Chapitre 74: I'm not producing.
Nikolai slammed his hand on his desk in anger.
Luck's words seemed as if they would cause him to return to the darkness when he had seen the light.
'You don't know that! Don't belittle my decades of savings! I can even give you a year's income of the compound if necessary!'
'Just tell me how much money you want!'
...
Luck sighed.
The problem was money, not gold.
The problem was really money, but Nikolay's money meant nothing since he couldn't convert the gold coins Nikolay would give him into dollars without attracting attention.
'Nikolay...This is not something that can be solved with your money...This is a problem with the money I can pay.'
Nikolay got angry at Luck's strange answer.
'What do you mean by that! Just pay for everything with the gold I'll give you!'
...
Luck was trying to figure out how to explain that it wasn't the gold coin, when he realised something.
They must already realise that I'm not from here...I'm always suddenly appearing and suddenly disappearing.
Luck glanced at the three people in the room and then made up his mind.
'You know... I'm not from here.'
'I'm travelling back and forth from somewhere else.'
Elsa and Senna nodded in agreement with Luck's confession without surprise.
'Of course we are aware. You bring out the products of elves and dwarves and many other races we don't know about.'
'We also realise that you have a powerful wizard backing you.'
Luck: (⊙ᴗ⊙)
Elves and dwarves?
A powerful wizard?
Your imagination works even crazier than mine!
Luck, who did not want to break the beliefs 'dreams' of the 3 people looking at him, decided to keep up with their ideas.
Nodding his head in agreement, Luck said 'I am bringing many different and new products from another place and the currency there is not gold...it is a currency we call dollars.'
Nikolay Elsa and Senna were stunned by Luck's explanation.
Gold was the only common currency known on all continents, even if the gold coins had the stamps of different kingdoms or empires on them, the star power engraved in the gold coin made the gold coin authentic.
Dollars...it was something unheard of before.
Elsa said sceptically 'Luck, it is known to everyone that gold is the common currency...I have never heard of a dollar before.'
Senna nodded and said, 'Merchants will not accept any payment other than gold...and even you have always been paid in gold.'
Luck agreed with the doubts of the two girls and said, 'Gold is valuable where I come from, but not as much as dollars. Even if I can get some dollars by giving gold, it is not enough to buy enough cement to repair all the walls of the settlement.'
While Nikolay was silently listening to Luck's words, he was inwardly making inferences.
Even Nikolay, who had witnessed countless things while travelling all over the continent during his youth, had never heard of a dollar before.
In addition, the existence of a place where races such as elves and dwarves lived together was also unknown.
At the end of all this, Nikolay came to some conclusions.
Luck came from a place where various races lived together and Luck could have come from another country or dimension, the existence of space rifts where star monsters appeared was not a secret, and although some wizards claimed that other worlds could exist inside the spatial rifts where star monsters appeared, no one who entered the spatial rifts had ever come out alive.
'Luck, if gold doesn't work for you, can't we pay with something else?' Nikolai said conciliatory.
'I can give you star artefacts, or I can pay you with valuable parts of star beasts.'
Luck watched Nikolai desperately scramble for cement, but nothing Nikolai offered was working for him.
Star artefacts? He'd love to get them, but that wouldn't solve his money problems
Precious fragments of star beasts? How on Earth could he monetise them? If he unearthed the star beast parts on Earth, he would be much more likely to create an uproar.
'I'm afraid these are not things I can sell for dollars.'
'Even star artefacts are useless...'
Elsa couldn't stand her father's helpless expression, 'Isn't there any other way we can get this cement stuff?'
Luck chuckled.
'I can't buy cement without having enough dollars...after all, I don't produce cement...'
Luck: ＿φ(°-°=)
I do not produce cement...
But can I produce?
Excited, Luck said, 'I have to go now, I'll be back soon!'
Luck ran out of the room without a backward glance, leaving the father and daughter trio dumbfounded.
Nikolai, Elsa and Senna (꒪⌓꒪)
Wait! Wait! Where are you running!
Elsa ran after Luck's friend, but no matter how hard she searched, she could find no trace of Luck.
When Elsa turned round in a daze, Nikolai said, 'She's disappeared again, hasn't she?'
'Yes...'
Nikolai smiled knowingly.
'He must have thought of something if he suddenly ran away...'
'Let's hope that whatever it is, it's something useful to us.'
'Still, we need to take precautions...if Luck can't find a way to build the walls of the settlement, we need to think of other ways to defend the damaged walls.'
'Maybe we could hire mercenaries...if we have the money to pay Luck, we should have the money to hire mercenaries.'
'Or we could buy more firearms from Luck.'
Nikolai smiled bitterly as he watched his two daughters anxiously trying to make backup plans.
'Don't you two worry, I'll do whatever it takes to protect you and the compound.'
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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