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.

as good

“It seems like it.”

devoted themselves to hunting. They waited

the strong monsters in the west were a negative point. The monsters were so strong that the accessibility of general users was low, and

500,000 people only

are no

now is to pay the people raise the security

While that amount of gold might sound large for a single person, it wasn’t enough to fund a big city. Not only that, 5 million

they had to pay expenses 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 come to

‘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

Lauel couldn’t alienate the people. Did he feel compassion when seeing their skinny selves? No. That was irrelevant. People were the national power. He needed to restore them

making the people useful, set them to

the lord have to give

he wondered if Grid would understand. Grid would wonder why they

to the

pepper paste just because of worms. That is a saying in

against Grid’s will. This was Chief Lauel’s conviction

thought about the saying that Lauel mentioned and became indignant, “Don’t compare My Lord to measly

no, that’s not what

On the other hand, Faker disappeared from next to the two men, moving through the yellow dust before arriving at the

quickly after hearing that the new lord’s men

afraid that I would be stoned by the people if I

armor, but are

fat, middle-aged man hurried to the entrance of the castle with his soldiers. This greasy man’s name was Arik,

pointed his dagger at Arik without

“Hiik!”

exclaimed as he saw the shadows in the yellow

“W-Who are you?”

person with

“W-What…? Kiyaaack~!”

Arik disappeared into the

“Administrator Arik?”

looked around, but they couldn’t

***

a normal

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

as ordinary. Grid was

so bad and dull?

of view, Earl Steim and Phoenix were the strongest swordsmen until he met Piaro, but Grid seemed to have a lot of talent. On the other hand, Grid compared his

He evaluated Grid’s ability as ‘poor

The conclusion.

Now I can easily hunt monsters in the

is just the basics. Only the lousy people rely solely on skills. You still have a long

better to keep practicing steadily? Continue teaching me in

unlikely that your skills will improve, even if I keep teaching

easily. It isn’t

a realistic analysis, not one

from a normal point of view, he was beyond the average level. However, the monsters in the west were so strong that his limits started to

“Hap!”

freely wielded Failure, causing the monsters of

“This is your city?”

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

huge city comparable to