The Status Window Disappeared

Showdown with the Black Flag (5)

“If all the vested interests die, from then on, we will have to elect a president through citizens’ elections and form a new administration.”

Hearing the hunter’s answer, Chris couldn’t help but admire.

“oh my god. Did you know that we had to reorganize the administration?”

“Ah, why are you surprised by that much?”

“Of course I am surprised. How are you going to organize the administration when all the vested interests who used to manage the territory have been scoured?”

The hunter puts on a sour expression as Chris digs deeper than he expected.

“That’s right, taking a test for citizens to select civil servants… … .”

“What are you going to do with citizens who don’t even know how to read? Do you guys know how high the illiteracy rate is in this world?”

“Well, aren’t there still smart guys out there?”

“They say you’re going to kill all those smart bastards. Don’t you remember?”

One of the biggest characteristics of the feudal system is the lack of freedom in choosing a profession.

Unless you’re a vagabond like Chris, most people inherit their parents’ jobs.

They can’t even move their residence at will. There was no way those who were treated as property of the lord could do such a thing.

The hunter, who was speechless for a moment at Chris’ question, responded rather angrily.

“Prime Minister Breton also broke the feudal system. But what can I not do?”

“He’s a professor of history at a prestigious university, and you’re a badass at the corner of the room, you idiot.”

Chris hated Breton’s prime minister, but recognized his abilities. Knowing your opponent’s capabilities is essential to successful killing.

The reason why the prime minister turned a small island nation into a giant empire in a few years was because he was equally blessed with skill and luck.

Chris, who was well aware of Breton’s development, began to attack the hunter in earnest.

“good. Say everything is fine. As you said, let’s just kill the vested interests and find someone hiding somewhere in the countryside to replace them! But what are you going to do with the foreign enemies who take advantage of the domestic chaos?”

“External enemy?”

“There are not one or two kingdoms around here. If internal strife breaks out in the country and the vigilance against foreign enemies weakens, of course they will come in to take the land.”

The Breton Empire summoned numerous players to secure the power to completely bring the lords under the Queen to their knees. In addition, he started education early, trained low-level civil servants, and systematically developed various skills under the protection of the queen.

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Most importantly, Breton’s mainland was an island, so there was no need to worry about invasion by foreign enemies.

In the southern region, where large and small countries are concentrated, it is easy to get stabbed in the side and back if you kill the vested class and do strange things.

That’s why Chris wasn’t interested in the peace and safety of the people of the world, but he seriously thought about whether he should kill this guy for the sake of the cause.

Seeing how he was so arrogant that he somehow made a cyanide compound, he seemed to be doing something bigger if left alone. It doesn’t matter if this guy or the nobles are decapitated, but what’s the crime of the people who stayed still?

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Moreover, killing irresponsible idiots was Chris’ old hobby, so he didn’t have to hesitate for long. Unbearable, he drew his sword, and Tyrone, who was dancing behind him, quickly stopped him.

“Hey, that gang is also holding merchants hostage.”

“Um… … .”

Chris and Tyrone can take down the guards without the hunters, but…

Still, there is one thing.

If you kill a hunter for no reason and the merchants get hurt, it’s Chris’ fault. There would be no need to take the risk by leaving the easy way.

Eventually, Chris shoved his longsword into the scabbard and left the cave with a displeased expression.

Tyrone looks back at the altar of the evil god for a while and takes care of the hunter.

“By the way, who the hell was the owner of that altar and was able to get the status window back?”

“I said that the status window is the power of God. The Cadral Church tried to cause the disappearance of the status window, so let’s see if the opposite is possible.”

However, Chris could not shake off the sense of incongruity even as he roughly responded to Tyrone’s words.

If ordinary demons could return the status window, there’s no way they wouldn’t promote it. If that was the case, the players would have stuck with it a long time ago.

They say that the status window will be restored right away, but what would the church notice and see?

Cadral, who boasted of his own powerful religion, also tried to seal the status window in alliance with other gods, and now, in the aftermath of that, he is unable to even receive divine punishment. So, it would be correct to think that the evil god who easily recovered such a status window was a much more powerful being than Cadral.

Of course, it’s questionable that even the name is not known, but that’s what I can’t figure out if I think about it now.

After recovering the status window, Tyrone, who had been walking around like flying, finally cut his palm with his dagger.

Watching the vitality unique to the status window heal wounds, he suddenly clapped his hands and whispered to Chris.

“Come to think of it, wasn’t there one marble left from last time? You know what you wrote when you got the power to devour. Give me some of that.”

Recalling the orb he got from the Black Flag Lab, Chris apologized with an attitude of not feeling sorry at all.

“Oh sorry. I gave it to someone else.”

“what? Who did you give it to?”

“You’d be better off not knowing.”

Tyrone’s forehead furrowed slightly at the rather dry but sincere answer. However, the gains this time were so great that I quickly felt relieved.

Chris climbed out of the cave and climbed on top of the ghost horse, took out the phoenix’s palace, and destroyed the dark entrance.

It was something to worry about not incurring the wrath of the evil god, but he didn’t want to leave room for others to recover the status window.

Then he drew his bow and the three of them quickly began to return to the farm.

It was a ghost horse that did not tire even after carrying three people, but by the time I arrived, the day had already changed because the streets were streets.

Chris went inside the walls as he watched the sun slowly rise over the mountains.

Then Sang Sangju, who had been waiting for him without sleep, quickly approaches.

“I just received all new products. No one else was hurt… … .”

“Good for you. Can you leave right now?”

“Right now? Well, there’s nothing good about staying here for a long time.”

When the top lord expressed his affirmation without difficulty, Chris released the hunter player with a disapproving look. Freed from the ropes, he glared at Chris slightly, but didn’t even make the slightest threat.

The two groups, which were still in tight tension, are busy moving to break up as quickly as possible.

“Ah, should I really leave him like that… … .”

When Chris, who came out of the gate at the very end, spat out like a sigh, Tyrone laughed.

“What if I go back and kill him? Now I don’t have to worry about the top.”

“hmm… done. If the upper ranks complain to the kingdom, they will take care of it themselves.”

The leaders of the kingdom that owns the farm couldn’t have agreed to his crazy plan.

So if this fact is known, it will be difficult for even the most valuable players to pass by.

Chris and Tyrone, who had been talking quietly, moved to the front of the procession, and the escorts, who had been chewing on them until yesterday, stepped out of the way with a timid look on their faces.

You may not know the details, but you must have seen clearly that Chris captivated the player.

Chris, trying not to be too conceited, approached the carpenter on the wagon and asked.

“What are you going to do now? Are you going to proceed as planned?”

“That is difficult. The farm may be belatedly sending more troops to pursue us… I guess I will have to change my route.”

After opening the map and thinking about it, Sang Sangju decided to get out of the kingdom’s territory.

Once you change your course, you will have to change all of your future plans, but it is impossible to proceed as planned anyway. It is said that it was somehow solved thanks to Chris, but they cannot continue to do business with the farm that gave them products mixed with poison.

Spices are a product that brings huge profits, but life comes first.

As I stood in front of the upper deck and ran without rest, the scenery around me changed in a matter of days.

The wheat fields and forests that were visible so far gradually disappear and a wide meadow appears.

As the unmotivated shepherds and stalwart lumberjacks appear, the faces of the people who were traveling as if they were being chased gradually loosen up.

“Where are you again?”

When Tyrone tilted his head at the unfamiliar scenery, Chris opened the map and took a picture of the location.

“From here on, it’s the eastern province. Now that you’ve run away this far, you should be relieved.”

“I will enter the city by the end of the day. Everyone, please cheer up a little.”

As one of the merchants at the top shouted, the workers and escorts let out a sigh of relief.

Chris corrected his map, taking in all the scenery around him. As a mercenary, he traveled all over the world, but he didn’t know the exact geography because it was his first time in the southeast.

Tyrone, who was watching it quietly, said a word.

“You don’t know this place either?”

“The Southeast is a high mountain area and there are not many people, so I didn’t have a chance to visit. As you can see, it is a very peaceful neighborhood.”

At best, it is a quiet countryside, at worst, it is a rural area.

The caravan, escorted by two men, soon reached the city at the foot of the mountain. It’s a very small and unassuming place compared to the big cities I’ve been to so far, but it’s the largest city here in the southeast.

Entering the humble castle gate, Sang Sangju decided to take a break after giving everyone plenty of money, as if to compensate for the forced marches so far.

After putting the ghost horse in the stable, Chris grabbed Tyrone by the back as he was about to head to the bar and went out to find the temple in the city.

After wandering around the not so big city for about 30 minutes, the two finally found a small temple.

Tyrone grumbled softly as he entered the sparsely weeded garden.

“It took a long time. If this was Korea, it would have taken less than five minutes.”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

Even as Chris scolded Tyrone, he thought he had a point in his heart.

In Korea, there are rural areas without hospitals or police stations, but rural areas without churches are rare.

As they pushed through the slightly rusted gate, a priest who was tending the garden approached them with quick steps.

Chris asked briefly, taking out the collaborator’s token from his chest.

“Do you have any delivery information?”

“Ah, an urgent message has arrived.”

“yes?”

Chris, who had visited the temple out of a sense of duty, widened his eyes.

They say they’ve been out of touch for days, but has there been any progress in the search for the new black flag?

Fortunately, the priest did not betray his expectations.

“An order has been issued to send all of our church’s collaborators to the southeast. If you go all the way there, you will come to an alpine area… … .”

The priest explained the new rendezvous point in detail and wished them luck.

Chris gave a heavy nod as Tyrone looked agitated. It would be obvious that the church would not have seen it if it was something that would issue a convocation order like this.

‘You’ve found the main base of the Black Flag.’

Otherwise, there is no reason to bring in Chris and Tyrone, who were on a break.

Tyrone murmured as if he was relieved as he quickly left the temple.

“I’m glad it’s close by.”

“Because there were few people in the southeast from the beginning… It must be perfect for the fugitives to gather.”

Just as the corps escorted by Chris came here to prevent the pursuit of the South, the Black Flag must have set up its headquarters here to avoid being seen by the public.

When the two of them went to the inn where the merchant company was staying, the merchants, who were already drunk, were talking about work on the pepper plantation. If rumors spread like this, even the polite hunter player wouldn’t be safe.

The two of them resisted the temptation of cold beer and found Sangsanju and brought up difficult words.

“I’m sorry, Lord, but something urgent happened… Could you please cancel the escort contract right now? Of course, I will pay the penalty.”

Rather than making money, I was ripped off, but I had no other choice. If you don’t respond to this call to earn some money for your trip, you’ll regret it later.

Hearing Chris’ request, Sang Sangju put on a slightly troubled expression and then smiled for business.

“It’s not a penalty. You two have already done enough for me. We just treat it as an early termination on our side.”

“If you do that, I don’t want anything more. I am really sorry for ending the request on my own.”

When Chris apologized again, the owner of the upper house waved both hands.

“Something urgent has happened, what should I do? Please take good care of me next time.”

After shaking hands with Chris, the upper class owner handed over the reward that was supposed to be received at the end of the request.

Although the veteran mercenary’s commission fee is high, it is nothing compared to the price of the goods he returned.

He took it gratefully, took it, and left the city with Tyrone.

The tall mountains that seemed to pierce the sky waited for the two men covered in fog.