Chapter 203
The skull of a vicious red dragon that is only talked about in legends. Due to the mana accumulated over thousands of years, it boasts the strongest hardness and highest mana conductivity among dragon bones. If processed well, it will become the best material to make the best weapon.
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Weight - 2.5t
Dragon accessories boasting great value.
Among them, dragon bone, a legendary material that blacksmiths can only see in their dreams. It was such a rare material that even artisans who were proud and stubborn and would not even lift a hammer if they didn\'t like it were on their knees begging to touch it just once. I couldn\'t believe it when I saw the weight.
“Dragonbone is 2.5t..... Does this make sense?”
“So... even though they say they caught an old dragon-class dragon... this is too unrealistic.”
A dragon bone that weighs as much as 2500 kg.
A material with historically astronomical value, to the extent that even with just a few kilograms of dragon bones, wars could have occurred. It was also the skull of an ancient dragon-class dragon that reached its peak in value, so Apple and Lemon knew all too well the aftermath this object would bring.
“I will never leave anyone alone. They’re going to run to eat our top somehow?”
I know that processing is extremely difficult and difficult, but if refined in the hands of an excellent craftsman, it will be reborn as a powerful weapon that no one can handle. It was literally like a strategic resource that completely overturned the balance of the entire continent and shredded the board into powder, so their movements had no choice but to be cautious.
“Hey there! Secure the blanket tightly and check whether it drips down! You know what would happen if there were strange rumors about what we were moving, right?”
“yes! Checked thoroughly. No problem!”
Before leaving the village of the elves, Apple carefully checked until the end to make sure nothing was missing. Lemon asked in the midst of his busy movements.
“Where are you going to take this?”
A simple yet difficult request that Jaeyoung made to them.
[Please dispose of this for me. Please accept the moderately high price.]
It doesn\'t matter who you sell it to, so his words to dispose of it at a moderately high price were very difficult for them.
“Selling it to the Harmel Empire would be the most ideal... but if that happens, other kingdoms will rise up right away, right?”
The Harmel Empire, which is regarded as the most powerful force on the two continents where they are active. If we were to dispose of this item, we would be able to trade with them on the best terms, but if we looked at other countries, we couldn\'t.
“That’s right... It’s not like we’re only going to do business with the Harmel Empire, and other kingdoms will surely retaliate, so they won’t do business with us even if they die?”
The top of the pie is expanding its business partners and explosively growing its business. They had no choice but to be prudent in their actions because they did not want to incur the anger and hatred of many countries for nothing and ruin their work.
“Or... how about taking it to the Mage Tower? If you don’t want to get involved in political issues, honestly, that’s the neatest thing.”
A mage tower spread across the entire continent.
An independent military group that does not belong to any specific country and forms a powerful force with the single thought of researching the science of magic. Lemon thought they might take care of this item for a reasonable price considering the vast amount of goods they had.
But Apple was skeptical of her idea.
“Hmm... not there. If you take it for no reason, you may end up taking only the goods and eating and running. It\'s too dangerous because they\'re frighteningly obsessed with things related to dragons.”
The Mage\'s Tower, a place of study for wizards and the best research institution.
The gold they earned by providing all sorts of services, including magic weapons, was astronomical enough to match the yearly budget of the Harmel Empire, but the expenditure was also enormous beyond imagination.
[Eh... I think I\'ll need 100kg of gold bars for this magic experiment...]
[Relics of the Age of Magic? Money doesn\'t matter, so send an expedition right away!]
[They say a staff made of diamonds increases magic efficiency, right? Make one!]
Wizards pour all kinds of rare magic materials and gold into one experiment to satisfy their academic curiosity and desire, regardless of how much gold it costs. Because of that, the Mage Tower\'s budget was always walking a tightrope, barely enough to avoid a deficit.
- Please help me. I transported it because I was told to buy 1000 purple four-leaf clovers from the magic tower. But they don\'t pay the bill. They tell me to wait for the next time, but what should I do?
A situation where you cannot receive compensation even after processing a request or order from the Mage Tower.
Unexpectedly, these were cases that could be found frequently in Arpendia.
-Oh, that\'s because the magic tower temporarily lacks money. Do not worry. If it\'s not that big, give it right away.
-lol. The Mage Tower organizes and operates the budget for each branch independently, so there are times when it is a small Mage Tower. You\'ll probably pay it back as soon as you make money?
- What the fuck. Are the Mage Tower bastards really idiots? If you don\'t have money, why do you make a request, eat only the goods, and say that the money will be given later?
-That\'s right, but what can I do? You can\'t even fight the Magic Tower, can you?
Wizards who don\'t care about payment and habitually gulp things first. Entrusting the skull of this Cervenian to them, who have no economic concept at all, was like entrusting fish to a cat, so Apple told Lemon.
“Let’s go to the Sands of Forge.”
“Let’s drag this far away...?”
At Apple\'s suggestion to cross the continent from end to end, Lemon frowned as if his head was pounding just thinking about it.
“It can\'t be helped. First of all, in a situation where it is difficult to find a country that can accept this huge amount and political problems are unavoidable, there is no place to go, right? So let\'s think about it after we\'ve dealt with this skull first.”
“process?”
Lemon asked back with a face as if he was saying what he was talking about. Apple said to her:
“Among the dwarves, isn’t there a craftsman with skills that can process this? Then you can process this and break it into pieces.”
“Rather than selling it whole, let’s break it up and sell it in pieces, right?”
“Even though it\'s cumbersome, if you spread it evenly to all kingdoms like that, you won\'t have any complaints.”
A Kervenian skull too large for a nation to consume.
Lemon nodded after a moment\'s thought at Apple\'s words to dispose of it in pieces as small as possible so as not to tear the mouth.
“Yeah... that\'s definitely the best way.”
“The problem is that I\'m not sure if there are any dwarves who can process this, but...”
Lemon thought something at Apple\'s words. But it wasn\'t that sharp, so it didn\'t take her long to make up her mind.
“First...then let\'s transport the goods to the Sands of Forge. I think you can go there and think about processing problems. At least, there is no place on the continent that surpasses that facility itself, right?”
Sands of Forge, the city of Dwarves, where every inhabitant is made up of skilled artisans.
If it couldn\'t be processed there, there was no way it could be processed anywhere, so they loaded the Kervenian skull that Jaeyoung had handed over to them on a huge cart and started going up.
Towards the city of the Dwarves, located underground beyond the sand desert.
* * *
The time when Apple and Lemon started shipping in secret.
Jae-gyu, the head of the GM corps and the youngest son of Chairman Choi Chun-sik, was putting a bandage on his bruised forehead under the careful touch of his assistant.
“evil! it hurts! Aren’t you taking care of yourself?”
“I’m sorry.”
Jae-gyu was hit right in the forehead with a crystal ashtray thrown by Chairman Choi Chun-shik. He was finally able to get his last chance again after receiving all sorts of harsh insults and threats from Chairman Choi Chun-shik.
[This is the last time! If you do something strange that harms the group again this time, I\'m sure you and all of the GM\'s top tier will be blown away! understand? Be prepared to lose everything and do whatever you want, or if that scares you, sit at your desk and do the company work properly!]
Chairman Choi Chun-sik\'s threat, not a threat, to risk his position as the youngest son of a chaebol group and a member of the royal family. However, even in such a situation, Jaegyu did not give up his will in the slightest.
“Hey, I’m thinking of giving all the stakes in the business to the hyungs, but what...”
Jae-gyu, whose position in the company has already been irreversibly diminished. Jegyu had no intention of giving up the GM corps that he had built with his own hands, knowing that even if he quietly learned his job, the big players would go back to his brothers and he would get the crumbs.
“But it’s fortunate... the president didn’t sternly stop me from returning again.”
“It must have been a waste to be a kkondae. Still, it\'s because it\'s the top that has funds that can\'t be ignored. The amount of money invested is also significant.”
GM, which has already supported tens of billions of dollars at the group level. The principal has already been repaid a long time ago, but even after that, it generated sales and profits that could never be ignored.
Of course, the gaze was not good because it caused tangible and intangible damage to the entire group that easily exceeded the benefit.
“Because it belongs to the game system, I couldn\'t take away the operating rights of the guild without my consent, so I couldn\'t do this or that, so I left it alone. If it was a real company, they would have already taken it away.”
Chairman Choi Chun-shik always sings about creating new businesses for the company and strives to find future food. That\'s why he couldn\'t bear to force Jegyu out of the group. Maybe because I was expecting that the GM group might play a role as a cash cow for the GM group.
“So this time, no matter what happens, we have to save the GM company. Even if it\'s the top of that goddamn pie or the nub. If the GM company collapses, I will lose my usefulness in this company completely.”
If it wasn\'t for GM\'s company, Jegyu would have nothing to say even if he was penniless and kicked out of his house. He asked with lively eyes as he understood better than anyone else the company and the situation he was in from Chairman Choi Chun-shik.
“So, you too are determined to live or die in this matter. The moment I end, you too will have nowhere to set foot in this company.”
“... I will do my best to help.”
He knew Jegyu, who had been working as an attendant\'s secretary since he was in middle school. Since he was almost thrown out because of the eldest son and second son of Chairman Choi Chun-shik, who had already dominated the office of the company, the only place he could lean on was the youngest son of this group, who was a child of depravity.
“Then... let’s do it properly.”
After putting the bandage on his forehead, Jegyu muttered coldly with eyes full of life as he stood up and warmed up.
“If you want a war, you have to do it.”
It started like that.
That is the counterattack of the top of GM.