Have Magic - Chapter 136



Only Krnovel

Embrace the Magic (136)

I came to the mercenary guild to receive my mercenary badge. The staff at the counter instinctively stood up when Rodin appeared.

“hundred…….”

fizzle!

Rodin quickly put his index finger to his mouth and warned the counter staff. The counter staff took a deep breath and sat down carefully.

“Sir, I came to receive the mercenary badge.”

Bianca stepped forward first and stated her business. The mercenaries around her smiled at her cute tone.

“I see you passed the examination. What is your name, new mercenary?”

“Your name? Oh, your name? My name is Bianca.”

“Bianca, here you are. Wow, you are a magic mercenary. Welcome. I hope you will solve many commissions in the future and become a gold medal mercenary.”

“Golden Badge! I will become a platinum badge mercenary.”

“Yes. Yes. Cheer up.”

Starting with Bianca, Larry, Karis, and Jenna also received mercenary badges.

“Brother. Let me look for a request.”

“request?”

“You never know. There might be a request to go straight to the Marquisate of Richmond.”

“Yeah. It’s not that hard to find.”

Rodin didn’t have much experience with mercenary requests either. The only request he had ever done was one that supplied potions.

I received the equivalent of 4 quest points for delivering over 400 wound healing potions at once.

“There are a lot of up-bound trains to Richmond.”

“Because they’re both big cities.”

The Marquisate of Richmond was the largest city in the interior of the Kingdom of Lennox. Asir was also a fairly large trading city adjacent to the border. It was only natural that there would be a lot of trade between the two cities.

“But there’s still so much time left until the departure date.”

“This is near the border. We’ll gather enough supplies and leave at once. So it’ll be hard to make time.”

“Huh? Hey, bro, what do you think of this request?”

“Hmm? Transporting goods?”

It wasn’t a request for upper body escort, but a request for transporting goods. It was a request where the mercenary receiving the request had to transport the goods to the destination himself.

“The destination is the Marquis of Richmond.”

“That’s okay. You can leave today.”

The period of the request was 30 days. Even if you leave here leisurely and move slowly, you will arrive at the Marquisate of Richmond in 15 days and more.

Even if a variable occurred and took some time, there was no problem. If Rodin had decided to do it on his own and increased his speed, he could have reached the Marquisate of Richmond in three days.

Moreover, the items commissioned were iron and wooden shields. Judging from the fact that he was entrusting the work to a low-level mercenary, they were not expensive items.

“Then I’ll do this.”

“Okay.”

Larry applied for the commission himself. The counter clerk glanced at Rodin, then decided to contact the client without saying a word.

The archmage intervened in a quest that was only for a metal plate and a wooden plate. This was a quest that could not fail.

That very day, a person who was called the client came to the inn. After confirming that Charis, Jenna, Larry, and Bianca were present, they decided to take on the task right away.

Iron and Wooden Armor are the lowest ranks of mercenaries. The fact that they are the targets of requests means that they will often take on requests.

I stopped by the mercenary guild and wrote a contract, and I was able to receive the requested item right away. It was a fairly large wooden box.

“Can I send this to the Marquis of Richmond?”

“Yes, I will transport it. It is not an expensive item, but it is something the Marquis of Richmond needs right now. So, I would like you to move it as quickly as possible.”

“All right.”

The client left only the box and the recipient’s address and name, and disappeared.

The immediate recipient of the goods was the present Marquess of Richmond, who had succeeded the previous Marquess, who had died a few months earlier, and was known as a Sixth Degree Swordsman.

“Brother. Should we leave right away?”

“I wonder?”

“Yes. There’s no need to waste time. The Marquis of Richmond said the request was important, so I’ll deliver it as soon as possible.”

“Yeah, well.”

It was just past lunchtime. The sun was still high in the sky.

* * *

The carriage left Asir and headed east, driving a little faster than usual.

No matter how easy the request was, I had already received it. I had plenty of time, but I sped up to make it a little easier.

“Brother, what are you transporting?”

“It’s like a potion?”

“is it so?”

Rodin did not put the requested transport items into his subspace bracelet. He left them on the carriage as they were while he was moving.

The transport of goods was a request for Larry and Bianca, not Rodin. In order to properly experience what a mercenary does, they decided to exclude tasks that a regular mercenary cannot do.

“Potions are sold in the Marquisate of Richmond, too. But why do they buy them so far away?”

“Well, True Eye.”

Rodin also became curious and used his magic to see inside the box and check the contents.

“Is this a potion?”

“Yeah. It’s a detox potion.”

“Anti-detox? Who got poisoned?”

“I don’t know about that. If it’s an antidote potion, it makes sense to buy it from far away.”

Detox potions were the cheapest of the potions. The material costs were also cheap, and demand wasn’t high.

The detox potion was useless unless you were addicted. But how often do people get addicted in their lifetime?

Since there is little demand, it is not made well. That is why it is often the case that antidote potions cannot be obtained even in large cities.

“You don’t sell it in the Marquisate of Richmond?”

“They don’t make them very well. So some days you can get them cheaply, but some days you can’t get them easily no matter how much money you have.”

“Ah! Since there’s no money, you’re not bringing it in.”

“That’s right. By the way, it’s not just 1 or 2 bottles. All 100 bottles are antidote potions.”

Rodin remembered the story of the plague in the Marquis of Richmond. The Marquis of Richmond seemed to think that the plague was caused by poison.

“I guess there are a lot of addicted people?”

“I guess that’s what you’ve decided… but this request might cause some trouble.”

I felt an unpleasant, uneasy feeling. I couldn’t shake off the unpleasant feeling of being manipulated by someone’s tricks.

“Brother, why?”

“There is an epidemic going on in the Marquisate of Richmond, and the Marquis of Richmond believes it is caused by poison.”

“Aha, so that’s why you’re buying the antidote potion. But why?”

While Rodin was talking to Larry, Bianca also came over in the carriage. The two carriages were moving close together, so the sound of their conversation could be heard from the side.

“Brother Rodin! Has there been an epidemic in the Marquisate of Richmond for a long time?”

“It’s been a while. It’s been over two months already. I think the epidemic broke out shortly after we left.”

“Then, bro! The epidemic situation hasn’t calmed down yet?”

Bianca knew few people in the Marquisate of Richmond. Having spent nearly two years living almost entirely at home, she had little opportunity to meet anyone.

But Larry knew quite a few people in the business district, and he was worried that they might be affected by the epidemic.

“That’s the problem. Haven’t you been trying to get an antidote potion from the Marquis of Richmond for two months?”

“I guess I’ve tried….”

“But what does it mean that we have received this request?”

“Either the plague can’t be cured with a detox potion, or you can’t get a detox potion. One of the two, right?”

When it seemed that someone he knew had been hurt, Larry’s expression became serious. Bianca also perked up her ears and focused on the conversation.

“Yes. But if it’s the former, there’s no reason for them to ask us for an antidote potion. The epidemic can’t be cured anyway.”

“So, you’re saying you haven’t been able to obtain the antidote potion yet?”

Either they couldn’t get it or they were running low on it. Whatever it was, there was definitely a problem with the potion supply.

So, this request came to a rookie mercenary with an iron shield and a wooden shield. Otherwise, he would have tried to obtain the potion through the merchant.

“why?”

“yes?”

“Why couldn’t I get it? There isn’t a lot of demand for it, but if you put your mind to it, you can get hundreds of bottles of this potion within a month. So why couldn’t I get it?”

“Ah! There’s someone trying to interfere.”

That was the point. Someone was blocking the potion from entering the Marquis of Richmond. That someone was likely attacking the transport of the potion as well.

“That’s what I think.”

“We might be attacked.”

“Yeah, but what’s even worse is that we’re like bait.”

This was the part that really upset Rodin.

The point was that it was used as a way to discard rookie mercenaries who were only equipped with iron and wooden shields.

Even if the victim had been a complete stranger, it would have been frowned upon, but when the victim was not a stranger but my younger siblings, I couldn’t help but feel bad.

“Bait?”

“Think about who received the request. One iron-clad mercenary and three wooden-clad mercenaries. They entrusted these people with transporting the potions that were needed right away. Do you think that makes sense?”

“Ah! We’re not real.”

“While this side is being attacked, the real one is probably thinking of leisurely escaping.”

Only then did Larry’s eyes properly perceive the situation. Bianca also realized the situation and puffed out her cheeks.

“You were bad. You lied to Bianca. You were a bad man.”

“We were stupid.”

“No. This is something you’ll experience as you continue to live as a mercenary. Just think of it as something you’ve experienced early on. No matter what the situation is, there’s no danger to you right now.”

“That’s… that’s right.”

This group included a great wizard. There were also two inspectors who had reached the rank of master.

Unless one country decides to step up and sabotage it, Larry and Bianca would be in no danger.

* * *

Two days passed. Fortunately, no incidents or accidents occurred during that time.

‘Hmm.’

One night, when everyone was asleep, Rodin attended Fruval’s welcoming class.

The books of the Magic Empire were mostly read during the day on the carriage. There were still many parts of the Magic Empire language that I did not know, so I received help from Karis and Jenna at those times.

On the other hand, night was the time to listen to Proval’s welcoming lessons. It was a good time to listen to the lessons when everyone was asleep, especially the noisy and talkative Bianca.

“hmm?”

It’s been a few days since the 3 o’clock class of the congregation clock ended and the 4 o’clock class began. I thought the rune class would continue today, but out of the blue, it was followed by a class on the method of training.

Just when I thought the class was going on too out of context, he taught me the training method that Proval uses.

‘Ah! What is this?’

Whatever the reason, I learned it because they taught me. No, I had no choice but to learn it even if I didn’t want to.

Listening to a class is different from reading a book, so it was repeated several times. This was to ensure that the students taking the class fully understood.

Because I repeatedly taught him the method, he learned it naturally.

‘Can I cook this?’

The level of the training method I learned today was considerably higher. It was clearly superior to any training method I had learned so far, and it may even be superior to the training method used by the imperial family of the Demon Empire.

However, Proval was not human. It was not certain whether a human could learn Proval’s training method as it was.

‘If only I knew the training method used by the Imperial Family of the Magic Empire, I wouldn’t be interested in this kind of thing.’

There was no mention of the method of training in any of the books obtained from the underground ruins. Rodin assumed that was to be expected.

You can tell by looking at the conditions of entry to the underground ruins.

The conditions for the door leading to the underground tunnel were two: being a 7th circle archmage and having a specific magic pattern.

A specific magical power pattern meant that a specific magical power training method had been learned. In other words, one had to have learned the training method in another place and come to the underground ruins.

‘The underground ruins are a place for those who have already learned a specific training method and grown to become a great wizard.’

So, the book obtained from the underground ruins did not contain any information on magical training methods. Instead, it contained a lot of information on how to understand magical power and the world after becoming a 7th Circle Archmage.

‘Pruval… … , how different is it from humans?’

The front of the Proval was no different from that of a human. The shape and number of eyes, nose, and mouth were the same, and the number of fingers and toes was the same, five each.

But when you look back, the differences from humans become clear.

The Proval had a short tail and was covered with palm-sized bony plates from the back of its head to its tail.

‘I don’t think I can use the seniority method as is.’

I felt uneasy for some reason, but I couldn’t give up without even trying.