Chapter 57 - The Job of a Veteran
Translator: Za pervert
“In the side of Eribeiris, the situation on the entire continent has become pretty much settled down. Linked as a job spearheaded by the new kingdom, the job regarding to monster subjugation and maintaining public order while cooperating with the kingdom army has also increased considerably”
While Greiz subjugates the steak in front of his eyes, he also tells us about the latest situation in Eribeiris continent.
Renya party and Greiz party are now inside a restaurant that gives off the atmosphere of the masses dinner that can be reached after walking for a bit from the government office. They then reserve one large room for their own use and are currently sit down on a table where the meal has been served up while telling each other about their own present condition.
This restaurant sells food originated from many other kingdoms and places which means that their menu list is, anyway, very abundance. The taste of every menu is above the standard level but the price can be considered as cheap. The only thing that is not satisfying enough is the portion of each serving but because of the cheap price, every customer would normally order multiple dishes at once.
But even so, it is still impossible for someone to taste the entire menu at once considering the abundant choice which resulting in many people wondered about it and becoming the restaurant frequent customer. They keep on coming back to enjoy the taste. This restaurant is one good example of a successful small profit and quick returns business.
“But even so, even with many jobs appears like that, I feel that it is better for us to let the newcomer do those jobs instead”
Darel skillfully use the knife and fork to enjoy a fish dish. From his table manner and the way he use his knife and fork, this youth really is refreshing in the eyes.
“We can just go and steal those greenhorn’s job right? Yet again, we also need to fill our own needs too”
In contrast to the refreshing Darel, Arda is feasting on a manga meat (meat with a single bone attached. looks like a club) heartily. Just like the way he speaks, he seems to don’t really mind with manner too much. Lucky for him that there are no one in his party that mind his rough attitude like that.
“With that kind of circumstances, we decided to travel all this way down to this city, Suminiastar. After all, Tosminia kingdom, in both good and bad meaning, is always filled to the brim with jobs”
“Looking for jobs abroad right?”
“That’s right”
Against Greiz who talks calmly about his situation, Renya can only give a wry smile back.
They are not counted as mercenary but as someone who lives from an occupation that is also closely related to battle, they would find fewer jobs for them to do in peaceful times. Looking at how they struggle so much for their well beings, Renya realizes another harshness of reality even in this fantasy world.
“Well, that was what we thought before but…… when we arrived at the guild yesterday, we heard some bad news”
“Bad news?”
Renya pauses his meal to focuses on the discussion and seeing that, Greiz voice get lowered by a tone.
“The Commerce Kingdom Faskurn and the Mercenary Kingdom Ezemeria is opening small skirmish against each other. Have you heard this news?”
“Yeah, but only on the level of gossip”
Actually, he knows that thanks to Anrietta’s intel works but he doesn’t need to answer honestly right?
“In the first place, don’t you find it weird? Even if Ezemeria is only a gathering of many mercenaries from various kingdoms, they still hold the most military power in this continent. Politically, their influence to the neighborhood kingdom is also not small”
“Indeed it is so. Even when there are no industries in their own kingdom, they can still compensate it by pillaging others for it and this kingdom is actually capable for it”
From Brenda explanation easy to understand explanation, people might think of Ezemeria kingdom as a kingdom filled with savage tribe or some kind but well, they are indeed savage tribe. At least no one here could deny that.
But when asked whether that kingdom is a belligerent one then the answer is positively a no. After all, their main source of income was from lending soldiers to other kingdom at war. If other kingdom is at strife then they would definitely be happy but if the war would affects their own kingdom then they would not get any profit at all from it.
“And then in the opposite side, Faskurn only had a minimum amount of soldier that is not even worth to be called an army. If they really did face head on then, there is no doubt that Faskurn will lose miserably. But here is the weird part, from what I heard, the one who started the aggression was most likely from the Faskurn side not the Ezemeria side”
“…… It suddenly become really hard to believe”
Renya doesn’t really excel much in the field of strategy and tactics to understand the war between kingdoms like this but if he makes an imagination of it like it was from a game then he would somehow manage.
If it was a fight between 10 elites and 100 new recruit, even on top of the paper the number is smaller, there are still chances for the inferior one in number to win. But from what he heard just now, the military power between Faskurn and Ezemeria is definitely put Faskurn in a total disadvantage.
If Faskurn use their mighty assets to hire a lot of mercenary to win the battle then it might still be feasible but, the one that Faskurn pick a fight to is the one who normally would lend them those mercenary and that fact is really weird. Seems like they have another ace in hand that makes them feel confident in winning.
“We also gather intel to some degree but we also heard some news from the border of Faskurn that support the fact that they are at war. This news authenticity is also high”
“To double check the information that Arda-san gathers, I visited some other guild to exchange information and it seems to be the truth. And from my inquiry, I even heard weirder information. That information tells me that the one in the advantage now is on the Faskurn side!” Darel adds more shocking info from what Arda said.
“What the heck. There should be a limit for being fishy!”
Hearing Floria’s frank impression about the information, Arda and Darel can only return a wry smile while nodding in agreement.
“Faskurn had acquired something that can even face up with an army of elite mercenary. Is that what you want to say?”
To Renya question, Greiz only answer him back with a silent nod.
“At least that’s how the guilds draw their conclusion. But then again this is a problem between kingdoms so as long as the guilds don’t receive any real harm then they decided to keep watching the development in the sidelines. But even so, they still maintain their vigilance in case anything did happen”
Greiz pause his story in that point for a while.
He must came into a conclusion that it wouldn’t be right to keep on talking as the rest of the information was merely just a speculation after all.
“And here comes the main issue, because of that war, Ezemeria had published out a notices to all the mercenary guild all around the continent. The notices order all of the mercenaries out there to come back to the kingdom and participate in the war”
“…… I see where this leads to Greiz-san. There people that can take dangerous job suddenly decreases sharply right?”
“It is indeed just like Renya-dono concluded. Especially here in Tosminia, everywhere is lacking the necessary manpower. To make thing worse, bandit and brigand are taking advantage of the situation to run amok wildly. Of course we as the member of warrior guild are also planning to go forward and subjugate them but…… there is one particular nuisance troubling us”
“Is that nuisance can even made Greiz-san party troubled?”
“Their scope is already troubling but, the worst one is that the group seems to have a magician acting as their leader. If we just blindly compete with them by number, I’m afraid that even if we could win, there will be too many sacrifices and that is troubling”
Indeed that would be the case. For example if there are 30 warriors facing off against 20 warriors and 10 magicians then the group of 30 warriors would be at an overwhelming disadvantage. Even when individual battle prowess are to be overlooked, facing a group of magician means that trying to control the damage to stay low is impossible because the magician can attack from afar.
“And maybe because of that magician also, that bandit group conduct themselves in a skillful manner. They won’t show up their figure at all during the day and they frequently change their base making it hard to track their tail”
“An example of when a group of ruffian is leaded by an intelligent guy right?”
“That’s right. But even when they rarely show themselves, the harm they cause is devastating. Especially to the merchant it was disaster. There are already many merchant became victim to this bandit group attack”
“To do damage that even can disturb the circulation of goods is already at the level where it is impossible to ignore them. This is troubling indeed, we have planned to stay in this city for a while after all”
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