256 Lesson 13 From the End of the North (top)

There were several luggage cars pulled by Totos on a rugged mountain road overlapping white snow.

of the Tarless Mountains, at the bottom of the canyon.

On either side of which mountain road a luggage truck can barely pass, a black cliff with white snow still cuts off.

It is the snow of Tarless, that it will not dissolve permanently.

This string of rugged mountains is bringing abundant grace to the western kingdom by stopping ice and snow from the north.

This mountain was already the imprint of the northern kingdom of Mahydra.

It is from this mountain streak that the north becomes the mahdra, and the south the imprint of Selva, which divides the world upright.

From Abouf, the northernmost fortified city in Selva, it is only two days away.

Around here, the battle between Mahydra and Selva is not uncommon.

Such a dangerous realm of borders, they - the chamber of commerce led by Schmiral-Dj Saddimtino, the Pot of Silver, was a disease.

There are a total of ten members of the Silver Pot.

The ten are divided into two people, each in five luggage cars.

It is a two-headed, large box-shaped luggage truck.

Leaving my hometown Sims, it's been four and a half months. The luggage truck is loaded like a mountain with different products that I brought from my hometown and different products that I could buy afterwards.

About a month and a half has passed since the departure of the town of Genos, the need for a deal with the Kingdom of the West, and today was the fourteenth day of the Ashes Moon.

If we were going straight for this mountain of Turres, we would surely have been on any journey for a month, but even Abouf, Behett, etc. located in the meantime, stayed for a few days for business, so that much time had passed.

The most important business opponent for the Silver Pot is, of course, Alglad, the king's capital of Selva.

Secondary to that would still be the town of Genos.

Only those two places will sit back and engage in business for more than a month.

Otherwise they stayed only a few days in the town, but visiting this mahydra was also an indispensable business for them.

Mahydra and Selva have been enemies to each other for years.

Only a knife is exchanged in the meantime, never at the same time as a business is concluded.

It was therefore only the people of Sim, the kingdom of the east, who had friendly relations with both of them, that connected the north and the west.

"Schmiral. The sun, it's falling"

A compatriot who was holding the reins in the leading luggage carriage calls out from your podium.

The members of the "Silver Pot" were studying the language in the west, so they tried to avoid using the language of their hometown even on a daily basis.

"The road, it's dark. Destination today, arrival, is it possible?

The breath that is exhaled with the words is white.

Even around Abouf, much of the world presented itself with the appearance of a cold land, but this mountain of Tarez is no longer a different world.

Both Schmiral and his compatriots wore fur outfits for cold protection under their leather coats.

Schmiral only puts his face out from the side of the palace, feeling the chilly breeze on his cheeks, while still gazing at the surrounding scenes.

"No problem. The settlement of Munapos, soon."

"Mountains, landscapes, it's no different. And yet, you know what?

"I understand. About ten times, because it's the road I went through"

Schmiral, from an early age, went this way with his father.

The journey from Sim's hometown to Genos, from Genos to Abouf, and then to this Munapos before stopping at Alglad, the king's capital of Selva - is the path of the sales channel that Schmiral's father built over the years.

Take roughly a year to explore the exotic and return to your homeland. More than fifteen years had already passed since I put myself in this kind of life.

Will there be any major changes in that life?

For that to be known, more than four months were left.

(How exactly would Vina-Lou feel)

I always think about that.

At that time, the luggage car showed a strange shake.

I wondered if the wheels even stepped on stone, but it didn't feel like Totos' legs were disturbed.

"Schmiral"

The compatriots of your table raise a voice that lacks a little restraint.

He must have rocked his heart because he was younger than Schmiral.

Schmiral nodded silently before sliding by your side of the table and jumped on Totos' back in a breath.

Kick up the hardware fastened to the leather belt on its torso and release the totoss from the luggage.

The compatriots of the noble table who lost one of the tototos seemed to have succeeded in stopping the luggage before the remaining tototos hurt their legs.

but not long before he confirms it, shmiral runs tototos.

Losing his heavy load, Totos drove down the mountain path with doubling momentum.

At the time he felt the weight of man on his back, Totos' fright seemed to have vanished.

He is a traveler of war who has spent a long time with Schmiral with this Totos.

(Is that it)

A cause that disrupted Totos' leg was slipping off the cliff on his right hand side.

It would be a dark gray, huge shadow - a muffled bear.

Its enormous shadows approached the Schmirals as they scattered the white snow like blisters.

The lid is bigger than the human. He is quite a big man.

Its palm, where five nails grew, was about bigger than Schmiral's head.

The big muffled bear leaps in as he growls like a grunt called Ugoaaaaaaaaa...

It is unimaginably agile from its giant.

But if you're agile, Totos is better up there.

Schmiral manipulated the reins, pointing Totos' neck to the left.

A big bear's claw runs through a space with a trendy jacket.

As it was, Schmiral thrust to his left hand side.

In just three steps, it's already a cliff wall in front of you.

Instead of a less nocturnal toss, manipulate the reins and kick only the left torso.

Getting it, Totos kicked the wall with his left foot, leaping as a winged bird.

Muffle's big bear is coming after us from behind.

Plus when Schmiral kicked him in the right torso, Totos shook his right leg down in the air and kicked the big bear's face decently through.

I'm sure one of the eyeballs was jerked off with a hook and nail. The big bear glanced backwards and let go of the groaning of agony.

Schmiral descends to the ground with Totos and turns to the Raiders.

Muffle's big bear shook his arms up as he scattered red and black blood.

The motion rests perfectly along the way.

Exhaling white, the muffled bear eventually fell from his back to the ground.

On the other side of it was the appearance of a compatriot straddling Tototos, just like Schmiral.

"Schmiral, are you all right?

"Yes."

Long upper body shadow over tototoss.

of the deputy commander, Radajid-Ghi-Nafashiar.

In Radajid's hand was gripped the blow arrow of his specialty Sim.

"You're in trouble. Big bear, if you don't move it, you can't get through."

With a properly emotionally restrained voice, Radajid said so.

Radajid also spent quite a few years in the Silver Kettle, so he didn't shake his mind when he was a big bear in Muhul.

But he hasn't noticed any signs that Schmiral has detected yet.

"It's okay. They, the Big Bear of Muffle, will carry you."

Shmiral said, Radajid turned his gaze around him as he returned the blow arrow to his nostalgia.

A huge shadow reminiscent of a muffled bear was about to slide down one cliff slope after another.

"Oh, you're a guest from the east! Sounds like our missed prey has bothered you!

The words of the north echo throughout the mountains.

I'm not a muffled bear.

It was the giants of Mahdra when it was the great bear of Muhul.

Five people. In it, a man with a very large body advances in front of Schmiral.

Golden hair, purple eyes. Red, snow-burned, smooth-leather skin.

The people of the east have more long human beings than the people of the west, but the people of the north surpass it, and moreover have a muscular physique. So the fur stripped from the muffled bear and the outfit was so indistinguishable from the big bear in the distance.

"Uhm. You seem to be a deceptively eastern people. But according to the code, let us first prove it. '

"Yes."

While responding in the northern language, Schmiral let him combine his fingertips.

"I, Shmiral-Dj Sadumtino, am the son of Sim, the Oriental God, hereby swear"

The people of the west are not allowed to step into northern territory.

But in the eastern and western hybrids, you can no longer know your identity from the outside, so in the northern territories it is always necessary to show that you are a people of the east.

Therefore - if Schmiral had switched God to Selva, the Western god, he would no longer be allowed to do business in this northern land again.

'Hmm. Just the two of you tailed this guy? That's a lot of work, but you're not gonna be using poison like you can't eat this meat, are you?

"Yes. Banagius poison, if you heat it, it will disappear"

Radajid also answers in the northern language.

The Silver Pot was commercialized around the western kingdom, so only three of the oldest ginseng could manipulate the northern language.

The other seven are just mastering the word of vow to God.

"Oh, are you the Pot of Silver?" This one's fine. The chief will be delighted. Will you entertain us with all the delightful things again?

"Yes, if you like, I hope so."

While Schmiral was exchanging words with the man, the other four were in a great hurry to slit the big bear's throat and drain blood.

And the people of Mahdra shall devour the flesh of the great bears that devour men. I guess those parts will also be perceived as "barbarians" by the people of the west who repel the beast of carnivores.

'Then let's lead you to the settlement of Munapos. Welcome, merchants of the people of the east.

The man said so, with a lavish laugh on his smooth-leather face.

The Schmirals were thus able to safely become Munapos' guests.

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The settlement of Munapos was about half an hour from there.

After stepping into the mountains of Tarless, roughly half a day. Of the territory of Mahydra, it would be one of the closest settlements to the territory of Selva.

But to visit this settlement, there is nothing more to follow the bottom of the canyon than just now. It was a story about the road at the bottom of the valley, where there was no place to hide, and the frequent appearance of large bears of cannibalism, which had never been attacked by Selva in the last few decades.

The settlement itself is a small one, where 150 people live.

However, it is considered a small but mahydra stronghold because it is tasked with the role of watching the people of the west not march. When the number of inhabitants decreases, it seems that human beings are called from another settlement by order from the King's Capital.

The past few decades have been peaceful, but before that the land was also a zone of war.

Instead, it was by that time that Mahdra was attacking western territory down the mountain, and for that reason the fortified city of Abouf was built.

Since then, Mahdra has also moved the base of the invasion separately - and that is how this settlement of Munapos was to find a new raison d 'être, the focal point for trade with the kingdom of the east.

Its head is a magnificent man who becomes Ulair-Fall, the head of the Fall family, that he was more the blood muscle of the head of this settlement than in ancient times.

"Well done, my guests from the east. His name was Schmiral, wasn't it?

'Yes, it's Schmiral-Dj-Sadumtino'

Schmiral visits this settlement at a rate of once a year and a half. For the past ten years or so, this Ulaya-Fall should have been the head of Munapos all along.

Is he about 40 years old? He is a red-faced big man with golden hair and purple eyes, just as the majority of the people of the north are.

The upper back is higher than Schmiral, and the width and so on is likely to be twice as high.

He is wearing an outfit made of dark gray fur, with fangs and nail ornaments wrapped around his neck and arms. The men who lived in the Tarless Mountains were all hunters.

"It's a good night to relax. Will it leave already in the morning?

"Yes. Commerce, because there is."

If you are a person who does business around Mahdra, you will go further north from here to go for the ultimate capital, but the Silver Pot is not. Uraia-Fall, the chief of this settlement in Munapos, was the only business partner for the Schmirals.

"They rarely show up, but they carry more rare items than any merchant for that matter. As well as the food from the West Territories, the last time I bought it, the knife and the kettle of vitreous seemed to have inspired such a reputation in Wangdu. '

'It's an honor. Mahydra, fine workmanship, it was also a reputation here.'

After answering that way, Schmiral changed his posture.

'And if it was a knife, a reputation, I'm glad. This time, knife, there's a lot of extra.'

"Oh. That's a rarity for an iron to be a valuable Sim merchant."

"Yes. The knife, the promise to buy it, it was broken."

In the castle town of Genos, the story of the business that was tied to the nobleman Cycleus was broken unilaterally.

Speaking of which, could the people by the woods have cleaned up the mess with Cycleus - and it's about to shake my mind a little again?

'Hmm. That's why I'm telling you. People in the west deserve credit. They're cunning and fragile, human beings are the other day.'

His nose sounded unpleasantly, and Ulaya-Fall drank the liquor poured into the glass of vitreous at once.

The glass was once bought from Schmiral, and the liquor would be distilled liquor from Mahydra.

"Let me take a look at the product and the dot before dinner."

"Yes."

Depending on Schmiral's gaze, the compatriots carried the loads that had been piled at the entrance to the room.

This is the house of Ulaya-Fall. The inner walls are stretched with many furs to prevent the cold, and the fireplace is burning brightly. Numerous goods were to be illuminated by the fire.

"Hmmm......" and Ulaya-Fall embark on herself.

Pots, ceramic plates, beautifully crafted wooden bows and arrows, hand axes with blades of black stone, by the weave, stone and silver ornaments, chit fruits and all kinds of vanilla - plus, less than thirty cooking knives.

Further side-by-side were the items that could be bought in the western kingdom.

Giva and gauze fur rugs on leather products from Caron and Kimmus. Mammalian fruit liquor in barrels. Mammalia vinegar. Fuwano powder in a bag. Caron cheese. Dried aria. Karon, Kimmus, and Giva dried meat, etc. Foodstuffs bought from Genos, rich in ingredients, dominate.

Of the five luggage vehicles, two were enough to be empty.

In this settlement of Munapos, which of these items are bought up every time?

'Right. They didn't bring gamma meat or cheese.'

"Yes. Munapos, it's far away, so the ingredients, they get hurt."

The "Silver Kettle" passes through the south side of Mount Morga, first visiting the town of Genos. On that journey, it will take months to reach Munapos, so all the dried gamma meat, cheese, etc. brought out of my hometown have been sold out on the road.

"I like gamma cheese and dairy wine. I don't like the one called Caron's Cheese because it's a blur right now."

"Caron cheese, not needed?

'No. I don't have to like it. Some people in the capital will be looking forward to it. Love everywhere is what you are. "

'Really? This time, Giva's dried meat, I prepared it, how about this one?

"Giva dried meat? Gibba was the lord of this fur. This fur is softer than a muffled bear, and it has a better reputation for women, but don't ever hear of that meat, etc. '

'Yes, because it was so delicious, I bought it. Price, dried caron meat, same price'

Following Schmiral's gaze, Radajid pulled out a knife.

Let Giva's dried meat be slightly shredded and served to Ulaya-Fall by placing it on a wood plate.

Ulaya-Fall had no way of being alert to anything and threw that piece of flesh into his big mouth.

And then he opens his eyes slightly bigger.

"This guy is delicious! You can't beat a fat bear, and you can't smell it at all."

'Yes. Luxuriously, the meat on your chest and back, it seems to be used. Price, I think it will go up in the future'

There is no way that such delicious dried meat is worth the same amount as Caron's foot meat.

In the future, Gibba's meat will go up to an unbeatable price on Caron's torso as well. As a merchant, Schmiral was convinced of its future.

'Mm-hmm. I wouldn't even complain to the people in the capital about this. I think I'll have one.... but if the knife is this many, it may not cost enough.'

Uraia-Fall hits his hands with a luxurious pussy.

Then a man, who was holding back in one corner of the room, began to line up a large load in front of the Schmirals.

The contents are still distilled liquor in barrels and powder ground with yellow fruit called meles, blue fruit called amantha, rare vanilla only harvested in mahydra, smoked fish from the North Ice Sea, salted small fish, salted white grains purified from sea water, iron axes for hunting - plus stone and tooth ornaments with the ladies lumped in.

I guess the majority were delivered from the capital for business. Enough to fill the empty cars of the Schmirals.

"And then from the capital, I keep only a few silver coins. It just feels a little short, but what do you think?

Give up the contents of the bag of cloth handed to you by Ulaya-Fall.

Further calculating the mass of the product in front of him, Schmiral asked him to answer promptly.

'Yes, slightly, it doesn't seem to be enough. Knife, make only ten, or other products, reduce, nothing else'

'Right. I can see in my eyes whether that's reasonable or not. "

As he nodded heavily, Ulaya-Fall lowered his brow butt slightly.

"But since Sim's sword is precious, it's a shame that he misses it. If it's the fur or meat of a big bear, I can prepare as much as I want on this occasion... '

'No. The kingdom of the west, it's warm, so fur, it doesn't sell much. And we, the warm kingdom of the west, cruise, dried meat, are easily damaged.'

Big bear meat can't be sold in the western kingdom because it smells and it's the meat of beasts who eat people in the first place. It is also possible to sell in my hometown if it is a business association that returns to Sims immediately from here, but it is still more than six months before the Silver Pot returns home. If the dried meat is poorly made, we will all be hurt on that journey.

"Abomination is a kingdom in the west that doesn't even have the courage to eat a big bear! But it's also difficult to throw away the western goods they carry, so is this all they have to do? '

"Yes. Merchants, each business, because there is"

If you are a business association dominated by the north, you can sell gamma meat and cheese, or you can buy up big bear meat and fur.

If it is a chamber of commerce dominated by the west, instead of them being impossible, it can bring the grace of the west to Mahdra.

I'm not supposed to be talking about which one's up there.

'Now let's buy something other than twenty knives. I'm sorry I couldn't live up to your expectations. "

"No. The knife, the excess, here, is convenient."

Sim's sword would surely sell it even in Selva's King's Capital. Not less than Genos, the King's capital is also treasured for its delicious meals and equipment.

'Okay, then clear your load and get ready for dinner! We're having a feast tonight!

Uraia-Fall made a pronouncement, as did his voice.

It is also the first feast in the land of Mahdra for the Schmirals in a year and a half.

And for Schmiral, this should be the last feast.

Without any emotions on that surface, Schmiral just took a sneak breath while bringing to mind the figure of a distant exotic thinker.