Fun Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord (Novel) - Chapter 120 - Filling Out Main Street

Chapter 120 – Filling Out Main Street

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Translated by Sylph

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As we moved to construct new shops in the adventurers’ town, I had Kamushin and the others select people who looked capable of running stores, but such things probably take time after all. They still had not returned.

After that, I had requested the Bell-Rango Company to open new stores, and already Rango was walking around with people who looked like apprentice merchants in tow.

“Put the food and daily-goods store here. We can shift stock with the main store to a certain extent, but this store too will have to independently handle procurement and stock management. Negotiations with the Mary Company will be carried out with the people in charge from the main store and branch store and the other side, all three gathered together. On the opposite side we are planning a store for buying and selling materials. This side will surely always be overflowing with people, but we will deal with that by sending help from the main store, so I want you to feel at ease. Also, since orders for cheap weapons and armor have increased, we will prepare a store that carries weapons and armor as well. Because that store will also coordinate with the main store, half of its staff will be drawn from the main store. Any questions so far?”

After giving that rough explanation with practiced ease, Rango looked over the apprentices. Their ages and sexes varied, but all of them swiftly raised their hands and opened their mouths.

“Regarding material purchases, how many employees will there be?”

“I am thinking five for buying, three for selling, one store manager, and one assistant store manager.”

“I believe many of the adventurers are in this town. Would it not be better to reduce the number of people at the main store and concentrate them here?”

“We will send help if it cannot keep up, but basically I am not considering changing the numbers. Those in a hurry can be sent to the main store, and valuable materials like dragons will be limited to the main store only. Also, regarding dismantling, the Adventurers’ Guild said it will increase personnel, so the manpower being taken by that side should also decrease soon.”

Rango answered all of their questions precisely. He was giving off the feeling of a man who can do his job.

“Yes.”

As a test, I raised my hand. Rango turned around and widened his eyes. The apprentice merchants standing around us also opened their eyes wide.

“If I get made to participate in war again, the supply of the weapons and armor I make will stop for that period. In that case, are replacement weapons and armor prepared?”

At that question, Rango’s face stiffened.

“…Since we would carry and sell supplies and food for use in the war over there, then in the form of having the weapons and armor you make loaded onto the returning wagons…”

“Is that not demonic? I would still be making weapons even at the place I got sent out to? I would die, you know.”

“That is true… Then, after all, it will have to be in the form of having you replenish stock while you are back in Seat Village…”

At Rango’s answer, I drooped my shoulders and let out a sigh.

“So I really have no choice but to work… There was not anyone among the new arrivals who could use production-type magic?”

“No, there was not. Also, I showed them to someone who had worked as a smith, but he said duplication would be impossible.”

“That is true, yes.”

At Rango’s words, I drooped my head heavily. It cannot be helped, but while also carrying out the work of a lord, carpentry work, and waterworks construction, on top of that weapon production is quite difficult.

In the middle of such an overcrowded schedule, an ogre and a demon also force in sword and study training.

Somehow, I must cut off this chain of negativity.

“All right. Let us urgently prepare a carpenter, a blacksmith, and a furniture maker! Especially for the blacksmith, we need the best skill possible. Certainly there should have been several people with experience, but what happened with that?”

“The problem is that we still have not been able to complete the forge. Even though people with carpentry experience gathered, all of them were people who had never built a furnace…”

Rango said that with a troubled expression. For the moment we are having the Mary Company purchase the highest-quality weapons and armor and using those for stock, but from now on, if possible, I would like to make weapons and armor in our own territory that can become a selling point.

“Even so, building a furnace really is difficult.”

I groaned and muttered that to myself. I have seen one on television, but I do not know the clear way to make it. If I at least had a design drawing, I think I could probably make the shape.

While I was thinking that, one of the adventurers who had been watching from a distance raised a hand.

“Um, the famous all-dwarf adventurer party, Bacchus, is here right now. I think for dungeon conquest or something…”

At that information, Rango reacted even before I did.

“What!? Is that party still in the dungeon!?”

“Eh? No, I think I saw them at the guild this morning.”

“What…!”

At the adventurer’s information, Rango turned back to me, his eyes bloodshot.

“Van-sama! Do you have time right now!?”

Had there ever before been such a passionate invitation? Even Van-kun ended up nodding before he knew it.

“I-It is fine, though?”

“Good! Then let us go at once!”

Momentum is important. In the blink of an eye things flowed that way, and I had the time for building shops taken away from me.

With that same momentum, Rango rushed into the newly built branch of the Adventurers’ Guild. Depending on how you looked at it, it might have been mistaken for a raid.

Making the loud sound of the doors opening and closing, we entered inside, and the adventurers in the wide reception-desk-and-tavern area of the Adventurers’ Guild all looked this way at once.

And among them was a group that was obviously short.

“There…!”

When Rango shouted while pointing at the dwarves, the stubborn-looking dwarves turned around with their brows knit.