Knights, Let’s Smash Them

22 – Goblin subdued after 15 days (2)

“This, like this…… No big ones!!”

“You should pull your body back more.”

“Ugh, ugh…… !! hehehe!! Yes!!”

Suuk!

“Ahhh…!!”

“Kuhm! What doesn’t go in, everything goes in.”

I brushed my hands. Finally, loading is complete.

A total of 8 boxes stacked with pickaxes and other mining tools.

Since all of them were extremely heavy, it was up to Xianne, who was the only one who could use Aura, to carry them.

No matter how hard it is to move all the boxes.

“Haa…… Ha… ….”

The blonde knight commander sat down on the floor breathing heavily. It seems to be a strange glare at me, but I lightly pretended not to know and moved on.

If you injure your wrist while lifting something heavy, it means the Knights are destroyed.

Usually, this type of physical work was the responsibility of other rank knights such as Lonz and Heinz.

Currently, Heinz and Barbara have been dispatched to ‘Tiffen Village’ to monitor the golden goblin colony.

Lonz was patrolling the city, and vice-captain Emain went to report to the lord, Count Rupel, about the golden goblin colony.

The only people left were me and Xianne.

“Still, I think this amount will be enough until all the gold is mined.”

Not only Mr. Albert’s blacksmith’s shop, but also other blacksmith’s and civilians, he issued a large-scale public notice, collecting mining tools that were slightly lacking or that were worn out and not used anymore.

Even though I picked out all the things I really couldn’t use, 8 boxes came out.

It seems to be common in all countries to not dispose of things in a timely manner, stock them up in the house out of regret, and eventually dispose of them as bad stock.

“Whoa…… I never thought in my wildest dreams that the residents of Tiffen Village would gladly allow it.”

“What is impossible in the logic of money?”

In the end, it is capital that decides everything in the world.

Money is what causes problems, and money is what solves problems.

As the Rupel Manor’s economy is gradually reviving, the domestic economy can be revitalized only when it is gradually distributed to the surrounding villages instead of just holding money.

People seem to keep it when they get unexpected big profits, but that’s not the case than you think.

The village chief and other residents of Tiffen Village must be thinking about what to buy right now.

That leads to consumption soon. Consumption naturally stimulates the economy.

Well, even so, if you put too much money into the territory, ‘inflation’ will inevitably occur.

It is a territory without money, but it must have been a Rupel territory that could not escape the extreme ‘Stagflation’ in which the price of goods coming from the empire was rising.

There was a need to properly release the flow of money. In addition, gold is also a representative safe-haven asset that rarely loses value.

“The magistrate knows a lot.”

“Compared to Captain Xianne, it’s nothing special. Because you are so talented.”

“Oh, no. I still lack a lot.”

At my words, Xian hurriedly averted her gaze.

She was weak in her singular praise. The fact that he reacts right away is that he is a very good person to tease in many ways.

But it is a fact that Xianne’s ability is outstanding.

I can assure you that I once played in the Knights of the Black Lion.

Compared to her same blonde knight leader, Levia, Xianne has gone beyond a mere angel and has reached the level of her goddess.

I can’t say for sure because I haven’t seen him use force, but once he awakens his aura, he’ll become the vice-captain of the Black Lion Knights.

The way she handles work and her understanding of work is so high that she can’t even compare with Levia or Ibona.

When I told you not to exterminate the goblin colony and leave it alone, when I added a few words of explanation, I immediately understood and backed off.

If it was Levia, she would have slaughtered the goblins before she could even say that her brain was muscle.

If it was Lee Bo-na, she would have had to lecture hard for three hours on why she shouldn’t be subjugated. She still doesn’t know, she eats and says, “Why should I?” It was clear that she was talking sh*t.

“I am serious. Since I worked for the Knights of the Black Lion, I can guarantee it more clearly.”

“That…… That’s too much of a compliment.”

“As the leader of the Knights of the Rupel Territory, which will grow in the future, he is perfect beyond measure.”

Shuk, Xianne, who had been struggling to death just a moment ago, braided her hair with her fingers. It looked pretty embarrassing.

‘Yes, if you are a female knight, you should have a side like this. Levia, that crazy b*tch, was too harsh even if she was outraged.’

Thinking about it again makes me angry.

Would you like to wash up?

Dog mad b*tch, she said she was too lazy to take off her clothes the entire expedition. Wasn’t there a time when she lived in the same clothes for two weeks?

After washing it several times, the smell did not go away, so I ended up throwing it away.

It’s f*cking naeronambul.

I shook my head to dispel the f*cking memories that flooded my mind.

“Should we start soon?”

He jumped up onto the driver’s seat.

***

It’s already been ten days since I periodically threw pickaxes, shovels, and miscellaneous tools to the goblins.

According to the report from Heinz, the speed at which gold nuggets were piled up was extremely fast.

They have reached the point where they don’t just take gold nuggets out of the mine, but cut down trees and build something similar to a warehouse to store them.

-A goblin can do something like that?

-Isn’t that obvious? Not all monsters sleep on the ground.

Maybe it was the first time they had seen a monster build something worthy of architecture, and the inexperienced knights were quite surprised.

-Even an orc knows how to make a tent. Not only that, he knows how to smelt.

-Succubus and incubus are not fools. They are so clever that they naturally infiltrate human society.

As I said last time.

Monsters in this world don’t only appear in dungeons. To be precise, the monsters that naturally occur in dungeons couldn’t even be called true monsters.

Because it was a creature created by demons that occur in ‘Dungeon Break’ or ‘Dungeon Core’.

Thus, since it can be seen that it is more accurate to say that they were copied rather than naturally created, monsters in dungeons are basically much weaker, more clumsy, and stereotyped than monsters encountered in the wild.

Just as humans developed civilization by coming out of caves and creating fire, they too can develop only when they come out of the dungeon.

Of course, it’s not that dungeons don’t have superior intelligence or that powerful monsters aren’t born.

Even if it’s not a dragon, there are definitely dungeons that contain monsters close to sub-dragons.

The ‘Blue Hole’, a typical forbidden area in the south, is a huge deep-sea dungeon, and there is a story that fish-man monsters who have achieved a high level of civilization live there.

However, that’s the story of high-ranking kids.

There is no exception in the case of C-class to D-class monsters like goblins.

So this colony of goblins, supposedly naturally occurring, has a far superior civilization than other groups of goblins living in dungeons.

I could tell that just by looking at the gold ore, which was very well managed. They even wove leaves or something to keep the rainwater from mixing with the gold.

To be honest, it’s a waste to kill.

“That’s a mine over there.”

“Yes.”

I decided to think about whether to really kill or not, but first I listened to the words of the mineralogist dispatched directly from Jarhead.

A valuable guest sent by Mayor Jarhead as soon as he requested someone to figure out the condition and quantity of the gold ore.

“Looking at it roughly, it must be hundreds of kg. Even if there is a purification operation to remove impurities from there, it will be an enormous amount. I think it will be at least a grade A gold mine.”

“Um.”

I quickly wrote down the words without missing a single note.

“By the way, do you have any records of this mine?”

“No. Doesn’t exist. I heard that many records were lost when a fire broke out in the library of Count Rupell once. It seems to be one of the records that were lost together at that time.”

A record? Of course I looked for it.

If it’s a mine with an owner, it’s very difficult to claim ownership, even if you’re a lord.

But I couldn’t find any records.

The residents of Tiffen Village did not even know that there was a mine, and even after searching through the records of the village headman, who said that he had held the post of the third generation, there was no clue that could be inferred.

Rather good.

If this is the case, we who found it first are the owners.

This mine is mine now. I can eat whatever I want.

“But it is a little strange.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Normally there are rare gold deposits of this magnitude in abandoned mines. If you look at the entrance, it seems to have been built around 50 years ago…….”

In order to make sure that the job of ‘scholar’ is not overshadowed, he added while fixing his glasses.

“Abandoned mines mean that they have been developed to some extent, don’t they? Unless all of the workers and managers suddenly died, an abandoned mine with that much gold still could be an abandoned mine.”

“…… Really?”

At first, I had no idea, but after hearing the scholar’s words, I felt a definite sense of incongruity.

‘Did something happen?’

The magistrate’s intuition began to work sharply.

I guess I’ll have to go inside this abandoned mine anyway to guess why…….

I had no choice but to brush my chin and get lost in my thoughts.

It’s not like we’re not checking the gas in some kind of apartment, so we can’t just walk into the mine with an excuse.

However, the golden goblin didn’t seem to have collected all the gold in the mine yet.

How many stores are there? Can’t you feel it at all…… I can’t make a hasty decision.

What if there were still many veins left?

Then you can take it with a few hundred kg of gold on top?

“mmm…!!”

Eat this now, don’t you?