episode_0095

“Welcome.”

As soon as I entered, a grumpy-looking old man looked at me and shook his head.

“Tsk…because business is not going to work…”

Only then did I notice the clothes of the other guests inside.

A man wearing a ring on six of his ten fingers, a nobleman wearing luxurious clothes with lace, and even a knight wearing armor that shines brighter than most jewels.

People wearing fancy clothes and elegant movements were slowly looking around the store.

I was dressed like I didn’t belong to any of them.

I hung up my armor in my room, and all I did was wear the neat-looking cloth clothes I had in my closet.

It was understandable that the old man was not very pleased.

I understood it, but I didn’t like the old man’s attitude.

Still, I held on and walked up to the old man sitting at the counter and asked.

“Do you even make purchases here?”

“…Yes, but if the quality is very poor or there is a high possibility that it is fake…”

Before he finished speaking, he placed the gold bar he had previously taken out of his inventory on the counter.

The old man looked at me dissatisfied with the fact that I had interrupted his conversation, but when he saw the gold bar, he put a magnifying glass that looked like a monocle on his eye and began to look at the gold bar calmly.

At first, he roughly touched the gold with his bare hands, but gradually his movements became more careful.

Afterwards, he put on the gloves he took out from under the counter, spread a soft velvet cloth on the counter, and carefully placed the gold bar on it.

“Where did you get this?”

As the old man shouted in panic, a man wearing knightly armor who was shopping next to him intervened.

“It’s too big for gold, is it fake?”

He said, giving strength to his shoulders as if he was going to scold me if it was fake.

“It’s fake!”

Then the old man became even more angry and angry than me.

I was so embarrassed.

“This is truly gold! This purity…”

The old man looked at the gold and stuttered.

The knight who heard the old man’s shouting grumbled that he had intervened for no reason, but when he saw the old man’s attention, he quietly retreated.

In fact, the old man was so obsessed with gold that he did not even pay a glance whether the knight backed off or not.

The high purity of 24K gold seemed to have impressed the old man.

“How much?”

” Are you really selling this?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t go anywhere, just stay still! I’ll get the gold coins out soon!”

The old man swallowed his saliva and ran briskly with small steps.

He walked as lightly as a child, as if he had been rejuvenated.

“Huh? But I think I saw you somewhere… Are you a news article?”

The knight in shining armor, who had stepped back for a moment, slowly looked at me and then suddenly spoke.

Of course, I couldn’t remember the article in front of me.

I was asked if I was a driver, so I nodded and answered.

“It is under Director Dana.”

“Dana… If Dana is the Dark Knights…?”

When the name of the Dark Knights came up, I nodded in the affirmative.

He looked at that figure, glanced at me with a pale complexion, and took a small step back.

It was as if he had seen a monster.

“Ah… uh, really…?”

The driver hurriedly backed towards the door, saying each word with difficulty, and left.

I really felt like a monster.

I felt like I knew roughly how the Dark Knights were treated by ordinary knights.

Sigh.

At that time, with a happy sound, the old man put a sack on the counter with great difficulty.

“500 gold coins. You may think it is not much, but there is no one around here who gives as much as me.”

Even as he said that, he seemed worried about what would happen if I didn’t accept it.

I looked at the gold coins in the bag and answered.

“Good.”

I accepted the conditions without much hesitation.

The old man’s mouth opened at my refreshing answer.

It was a suggestion that I didn’t have to worry about.

It was a much higher amount than I expected, and it seemed that few people would realize the value of this gold bar as much as the old man.

Rather, like the old man at the beginning, it seemed like there were people who only looked at my clothes and did not even want to appraise the gold.

Should I have just come out wearing armor?

The old man thrust the sack towards me as if he wanted to make a deal before I changed my mind. I took the sack and went outside.

Holding a bag full of gold coins made me feel strong both physically and mentally.

My next destination was decided.

The weapon shop I saw when I first entered this city and the blacksmith street stretching out behind it.

That was the next destination.

Kaangㅡ

As soon as I entered the street, the sound of metal rang out.

Starting with that sound, other metal sounds began to be heard in succession.

“I think I came to the right place?”

Dozens of different metal sounds were resonating consistently like music.

Starting with the huge weapons store, there were various large and small workshops and shops lined up behind it.

Unlike other streets, the overwhelming majority of customers on this street were adventurers and knights.

I walked the streets and looked at the weapons.

“…They all look similar?”

The problem was that even looking at the swords on display, I honestly couldn’t tell which one was a well-made sword.

So, after much deliberation, I finally decided on the price.

I thought expensive weapons would be expensive.

And I found a place that sells the most expensive weapons.

“This small dagger costs 4 gold coins…”

The first medium-sized mithril sword I saw when I came to this city was worth 20 gold coins.

Even though this small dagger was just made of steel, it boasted a price tag of 4 gold coins.

The same was true for other weapons in this store.

Any weapon was more than twice as expensive compared to other stores, and the shape was also simple.

“No matter what, 4 gold coins…”

“If you’re going to complain, don’t buy it.”

I heard a deep voice and turned my gaze, but there was no one in sight.

And as I slowly expanded my vision, I saw a man holding a hammer.

The reason the man didn’t catch my eye at first was simple.

This was because the man’s height was much shorter than I expected.

Dwarf.

That was the race of the man who was the owner of this store and the voice of the voice just now.

“It is a dagger made with dwarven technology, so its price is natural.”

He said, crossing his arms with pride.

Dwarf.

In many fantasy novels and games, dwarves were portrayed as a race with exceptional dexterity.

If you think about the content of the short story, which faithfully follows various cliches, there is a high probability that dwarves are a race with a good existence.

I didn’t think it would be a bad idea to entrust the request.

“Do you also accept custom orders?”

“…It must be expensive, right?”

Hearing the dwarf’s words, I grabbed the bag without hesitation.

The dwarf who accepted the sack checked the inside with a suspicious expression.

Then the dwarf opened his mouth.

“What…”

And taking advantage of the moment when attention was focused on the gold coins in the bag, he took out the jungle sword from his inventory.

“Please make this type of weapon with the best materials possible.”

The expression of the dwarf who was handed the jungle sword turned serious.

He looked around the jungle island and muttered.

“Is it iron? No, it has better weight and elasticity compared to iron. It’s like an axe, it’s like a sword…”

The dwarf looked around the jungle island for a while and nodded.

“Okay, let’s try it. I’ll have to consider the material, but I don’t think it will cost more than 100 gold coins.”

Because the sword called Jungle Sword itself was not a very large sword, it was cheaper than expected.

No, in fact, 100 gold coins was a price that could never be said to be cheap.

Since I had just earned a huge amount of money, my sense of money became strange.

He said it would likely take quite some time to produce the sword.

“Once everything is made, where should I send it?”

“Do you also provide delivery?”

“If I get this much, I should do it.”

The dwarf chuckled and played with the gold coins.

I asked them to bring it to the Dark Knights’ dormitory.

“Are you a member of the Dark Knights?”

“Yes.”

I was worried that he might be scared like the previous article, but he didn’t look that way.

“Well, I guess I should also consider dealing with monsters.”

The dwarf just calmly nodded and looked closely at the jungle map I gave him.

“The sword seems too short to deal with orcs or large monsters…”

Before I knew it, I went into concentration mode and without disturbing the muttering dwarf, I carefully bowed and went out.

And on my way back to my accommodation, I bought some small items.

Several large towels, flower-scented perfume, body oil and cosmetics said to be used by nobles.

These were items used to attack Massage, the fortress wall of the Dana leader that we had seen before.

With this, I planned to change my dorm room a little bit.

Roughly speaking, it feels like a massage room in another world.

To do that, I needed a variety of items, and I bought them all as soon as they came out.

What remains is how to naturally induce the general manager into this massage.

It didn’t come to mind that well.

There is a massage service on the castle wall, but Manager Dana doesn’t seem to be the type of person who enjoys massages.

“Shall we naturally spread word of mouth?”

In places where the body was used, such as in the Knights Templar, the body was always tired.

There were many articles asking for a massage.

The first thing that came to mind was Cecil.

It was a female knight who was quite friendly to me.

“Shall we bring up the story?”

Somehow, I felt like Cecil would accept it.