Arthur didn't know that by rejecting the other parties' friend request he prevented a disaster.
As in these moments.
In the Dukedom of lane under the United Kingdom of Gondor.
"Boss, here is the bones of the mutated demonic wolf."
"The other party was cautious and didn't agree to my friend request."
The man speaking was a short human lord, but his more prestigious title was the deputy leader of the Gondor branch of the Artisan Alliance, Eugene Williams
The Boss mentioned was a tall muscular man with a tanned complexion known as Muhammed, the leader of the Gondor branch of the Artisan Alliance and the man with the best forging heroes in the United Kingdom.
"oh~"
Hearing Eugenes complaints Muhammed showed a look of depression.
"This guy is hard to get close to."
"If you try to force him into giving you something blocked and if you ask him nicely for his friendship you just get rejected."
"Dammit!!"
"The mutated source crystal is too important."
"If I can get it, with my talent I may be able to summon a have a mutated forging master!!!"
"By then I might be able to enter the main alliance!!!"
Pausing slowly at this point chewing over his next instructions.
"Can you find his specific location?"
But all he received was a shake of the head.
"Not for the time being!"
"Astrologers can only determine the approximate direction."
"At present, we have narrowed it down to the North, but we don't know the exact location!"
Muhammed frowned when he heard this.
"The North!"
"That area is no smaller than the Dukedoms of Gondor."
"Without the specific location, it impossible to find in the current situation."
Eugene soon added.
"It's not only close to the blood wasteland, but also the grassland of the orcs and the half-elf wilderness."
"There are even vast mountains in the northwest, that is said to house dragons."
"it's the most dangerous area in the entire United Kingdom of Gondor."
"It's also one of the regions with the richest resources per capita."
"Because there are very few lords in the North."
"New lords will usually choose to move their cities after their novice period is over."
"The ones who do not move their cities are doomed to drown in the annual monster tide."
"At the same time the lords who survive in the North have a rule that there can't be two lords adjacent to each other."
"If that were to happen then they will declare war on each other until one of the territories fall."
Muhammed heard these words and went into thought.
He was in the Dukedom of Lane in the southwest of Gondor.
Asking with uncertainty he finally spoke.
"This lord who we offended he wont pass through the half the kingdom to attack us right?"
Eugene looking at his boss was in disbelief
Where did the spirit of not sparing any cost go from when he heard of the mutated source crystal?
Eugene sighed as he couldn't speak out about this Muhammed was a master known for his forging heroes true, but he was still a genuine powerhouse who could kill him with just a few tricks.
This was the law of the battlefield of ten thousand worlds.
The strong survive!
He could only complain in his heart but spoke once again.
"Alliance leader."
"It's not like you can't offend him."
"Although the North has the most resources per capita, they are all low-level resource points."
"There are far fewer high level resource points that in Gondor."
"That's why there is such competition between lords in the north."
"All of it stems from the uneven distribution of resources."
"The north cant support too many high-level lords."
"So, we can deal with that asshole like this."
"We pay some money for other lords to explore the north to find the other parties city."
"After finding it we publish the coordinates."
"Naturally there will be many high-level lords in the north who will go deal with a big competitor."
When Muhammed heard this his eyes lit up.
"This method works!"
"Not only will we not expose ourselves."
"We don't even need to send manpower to deal with it only a small number of resources are needed to deal with this lord."
He was almost drooling when he heard this plan thinking of how he will make Arthur regret not selling the mutated source crystal to me.
Muhammed was fuelled by hatred and envy.
This was his chance to be promoted to the main alliance.
Once in the main alliance, he would receive the best resources and training.
His future was looking like a smooth and bright road.
But he watched as it slipped out of his grasp.
It can be said that in business cutting off someone's wealth is like killing a loved one.
But in the battlefield of ten thousand worlds this was no longer about his wealth.
This was about his life and future.
Thinking of this Muhammed slammed his table and stood up.
"Good, very good let's do what you said!"
With that exclamation Eugene showed a barely perceptible smile.
Of course he didn't make the proposal out of loyalty.
He had to have his own reasons and desires.
But those were soon shattered by Muhammads next words.
"This will all be your responsibility and left to you."
Eugene opened his mouth to say something.
But then he saw his bossed sarcastic glare he knew he had no choice but to receive the order.
The branch managers are like vassals of the main alliance.
Did he really think he could pull a fast one on someone who had been in his position before he even became a lord?
Thinking of this Eugene laughed in self-deprecation.
He could only bite the bullet and look for his prey.
He knew Arthur Pendrays name through the lord's mark, so he decided to start there by publishing a bounty order in the mercenary hall.
This is a special building.
Its use was to put bounties on objects or people, for the right price of course.
It didn't take long for people to discover the task.
However, when they realised that this bounty took place in the North, they chose to avoid it all together.
However, there were always people willing to take the risk.
Some people who had a certain vendetta against the wanted man in the north.
"Hey, boss, this guy named Arthur why does it sound so familiar?"
Oliver asked in uncertainty
"Did you forget so quickly kid?"
"That guy who slapped you up was called Arthur Pendray."
Scarface looked at his underling as if the slap caused more damage than just shame.
"I know that, but this mission is for the north, but that kid was obviously a novice lord, it can't be him, can it?"
"Why do you even care so much?"
It was another member of the entourages time to speak up.
Oliver staring at two men on the sidelines tall and fat stood next to short but muscular.
once again speaking up.
"Third brother, didn't the higher ups just give you ten griffins?"
"Fourth brother, don't you also have ten wyverns?"
"These are all orange units."
Hearing Oliver's remarks both of them nodded not knowing where he was going.
"Recently the higher ups have also given us a mission."
"We were asked to go north to look for clues about the Plantagenet family's expansion of the territory."
Upon hearing this Scarface slapped his thigh in joy.
"that's right!"
"We can do both tasks together."
"While we are searching for the target we can scout for the family's territory."
"If it really is that novice lord, we have a chance to get that talent scroll."
"Even if it's not him as long as we complete the task, we will get 500,000 gold coins and 300 red quality source crystals."
After all wealth is naturally attractive.
Hearing their bosses' words they all felt it was just a free side quest.
"Let's get this lord!!!"
They shouted in anticipation.
The source of all this drama however was silently waiting for his main city to be upgraded oblivious to the spark that he caused.
[Ding!]
[You have completed monster nest clearing.]
[there are no monsters in the current land, so it can be demarked as your territory.]
[Ding, the territory has been demarked successfully.]
[the current territory is 100 acres.]
[Ding, please name the territory.]
Thinking of a name Arthur was drawing blanks, but then he remembered that his name in this life was far to similar to something else for him to just ignore.
"Camelot Territory!"
[Ding, the name is successful, now named Camelot territory.]
Sighing at the name he chose for himself knowing that if such a legend existed in this world, he would never want to go back to Blue Star from the shame.
Sighing he looked at his territory screen.