"Come on, tell me if you guys found gold in the mountains!"
When confronted by other villagers, each member of the ranger team vigorously denied it.
But even if they won't talk about it, others can check it out for themselves.
By the time it got dark, there was no telling how many people had snuck out of their homes.
The darkness of the mountains made it hard to see visually, so they lit the lamps again.
On the mountainside, more than ten clusters of lights were slowly lit up, and those villagers' faces suddenly looked a little embarrassed, rather like they had the feeling of being discovered as thieves.
"You're patrolling the mountains too, huh?"
"Right, right, right, young people always do things that are not reassuring, it's better to come over and see for yourself."
"Haha, yeah, my nephew left his tools here during the day and came over to look for them."
The villagers snorted at each other and pretended to look around carelessly for a while.
There was an extra boulder in the large pit in the middle of the field, presumably what the rangers had called a sky fire, and a couple of the men went up with their coal lamps up to look at it before they spotted a glimmer of gold in the cracks of the rock.
Geez! It is gold!
Those three villagers' faces immediately turned red, their breathing became rapid, and they hurriedly snapped down with their fingers in a deadly manner.
It's two solid color very good gold beans!
Because of the unequal division of the spoils, the three wrestled on the spot and then drew the others in.
On the boulder, a stealthy Fina pressed down on the hand that was ready to try to flick the golden bean again.
"That will be enough; their greed has been aroused, and some may be left to nourish the envy, divided into classes, and rewarded in diminishing degrees so that they will soon be unable to stop."
Eleazar gave her an odd look and silently withdrew his hand.
The following days were very odd in the village.
Some people purchased home appliances, and others suddenly paid off their gambling debts and brought in kabuki from the city to have fun until dawn. The butcher, who returns in a few days, suddenly brings in a large amount of high-class ingredients, swan meat, prosciutto, venison, truffles, caviar... The tantalizing aroma of these high-end ingredients, which they normally wouldn't even dare to think about, filled the village.
More and more people are sneaking towards the mountains.
Once it was discovered that there was gold to be picked up in the mountains, no one wanted to work anymore.
A ring of barbed wire had been fenced around the mountainside at some point, but even that couldn't stop the crazed people.
The three-meter-high boulder had a dark circle of devout prayers gathered underneath it.
Eleazar, standing invisibly on the rock, sprinkled a handful of golden beans and silently watched the mad rush below.
"The next step in the program can begin."
These people who have gotten a taste of it probably can't go back to the days when they were strapped for cash.
And how will they feel when one day they realize that this unearned good is coming to an end?
Although he had spilled a lot of golden beans, he had only used a few gold bricks, so he could imagine how many others hadn't gotten their fulfillment.
The next two days passed and these villagers never acquired any more gold.
Annoyed people even plan to cut into the stone to see what's going on in the skin.
But it was just an ordinary rock with no secrets.
Until someone built a shelter for the stone and a gold brick fell from the sky and cracked the man's head.
The red-eyed villagers instantly went crazy!
They finally know what they have to do to get more gold.
Build a temple for the sacred stone!
Just build a magnificent temple and already you'll have access to an inexhaustible supply of gold for the rest of your life! Looking at the group of people underneath who had fallen into a frenzy in their psychic suggestion, Eleazar silently averted his eyes.
After half a month of hard work, it's finally time to get started.
In the days that followed, a steady stream of building materials flowed into the village from the outside world.
Finely carved stone steps spread from the foot of the mountain to the hillside, several hundred steps in all!
One must labor personally to receive a reward.
Those supervisors who stood behind them to direct the work, after realizing that they had not a single benefit to offer, hastily put on their caps and joined in the fiery work.
The whole village, men, women, and children, all those who could still move took to the field.
Amidst the golden beans that fall and spill out from time to time, the villagers resolutely split out into two groups that work around the clock, day and night.
Half a month later, Fioz, who had come over to visit him, smacked his lips.
The huge, muddy stone pillar was straightened hard by hundreds of men yelling at it through a derrick, while the furnace next to it was ablaze with fire, smelting metal.
"How much money did you spread around to make these people so mad?"
Eleazar kicked the box at his feet, "It's half used already."
Uncle Fioz crouched down, opened the lid of the box, and somewhat meatily took out a gold bar and kicked it into his pants pocket.
Fina picks up the dead leaves from Eleazar's head.
"You go and rest, we'll supervise the work for a few days."
Then the villagers realized that the gold from the bounty had become less in the past two days.
Then someone yelled, "Speed up the progress a little more! The Golden God is already disgruntled!!!"
Lured by the gold, they quickly abandoned their beliefs, the church, the god of harvest, and the mother of the earth, were all dead.
Although it was against the law to make private offerings to the gods, Kuroki Village had a long history of previous convictions and used to hold yearly sacrifice ceremonies when they were dedicated to the God of the Forest, so as long as they didn't say anything about it, who would know about it anyway.
...
Witcher, who had spent half a month in the mountains, living on nothing but wild fruits and alchemical potions, quickly took a shower upon returning to the store and went to a nearby tavern to serve a hearty hot meal back.
After treating herself, Eleazar breathed a sigh of relief.
A few days of meditation followed, to prepare well for the upcoming Legendary Ceremony.
Titan God Steel, Eternal Essence Gold, Rune Magic Iron, Source Quality Crystal, Unextinguishable Species...
Finally, the five copies of the mythological material that had only been passed down in the epic records were carefully removed from the storeroom.
Holding the ＜Inextinguishable Fire Seed＞, which can ignite a fire that engulfs the entire town if it leaks out just a trace of heat, Eleazar once again traveled to Kuroki Village.
After a week off, I wonder how the work is going over there.
After a long time, the wagon stopped shaking.
"I'm sorry guest, I can only drive you here, that village doesn't know what's going on, no outsiders are allowed in now."
It seems the villagers have no intention of sharing the gold.
Eleazar nodded and stepped off the wagon with the fodder box in his incredibly smooth hands.
When the driver drove off, he glanced faintly at the large mountain in the distance that bubbled with metallic reflections.
A staircase of green stone, spreading up from the foot of the mountain, is full of sanctity.
Passing through those busy people, Eleazar steps up the ladder.
When he came to the mountainside, a magnificent temple unfolded before his eyes.
Covering an area of a thousand pyeong, the square half of the pyramid stratum, four thick columns of gold, silver, copper, and iron held up a dome nearly 20 meters high, the metal-plated floors were spacious and bright, and the whole building shone with a golden glow in the afterglow of the setting sun that was reflected in.
In the center of the hall was enshrined a three-meter tall diamond-shaped boulder, which was currently glowing with an extraordinary halo in the light, and looked as if it truly possessed divinity.