“Why am I doing the setup when I came for an inspection…”
“Sorry for the trouble…”
Iserina-san, who seems to be quite high up in the Guild, has become the central figure in the relocation of the Adventurer’s Guild in the Town of Solva.
By the way, the Guild in the Town of Solva isn’t a large one, so it seems the Guild Master isn’t stationed there permanently. The Guild Master of the Adventurer’s Guild in the former Nielson Territory’s capital is concurrently serving as the person in charge.
Apparently, that Guild Master has entrusted her with leading the relocation. As for the former capital’s Guild Master, he’s said to be handling the handover. Apparently, he intends to make the new Adventurer’s Guild being built here his main base, so he’s wrapping up his duties at the Guild in the former capital.
“But you’ve created quite the system for taking money from us, haven’t you?”
“Even so, you agreed to the relocation because you judged it would be profitable, right?”
Even though it’s called an Adventurer’s Guild, it’s still a business. If it can’t make money, it can’t survive. Considering the usage fees for the Forest I specified, the costs of the Guild’s relocation, and other miscellaneous additional taxes, they must have judged that they could make enough profit to move here.
“I never expected you to prepare such a wall! If it were any worse, we would have decided to withdraw!?”
“Then all the transactions with the Adventurers would have come here, so it would have been good, though…”
“You were planning to monopolize it!?”
“It’s a shame.”
What I expect from the Adventurer’s Guild is just the management of the Adventurers. Even now, I still want to control the sale and distribution of Monster materials and Magic Stones.
However, if we were to break the current system and build a new one, it’s obvious that various problems would arise. More than anything, the Adventurer’s Guild possesses the Adventurers as a fighting force.
I especially don’t want to antagonize the Rank 1 to 3 Adventurers.
“And the Dungeon seems to have conveniently appeared, doesn’t it?”
“Rather, we moved because there was a Dungeon.”
“Really? Well, I guess that’s true, right?”
“There’s no way I could do anything about the Dungeon, no matter what.”
That’s a lie.
“You’ve completely remodeled the interior, too. You have quite a bit of control, don’t you?”
“It’s a Dungeon management Magic Item made in our Village. The materials are a secret, though?”
“Your Village is too absurd.”
Most of the reasons why I’m called absurd are because I grew up in that Village! Can’t be helped!
I hope you’ll forgive me for my belongings being absurd.
“By the way, changing the subject,”
“How obvious.”
It’s fine, isn’t it?
“What kind of inspection are you doing? Is it something I can ask about?”
“Eh? Oh, that. Checking if there are any Elves mixed in with the slaves.”
“Huh? Isn’t that the Guild’s job?”
I thought the inspection was part of the Adventurer’s Guild’s job.
“No, it’s not? It’s a problem if Elves mixed in with human activities are enslaved. It could even cause a war.”
“I, I see.”
Elves are a Spirit Race, so they’re strong and good at magic, a match for a thousand. If they were to go to war with Humans, the damage would be no laughing matter.
Of course, there are Humans who are as strong as Elves, but the absolute numbers are different. Although, the people in our Village seem stronger than Elves.
“For Elves, going to war with the numerous Humans is also a big deal. That’s why Elven elders sometimes instruct Elves like me who live in towns and villages to conduct inspections. If there are any Elves being enslaved, we have to free them if possible, let them escape, retaliate, and crush them.”
The latter half sounds dangerous.
“Is that so?”
“And also, to secure oddballs who go to become slaves themselves.”
“There are people like that!?”
“There are. About two of them.”
“Two of them…”
I wonder what kind of people they are.
“One is a bastard who sold himself for money and got a taste of getting rich by retaliating.”
“That’s quite something.”
How vulgar.
“The other is a fool who said that Human Subjugation Magic doesn’t work on him, so try it… There was one this time too.”
“There was?”
“There is! The troublesome thing is that standard Subjugation Magic really doesn’t work on him… And because Humans pay a lot of money to buy him, they can’t let go of him. As a result, he gets locked up somewhere and disappears. I wonder if there’s some powerful magic to restrict his actions? I’d like to ask for it if there was.”
“Ah. Well, it’s not like there isn’t, but I don’t really want to use it on people like that.”
“There is!?”
“Eh? Well, with a Magic Item.”
“Let me use it! How much do I have to pay!?”
“Eh? Aren’t you being too desperate…”
“I have to be desperate! Every time, that idiot causes unnecessary expenses, unnecessary effort, meaningless time, and wasted connections!?”
“I, is that so…”
But no one in this world with their current magic technology can undo Oath Magic.
In the first place, the magic technology of this world has low output. It’s the difference between the method of extracting magical power from Magic Stones to activate the magic circles of Magic Items and the technology of drawing magic circles directly on Magic Stones to create Magic Cores.
Turning Magic Stones into Magic Cores is incredibly difficult, and the approach is mainly science and mathematics, not magic.
In the first place, the magical power of the Magic Stone will disappear with one small mistake, so not many people will do it. And the Magic Stones that are easy to process are C-rank or higher. They’re not cheap.
“Hey, hey! Please!”
“Only I can undo it for life, you know?”
“That’s even better!”
“Eh…”
“You can do whatever you want with him! Seriously, you can treat him like a slave!”
“B, but slavery is bad, right?”
“It’s okay as long as it’s within the range I can grasp! And I’ll get permission from the old men and women on the Elf side!”
“Then why don’t you set the master and enslave him there?”
“I’ve done it many times! But it gets undone in about two or three years!”
So it’s already been done.
“Well, it’s not enslavement because it’s an oath, but…”
“…What do you mean?”
“It’s a system of magic that makes you comply with what you say, so to speak.”
“Say? You mean keeping what you say?”
“That’s right.”
“Can you bind someone with that?”
“I’ve used it on Barbatos and Beatrice once. I had them swear not to betray me and not to reveal my secrets. Somehow they swore allegiance to me on their own, though.”
After that, the number of people increased and it became inconvenient, so I undid the part that restricted their words and actions, but in the end, it was used again when the people of the Village swore allegiance.
“Hee, Barbatos-kun, huh?”
“I don’t understand the Knight race at all.”
“Yeah, it’s incomprehensible.”
I don’t understand why they want to set a master in the first place.
“Well, that’s fine, but then I just have to make Claffy swear allegiance to you, right?”
“Well, I don’t really need an Elf subordinate.”
I don’t need subordinates in the first place.
“It’s fine, isn’t it? His skills with swords, bows, and magic are all first-class or higher?”
“Well, I guess so, but I don’t need it.”
The number of years they can live is different, and the performance of their bodies is different in the first place.
“He’s also a magic researcher, so he knows a lot of things?”
“I don’t need that either.”
What I want to know is digitized on the tablet, and I have a lot of books.
“Muu, then. Umm… He’s glamorous!”
“What are you saying to a child?”
I don’t dislike it, though.
“Muuuuuuuu!”
Don’t “muuuuuu” me.
“Magic I’ve never heard of, Magic Items I’ve never seen… But too bad, he’s a child.”
“That’s right, too bad.”
In the end, I was overwhelmed by Iserina-san and ended up using Oath Magic. And this tall but hunched, black-haired woman with a slightly gloomy image, wearing a loose black robe.
Since her ears are peeking out from her long hair, she’s an Elf, but she’s looking at me with a disappointed face.
It’s a little scary.
“Gianna, okay? Read this sentence without making a single mistake, okay?”
Iserina-san is giving her firm instructions.
“Yeah, I know. It’s just human magic, and a child’s at that. I’ll just bounce it off.”
Just do whatever you want. Feeling that way, I activated the Oath Magic and activated the magical power.
“Fua!?”
Gianna-san, who was surprised and turned her face towards me instead of the magic circle that floated on the ground.
“The amount of magical power is amazing, but this concentration? Density? It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t make sense.”
“…Well, that’s correct.”
It’s very difficult for humans to use advanced magic that interferes with the soul with the amount of magical power they can handle alone. Therefore, the amount of magical power used in the Magic Item used for Oath Magic far exceeds the amount of magical power that ordinary humans can handle, and the magical power is also highly compressed to control it.
Leaving aside the amount of magical power, the fact that she can feel the concentration of magical power means that Gianna-san’s magical power sensing ability is quite high.
“A, amajing.”
“Wipe your drool. Then hurry up and finish the oath or whatever. Or do you want to stop?”
“I’ll do it. It’s incomprehensible, which makes it very interesting.”
Ignoring Gianna-san, who was blushing with excitement, Iserina-san, wanting to end the conversation quickly, was blunt.
“Gianna swears to her soul to revere Cladfield as her master and serve him… and to one day unravel the mysteries of her master Cladfield’s magical essence.”
The magic circle that had been activated emitted light, engraving her words into her soul. Seriously, she added phrases again without permission! Everyone’s doing it!
“Ah… this is the magical power’s wave enveloping my soul… I’ve never felt anything like it.”
“Yes, that’s the end of it.”
“Please wait, Master. I want to examine the Magic Item more closely.”
“I won’t show it.”
“I want to touch it!”
“That’s even more impossible.”
“At least let me see it!”
“I refuse.”
“Then I want to lick it!”
“Lick!?”
Isn’t she a pervert?
“Just lick a candy or something.”
“I’ll take it. But Master, you’re so harsh.”
“Don’t be like that, Gianna. Claffy-kun seems reliable.”
However, since she’ll be working for me, she needs to be able to handle my Magic Items to some extent, not just ordinary ones.
“I can’t lend you this one, but I can show you other Magic Items, so please be patient with that.”
“Really!?”
“Come to think of it, there were also Magic Items that don’t use Magical Power, right?”
“…Isn’t that just a normal tool?”
Gianna-san, you’re right.
“A palm-sized device that allows long-distance communication isn’t a Magic Item?”
“Incomprehensible… very interesting.”
“Oh, speaking of which, I’d like that back.”
It’s tough dealing with those long phone calls.
“Ehhhhh!!”
“Don’t ‘Ehhh’ me.”
“But it’s so convenient!”
“Well, it’s not just about convenience…”
“I can talk to Beatrice too!”
“You’re talking to her too, huh…”
With two women involved, the conversations are likely to be long.
“Gianna wants one too…”
“If you promise not to disassemble it.”
I intend to give one to Gianna-san since she needs to get used to my tools. I also want her to talk to Barbatos and Beatrice, as coordination will be necessary.
“That’s not fair!”
“I’ll use it carefully.”
“Please ask Beatrice about how to use it.”
I have official duties to attend to after this.