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The owner of the Red Magic Tower. Eryua received a unique offer from a man who introduced himself as Sky City’s local magistrate.

They asked if they could live in Sky City as they would provide all the support from the activity base to the funds needed for research.

Since I didn’t win the position of Magic Tower by gambling, I knew why Sky City was making this offer.

Although it is not clear exactly what the principle is. I thought it would be the same reason why the kingdom where the Magic Tower is located is not inferior to the empire in terms of magic technology.

And Eryua’s thoughts were correct.

The same answer came from the mouth of the magistrate, who asked me to understand because he was not good at speaking.

Unlike Eryua, who probably expected this to happen, Sky City’s magistrate shared the rules of the world that researchers had clearly identified.

It was said that just by conducting research activities in Sky City, wizards’ ‘skill scores’ would increase. It was said that the more ‘skill points’ there are, the more people’s average abilities increase.

He said it would be better if the research results were shared, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t.

I also received a photo of a building that would be leased permanently as a condition of living in Sky City.

A modern-style magic tower and apartments. It was said that Sky City would not only provide the building, but also cover all management personnel and costs.

The magistrate’s offer to ask if I could move my residence was very attractive. It didn’t seem like a lie.

So Eryua rejected the magistrate’s offer.

Rather than refusing, it was a reasonable action to bring the magistrate, who offered the price of a magic tower and a permanent lease of an apartment, to the negotiating table.

It was easy to rip off the police officer who thanked me for allowing me to see him.

It was simple. I checked to see if the magistrate who had received the task of proposing recruitment from Sky City had stopped by other magic towers.

From why he didn’t come to the red magic tower first, he put pressure on the areas where he applied for meetings at other magic towers that were rejected or postponed for a long time.

Then the contents of the contract changed.

Every month, the research funds provided by Sky City to the Red Magic Tower increased.

I sent the magistrate away, saying he would think about it for a moment, and the Magic Tower building he had agreed to receive increased by two apartments.

There was even a condition that the remaining space could be rented out to other adventurers who entered Sky City.

Eryua, who was satisfied with the contract that transformed the apartment into an apartment complex, thinking that it would be okay to go to Sky City, gave an order to bring a magistrate, but the disciples returned empty-handed.

“What’s going on? What about the peace officer?”

“That…”

I went to the inn where the magistrate was staying, but there was no one there.

After asking around and finding out about his whereabouts, he said that he had taken away a ‘foolish elf’ who occasionally came to play in the nearby forest.

“What? Take that stupid elf and not me? Aren’t you crazy?”

The name of the elf taken to Sky City by the magistrate instead of the Red Magic Tower is Illemina Marte. It was the name of an elf who came to the kingdom drawn by sweets…

He was also the wise man of the kingdom. He was an elf who was also awarded a noble title.

Calling him a wise man and giving him a title of nobility are all part of a plan for the kingdom, considering its relationship with the empire, which could explode at any time, to use the foolish elf, who is at least good at magic, as convenient.

The magistrate took away the foolish elf who accepted it as a good thing.

I was also able to hear the contract the magistrate proposed to the idiot elf on behalf of Sky City from a candy store clerk with a good memory.

A small amount of living expenses provided free of charge every month and a magic tower building.

It was the price of bringing in a foolish elf who would have gotten caught up in the conflict with the empire if he had stayed in the kingdom.

What the current situation was telling Eryua was simple.

Instead of the Red Magic Tower, which had to pay more and more as it floated around, Sky City took in a foolish elf who had excellent magic skills thanks to his innate special ability.

It was the Red Magic Tower that ignored the scout’s offer and refused to sign the contract, so even if they caught them, they had nothing to say…

“I may have to give in a little, but… you said you need research points, right?”

This means that the value of a group of disciples is higher than that of an elf alone.

Of course, he was superior even when compared one-on-one with the stupid elf, but since he knew the purpose of Sky City’s scouting, he had a chance… I thought.

The portal to another world called Earth was open, so all I had to do was go to Sky City, abandon the useless idiot elves, and ask them to choose the Red Magic Tower.

I would have to give up the apartment complex I was promised, but since I was already ready to leave the kingdom, there was no other option.

I was planning to go to Sky City first to meet again the magistrate who gave me the scouting offer, but the portal to cross to the world of Earth was closed.

“It just… closed? So when is the next portal?”

“It closed exactly today, so it’s one month later.”

Of course, there were portals that fell into the wasteland near Sky City in the Empire. Even if there was no Sky City in the kingdom, portals to the world called Earth often appeared.

But both were dangerous. It was dangerous, but there was no guarantee that it would arrive any sooner.

one month. Time remaining until the portal from the kingdom to Sky City is created.

It was enough time for Eryua’s happiness circuit, which believed that she could get back the magic tower that the foolish elf had given her as long as she gave in at any time, to be shattered.

**

“What did you just say? You heard wrong, right?”

“You heard correctly. Mr. Eryua.”

“The principality won against the empire? It doesn’t make sense, does it? There’s nothing there, right?”

Eryua, the red magic tower lord, received news that was difficult to understand.

It was said that a small principality with a small population and territory, and whose only industry was farming and ranching, won a landslide victory in an exchange meeting with the empire.

As it was an exchange of words and an event to test the strength of each other’s knights, everyone thought that the small principality would be eaten by the empire… but the result was shocking.

Landmark victory. The Empire’s Imperial Knights were completely defeated by a small country that exported crops.

There was no reason to care what happened to other countries, so there were other important aspects.

This was the reason why the knights of that small principality became strong enough to overwhelm the imperial knights.

The princess, who concluded that the principality would be consumed by the empire if things continued this way, went to Sky City with the knights.

Eryua also knew why the princess made such a decision.

It was common knowledge that you would gain more experience in places farther away from your hometown.

It seemed that Sky City was already calling the phenomenon the ‘Expedition Bonus’.

“It would be difficult to do this…?”

The problem is that the enormous expedition bonus experience became known to the world through the Principality Knights incident.

Ten times experience event with no time limit. Even if Sky City did not invite everyone, it was only a matter of time before adventurers seeking experience buffs flocked to the area.

The day before the portal to Sky City opened, there was news that another magistrate had kicked a princess competing in the imperial arena until she fainted.

…In addition, it began to spread that Sky City’s crazy policy of permanently renting a house as long as you were an adventurer was true.

“What are the living expenses? Where is the promised research funding? Ah…I think the apartment is missing too…?”

Eryua, who confidently entered the city hall, received only one modern magic tower building from Sky City in order to bring in a foolish elf.

It was a building that was not given to a single wizard of outstanding skill called Eryua, but to the Red Magic Tower, including Eryua.

It was a different treatment from the foolish elf who used the modern magic tower building by himself, with even the maintenance costs covered by Sky City.

The first offer I received was so unfair that it seemed like an angel, but I couldn’t give up on Sky City, where a real-time experience event was taking place.

As much as I knew that the foolish elf who accepted the title of honorary nobleman came to Sky City. It was easy to come up with a plan to expand the space, which was slightly insufficient for dozens of people to use.

“No, that’s right! All I have to do is sign here, right? Sage Ilemina?”

“Uhm… I don’t know much about that! You’ll tell me again later when the idiot disciple comes back!”

Eryua’s plan to take over the stupid elf’s magic tower building failed because the stupid elf, who only sucked on the candy he received as a gift, asked the stupid disciple to come back when he came.

The stupid elf said he was kind to me as a neighbor without realizing that he was almost a victim of fraud, and even gave me advice to be careful when I first moved in because strange people were trying to scam me.

The idiot elf’s idiot disciple was a crazy person.

I thought he was an ordinary porter, but he was the person who sent more than a dozen adventurers who came to Sky City to the Small Business Exchange.

Even though he was sending the other person to the Soche Exchange for stealing a few roots of medicinal herbs, only the exact amount of damage was returned to avoid any backlash, and the rest was being donated to the security forces and the porters’ union.

Eryua, who came to the conclusion that he was crazier than anyone could imagine, gave up his plan to use the idiot elf.

**

In Sky City’s Hero Association or Adventurer’s Guild, the superiority/inferiority relationships between officials and members tend to change quite frequently.

The reason is Sky City’s nomination request.

Even though the content was the same as the public request site posted on the Internet site, the number of digits of reward experience was different for the requests distributed directly to associations and guilds by Sky City.

To that extent, the Hero Association, which won the nomination request, was significantly advantageous to heroes, and the Adventurer’s Guild was significantly advantageous to adventurers.

It was also the association’s authority to assign nomination requests to wizards who had recently moved to Sky City instead of heroes who were born and raised in Sky City.

This was completely opposite to the association that had failed to win quarterly nomination requests and had waived fees or provided support to retain adventurers.

Different rules for measuring difficulty were applied compared to ordinary requests.

The idle security work at the Sky City Records Museum, where no one visits, was more important than the request to destroy a villain organization.

It was extremely safe, as it was obvious that Sky City would issue a wanted order the moment it was opened.

However, there wasn’t anything worth stealing from the museum.

There were no rare items with a purple border that sometimes appear on online auction houses, nor were there any unique items with a pink tint.

I had high expectations because it was Sky City’s cultural heritage, but all I got was a few worn and torn uniforms and a few pistols with paint peeling off.

A sigh escaped Eryua’s mouth as he was carrying out a museum security request that was higher than the mission to go out into the wasteland outside the city and investigate ancient ruins.

Since I came from another world, thanks to the expedition bonus experience, I was guaranteed to level up if I completed this quest safely… but it was still boring.

No one came to the museum, which had no rare items. Since the dungeon and succubus sex shop were located right next to it, no one came in.

Sky City’s treatment was very unpleasant, but Eryua had no choice but to acknowledge the huge experience bonus.

Leveling up, which I learned is a rare opportunity in life, has been coming to me once a week since coming to Sky City.

I couldn’t stand it that much.

I wonder if I might be lucky enough to learn a special ability, but it wasn’t enough to imagine what kind of skill I would learn with the skill points I received this time.

“……No one will come anyway, right?”

Such a thought appeared in Eryua’s mind.

I don’t know if it was because I revealed that I was the owner of the Red Magic Tower, but from then on, I was able to frequently receive requests for nominations from Sky City.

Eryua, who had been asked to guard the city hall, which the villains had no intention of attacking, but did not go because he had forgotten, found out one thing.

It was a fact so incredible that it could be called the rule of the world.

Even if I was lying in the room while receiving the security request, the experience for completing the request was still received. It was clear that this was the case because nothing happened.

So Eryua left the museum. And then I entered the dungeon.

Academy students and porters gathered together in groups organized by the academy for practical training. There were adventurers with a party window floating above their heads, but the party that would include the red magic tower lord, who was performing security duties that gave him experience points even when he was still, was decided from the beginning.

Although they were all different in race and origin, they all had one thing in common.

That is, I received a request to be assigned to guard public institutions in Sky City. Even if they didn’t have any work to do, they were obviously very capable people as they were security clients.

There is only one reason why such talented people gathered in the dungeon. This was to avoid wasting time in Sky City, where a 10x experience point event was taking place in real time.

Eryua entered the dungeon this time as she had always done since receiving the nomination request.

Instead of going to the ‘normal’ difficulty level, which only Academy Combat Department students can access, I used a pass to select a slightly more difficult ‘lower’ difficulty dungeon.

I opened the treasure chest behind the boss room and escaped the dungeon.

and-

“?”

Eryua had been surrounded by security guards who had been waiting at the entrance to the dungeon altar for some time.

It appears that the Record Room was attacked while Eryua, who was supposed to be on guard duty, was in the dungeon.

I refuted that some crazy person was attacking Sky City’s public institutions, especially a museum that had nothing to rob, but the answer was that it was an adventurer who got drunk after drinking a lot of courage potion and broke in.

The elf’s right arm was blown off when he tried to attack the trainee who issued a death warrant.

The imperial knight, who came to Sky City on leave to avenge the humiliation of being defeated by a country knight, believed the magistrate’s words that he could run away and ran away.

The magistrate, who was actually doing nothing but standing still, calmly issued a wanted order.

“Byeo…lawyer! no! Please call a kingdom diplomat!”

The owner of the Red Magic Tower. Eryua called a diplomat to defend him.

I was aware that I had made a mistake, but I did not think it was a mistake worthy of being turned over to the Small Business Exchange, a Sky City version of a slave market.

Although he may appear shameless, he could not be taken in obediently as his life was at stake.

Eryua was taken to the Soche Exchange an hour later.