On my way from the Commercial Guild to the Adventurers Guild, I wondered what was going on with Cokes.

It shouldn't have been that long since I started making it, and it's natural that the patent fee won't come in, but I'd like to see the situation.

It's like we still have a few hours till evening, and I'm going to fly by.

The Alliance will be fine afterwards, there's no rush.

Flying over the road to Elera, you can see the view.

Even so, the sky is at most 50 meters tall due to magic, so the scenery flies at an incredible speed.

It took about a week to get here, but it could take up to three hours at the current speed.

It's a long time compared to Decibatole, but from this time you'll arrive around the evening.

After about 20 minutes of flight, I saw a field far from the road.

I didn't notice it coming, but at my speed for 20 minutes, at a distance of 200 kilometers, it's a long way from Photo Len.

Like sugarcane, maybe it's a monster thing.

There was no major discovery of the flight after that.

I felt like I saw Ella in about two hours.

Perhaps it was a big one that came down the mountain honestly from above and short-cut it.

Trying to get in from above, he remembered the gatekeeper and hurried back to the gate.

Landing in front of the gate, the doorman looked surprised.

Even the inn's uncle jumps over the exterior walls on a daily basis, but it's troublesome to be surprised at how many people appear from the sky.

If I approach an Alliance Card with one hand, I will not be alert, nor will I attempt to identify myself.

I have no choice but to speak up and bring it back to life.

"Hey, doorman, work."

"Ah, ahh... okay, let's go through. Flight magic or something?

"Yes, it's just flying magic."

"... that's right, just go up there and say 'just'."

That's it, get through the gate and go to the charcoal shop.

I think the doorman said something, but if it is necessary, it will be stopped, so maybe it is none of my business.

There is nothing so different from when you left the city before, so there is no element to get lost.

What has changed is that the proportion of weapons decorated in weapons stores that are blue has increased dramatically, and the vibrancy of the city has increased.

Especially the weapon is decorated with a sword of about the same color as silver and blue, just enough to destroy the iron.

The same goes for the armor, which is similar to the sword, except that the number of armor itself is less than the sword.

Was there a mass occurrence of monsters like metal lizards that could take a large amount of metal?

With that in mind, I arrived at the charcoal store.

No, I arrived exactly where the charcoal shop was, but the charcoal shop was different.

I mean, there was no charcoal store.

The charcoal shop building has been demolished and something huge is being built.

A huge site is loaded with stone and other building materials when the former compartment is punctured.

The charcoal shop, is it crushed?

I wondered what to do, and I looked around, and there was a small sign made of wood.

It says, "If you want to go to the coal shop, go to the coal mine meeting."

The coal shop and the coal mining club seem to have been safe.

When I went to the place where the coal mining meeting was held, my condition was very different from before.

Far more vibrant than before, the smoke rises from a building at the back that never existed before.

While looking at it, a wagon loaded with coke came out from behind and left somewhere else.

Cokes seems to be helping.

For that, it looks like it was pushed by that blue metal.

Show the guild card at the counter near the entrance and ask Gaynta to pick it up.

Gaeta came out in about five minutes, sitting in a chair that seemed to be of good quality and waiting at the place she was guided.

"Long time no see, Cokes, are you making money?

"You're making a lot of money. Now that the facilities are a little better, we have the usual three-month sales in a week."

"Is that so? I think the amount of iron I see is small, but do you sell it to other cities?

"Iron? What are you talking about?

Huh?

"Speaking of which, didn't you let me know? It turns out that using Cokes can refine mythrills much cheaper than before, and Cokes is turning all of it into mythrill refining after raising prices. I decided to raise the price on my own, but I can't wait for the frog to change in a week."

So that blue metal was a mythrill?

When it comes to mythrills, there is an image of a rare material called sacred silver.....

I'm supposed to use it on my ship. Are there surprisingly many mythrills?

I don't specialize in refining, but I don't think there's that much ore.

"The price increase is fine, I think I will do the same. By the way, I heard it's easy to refine mythrills, but where do you bring them?

"If you throw a stone, it will hit a mythrill ore. On the contrary, even the stone thrown was a mythrill ore. Locations without mythrill ore are more rare."

What, there's so much mythrill ore?

"But it hasn't been made that far, has it?

I've hardly seen a blue sword before.

"The previous refining method cost a lot of gold, so only the ultra-high quality parts of the mythrill ore are known to be produced in a way that throws a lot of money to refine. Not to mention burning magic stones directly."

Burn the Magic Stone directly....

You were refining in that way, so it's not impossible to do less.

Even if it is of poor quality, the price per weight is not comparable to normal fuel. Does magic stone burn in the first place?

No, I think it burns more than you say it does.

Is that so? By the way, have you heard from other cities that they would like to use coke manufacturing technology?

"Ah, it's coming in mountains. I haven't decided on two places yet, but two or more chambers of commerce have come to negotiate from one city."

"I'm glad to hear that, but it looks troublesome... do you want to give it all to compete?

Whichever wins, we make a fortune.

"No, if the competition is too hot, there is a high probability that people will do bad things, and if one side is crushed, the technical fee will not be collected."

"I mean, if you narrow it down to just one side,"

"No, after all, we need coal to make cokes, so at the moment we've decided to give technology only to organizations that own coal mines."

Yeah, sure, that way we can avoid some useless disputes like coal dealings.

There is a possibility that coal mine dealings will happen this time, but once it is settled, it is not the same as the procurement competition that will occur permanently.

"I think so. It's only a matter of time before the capital investment is complete and the patent fee comes into my possession. Any other problems?

"The kingdom of Baysis is offering to act as an intermediary in selling this technology abroad for free."

"In this country? You're going to give us a diplomacy card for not asking us for money?

"Of course, it's an extremely useful technique against monsters. And there's one bad story."

I wonder what the bad news is.

"Lord Dora's son....."

In short, the lord's eldest son is looking at the lucrative coal mining club and trying to raise taxes.

These mining relationships are essential to counter monsters, so taxes have been reduced considerably.

The lord's eldest son seems to dislike it, and he wants to pay more taxes.

The lord and his second son are decent, but the lord is currently staying in King's Landing and is not planning to come back for about a month. The second son is weaker than the eldest son, so he can't stop it.

What kind of idiot is he thinking that the son of a sovereign would disobey the decision made by the state without the consent of his parents?

I'm sure you haven't thought about anything.

"Okay, I'm going to crush it a little bit. If you shoot from a distance with pressure magic, you can do it."

Wait, wait, wait.

You won't make a big deal of it if you leave it safe.

The inheritance of the city lord, which is the foundation of the coke-related business, cannot be commercialized with peace of mind.

It's like a bandit, as long as it's erased.

"No?

"No matter how many Dora's sons we admit, if the lord's eldest son is assassinated, it'll be a big deal, a bandit."

Hmm, is that so?

Well, then, don't assassinate me, and do it fairly.

I think there was a system called duel in this world.

That won't make you a bandit.

"Okay, I'll take care of it. I'm going to beat you up in the duel."

"I don't think so. He's trained as a knight, but if he includes expensive gear, he'll have the strength of a D-rank. Besides, even if you are challenged to a duel from a superior standpoint, you can't accept it."

Is that so?

No, I was accidentally.

I inadvertently forgot to raise my rank in the Photo Ren Guild.

I mean, I'm still in E-rank right now. Oh, my God.

"What do you think my rank is now?

"Suddenly what? Aren't you around C or B?

No, actually, it's an E.

"What...?"

And like this, I decided to challenge the Lord Dora's son to a duel.

If you let me take it, it belongs to me, so I asked people who know what I can do not leave me alone, and I will do a plan to make them take it.

Here's the plan.

Tomorrow at noon, my eldest son (Radomkos or something) will probably go through the square to tell me to pay taxes here.

There are many people in the morning square talking about public affairs before work, and naturally there are extremely many people.

Among them, I challenge the duel with the attitude of licking Radomkos as much as possible while publicly asserting that I am an E rank.

Radomkos seems to be arrogant and proud, so it's unlikely that he will refuse if he is challenged by the E-rank duel in public.

If you let me take it, I'll just beat Radomkos to death in the most humiliating way possible.

Radomkos seems to have a bad reputation for the city, so no one will complain if he does.

Do you want me to get paid for turning me into an enemy?