The Count’s Youngest Son Is A Player - Chapter 173

Episode 173:

After Han Gil-ju of the Daesung Guild was punished, the player crime rate in the Free City of Mariachne dropped sharply.

If a typical Connect resident was expelled from the city, it was a very severe punishment as they met a miserable end at the hands of monsters or thieves and slave traders.

But the players were different.

Even if you get kicked out of the city, it doesn’t mean you can’t play games.

But once you were in prison, there was literally nothing you could do.

“I heard that the criminal arrest rate in the city is almost 100%, so I should buy it.”

“For now, I must remain quiet in the Free City.”

The players held their breath.

The power that mayors possessed was already widely known.

Grants immortality to designated personnel within the city so they can never die.

Suppresses the use of skills using mana other than those specified.

Sensing ability to detect the location of a specific crime and the criminal in real time.

As a result, if a player harmed a resident, the city guards would immediately come to see how they knew.

In the past, punishment was limited to light fines and hard labor, and at most severe punishment was deportation, but now it’s imprisonment.

It was natural for players to be cautious.

“You even support the expansion of the prison. Thank you very much, Viscount Raoul.”

“no. As a business partner, I have to do this of course. And isn’t maintaining security essential in a city with many visitors?”

“It really helped me a lot this time. If you need anything at any time in the future, please contact us.”

After saying hello, Raoul was about to leave when a thought suddenly occurred to him and he added some advice.

“Oh, and maybe I’ll get a call from the temple. “I would tell you not to punish foreigners excessively.”

“Okay. This is troublesome. “I thought I finally found a way.”

“Do not worry too much. They sentenced him to 5 years as an example, but in reality, just 1 month incarceration would be enough. “You just have to tell the temple that you will be sentenced to a maximum of six months.”

“Is that so? Honestly, I wonder if the period is too short… and I’m not sure if the temple will be convinced.”

“That’s enough. Just trust me. “I will also send a separate message to the temple.”

When Raoul said that, Mayor Eggendor seemed to sigh.

‘One month is enough.’

Anyone who has played the game knows this.

What does it mean to be a month behind others in a real-time competitive game like this?

And you can’t log in for half a year?

99.9% of players will quit the game. Even if I come back, I will already be far from being a ranker.

‘Well, really rich people don’t care, but it’s enough.’

If you use boosters such as the beginner package or growth package provided by Connect, it is not impossible to catch up on the time you have fallen behind.

However, Connect was not a game where levels and stats were everything.

The difference in practical experience and skill level was not something that could be resolved with money.

‘Otherwise, all guild masters would have been rankers in their past lives, but in reality, that wasn’t the case.’

In any case, even if the period is shortened, imprisonment will have a sufficient deterrent effect on crime.

And if you commit a crime on the main continent and not in a free city and get

caught… ‘There’s no need for me to do anything.’

There was no way the lords would remain silent.

In a free city, you wouldn’t be executed because you would be protected and not lose your life, but in the real territory, it wasn’t a big deal.

It probably won’t take long for many players to realize what medieval nobility is.

‘Then shall we go to our next destination?’

For nearly a month, he toured free cities in each country, signed agreements with mayors for new investments, and helped pave the way for large guilds.

Meanwhile, among the Purple Guild members, there were those who passed the graduation tower.

And the Purple Guild was the first to pass the party play and guild-only raid tests.

If it seemed like he would be taken over by another guild, Raoul would have considered participating himself, but fortunately, such an unfortunate incident did not happen.

‘I gathered only the top rankers and talented people from my previous life, so of course I should do that.’

There was no point in Raul investing so much money and time to support them if they couldn’t even complete the graduation tower on their own.

Starting with the Purple Guild, graduates began to appear among other players, and players finally began to spread out into the world one by one.

* * *

“The atmosphere is definitely different.”

Bernard, who had gone out with Raoul for the first time in a while, said as he adjusted his glasses.

“Yes? “There are many wizards who think that a magic tower must have a unique and original appearance.”

And Nakia was also looking back at the city she had returned to after a long time and explaining what she knew to the group with a deep emotion on her face.

This is a place where strangely shaped buildings are built irregularly yet strangely regularly.

This was the magic city [Christylen], the capital of the Kingdom of Leslie, also known as the Magic Kingdom.

Raoul was walking along the Magic Tower Street located inside the first outer castle with four companions, including Nakia Bernard Kane Pierce.

Unlike Turium, the capital of the Kingdom of Leuven, which had buildings as tall as four stories, this place had many high-rise buildings up to ten stories high.

“People often think of a very tall tower when it is called a magic tower, but it is actually a little different.”

Nakia pointed to the most striking 10-story building.

“At first glance, it may seem like the largest magic tower, but it is actually a mid- to low-level magic tower. “Really large magic towers tend to be built rather low.”

“Is there a reason for that? “This is how the magic tower stands out the most.”

When Bernard asked curiously, Nakia smiled and answered.

“In general, it’s easy to think that way. But when you learn about the origin and structure of the Magic Tower, your thoughts change.”

She turned slightly and pointed to a hexagonal building about five stories tall ahead.

“How many floors do you think that building has, Master?”

Raoul roughly knew the answer, but he answered appropriately to accommodate Nakia’s mood of wanting to explain something.

“Looking at the height of the building and the appearance of the windows, isn’t it just a five-story building?”

Then she smiled brightly and said.

“It’s natural to think so, but in reality, that building is over 20 stories tall. It is also said to have 30 floors, including the basement. The term ‘magic tower’ also refers to a place inside a tower-like building where the internal size is increased through various magic circles, such as space expansion magic, space compression magic, gravity magic, and strengthening magic.”

Her finger pointed back to the original building.

“So, that 10-story magic tower built to the maximum building limit may actually be a magic tower with poor skills.”

“okay. So it appears that all of the large Magic Tower branches were low in height.”

Kane was seen making notes in his notebook, saying he had obtained good information.

‘Certainly the people of the Kingdom of Ruben are far from magic.’

I could feel that even Kane, an excellent informant, had little knowledge about the Magic Tower.

And the reason Raoul visited this place with his companions was to make up for his lack of ‘magic’ power.

“Oh, I guess it’s over there.”

Where Nakia pointed, there was an ordinary-looking three-story building.

This one seemed rather unique as it was among the strangely shaped magic towers around it (upside-down vase, bowling pin, elongated star, beast’s head, etc.).

“Oh, it’s my first time visiting this place, so I’m really nervous.”

Nakia stopped and adjusted her clothes.

“Don’t be too nervous. “Because Gray isn’t here today either.”

Yes.

The place Raoul and his party visited was the Leslie Kingdom branch of the ‘Gray Magic Tower’ established by Great Sage Gray.

As it is a magic tower built by one of the three wise men of the continent, the magicians belonging to it are expected to have great skills and influence, but in reality, they are known to rarely engage in external activities.

Since they rarely receive outside requests or customers, it seemed natural that they would not pay attention to the building.

Although it was a somewhat closed magic tower, Raoul rang the bell without any hesitation.

‘Because I already told Gray.’

Although it’s been a long time since we actually met, I was often in contact with Gray through a magic communication port.

This is because it was Raoul who had the most frequent conflicts with the Imperial Intelligence Department and who was most concerned about the new strangers introduced into Connect.

Tiririk Cheolkeng.

As if the contact had already been made, the iron door was unlocked.

Kirilik.

As I pushed through the iron door, which sounded like it was rusty on its hinges, I saw the real entrance to the three-story building beyond the small-looking garden.

“That’s a bit unfriendly.”

Pierce spoke for the first time.

It seemed like the thought of walking through the garden alone with the group without any guidance or guards was something that bothered me.

It was natural for Hagi to feel that way, as he was accustomed to being greeted kindly from the entrance of the castle gate whenever he visited any territory in the Kingdom of Ruben.

“I think this is fortunate. “In the case of closed magic towers, there are many places that don’t even respond no matter how many times you ring the bell.”

Wizards who were engrossed in research tended to be reluctant to have customers visit them, and this trait was especially strong in the case of general magic towers other than business stores.

After many twists and turns, as they opened the wooden door of the building and entered, a person with a slightly displeased expression greeted them at the counter on the first floor.

A wizard in his fifties, wearing robes with holes here and there, had half of his beard burnt off and soot on his face, as if he had been conducting some kind of experiment just moments ago.

“Are they Viscount Raoul and his companions?”

“That’s right.”

“Wait a moment. Because the head wizard was away for a while. “If you feel bored, find something to eat on your own.”

After finishing what he had to say, the wizard seemed to be in such a hurry that he activated a teleportation spell on the spot and disappeared somewhere.

“Hmm, he’s quite a talented person. “It wouldn’t be a spell that would be successful that easily.”

He appeared to be at least a 5th circle wizard or higher.

From the looks of it, it seemed like he was a magician who had come down for a while because there was no separate person in charge of serving customers.

“Just relax and wait. “The wizard’s ‘wait’ can be a bit long.”

When Raoul said that and looked at Nakia, she shrugged her shoulders as if there was nothing wrong with what she said.

And just like Raoul said, the wizard who had gone out came back only after they had waited in the lobby on the first floor for an hour.

“this. “Have you been waiting long?”

The wizard who introduced himself as Elmer bowed his head slightly and apologized with a very sorry expression.

‘You don’t look like a wizard?’

To begin with, he was dressed in a suit rather than a robe, and his hair was neatly combed, making him look like an administrator or businessman rather than a wizard.

“Haha, is it weird that I don’t look like a wizard? “A lot of people are surprised like that.”

But in reality, he was the chief wizard of the Gray Magic Tower and a 6th circle master, and was an extremely talented person.

“Wow, it’s an embarrassing thing to tell the guests, but I’m the only person in the Magic Tower who is sociable or can greet guests in a normal way. Thanks to this, I am now able to take care of all these external matters.”

At the same time, he introduced himself again as the person in charge of Gray Magic Tower’s ‘Management Support Department’.

‘What on earth is the personality of the wizards belonging to the magic tower, so a 6th circle wizard…’

Usually, such trivial tasks were often handled by an apprentice wizard or, at best, a 4th circle level wizard, but a medium-sized magic tower’s magic tower master level talent served as the guest. In charge.

It looked distinctly different from the typical magic tower that Raoul had visited in his previous life.

“As you know, the tower owner doesn’t pay much attention to the tower’s affairs. I am having a hard time because the Magic Tower family has not increased except for the occasional talented person. “If you get the chance, wouldn’t it be possible for Viscount Raoul to speak kindly to the owner of the tower?”

At the same time, he complained that it was difficult to feed the hundreds of Magic Tower family members because only a few people, including himself, were concerned about the financial management and operation of the Magic Tower.

“If the real Viscount Raoul hadn’t provided me with mana stones and cores through the tower owner, I might have ended up on the street!”

For some reason, unlike the wizard before, he seemed very kind and friendly towards Raoul, and there was a different reason.

“I’m having a really hard time. “I will speak carefully to Mr. Gray.”

“Oh oh! Are you sure you want to do that? Thank you, I really appreciate it!”

Raoul was embarrassed as the wizard, who was over 50 years old, repeatedly bowed his head and had tears in his eyes.

‘I don’t think this person is normal either.’

I didn’t know if I was really going to start crying, so I quickly changed the subject.

“Did you find out what I asked for?”

Only then did Wizard Elmer come to his senses, clap his palms and say.

“I’m still on my way back from going out for that matter. Here.”

He gestured in the air, and a thick stack of documents appeared.

The title written at the top is ‘List of magic towers in danger of bankruptcy.’

Raoul’s eyes flashed as he looked at the documents.

(Continued in the next part)