.”
“It’s expensive though…”
Since her daughter is so amazing, her pocket money is also really great.
Actually, this is more like paying her daughter for what she owes rather than pocket money…
“Now. Shall we start with the territory reform?”
After all, if people’s living conditions are not good and the population is not large enough for talented people to gather, it is enough to create an environment where people can gather.
Good. SimCity 2 begins.
