"All right, you ready?
"It's okay, Mr. Alphonse. We have also checked all the shipments."
Well then, let's go. Barca, let's go. "
Now that we have confirmed the Baden, we are on our way to Orient Country.
However, for the time being, the Vulcan mercenary regiment decided to take on a different form.
I decided to call it the Balkan Caravan, not the Balkan Mercenaries.
This has to do with listening to Baden and Sula.
In a mercenary regiment composed of people from the foothills of less impressive spiritual peaks, there may be a lot of trouble ahead of you.
So instead of a mercenary gathering, we decided to turn into a merchant gathering.
A merchant brings goods worth selling to other lands for profit.
But there are bandit victims along the way.
Life is in danger, and taking goods can push you into bankruptcy.
It seems that there is a caravan as a way to avoid it.
Caravans began with the idea that multiple merchants would stand together and move around in groups to protect themselves and their goods.
However, this is not just a help, it is an organization.
The captain who puts together the caravan is absolutely right, and it is up to the captain to decide which road to take and how many days to take and where to take a break.
In other words, the Vulcan caravan merchant is still operating under my command, but it contains merchant and merchant goods.
However, it was the aim of this time to change the appearance from a group of mercenaries, a group of dangerous people, to a group of merchants.
A few merchants joined this Vulcan caravan after Biden and Christina spoke up.
A group of children who have never heard of me would not be trustworthy.
However, there were actually bandits and there were victims.
Some of them refused, but some of them participated, just to look at it as a caravan.
After all, being a merchant makes a pretty different impression on the other party.
That's right. The increase in the number of people makes it a little difficult to get a place to stay, but there are still people who want to buy things from afar. You seem to be more receptive to me than just the mercenaries. "
I left as a Balkan caravan and went through several more towns.
In the city, he sells the luggage he was carrying, and buys new goods in the area, and sells them in the next town.
The merchants seem to know exactly where and what is hard to get.
I was surprised to see what I bought cheaply in one town, but sold at a fairly good price in others.
Besides, merchants are still better off than mercenaries.
Originally, the mercenaries were also trying to keep Elvis strictly disciplined, so it might be a big deal to enter town without causing any particular problems.
Merchants who were initially passive participants now know that they are safe and are trying to make a profit.
Some of them asked me if I could continue the caravan even after I arrived at the Orient.
"But merchants aren't so good either, Mr. Alphonse. It would be better than a mercenary, but it would be a bit better than that."
"Really?
"That's right. After all, humans basically hate strangers. Besides, farmers are pretty strict about what they take off their farmland as taxes. A merchant who turns around and makes a profit without producing anything is more likely to hate him."
"Some people hate merchants. I may not have thought about it before because I didn't have such an idea in my native Vulcania."
"What a nice place, Alphonse. I want to go there once."
"Hmm, I don't know. I'm in a clandestine country now. If you shut down the country and stopped letting people in from outside, maybe you'll hate strangers more than people around here in the future."
"Well, it still doesn't seem to change to a good place. Ah, it's time for the terrain to change. There's going to be a lot of rivers around here, Captain."
"Yes, sir."
Beyond the town of Baden, it was basically not dangerous.
I also wanted to find out where the bandits were and get a reward, but the merchants opposed it.
He cried that he didn't have to go out of his way to fight.
Well, that's true.
The caravan carrying the cargo would be in the opposite position to target the bandits.
Besides, I thought it would come from the bandits soon.
However, it seems that there were no bandits who deliberately targeted caravans guarded by more than 100 combatants.
No problem, keep moving.
And finally, we're approaching a small group of countries.
A small group of countries with countries of origin that are also destinations.
It seems to be a place where several small rivers flowing from the spiritual peaks have become many large rivers.
The river occasionally floods with water.
However, the flood flooded the area with soil transported from the mountain, which seems to be excellent as agricultural land.
Several small countries are in turmoil and living on their own land.
We finally arrived at such a flooded land.