Immortal Sage

"Thank you for handing over the bandits. Remuneration, how will you handle the cost of being a criminal slave?

At a post set up on the border with the Coral Kingdom, six bandits were handed over to the guards.

The bandits become criminal slaves and are sold as' labor in dangerous areas'.

Eighty percent of that money will be paid to us.

I can get you to pay 70% of the price if you hurry, but we didn't have a particular problem with the money, so we proceeded to have it transferred to the Alliance account and passed through the precinct.

The journey from the border to the King's Capital [Lars] of the Coral Kingdom is about three days at the merchant's pace.

With a week's distance from our base, Harmund, to the King's capital of the Kingdom of Raisle [Raisle], it is also convincing that the territory of the Kingdom of Coral will be treated as a small country.

It used to be a country with a little wider territory, but he said it had been invaded by the Rasgakan Empire in times of great strife and the territory of the North had become the territory of the Rasgakan Empire.

"It will take you five days to stop by the village on the road to Lars so that you are not suspected as a merchant squad. Thank you very much."

"I'll leave that area to Mr. Grid."

After entering the Coral kingdom, we decided to call each other "Mr." so that no matter where the intelligence agents of the Lasgakarn Empire might be.

Because in the relationship between the client and the escort adventurer, it is the most common.

"Mr. Grid, I've been expecting you"

The first village-like man to stop by came to greet the village square to welcome the merchants.

It seemed to me that the grid, which is usually tasked with leading the merchant corps around the Coral kingdom, is trusted as a merchant.

"Few merchants sell the property of the Kingdom of Raisle at an affordable price, except Mr. Gridd's."

Whatever you care about talking to the villagers, the grid doesn't have a bad reputation.

Even though interest is not the purpose...... it should be reasonable for the price because it is suspected that it will not gain some profit......

"Recently, because there are so many bandits, the merchants are forced to increase their escorts, and the value of the goods is increased..."

Bandits...

There was also a bandit raid near the border with the Kingdom of Raisle, but it wasn't such a strong bandit.

"Do you realize anything about the increase in banditry?

"It's been like a sudden increase for two months..."

"'Like' doesn't mean there's any harm done to this village, does it?

"The village was short of supplies, but the damage..."

The village itself does not attack.

But the merchants through this street attack...

Going through this street from the side of the King's capital Lars, all that lies ahead is the border with the Kingdom of Raisle.

Based on the location, are you targeting the merchant squad in the Kingdom of Raisle?

That night, I was supposed to talk to the grid about it.

"So, Mr. Wolfe was judged to have a bandit targeting a merchant army from the Kingdom of Raisle?

"I don't know if it's from the Kingdom of Raisle or to the Kingdom of Raisle, but I think it could be aimed at the economic separation between the Kingdom of Coral and the Kingdom of Raisle"

"Destruction in the guise of a bandit…"

They say Grid's merchant squad hasn't taken an itinerary to the Coral Kingdom in the last two months.

As a result, he was not involved in the recent frequent bandit victimization.

"We need to gather as much information as we can on our journey to Lars and scrutinize the intelligence we're waiting for in Lars."

The grid in charge of intelligence shares my opinion.

You always treat me like a 'shame'!

Have you reviewed it a little?

"If you listen to that, anyone will predict that."

Hey, Markoo!!

"Look, Wolfe doesn't even look like a doorman."

Are you my mother, Yulia!!

"No, you say that, but it's really hard to extract information from the first person you meet."

Grid, tell him more!

"By and large, did Mark come here to purchase more important information than Master Wolf?

"Ugh!"

Good one, Holly!!

"Gentlemen, calm down"

The grid tries to put the place away,

"It's a hundred years early to put an ass on Master Wolfe. Wow, at Mark's minute!

"What about you, Holly!

"Neither is the couple's pattern!

"" "" When did we become a couple -!!

"Um... you guys always like this?

Shit.

There's a grid pulling on my usual nori...

In an awkward atmosphere, the information exchange was over...

The merchants left the village ready after setting up shop in the village square until noon the following day.

Originally, it's impossible to leave near evening, but the grid suggested that luring bandits by doing night camps might also be part of gathering information.

If bandits do strike, it will be easier to strike the merchants who are camping at night.

'We would be able to protect our shipments from bandits' is heavily trusted...

There is absolutely no such thing in the world...