We had arrived at the audience hall a while ago already. We were merely waiting for His Majesty to make his appearance afterwards, but during that time Armstrong-doushi kept wiping his streaming sweat with a handkerchief from his forehead.
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“We have put you through troubles. We heard it was various and serious troubles, was that so?” (Helmut)
“Yes, I expected us to die.” (Wendelin)
“Is that so… ?” (Helmut)
It can’t be helped even if I told a lie here.
I explained the outline of the desperate fight in the underground ruin when His Majesty made an appearance in the audience hall.
The summoning this time was judged to be necessary by the kingdom’s side since there are some discoveries.
Such things as the magic tool workshop, existing in the underground ruin, and the construction and repairing dock, exclusively for magic airships, should be purchased by the kingdom without a doubt.
Even if they entrusted it to me, I honestly won’t know how to deal with these things properly. That was also the reason for this decision.
To the last I am a skillful magician in relation to magic with a highly risen mana capacity. I didn’t have any talent in such special field such as magic tool construction.
Although I made something like a magic bag only usable by magicians once, it is already out of my reach to make a general-purpose item of expensive value even usable by ordinary people.
Because I obtained my knowledge from a few books and such, I guess it would be better to accept buying things with reasonable value.
Also, it is prohibited for anyone owning a magic airship with the exception of the kingdom’s government.
Or to be more precise, it is prohibited to own a magic airship above a certain fixed range of size.
Given that is even difficult to secure magic gems to move small vessels, it was limited to a very few nobles and merchants owning one.
And, as for small vessels, the highest available movement distance is around 300 kilometers.
Important nobles only used it for moving to people and places in the vicinity. It seems that there also exist cases of shared usage between several noble households in the neighborhood.
Because it isn’t suited for long-distance transport, they arrived at the conclusion that it would be better to travel the sea by boat excluding the inland areas that have no rivers.
Actually, even Margrave Breithilde and his-likes possessed a great number of regular-sized types of ships.
“I hear that none of the previously sent adventurers returned alive either.” (Helmut)
“Yes” (Wendelin)
All of the senpai adventurers, who had previously been sent to investigate, had been burned to nothing by the breath attack of the dragon golem.
The corpses were thoroughly burned down to the bones. We didn’t discover absolutely anything that could prove their social status from the remains which dropped to the ground.
Having discovered that actual scene, there was nothing but some metal equipment pieces and such that escaped being burned.