When I was guided to the village chief's house, I was surprised that it was a beautiful medium-sized house.
The floor, table, chairs and backrest, and furniture are made of wood.
I think I have made a fool of myself with the level of civilization of this town. You seem to miscalculate because you were prepared for a low-end home.
Although it can be said that the living environment in this world differs for each country, I think it is safe to say that they have a difficult life like the Middle Ages on earth.
The quality of life is also known because almost half of the population is under 15 years of age.
It seems that the average life expectancy was 30 years maximum.
Since the population was gradually increasing in all countries, a lucky couple who survived to age 30 can give birth to 4 to 5 children in their lifetime and about half of them survive. It is presumed that people who are not noble and wealthy merchants had such a life.
So even though there are only relatively young villagers, the average life expectancy will be high if there are many adults who can be said to be middle-aged in small rural villages in rural areas.
No, it could be an influence of magic. Due to magic, the average life expectancy has increased and many adults with a competent job remain, and the food circumstances and standard of living may be contrary to the level of civilization.
"Excuse me, are you all adventurers? If so, can you tell your rank? I would like to pay the same amount as an emergency request based on your rank as a thank you ... "
Adventurers are individuals affiliated with the Adventurer's Guild, regardless of race or ethnicity, who perform missions offered by the Guild, which range from monster subjugation, escort, investigation or others, which they complete in exchange for a monetary reward, although There is a minimum sum that must be offered on a mission as stipulated in the association's rules and regulations to ensure adventurers receive fair compensation.
The Adventurer's Guild is an organization that runs the adventurer business. The guild's job is to collect missions commissioned by third parties and post them for adventurers to take. They are also in charge of delivering rewards for completed missions as well as evaluating adventurers to rise through the ranks. The guild has the power to deny an adventurer a mission if it is deemed unfit for the job.
The town mayor seemed to be apologetic. He can be wary of being demanded by us a large amount of money.
Normally, suddenly you are not going to talk about money. I want to preach on negotiations and business conversations as a sales agent.
However, an adventurer? Due to the existence of magic, individual power is likely to excel. You are likely to be suddenly attacked by bandits tens of times more if you are living in the Middle Ages compared to modern times.
In a world without firearms, that group can only be managed by dozens of people, if not, it is impossible. I opened my mouth as I felt a difference from the history of the land in order to answer the question of the village chief.
"Ah, we are not adventurers. We come from considerably far away. Since the reward is unnecessary, can you give us information in return? "
When I said it, the village chief twinkled his eyes with a troubled and difficult look, but he seemed relieved.
"Information? To be honest, there are not much goods and money in this town, so I am very grateful, but I am not sure if we can give you good information because we are farmers ... "
"You do not have to worry. You just need to say what you know. "
I started gathering information from this world when I told the village chief who lowered his head to apologize.
"Hm, that's it."
When I murmured, the village chief looked at me with a face that suggested fatigue.
"Ah, are you satisfied?"
Has it been two hours since then? I heard everything that is considered normal information and common sense from the village chief.
Name of the country, population, territory. Royalty, nobility, common people. Unit of money, number of days per year, unit of time.
Why are you asking such a thing? The village chief spent most of his time with that face.
What I understand is that this town of Cusosa is now at the western end of the Kingdom of Auvai. And, they are also at the western end of the country that borders them, the Hanandor Empire. There are no other neighboring countries.
In other words, although it was not clear as to the other side of the sea, for the chief of the village of Cusosa, this place is the most distant in the world.
Therefore, although it is not said directly, it seems that the people of other villages and towns call them the most distant town.
As for the Kingdom of Auvai, the population is unknown. He also does not know the details about the royal family. I don't exactly understand the territory, but it seems like it's called the greatest power in the world.
What they detail most is that this is the territory of the marquess. After that, it's things
basic that even a child knows.
A year is 360 days. A month is thirty days. The time of day is basically the position of the sun. Only the nobles and the rich have watches. The unit of currency is called a dinar.
A coin called a copper coin is 1 dinar.
A bronze coin is 10 dinars.
A silver coin is 100 dinars.
A large silver coin is 1,000 dinars.
A gold coin is ten 10,000 dinars.
A large gold coin is 100,000 dinars
A white gold coin is 100,000 million dinars.
From what I've heard, 1 dinar is about 25 cents.
The adventurer is ranked from the bottom is E to A. It appears that the reward for a group of A-rank adventurers is roughly 1 large gold coin. In other words, it means that several people have to divide the reward of around $ 25,000.
Also, although it is an exception, it seems that there are also S-rank adventurers. They are the ones who obtain an extremely excellent achievement and have a battle capacity that can equal a thousand. It seems the village chief never saw one so he is skeptical to say so.
It's about the civilization of this world later. It seems that the civilization of the capital does not exceed the cultural level of the European Middle Ages. Due to the existence of magic, there is no gunpowder and, of course, cars.
Unlike the Middle Ages on Earth, the living environment of this world has a higher standard. However, it seems that the death rate is not that different. The difference with the earth is that children die a lot regardless of their age.
The reason is simple. The existence of monsters. It seems there are monsters here.
Monsters don't seem to hit the road except the big shots. There is little danger if
traveling on a busy road.
However, there seem to be some cases where some monsters get lost and invade roads and towns.
As for food, clothing, and shelter, clothing is generally worn and people using the road wear light iron and leather armor. The shoes are made mainly of leather. The food is surprisingly substantial, breads and noodles are the staple food, but for some countries, it's beans, potatoes, or rice.
The shed is a house made of cheap timbers that has two or three rooms. He
plaster is painted on the wall and the windows are the shutter type that is not made
of glass. The house of the village chief is also like that.
When it comes to a good house, it is one made of dry brick or a stone house.
Improved durability and safety. Nobles, family houses, they build stone houses, including the houses of their employees and knights on duty. Employees and knights' houses surround the main building. Only the main building in which the nobles live is luxurious, as it is made of special bricks with different colors.
Basically only the nobles and the royal family have glass windows. In general, things that use glass like the mirror are not distributed in the market.
Paper is the main parchment and there seems to be paper made from wood fibers in the capital.
I was very happy to hear helpful information and nodded superficially.
The village chief who was poked out with a tired face opened his mouth with a fearful atmosphere.
"So is there something else?"
Hearing the words of the village chief, I looked at the faces of the members lined up at the back to check for missing information.
At that moment, the sound of a hastily opened door echoed through the room.
"Please help!"
The magician appeared.
The girl who came to call me is crying her eyes out. We headed to the girl's house as she requested.
She was convinced of the seriousness of the girl's situation, as the villagers and the village chief know about the girl's circumstances when they gather in the vicinity.
The girl's house only has two rooms, the bed is full of cloth covered straws.
While being supported by the girl's father in bed, the girl's mother is spitting out a large amount of blood from her mouth and trying to relax her body.
She looks bloody and her eyelids closed. I unintentionally thought that she had died.
"Mother, mother! Me, because of me! "
The girl hugs her mother's hand against her chest and yells at me.
Seeing the overflowing tears and trembling lips of the girl do not stop, I quietly walked towards the mother of the girl and pointed the palm of my right hand up.
"Someone bring a doctor."
One of my soldiers leaves the house and minutes later another soldier arrives with a red cross on his left arm.
He approaches the mother of the magician and takes a syringe from his briefcase.
"He's going to inject this into you."
When I said that, the magician stood aside so I can inject the medicine. Opposite was the father of the girl who is carried away in amazement.
As the doctor removed the cap from the needle to inject the medicine into the magician's mother, Erika comes diagonally behind me.
"Everything is alright?"
Erika asks about the medicine.
"How many were left?"
"Each of us has one and the two guild warehouses have 400 each, roughly 2000."
"And the materials for production?"
"I'm sorry ... I'm unable to fully understand it."
I heard Erika's response as the doctor injected the medicine into the magician's mother. Then she removes the needle from the magician's mother's arm. I looked at the rest of the members at the door of the room.
"Well, wasn't there a scientist at the base? It's okay. No problem."
When I looked at Erika and said that, she bowed once and came back.
"Excuse me ... Will this be able to save my mother ...?"
When I looked back, the girl looked at me while holding her mother's hand.
"If this medicine cannot help you, I am sorry but I have no other means. She seems to be asleep, keep her warm and take care of her. "
When I said it, the girl wiped her tears with her hand and shook her head vertically.
"Yes thanks."
"Do not worry about it."
I raised a hand and replied to the girl thanking her. We left the girl's house.
There were many villagers outside looking at this anxiously.
However, I am sure that no one will be able to say "Maybe everything will be fine." We moved silently to the entrance of the village.
My soldiers were still burying the mercenaries' bodies, but I turned to the village chief who followed us, not caring about anything in particular.
"Then let's get back to base for now. Also, we could come back here after a few days. "
"Are you going home now?"
The village chief raised his voice without hiding his surprise at my comment. It seems like he assumed we were traveling, so he thought we were going to spend the night.
However, for me, we were not in a situation where we can relax outside. We do not yet have information about the surrounding area. Anyway, the town is a short walk from the base.
"Ah, I have some business to do."
When I said so, the village chief nodded regretfully.
"Is that so ...? I don't intend to stop you. However, it is a pity that you killed the group of mercenaries, you could have sold them as slaves. As criminal slaves you will get a good amount of money. Excuse me, could you tell me your name? Is your base a nearby village? Or maybe it's in the Hanandor Empire ... "
The village chief checked our clothes while asking such a thing.
It seems that violators of the law can be sold as criminal slaves. A healthy man who can fight is in demand and seems to be selling for five pieces of gold. By the way, a debt slave has a regular price and a criminal slave has half the price and it seems like there is no problem treating them quite badly.
It gave me some anger to know that such a system existed. But it was understandable, they had not yet reached the industrial age, so slave labor was cheap and profitable.
I also wanted to criticize the village chief, but I am not yet in a position to judge him due to my limited knowledge of this world.
My name is Saihtam. Our base is a bit far and isolated. So I don't need money, if you want you can sell the weapons of the mercenaries. "
I said Saihtam, my username.
"So much, take at least the money ..."
The village chief is completely grateful, but embarrassed that he can't return the favor.
It may seem strange if I am too disinterested. Somehow, I decided to reconsider my request.
"Let's see ... Then give me a land in this town or in an adjacent land. There is something
I want to do a while. Ah, you won't disturb the village so rejoice. "
"The earth is? That, of course, is not a problem ... I feel like it is not a great reward ... "
The village chief approved it while bowing his neck to my demand. I heard the response from the village chief, and I think it was a very significant cultural exchange.
"Well then, we'll all go home."
I turned to everyone and we entered the convoy vehicles.
The villagers were excited to see the metal vehicles move without the need for horses.
"See you soon."
I told the village chief from the kübelwagen.
While riding in the kübelwagen, Erwin Rommel spoke to me.
"This time, I was not very useful as a bodyguard at all."
As Rommel came with a grim face, I stepped forward to walk away and look at everyone.
"Erwin, and everyone too, were forced to act as a group in an emergency. I think it was good not to have done anything. "
When I said that, everyone nodded their heads a bit dissatisfied. However, only Erika was nodding with a smile.
After a while, the guild's base, Berlin came into view.
As we walked through the city after passing the guard post, I looked at the chancery. The flak towers and concrete walls, and on the asphalt pavement leading to the chancellery, there were various teams guarding and they turned their faces there when they noticed.
"Welcome, main Führer"
When I come down in front of the Berghof's door, a white-haired man draped in elegant butler-style clothing walks over there and does the fascist salute.
Butler Heinz Linge, the Berghoff's chief of staff who has the ability to be the core of our guild.
"Your bath has been prepared. Would you like to have dinner after the bath? The content of the
Supper is an animal that looks like a wild boar that was caught nearby. "
"Oh, I understand. Thank you."