Chapter 501 – Disrupting Species (5)
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Shortly after entering, I had a hunch that something was going wrong.
‘No… It doesn’t feel like things are going badly for now.’
I fixed my eyes with a calm face and looked at the crowd.
This tension resembles the atmosphere just before the report card is distributed.
And the object of that tension is me.
It’s as if they’re waiting for my ‘scoring’!
Did I just guess based on my intuition?
No. The five senses, which had been carefully refined, were holding on to nervousness and anxiety that could not be seen in aristocrats who would be used to socializing.
‘There’s something.’
It felt as if, without my knowledge, they were talking among themselves about ‘why are we in Eul’s position’.
It was a situation where the word lying down and eating rice cakes was appropriate, but then the rice cakes choked me and made me choke.
《Your desire to chat is like a chimney, but it seems that you have a lot of questions before getting to know yourself.》
The tension in the venue made me nervous, but I calmly dealt with it.
Now that things had turned out like this, I had no choice but to trust in improvisation and get through it.
《I would like to share the present I brought with you in order to evoke even the stiff atmosphere, would you accept it?》
《… Is it a gift? That’s what you’re looking forward to.”
Said the large macho man.
According to the impression he knew in advance, he would be the lord who governs this Mahal. I smiled kindly as I scanned him with my eyes fixed.
Haha. It’s just pure goodwill, no other intentions. ──Hey. Bring it.”
I gestured appropriately to Ralilura and Veronica. Anyone can see, ‘This bastard has no affection for his wives~. Even if I threaten my wives, it won’t work~’.
The two of them, having heard the words in advance, dragged the tray from the door without showing any signs of being offended.
─Rather.
─Suddenly.
Wrapped up in her desert travel clothes, Lari Lura opened her case to her audience as she displayed her auction items.
When the ebony wooden box, which had been carefully cut like a luxury box, was opened, an ingot of silver was revealed. I spread my hands and laughed.
《A processed mithril ingot of about 777 Becca. In terms of universal units, it would be around 10 kg.”
“Seven hundred… Did you say?”
‘Bekah’ is a unit for counting metals in Narmer-Nile. Sensing the aristocrats’ astonishment, I smiled broadly.
“Haha. My wives had a hard time moving. At the end of the party, order the servants to take it. All invited guests have prepared enough for their share.”
“Me, everyone? Not just how many representatives, but all of them?”
“Of course. Please consider it my small sincerity towards those who responded to the call of a commoner.”
10 1kg mithril ingots.
Since there are 10 invited guests, it will be a ‘gift’ of about 0.1 ton.
The status-based arrogance vanished from the eyes of the aristocrats as the bundle of money went into their chin. It’s a very good flow.
‘Ng~ I feel good~.’
It’s the most frustrating thing to do when you’re dealing with clumsy rich people who say money. Is this the true taste of cheap money? I feel bad.
For your information, since everything is handmade, the price of a silver bar costing 1 silver is all of the production cost. If you subtract the mana I gave from the production cost and calculate it, it will be roughly like that.
10 per 10 invitees were distributed, so roughly 1 gold.
‘I think it’s about 100 million won in won depending on the Norse exchange rate.’
For the lobbying cost of breaking through a national level business, it was at a fucking low level.
All the silver bars were purchased locally, and the production time was less than a few days. This is really lying down and eating rice cakes.
《… Lord Nord. Let me ask you one thing.”
The lord of Mahal, who took his eyes off the dazzling mithril ingot, held out the mithril coin I had sprinkled.
《Judging from this coin and that many ingots, it seems that you Romanians have developed a technique to impart mana to metal. Right?》
“Half right, half wrong. This technology is entirely owned by Dunamis Workshop. I just asked the patron, the family head Cornelius, to take care of the distribution and other issues.”
《… Is this skill yours?”
《If the head of the studio is the owner of the workshop, I don’t think it would be too wrong. If you say it’s Romania’s technology, I’ll be a little sad.”
Speaking fluently, I spat out an explanation as if giving a speech.
《What I have restored and acquired the technology of the golden age is a skill that removes the ‘mana repulsion’ from ordinary metal and makes it useful as a material for magic items.]
《It sounds like you can make mithril.》
Oh well you know If only the line is expanded, the production of about 2-3 mithril coal mines is enough to beat rice cakes.
This means that you can become an oil conglomerate, so to speak, and you must be at the level of getting your hands on the mithril spoon that some nobles are born with. After all, when a person is competent, he will have to do business.
But since it wasn’t so rude that I confessed it all, I only smiled humbly.
“Until you try it, you cannot be overconfident. However, there are also limitations. Compared to natural mithril, the quality is inferior.”
This point should be made frankly. Or, later, you can be accused of cheating and only take the money.
《Hmm… That won’t be a big deal.”
“Exactly. If you use that much more, it will be solved.”
“Haha. Thank you for recognizing this.”
And as I expected, some of the clever lords with elite intelligence realized the meaning behind it.
Think about it.
Gold is more expensive than silver, but 100 pieces of silver cost more than 1 piece of gold.
In the same way, rather than cheap equipment or golems mixed with high-quality mithril, equipment completely covered with this artificial mithril is much better. Ten thousand won bills are better than one 50,000 won bill, right?
‘That’s why I needed a heavy backing for this business.’
Oh my gosh, a mithril franchise? How angry and jumpy must have been the existing mithril spoons who only believed in coal mines and traded with guts.
It will react more violently than franchise restaurant buildings in Yanggu and Nonsan, and Narat’s help is needed to stop it. This is why I made a deal to share with the elderly.
Also, if you sell too much because you are blinded by greed, the market price will drop.
Why, didn’t the middle distribution merchants bury the surplus eggs or fruit for no reason because they didn’t want to lower the market price?
‘Fuck, aren’t we fairies compared to those guys?’
Rather, compare it to a high-quality, small-scale production luxury bag.
Anyway, like diamonds, I have to coordinate between the quantity and market price, and it is too much for me alone.
‘If you put this in reverse, it means that even if I eat with the elders, I will earn enough money to make my stomach burst…’
For now, that’s pretty good. I put my finger up.
《First of all, the person Dynamis Workshop wants to sign an export contract with is Narmer-Nile.》
“Like. That’s good news. Lord Nord, I should thank you as well as your supporter, Elder Cornelius, for your consideration.”
Hmm. Let’s interpret, interpret.
While lamenting why Papago didn’t work with political rhetoric, I diligently substituted the words spoken by the lord of Mahal into human language with my first-class reading comprehension.
Roughly… ‘Can’t you spray it on your country first? Is there a reason?’ Can I interpret it as such?
That’s why you don’t open the merchant road to Romania first.
I ended my worries in an instant and covered it up with a smile.
‘Molarehu.’
How the fuck do I know that
I’m just a salesman who came on a business trip because an elder told me to go and break through some business partners.
I know there was a calculation that it would be more profitable to go to those in a hurry like a guy who wants to poop looking for toilet paper, but if I tried to chase after the aristocrats’ scheming, my soft crotch would be torn and cut like a stork.
Shall we pass on what we do not know? If I stayed still, I would go to the middle.
‘… No, it’s not like that.’
If there was a chance to gain a dog that should not be missed, the elders would have given a word.
If I didn’t say it on purpose, it might mean that I’m going to test my ability other than my fighting skills by seizing this opportunity or not. I think it’s the latter, so my stomach suddenly gets so fucking hot.
‘Damn, I don’t know. Let’s look at it and think about it.’
It’s better than just going over here and getting ripped off.
I stroked my chin, then consciously made a face as if I was expressing my feelings.
“To be honest, my opinion——no, ‘belief’ was a big factor in choosing Narmer-Nile as a trading target.”
“Belief?”
《──The black magician.》
I chewed and spit out.
Unfeigned anger raged wildly in my stomach, enough to make me realize their fear belatedly. The nobles were greatly startled by the suppressed murderous intent that seeped through each syllable.
Ok, nice response.
Isn’t it supposed to mix a bit of truth with a lie?
