Chapter 73: Mayor of Deloris town part-1

"I, Mirella Llyne, 632nd King of the Kingdom of Llyne hereby appoint you as the Mayor of Deloris town."

Upon hearing the verdict of the King, Wil was indeed taken aback as he was about to request to become the Mayor of East Ocean depending on their high favorability. But, he didn't expect that Mirella just decided instead of asking whether he wishes to become the Mayor of a certain town or not.

As she clapped once, a soldier entered the courtroom with a badge, land deed, and a key on a silver platter.

As the soldier reached him, Mirella added, "You'll be given 60000 square meters of land for personal use and a Mansion to live in."

*Ding. You received a Quest.

Description: The King has appointed you as the Mayor of Deloris town.

Reward: 60000 square meters of land and a Mansion.

Failure: King's favorability decreases by 50.

It was only after that, Wil sighed with a little relief as he accepted and completed the quest, "I knew this chic won't disappoint me. 60000 sq meters is equivalent to 60 plots of land in East Ocean City. And if I consider the capital city, then, it is even 100 plots. Very generous.

But, there are two issues here. One is NPC towns have no bank, no auction house, no battle arena, no port, no library, and very few restaurants, smithies, and labs. With a low player population, there is also no chance of profitable businesses. At least in the present situation. 

The second thing is that there's a little security and the town is easily conquerable if it's invaded by a huge army. Once the players' level improved, those large guilds will set their eyes on conquering NPC towns to develop personal towns.

Unlike a city where they need to be earl and need permission from the king to control it, an NPC town didn't have too many restrictions.

As long as they replace the vacant position with a Viscount Player, the palace won't send an army to punish the players.

If I have to cover all of these missing things, I need to spend my personal fortune to build them and hire guards. Huge expenditure but fewer returns… But, even that isn't even a problem.

The problem is that I want East Ocean city, one of the three cities in this Kingdom with a port. If only Mirella asked me what I want as a reward… Sigh…"

"Time Traveler, You are spacing out again…" Mirella spoke suddenly and brought him back to his senses.

Apologizing to her again, Wil took the three items and placed them in inventory before thanking Mirella as a part of courtesy.

After staying in the courtroom for an hour and a half, Wil exited the place as Mirella announced the end of the day.

As he decided to return to his city to carry out his next step, Wil waited for another hour in his room before he walked towards the King's chamber to say goodbye as a part of etiquette since he was a guest of her.

Of course, the real reason is to try his luck for one last time to see whether he can convince Mirella to let him become the Mayor of the East Ocean city.

"Is there something you wish to say, Time Traveler?" asked Mirella as soon as he stepped inside her room.

"Your majesty, Now that my business with the palace is finished, I'm returning to East Ocean city to tell the news to my friends," replied Wil.

Mirella nodded and then said, "You must have been surprised to be appointed as a Mayor all of a sudden, aren't you?"

Just then, he received a notification.

*Ding. Someone is calling you from the outside world.

"Cherry?"

Looking at the number, Wil rejected the call instantly before replying to Mirella, "If I should be honest, my wish is to be the Mayor of East Ocean City someday."

Understanding the meaning behind his words, Mirella just smiled and said, "Is that so? Hmm, you are an Earl and even a resident of East Ocean city. So, there's nothing for you to be appointed as a Mayor of the city but Earl Ravus is an honest man and is very loyal to the Kingdom.

There's no reason that I can fire him or transfer him to a smaller town.

Perhaps, if you managed to become a Marquis in the future, I may able to grant your wish. I'll even make an exception for you and let you be the mayor of both of them. 

Contributions to the Kingdom are the right way to climb up the social ladder. So, work hard as the Mayor of Deloris town.

I hope you will increase your social standing soon. The higher you climb, the more you can help me weed out my enemies. Good luck."

Wil smiled as he bowed, "I understand, your majesty."

After saying goodbye and leave the room, his smile froze, "damn… if you can't grant me East Ocean city, you should have left a route for me to have it in another way.

Now, even if I wanted to, I can't claim the city because I'm already a damn Mayor of another town. I won't able to get recognition from the king even if I use force and becoming a Marquis isn't easy. I already spent half of that fame on the alchemy book and those two skill books."

Exiting the palace, Wil didn't stay in the city much longer. He quickly reached the City temple and entered the teleportation formation.

A map of the Kingdom that was divided into ten regions appeared before his eyes.

Like every other Kingdom, each region/district has a city as its headquarters with two NPC towns and 30 beginner villages here and there near to them whereas the Capital district has Llyne city, four NPC towns, and 60 beginner villages around it.

If one considers a kingdom is in the shape of a full moon, then a small crescent moon shape on the right is filled with the nine districts that contain the towns and cities while the remaining tenth region that almost covers 70% of the Kingdom is comprised of the new wild zone and the other locked wild zones.

The perimeter of the outskirts will start with level 100-110 monsters and then their level increases in deeper regions filled with different landscapes.

The same goes for the region where cities, towns, and beginner villages facing their level 21-100 wild zones. That's how the map changed after the first update.

Looking at the Deloris town, that's pretty much near to the border of the country, Wil mumbled, "Since she promised that I can control Deloris town and East Ocean city once I become Marquis, then, let's make it my administration capital and let the city be my commercial capital."

Wil paid 2 gold coins and teleported to the town.

*Ding. You entered Deloris town

As he stepped outside of the temple, he saw there are a lot of residents roaming on the streets but wasn't able to see a single player while he was on his way towards the Mayor's mansion which led him to think whether there is even a player that changed their citizenship to this town.

As he reached the mansion, he saw there is a middle-aged gatekeeper around his level at the gate guarding it even though there was no Mayor inside.

As soon as he reached there, before they say dialogues like halt, stop right there or return, etc… Wil immediately took out his mayor's badge, which has a simple word Mayor of Deloris with winged Lion in the background.