It took quite a while to arrive at the mert's pce. Usually a lot of businesses remai the busy gate in order tet wandering travellers (such as adventurers, meraries, vacationists or even their fellow merts) due to it being profitable. A regur person may buy oility knife, for example, the “for when they ” while those travelling with actively use said knife resulting in them stantly needing a rept. One didn’t o be a genius to see how profitable such a market could be.A lot of businesses were set up in front of the gates in order to cater to those sorts. Meanwhile, the pce I ended up parking the wagon in front of - based on the information that femme fatale gave me as well as the matg motif - was closer to the wealthy residential area. Certainly not your average pce.“Certainly looks impressive enough; could be useful to make a e with the owner of this pce even if he ends up just being a branch manager.” Speaking to myself as I half-heartedly “guided” those strange beasts down the road. No one foolish enough to not make way for the massive monster whuiding a finely furnished coach.It also seemed to be far better maintaihan many of the buildings that I went past on my way towards here; the building aodating a lot of various types of people but none of them looking… Poor. The building itself was host tss than I thought they could ever mao deliver to one location when recalling that breakable goods were still quite likely difficult to deliver “in one piece”.Yet, once I hopped down from the carriage to enter, I was met with something akin to a high end shopping mall filled with all sorts of ily risky things to ship from city to city. A ton of gss structures, pottery and a whole lot of delicate oral pieces. There was even a “exotic foods” se acc to the guide board at the front.Even if this world appeared to be akin to our own 21st tury - there was still a big elephant in the room that had to be sidered when discussing city to city travel. Mohey didn’t care if you were just pnning to repair a road or wipe out their enemies; monsters saw these squishy humanoids as a ce to grow stronger since mortals naturally give more Xp to them. An alluring prospect that most likely would never be able to resist. It wasn’t because they were drawn to being powerful but because they o be powerful to defend themselves.The easiest way for them to achieve that would obviously be to wipe out any humans that they happen across which is why it often seems like monsters have it out for mortals. Although, teically, killing a dragon or even a high level monster would likely give far experiehey were also far harder to kill than random malnourished peasant number five.Think just because you’re carrying gss that they’ll resider?Sure, adventurer guild was literally allowed ierritory in order to take care of monsters, there were certainly solutiohe costs were certainly not cheap. Something many people don’t realise in business is that you don’t pn around success if you want to succeed. There is no “hoping for the best” but instead preparing for the worst to occur.That is why so many people find themselves with their pants down and cuffs around their wrists; simpletons simply never expect to be caught. True professionals aowledge that it happen and so create backup pns in case failure occurs rather than pocketing all the extra profit as “bonus”. Usually this just trao pying the public (often by genuinely doing good while subtly guiding their eye) however that bees more stri when it es to something like this.To ehat there are no acts you’d o hire top-tier adventurers and that is just to deal with monsters without mentioning the ore… anised oppos. That alone is enough to make some businesses go under without a single ce to turn a profit.Plus you also had to retrofit the wagons to help cushion the merdise rather than just hoping that the roads weren’t plete shit.Thankfully I wasn’t stopped from heading ihough it shouldn’t be surprising that the staff here were professionals who knew how to judge whether someone belonged or not. It wasn’t a simple matter of what I wore nor how I spoke; no matter who liked it, at the end of the day, I was rich.This wasn’t the case of me sneaking inside in order to talk to the person in charge - I was simply in my element when it came to these kinds of pces. As stupid as she was (which was really) me and that sister of mine regurly visited these kinds of pces sihe time we could walk. Even if I regurly refused to spend any mohat god really was right about my sinful nature…“Well, not like there’s much I do about it~!” Promptly deg to not worry about any of that nonsense as I soon reached what seemed like a pletely a elevator. Literally just looked like a metal box with no sort of gravity or repulsion tech attached to it. I wasn’t sure how much I trusted it (I wouldn’t be surprised if it genuinely used a pulley system) yet I still decided to press the button for the top floor.Of course I wasn’t alone however all of us were people of css so we did little more than g each other with a short nod. Keeping to ourselves as we waited for the elevator doors to close. Something they did soon enough and began to take off with an almost unnoticeable jolting as the metal partment was lifted upwards in its shaft.There was some y in such a low-tech civilisation although the stant jostling of the lift did suggest that I was indeed right about that pulley. Hopefully it wouldn’t break since I didn’t want to take the effort of using the no-doubt bustling stairs. Plus, even if it did break, I was sure that I’d survive.Not so much these other rich people.Thankfully it was quiough despite the inferior tech - even if the bar ectacurly low on at of their only being three total floors. This pce really was backwards. I literally had houses with more floors than this “mall” even if there were teically higher ceilings per each of the floors.From there it didn’t take me very long to reach the office of the head of this pce; there was a girl dressed in a simple bck suit in front the door along with a secretary at a desk beside said door. The guard obviously kept her gaze followi I didn’t matter as the male secretary turned up towards me from his dots with a smile. “Hello miss - how I help you?”“Yes, I just got into the city from the port city and happened upon a stolen carriage, who I assume was the captain of the gate guard told me I could notify as well as get my reward here.” my cssic smile which seemed to have stuhe pair. Taking a moment before he nodded along.I am pretty sure that my charm (if the system kept track of) would be ihousands at least~!Without needing him to speak up I took the hat the old guard captain gave to me - the secretary quickly gnced just enough to see the signature as he nodded & held it out to me. Turning toward the security to order them. “Let her in to see mr.Green.”The security didn’t make any visible pint as they knocked on the door only to hear a “e in” leading to them opening the door for me to enter. Having no reason to refuse I of course walked in to see a surprisingly simplistic office with ahetically matg man. There was nothing expressly expensive in this office (uhey hadn’t ied the printing press to mass-produce books) but it was quality.Even the man sat at the desk in front of the window, looking like every stereotypical office ever, looked like your average white guy. Brown hair in that typical swoop with matg hazel eyes. her fat nor thin and especially not spectacurly muscur; if you saw him on a street you would ake note of him.“What I do to help you, today?” His brow visibly rose upon seeing me; clearly fused as I noticed him lingering on my facial marks but not doing any iently creepy so I didn’t mind. It was rare to have face tattoos in my world let alohis one.I just smiled while handing over the note aing him read which recisely what he did.From there it was simple and within the new 20 minutes I was guiding him out of the office.