Let's Manage The Tower

On the way to Lüssen.

So far, there have been no major problems and no monsters have attacked me.

We can reach Lüssen in a few days.

However, based on our long experience as a merchant, something usually happens when we get into town.

Naturally, you pay attention to the surroundings without relaxing.

Nevertheless, the guards guarding their carriage can find the anomaly much faster than the merchants themselves.

It is not the monsters who care about the goods in the wagon.

With some vibration, the loading method is such that it does not collapse, but if an accident occurs in which the wagon itself pulls back, it also makes no sense.

That has happened several times in a long experience.

Therefore, the place where the wagon passes at all times cannot be neglected due to unforeseen circumstances.

Rick Krypton.

I jumped into this world when I was twelve.

It seems cool, but my master picked me up as an orphan.

I couldn't calculate anything at the time.

I couldn't ask my master why he picked me up until the end to see if he liked something about himself or if it was just a whim.

At the age of twelve, he worked as an apprentice under his master, and when he was seventeen, he recognized him as one.

I broke up with my master before I was twenty.

It was an accident while moving a pedestrian.

They were attacked by monsters that are common on this continent.

Rick happened to be waiting in another town.

I couldn't get the goods I was trying to buy, so I went to my destination town just before Master did.

Rick chased after his master after he got the merchandise, but when he arrived in the city he heard that his carriage had been attacked.

The luggage that Master was carrying was almost completely destroyed and there was nothing like a product.

Actually, I haven't checked.

If you find a wagon that has been attacked, the person who finds the wagon will have some rights.

Nevertheless, not all of them are available.

Most merchants entrust their baggage rights to others when something happens to them in the raid.

Only a fraction of the luggage goes to whoever finds the carriage that was attacked.

In that case, it's not uncommon for people to think about getting everything they find.

He was Rick who lost his master, but he arranged to entrust Rick with all his sales channels and other rights.

The emotion at this time was greater than the pleasure of admitting to it, the sadness of losing the master.

And I was surprised that I had such feelings.

Rick had little recollection of his master praising him for his business.

Most of the masters' faces left in my memory were angry faces.

Because it was such a life, I thought that one day I would be independent and break up with my master.

After all, I still don't know why Master was making such arrangements.

Still, I worked tirelessly because I couldn't lose the sales channel that my master had built up so far.

About fifteen years after Master's death.

Still, Rick continues to be a peddler.

I have lost most of my luggage in several accidents, but fortunately I didn't lose my life.

Even if I lost my luggage, I think it was thanks to the sales channels that my master pioneered that I continued to be a merchant without losing credibility.

Whenever that happened, Rick was reminded that merchants were important not only for their money accounts, but also for what they said they trusted.

After all, there was no monster attack until Lüssen, and we were able to get there safely.

Some peddlers say they should not have hired escorts if there had been no raids.

But Rick doesn't think so.

Hiring an escort is also one of my credentials.

The rest of the wages were paid to the escort adventurers because they arrived safely this time, and were dissolved this time.

For pedestrians, it becomes a contest when they arrive in town.

I have to sell the goods I brought to town.

That said, most of the luggage I brought was originally ordered.

Others will be purchased by Rick in another town in an attempt to open a new sales outlet.

They bring them to the store and see if they can sell them.

Yeah, well, I can't find a new sales channel that easily.

Rick was trying to sell a new product, but I heard some rumors in the middle of it.

The organization that is opening the transfer gate connecting Lüssen to the tower has created a new gateway connecting the city.

Having heard that, Rick unexpectedly doubted his ears.

Of course, I heard that there was a transfer gate connecting the tower to Lüssen.

It also means that various materials are brought in from inside the tower through the transfer gate.

Unfortunately, the material I said was not Rick's specialty, so I thought it was irrelevant until now.

But this story is completely different.

The opening of a new gate connecting the tower with another town means that you can quickly move from town to town via the tower.

Rick thought he heard the rumor that there would be no peddlers who couldn't catch up with the story.

Naturally, Rick went everywhere to confirm the veracity of the rumor.

After all, I couldn't get a decent story in town, so I decided to head straight to the tower.

A new sky and earth were spreading through the transfer gate.

It sounds strange, but this is what they call the Tower.

As for the new transfer gate, Rick was on his way because he could hear it from the temple's merchant counter.

Naturally, they were gathered there, probably from their peers.

I couldn't take the time to explain it to each person, so I explained it all at once.

I was told that there was time until the explanation began and that I wanted you to squander the time until then.

It's a lot of free time.

I decided to take a peek at the shop in this village.

Inside the shop, there was a selection of items centered on adventurers.

This is quite natural. In the first place, they are gathered in this village because they are adventurers who operate in the tower.

Besides, if anything, the counter buying the materials is more staffed.

As far as Rick was concerned, the adventurers brought the materials in from one day to the next, so I could see that there was a lot of business going on throughout the day.

It was finally time to start explaining, having squandered time while doing so.

Unfortunately, for Rick, the content was unexpected.

In the future, an organization called the Crown has risen and it has been explained that merchants who do not belong to the Crown can only use one gate.

For example, a merchant from Lüssen could only return to Lüssen.

By the way, as an adventurer, those who pass through the gates will no longer be able to enter and exit the tower with a large amount of luggage.

That's why I found it impossible to mediate an adventurer to handle a product.

Well, naturally, Rick had no choice but to convince himself of the tower's response.

If you look at the tower side, you can see that there is an intention to prevent this village from becoming just a passing point.

Naturally, some people will try to commit fraud, but if they discover it, they will not be able to enter or leave the tower in the future.

Since the Transfer Gate identifies the magic and sanctity of individual individuals, once registered as inaccessible, the gate itself becomes unresponsive and cannot be used.

Merchants who are clever will never take such a risk.

At least Rick didn't intend to take such an adventure.

It is better to use the transfer gate at any time than to do so.

Because even if the product itself cannot be moved, the benefits are great even if the product itself can be moved.

After we finished talking about the gate, we had a story about what the merchant division as a Crown would look like.

Rather, this story was more fruitful for Rick.

Normally affiliated with an Alliance, you are less free to act as a merchant than a peddler.

These ties were fewer than those of a typical guild.

And above all, the merchants who belong to the Crown say that the gates are free to use.

This is also obvious.

Restricting movement to merchants belonging to the organization eliminates the point of installing gates in the first place.

Finally, the explainer closed by saying that anyone wishing to belong to the Crown would be welcome at any time.

Rick returning from the Tower to Lüssen will be seriously worried about whether he really belongs to the Tower's organization.

Having said that, I can't say that I belong to the tower organization right away because I have dealings so far, so I will be acting as a peddler for a while.

In the meantime, I decided to decide how to shake myself in the future.

After all, Rick became part of the Crown when he officially started working as a Lira Amamiya.