Chapter 100

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Translated by Jinmu

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Outside the northern city wall moving following Kudran.

The very first thing seen was a fence built with wood and stones.

“It is here!”

Kudran advanced leading the way.

‘Shabby whenever I see it.’

A village that absolutely couldn’t be thought of as belonging to the dwarf race.

Listing the reasons, there were too many.

Since they lacked from materials to cost, technology, and will.

“Please enter!”

Creak-

Kudran opened the door of the fence.

It was unstable to the point a sound that couldn’t come from wood was heard.

“What’s that?”

Inside the village there were a few dwarves.

The gazes looking at this place were full of vigilance and displeasure.

“The lofty artisan brought something hanging on him.”

“Why bring humans here? Crazy?”

“That scatterbrained guy…….”

Sharp words flew at Kudran.

Although the person concerned was letting it flow out one ear as if used to it.

“Why is the treatment like this?”

“Weren’t you something like a person in charge? They’re just openly ignoring him.”

The two people watching the situation together asked in a small voice.

However, calling him the person in charge felt a little different.

“It is noisy. You just have to follow straight ahead.”

Kudran continued walking to the center of the village.

There, a small house roughly built with wood existed.

Creeeak-

The inside entered following him was simple.

No, beyond simple, should he say there was nothing.

“…Kudran?”

An old dwarf greeting them inside.

A name tag was floating above his head.

[Dwarf Elder Barlon]

Kudran, the person in charge of the village, is a role put out externally no matter what.

The one exercising all authority inside is that Barlon right over there.

So to speak, he was the real power itself.

“Who did you bring?”

His gaze touched the gold bracelet worn on Han-bit’s wrist.

Kudran shouted with a bright voice.

“These people say they will bring His Highness the Prince for us!”

“The Prince?”

At those words the Elder furrowed his brow sharply.

A reaction as if he heard something unpleasant.

“I said not to bring up that guy’s story didn’t I? Bring what bring, a royalty who abandoned his people and left!”

“He did not abandon us!”

“If he didn’t abandon us are we living like this? No matter how much you refuse to believe it, the truth doesn’t change. The Prince clearly abandoned us.”

“No! We are the ones who kicked His Highness the Prince out!”

– Fighting amongst themselves;

– Is it WWE?

– So why was he abandoned?

– Says he didn’t abandon them.

– Then why abandon?

– Scr*m

A quarrel started from a single word, Prince.

Although Kudran maintained a bright attitude up until now, this time he was truly angry.

Because there was no sign of ending, Han-bit took out the Mayor’s letter of introduction.

“Please look at this first.”

“Tsk.”

The Elder snatched the letter of introduction as if displeased.

Then glaring sideways at Han-bit, started reading the text written down.

“…Ha.”

Contents closer to an order than an introduction.

It boiled his blood, but he couldn’t ignore a letter of introduction directly written by the Mayor.

Because if he touched that human wrongly, their livelihood would become harder.

In other words, it was best to listen to the words of the VIP wearing the gold bracelet as much as possible.

“Please sit for now.”

Finishing his judgment, the Elder guided them to an old carpet on the floor.

Everyone plopped down on the dust.

“So what brings you here?”

The Elder asked with a vigilant expression.

Han-bit’s answer was simple.

“To protect Ifrit, I want to gain the help of you dwarves.”

“Pardon? Is there a need for that?”

“Because the possibility of it getting dangerous like this is large.”

“……?”

The Elder genuinely had a puzzled expression.

At that time, Avant-garde, who was looking at the empty surroundings, casually threw a question.

“There don’t seem to be many people in the village, are the other residents at the workplace?”

“Right now most are put into sewer cleanup. Some are probably doing menial work somewhere too.”

Dwarves living here must earn money.

Taxes much more expensive than the citizens of Ifrit.

Excluding that, alcohol money to relieve stress was all of it.

“How many blacksmiths are there?”

This time Kim Jae-ha asked.

Going around looking for dwarves’ metallurgy, he visited this village several times, but couldn’t enter even once.

Naturally what he got curious about wasn’t something internally.

It was a question regarding what the artisans were really doing.

However, the Elder gave an unbelievable answer.

“There are no technicians worthy of being called a true blacksmith anymore. It is all because the Prince left this place.”

“What!”

At that time, Kudran cut off the words and sprang up.

“Didn’t it happen because Elder only listened to Mayor Firnen’s story and said we had to make artworks! When His Highness the Prince always said we had to train our technology!”

“This damn guy keeps…! It is a decision I also made for our sake! If we just focused on metallurgy following the Prince we would have starved to death early on!”

Summarizing the conversation of the two, it was like this.

The Elder saying they had to receive expensive artwork jobs to earn money.

The Prince saying they had to further train the production of weapons and armor, which was the dwarves’ pride and everything.

As a result of those differing opinions colliding, Goric ended up leaving the village.

Han-bit intervened in the two people’s conversation and spoke.

“Why did Elder make such a choice? Even if there was an offer from the Mayor there should have been room to agonize over it.”

“…In a safe city, the demand for manufactured products in the weapon category was not great. Amidst that, the Mayor proposed artworks.”

In the early days of migrating to Ifrit, the dwarves also strived in weapon production.

Along with it being work they always did, because the Prince’s will was firm.

However, the far too peaceful city did not give them a glance.

“Steadfastly making gear, we gradually became poor. It was because Ifrit was too safe to accommodate all the new gear we pulled out.”

“Was that when the Mayor came? Saying to make luxury goods becoming money?”

“That’s right. Actually artworks became big money, and the majority of dwarves immersed themselves in it. Since there was no need to make weapons.”

“…Truly unbelievable.”

Kim Jae-ha let out a sigh with an absurd face.

As he chased the dwarves’ metallurgy day and night, it was a natural reaction.

Han-bit threw a question anew.

“When did the prince leave?”

“Around the time artworks were entering mass-production in full scale. If their livelihoods stabilized they would have naturally turned their gazes to weapon production as well…….”

Prince Goric steadily training technology even in a bad situation.

There were dwarves following him, but eventually they gave up endurance and joined the Elder’s will.

The only one remaining at that time was Kudran.

The Prince, getting angry at that variable, quietly left the village a while later.

“How is the situation now? It doesn’t seem like you are making artworks.”

“The power of blessing the Prince gathered back greatly influenced artworks too. There was no way Mayor Firnen would be satisfied with technicians having lost their specialness.”

“Still, aren’t they more excellent than ordinary technicians?”

“The accumulated experience does not disappear, but it was helplessly lacking at that extent. The Mayor who lost interest abandoned us like that.”

– That damn Mayor;

– Mayors are all problems.

– Still artworks make money.

– FR pretty decorative items are f*cking expensive.

– In RPG that’s the end content.

The dwarves who began to mass-produce excellent artworks.

The Mayor whose eyes turned at this expanded the business rapidly to an excessive degree.

And right after the biggest contract was signed, the dwarves lost the blessing.

Naturally supplying products was impossible, and the Mayor was greatly angered suffering disgrace.

That the dwarves’ treatment got buried underground was two days after that.

“I do not agree. We could have endured even with our own technology! But didn’t we completely collapse because every single one of us sympatized with you!”

“A guy who knows nothing! Do you think reality changes because your head is in a flower garden? This place is all about money!”

Each other’s emotions were sufficiently understandable.

Since it was something he couldn’t blame anyone, he didn’t want to take either side.

Because in the end, Prince Goric also immersed himself only in technology and failed to look after the lives of his people.

“I understand the current situation well. Then let’s move right away.”

Han-bit grabbed the Mayor’s letter of introduction placed on the floor.

Because what’s important is returning this difficult situation to normal as much as possible.

“As I said, my goal is one. Protecting Ifrit borrowing the power of all of you.”

“…It is true the city walls became unstable, but the city’s military power is solid. A future easily getting ruined cannot be drawn.”

Barlon whose nation was destroyed by monsters.

Even such a person couldn’t accept Ifrit’s danger.

There are reasons from the Mayor and Guild Master’s insensitivity to safety being first, but even if they realize after being ruined it’s only late.

“Do you really think it will be safe?”

“Because multiplying monsters will be dealt with through subjugation early on. Ultimately there will be no big damage.”

The unbroken thought even continuing the conversation.

For Han-bit’s plan, the effort containing the dwarves’ sincerity is necessary.

Of course it didn’t really matter if that heart wasn’t necessarily for the city.

Rumble-!

At that time, a roaring sound heard from outside.

“Aaagh!”

“Keogh!”

What followed was the screams of the dwarves.

– ??

– What’s this.

– Emergency emergency.

“……!”

Kudran opening his eyes wide and raising his body.

He dashed outside even without agonizing.

“What is this…….”

The Elder also raised his body as if flustered.

“What is it? What happened?”

“Is it an ambush?”

Kim Jae-ha and Avant-garde were also surprised by the sudden situation.

“Let’s go out too.”

Han-bit who raised his body stepped out taking the lead.

Crash-!

Boom-!

Gaze turned to the continuously repeating roaring sound.

Where the problem occurred was the village’s entrance.

The shabby fence had completely collapsed.

Grrrk-!

A large lizard standing on top of those remnants.

On its long outstretched tongue, two dwarves were in a tied state.

[Tongue Lizard (Lv. 35)]

– ??

– Tongue whip appears ;;

– Why did they come already?

– Not the wave yet right now though?

Smack-!

Thwack-!

Dozens of lizards scattered around knocked down the dwarves helplessly.

“Dammit…….”

The Elder following behind put on a painful expression.

The past experience of fighting monsters on the battlefield revived as trauma.

Because it was a tragedy ending with defeat and ruin.

“Hmph!”

Kudran stepping out holding a hammer was engaging in a desperate struggle with the monsters.

Even if a few rushed at him fear was not seen at all.

Ta-dat-!

Han-bit drawing his sword kicked off.

Approaching the lizard holding the dwarves was instantaneous.

Slash-!

The sword swung horizontally cut its tongue in half perfectly.

Kieeeh-!

The lizard unable to even react thrashed scattering blood.

Thud-!

The captured dwarves fell to the floor, and the gazes of other lizards focused.

Wind was gathering on the sword held in Han-bit’s hand.

He who turned his body looked at the blankly standing people and spoke.

“First let’s catch the monsters?”