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As Albrecht leaves the snowy forest, the merchants outside the forest quickly remove what they were wearing on their heads and bow down.
Albrecht takes a peek at them and walks away. And the merchants familiarized themselves with the soldiers carrying the by-products of Lint's summons.
Soldiers waiting outside the forest familiarize themselves with the phosphorus canopy. One of Einhardt's men raises his hand and shouts.
“The things I'm selling today are the hides, blood, and bones of Lint's call! ”
The soldiers lay a cloth on the floor and lay out what they can sell first.
Green blood was in several square glass bottles, and the bones that were trimmed while wrapped around the body of the lint call, but had a little flesh on them. Inside the bone was a tiny hole.
And in a large leather, a brown and yellow-colored man's thumb, but a scale was tightly attached.
The merchants looked at the objects, almost pushing the soldiers who had hit the seal's tabernacle with their bodies.
Soldiers try to push the troops away badly, frowning at the impression of the troops, but the merchants try to stay closer and look at the goods.
There is a struggle between the soldiers and the merchant, and Einhardt's staff shouts.
“Leather is 10 gold coins per piece! Five gold coins a bottle! I'll take five gold coins for every bone! I'll start with the leather! ”
“Twenty gold coins! ”
“Twenty-five! ”
“Thirty! ”
The merchants shout with their fingers raised. It was auction.
The price of the item is based on its value, and the value is determined by its scarcity, inputs of labour and utilization. Again, market prices were formed based on demand and supply.
Despite the magic stones, Orc hides and tendons, werewolf fur and adrenaline glands, Goblin junk, cannibal spider silk and poison glands were all new materials that had never existed in the world.
For example, werewolf fur is not only structurally suited to the human body, but also has been utilized in cloaks or carpets because it is durable and warm.
Adrenaline glands have been used as stimulants and stimulants. There are side effects from over-enervousness, but it was mostly used by soldiers, mercenaries, and adventurers during combat. It also seemed to be used as an aphrodisiac.
Orc hides are less durable than cowhide, but they are stretchy and soft, so they were often placed on the joints or lining of the armor.
Monster by-products were still of immeasurable utilization and were still being developed by people. Prices were fluctuating, but generally upward.
Albrecht went around hunting monsters that were hard to catch for regular adventurers and mercenaries to write monster guides.
Albrecht tries to write things down, like caution and tactics, as he deals directly with them, but every time he just slaps them, the tactics only get to this level.
However, it will be a good resource for those who have never seen the monster before.
After all, Albrecht was hunting a rare monster, and the merchants followed him.
The merchants attached to Albrecht were not just people who came together to buy things cheaply and sell them at a high price.
Everyone was dispatched by merchant gates from the North Continent to acquire rare monster byproducts in some way.
It was because I had to learn about it first so I could react quickly to new products.
This was the first call Albrecht ever made. Given the scarcity, there's nowhere to go except here now. Of course, the prices the merchants were calling were skyrocketing.
But no matter how expensive the mountains were here, they could have been bought cheaply over time. Now was the time to take the lead and see everything.
Bern and Fo-Fo follow the emperor, looking at such merchants. Then Fo-Fo drives his horse and asks Einhart, who looks decent.
“I didn't see myself alive, but there was a disaster when I saw Lint's summoning in the human world. ”
Einhardt, who followed Albrecht from behind with a stupid look, stares at himself as a stranger talks to him.
However, he smiled and said, knowing that he was there when he reported earlier.
“I think it's less dangerous than Orcs or Goblins. ”
Bern's sudden approach, including Fo-Fo, made a puzzled look. That's less dangerous than Orcs or Goblins?
“The catch itself was not too difficult because the emperor had caught it. But when I felt shy and human intelligence, I would move away. It took me a long time to track it down. ”
“Avoiding people? ”
“Well, maybe it's because it bothers me to eat humans and not notice. When I took the lint call and split my belly, there was a troll with a torn head. I think that's what the front foot is for. ”
Bern and Fo-Fo thought so. And somehow I felt relieved. By the way, how long does it take to digest a Troll?
Einhart said, still smiling at both of them.
“Powerful monsters like Lint, Trolls, and Guardians of the Forest continue to enter the forest. The weaker the monster, the more they're pushed out of the forest. So, right now, the most dangerous creatures to Humankind are Orcs and Goblins. ”
Bern and Fo-Fo accepted. When monsters appeared, people said the end was coming, but when the presence of the stone became known, people changed. Clearly, man's fear was below greed.
Of course, monsters are still dangerous creatures, and they risked their lives to hunt, but I couldn't help but overhear the end of the world.
“Would you like to take a look at this? ”
Einhardt hands Fo-Fo a pile of paper. Fo-Fo picked it up, and it looks like it might be a monster trap.
Though very sophisticated, the paintings were drawn with the habits of monsters, points of care, and tendencies. However, after reading it, I saw a funny phrase.
“Haha, ‘Orcs aren't so scared when you think of them as human cows’? That sounds a little rash. Oh, I'm not complaining. It's kind of funny. Hahaha. ”
“It was written by the Emperor himself. Don't be afraid when people see Orcs. ”
You can't pick up a horse if you spit it out. Fo-Fo shut up and read the book with a straight face.
It was early evening when Albrecht arrived at the castle. Since entering the castle, there have been fewer and fewer people following the resistance, and when they reached the resistance, they all returned to their homes except for a few of their neighbors.
As Albrecht steps off the horse, the guard approaches and grabs Linderhorn's belt and heads for the stable.
You can still see Bern and Fo-Fo following Albrecht's eyes.
“Why are you still following me? Without going back?”
“I just wanted to say hello and then go......”
Albrecht laughs in vain. Students seemed to be quite manly and knightly compared to before, but they thought it was still far away.
“It's late today, so stay the night. ”
After saying that, I went into the fortress without looking back. Once inside the fortress, the Jurgen is out in the hall.
Albrecht walked out of the hall and said, Jurgen follows you.
“Did everything go well while you were out? ”
“Master Ervin sent a man. Have you met him? ”
“Yes, I did. ”
“What did he say? ”
“Randolph and Hermann are fighting. That's what caused the damage this time. ”
Yurgen didn't have much of a look on his face. It was more of a look.
In fact, I didn't think much of it, but as he saw when he conquered the North, Randolph and Hermann didn't get along so well.
Then Yurgen said to Albrecht, as if something had come to mind.
“Oh, Archbishop Karpen sent me a letter. That sounds pretty important. ”
Albrecht stops, and Jurgen takes the letter out of his arms. The ribbon was tied in a yellow cloth on a leather envelope and sealed with the seal of Archbishop Kalnitz.
The yellow cloth, though not urgent, was the color to be worn when something important was happening.
Albrecht stands in the middle of a spiral staircase, unsealed by the glow of dusk entering the window and takes out the letter.
Albrecht reads the letter quietly, but his face hardens slightly. Yurgen notices and asks.
“What was that?”
“People are disappearing in the city, and it looks like it was a vampire. ”
“In Wrightingen? ”
“No, in a city called Rheinfurt. Plus, I dispatched paladins, five dead, two seriously injured. ”
Yurgen's expression is getting worse.
“Did they catch you? ”
As Yurgen continued to ask, Albrecht simply handed over the letter instead of answering.
After reading the letter, Yurgen seems to be missing quite a lot. At first, the vagrants were mostly missing, but later it was written that virgins and children were disappearing.
At the end of the investigation, a powerful man in the city was suspected of arresting him, and something happened there.
The missing virgins and children were hanging along the wall like slaughtered livestock, and some of them hung upside down and bled.
The more she read the letter, the more distressing the details were that she couldn't finish it.
Skipping halfway across the room, you notice that the vampire has yet to be caught and is severely wounded in the Vervantos of Carfen.
There was more to the letter than vampires. Monsters appeared at sea, reducing trade with the Eastern Continent, and the price of silk, ceramics and spices was expected to go up.
Yurgen looks up at Albrecht, anxious.
Albrecht was just looking at the sunset out the window, and he was just expressing his frustration. Then you sigh once, then climb up the stairs to your room.
Albrecht gets up, puts on his gown, opens his blanket for Rosamund and leaves the room quietly.
You go to the Library of Resistance, light up a small lantern on your desk, open the wine glass lid on the side of the room, and follow the silver glass. I felt a sip of aromatic grape.
Then I sat on a cushy chair in front of my desk. The light on the lantern illuminates only slightly around Albrecht's chin and desk. Otherwise, the darkness was filling the library.
Piles of paperwork and reports piled up on the desk seemed to crush his mind, casting a shadow in the opposite direction as light.
I distributed my authority to as many people as I could, but I had to pay for the top of the empire to get things done.
Albrecht glances at the documents, gazes at the temples and takes another sip.
I felt it when I was a child, but I'd rather go out there and fight for my life. Sitting on my desk with my head tied around my head made even that Albrecht tired.
Unlike when I was a child, it was that I became more patient by making my senses blunt.
Although I had the divine power and invincibility skills, I couldn't go and hit them all by myself in everything in the world, since I didn't have many bodies.
I remembered Carpen's letter that I read in the evening. Albrecht glances around his desk, just drinking wine.
Then, I remembered the Bern and Fo-Fo I saw in the daytime, and I secretly leaked a bloody smile.
The thought of Bern and Fo-Fo again, for some reason, leads to Diego. The smile on Albrecht's mouth gradually subsides.
And then I remembered killing Lucretia's merchants and doormen. The memory travels back in time and reaches Lloyd Beck.
I'm fine! Just go! ’
The sound of Diego's former fall to the crossbow bolt echoes the ears of the current Albrecht. What does it all mean now?
Albrecht tried to send his thoughts into the darkness, just as the wine gently slipped down his throat, but it did not go well.
Just like looking at a faded old photograph, Albrecht simply hides his memory of Diego in an old album and covers a thick cover.
The lantern's light seems to calm Albrecht, but it cannot push away the heavy darkness.
As the sun rises and rises again, Albrecht sets his armor and leads 4,000 troops west.
The sky was heavy, like snow or rain. Soldiers spit out white breath.
Albrecht looked up at the dark sky and wished for snow. If it rained on a hard winter march, we had to just stop.
Late in the morning, around lunch, my eyes started to fly. Albrecht thought he was fortunate to be unhappy.
But the cunning was a man's heart, but I wanted it to stop soon. And by the late afternoon, the snow had completely stopped.
Albrecht bursts into flames. The disappearance quickly turned into a pleasant smile. Yeah, well, you should have a day like this once in your life.
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