I can feel the air colder than the usual as we are transported at the uppermost portion of the Stargazer Tower. We do not need to find where the Lord's office since it is the only room located on this floor.
A room that was simple yet exquisite. Designed to be posh but a welcoming one. You can easily understand who the person resides here just by glancing over the things that are decorating this place.
"What do our dear Travellers want?"
"We would like to register for our Guild Territory."
The lord is a well-dressed old man that is obese for his stature although very neat in appearance. He is your typical looking political antagonist from many games that I played. The only lacking feature would be the disgusting smiles all of them have. Instead, Lord Inca has one of the friendliest smiles I have ever seen which makes him much more likeable compared if he does not have it.
"Our second Guild in the city to have a territory, that's amazing. Where would this place be."
"Estro Village"
An out of the ordinary pause came out of nowhere when I told him the location. There was clearly a problem base on his reaction. If I had not heard the story about Estro Village, I would probably find his reaction weird like Aria and Michelle at my side.
"Are you sure about that?"
Here is the confirmation part yet it felt nothing like that. Rather, it feels like he is asking us to not proceed with having Estro village as our Guild Territory. Based on his words, it seems like he has no power to reject our request since he would have done it if it were possible.
Despite all of that, I just nodded my head for my confirmation, and a window appeared after I went with the process.
[Land Title: Estro Village – 20,000g]
Without any hesitation, I handed him the total amount required to officially own Estro Village. The purpose of this Title is to have protection and remove any possibilities of stealing a territory unless both parties wagered war with the said territory on the line.
Not only that, without the Title, a guild cannot build any necessity building for a territory even if the system has already confirmed Estro as our territory. And the man who will be making sure everything is right is having second thoughts in front of us.
"Out of all places, you found Estro."
"You've got a problem with that old man?"
His constant attempt to dissuade us have ticked off Aria in a wrong way. I cannot blame her since the joy from owning a territory is being contradicted by this Lord. He was acting like we are making the wrong choice.
Although I know myself why he was doing and acting like this. I could have explained it a while ago if it was not for Aria being unconscious.
"Estro is a complicated place."
"But it's still possible to own it right?"
"…Yes"
[Constructable buildings]
Basic Resident House – 1,250g (Limit:40)
Trading Post – 15,000g (Limit: 1)
Basic General shop – 18,000g (Limit: 1)
Basic Blacksmith – 16,500g (Limit:1)
Guild Item Bank – 12,500g (Limit:1)
Guild Tavern – 20,000g (Limit: 1)
…
A list of constructible buildings and renovation process appeared in front of my eyes. There are a lot more buildings to have like Restaurant or Entertainment Hall, but Richest Asian told me to only purchase the important ones first.
Everything cost 152,000g to have all, including the Territory Title. My remaining budget is more than enough to purchase some other building, but I rather not decided without the consent of our guild leader.
[All construction will end in 71:59:51]
Thankfully, I am the only one who can see the list of prices or else Aria beside me will cry how much we are spending.
After confirming everything that was needed to be done, I asked Aria to message our guild leader to meet us at the city centre, the usual place. It was now time to go and check with him our newly acquired Territory.
Lord Inca then proceed to explain the dos and don'ts of having a Territory on the name of our guild. Everything was already written on the guild book guide, so I do not see the importance of remembering it. We let him finish before we formally bid our farewell.
"You guys can go ahead. I'll check some more things I can do to Estro Village."
"Okay, but don't be late. I'm itching to go outside."
I let Aria and Michelle go ahead without me because I am going back and ask Lord Inca more things concerning my quest. If someone has any clue regarding where the Devil is, it should be the most powerful person in the city.
The page Captain Emily gave may have described some characteristics about the devil, but there are no clues regarding where it is now if it is even near Twilight City in the first place. But one thing for certain is that it was investigated by him, base on the words of Captain Emily.
"Oh, Miss Traveller is back. You forgot something?"
Lord Inca was surprised that I went back to his office. However, after the initial shock, he let out a sigh like he knew what my purpose here was for.
"If you know something about that place, forget it. It's better if your Travellers just peacefully reside in it. We have cleared that place, so no need to worry."
I should be careful about dealing with this since he has a lot of power here in the city. I do not want to be prohibited in Twilight City because I said the wrong words. It would be difficult, but I need to try at least.
"Estro Village will still be a part of the Twilight City won't it?"
"Every place in this continent automatically becomes a part of Opidelhm's sovereignty and under their protection by the means of our city's capability. But worry not since the capital does not bother caring about small village or towns like this. They won't stop you on doing anything about your territory or take any profits from it-- Just make sure you don't use these to oppose the kingdom."
"But all help will be coming from Twilight City."
"Opidelhm is too far from this place, and they rather not use resources for small things like these. So every responsibility of all territories is given to the nearby cities-- For you. Travellers, we won't be cutting the trade routes or forcing our citizens to not live in that place. But I'll tell you, it would take a longer time to have willing residents to move to Estro."
Looks like even the commoners living in Twilight City knows what is up with Estro Village. They might have spread some rumours to avoid the topic. I can ask Luna about this later, but I doubt normal people like her knows the real truth about this place.
"I hope I have answered all of Traveller's worries."
There is nothing I gained that was a helpful hint to my quest yet. I really want to mention 'Devil' or 'Seraph' in this conversation, but I am afraid that if I overstay my welcome any longer, he will remember me. With no other choice, I bid my farewell once again.
This quest may be more difficult than I imagined. There is no clear road to identify where my target was. I guess this must be ETHER's way to tell us that we are still too weak to handle devils yet which I expect to show up later on.
I will set this aside for the meantime and focus on getting stronger first. Now I have two ongoing quests.
[The Curious Imperial Lord: Ongoing]
[Unwanted Intruder: Ongoing]
Seeing these incomplete quests on my interface is really annoying. New World is infamous for the lack of quests, especially beneficial ones, but I currently have two which I cannot see getting completed soon. However one thing is for certain, and it is that quests come easily as long as NPCs open up to you.
With that in mind, I left the Stargazer Tower.