Episode 216
“This will solve everything you lack. It will be worth it.”
Vitolo examines the jewel and opens his eyes wide.
“Isn’t this a red diamond?”
It’s only 5 carats, but that alone is worth 2 million gold.
In addition, there are rubies, emeralds, etc.
At this level, 5 million? These are materials that are definitely possible, and even more than that.
Certainly, the jewels carried by the most beautiful woman on the continent are of a different order.
While Vitolo was thinking like that, Elizabeth was smiling softly.
“It may take a long time, but just make it perfect and strong. Is that possible?”
Vitolo thought.
First of all, I got a job, and I got an employer who would pay me.
oh my god.
There was no reason to hesitate.
Vitolo nodded.
“I’ll tell the administrators of the territory, so if there’s anything missing, please let me know. But.”
Could it be an illusion?
Strangely, the surroundings seem to have become colder.
When I looked at Elizabeth, she was still smiling.
An illusion, isn’t it?
“If, like the elders I recently kicked out, you make false reports or embezzle money, Vitolo will probably not see the next day.”
It wasn’t a mistake.
Elizabeth smiling.
Despite her beautiful appearance, the atmosphere was a bit eerie.
Vitolo nods with a hardened expression, and a very serious expression.
“Then please take care of it.”
“Yes. Just leave it to me.”
Elizabeth, who was about to turn around, asked Vitolo again as if she had forgotten.
“What is the name of the ship?”
“It’s not decided yet. Is there a name you’d like to know?”
Elizabeth looked up at the sky for a moment.
Any name you want.
There is one.
“Noah, what about Noah?”
“Noa… … Judging by the feel, it seems like Canaan or Yoram, something like that. Is that right?”
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Elizabeth shakes her head.
And then I brought up a story I had heard from my mother one day.
“In the ancient Gunnar language, Noah meant rest and comfort.”
Vitolo nods.
“I think I know what you mean. Noah, rest… … that’s a perfect name for a ship.”
Elizabeth was relieved by Vitolo’s laughter.
Should I say that he is like a craftsman armed with a professional spirit?
A very passionate man.
Usually, a man like that doesn’t betray easily.
Before becoming a dock manager, I think he was a shipbuilder.
So, a gift for Jack was being made in a place that Jack didn’t even know about.
At that moment, the cell next to him tilted its head.
Elizabeth turned her head.
“Keep it a secret from Jack. Don’t you want to see him surprised too?”
Cell’s expression, once filled with doubt, is now engraved with a playful smile like Elizabeth’s.
-I miss you. So much.
“Okay then.”
The two women’s intentions were in agreement.
Chapter 8
October 15th, 9:00 AM.
A few days have passed since the field trip ended.
“How is the dagger any good?”
Charlotte nodded at Harold’s words.
However, Charlotte’s attitude was a bit cautious.
Harold, who knew why, couldn’t help but laugh.
“Your appearance during the field trip was quite impressive.”
“……sorry.”
Harold shakes his head.
I didn’t mean to receive an apology.
Because I’ve already received enough apologies.
“As you and Thanos know, I haven’t been an instructor for very long. But I know one thing for sure.”
Harold reached out and gently stroked Charlotte’s head.
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“That you are a thoughtful and well-mannered child compared to other children your age.”
“Instructor… … ”
“Even if you are a vampire and the ancestral king of them, you are still a student to me. The person I know is a well-mannered child. That person back then was not Charlotte. Jack, he said. Children can change, they can be educated, they can learn when they don’t know something, and they can reflect on their mistakes. Even if you have the instinct of a murderer.”
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Harold pauses for a moment and smiles faintly.
“He seems to believe that you won’t become a murderer. In fact, I believe that too.”
If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t have given Charlotte the dagger.
I heard from Jack that in a state of ecstasy, one normally loses one’s reason.
To be more specific, he loses his reason and becomes a monster who only seeks blood, but Charlotte tries to regain her reason.
As a result, the situation became ambiguous.
If you just adjust it properly.
Not half-heartedly, but completely.
Charlotte will become even more powerful if she can gain control of her body.
Physically, and even mentally.
and.
“That dagger is expensive. It’s really expensive.”
Even though Harold is an instructor, he is essentially a merchant.
Harold was clearly a merchant.
Weapon collection.
Among them, the dagger given to Charlotte was the ‘Scarlet’, the first in a series of daggers made by a master craftsman named Scarlet who passed away long ago.
A dagger named after himself. The two daggers are a pair, and each one is worth at least several million gold.
“I hope you will use the Continental Battlefield often in the future.”
Charlotte also laughed at the sight of Harold smiling brightly.
“I will continue to watch over you, so keep practicing. Meditate often.”
To Harold, who turned his body like that.
“thank you!”
It was Charlotte who bowed her head deeply.
And Thanos, who was behind him, also bowed his head.
Harold moved as he was greeted by the two.
The destination was the villa where Jack was staying, and there was a faint smile on Harold’s lips as he walked.
Being an instructor.
It’s more doable than I thought.
* * *
Charlotte slowly straightened her back and spoke to Thanos as the two of them remained.
“sorry.”
“How many times do I have to apologize?”
“… … I don’t know. I haven’t counted them.”
Thanos saw three.
“It’s number 24. It hasn’t even been a week, and it’s number 24. How long are you going to apologize for?”
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“still……”
Thanos raised his hand and patted Charlotte’s head, just as Harold had done.
“The phenomenon of the unique Jinjo called Pianhua simply borrowed your reasoning. It wasn’t you. It was just a natural phenomenon that looked like you.”
“… … .”
“Why? Do you still want to chew on my heart? Should I give you a bite?”
Charlotte chuckled and patted Thanos’ stomach as he played around.
“Okay. And brother.”
“why?”
“… … I won’t do it again.”
The giant Thanos patted Charlotte’s head once more.
“Let’s go take the test. It starts today.”
“Is it a midterm?”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Charlotte nodded resolutely.
* * *
October 15th. 10:00 a.m.
Harold and Roland came to the villa.
It may seem obvious, but I like being direct.
Roland, the greatest merchant on the continent, and Harold, who is learning about commerce to follow in his footsteps.
The two rich men, as merchants, had a good grasp of the personality of their conversation partner, and after a brief greeting, they got straight to the point.
“Pre-orders are going very well.”
“First of all, we received a whopping 700 pre-orders from four kingdoms excluding the Teslan Kingdom, and 700 pre-orders from the Tulcan Empire as well.”
When the two rich people started talking together, I was honestly a little surprised.
A total of 1400.
This is huge.
So I ended up asking this.
“That many, when the release date isn’t even set yet?”
In fact, to say this is incredible is an understatement.
It just doesn’t make sense.
The period during which the Continental Battlefield began to promote the Magic Communications Orb was at most a week.
This is it.
“It seems like almost every household bought two or three instead of just one?”
My gaze shifted to Roland.
But Roland caught my gaze and quietly turned to his son, Harold.
As if Harold were explaining it to me.
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As expected.
“First of all, there are two reasons.”
Harold continued his story with a calm expression and a very calm tone.
Actually, I had some guesses, but I just kept quiet.
“First of all, it’s cheap. The magic communication device that used to easily cost millions of dollars costs only ‘400,000 gold.’ It would be strange if the nobles didn’t pay attention.”
“It doesn’t seem like only nobles live there?”
“That’s right. The rich, especially the commoners who retired after making a fortune in commerce, made direct offers to buy it out of curiosity. Most of them were from the continental battlefields, so it was easy to connect. There were a whopping 120 of them.”
He leaned back in his chair and smiled faintly.
“The first reason is price? The second one seems more important. Tell me, once.”
Harold again, this time calmly.
He said it with a really calm expression.
“It is the power of the continental battlefield.”
I wasn’t surprised because I had guessed it.
Just, in this place, I also want to raise Harold’s spirits a little.
“The Continental Battleground, which prides itself on fairness, has never committed fraud. There have been countless instances of selling high-performance artifacts at a higher price, but never once has it sold a low-quality weapon at a higher price. That has never happened in the 150 years since the Continental Battleground was founded.”
“so?”
“The Continental Battlefield basically gives trust to the continent’s rich people. The gambling house was made that way, and there are other devices as well. This is the aftermath. We actually tested and verified the ‘premium type’ that the Confucius gave us. The voice quality was clearer than the existing magic communication device, and the distance was much wider. That’s why we advertised it in the name of the Continental Battlefield. That’s why the number of purchases has increased to this extent. What’s even more surprising is.”
What’s surprising?
“The 1,400 telecommunications ports currently reserved are not all of them.”
I ended up laughing.
This is true.
Even though Continental Battlegrounds emphasized fairness and did business based on trust, it is not easy to believe that millions of gold have turned into hundreds of thousands of gold.
Those who judged it to be unrealistic and those who thought it was strange that the recent actions of the Continental Battlefield were focused only on the Teslan Kingdom would be thinking, ‘Ah, now these money-grubbing bastards from the Continental Battlefield are finally trying to scam us.’
Still 1400.
It’s not for nothing that I’m surprised.
“If we have to make a distinction, the current 1,400 are the first round of reservations, and if those 1,400 spread out across the entire continent, there is a high probability that a second round of reservations will be made.”
Just raise both hands.
match-
Clap your hands.
“Okay, that’s enough of the details. Let’s talk about the 1,400 pre-orders, divided into the standard and premium types.”
Harold answered as if he had been waiting.
First of all, the premium type accounts for 202 of the total reservations, or about 14 percent, and the remaining 86 percent are the regular type. What’s interesting is that most of those who bought the premium type also bought the regular type.”
“Those who haven’t bought yet because they’re still skeptical, aside from that, those who have bought now have money and have built up trust through a lot of dealings with the Continental Battlefield… … Is this it?”
“Yes.”
Quite, interesting.
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He smiled faintly and Harold smiled back.
“I heard from the owner that there are over a thousand units piled up. He said that today is Friday, so they will be ready for shipment starting next week. Do you know the exact time?”
I guess I should say this is a bit ambiguous.
At least in this situation, it wasn’t an easy answer.
first.
“When you took pre-orders, when did you advertise that it would be available for shipment?”
Harold turned his head slightly and exchanged glances with Roland.
“Exactly 17 days from today. That is, November 1st.”
“Really? That’s pretty good. You never know what might happen, so make sure to reserve as long as possible.”
“If the long-held period is shortened, the reputation of the Continental Battlefield and its creator, Jack Balantier, will improve by that amount.”
He shrugged.
I don’t really care about reputation or anything, but since they still take care of me, I guess I’ll just have to accept it.
He wasn’t a merchant for nothing.
Oh, but when will it be available for shipment?
“Two weeks.”
“yes?”
“Let’s set it for two weeks for now.”
Harold asks with a questioning look on his face.
“Two weeks each?”
He shrugged.
“Shall I be honest?”
“I will listen.”
“I don’t know if it’s because I’m not a merchant, but I didn’t know that the premium version would sell ‘as many as 202 units.’ I thought it would sell much less than that.”
“… … To be honest, this is a result that even our Continental Battlefield did not expect.”
The problem is simple.
As I mentioned earlier, there are currently 202 premium models available for pre-order.
That’s the real problem.
The standard type can be mass-produced at the hundreds per day as long as our lovely Green Dragon Blanc is there, but I have to make the premium type myself.
I have to use my soul to create an artifact without the masters noticing, so this is, seriously, something only I can create.
So the speed has to be slow.
I ate something to eat, walked around the city with my teacher, and read a novel.
If we do all that, we can produce about 10 units a day, but we only have 87 units of the premium type in stock right now.
Plus, since this is literally a pre-order, once the item is actually released across the continent, word of mouth will spread and purchase requests will pour in like crazy.
This is a little ambiguous to reveal everything now.
I think I need to stock up a little more.
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“Let’s do this. I’ll prepare 1,400 units plus the second round of reservations before November 1st. It seems like it’ll be a bigger hit than expected, so I think we should be fully prepared, right? Okay?”
“Yes, please do so.”
Our Harold Lynch.
Maybe it’s because he’s thinking about making money, but his expression looks really bright.
“How should I pay the fee?”
“How much is the total?”
“If you deduct all the fees for the Continental Battlefield, it comes to about 530 million gold.”
“Hey… … It’s been quite a while?”
Exclamations of admiration just flow out.
I just realized this now.
I really… … succeed at whatever I do.
Winning hundreds of billions through gambling was just a bit of a show of force, so I didn’t feel anything special, but this time it was a little different.
This is something I earned entirely with my own efforts.
500 million is money that you will always have leftovers no matter what you do.
And if you include the money that will come in in the future.
“I will become the richest man on the continent.”
Harold laughs awkwardly.
“You are already the richest man on the continent.”
That’s true too.
“But you know.”
“What now?”
Harold tilts his head for a moment, as if he is wondering why something is going wrong.
And then.
“Oh, no.”
Oh, really.
“What’s going on all of a sudden?”
“Well, by the way, the midterm exams started today, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Aren’t you going to take the test?”
huh?
