359 – Sudden Patch Notes 3

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I would already anticipated an ambush, because of the chatter of the low-ranking mercenaries. From the beginning, if retailers had been touring with a hundred-strong escort, they will need to have been making ready for one thing.

Retailers are the sort to drink lye if it is free, so why would they over-invest in safety in a secure place? Everybody was speaking about how retailers spending cash to rent a great deal of mercenaries and adventurers wasn’t as a result of some terrifying scheme by the Grand Temple or nobles.

The Empire’s legislation enforcement was a multitude, regardless of being bigger than the Kingdom.

“Ugh, these bastards – is there nothing first rate from the Empire?” I muttered quietly as I approached the ridge the place the enemy had all of a sudden attacked, passing via the roadside undergrowth. The incoming arrows carried no aura, so I took my time.

Each the Kingdom and Empire had unexplored territories, given it was a world with monsters. Even the Kingdom had lawless zones on its fringes the place wandering monsters and criminals roamed freely.

The difficulty was that the Empire’s huge territory meant these “hazard zones” had been unfold all through just like the appetizing marbling of A++ grade beef. The first trigger of those marbled hazard zones was the large landmass, and the secondary trigger was the nobles’ unbridled selfishness.

These bastards handled sustaining public order like a bunch challenge.

Cities had been collectives of freemen who’d grown massive for revenue, so they’d little curiosity or means to keep up order or subjugate bandits. In any case, a metropolis shaped by coachmen, adventurers, mercenaries, and service provider guilds could not function large-scale navy forces.

The issue was that the lords of surrounding territories resented this. Cities made extra money than typical agricultural domains, however they dumped the accountability of sustaining order onto the nobles.

“Fireplace! Fireplace! We might have ambushed them, however their numbers are few!”

“B-boss? Is not {that a} knight?”

“What nonsense, a knight in a mere caravan like this… Huh?!”

The town stated, “We’re not land managers, why ought to we catch thieves?”

The lord stated, “These metropolis peasants make good cash whereas freeloading on safety?”

As they handed the buck like laying aside analysis for a bunch challenge, a safety vacuum shaped. One mercenary had defined this, spitting as he spoke.

The rationale this mercenary knew such particulars was easy: dissatisfaction that neither metropolis folks nor native lords had been posting bandit-hunting requests, leaving his pockets empty. Apparently this was an open secret all through the mercenary world, past simply public data.

“Hey, you sh*theads.”

Was it due to my character’s backstory, or the participant’s Empire storyline?

A small caravan proprietor who traveled from the Grand Temple to the southernmost a part of the Empire, however did not make a lot revenue. In fact, “small” by Empire requirements with its massive inhabitants – by Kingdom requirements, it might occupy a decent-sized small metropolis.

Anyway, being that stage of caravan proprietor, he did not know what the nobles had been as much as, however I used to be in a position to be taught the fundamentals of Imperial widespread sense and clues concerning the incident.

Whether or not as a result of a quest or not, some sh*t had gone down with the Imperial household. Consequently, central political nobles cut up into factions, and as an additional consequence, backwater lords curled up of their territories for self-preservation, and as an additional additional consequence, bandits freely settled within the refined energy vacuum between domains and cities – a type of vicious cycle.

“Um, then I am going to excuse myself for a second.”

“Hmm?”

If I had been an odd adventurer, I would suppose it was as a result of succession points, being bewitched by a darkish mage, or lack of religion – one thing like that. However from a gamer’s perspective, this was clearly quest materials, proper?

The Goddess’s warrior seems in an Empire with shaken Imperial authority and thrown into chaos!

The Kingdom’s royal household was supposedly chosen by the Goddess, however I hadn’t heard concerning the Imperial household’s state of affairs. Nonetheless, I might roughly estimate. It was a bit odd to all of a sudden ask concerning the legitimacy of the Imperial household whereas speaking about bandits, so I let it go, however anyway, they will need to have believed within the Goddess because the Grand Temple existed prominently.

“Please, are available!”

As I used to be organizing my ideas, the caravan proprietor all of a sudden opened the carriage door.

He nimbly descended from the stationary carriage with agile actions belying his plump physique. Somebody slipped into the carriage.

Two girls, one with brown hair and one blonde. Trying carefully, they had been the caravan’s feminine staff that the low-ranking mercenary who took an arrow to the top earlier was spewing lewd discuss.

The results of Heroines Chronicle appeared to be right here too, as they had been dressed equally to workplace girls.

“Have a nice time, benefactor.”

“…No, that will not be mandatory.”

“Pardon?!”

Objectively talking, the 2 feminine staff had been fairly stunning. Skirts reaching their knees, slender calves stretching beneath, ample bosoms not hid by their shirts. Add to that their flushed cheeks and raveled clothes they appeared to have loosened themselves, apparently discovering my look to their liking.

However maybe it was as a result of I used to be normally surrounded by beauties? It felt like going from being amongst prime star actresses to being amongst self-proclaimed Instagram goddesses. Plus, Han Se-ah had by some means began streaming and despatched me a digicam drone.

Wait, wasn’t it unimaginable to trace with the digicam from an extended distance?

…Do not inform me she got here to the Empire for streaming content material too?