episode_0485

“Don’t make mistakes that you can’t fix again.”

“······Thank you.”

I handed over my wages for a week.

The coachman turns away from me, looking anxious.

The hung body was removed, and all that remained was the van on the side of the road.

Rohan was paralyzed by the smell that stung his nose.

‘Woogi will have to sweep away that smell soon…’

“···It smells.”

Rohan whines.

Edeline doesn’t seem to like this place that much either.

Okay.

Because I have no intention of letting you live in such a deserted place.

As they reached the outer wall, soldiers naturally came out and blocked Edeline.

“Excuse me, ma’am. Please show me your identification card.”

Edeline took out her ID card first and presented it to the soldier.

The soldier looked at Edelin and the identification card back and forth a few times, then returned the identification card and looked at me.

“Please present your identification card.”

He presented a forged identity card.

The soldier, who was mesmerized by Edeline’s beauty, didn’t even seem to notice my identity card.

“You are welcome to come in.”

The door to the outer castle wall opened, and Edeline’s face brightened just a little.

Because there was a busy street full of people.

Rohan was mesmerized by the downtown area he saw for the first time.

Just for a little while.

Rohan was very excited and asked Edeline all kinds of questions with a smile on his face.

‘It would be nice if I could live comfortably with children my age here…’

An adult can reach the inner wall in 20 minutes.

However, it took two hours to wait for Edeline to calmly answer all of Rohan’s questions.

This was enough time for Isabel to detect me.

“···Are you here?”

Isabel appeared as if she had come into existence and looked at my group.

The two naturally lost their attention to Isabel.

“This is my son and his wife, Edeline. I want you to accept me as Isabelle’s guest.”

“···Hello.”

Rohan looks up at Isabelle.

Isabelle greeted Rohan with a smile.

However, the expressions on Edeline and me were not very bright.

‘If you think about it, I hated Edeline from the beginning.’

But it was a necessary request.

“Yes. Welcome.”

“And I need to call Dragonia, can you give me some money?”

Isabelle glances at me with a sullen expression.

“···The only thing you can say when you come is a request?”

“It’s a world of giving and receiving.”

I could only smile.

Isabel turned around with a sigh.

“···Follow me.”

I followed Isabelle, holding Edeline’s hand, and Edeline holding Rohan’s hand.

Isabelle looked this way with tired eyes, then glanced at me and never looked back.

‘What’s so unpleasant about it…’

Edeline was looking at the communication center with eyes filled with nostalgia.

The reason I called Edeline here was to negotiate with Seth.

“Edeline.”

“Yes.”

“Edeline must have ownership of the train.”

“···Okay.”

“Here, together with Isabel, we will organize a route through Union, Habstenburg, and Doomheim. Has a contact point with Doomheim been established?”

“···Yes. In three months, the king’s child will have a coming-of-age ceremony.”

‘Do you even have children?’

Henry, the rightful king, was pushed out of his position?

If I had done that, I would have made a lot of money, so I wouldn’t have to go through hereditary succession.

“Thank you.”

“···If you know, try it well. Because if I fail, I have no choice but to take action myself.”

It means going to war.

Isabelle, who glared at me with slanted eyes, opened the door to the communication center first and entered.

“Wow…!”

Rohan was a curious child.

It was natural for such a child to roll his eyes as it was his first time encountering magic.

“What is this?”

“This is an envelope for communication. There’s a number on this, right? If you match this number and write, the text will also be written on the parchment with the same number.”

Edeline answers kindly.

However, Rohan had his eyes set on the communication parchment.

I greeted the Dragonias with my eyes and asked for their understanding.

They provided erasable ink, two quill pens, and parchment for communication.

I brought them to Edeline.

Edeline bowed lightly to the Dragonias and drew a picture using the communication parchment.

The picture was literally copied onto the parchment that Rohan was looking at.

‘”Wow──!”

Soon Rohan also took out a quill.

When Rohan draws a picture, Edeline decorates it.

The person Rohan drew was none other than Edeline.

‘Come to think of it, I’ve never drawn Edeline before.’

I got another piece of parchment for communication, sat down next to the three, and added some lines.

How much did you draw like that?

“Anne, won’t you look after the baby?”

“Yes! okay. Come back after work.”

At the sound of Isabelle’s voice, Anne appeared from a blind spot.

When I looked behind me, I saw Seth secretly glaring at me.

‘Why do you keep staring at me?’

What did I do wrong?

“Please take care of our child.”

“You have to listen carefully to what your sister says?”

Lohan shows his disapproval of picking me.

“Are you Rohan?”

Anne knelt down in front of Rohan and brought them to eye level.

“I just don’t know. While mom is at work, why don’t you play with your sister?”

“···What are you doing?”

“Draw pictures and eat delicious food. Let’s read fairy tales too.”

“Something delicious?”

“There are cookies and chocolate! What do you like?”

“Cookies!”

“Then shall we go eat cookies?”

Anne smiles brightly.

Rohan also laughed along with that laugh.

It is said that babies follow beautiful women.

Rohan seems to like Anne more than me after seeing her for a week.

‘what? This feeling of defeat.’

“Thank you very much.”

I left Anne and Rohan behind and followed Seth and Isabel to the second floor of the communication center.

* * * * * *

The summoned Seth was looking at me with a sullen expression.

Because emotions cannot be read, it is impossible to know what they are thinking.

But where is there no hostility?

─Seth is a person with a ‘human smell’.

“I’m back.”

“That’s it.”

“Congratulations on being revived. So why did I call you?”

It was from now on.

“We need to create a train route now.”

“You know? I can’t help you anymore.”

“We will hire people to sell the route. The wall of the large intestine will also be torn down.”

“Really? Then why did I call you?”

What can I say to convince Seth and make the dragon close his mouth?

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no way there was an answer like that.

‘Let’s get to the point first.’

“We need a map that preserves the terrain of the Laobian Empire before it became a desert.”

“We need to find out which land is fertile and has a lot of underground resources.”

For this matter, the help of the Magic Tower is absolutely necessary.

“I never said I would help you yet.”

“Seth, I don’t want to take sides with one race or coalition. I want everyone’s life to be enriched.”

“Really?”

“The top priority is to avoid war. The next step is to create a world where all demi-humans live together.”

A world where all subhumans live together.

That was my first dream and the only one I gave up on.

Now I want to achieve it one last time.

“Think of me as a magic tower owner with the ideology of the magic tower, not as an agent of the dragon.”

“The sub-humans of the Demon World are only a minority, numbering only about a million.”

“It is absurd to own the vast Hibi Desert just by them, and since there is no foundation, they cannot withstand the time it takes for the land to recover.”

“So, are you going to have them join UNAIR?”

“Even the neutral humans of Earth.”

You can’t have the entire Hibi Desert.

This is because we need to develop slowly, focusing on the border.

In other words, information and labor directly become the size of the country.

“Think about it. There is a country with a much better civilization right next door, but would neutral people really want to live in the desert?”

“Do you think neutral people who have been marginalized until now will rush in to say that it is right?”

I definitely realized it.

Seth has never seen with his own eyes how neutral humans live.

If you ever saw the lives of neutral people, you wouldn’t be able to say something like that.

They are massacred or enslaved simply because they do not belong.

There was no strength or weakness there.

Trolls, ogres, and goblins were all targets of purge.

“I plan to relocate the sub-humans living in a living hell in the southernmost part of the country as refugees. Even young people who have been pushed out by old people.”

For that purpose, the wall of the large intestine must be torn down.

To use unemployed young people as a labor force.

“Where do people get the resources to survive while building a country?”

“I will mine iron ore and sell it to Doomheim, Habstenburg, Horus, and the South.”

Seth burst out laughing.

Anyone would say something like that if they said they were going to sell iron ore to the dwarves.

“You want to sell iron ore to Doomheim? This is my first time hearing something crazy like this.”

“I’ve heard it in passing before. Doomheim’s iron ore is running out.”

That’s why they live underground.

As he said that, he hoped that Vulcan’s blessing would fall on the earth again.

─That was about 17 years ago.

Minerals are finite.

If it had been depleted, it would have been depleted, and it would not have increased.

Even if you cannot sell it to Doomheim, you can sell it to the South, Habstenburg, and Horus.

With the advent of nitrogen fertilizers, grain and mineral prices are no longer directly proportional.

In other words, you can make money just by mining minerals and selling them to the South.

“Doomheim was a Drekkar alliance to begin with.”

“I will make it so. Heinrich Schweinsteiger is over here.”

“···The old third prince? Do you think the dwarves will recognize legitimacy now?”

“I will make you admit it.”

“Okay. Let’s say so. Who owns that country in the Hibi Desert?”

“The people who built the country are the owners.”

It’s not that I don’t know, it’s that they are nudging me.

As if he was dissatisfied with me.

“How can I hold on until the land recovers?”

“You will need to obtain grass from the Meadow of Grace and food from the Yunaira and Romaria empires. I also plan to get help from Golden Road’s greats, Jemmy Drucker and Baek Sul.”

“Okay. Are you finally taking out your cards?”

I was embarrassed.

Rather than saying I drew a card, I just called what came to mind.

“How are you going to bring in the demi-humans of the Demon World?”

“I will use Isabel, Shir, and Seth to make people think that all of this is the will of the servants.”

“Why?”

“There is no way I could accept Ain whom I have never met before. However, if people close to the heads of each country set an example──”

“There will be a rebellion.”

······.

Seth twitched his tail and glared at Isabelle with narrowed eyes.

“Sihyeon. Aren’t you taking the bad relationship between that bitch and the temple too lightly just because you’ve never seen it before? That bitch is so crazy.”

The voice was very sarcastic.

What on earth did you do to deserve such punishment?

Isabel avoided me as soon as she caught my gaze.

“What did you do?”

“They destroyed all the statues of the Thirteen Servants in Habstenburg.”

“······.”

“And I told the truth. The great war was fought according to the will of servants.”

The ‘anti-servant ideology’ that Lexi pointed out was clear.

“Why did you say that?”

“···Why me?”

Isabel looks at me as if she is shocked.

Soon she smiled sadly.

“Because our children died there.”

“······.”

“···Do you think only Rectalians are victims? My family and friends are all dead, leaving behind little children! According to the servant’s wishes, the torch is lit—!”

It’s something I’ve only heard in stories.

So I didn’t think that the white wolf I didn’t know was a party to the war.

If you think about it, it was natural.

“You may not remember, but I do. My children are still alive and breathing in my heart.”

And the fact that I was a party to it.

“···I’m sorry.”

“How can you…forget our children…?”

Isabel’s eyes turned red.

Isabelle remembers a life I don’t know about.

In silence, I looked at Seth.

“That’s right, do you have something to say?”

“···I didn’t even think of this.”

“Is that also the case with the dragon that blew wind into Seth?”

“······.”

Seth agreed in silence.

‘Do servants know love or maternal love?’

You won’t be able to truly understand it until you don’t have it.

Even though I had a child as if I were roasting beans over a lightning fire, I could see that love, albeit in a blurry outline.

It was like a miracle.

Drawing a smile on the face of an expressionless woman.

Enough to bring grief to the steely woman’s face.

“···Alfred von Helfin, I should ask him to mediate.”

“Agent of Pluto?”

“Yes. I plan to bring that person in too.”

The man is the Archbishop of the Temple and is also a member of the Republic.

“If the Hibi Desert is opened in the first place, the most dangerous thing is the survival of the North.”

Once the Hibi Desert is opened, the northern part will dry up in the ice.

“Okay, how are you going to agree?”

“There is no place to recharge Hwajeong in the North. Surplus fire tablets are transported by train and recharged in the southern region.”

“The problem is that steel is heavy and difficult to transport, right? All you have to do is sell the northern iron to Doomheim and Habstenburg via train.”

“But if the price of iron falls, the North will die.”

“At least Romaria won’t be able to attack you like it does now. To begin with, the South considers pure iron to be a precious metal.”

Iron is precious to Southerners.

After working for several months, I was barely able to afford a cast iron griddle for cooking.

In developing countries, there will be enormous demand.

“The iron in the north is used in the Hibi Desert, and the iron in the Hibi Desert is sold in the south and Doomheim.”

“In the first place, how much money should be paid to the neutral Ajin and the Inner Demon Ajin?”

money?

Money is not something to worry about.

“The country I lived in was a country where it was difficult to see a single tree due to war, let alone resources. However, we rose to the ranks of developed countries in just 50 years.”

There has been a lot of support from foreign countries, but even more than that, there has been effort and passion.

“So… you’re ultimately trying to force passion on people.”

It’s strange because it feels like a devil forcing passion pay.

But it’s not that bad of a story.

“If there is a master and hope for the future, passion will arise naturally. All you have to do is not betray that.”

─Not betraying.

That is why Korea was able to achieve the ‘Miracle on the Han River’.

A dry modern society was created because companies and the country betrayed people’s hopes and passion.

‘At least I never want to see that.’

I will personally come face to face with the person who betrays his passion.

“Do you really think those people will do what you want?”

“You cannot impose the perfect ideals of the Magic Tower on refugees. They tried to start a war because they couldn’t change the world any more than servants did.”

“I am the head of that magic tower.”

“All we can do is create opportunities and hope for them to settle down.”

“We are the ones leading the demihumans of Pangea. If we abandon our ideals, there will be no further progress.”

I have nothing to say anymore.

So much so that I want to hear the reason for this refusal.

“Then does Seth have any good ideas?”

“Yes.”

Seth’s short words caught everyone’s attention.

Soon her mouth opened.

“It’s a good idea not to bring the demi-humans of the human world.”