Chapter 52: The Trade Route to Mejepoltan
The scrolls of papers were piling up, and Elusa, a knight who would not be afraid in the face of all kinds of powerful enemies, was a little frightened.
A truly brave knight dares to face the bleakness of life.
So she sat back in her seat, picked up the Eru cat who was biting the scroll and took it as a playmate, and put it back on the ground.
Elusa unfolds the first scroll.
Just after two glances, Elusa knew that this one belonged to the merchant consortium of Kantas. Because it's all too familiar. No matter how much he changed his style and how ornate the rhetoric he used, he couldn't hide the smell of copper on his body.
They hoped that Elusa, the head of the Knights, would lead her Knights to open up the trade routes that had been cut off for years by the occupation of monsters.
This will allow them to trade with the large coastal city of Mejepoltan.
Commerce, which means the exchange of money, means the circulation of goods, and means that the commercial associations that have almost no hands in the city of Kantas can make a lot of money.
It's the businessmen who make a lot of money.
If they do what they propose, they will be able to die in the battle against the monsters blocking the trade routes.
Elusa dared to bet on a hair from little Elu's head.
That's right, little Elu is the name of the Elu cat that Elusa adopted. The taste of the name is really... It's like adopting a human orphan and naming him a villain. Although the other knights of the Knights had all kinds of complaints in their hearts, they couldn't resist the explosion of the combat power of the little Elusa's master, plus the Knights. What's more, Elusa thinks it sounds good, and little Elu meows happily when she hears her name.
It's good for you to be happy. The knights thought to themselves.
Ahem! At a distance, we look back at the head of the Knights.
Elusa looked at the name Mejepoltan on the scroll, and her thoughts wandered a little.
Back in the day, when the trade routes between Mejepoltan and Kantas were unimpeded, commerce was extremely developed, the exchange of goods, the exchange of hunters and hunters, and the issuance of royal decrees, everything was so convenient.
But that was not until the royal family took the finances away from the hunters and placed them on the army. This bustling trade route is slowly being overrun by powerful monsters.
Until now.
It's unbelievable how depressed Cantas City has become. The former Kantas was able to shroud in the economic radiation of the megacity of Mejepoltan, how prosperous it was, and lost the economic radiation of Mejepoltan...
Knight Meloz walked to the door of Captain Elusa's office with a large bundle of copywriting scrolls in her hand. He struggled to push the door open with one free hand.
But the mischievous scrollers are really unwilling to be restrained by Meloz, and once they feel the lack of control, they roll to escape the control.
Meloz hurriedly retracted her top to avoid the catastrophe of the scrolls scattered all over the place.
But how do you open the door? He thought about it for a moment, then decided to push the door open with his foot. Although it is a bit blasphemous to do so. But if Elusa knew about his predicament, then she wouldn't care.
Meloz thought.
As soon as she thought of it, Meloz stood on tiptoe and gently pushed her head towards the door.
Slowly pushed away, without the squeak that it should have been in disrepair, this is a newly built camp after all.
Elusa sat quietly at her desk, under the flickering light of the oil lamp from time to time, the way she worked hard was admirable, her beautiful face, her unique bookish atmosphere, and the painful memory of a fifty-dozen on the training ground—Meloz couldn't help but slow down her steps, so as not to break this beautiful scene that could fit into the scroll.
Tiptoe the first step.... It's nice not to bother Captain Elusa!
Meloz was happy to motivate herself.
Creeping on the second step.... Captain Elusa still hasn't found out!
He was secretly proud.
And then there's the tiptoeing third step....
"Meow!" In the view obscured by the scroll, there was a milky roar of Elu's cat.
As soon as she heard this voice, Meloz knew that something was going to happen, but the large number of scrolls in her arms greatly reduced Meloz's reaction space. Before he could close his feet, there was a tingling pain in his feet.
Although little Ailu bit him mercilessly, but fortunately, little Ailu is not very old, her teeth have just grown, and the knights have trained day and night to have extremely tough skin... Thus Meloz only felt the slightest pain, and then it was gone.
Meloz pretended nothing had happened, clutching the scroll and dragging her bitten foot towards her desk.
Meloz gently placed the scroll on Elusa's desk, and despite Meloz's best efforts, the movement woke Elusa from her musings.
"Hello Knight Meloz." Elusa took the initiative to say hello.
"Hello Captain Elusa." Meloz didn't dare to look at Elusa, he was afraid that Elusa would find something strange.
However, Elusa is worthy of being a figure at the level of the head of the regiment, even if she only listens to the voice, she can distinguish a trace of unusual aura. She glanced at Meloz, then looked down at the merchant conglomerate's scroll.
Her unconscious action bought her a second to think, and after a second, Elusa finally figured out the front and back joints.
She stood up, walked around the desk, and walked to Meloz's side. Squat down at the same time.
As expected, little Eru nibbled on the exposed skin on Meloz's feet. But fortunately, there was no blood oozing. So she grabbed little Elu's torso and pulled it back, but little Elu didn't succumb to Elusa's strength, Meloz's face turned pale, and he only felt that little Elu bit harder.
Elusa didn't dare to push too hard, and she was afraid of hurting little Elu. So the head of the Order changed his strategy: "Little Elu. Loosen your mouth! ”
When little Elu heard Elusa's voice, her closed ears fluttered, and then she let go of her mouth very easily and happily, and rushed into Elusa's warm embrace. Elusa didn't care about little Elu's coquettishness, and she carefully observed Meloz's wounds.
Well. The four red dots are neatly arranged in a small trapezoidal shape. It just corresponds to Xiao Ailu's four little tiger teeth.
Seeing that Xiao Ailu didn't cause any major disasters, her tense face also had a hint of comfort.
Elusa stood up and walked back to her desk, pulling out a bottle of healing potion from one of the drawers.
"Meloz, it looks like you need this."
It was rare for the head of the regiment to care about others, and Meloz blushed and hurriedly leaned over to take the recovery medicine. It's just that one action after another almost cost Meloz's own life.
A certain Elusa cat held in Elusa's arms writhed restlessly, trying to find a comfortable focus in the two soft peaks on Elusa's chest.
Meloz cleverly covered her nose to prevent a certain stream of heat from surging.
"Thank you, Captain." Meloz looked away with difficulty, took the recovery pill and said.
Puzzled by Meloz's strange behavior, Elusa decided not to ask any more.
"If nothing happens, then Knight Meloz, you can leave."
With a hasty order to evict the guest, Elusa sat back down at her desk, looking at the new pile of scrolls. Elusa, who is known for being a strong man, couldn't help but sigh. There's so much work out there that it's almost endless. But soon, Elusa came to her senses, and she picked up the first scroll that had been placed on it.
It was a gold-rimmed scroll. The gold-dyed gold edges are painted with a number of meaningful patterns. And the paper used to make the scrolls is even more incompatible with other scrolls. White, shiny and extremely resistant to folding.
There is no doubt that this is a scroll from the royal family.
Elusa carefully opened the scroll. It's just that when she opened the scroll, little Ailu in Elusa's arms also became interested in the beautiful scroll in front of her.
The text on the scroll was as full of useless flowery rhetoric as the one that asked for access to the Mejepoltan trade route, but the royal family was different, and every word on the scroll was something that Elusa had to take seriously.
The general content written on the scroll of the royal family is: The current term of office of the city director of Kantas is about to expire, and it is hoped that the knights can fulfill their duties as members of the royal family and urge the change of the city lord of Kantas City.
It does not say who will replace it or how it will be replaced. Just talking about having to be replaced.
Elusa thought a lot, it was clear that Kantas City was located in a not remote location in the Hured Empire, and in the past, when the trade routes of Mejepoltan were unblocked, the appointment of the royal family could be directly issued and someone was appointed to become the lord of the city. After the trade route was cut off, the influence of the royal family was greatly reduced, not only to deal with the freely elected city lords of extremely remote cities, but also to encounter the bad scene of the knights appointed by the royal family being excluded from the city by local hunters.
Because of the rise and fall of a trade route, a frontier city in the hinterland of the empire was created.
Elusa remembered the scroll of the merchant union, but quickly dismissed her thoughts.
Even if she is loyal to the royal family, opening up the trade route is something that cannot be done by loyalty.
When her thoughts turned, little Elu, who was hiding in Elusa's arms, finally couldn't help but be curious about the glittering golden thing in front of her. It leaped towards the royal scroll.
Elusa, who was still in her thoughts, was like a divine help, and slapped the little Ailu in mid-air to the ground.
With just such a slap, Elusa only felt scared for a while. If it bites through the royal scroll.....
Love is deep, hate is deep. Overly anxious, Elusa grabbed the little Eluk who had fallen to the ground, pressed it on her thigh, and then jerked it on the ass.
It's just that Elusa, as its owner, feels all kinds of fears, even more painful than little Elu who was beaten.
"Meow!" Little Elu's screams gradually subsided.
Elusa, who was only concerned about letting little Elu remember this lesson, suddenly paused. She grabbed little Eru's foreleg and placed it in front of her, allowing herself to come face to face with it.
Little Ailu's big eyes were filled with tears because of the pain, and Elusa's heart hurt far more than Little Ailu's physical pain was 10,000 times, but she still had to tense her face.
"You can't bite things in the future, you know!" Elusa yelled at little Elusa.
"Meow~" Xiao Ailu nodded, indicating that she really knew. It's just that when I nodded, the tears that were full of tears finally couldn't bear the weight. Two trickles ran across Little Elu's cheeks.
These two lines of tears finally broke Elusa's heart that had forcibly built a defense.
"Little Ailu doesn't hurt a lot." Elusa gently rubbed little Ellu's fleshy ass.
"Meow Meow~" Little Ailu wiped Elusa's tears with a pink meat pad.