Chapter 499 – Disrupting Species (3)
A trading city, Mahal, 3 days away from Alishik.
Turning into a snake in that back alley, I watched as a middle-aged man wrapped around Lalilura’s neck gave out a list.
‘This is the list of known ‘Immortalis’. As you requested, we also gathered information from the powerful people in nearby cities.〉
─Suck.
Lalilura, who hid her identity with Adelaide’s transformation magic necklace, said curtly after receiving the document.
The list is only approximate information.
What was his self-proclaimed name, what kind of magic he used and what kind of damage he did. Not only is it inferior to the leaked history of the game’s new character update, but the public confidence is less than chirashi news.
But I bought it because it’s better than nothing.
〈Is the most recently updated information correct?〉
Larry Lura yanked her pocket of her pay. An information dealer from Romania shoved the checked amount into an innkeeper-like outfit and said it was funny.
〈It’s free if you ask questions, isn’t it? I don’t think the young lady will come to see me again.〉
Lalilura answered cynically and entered the alley.
And only when I no longer felt the presence of a person in my five senses, I let out the breath I had been holding back while releasing the transformation magic.
“Puha— it’s been a while since I’ve been so nervous!”
“Good work. This kind of makeup is also important for disguising your identity.”
I took the document and read it.
Just like the last time we met Primor in Romania, we only purchased information while hiding our identities. Even in this town, there are people who are supposed to be information vendors.
I even thought about wearing a face mask, but in a way it leaves a deep impression on me.
‘Somebody vague and unidentifiable’. Even if you only have basic information, you would be surprised and say, ‘Bastard, you’re wearing a frown’?
So, a seemingly ordinary impression is better. Larry Lura smiled, putting her V and her fingers to the corners of her eyes.
“No thanks! I was just getting tired of sightseeing!”
“Are the pyramids boring? I must have been bored for two days. Even I was fooled.”
There are several pyramids in Narmer-Nile that are directly owned and managed by the royal family.
The exterior walls were also intact, the exterior was pure white like limestone, and at the tip of the vertex was a work of art decorated with gold like a millennium puzzle. To the extent that I can feel that it deserves to be called a ‘royal tomb’.
Inside, the artwork buried with the ancient pharaoh is protected by magic, so that is the main tourist product.
We also came to see Fran’s magic to increase our eyesight. That’s why they crossed the desert for three days.
I thought everyone was having fun while watching, but Lalilura didn’t seem to be so. Our junior put out his lips as if he didn’t want others to hear.
“Are you cheating? Since the unnies are having fun, I didn’t want to set a candle on the atmosphere~. It was pretty, but it was boring and I got tired of it quickly.”
“You are right on that point. It’s hard to find interest in places like historical value or artistic design, for me.”
“Blood. As an archaeologist.”
“Because I am an archaeologist. Historical sites on display are no better than art museums. I took all the valuable artifacts with me. In the end, it’s hard to find anything more valuable than ‘memories with loved ones’.”
─Tak. Closing the paperwork, I smiled.
“In other words, even now, Priscilla, it’s just the two of us, it’s a fun time comparable to sightseeing in the pyramids. Thinking like that makes it a waste to spend time in a dark alley like this all of a sudden. Shall we stop?”
“… Aha♡ Is that so?”
Her face unraveled and clung to my arm like jelly left out in the scorching sun.
Even in this hot weather, the body temperature is cold. It must be thanks to the magic item for temperature control. I smiled bitterly.
“If you lower her body temperature while spending so much mana, you will catch a cold. Even her clothes are thin.”
“I’m going to take care of my physical condition before the contest, right?”
“I wouldn’t have brought you out if you were going to worry about that.”
As soon as I fed him the fucking chestnuts, Lalilura was so happy with her love that he was about to die.
Also, the child has a lack of affection.
“Ehehe. So, where’s next? I Rari Lura, if it’s for her seniors, I’m prepared to renew her bones too!”
“Nothing is difficult anymore. Today, I’m going to ask the nobles for an interview first, focusing on the list and the list picked up by the elder. Let’s talk about business for a minute.”
“Huh. Does that sound like a big enough thing?”
“No, it’s easy. All you need is a little sincerity.”
In exchange for the arm that had been taken away by Rari Lura’s arm, she took out a silver coin with her prosthetic arm. She is a brand new coin, polished and polished.
“If you get this, they will be the first to get excited and want to meet me.”
“It’s a Romanian silver coin, right? Can I meet you with one piece of this?”
As she handed over her silver coin, Lari Lura twisted her head. I stopped sniffing because her puzzled expression was cute.
“Does it look like a simple silver coin?”
“Yeah? … What?”
Lari Lura squeezed her hand holding her silver coin and blinked at her.
“Are you cold?”
“It’s the power of technology that the troll king gifted me. Do you know what silver with mana is called in the world?”
“… Uh, could this be it?”
“Yes. It’s something I ‘made’.”
I smirked and pressed the silver coin in the palm of my young wife’s hand.
“What do you think? Are you intrigued?”
… Nod
Lari Lura nodded her head as if possessed by her ghost.
***
Mowol gathering. Narmer – Mahal, a large city in the southern part of the Nile.
At the banquet hall, the most popular in Mahal, several nobles gathered in one place to chat about the current situation and to confirm their friendship.
“Hey, the night view of Mahal is as beautiful as ever. That white pyramid really looks like snow in the desert.”
《Thank you. Since it’s an item entrusted to me by the Pharaoh, I’m diligently guarding it.”
The lord of Mahal calmly responded to the flattery of the lord of a nearby manor.
Although he was a man with very impressive muscles that could strangle a lion with his bare hands, the lord of Mahal was a mature lord who had a good understanding of governance, even if he looked that way. Since he was in charge of managing the royal family’s pyramid, further explanation was meaningless.
And the nobles gathered in this party hall were all lords who had formed an alliance with him.
Narmer – The lords of the Nile have deep connections with at least three territories.
There are many territories that do not have abundant water resources like the Yatrau River, or are exposed to multiple dangers, including monsters, even with oases. Since it is difficult to maintain independently, the federation was essential.
Of course, it is the fate of the species called human beings to have more and less conflicts within them.
However, it was an undeniable fact that there was such a strong bond that it was difficult to compare it to blood alliances and alliances that were spoken of in other countries. That is the time-honored survival method the Narmerians established against the Great Desert.
Was it like that?
When they were invited to a place at the invitation of Nord, the lords of the Astrewan League were astonished and thirsty at the fact that all of the ‘cooperative relations’ that had not been explicitly disclosed to the public had been called.
‘… You invited Lord Axir, who was in contact with you, as a new expansion target for the alliance? Where the hell did the information leak from?’
‘This meeting is not a coincidence. It must have been an intricate preliminary investigation that was unimaginable. And without us knowing!’
‘Are you a traitor? No, there is no advantage to abandoning the Federation. Indeed, the Armials family. It’s information power that cannot be underestimated.’
He probably wouldn’t have gathered this aspect with the information he roughly bought from the local information vendor.
The lords, who did not even consider the possibility of a coincidence, immediately attended the party full of tension.
Considering that all of them were aristocrats, and that the person who called them was a commoner foreigner, this was surprising.
But if you look deeper, that was a natural result.
The Astrewan Federation is a territorial alliance centered on Mahal, the largest city in the south.
That’s why renting the biggest party hall in the Mahal costs a lot of money. It is a weighty ‘invitation’ that even self-made adventurers cannot make without a sponsor.
The federation members, who smiled and chatted in a friendly way, secretly exchanged information and came to conclusions.
‘In common sense, this should be seen as the Nords borrowing business expenses from the Armials family.’
In other words, this is an offer from the Armials family.
‘A master-class warrior who is in the mouths of the first Senate family and citizens. No matter what the proposal is, there is nothing to lose by contacting it.’
‘Of course, how could a warrior who achieved that level of achievement when he was less than 30 years old have even talent in negotiations? There is a high probability that a civil servant trusted by the old elder will appear in the negotiations. I can’t underestimate it.’
Maybe it’s because you’ve been worrying so much about making your head explode?
Everyone in the federation realized the true intentions of the senators behind this invitation.
——My family has already harbored the man your country wants to call in right away. This visit is part of that proof.
──I prepared the name of
—If you are interested, accept the invitation of my sponsor.
There was no alliance member who did not succumb to that temptation.
Of course, no one noticed that the conclusion was only half right, and that the candidates for the invitation were the result of the Nord’s youngest wife choosing appropriately.
Whatever the reason or process, in the end, the Astrewan Alliance members decided to gather here tonight.
However, there was another decisive blow that made them decide to attend.
Every time the alliance members felt the weight and coldness of the Romanian coins they had brought, one side of their hearts felt heavy.
‘… A mithril minted in the shape of a Romanian silver coin.’
And unlike normal mithril, it was an artificial mithril that had its own ice mana.
