Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 499
Simon’s party safely arrived at Harlem in Tarados.
Simon looked around and was surprised to find the environment far worse than expected.
The people of Harlem sat on the side of the road like skinny zombies, waiting for the day they would die. He was in a state of extreme malnutrition, with ribs visible all over his body.
The buildings are old, the alleys are extremely narrow, and the dried-up rivers are clogged with rubbish.
Dead bodies can also be seen on the streets. Flies are infested and wild dogs are swarming, but no one tries to drive them away.
A city with no hope.
That was Harlem Street in Tarados.
[for a moment! for a moment! for a moment! Why did you come to this place!]
The necklace swayed and Carl’s alter ego shouted.
[It seems that the body’s senses have faded more than when it first entered Tarados! Haven’t you come too far?]
“I have to seek information first.”
As long as you enter the closed territory where contact with the outside world is cut off, information collection is not an option, but a must.
It would have been easy to find if Carl’s alter ego had been told that it was getting closer or farther from the main body in real time, but now that I see it, I can’t feel it in such detail.
Now is the time to step out and listen to the vivid stories of the locals. Elizabeth is also scattered and gathering information with the spiders.
‘I wish I could meet the client in this town.’
The client who requested help from Keyzen students.
I wanted to know who it was and who it was.
He must also know the situation in Tarados better than anyone else. I thought that finding that person was the ‘key’ of this mission evaluation.
“To think this town has changed like this…”
The coachman, who said Tarados was his hometown, looked around in disbelief.
“When Tarados was in its heyday, it was a city of vitality and youth where many adventurers and merchants came and went. It is hard to find any trace of it now.”
“The heyday.”
Kazan, who was walking next to Simon, looked back and said,
“It must have been the days when gold mine dungeons still existed, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
Simon looked back.
“Is that dungeon still there?”
“I can’t believe it. I heard that after the death of the dungeon master of the dungeon, it disappeared without a trace…”
Taat!
It was then.
A scruffy little girl who looks like she’s about 7 or 8 years old! jumped out, pushed her driver, and into an alley. Her coachman stumbled and fell to her floor.
“Are you okay?”
Simon came quickly to him.
“Yes, yes! I’m fine.”
“More than that.”
Kazan continued, scratching the scar on his right side.
“Let’s check your belongings first.”
“yes?”
The coachman got up again and groped me. Then, with a startled sound, ‘Ah!’, she started looking at her clothes again.
“Oh, the money bag!”
Tadada dat!
The little girl ha ha! ha! She was panting and going deeper into the alley.
A cramped alleyway where quite a few grown-ups get caught up in the wall. With her size, it was possible to run here as well.
‘it’s okay! it’s okay!’
A light of hope flashed in her eyes.
‘With this money, my brother…!’
“hi.”
The girl who turned the corner of the alley screamed in surprise. A blue-haired boy appeared out of nowhere, squatting and smiling kindly.
“Stealing is bad. Can you give it back?”
‘what! what! Uh, how did you catch up?’
She took a step back, then jerked back and ran away.
but it didn’t go far A man stood in the way from behind.
“It’s strange that you don’t meet pickpockets in Harlem.”
He was a very scary man with scars all over his body. Even in this narrow alley, they were slithering like snakes. It looked like a mollusk, not a person.
“ruler.”
Simon spread his palms.
“Give it back.”
“Poem, I hate it!”
She crouched down, holding the money bag tightly in her arms. It was a complete defensive posture. Simon let out an embarrassing smile.
“Now, wait!”
Whoops! omg! Huh!
He took a deep breath and heard the voice of the driver who had arrived late. He was looking at the girl.
“Lisa! Is that Lisa?”
The pickpocket girl finally raised her head.
“Oh, mister?”
* * *
“Ahaha! I’m sorry the house is shabby! I don’t have anything, but please rest in peace!”
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Simon, Kazan and the coachman are invited to the pickpocket girl’s house.
Simon couldn’t help but freak out.
‘People live in a place like this?’
Originally, it was a space that was not a room, as if it were forcibly created by partially exposing the wall of the building.
It was a poor and dirty environment. There was a musty smell everywhere, and the thin mattress on the floor was torn in a mess. The wallpaper was tattered, and the windows had served their purpose a long time ago.
“Would you like some water?”
She brought water in an old cup. Seeing that the water was yellow and something strange was floating around, Simon smiled and declined.
“Lisa! Where is the bathroom?”
The coachman shouted as if he was in a hurry.
“Go out of the house and walk straight to the side, and you’ll see a dried-up water fountain. Turn right from there and you’ll find a public bathroom!”
“…A public restroom?”
“Yes! Everyone in this town uses them! If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to pack in three hours in line! If you’re in a hurry, just pack anywhere on the floor!”
Simon let out a bitter laugh. It hurt a little to see a girl of that age talking about being cheap and all for granted.
The coachman resignedly walked to the public toilet, while Kazan looked around the house.
Now, only Simon and the pickpocket girl are left.
“What’s your relationship with the coachman?”
“I lived in the same town for a while. I was close with the boys of the man.”
Having said that, she hinted.
“They’re all dead. The lady too. I have no idea where you’ve gone since then, and I never thought I’d meet you here.”
The atmosphere suddenly calmed down. Simon glanced around him, sweating profusely.
“Are you living alone in this house?”
“I live with my brother.”
Her expression darkened even more.
“I was captured by the soldiers.”
“…….”
No matter what he says, it’s all just hopeless stories, so the conversation doesn’t continue.
On the streets of Harlem earlier, I understood why people were standing in a daze without any hope.
At least this pickpocket girl called Lisa was communicative and lived a tenacious life. In this Tarados, she belonged to an eccentric.
“Why was your brother captured by the soldiers?”
She lifted her head and looked straight into Simon’s face. She seemed to be wary of him, who was still an outsider to her, but Simon waited earnestly without averting her eyes.
“…Never, you must not tell other people about it.”
“I’ll promise.”
“My brother-“
her mouth was open
“I went outside to look for help and got caught.”
“outside?”
“Yes. To the high-ranking people outside of Tarados. I wanted to inform them of what we were doing. Originally, Tarados residents are forbidden from contacting the outside world.”
Simon straightened up and sat down.
“How did you ask for help?”
“I don’t know the details either.”
The girl bowed her head sullenly.
“Someone higher up will come and help us soon. I will inform the Dark Alliance of what is happening in Tarados. My brother said so.”
Gradually catch on
As Simon talked to her, he worked tirelessly to elicit the answer he wanted.
Suddenly, the girl opened her heart and treated Simon comfortably like a friend. She seemed to be very much in need of someone to talk to.
“Your brother is really great.”
“Of course! My brother was scouted by the Revolutionary Corps!”
existence of revolutionaries.
“They saved money. They kept saving money. To seek help outside.”
Lisa said.
“Other members of the Revolutionary Corps said that my brother betrayed the Revolutionary Corps! But it’s different! My brother said that this Revolutionary Corps was also rotten, and that this was the only way, and took the money he raised and went out of Tarados!”
“The way to get that help is-“
Simon, now fully grasped, took out the request form and opened it.
“Are you referring to what Keygen commissioned?”
Her eyes widened.
“Kijen? Kijen? Yes! I’ve heard it somewhere! I think I heard my brother muttering that!”
It’s clear now.
The client is a member of the Tarados Revolutionary Corps.
And he is Lisa’s brother.
“lisa.”
Simon showed a student ID card with Kizen’s mark on his chest.
“I am the one your brother called.”
* * *
After a while, Simon and Kazan, the coachman who went to the bathroom, and Elizabeth, who went to gather information, returned to Lisa’s house.
The house was rather small, so we had to sit close to each other.
“Okay then, I’ll tell you the information the spiders and I brought!”
Elizabeth, who transformed into a pink-haired schoolgirl, pretended to be lively by drawing a V with her fingers. Simon, knowing her age, just laughed.
On the back of the wall, cloth was woven with spiders and the words [Meeting for Revolutionary Measures] were pasted up, and the atmosphere of resolute life revived.
“But the villagers don’t talk to us. How did you get the information?”
“Ho-ho! An attractive woman has many means of disarming people.”
“…What kind of method is that?”
Kazan, whose ego was hurt because he failed to gather information in Harlem, asked.
“For example, tie it to a spider’s web and hang it from a high place?”
Elizabeth shrugged and replied.
Anyway, listening to the information she brought, it seemed that Tarados was currently divided into three factions.
Ganeth, the black wolf who oversees the gang of bandits called the Ganeth Guild.
The lord who commands the regular soldiers of the territory, and his subordinate, the iron-blooded general Amin.
and third.
“Death. They are called those who call.”
Elizabeth winked her eyes at Simon.
It must have been that ‘Society’ was the lunatic force holding the sword.
“Nothing is known. No one knows their identities. However, they say that they came to this manor someday and maintained a close relationship with the lord.”
“Suspicious.”
Simon said.
“I’ve heard the name from going back and forth.”
The coachman suddenly interrupted.
“When I was working as a coachman in Eprun, I saw a lot of strange items circulating outside, and it seems that they were all bought there.”
Lisa also said something.
“I heard my brother say it like a habit. The organization is the dark side of the situation!
“That’s right?”
amazing.
Lisa’s older brother and Simon’s client seemed to have already reached the truth.
“Yeah! The territory soldiers arrest the guilty residents, and the thieves kidnap the residents. But both said there is no facility to hold prisoners!”
Kazan took the word.
“And the conclusion is that, in fact, it was the ‘organization’ that took and used those prisoners. Those who instigated the thieves to abduct orphans, homeless people, and mentally retarded children from outside Tarados were probably also the ‘organization’.”
“There are artificial Chimera monsters roaming the Tarados Wilderness. I’m sure.”
They are the ones who grabbed the knife and experimented with it.
All the clues I’ve gotten so far lead to one.
“The culprit is an organization. Destroy them and it will end. But.”
Elizabeth spread her arms.
“I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as I thought. To catch them, I have to deal with the lord and the Ganeth guild first. Tarados is stronger than I thought.”
The method they took was as follows.
The ‘Society’ supports the lord and the Ganeth Guild with enormous financial power.
The Garnes Guild roams the wilderness, kidnapping people at random and sending them to the ‘commitment’. However, they do not touch the towns and cities guarded by the lords.
Instead of protecting the residents from the Ganeth Guild, the lords pay a huge tax to the residents. Residents had to pay high-intensity labor or a price to pay for the stipend.
If the residents refuse to pay the tax, the lord soldier leaves without regret. Afterwards, a massive offensive by the Garnes Guild begins, and the residents are captured and sent to the ‘commitment’.
Residents who could not withstand the attack of the thieves were forced to leave the village, and either be eaten by the chimera monsters that filled the wilderness or caught by the thieves chasing them, or face one of the two fates.
‘It’s vicious.’
It was Simon’s impression.
They are exploiting the residents by creating a confrontational relationship with the lord soldiers and bandits. Many of the residents here still regard the lord soldiers as guardians protecting them from bandits, but in fact they are all the same.
They only fight for show, and in fact, it is said that there are very few cases where they collide properly.
“For that reason, it seems that the ‘Revolutionary Corps’ was created to develop self-reliance away from these two forces.”
“that’s right.”
Their goal is to earn funds to station the lord soldiers here, at the same time to equip themselves with the power and self-sufficiency means to fight the thieves even if the lords leave, and finally to free Tarados by asking for help from the outside.
But Lisa’s brother said, ‘The revolutionaries are also rotten’.
Even the superiors of the Revolutionary Corps must have been bribed by the ‘Society’.
“Well then, what should I do? I have two options.”
Elizabeth said while looking at Simon, the captain.
“Should we kill the Ganeth guild and the lord and cut off the limbs of the ‘Order’, then enter into a safe fight? Or, before the ‘Order’ realizes our existence, we will destroy the headquarters of the Society in a surprise attack.”
“…….”
Simon, who closed his eyes for a moment and pondered, opened his mouth.
“I’ve decided.”
