Dungeon Master Makeup Money

Episode 7: Elliot's Request

“I think I'm going to make Elmer an ally, but how do I do that?”

Noelle walked next to me on her way home from the Adventurer's Guild.

“I'm not going to do anything so difficult.I'm going to do it the same way I did. "

Expansion with gold and treasure.

That's the quickest and surest way.

"Problem is time."

That's right.

We need to expand faster than the Zeons.

I can't afford to spend years on it, as Ellis says.

"We need to find a way to get a lot of money faster than ever before."

"Is there such a way?"

It was expanded to the point of relying on the power of the country.

It is not easy if it is necessary to go faster than that.

Would you mind a little?

What's the matter?

Melissa, who was supposed to be on the answering machine just around the corner from the Mansion, sent me a message just in case.

Mainly customers.

"Guests for me?"

It is unusual for a visitor to visit the mansion.

If you broke into the city with hostility, the monsters you hid around Aleister should react at that point.

So far, I hadn't received any reports of the monsters fighting.

That's not the case.The lord deputy came with the guard. "

Elliot?

Elliot Allister.

He is the son of his current lord, Keith Alistair, and now he assists his father in his work as a lord's substitute.There was no doubt that I would succeed the lord, and Lord Keith's work would be entrusted to me naturally.

Our presence is indispensable to the lords.

The Labyrinth is essential to the maintenance of Aleister, and even as an adventurer, it is expected to become a force when the city is exposed to dangerous monsters.

"I shouldn't have planned that."

'You came to see me, to be exact.And I want you to convince the Lord. ”

I see.

I thought I'd take on the job if I convinced myself.

We haven't had a difficult relationship so far, but it's not easy to ask us to do the job.

So, should we go back now?

Yes, please. I was in a bit of a trouble.....}

Melissa told me to go home faster.

Sylvia, who knew the situation, opened the door to greet me. When she noticed, she opened the door of the reception room with my tea ready.

I see.

There were other people in the room besides Melissa and Elliot.

"It's been a long time."

Two of Melissa's parents are sitting next to Melissa waiting for me.Face to face is Elliot, and next to him is his sister Merrill.

In other words, Melissa's family was gathered in the reception room.

"...... I don't remember calling him?"

Elliot frowns at my appearance.

Looks like you didn't want me involved.

I didn't really want to get involved at this stage.

I figured out the situation. And for some reason I'm in trouble. "

Elliot asked me to do something.

However, if you were asking me to do it by any reasonable means, the reward would be enormous.The lord can't do it, but he can't run out of money just to ask me.

And there was a convenient way.If Melissa voluntarily accepts the offer, the amount of compensation can be reduced.

It is made easier through Merrill, who works for the lord, and by calling her parents, she deprives Melissa of the ability to judge calmly.

What's the request?

Simply put, I want you to help me open up the periphery.

I thought you said no.

At the Alistair family, we had plans to build a port town near the ocean, ahead of my hometown.The proximity of the harbor significantly alters the transport capacity and improves the shortage of supplies that must be relied upon in the labyrinth.

However, in order to exploit it, we would need a massive monster crusade in between and a bulwark.The monsters could be destroyed temporarily, but after a while they would come back to life.

The roads where monsters appeared were too dangerous to use.

That's why I needed a bulwark to protect me from the monsters.

There was no reason not to rely on Aleister's strongest power.

I said no because it's troublesome, but if this happens, should I take it on?

The annihilation of monsters and the construction of walls.

I heard that the Alistair family has plans for months to years.However, I would have preferred you not to be held captive for such a long time.

Or rather, we could destroy monsters and build bulwarks in a matter of hours.But that's what happens when we do it all ourselves.It takes too much time to work slowly at the pace of others.

That's why I didn't accept the request before.

If it seems dangerous, should we take it on ourselves somehow?

No, I'm the one who's done negotiating so far.

I see.

We can take care of our own business.

This solved the problem of time.

Then what's the problem?

It's a reward.

And Melissa's family was involved in the reward.

― Have you grasped the situation?

Yes.

Elliot knows we can talk without words because of our skills.Even after sitting on the sofa, he had time to be silent, so he decided that he had figured out the situation.

"Let me review the request again."

I want you to prepare a dangerous monster crusade that appeared in the reclaimed land, and a path that will not be a problem even if the carriage passes by with magic.

The content itself is fine, isn't it?

Apart from the reward, there was also a problem.

Why did you bring me a request now?

Reclamation has been taking place for several years.

I didn't know the details because I was not interested and I didn't purchase anything other than information because it was going well.

Now that we have a request, it's not going well anymore.

First of all, the adventurer who was asking us to subdue the monsters was completely destroyed.

"Annihilation....."

It is not moderate.

Defeat many monsters first.Even so, the monsters will come back to life over time, so we need to protect them during the pavement work.

Fighting as an escort requires more strength than a regular battle.

There must be more hired adventurers than hired adventurers of higher ranks.

“No, not all of them are dead.”

Melissa denies Elliot's words.

“I just saw him brought to the Mansion, but people were turned to stone.”

The adventurer who was supposed to be out on the alert didn't come back.

One or two people didn't see the problem that much, but a dozen adventurers wouldn't return.The knight who was leading the reclamation, who was heavily sighted, went out to scout, and found a statue in the shape of a human.Although I didn't realize it at first, I realized that I was the adventurer we were looking for.

When the knight who was going to scout returned to the entrance of the forest, it was turned into a stone statue just like the adventurers and soldiers who had been waiting to be alerted.

"So the knight decided that there was a monster that could petrify people."The surviving adventurer watched for dangerous monsters from the forest, and together with several of his men, he took the petrified soldier home and explained the situation to us. ”

Then they brought back reinforcements, but all they saw were the adventurers who had been petrified.

Was it completely destroyed?

"... that's right."

To be precise, it was not just petrified, it was alive.

I haven't been able to confirm her consciousness, but it seems that she can't feel the heartbeat of her life.

"I understand the situation." Don't you have to help the petrified people? "

“I tried a lot of medicine and magic, but it didn't work.”

That's really embarrassing.

It seemed that it had been petrified by a very strong force, and it could not be undone in the usual way.

Still, I could use Iris's [Regression] and sake to get it back.

“You can take it, but the reward will gradually become bigger.”

So here's my suggestion... are you going to try to revive the name Ragway?