Price of Management

Blue hair flows like waves along the edge of a red silk robe.

The beautiful girl who looked about sixteen and seven years old closed her eyes and repeated the magic formula constantly.

A small room with little sunlight, it was littered with reagents, pots, old books, dissected monsters, etc. The chaotic room landscape and beautiful girl were strangely prepared.

Yuck.

With a creaking sound, the door opens, and an old man with a flabby, unsightly goatee enters. The old robes and sticks were clearly the work of a wizard.

The wizard of the goatee looks at the girl and chirps his tongue.

“Knock it off, bitch. ”

“…… Why? ”

“That's it…… Eww! ”

After shouting something about the girl's absurd question, she stopped and sat down to open the grimoire.

The girl resumed her magic training again.

‘Bitch……. ’

Dylan, the wizard of goatee, sharpens his teeth, looking at the girl.

Dylan is 57 years old this year and still hasn't made any progress in four circles. Having been in the 4th Circle for 19 years, the 5th Circle seemed hopeless for a lifetime.

He is a commoner, but his father is a famous giant, so he has been treated like a wizard in the Magic Guild.

Dylan has mastered magic with extensive support, thanks to his father's annual contribution to the Magic Guild.

But over the years, the magic stopped moving in four circles, and my father took off 10 years ago.

The older brother who came after my father didn't pay any attention to his brother's magic research.

Thanks to you, the Magic Guild is now under the impression of a discard wizard.

The guild funded research has been cut off.

I'm still a Four-Circle Master, and I'm sure I won't kick you out with all the donations my father's made, but Dylan's always wanted money.

Suddenly, a little girl appeared in the magical guild.

‘Those poor bastards. ’

The Magic Guild collects talented children from the poor and the humble every year and teaches them magic for free.

You'll be amazed at the magical guild's attitude that contributes to the development of magic, but you're welcome.

Wizards are cold-hearted. It is also sensitive to revenue.

Magic only teaches you the basics of two circles, and when you turn 16, you work for five years.

Sometimes they are sold to mercenaries, etc. Of course, this does not cover free lodging and free education.

Those poor bastards who are being sold or banished will eventually return to the Magic Guild.

to learn the three circles.

That's the real source of income for the Magic Guild. Exclusive to the Magic Academy! This was the power of the Magic Guild.

The humble little wizards who teach free education and unleash it on the world come to bargaining money to learn the Three Circles in the future.

Wizards are like that.

This girl was one of those wizards.

His name is cis.

Records show that he received free training in the Magic Guild, mastered 2 circles, and was sold to mercenaries.

Dylan accidentally saw Sis coming to the Magic Guild to learn about the three circles.

Dylan asked the girl to pay 50 Redinas a year for her tuition because she would become a teacher.

‘You've come to learn the Three Circles, that's what you've earned. ’

After just one year of studying, I tried to convince the girl that she could learn by self-study.

Of course, you won't be in three circles in a year. In other words, if you can't feel it, you can't learn it without a teacher after a few years.

He planned to hold it like that for years and snatch the money away.

Sis agreed to the offer.

It's stuck!

At first, he was a cheerful Dylan.

However, as time went by, he realized that his judgment was wrong.

Dylan blames God.

How can you give that little girl the talent to climb into a three-circle in just a year?

If I had known this, I would have told you to pay 50 radians for each of your three magic circles! ’

It was already spilled water.

I signed a contract in the name of the Magic Guild, and the formula for all three circle enchantments is in her head.

If I knew the formula but didn't understand it, I couldn't learn it, so I taught him everything.

If you're already in three circles, that's a different story.

As I was regretting the past, Sis stood up.

Dylan's eyebrows twitch. He already hated and annoyed all of Sissy's pranks.

“Where are you going? ”

“Bob.”

And then the swooping sheath.

Dylan clenches his fist and trembles.

Yeah, it is.

Bob was a better bitch than magic.

When it was time to eat, she went out and ate a lot of dirty food.

Seeing how she eats everyday, it seemed that there was still money left.

“I should have taken all that money! Damn it!”

He bursts into tears, but it's already past.

* * *

Memories of my past life quickly passed through my mind.

After the Great Famine, the land-based economy with a lot of food shifts.

The lords kneel to get food.

The powerful aftermath tribes practically rule the Kingdom of Ledon.

The kingdom loses control of the country.

The Horn Empire is under attack.

The Emperor of the Fallen Horn raises an army to drive it away like a fury.

The landscape is completely terrified of the fall of the Horn and is obsessed with protecting only the basin of the Baden River.

The Horn Empire wipes out the defenseless Mid-North. The kingdom falls.

King Eric Lerdon will be taken prisoner.

After the fall of the Kingdom, our Kunt family surrenders to the Horn Empire.

Fifteen years later, Jehovah was conquered by the Horn Empire and executed without a single survivor.

All lands that were once the Kingdom of Leaden are marked on the map by the order of the Horn Empire.

After that, the Horn Empire conquers half the continent.

Nevertheless, as a merchant, I lived a life without much joy.

How dramatic is the history of my past life?

“Let me ask you this once. Tell me, what do you think this country will look like? ”

Eric asked me a question, and I woke up from a thought.

I realized his intentions.

He wants to assess me.

You want to know who I am and how capable I am.

If I'm a good person, I want to be my own person.

The young king who will fall 10 years from now.

Well, good.

Well, look at me. I'm like this.

I will tell you what I know.

“The Kingdom of Leaden has one problem on the outside, two problems on the inside. ”

I've made an argument that can be quite sensitive.

The atmosphere of the drinks in the tangential rooms became heavy, but I didn't care.

It's a story you can't tell unless it's like this. A story you can't tell unless you're here.

Will this story change my fate, and the fate of King Eric Lerdon?

I have already changed my fate by returning to the past. Then can we change the fate of this country?

“The foreign matter is the Horn Empire. They're military nations that rely on income in barren lands. We will invade the Kingdom of Ledon to expand our trade routes and take over our fertile lands. ”

I've brought up the problem of the Hunt Empire.

“The emperor of the Horn Empire is only 18 years old now. ”

Erik rebels.

Well, he's a year younger than me.

But in the future, he will tear this continent apart.

“That should not be an excuse for neglecting the boundaries of the Horn Empire. We need to be more vigilant that the bloodthirsty emperor of a militaristic empire is still breathing. ”

No one knew how frightening the young Emperor of the Horn was.

The emperor was later called the Great Depression and slashed the heads of many.

I kept saying.

“The domestic problem is, first, the high water price. This is due to the high taxes imposed on the waters of the Baden River, which is the center of logistics. Of course, the merchant who crosses the Baden River has to raise the price of the goods as much as the tax paid. If you don't control the landscape, the water prices keep rising. ”

That's why Jehovah is the enemy of merchants.

Filthy post-school bastards.

I hated them in my past life.

That's why I thought they were pretty gruesome when they were strangled by the Huns and lost all their assets.

“The second problem is that post-shore forces are increasingly expanding. If His Majesty is unable to exert his power because of that force, the country will lose its worries and weaken. Then the Horn Empire will finally reveal its true colors. ”

I don't know if I can talk like this. Well, they won't execute you for being reckless.

Eric seemed interested in my argument.

“I like your confidence. So, do you know how to fix those problems? ”

“Join the Orient Kingdom to the east, appease the Horn Empire to the west, and conquer the landfall of the Baden River to the south. ”

“You're supposed to hold hands with the Orient Kingdom? They are the enemy of burden. They were supposed to intervene in the spring civil war in favor of Brando. ”

Eric was nervous about the tangential room. It was too sensitive.

However, it should not be based solely on feelings.

“I have friends forever, but never forever. We should be brothers because we can't hold hands. That way you can hold off the Horn Empire. ”

“You have a very bold opinion. ”

Not only Erik, but Randall and Earl Graham are amazed at me.

He seemed surprised to know how to assert himself in front of the king. Sensitive issues, too.

Well, once in my life, I was scared out of my mind.

And I know to some extent.

Maybe I'm living a new life for this moment.

“Then, how should we subdue the Jehovah? ”

Eric asks again if my opinions have become more interesting.

“We must set an upper limit so that taxes can no longer be raised in the Baden River, and confront merchants and craftsmen in cooperation. ”

“There's no way the landfall is going to respond to an injustice.... ”

“Of course, the landscaping will be called interference with the territory. I dare say, the power of the current royal family is insufficient to suppress the landscape. ”

“That's a fair story. ”

Eric doesn't feel bad at all.

He rather liked me for being honest.

“But what if the Orient Kingdom and the Horn Empire were also involved in the negotiation table? ”

“What?! ”

Everyone was surprised.