24 – Lizardman

While I was sitting at the table eating, Euler asked me insinuatingly.

“Rail. Is the departure tomorrow?”

“We are going to leave tomorrow morning in a carriage.”

At my answer, Euler nodded lightly.

“I have something to present to the Neonbar family, so please come to my room after dinner.”

“Yes.”

As Euler said, tomorrow is the day to visit the Neonbar family’s mansion as promised with Alice.

As Finn and Zeria visited the mansion and dealt with Aron’s gang, a week had passed before I knew it.

“I ate well.”

After finishing my meal, I went straight to Euler’s room.

Knock. Knock.

“Come in.”

As I lightly knocked on the door, I heard Euler’s voice from inside.

When I opened the door, the first thing I noticed was the maid standing in front of the door.

The maid met my eyes and greeted me lightly.

“The maid will let you know where the present is for the Neonbar family.”

“Is that so?”

The maid will tell you where it is, but why did she ask her to come to the room herself?

I couldn’t figure out why Euler called me.

Until I saw him skillfully pulling a sack out of the safe.

Took.

A sack containing gold coins is placed in front of the table.

However, the amount was much larger than the amount he usually received as pocket money.

“Your amount is a bit higher than usual?”

It was so much that it was difficult to lift it with both hands before I developed muscle strength.

But Euler smiled slightly and opened his mouth.

“I heard a report that the Feinheart family Aron’s actions have been taken care of this time. And that money is the bounty of the wanted people at the party.”

“I see.”

Come to think of it, there were some people who covered their faces and enjoyed drugs at the party, but it seemed that there were wanted men with bounties among them.

Still, isn’t the amount unusually large for a bounty?

“When I heard the names, all of them had a bad reputation.”

After hearing what Euler said, they explained that they were wanted criminals known for crimes such as kidnapping, murder, and assault.

Since they caught them all at once, it made a little sense to give them such a large amount of bounty.

“By the way, I wonder how you subdued those heinous guys.”

Certainly, my body has become a lot sharper, and my magic proficiency has also increased a lot, but it is almost impossible to subdue them all at once.

No. While sparring with Zeria, I thought that if I had grown a little more now, I might be able to subdue them somehow.

“Zeria and I took care of Aron, but Aline handled everything else.”

“Did Aline subdue them alone?”

“Yes. After she subdued Aron, she took down all of them by herself.”

“Heh heh. When she first brought Aline, she didn’t understand what kind of beggar she was bringing, but now I think I know why.”

Euler gave a small admiration.

Euler had never personally seen Aline’s swordsmanship.

Even when I was almost assassinated for the first time, even when I met bandits, Aron always only heard the news, and she didn’t exactly know Aline’s skills.

“And one more person was helpful.”

“Who is that?”

“Raman, the leader of the escort, was responsible for safely transporting them, gold coins, and various medicines to the guild.”

“I see. I haven’t been paying attention to it lately, but I guess I’ll have to pay more attention this time.”

“Thank you. Father.”

I gave everything back to those who helped me with this.

Then now it’s my turn to find someone I personally need.

“Father. Does anyone in the mansion know how to mine ore?”

“You mean miners?”

“Yes. I am looking for someone to mine the ore for me.”

At your question, the father put his hand on his chin for a moment.

And he thought for a moment, then shook his head.

“I don’t know. Most of the people in the mansion are maids and bodyguards. I don’t think there are miners digging up ore.”

“Is that so?”

Unfortunately, if you don’t have one, you can hire a miner outside.

That was the moment I was about to leave the room with the sack of gold coins.

“I know a man who worked as a miner in the mansion.”

It was the maid standing next to me who opened her mouth.

She met my eyes once and then opened her mouth.

“Should I call him here right now?”

“If you do that, I will be grateful.”

She bowed to me briefly and immediately left the room. Shortly thereafter, she brought a man with a burly figure into her room.

The man who made eye contact with me bowed down and greeted me and Euler.

“I heard that you are looking for me, so I came here.”

And I was a bit taken aback by the unexpected person.

Raman Why are you here?

*

What appeared in front of me was a stout young man in his early twenties with charismatic blue eyes.

He was Rayman, who was recognized for his skills at a young age and took over as the commander of the guards.

“Have you ever mined ore, Rayman?”

“Yes. I have the experience of mining ore with adults around me to make money as a child.”

Raman wasn’t a very important character in the novel, so I only knew that his family was not in good shape when he was young.

But when he was young, he worked as a miner to earn money. He didn’t expect it at all.

“It must have been difficult to get to the guild this morning. Could you help me?”

“It’s okay.”

“Then change into comfortable clothes in an hour and come to the back mountain.”

“Yes. Young master.”

After Rayman left the room to change, I followed the maid to check the presents Euler had prepared.

And I opened my eyes wide to see so many ores filling the room.

“Are these all presents for the Neonbar family?”

“Yes. Seeing the ring you received, the owner seems to have quite liked it.”

Anyway, Euler seems to have liked the Neonbar family artifacts quite a bit.

Otherwise, there would be no way he would gift such a large amount of ore to a baron with a lower title than himself.

And Euler probably didn’t bring me here just to show me these ores.

I said to the maid standing in front of the ore.

“Step aside for a moment.”

“Yes.”

The maid opened a distance from the ore at my words.

Then, she raised her magical energy and used magic toward the ore.

‘I need to make it as light as possible.’

A blue magical energy rose above her hand, and the magical energy slowly began to dwell towards the ores.

Then he approached the ore and picked up an ore in front of him with his hand.

‘It’s light.’

The ore, which was difficult to lift with one hand, was as light as a plastic toy.

This way, the maids will be able to carry it more easily.

Euler also wanted me to lighten the ore with gravity magic.

“I made it as light as possible, so the maids will be able to carry it easily.”

“Thank you for your consideration for us. Rail boy.”

“Yes.”

After leaving the ore to be moved to the wagon, I returned to my room.

And it was almost certain that my clothes would get dirty as I went into the cave to mine the ore, so I changed into clothes that didn’t matter if they got dirty and were easy to move around.

After finishing the preparations, as promised, an hour later, I moved my feet to the back mountain, which I climb with Aline every day.

“Are you here? Young master.”

And Rayman, who arrived before me, greeted me.

Every time I looked only at the clothes worn by the bodyguards, but when I looked at the light plain clothes, he looked like a handsome young man of his age.

I lightly accepted Rayman’s greeting and immediately moved to the cave where the ore was hidden.

*

“There must be a cave in a place like this.”

Raman, who arrived at the cave, responded that he had no idea that there was a cave here.

‘It deserves it.’

In the first place, the mountain behind it was so steep that it would be difficult to climb unless it was Alyn and I.

Besides, this was the deepest cave in the back mountain, so it was hard to find unless you were determined to find it.

“By the way, why are you looking for a miner, Master?”

“Oh, didn’t I tell you that?”

Thinking about it, he only told me to bring someone who could dig ore, but he didn’t explain why.

“In this cave, there is a rare ore that my ancestors discovered a long time ago.”

“Is that so?”

“Uh. It is an ore that is as valuable as it is rare. If you explain such an ore to a miner outside, rumors will spread quickly. So, if possible, I found someone who could mine ore from within the mansion.”

Understanding what I was saying, Rayman nodded his head.

Then he carefully asks me as I step into the depths of the cave.

“I don’t doubt you, Bocchan, but is this the right way to go?”

Raymon seemed to be worried about me, who moved his feet without hesitation even after seeing the fork in the road.

If you ever get lost in this complicated cave, it’s probably because it will take quite a while to get back to the mansion.

But I said there was nothing to worry about as I knew the path that was already described in the novel.

As I was moving to the depths with Rayman, three forks appeared again.

“This time to the right.”

In fact, weak mana flows from where the ore is hidden.

And Allin, who is sensitive to mana, was able to find the path with the closest mana.

But in the novel, everything from the first fork to the last fork was explained, so I didn’t bother to bring Aline to the cave as I was useless memorizing the road.

After walking through the blind cave for a long time, the ore finally appeared.

But there was one guy who greeted us before the ore.

“That, that!”

A huge lizard in the cave that fills the cave with blue light.

Raman was a little taken aback by the unexpected monster, but he soon regained his composure and quickly took a stance.

The identity of the lizard is Lizardman.

It was a monster that lived in a cave to drive away humans who tried to steal ore.

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