Golden Experience

At the westernmost end of the former Shape Kingdom is a city called Ricebach.

This city has long been known as a trading city.

Although it was not as profitable as it was prosperous, trade with the Western continent was unique, and there was always a certain demand due to its rarity, and there was a living landscape where the world remained unchanged, no matter what the circumstances.

There is a reason why it is not profitable despite being the only trade of its kind.

Traditionally, large trading fleets have been regulated.

Nor do the residents of Ricebach know when it began. A dwarf man who is said to have a relatively long lifespan is the prime trader, but he doesn't seem to know why.

However, it has long been told to take as few boats as possible to cross the Western continent, if possible in one.

To protect it and keep trading until today.

If it is true, it is the merchant who thinks of tradition as a way to make a profit.

But I didn't think so, because I was a sailor's dwarf, Nekrasov.

The same is true of the historical tightening of trade here, but the sea man is a creature that cherishes superstition.

If you have come safely with fewer ships, you should continue to attack them.

It seems that way of thinking.

However, very few people continue to live the same life as before in the central continent, where there has been a massive appearance of foreign objects called players.

Everyone on the continent is forced to change more or less.

This change is overwhelmingly negative, but it is not without positive change.

With the exchange of information regardless of distance and the emergence of players with instantaneous transfer services depending on location, some items can be purchased across the continent.

Many were consumed items used in battle, such as potions, but most items are transportable if the player is concerned.

There were naturally many players who tried to earn coins from such shipments.

Even products that until now could only be sold to neighboring residents, if we can see that there are potential consumers all over the continent, we can significantly expand the scale of our business.

Of course, there would have been producers in each region, but if the conditions were the same, the quality would be chosen.

Some of the vendors were thus eliminated by the newly born competition, but it also showed that good vendors survived.

In most cases, profit margins increase as the size of the business or the number of production grows.

Improve worker smelting by making large quantities of the same, reduce the purchase price by being able to purchase large quantities of materials, increase the visibility by being able to sell in more regions, etc.

The benefits that can be derived from this expansion in business scale are called scale benefits.

Waves aimed at this scale benefit were actually pushing into the arena of intercontinental trade.

Old traders like Nekrasov all showed difficulty, but neither tradition nor superstition had anything to do with the inland traders who came to Ricebach on the waves.

They are also the ones who lost the competition inland.

There were many who thought that the resurgence was a big bet because they had to find a way to live in intercontinental trade and therefore had to take a big bet, and defeated large business opponents.

A large convoy of ships prepared with their leftovers was now gathered in the port of Ricebach, waiting for the time to depart.

No one seems to be doing much at the moment, but if the transition between the western and central continents spreads, there will be players involved in intercontinental trade. If that happens, these convoys will no longer be necessary.

Depending on the cost of the transfer, it will certainly be cheaper than operating a trading ship.

I sympathize with those who risk the lives of merchants in the intercontinental trade, but I can't help it now.

Amatein sighed at the large number of trading vessels lined up in the port.

Because I somehow have a bad feeling about it.

This may have led to poverty.

Amatein and his warm hands were wandering the former Shape Kingdom after the war.

Not only were they traveling, but they also helped people in need and provided funds and food to villages in difficult economic circumstances.

Underlying this is the feeling of redemption for the loss of many NPC lives in the war.

Of course, the Amateurs took the lives of the Pairé beasts, so we should help people within the Pairé kingdom as it should be.

But that country now has a strong wind of players. No, it's not that the wind is strong, but some cities come to kill when they know a player.

It may be a redemption for helping people in such a place, but while desperately helping one in that headwind, other countries will be able to help a few.

And in the first place, it was the famine that struck the Shape Knights and the Pairé kingdom.

The decision that the famine was caused by the hands of the Pairé kingdom may be said to be the direct cause, but the King who made the decision is no longer there.

The Magnum giants who actually executed them are also disappearing, and now even if they feed their shapes, they will not be disrupted as they were then.

First of all, to support the people in the Shape region, they volunteered with their personal wealth.

In fact, there was no distinction between players and NPCs in the behavioral policy of helping people.

If anyone needs help, reach out whether it's the player or the NPC.

Amateins who were working with that policy sometimes went to one organized crime.

It is a travel scam that is rife in the city of Ricebach.

Even if Amatein and her hands had warm power, they could not finally grab the tail, but at one point the fraud stopped at the border.

I stayed in the city for a while fearing that it might be a premonition of new organized crime, but there were no such signs.

All the suspicious players who were hanging around the city, even though Amatein had marked them as not crossing the sea, were also disappearing.

Apparently, the travel fraud has really disappeared.

During these investigations, I met a dwarf named Necklasov, who is the chief trader.

Sometimes I would show the ship to trick the victim, and I went to ask him if anyone was acting suspiciously like that. After all, I suspected that travel fraud was an organized crime committed by the City's Traders Guild.

As a result, the traders were innocent and could not catch the culprits, but the desire to curb fraud seemed to be the same for the traders, where they gained acquaintance.

Now Amatein is watching the convoy in Ricebach because of a request from Nekrasov.

The request is to monitor and escort the convoy.

Merchants who have lost their share in the interior are pushing here in large numbers to find a way to live on the Western continent.

Intercontinental trade has been much smaller and more subtle until now, but Nekrasov was afraid that it would suddenly become this massive.

Will this not strike us with any great calamity?

The merchants who joined the flotilla deserve to sink their ships, but their influence will not reach this Ricebach.

I was worried about that, and I talked to some amateurs I knew.

Nekrasov seemed to have other powerful mercenaries in mind, but they were on the western continent and said they couldn't rely on them to get there.

The request is for surveillance and escort, but surveillance is more important than escort.

There was a reason that the merchants deserved to destroy the convoy, but there was also a reason that there were two more mercenaries, which was a strategic error.

This is because there were already too many escorts planned for this convoy.

No, I might say that the main purpose is to carry them outwards.

Trade is usually profitable by taking things that are not there, buying and selling them in exchange for things that are not here, and taking back what you have and selling them here.

However, it seems that the fleet chose to reduce the outbound cargo and instead carry people to finance the fare from the passenger.

Merchants who are strict in management and have few original merchants cannot prepare satisfactory products. Especially if you've just invested in a trade ship.

Therefore, it seems that by carrying out passenger transportation that does not need to be carried out, we decided to allocate funds for the purchase there.

Of course, this is a business that cannot be completed without a customer in the first place.

Besides, it is a large number of passengers who can share in this number of ships and pay the fare to each owner.

Few people want to cross the Western continent at the NPC. The story of high risk is famous, and if they die, it ends there. Basically, you don't bet your life on chips.

In other words, this is a group of players who prepare huge amounts of gold to enter the Western continent with the help of this large convoy.

Now that Spielgefelte's activities were on fire, it was a large clan-wind volcanic thunderbolt led by TKDSG, which also called for the top clan.

"─ ─ Are you Amateur? I don't hear any rumors.

I am TKDSG, Master of Wind Forest Volcano Yin Thunder. Thank you very much. "

"It is an honor to be able to act together with the famous Wind Forest Volcano Yin Thunder.

I'm Amateen. Nice to meet you. I haven't left Spielgefelte yet, but the activities are separate. "

To put it bluntly, the LP of TKDSG was quite large.

It must have been the result of the offensive without shaking your side. The LP is as tall as any player has ever seen.

Even though other members are not as powerful as TKDSG, they appear to have the same or more power as Spiergeferte's members.

And there was a player among them who was obviously a little inferior.

I thought it was a production job, but in that case, the LP is high and it is equipped for combat.

"Are those four rookies? I didn't know that Wind Forest Volcano Yin Thunder was still recruiting members....."

"Those four...? Oh, no, it's not. We're getting a little too big. I am not recruiting now. Well, they're acquaintances. I only decided to accompany him because he said he would cross the Western continent.

Yes, Amatein is a tough and resistant associate. I wonder if he's named Joe Hagarenix now.

He is a collaborator in the country where he founded his country. "

I also heard the nostalgic name that it is sturdy and difficult to peel off.

In fact, it hasn't been that long since we last met, and it is sturdy and hard to peel off. I have seen it because I often write it to the SNS, but did it make me feel that it has become alienated?

Whatever you call him when you call him, there were many interesting ideas in the clan, but he settled down with Joe Hagarenix in building the country.

I feel a little lonely when I think I can no longer communicate with you.

"I wonder if there were two Amateine-san this time. As you can see, I don't think I need an escort, but I can't help it if it's the client's intention.

So far, there have been no reports of monsters attacking us during the voyage, but we should remain vigilant. Let's get to work.

If you don't have enough hands, tell me anything. I'll see you later. "

That said, TKDSG left.

─ ─ Did you go?

"Wow, I'm surprised! Was there...? I should have said hello."

It was confirmed that TKDSG had left, and the hand appeared warm from the shade.

I will be working together for the next few days. You might as well keep your greetings, and it's usually a warm job to do such things in the first place.

"I don't know, he's not good at it. I'll just sit back and watch when I'm talking to you... Looks like they're seeing through me."

"Hey, somebody's gonna ask you. What happened to the ear hat?"

"... that's right. Don't be alarmed."

After a while, the sailor called me and the amateurs boarded the ship.

It looks like it's time to sail.

In the end, I don't know what the unpleasant feeling was when Amatein saw the convoy.

Is it like a backlash against making tradition a reality?

Amatein herself has no thoughts about the city's traditions, but has she somehow felt Nekrasov's emotions?

Whatever you do, you can't stop it now, and you have to move on.

The continent's first large-scale trading convoy, with four members of Amatein and its hands warmed, wind, volcano, thunder, and Hagarenixen, the catastrophic kingdom, travelled like this.