CH 72

Somehow, Damon and Arsene looked like whining puppies.it’s because of their mood, their eyes are just like ‘Are you going to abandon us?’

They seemed to be asking and it was a little embarrassing to cry all of a sudden.

But Frey made her own conclusions based on what She learned from dealing with children in her previous life.

‘Are they still difficult to face a strange adult man?’

‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this at the birthday party a few days ago.’

“Damon, Arsene. What’s wrong?”

Then the two quickly exchanged opinions in a whisper and answered.

“Now it’s time to study with Wiz.”

“Lady Frey! We will go study.”

“huh?”

‘I knew that the two of them were really enjoying their magic training with Wiz, but this time I got the feeling that they were using an excuse to study to get out of here.’

But it was time for them to study, and Frey had something to do with Vikram, who had just arrived, so she let the children go.

Vikram looked at the backs of the children as they walked away with a sullen expression.

“Are those children the out-of-wedlocks of His Highness the Grand Duke?”

“hmm…Vikram. Do you live by hearing a lot of people say it?”

“No. Few people are close enough to say such unproductive things.”

“….”

‘Anyway, I’m Daniel’s wife now, but I can’t believe you are talking about an out-of-wedlock child right in front of my nose.’

If someone on the crown prince’s side had asked such a question, it would have been malicious, but Vikram seemed to really ask for confirmation.

“These are only rumors about children. Now, they are growing up receiving lots of love from me.”

“Is that so? They are small and cute like a chick.”

Vikram’s sullen reaction revealed one more thing. The fact that even Vikram, the youngest elder in the Magic Tower, does not notice that the children are transcendentalists.

No matter how genius he is, it seems that there is a considerable difference in class from a transcendental person.

‘The reason Daniel immediately recognized the abandoned children was because he was also a transcendentalist, right?’

‘If so, wouldn’t Lydia have noticed the identities of our children?’

Daniel said it would be okay if they found the children were transcendent, but he wanted to prepare them more thoroughly from Daniel’s perspective as guardian. As soon as it is known that they have special powers, it is obvious that the bad people will be attracted like a swarm of flies.

“Let’s go, Vikram. I’ll show you to the castle.”

“All you need to do is tell me where I will stay and where I will work. It’s because I’m not the kind of person who likes to walk around anyway.”

He is a genius who has no interest in the world.

‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t notice it, but it was a perfect opponent to do the work.’

* * *

Vikram completed a short tour of Prause Castle. After all, a beautiful garden or a terrace with a view were not his interests.

‘Sacred tower, incentives.’

The corners of his lips rose slightly.

‘I can’t believe I can earn a lot of money doing what I’m interested in. If there was a heaven, I thought this would be heaven.’

Although he changed his job from Magic Tower to Prause, it was a successful job change. Although ‘Exile from the Magic Tower’ is the most dishonorable sentence for magicians.

‘There must be more idiots here than in the Magic Tower. If I am genius among the idiots, it’s like winning a performance bonus.’

Vikram entered the lab while imagining what kind of additional research he would do if he received a payment.

The Grand Duchess said plainly, without knowing his dark inner thoughts.

“Vikram. This is my office. Recently, thanks to the consideration of His Highness, we have moved to a larger place. Since several rooms are connected, the next room conducts research related to the sacred tower.”

“Alright”

‘Is this a place where I can demonstrate my ‘genius’ at least 2%?

It was just around the time Vikram thought so.

Thud-!

A glasses-bearing woman put thick books down on the desk. All of them were related to divine power or magic, and even Vikram couldn’t understand them, so he read them over and over again.

‘Did Vikram check her?’

Vikram looked at the woman intently. His gaze revealed a subtle competitive spirit, so Frey spoke quickly.

“Vikram, this is Lina. She’s my chief maid. The young daughter of the Holt family. Lina, this is Vikram.”

“I know. Nice to meet you, wizard.”

“You know me?”

“Yes. Mr. Wiz and I gathered information so that Her Highness the Grand Duchess could contact Vikram.”

“If it’s Wiz… A spirit of knowledge?”

Before Vikram could finish thinking, someone opened the door and entered.

“Lina, I brought a book.”

“Yes, Mr. Wiz.”

“By the way, These days books explain simple things but use long words.”

“Right. we will understand the application part without needing explanation.”

Wiz and Lina raised their glasses and complained a little.

Frey was used to this kind of scenery, but Vikram couldn’t help but feel distant.

‘The application part is the most difficult!’

Vikram was convinced that his understanding was superior even outside of magic.

‘But why do I feel like I’m getting smaller when I’m scouted by Prause?’

“By the way, I see now that the wizard has arrived. I’m a stupid old man, but…You will learn much from my master.”

master.

Clearly, the Spirit of Knowledge said so with respect. 

‘It seemed that getting paid was not an easy task.’

* * *

For some reason, Vikram, who had been determined to acquire the necessary knowledge for work from today, fell down as soon as he entered the laboratory.

Seeing him slumped on the table in the corner and flipping through the bookshelves, Lina whispered quietly.

“Wizard must have weak stamina.”

“Well, it must be because he has a problem.”

He was definitely a problem because he was clueless and full of confidence, but he fell like that in just a few minutes.

Lina was a little curious about the reason for that, but on the other hand, she thought it was impossible for her, a normal person, to understand his psychology.

“Anyway, Vikram’s specialty is magic. Shall we do our part so that he can unleash His magical talents to the fullest?”

Lina nodded and handed Frey a well-organized report.

‘No matter how many times I looked at it, it was unbelievably neat that it was written and graphed by human hands.’

[Price and Mining of Aquarin]

[Topaz transaction status]

What Frey asked Lina and Wiz for was information on trading for an ore called ‘Aquarin’.

“Did you do research on Topaz?”

“yes. I think Your Highness the Grand Duchess would be curious. My father was also very surprised when he saw the report.”

Frey conspired with Baron Holt at her father’s birthday banquet and spread false information that ‘Topaz’ would become the next generation of rose quartz. Topaz in this world is an ore that is as cheap as rose quartz before processing and has a mediocre luster.

It was a small play, with the mindset it would be fun if the Duke of Gelon got tricked, and the results were amazing.

“Immediately after the banquet, the Duke of Gelon purchased a large quantity of Topaz through the members of the Merchant Chamber.”

“It means that the Duke of Gelon is also interested in the rough stone processing business.”

On the outside, he seems to be conscious of Frey even though he only makes disparaging remarks. Feeling a sense of triumph, Frey froze as she looked at the next page of the report.

“The price—”

“Yes. The price of Topaz soared by 3,000%. The Duke of Gelon bought all the mines where Topaz is, as well for the current production and future production.”

‘Crazy I knew that the Duke of Gelon was a huge family that could even compete with Vliette, but a 3,000% soare.’

‘Is it a coin?’

He was relieved in front of his wealth, but he would soon come to his senses.

“Wow… That’s a relief. If we were really going to use topaz ore as a raw material, we’d be dead by now.”

It was a lie that Topaz had good processing efficiency.

‘The ore was useless no matter what all the users of <The Abandoned World> did, including me, who was a sucker for mining. That’s Topaz.’

Frey felt like she was dying at the thought that the Duke of Gelon might be casting the kind of magic on that stone.

Lina, who sympathized with Frey, smiled.

“As Her Highness said, the purchase of Aquarin was carried out in utmost secrecy, so it is expected that the misunderstanding on the part of the Gelon side will continue until Holt’s new product is released.”

“Thank you. It’s all thanks to Baron Holt and Lina’s hard work.”

Frey read the report on Aquarin. It was said that merchants who had no information were flocking to purchase Topaz as the Gelon Merchants suddenly bought a large amount of Topaz.

‘Yeah. Thanks to that, I bought Aquarin at a much lower price than expected.’

Frey picked up one of the best Aquarins secretly delivered by the Holt Company and looked around. As with Rose Quartz, Baron Holt did not disappoint Frey.

‘This luster and this hardness.’

Frey’s heart started pounding. She wanted to quickly process this so that magic could dwell inside.

Then…

“The first magic in Aquarin is luminescent magic.”

luminescent magic.

In other words, it meant to lead people who did not have the ridiculously expensive light-emitting magic scroll to the world of lights.

Lina smiled widely as soon as Frey finished speaking.

“It’s good! Baron Holt only has one luminescent scroll, so I had to use a candle to read at night in my room, which was really inconvenient.”

The response from prospective consumers was also very good. Feeling proud, Frey handed out a list of herbs to Lina.

Half of the herbs were used to process the jewels, and half of them were written roughly to deceive the eyes.

“Well, Lady Frey. Gargoyle’s claws…”

“Of course, I should drink tea. I heard that the by-products of gargoyles are very fragrant?”

Frey spits out the hateful story at random and added the truth.

“These are the materials needed to process jewelry. Some are materials I personally wanted to drink as tea.”

Frey knew that processing this much Aquarin would be impossible with just the excuse of drinking tea, so she had to let it flow for some time.

‘This time there is a lot of Aquarin, so we need a lot of herbs, so it would be more convenient to order it under the name of the grand duke.’

Up until this point, Frey had no idea what kind of misunderstanding her easy decision would cause.