Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

"Abandoned pit, is it?

"Yeah. Behind the Northwest Forest -"

"It's a stop!

Returning from the woods, we tried to ask Mr. Diora about the abandoned pit, but the moment he spoke of the place, Mr. Diora blocked Hulka's words with a slightly stronger tone.

And I look around the guild with a slightly more alert look, but because few adventurers exist in time, no one was paying attention to us.

"- Gentlemen, come here for a moment"

The slightly harder looking Mr. Diora takes us through to the separate room.

This seems to be the first room we've ever used to make requests that people don't really want to hear about.

There are about 10 chairs placed around the table and surrounding it, with no windows and dim.

Mr. Diola sat back in the chair when she turned on the light, urging us to sit down too.

"For now, have a seat"

"Uh, trouble after all?

"Right, slightly."

To my words, Mr. Diola laughs bitterly as if he was in a little trouble.

"It is an open secret and a matter of degree among the ancient people of this town, but for once it will be an aristocratic scandal..."

With that said, Mr. Diola told me that there was still no mistake in that cave in the abandoned pit.

But the question is how it happened.

Originally, the owner of a mine is the lord who governs the land, but is required to properly report to the State the amount of its mining and the metal to be mined.

Failure to do so is severely punishable in terms of taxes and restrictions on exports to other countries, but the Viscounts, lords of the region, hid that mine.

But I can't do more than hide, nor can I do a large contingent of workers.

So what do we do?

It was the criminals who were the substitute for it.

Send in criminals and make them mine.

That's what I was able to do initially, but in a situation where I can't attract a mine, but also a decent technician, the wear and tear rate is high, and I gradually run out of manpower.

The consequence of this is to treat it as a felony, even if it is a misdemeanor or something that cannot be called a crime, and to secure manpower.

Though that's how I started securing manpower, I should say fortunately, that didn't last long.

The Lords and their sons, who were on their way to inspect the mines, did not return.

Only a small number of people initially knew where they had disappeared from the business that had been carried out in secrecy, and the situation was the only reason why they had spoken, but in more than a month's time the disappearance and a fact-finding team from the country would come and expose the truth.

Detailed circumstances, such as the circumstances under which he died, never flowed to the civilian population, but the unusually high level of crime control marked the end, and the brother of the lord, who had been an official in the Wang capital, was to succeed the Viscount family.

"... I mean, that mine is the abandoned pit we found," he said?

"That's likely. Weren't you with the undead?

"There you are."

Currently, what that place has not been developed as a mine is that as a Viscount, it is a stain that I would like to forget, that undead is occurring, and there are times when I can't expect the amount of mining to be that much.

Conversely, if the reserves are high, they cannot be deluded because of the manpower and shipments that will be needed, and the revenues will rise significantly, so I may have properly reported them to the country, but it is also said that the half-way mining volume, which is likely to be deluded, is the factor that the demon has given you?

"But have you gone that far...... The amount of demons was increasing and I couldn't get close..."

"Maybe, is it bad when you go in?

"No, it's an uncontrolled place, so there's no problem. Assuming Mr. Hulka and the others dig on their own, they won't complain. It's dangerous to dig it properly, so I think you should stop it."

"That's right, if an amateur gets his hands on it, it could collapse, right? By the way, what's a mine that can be mined?

"Rumor is, it was a misrill or something"

"" "Mithrill!?" "

Our voices humor Mr. Diola's words.

Mr. Diola pulled herself back a little and smiled bitterly at us.

"You're a good eater. Well, if you're an adventurer, I admire you, and I don't think you have a choice."

"You've got the weapon of Class Steel."

"I knew you wanted it, Mithril's weapon!

"I don't think attribute steel has nearly any adventurers in this town either. But it's a rumor to the fullest, rumor. At least, I don't think we've picked enough to become an industry, do we? If we can pick that much, the state can't do it, but we should be developing it."

Mithril's weapons - made of alloys containing Mithrills to be exact - are very high-performance, and the poorer they are, the more they dictate national power.

Because it is such a metal, if it is also found in a promising mine, the state forces the lord of the land to lend money even to develop it.

Considering that, I find out for myself what that abandoned pit looks like.

"That's why I don't think there's much advantage to getting in... will you go?

That's what Mr. Diola asked me, and we looked at each other.

I can't expect hidden treasures because I'm not a bandit's aside.

Like the game, you can't easily mine the ore, or expect the content if you do.

If the undead is still there, you get the Demon Stone, but its value isn't that high, and you can't sell drop-item weapons.

- This means going into a dangerous scrap pit on purpose, doesn't it?

"I can't really recommend it, but if you want to come in, I have a request I'd like to ask you to..."

That said, Mr. Diola left the room and came back with one requisition.

"I'll be here"

The requisitions placed on the table are brown and discoloured and quite in season.

We peek it all in.

"Collecting the sword of a family heirloom?

"Yes. I said Viscount - Viscount Nenas - that the sword that passes on to your house is missing. Perhaps the owner who went missing in the mine had it, but due to various circumstances, it has not yet been recovered."

"Wasn't it a long time ago when the Viscount went missing?

"Yep. It was already decades ago…"

"I see. I thought it was a very old requisition."

"Aren't you going to collect the current Viscount himself? You have about a private soldier, don't you?

"The Viscount now hits the nephew of the Viscount who caused the problem, but he was a decent man for all his predecessors..."

Fortunately, you were spared the Viscount family, but that was because it was clear that the brother of the Viscount who worked in the King's Capital was coming to the King's Capital in a very brilliant and half-expulsion manner and that he was not involved in the evil.

But what the former Viscount did is a national treason if he did it badly.

No matter how much Ten himself is missing, there will be some penalties, and no support from other houses is expected in such houses, or anything with any thoughts.

In addition, there is unusual control over the people, and the territory is rattled.

In such circumstances, there was no room for the collection of the family heirloom's sword.

"After some rebuilding in the realm, it seemed like we were going to do the recovery, but by then we had another problem…"

Another problem is that demons in areas previously logging namelogs have become stronger, making it more difficult to obtain namelogs.

There are abandoned pits that are deeper than the logging area of the namewood and harder to reach with raw arms.

Unfortunately, the Viscount's private soldier arm, which caused the problem, is also known to have been used to retrieve it.

Rather, if there is enough arm to recover the sword from the abandoned pit, the former Viscount, who was a decent nobleman, put his strength into it because allowing the logging of the namewood is a priority, but the results are conjectural if you look at the current situation.

As a result, even now that it was replaced, it has not been possible to recover the family heirloom.

"It must be possible if you hire a good adventurer, but if you can afford that, you develop the realm, the Viscount is the type."

"Huh, good man, are you?

"Right. It must be a good lord for the inhabitants. Seems a little insulted by other nobles."

"Then this reward is for hard work, what is it?

The reward stated on the requisition is 300 gold coins.

It's broken out of the requests I can get at the guild here, but I feel a little cheap as a reward for coming into the current scrap pit and collecting it.

Buy more than 300 gold coins with the sword of Toya.

It would be a sword of considerable value because it's so much as a family heirloom, and given the dangers, the benefits are small.

"Yes, so I can request this request if I can collect it. Considering the possibility that you won't find it…"

Mr. Diola clouds words and smiles bitterly.

Normally, this type of request is well searched, and if you still can't find it, you don't need a penalty, but it's hard to find a scrap pit from corner to corner, and given the asking fee, it's not worth it at all.

Given that it had been salted on a decades-by-decade basis, it's going to take a lot of luck to actually find it.

"If it feels as light as that and good, could I try it?

"I agree. It's cool in the abandoned pit."

"... I see"

Activities in the woods will be tougher as summer approaches.

Given that, even if you make a little less money, it may not be such a bad choice to carry out an undead exorcism in a cool abandoned pit.

If so, is there no reason to disagree?

I agree with Toya, and the Natsukis don't particularly disagree.

"Okay. If you're lucky enough to find it, I'll look for it."

"Thank you! The Viscount seems to have given up half the time, but he won't even withdraw his request, so as an Adventurer's Guild, he was in a bit of trouble."

Having a request that won't be accomplished for decades doesn't seem very good in the Adventurer Guild's position either.

This request was abandoned because the request fee is lower than the fair price, but if the request is more than the fair price, they may also mediate and process the adventurer from the guild.

"I see. - Is it cheap? from fair prices. We're good adventurers to ask for that, aren't we? - By the way, Mr. Diola, I have this, can't you handle it?

With a nickel and a laugh, Hulka lined up on her desk with the sword Skeleton Knight was using.

It's an array that had a crest in it and a dead end was determined.

"I'm scared when people say that at this time...... This sword is the seal of the Viscount Nenas."

"I was having trouble handling it, but could you buy it off at the Viscount's?

"That's right... it's made of white iron, so it seems like you can still use it enough yourself. It's going to be hard to get them to buy it high, but if it's about the selling price of this level of weaponry, we might be able to figure it out."

"Store selling price...... can I have it negotiated? Honestly, it's hard to sell to the weapons store in that area."

You can expect about 40-50 gold coins at the price of a white iron sword store.

150 if it's the 3 I picked up this time. It is not a bad earner.

"I guess so. It could be the source of trouble. I get it. I'll take care of it. Instead, if you want to collect the sword, you can do as much as possible, thank you, right?

"Copy that. Depends on how big the scrap pit is, but I'll try my best for a while."

The advantage, to put it simply in terms of profit, is at least the favor of Mr. Diola, who has been taking care of him from time to time.

You should try very hard.

To the best of our ability to be safe, of course, but...