How to get Healed at Demon Farm

After finishing our conversation with Terzan, we left the abandoned house together.

"Terzan, can you leave without any preparation?" I asked.

"Yes," she replied.

"If you need anything, just ask me."

Terzan didn't pack anything except for the box she received as a reward. I couldn't say anything because she said it was okay.

The party crossed the empty house under Luke's guidance, and the eyes of the slums gathered on us.

Some gave uneasy glances, but nobody confronted us, probably because they knew we dealt with the troublemakers earlier.

We quietly left the slum without any problem and headed straight to the Golden Clock Chamber. Ergin welcomed us again.

"You're back already! Was everything resolved?" Ergin asked.

"Thanks to Luke's good guidance, everything went well," I replied.

"That's a relief," Ergin said, glancing at Terzan. He seemed interested for a moment but quickly hid his expression as his body trembled. Perhaps his experienced merchant's intuition told him that she was a dangerous person.

"Thanks for your help, Luke. Here's the reward I promised earlier," Andras said, giving Luke the gold coin he had promised.

With this, Luke has two gold coins in total! It was a price that was hard to touch for a boy who grew up in a slum. Luke looked at the gold coin in his palm and twinkled his eyes as if he had decided something. The boy quickly ran to Ergin and held out his hands.

"Mr. Ergin, please take this," Luke said.

"You don't have to give it to me because you earned it by performing your job diligently. Take it and use it as you please," Ergin replied.

"No, I want to make a deal,"

"……?"

"……?" Ergin and I both looked at Luke in surprise.

"Please use this money to hire me as a full-time employee of the company!" Luke exclaimed.

We watched the unexpected situation with interest, and Ergin, who received the proposal, asked calmly, "Why are you making such an offer? Two gold coins is a lot of money that is difficult to obtain even if you become a full-time employee."

"I can't use this money meaningfully yet with my ability. I don't have the power to protect it. If it's money that I can't use properly, it's wiser to invest it for the future, right?" Luke answered with a twinkle in his eye.

He certainly made a lot of money by courageously seizing the opportunity, but it was definitely too much money for a boy to own two gold coins. I was aware of that fact in advance and was planning to secretly ask Ergin for Luke's safety. Rather, Luke moved quickly.

Locus and Andras also chimed in with admiration for Luke's actions.

"He's really clever."

"He's very thoughtful for his age. Anyone would be tempted with that much money."

But Ergin wasn't convinced.

"Really? Are these two gold coins not worth that much?"

"The Golden Clock Chamber is not an easy place to deal with."

At Ergin's cold response, Luke's ears and tail drooped, reminding me of Speranza back on the farm.

Sulking, Luke trudged over to us and said, "I must have been mistaken. I thought you guys were important guests."

"What do you mean?" I asked, confused. Ergin was also taken aback, revealing his embarrassment.

"Well, what is it? These guests are important to our business!" Ergin retorted.

"But Mr. Ergin, you spoke of these two gold coins as if they were worthless."

"What…?"

"I thought that the gold coin wasn't just money, but a symbol of recognition from the important guests."

“……”

"If Mr. Ergin truly thought these people were important, he wouldn't have treated the gold coins in my hand so lightly."

‘Ho?’

I wasn't expecting that argument from Luke. Sure, it was a bit of a stretch to see the gold coins as anything more than a reward, but Ergin couldn't dismiss Luke's words so easily.

Despite the sophistry, Luke had a point. From Ergin's perspective, denying his words in front of important guests could be damaging.

"Well…"

Ergin glanced at me, as if expecting me to intervene. However, I decided to let things play out for now.

In the end…

"Well… Even if they do recognize you, you can't just become a full-time employee right away. Keep learning and helping out with chores, and if you continue to show promise, I'll consider hiring you formally."

"Really? Thank you so much!" Luke exclaimed.

"Why would I lie? You earned this recognition from important guests because of your hard work. Be grateful to them."

Ergin accepted Luke's proposal to boost our egos. Luke, overjoyed, expressed his gratitude to us.

"Thank you so much! I won't forget your kindness!"

I patted Luke's head, feeling emotional.

"Yes, learn all you can from Ergin and become a great merchant."

"I will! Thank you all again!"

The party looked at Luke with a warm smile, proud of the boy who had created an opportunity for himself.

⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩

– TAK… – TAK…

Locus and Kroc drove the luxurious carriage while Andras, Lia, Terzan, and I sat inside. Thanks to Ergin's preparations, we quickly left the city.

"I feel sorry for Ergin. I never thought we would receive such help with the wagon and travel arrangements," I said.

"It's nothing special for a merchant to treat aristocrats. The more they welcome a great aristocrat, the better it is for merchants because their influence is recognized," Andras explained.

"Is that so?"

"It's because there's a reason why merchants do favors. Sihyeon is worth it, so you don't have to feel too much pressure,"

Andras explained that it was natural and eased my burden.

– Sip, sip.

Meanwhile, Terzan was sipping on a vial of honey beer from the Cardis estate. "Terzan, aren't you drinking too much?" I asked.

"This is all right,"

Terzan answered lightly, bringing the vial she was holding in her hand to her mouth. On the wide part of the glass bottle, the pattern of the Cardis estate was drawn.

Looking at that, I whispered to Andras.

"Terzan seems to like the honey beer very much."

"She has loved it for a long time. In terms of her liking for alcohol, she's as good as Mr. Kaneff."

The box Andras handed over contained honey beer made in the Cardis estate. Terzan immediately accepted it after hearing that it was an object that Kaneff recognized.

Her ability to perfectly subdue Locus was also very surprising, but the way she accepted the request with a few bottles of beer was also very strange.

“All of the Black Hawk members are unique.”

"Haha, it was a great place in many ways."

While talking quietly with Andras, Terzan, who was sipping beer, made eye contact. She asked me, pointing to the beer bottle she was holding.

"Did you make this?"

"Honey beer? No, I didn't make it myself, It was made in my estate. A Raccoon grandpa in my estate is very good at making alcohol."

"I see."

"……."

An uncomfortable situation where the conversation was stopped.

I posed a question to keep the conversation going.

"By the way, why did you stay in such a deserted house?"

“Because it's comfortable there."

"……?"

"I can be alone and there aren't many people around."

"Didn't you feel uneasy?"

"What?"

Terzan responded with genuine confusion, leaving me momentarily speechless. Andras spoke up for me, taking over the conversation.

"Terzan, can you tell me more about the entrance to the fairy realm in the Forest of Silence?"

"Entrance to the fairy realm?"

"Yes, I heard that the ‘Shadow clan' associated with you knows the location."

"…."

She took a sip of the beer and then provided her answer.

"My hometown… we owe it to the fairy queen. We must protect the Forest of Silence to repay her grace."

"So, protecting the Forest of Silence means protecting the entrance to the fairy world?"

"I don't know for sure… I've never seen it myself."

"Hmm…"

While I didn't have all the details about the entrance to the fairy world, I confirmed that the shadow clan had a connection to the fairy queen.

Andras asked a few more questions, but we didn't get any useful information.

⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩

It's been five days since we left Beko.

The carriage we were in passed through two small towns and kept moving along the road. When there wasn't a town nearby, we had to spend the night outdoors.

Fortunately, the warm weather made it bearable to spend the night outside.

It was much more comfortable than Locus and Kroc, who were responsible for driving the carriage, but it was also very difficult to sit still in the wagon for several days.

Naturally, I asked Andras if we could just use dimension leap magic to go straight to the Forest of Silence…

"The Forest of Silence is a place where the flow of mana is very unstable, so we can't use dimension leap magic there. It's similar to the Dragon Demon Village you visited last time."

Andras gave an example of the dragon demon village I visited last time and explained why we couldn't use dimension leap magic if the mana was unstable.

After enduring several days of bouncing around in the wagon and Andras's dizzying explanations, we finally arrived at a massive forest with no end in sight.

We had arrived in front of the ‘Forest of Silence,' which is said to be one of the most dangerous places in the Demon world.

(To be Continued)

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