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 as

“It seems like it.”

the monsters of the west and devoted themselves to hunting. They waited for monsters to

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 than

500,000 people only

there are

biggest priority right now is to

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

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

‘Considering the transportation cost…’

had to set a minimum 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 gold on

seeing their skinny selves? No. That was irrelevant. People were the national power. He needed to restore them first, then there would be a rise in

making the people useful, set them to

lord

the people was the most pressing issue, but he wondered if Grid would understand. Grid

spoke to

Korean doesn’t give up on making hot pepper paste just because of

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

saying that Lauel mentioned and became

not what

Huroi. On the other hand, Faker disappeared from next to the two men, moving through the

move quickly after hearing that the new lord’s

the people

armor, but are

greasy man’s name was Arik, the administrator of Reidan. He was a baronet

dagger at

“Hiik!”

exclaimed as he saw the shadows in the

“W-Who are you?”

person with

“W-What…? Kiyaaack~!”

Faker and Arik disappeared into the yellow

“Administrator Arik?”

soldiers looked around, but they couldn’t find any traces

***

a

three days. Bland originally saw Grid as very strong. Grid would become much stronger under

as ordinary. Grid was satisfied that he wasn’t

believe it. ‘Why are his skills so

the 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 monsters, and

Piaro? He evaluated Grid’s ability as ‘poor in comparison

The conclusion.

in the

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

it be better to keep practicing steadily?

refuse. It is unlikely that your skills will improve, even

up so easily. It isn’t that

is a realistic analysis, not

top rankers, but from a normal point of view, he was beyond the average level. However,

“Hap!”

had perfectly adapted to the strange terrain of the desert. He ran on the sand with light footsteps and freely wielded Failure, causing the monsters of the west to collapse. As a result, Grid reached level 275

“This is your city?”

Reidan that came into view was huge. The exterior walls

city comparable