Chapter 720 – 720. The Serpent’s Tail (1)
The contents of the report written by Heilangdan, delivered to Eunhyeon, began with the uncontrollable sexual desire of one Heilangdan member who, under Eunhyeon’s order, was gathering information about the devil while wandering all over the kingdom of Pernias.
Not being able to settle down in one place, and constantly wandering around the kingdom’s territory and working tirelessly to gather information, it was like punishment and final mercy for them.
When the kingdom of Fernias was in the midst of corruption, nobles, nobles, and royal families lined up in the wrong line in a political battle to protect and occupy each other’s interests.
All of a sudden, he caught the ropes of the corrupt nobles, and they were all replaced by Eun-hyeon.
As a result, when they lost even the power to protect them, they became like duck eggs washed ashore.
It was the mercy of Eun-hyeon and the Duke of Armitas that saved their lives, which were at risk like the candles in a wind lamp that could not be extinguished at any moment.
Instead, Eunhyeon beat them up to the point where the word tough is not enough.
All necessary information was being reported to Eun-hyeon, including corruption taking place throughout the kingdom’s territory, secret meetings, when and where the subject of observation ate and slept with.
Of course, what is consumed to collect that vast amount of information is their labor force.
Since homelessness is a daily routine for them who cannot settle down in one place, it is not uncommon for them to be able to sleep on a guest room in an inn, covered with a blanket, rather than on the floor in a village or manor.
Therefore, most of the rice that can fill a meal is preserved food that can be left for a long time or tough jerky.
Naturally, stress builds up and the body is bound to become tired.
Nevertheless, the reason why they have no choice but to follow Eun-hyeon is because they owe him their lives, and the price paid for such harsh labor is not too bad.
The biggest reason is that the pay is good.
Compared to the dirty work of assassinating someone or gathering information on the orders of a corrupt aristocrat in the past, he is now at a level where he can raise enough money to maintain his daily life.
Moreover, a bigger reason than that is that Eun-hyeon and the Duke’s family shoulder all the necessary expenses while carrying out this mission.
Eun-hyeon pays for the money for lodging, as well as the necessary equipment and the expenses needed to collect information as needed.
However, the Heilang members did not do stupid things to exploit this to siphon off inappropriate profits.
It was because they knew very well what happened to those who did such a thing by Eunhyeon or the duke’s family.
‘I will give you as much support as you need. Treat them like people do. Instead, if you stupidly cross the line…’
The ending awaited at the end was Eunhyeon’s blatant warning to take care of yourself.
The Heilang members, who were tired of walking the risky tightrope of suffering from corrupt nobles and being abandoned if they did something wrong, were convinced that it was an opportunity that they had to hold on to the line that Eunhyeon had given them.
At least, he was hostile to him and the people he cared about, and even though he had done something with a knife, it was because he lived like a human more than before, now that he had cleared his past and worked like Eun-hyeon’s dog.
While carrying out such a mission, a Heilang member who was physically and mentally fatigued from the arduous mission chose to relieve his sexual desire by holding a woman as a way to relieve his stress.
That’s why he found the rumored Earl of Eprate within the Kingdom of Pernias.
It was purely an excuse to say that it was information-gathering, but it was not a completely unreasonable claim.
This territory of Eprate was originally a pleasure territory where many nobles and wealthy merchants from other countries as well as the kingdom of Pernias came to satisfy their desires and make the territory rich in return.
For this reason, it was not once or twice that it was naturally used as a place for secret talks between many people.
There was not only one or two pieces of information collected from this place regarding corruption related to the kingdom.
The county of Ephrate was a territory visited regularly by Black Wand members, and it was like a place where high-quality information or so-called ‘honey’ fell.
A Heilang member stopped by a brothel he had visited frequently before, bought a prostitute he liked for a night, and enjoyed the night.
“Hey, is there anything suspicious these days?”
“Is it suspicious?”
“Okay. For example… Some nobles secretly came to this estate and had secret conversations… “
Unlike commoners who stop by the window and hug a woman, they are aristocrats who are quite wealthy and can afford it.
And the higher the rank, the higher the price, the higher the price, so there is a high possibility that someone from a wealthy, high-ranking aristocratic family came.
The Changgwan used by the Heilang members was also expensive enough to cost a fortune in gold to hold a decent woman.
He deliberately chose this place.
“Ah. Customer. Are you from the Information Guild?”
“What. Do you know exactly?”
“Hoho, is there one or two people asking similar questions these days?”
The courtesan covered her mouth with her hand and smiled gracefully.
A person with a high desire for wealth, fame, and power loves to show it off to others.
It is a habit of nobles to say nothing casually intoxicated with superiority by spending dozens of commoners’ monthly wages casually on holding a woman for an hour.
The reason why such aristocrats come to the window and reveal their secrets and private affairs that should not be revealed is because they are drunk with alcohol and women, but the women they embrace are mediocre people who have no power or power outside the window. Because they are commoners and slaves.
Even if their secrets and secrets are revealed to prostitutes, there is a consciousness of basically ignoring what the hell they can do without any ability or power.
However, the prostitutes had no choice but to keep smiling while being ignored.
They had no choice but to live their lives with the money and tips they gave them as guests.
“However… Can’t you just let me know?”
The courtesan who received the Heilang member as a guest smiled and made a circle with her index finger and thumb and presented it to the Heilang member.
Laughing at her attitude of blatantly asking for her money, the Heilang member took out her money bag from her own pants.
He took a gold coin out of her pocket and threw it to the prostitute.
The courtesan, who received her gold coin as it flew through the air while drawing her parabola, looked at the weight of the gold coin in her hands and made her wide-eyed surprised expression.
“Oh my, like this… A lot?”
It was too much for a prostitute who thought it was a few pieces of silver at most.
“It’s an advance. Depending on what you heard, I might give you more gold coins.”
“…”
The prostitute’s face changed when she saw the eyes of Heilang, who confidently boasted.
He feels vicarious satisfaction by selling the riches and secrets he has heard from the nobles for money to an intelligence dealer.
Money is money, but she feels a thrill of satisfaction when she imagines that the nobles who ignore and treat her as a commoner or a slave who can do nothing can be ruined by the information she provided.
However, the eyes of the prostitute who saw the gold coins showed a serious attitude because of the greed that she might get a lot of money in her hands rather than the vicarious satisfaction she would feel.
The courtesan told the Heilang member of her own secrets that the nobles who bought her were drunk and spilled in a daze.
However, the information did not attract the attention of the Heilang members.
She talked about what kind of business she had recently concluded, how many women she had hugged in one night at various brothels, etc. She just talked about low-key things that focused on showing off herself.
“… The response is poor.”
When the Heilang member showed her sullen attitude, the prostitute put on a regretful expression as if it was too late to receive her gold coin.
“Hmm… How about this one? It’s about the Count, our lord.”
“Say it.”
“Our lord buys slaves regularly. At a very expensive price, more than twice the market price.”
“So?”
“But I don’t know what they do with the purchased slaves.”
“… Is that all?”
“Yes.”
The courtesan shrugged her shoulders and replied.
Having already given up her gold coin, she could only say anything in the comfort of her heart of desperation.
“There is no difference in gender, age or appearance. But what about purchasing a set number of slaves on a set date every month? And all purchased slaves are sent to the lord’s mansion. However… I haven’t heard a word about what happened to the slaves that were purchased like that.”
It was a little surprising that they made purchases regardless of age or gender.
From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t sound like the slaves were bought for sexual desire or used as part of labor.
It certainly bothered me that there was no talk of being used in a manor house or being sold somewhere.
Moreover, the purchase of a certain number of slaves on a regular basis every month seemed to mean something simply in terms of the number of slaves.
“And a man who looked like a beggar appeared on the street and shouted at people. He said, ‘I saw a snake in the manor house.'”
He was an old man, one of the slaves purchased by the lord a few days before he appeared on the street.
Her clothes were torn and she was almost naked, so she was very skinny as if she hadn’t eaten for several days.
“…”
The Heilang member was lost in thought.
‘Perhaps…’
I came up with the possibility of what special sense of smell that I had developed while collecting a lot of information so far.
The possibility he came up with was that he was receiving and receiving ‘sacrifices’ on a regular basis.
And what will you do with it?
The first thing I thought about was the existence of demons.
There’s no way that would be the case, but if there’s even a 1% chance that the devil is involved, the policy is to report it to Eun-hyeon right away, so I thought that the Heilang member might have been caught by unintentionally getting the jackpot information.
“Thank you. I heard you well.”
Heilang, who heard the story, took out two gold coins from his purse and gave them to his prostitute.
“… Was this story worth talking about?”
At the question of the prostitute who tilted her head, the member of the Heilang Troupe answered with a smile.
“It’s information that you may have saved a lot of people.”
“Oh my goodness.”
The courtesan laughed as if she had heard unexpectedly pleasant words.
“By the way, can I spend this much money? I’m fine…”
“Are you okay. That’s not my money.”
“… Yes?”
“Exactly, it’s an expense my boss gave me to spend.”
What the Heilang members liked the most in the world was enjoying luxury with ‘other people’s money’ that was supposed to be covered.
Satisfied with getting some pretty good information, he blew a whistle to relieve the fatigue of his body and the stress accumulated in his mind, and while he was wearing his pants and panties, the courtesan held his hand and restrained him.
“Huh?”
While bewildered by the courtesan’s behavior, which strongly pulled her into the bed, the Black Wand members did not resist the courtesan’s behavior.
The prostitute climbed on top of the Heilang member, who was naturally laid back on the bed.
“Are you a guest who knows how to please a woman? What a tip… Thinking that I received an extra charge, I want to provide a service… How are you?”
“Haha, very good!”
The Heilang member took off the half-draped pants and panties again.
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“…”
Erin, who belatedly read the contents of her report carefully, read the postscript written at the bottom of her report and distorted her face.
‘Ps. Be sure to visit the Changgwan, which is called scarlet flesh. The service and treatment are top-notch, and you will never regret it.’
The useless phrase was enough to make Erin angry.
Originally, Eunhyeon, who received a direct report from Heilangdan, was supposed to come to this county of Eprate.
However, Erin and Lily, who couldn’t wait to see what many prostitutes would look at Eun-hyeon, tried a trick to attract Illyana and came instead.
In other words, Eun-hyeon may have gone to the window of the source of information, ‘red skin’, to confirm the authenticity of the contents written in this report.
She never thought that Eun-hyeon would buy her prostitute and hug her, but even imagining such a situation would make her feel embarrassed.
“… Sister.”
Erin called out to Lily in a trembling yet subdued voice.
“This man who wrote the report. Let’s cut it right away when we get back.”
“… I agree.”
Lily decided to join Erin’s plan without hesitation.
The member of Heilang, who was in charge of the report, was so faithful to his duty that he was in danger of losing his job.
