Episode 252: What a crazy and wonderful place. (2)
The Turian Kingdom is a country beyond the Kingdom of Ceylon where Claude was. Although it was a small kingdom like Ceylon, it had many excellent knights, so much so that it was called the ‘Land of Knights’.
Not only are the knights outstanding, but all the people of the kingdom are strong and value martial arts.
There is a reason why this cannot be otherwise. It is because a huge number of monsters live in the ‘Shadow Mountains’ that run across the kingdom.
Just as Ferdium had been fighting the barbarians for a long time, the Turian Kingdom had also been fighting an endless battle with monsters for a long time.
However, they alone had a hard time dealing with the numerous monsters coming down from the mountains. The more they fought the monsters, the more the kingdom’s resources and manpower were consumed.
So the Turian Kingdom tried another way.
[Anyone is free to come here and hunt monsters. No matter your status or identity, it doesn’t matter if you’re a criminal, an adventurer, or a mercenary. If you catch a monster, I’ll give you all the rights to the byproducts from it.]
When the royal decree was announced, people from all over the continent flocked to the area, as they could make a lot of money by paying only a small amount of taxes.
It was a win-win strategy, with the kingdom reducing damage and the others making money.
In that way, people who specialized in hunting monsters in the ‘Shadow Mountains’ were called ‘Monster Hunters’.
Jisel also planned to go there now and hunt monsters and get their hides.
Claude also agreed that Giselle’s idea was the best. However, it was not good for the lord to be away from his post too often.
“How long are you planning on staying? I heard that Earl Desmond is currently gathering troops and checking their strength. It looks like you are planning to resolve this by force.”
“What about Amelia?”
“We are still in a siege with Baron Valois. However, it seems they are trying to save damage by continuing to stand off and being passive in their attacks.”
At those words, Giselle chuckled.
Amelia is the type of person who is so driven that you can’t even come to your senses when she starts to drive at once. It’s clear that she’s being passive because she has something in mind.
And I had a rough idea of what she was after.
“For now, keep an eye on both sides. I’ll just go for a bit and come back right away.”
“We need a constant supply of leather, so how can you come back for a short while? There’s no one here who can give us a lot of leather at once like the barbarians. Why don’t you steal all the leather from the hunters there?”
“I’ll give you some guidance at first, and then I’ll leave it to someone else. I’ll take about 50 knights with me. The ones with the least skills.”
“Who do you want to leave it to?”
Claude tilted his head. Gillian was the only one who could take charge of the knights in the lord’s stead.
But Gillian is surprisingly very busy. He is in charge of not only the knights but also the military training of the soldiers.
You can’t let someone like that be away for long. The lord can train him instead, but the lord is busier than Gillian.
However, it was not possible to entrust the responsibility for such a dangerous task to knights who were still young.
Claude, who had been worrying, unexpectedly came up with the right person quickly.
“Aha! He doesn’t know how to do anything but fight, and he’s not very useful for developing the territory right now! I guess we can leave it to him.”
Giselle chuckled at Claude’s assessment.
“Yeah, I think I’ll leave it to him.”
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“Hey, shit! This really pisses me off.”
Kaor kicked the rocks with his feet and just kept complaining. The fortress was just getting more and more irritated.
“Oh, it was fun fighting the barbarians. Why don’t you go fight again?”
After mumbling a few times, he sat down and scratched his head.
In fact, Kaor has been quite anxious these days.
Gillian, who I believed to be my soul rival, seemed to be getting stronger by the day. When I saw him fighting the barbarians, he was on a different level than before. Honestly, if I fought Gillian now, I thought I would lose.
Was it just Gillian? Belinda was the same. If she stabbed him in the back like she did in the war, he would probably just take it.
That alone was unsettling, but there were also those who were weaker than him who were growing in skill. Lucas, in particular, was showing unbelievable growth at a rapid rate.
“Ha, if this continues, won’t I become the weakest? That won’t do, will it?”
It was clear that he had become stronger than before thanks to Jiselle’s help. And he was still getting stronger little by little.
But when my skills didn’t improve as fast as I had hoped, I started to feel anxious. I thought I would eventually lose to Alpoy.
“Ugh, I’m not good at anything except fighting.”
Even if I thought about it myself, that was the only good thing about it. But I thought it would be really bad if I caught up with that too.
He himself is of little help in developing the territory.
Even now, while other people are busy with training and development, he is just making the ‘Labor Brigade’ guys do their work. Other than that, he occasionally helps out with the security forces.
It seemed like everyone was busy taking their seats, but he was the only one who couldn’t find his way.
As this situation continued, the sense of alienation grew stronger and stronger.
“I’m bored, so is there anything else I can do to help Yeongji… … . I want to be of some help too… … .”
Kaor blurted out those words without realizing it, then closed her mouth in surprise.
How could he, a handsome man of great adventure who had a reputation as the ‘Mad Dog’ of the North, make such a gentle and kind remark!
I lived by the motto, ‘Bad guys are cool,’ so I could never accept that he was such an honest person.
“Oh! I guess I should just go get a drink.”
Kaor jumped up and started to scold the members of the labor brigade.
“Hey! Why don’t you hurry up? Why are you so slow? Especially you three! You’re in good shape, but why are you so bad at your job? You little shi*s!”
Desmond’s three spies, who had been removing the large rock, noticed and tried to get away. However, Kaor moved faster.
Kaor approached with lightning speed and started beating up the three people.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
“Ahh! Why are you doing this again!”
“What is it that you don’t like?”
“You crazy bastard! You shouldn’t be doing this all of a sudden!”
Kaoru grumbled at the shouts of the three people.
“Strangely, I don’t like you guys! I have a really bad feeling about you guys! You guys are spies, right? Right? Yes, I will. I don’t like the way you look at me, and I don’t like everything about you. So from today on, you guys are definitely spies. Do you understand?”
Kaor was just being stubborn to vent her anger. The three people who heard that felt a little stung, but continued to deny it and emphasized their grievances.
“We are not that kind of people!”
“I am a person who has lived only by working honestly!”
“You crazy bastard! Isn’t this really too much!”
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Kaor pretended not to hear.
“Oh, shut up! If I do that, then that’s it!”
As such, his irritation only grew with each passing day. The biggest reason was that his skills were not improving as quickly as he had hoped.
A mix of various reasons began to bother him, including the stress of falling behind in the competition for skills and the sense of entitlement that he was not of much help in developing his territory.
‘Even that tall Alpoy chick is working a ton of work!’
In fact, if it was a different territory, I wouldn’t have been this stressed out. In other territories, knights were just people who trained and practiced every day, and they were just money-grubbing beings.
But the Fenris Estate is a place where one capable person can do many things at once.
While the other knights didn’t think much of it, Kaor thought of himself as a key figure in the territory. So he couldn’t help but compare himself to Belinda, Gillian, Vanessa, and Claude.
‘Hey, should I go to Youngju and ask him to tell me more?’
Kaoru, who had been enjoying the three people to his heart’s content, was once again lost in thought.
I had already received special benefits, so asking for something more was a blow to my pride.
Still, I came in around the same time as Gillian, and I absolutely did not want to lose to him. I also got annoyed by the guys who came up from below.
Eventually, Kaor went to Giselle’s office, muttering and standing there in protest, without saying a word.
“… … .”
“why?”
“… … .”
“Speak up.”
“… … .”
“I guess I’ll have to do some special training after a long time.”
As Giselle rolled up her sleeves and stood up, Kaor finally opened her mouth.
“… … Is there anything?”
“what?”
“Well, it’s just good… … .”
I came to see Giselle with great enthusiasm, but when it came to telling her the reason, my mouth wouldn’t open.
Kaorda, who had survived in the North on poison and pride alone, felt embarrassed and her pride was hurt when she asked for something good.
‘It would be nice if you could just give it to me like last time.’
But Giselle answered angrily.
“If you’re feeling weak, go to Claude and ask him to give you some Mandragora roots. Or ask Fiote to heal you with his divine powers. But do you really need to get them? You look healthy.”
‘Ahhh… … .’
Kaor turned his head, poking out his lips.
I’m annoyed. I don’t want to ask, but I’m so frustrated I think I’m going crazy.
As Kaor didn’t go out or say anything, and just moved her lips like a little kid, Giselle snickered.
“Why? Are you feeling suffocated?”
“… … ?”
“Are you frustrated because your skills aren’t improving as fast as you’d like? But talking about it hurts your pride?”
“omg.”
Kaor opened his eyes wide and looked at Giselle. How did she know when she hadn’t even said anything? Was it too obvious?
Jiselle nodded several times and then continued.
“That’s just how it is. I know because I’ve been there.”
‘No, what do you mean you’ve experienced everything at that age?’
It was a completely unbelievable statement, but Kaor didn’t think too deeply about it. Rather, her priority was to solve her own problem as quickly as possible.
“So tell me something better!”
It’s easier to talk when the other person knows. Kaor gained courage and spoke shamelessly.
But Giselle shook her head.
“In my current state, even if I taught you the world’s best mana cultivation method or swordsmanship, it would be of no use.”
“What, if you don’t want to tell me, then just say no!”
Kaoru exploded.
It’s only natural that you’ll become stronger if you learn something good. Isn’t Gillian also getting stronger very quickly right now?
He learned worse things than that, so his growth was slow.
Jiselle ignored Kaor’s reaction and spoke calmly.
“Gillian has already made his own path. He has quietly built up his skills over time, so if you just give him the right direction, he can easily develop. But you are not like that yet. You are too light.”
“What do you mean light?”
“Because you’ve lived by improvising without building a proper foundation. The fact that you’ve managed to survive until now means that you’ve made your own way through some talent, but you haven’t taken the time to build anything solid. That’s why it’s hard to move forward and you can’t help but feel impatient.”
Jiselle also had an experience similar to Kaor in her previous life. She was blinded by revenge and focused only on improving her skills.
But the more I did that, the more confused I became and my skills regressed. This was because I only looked for the quickest way instead of thinking about building up step by step.
Of course, the quick way can also be the good way. There is not just one right answer in the world. However, impatience prevents us from finding that ‘good way’.
Kaoru was in exactly the same situation right now.
“That’s just how it is. It will take a long time to get rid of the bad habits you’ve built up so far and build something new. However, if you can complete it, you’ll be stronger than anyone else.”
“I want to be strong right now!”
When he gets to Gillian’s age, he might be stronger than her. No, he definitely will be.
But what good does that do? He doesn’t care about age.
In a world where you never know when you’ll die, it’s important to be stronger now.
It’s clear that when I first learned what Jiselle taught me, I quickly became stronger. This is because it filled in a lot of my shortcomings.
But now it’s just boring repetition. So, the improvement in skills is bound to be slower.
He had only been breaking down small walls until now, but he eventually encountered a huge, solid wall.
So Kaor shouted again in impatience.
“There has to be something better!”
“There is no such thing. Even if there were, it would be of no use to you now. It would be blocked again soon. Now, you have to take your time and build it up step by step.”
“Damn it! You’re so young, my lord, but you’re incredibly strong! How did you become so strong without any method? Did you get extra time, my lord?”
Jiselle clicked her tongue at the remark that was thrown out as a courtesy. Normally, she would have sent her to physical therapy, but she decided to let it slide just this time. She knew how frustrated Kaor must be right now.
Since I’ve regressed, it’s true that I’ve been given more time.
But in his previous life, when he had made it to the top 7 on the continent, it wasn’t like that. He had really worked hard and spent a long time building up his skills.
However, I did use one special method.
“There is a way to speed up the time.”
Kaor’s face lit up at Jiselle’s answer.
“Right? Right? Don’t keep it to yourself. Tell me!”
“life.”
“yes?”
“You just have to risk your life and gain practical experience.”
“Then… … . Should I just go to the battlefield?”
“Yes. But going to the battlefield every time won’t be as effective as you think. If you want to improve your skills quickly, you have to keep fighting without resting even for a single day.”
“Then what should I do?”
“You just have to catch a lot of monsters.”
Kaor snorted at those words.
“I’ve caught a lot of monsters. Didn’t we go to the Demon Forest together before?”
“How many have you caught in your life?”
“What… … It’s probably around a thousand!”
Kaor exaggerated a bit. If you add up the number of monsters he caught while working as a mercenary and those he caught in the Forest of Demons, it must have been several hundred.
Jiselle looked at Kaor as if she found him cute and said.
“That’s not enough.”
“Then how much should I catch?”
Giselle answered Kaor’s question with an evil smile on her lips.
“About… 100,000?”
