Overgeared

Chapter 216

Nine days ago.

The Overgeared members utilized the excellent transportation method of carriages and arrived in Reidan ahead of Grid, but they tasted huge disappointment.

The best city in the west, Reidan! According to the map, it was the second largest city of the Eternal Kingdom. The Overgeared members were full of expectations, but they were baffled because it looked more like a ruin.

“What happened here?”

“Wow, there is nothing big in the city.”

“The shops are closed, the doors broken and the poor are on the street…”

“The rice fields are like a wasteland.”

“In the first place, doesn’t the population seem too small?”

Huroi, Lauel, and Faker remained calm while the guild members were making a disturbance. They looked over Reidan because bringing up its information.

Name: Reidan

Size: Big City

Ruler: Grid (Duke of the Eternal Kingdom. Master of the Overgeared Guild)

Administrator: Arik (C-grade administrative ability)

* The higher the administrative ability of the administrator, the higher the overall development of the estate.

Affiliation: The Eternal Kingdom

Population: NPCs – 20,551. Players – 0.

Troops: Knights – 2 (Huroi, Lauel).

Soldiers – 141

Security: 5/100

* The state of security is the worst. It isn’t unusual if the people turn into a mob straight away. Gangsters and monsters will often pop up near the village.

* Security will increase hourly in proportion to the number of soldiers.

* People jobs and food for a policing activity is not available, even if the police do not rise.

Internal Affairs: 169/4,500

* Increasing the number of shopping malls, public cultural facilities and buildings will increase the internal affairs number.

Foreign Affairs: The Butin Barony in the Saharan Empire.

Forces hostile to the ruler: Yatan Church.

Forces hostile to your affiliated groups: Gauss Kingdom, Luvia Principality.

Specialties: None.

Distinguished Figure: None.

situation isn’t as good as

“It seems like it.”

the west and devoted themselves to hunting. They waited for monsters to attack the moving carriage, then quickly hunted them for experience. Therefore, they thought the west was

Faker thought that the strong monsters in the west were a negative point. The monsters were so strong that the accessibility of general users was low, and the area would be difficult to manage. Now the reality they faced was worse

accommodate over 500,000 people only

there are

right now is to

single person, it wasn’t enough to fund a big city. Not only that, 5 million gold

to raise the goodwill of the people? Was it even possible to produce food in this city in the first place? It wasn’t possible to even make barley bread. It was inevitable that they would have to import ingredients, but merchants were aware of the situation and wouldn’t

‘Considering the transportation cost…’

of 3 silver for one meal. If it was 20,000 people, he would have to pay 600 gold. This was one meal. It was ridiculous to spend hundreds of thousands of

were the national power. He needed to restore them first, then there would be a rise in security and

set them

doesn’t the lord

restoring the people was the most pressing issue, but he wondered if Grid would understand. Grid would wonder why they were wasting money on

spoke to the worried

hot pepper paste just because

was the right choice, even if it was against Grid’s will. This was Chief Lauel’s

thought about the saying that Lauel mentioned and became

no, that’s not what

he tried to soothe Huroi. On the other hand, Faker disappeared from next to the

quickly after hearing that the new lord’s men

that I would be stoned by the people

with sword and armor, but are afraid of rocks? What a worthless person. Tsk

the castle with his soldiers. This greasy man’s name was Arik, the administrator of Reidan. He was a baronet and often received treatment as a

pointed his dagger at Arik without

“Hiik!”

saw the shadows in the

“W-Who are you?”

“A person with a lot of

“W-What…? Kiyaaack~!”

Arik disappeared into the yellow dust

“Administrator Arik?”

but they couldn’t find any traces

***

a normal

Piaro for the past three days. Bland originally saw Grid as very strong. Grid would become

Piaro evaluated Grid as ordinary. Grid was satisfied that he wasn’t worse compared

couldn’t believe it. ‘Why are his skills so bad and dull?

strongest swordsmen until he met Piaro, but Grid seemed to have a lot of talent. On the other hand, Grid compared his abilities to the top rankers and boss

He evaluated Grid’s ability as ‘poor in

The conclusion.

hunt monsters in the west without having to

just the basics. Only the lousy people rely solely on skills.

practicing steadily?

skills will improve, even

up so easily. It isn’t

not one based on

true that he was lacking control skills compared to top rankers, but from a normal point of view, he was beyond the average level. However, the

“Hap!”

and freely wielded Failure, causing the monsters of the west to collapse. As a result, Grid reached

“This is your city?”

huge. The exterior walls weren’t very high or well-maintained, but they spectacularly stretched

is a huge city comparable to the capital