Chapter 44 (2)

Chapter 44 (2)

In the largest meeting room in the lord's castle, the lord raised his voice towards the dwarf delegation.

"The famous lords of Thunder Mountain! Welcome. I'm glad you've come to our territory."

He was not the imperial emperor, so he didn't sit on a throne and haughtily greet the dwarf delegation. And he didn't have the guts to do so.

Now that the imperial emperor had turned a blind eye to Montefeltro's situation.

Now that the Empire had turned its back on Montefeltro, the situation was dire.

They knew that they couldn't survive if they were disliked by the dwarves, so they tried to appease them even more.

The visiting dwarf envoys also wanted a good relationship with the territory, so they showed respect to the lord, and thus they were invited to the celebration that the lord had prepared.

"Please enjoy yourselves. I hope nothing is lacking."

The situation of the territory seemed to be quite good.

The table was so full of food that it looked like it could break at any moment.

Orin, the dwarf representative who had come, looked at the food the lord had prepared and thought,

'The situation doesn't seem too bad for a human territory on the outskirts. Usually, such areas are left out.'

Although they were not in conflict with any opposing forces, the huge fortress being built near the border alone was enough to indicate that their financial situation was not bad.

'I don't know where the money is coming from, but we don't need to know that. Anyway...'

As the celebration began and the dwarves filled their stomachs with the prepared food, their expressions gradually hardened.

Noticing the strange atmosphere, the puzzled lord Chester asked,

"Is there something wrong with the taste? You all look..."

At that question, a dwarf named Imri, who was reluctantly drinking the wine, defiantly splashed the wine from his cup onto the floor.

To the lord and his company, it was a very rude behavior, but the dwarf envoys thought that this gathering itself was rude.

"It seems like you don't know much about us."

Orin, the representative of the envoys, spoke.

"We don't like wine. Or should I say, we're not familiar with it?"

In his eyes, there was a clear demand for something else.

"Then something familiar to us should be brought out. Humans drink it too, don't they? Or maybe you know that and are trying to play a trick on us."

As Orin's expression soured, the other dwarves began to bang their spoons and forks on the table, looking around.

"My throat is burning!"

"We don't have beer right now, but we know where it is."

"Really? Where is the beer?"

"There's beer?"

"It seems there is."

"Of course, they're humans. Our tastes are almost the same, right?"

The lord suddenly remembered the beer that had been monopolized by the church.

'Could it be...'

Had they anticipated this and monopolized the beer?

The lord didn't think so.

He thought that the nearby monastery, which had a winery business, had monopolized the beer as a self-help measure.

And the fact that the dwarves were looking for beer was purely coincidental.

'It must be just a coincidence.'

Of course, he couldn't deny even the slightest possibility.

Anyway, the beer was not his.

"That is... the beer is monopolized by the church. If you want, I can arrange a separate meeting with the church's leader."

"The church?"

"The church is monopolizing the beer?"

"What's a church?"

"It's a human religion."

"Really? They're monopolizing the beer there?"

The dwarf envoys, excited by the news of beer, surprisingly ignored the food on the table and all stood up from their seats.

That's how desperate they were for beer.

"Take us to the church right away!"

Orin, the envoy representative, defiantly took out more gold coins from his pocket.

"We will buy all the beer there with our gold."

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