Chapter 55: The Dark Side of Gold

"What do you mean, my credit score is red?!"

"Your karma has gone to the faint shadow of chaotic evil as a result of 'chaotic acts,' 'disgraceful combat maneuvers,' and 'mercilessly killing your own kind,'" Mill frowned and read him a report. "Your new course doesn't inspire confidence either."

"It's ridiculous! They're earned by me from rescuing the dragons from predators!"

"The adventurers who lost their jobs indirectly caused your losses, and most of these dragons are dangerously destructive. Opposing a prodrome will reward you, but not enough to counteract the downward spiral. If you want to maintain the benefits of your existing insurance, we will have to increase your subscription rate. ”

Victor's head slammed into the table at his house. These thieves have already taken half of his SP at the end of each month!

"I'm sorry," Mir tried to comfort him. "I'm trying my best to defend you, but my superiors are putting a lot of pressure on me."

"They blame you for my score drop?"

Mill sighed, clearly annoyed as he was. "It's hard work, the rules are strict, and my superiors want to prevent too many unworthy people from running away from the karmic retribution they deserve. I wish the rules were relaxed a bit, but I didn't make them. ”

"Why don't you do it yourself?" Victor massaged his forehead and suggested. "Free enterprise and everything."

"Like one hell of a company?" Honey trembles. "That's not how heaven works, I'm definitely going to fall."

The more Victor hears as he fights the forces of evil, the more he feels that chaos is more for him than other options. "Heaven sounds like a big, slimy bureaucracy."

"It is." Mill sighed. "I wish I could spend more time relaxing instead of dealing with the red tape in the sky."

"Maybe I can help you relax. Maybe we can have a drink?"

"Dear client, are you teasing me?"

"I'm just saying that I'm a high-level, wealthy ......" when he said that the ground shook, probably due to another ma

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Rocket explosion. So far, the jelly tester has dodged two attacks. and available.

Charm Check......

Partially successful!

Finally! Venk was right, that rich line worked!

"It would be very unprofessional," Miel replied, even though she did sound like she was thinking about the job. "Besides, you already have a partner, don't you?"

"I haven't promised anything but on a second date," Victor noted.

"I must warn you that a harem can have a negative impact on your karma score, though not as severe as a monogamous relationship with Chocolate Chocolate who remains faithful. My prediction is that if you go there, your karma will drop dramatically. I cannot stress how much I disapprove of this approach. ”

"What punishment can I escape?"

"If you somehow convince Chocolati

e for the better and you will get what we call 'RedemFi.'

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us', which is very popular there. "I strongly advise, though, that you marry someone more positive, such as Miss Bekele."

"Well, I've drawn a line here, and I'm not going to let insurance dictate my love life," Victor replied. "I'm already risking my life."

The angel sighed. "For your proposal, if your karma turns to good, I will consider it. I didn't want to mess around with an evil mortal and jeopardize my career, and while my superiors were ambivalent about the chaos, they didn't care about that. Alas, you are drenched in sin......"

"Are you trying to make me feel guilty?"

"Heaven has patented this method," she replied with a kind smile. "No matter what, we will save your soul."

Yes, that's right. Victor felt that she needed to relax a little and temper the tirades that were holier than you, but he kept his mouth shut. At least she had good intentions, not stuffed her pockets like Malfi. "How's the sales going?"

"Great! She answered too quickly and laughed too hard to be true.

"Honey ......"

"I don't understand!" Her mask soon cracked. "In the Feather Friday sale, we reduced the price by 70% and as a result – our lambs flocked to our competitors!"

"Really?" Victor raised an eyebrow, but that didn't surprise him too much. "Maybe I should go to the bathroomβ€”"

"No thanks! She pleaded with him, and the sharp change in her attitude made him jump from his seat. "You're our star customer!" If you cancel, I'll be fired. I'll be homeless, I'll die alone in the snow!"

"We're in the desert, and it never snows," Victor noted.

Miel's eyes widened and she looked at him with tears in her eyes.

Another guilt-inducing attempt, but it worked. What he did for a pretty face. "Listen, I'm not committing to anything," the vizier said. "But I can look into it later. Maybe you just need to revise your marketing strategy. ”

Victor comforted the angel for five minutes until her face was dry, then sent her away to focus on other things.

A ghoul comes in her place. "Hello, Juris." The Chancellor greeted the necromancer, who had now become friends.

"Good morning, Victor." The necromancer replied before sitting down. "I hope you can recover from the last fight."

"Don't tell me." Overall, though, the adventure ended much better than expected. The survivors were kept in the castle's dungeons and interrogated, but there was little to say. Most of the items found in the adventurer's base, including the Black Crown, were confiscated and sealed in the basement. Although Fu

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The escape was a mess, but they got a lot of loot from this adventure, and even a new mount. "Actually, I'm looking forward to discussing the progress of the course with you. I like to solve problems in my own way, but I have a recurring charm problem. ”

"I don't think it's strange," the wizard replied. "'Monster Knight' and 'Grim Reaper' gave me the impression that both classes are well-rounded and don't have a particular focus. What other courses have you taken recently?"

"The Great Vizier."

"Oh, then you should be fine. Vizie

The variant of Noble has a strong growth in charisma. ”

Victor raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"You need a great deal of charisma to convince the rulers to keep hiring you, despite your obvious perfidy tendencies."

Be fair.

"I've heard that they have very useful allowances, but viziers are rare and very poorly studied. I'm sure they can hide most of their abilities and karma at some level, but other than that, users of this profession keep their cards on their chests. ”

Well? Hiding your karma?

Food for thought. "I also have levels in Chaos Knights, and I have levels in Assassin."

"Hmm...... [Chaos Knight] is a combat class with strong physical attributes but a lack of charisma. However, [Assassins] are usually combined with noble classes at some point, usually in rare combinations like [Caligula] or [Kingmaker]. But that's not guaranteed. ”

Not good enough for Victor. "Is there a class dedicated to diplomacy?"

"If you don't mind more negative karma, I advise you (politician)."

"Mine has lost money, and I still have dignity." Well, at least he now knows that the ruler has a reward for lying to the population. This explains a lot.

"Then summoning classes," said Juris, "most have S-rank charisma growth, and given your current trades with the Outer Planes, you should meet most of the requirements. But other than that, I'm just suggesting that you focus on upgrading your ministers. If there is one class that can get out of trouble by lying, it is this class. ”

"Yes, but do I have to betray Vaiker for this?" Because that's never going to happen. ”

"I don't think so. If you insist on managing government affairs and follow your nature, you will be fine. "Does he really have such a bad reputation?" But let me ask, what is your current overall level?"

"Forty-two, Wacker is one level worse than fifty."

"Hmm...... It's unfortunate because you've all reached the 40 level experience peak. I suspect that unless you practice a class a year like Rolo, or utilize some rare skills, you won't be able to get a higher rank. While you have the talent to put yourself in danger and come out alive, I don't expect to get a new level to solve your problems anytime soon. ”

"So what's left, will the equipment enhance my charm?"

"And spells and magic." Juris suggested. "What is your current level of witchcraft?"

"Three."

The ghoul was happy to hear the news. "Great. You should be able to learn skills that will be useful to yourself and His Majesty. I'd love to help you find the necromancer. ”

Maybe now it's Victo

and Vai

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It's time to explore the abilities they already have, rather than expecting to acquire new ones.

Charlene walked into the room without knocking. "We're in trouble!" Victor's secretary announced nervously, holding a pile of papers in his hands and his skin as white as snow. "A very, very big problem."

"We're under attack?" The minister frowned.

"Yes, yes, we are!" Charlene replied as she tossed the pile of papers. "Our economy is under attack!"

"What, is Gadmani going to close the border?"

"Oops! From my records, we have a high inflation rate. Due to the constant influx of gold, the price has risen very fast!"

Victor blinked. β€œVai

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Allowance? A very apt masterpiece?"

"Also, magic items, foreign investment, and dirty money keep flowing in!"

"The aristocratic class was severely restricted to avoid this from happening," Jules said.

"How high do we expect inflation to be this year?" Victor asked, and Charlene handed him a piece of paper. He started reading and then ...... And then......

Oh gods...... Seeing this terrible sight, he felt his heart beat a little.

Vitality check successful! (I

sta-death) negative!

"Your 'space program' has also left us running a deficit in our already modest public budget," Charlene continued. "If this continues, we will have to go to Ga

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Borrow money, call Shesha Church, or establish a new source of income. ”

"You mean taxes?" Victor guessed.

"Yes! There's so much money coming in from abroad, and we don't get any shares!"

This is something Van Kerr would never allow. How do you manage an economy when your leaders believe that taxes are evil and that the coins that go into the treasury never leave the treasury?

"This is a serious problem," Victor agreed. "Soaring inflation will destroy the value of our gold reserves and exports, and ultimately cause local wages to lag behind prices."

Charlene raised her eyebrows. "I studied economics," replied Vizier, although he never fully understood the lessons until his IQ began to rise. "All of this shows that we have a recipe for a civil war."

"Are you two too alarmed?" Jules asked. "Your minions are loyal to Venk, even if he doesn't pay them. Although Mu

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New residents are welcomed every day, but much of the infrastructure adores the land that His Majesty has walked on. ”

"You're underestimating the power of the dark side of the economy," Victor said. "Especially if we have a financial bubble and panic. We must regulate the flow of money in and out. Is the paperclip ready?"

"I repeat, this is a stupid idea," Charlene frowned, opposing the plan from day one. "Paper money will never catch on. This is a clip of gold. ”

"That's not the answer." His assistant sighed resignedly, confirming that they had printed enough. "Good. We will be launching this new exchange currency, Vai

queu

dollars, and on the same occasion Mu was created

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National. ”

By encouraging citizens to safely store their gold in Winkel's castle as a reserve, and using paper clips instead, Victor should be able to control the flow of money in and out.

"Where will our budget and the funding for this initiative come from?" Charlene noted. "We have an almost unlimited workforce, but there are very few resources that we can avoid importing."

"The V&V owns the mines, the undead workers and the land," Juris said. "Much of the latter is not being exploited. The Ministry of Finance can easily make money by moving the labor there. ”

Charlene replied, "Of course we can't develop the land, we're in the middle of the desert." "As far as I know, there is still a piece of land available for development because of a golem farmer who has been working day and night for centuries. We don't have enough casters like (astrologers) or (meteorologists) to help with this. ”

"Maybe I have a solution," Victor said. "Dragon's."

It's time to introduce Wink to a feng shui master, as Henry suggests, and see if it will work as advertised. However, if his friend is right and his dragon friend has reached an empirical platform, then this will be more difficult than expected......

"My friends, you don't see the real problem," Juris said. "In other words, who would tell the king that too much gold is bad?"

There was a tense and heavy silence between them.

"That's your mess." Charlene immediately shifted the blame to Victor. "Come on."

"I'm afraid you're the most qualified." Juris agreed, patting the minister on the back, tossing him aside, and leaving him to fend for himself.

Before he could protest, there was a knock on his door. Allison opened the door without waiting for authorization, looking worried. "Vic, can I speak to you?" Maybe an hour?"

Has his office become a revolving door?" We are in the midst of an urgent crisis!"

"It's about Winkel." The dryad said, and Victor immediately squinted at her. "Somehow he learned to mine for gold, and with Jock's help, he began to practice in Rollo's fields."

Of course, at any given time, this is only happening now. That's great. "Is he a monster again? Or are you summoning demons again?"

"No, he's actually planting gold. Plant coins in the ground. ”

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