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"So I'm thinking of building a town for adventurers in the west. What do you think, old man?

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"What, what's the reason, kid? What's an adventurer's town?"

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"So, I told you about my exploration of the west, which was meant to prepare me for a future that might come sooner or later, didn't I?　Maybe the day will come when knights and nobles who want a fiefdom will seek one in the west."

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Yes, that's exactly what I heard. But where does that leave us, adventurers and all?

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"Yes, that's right. Well, let's start from the beginning and go through it again.

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　I talk with my brother who works at Balkaline, and then I exchange information with the old man.

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　One of the things I told the old man was how to manage the west.

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　I am thinking of turning the west into a town for adventurers.

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　The land bordering the sea in the west that I have discovered.

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　There, I can get seafood that is not available in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Therefore, if we gather seafood in the west and bring it here to sell, it will be worth as much as jewelry.

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　Valkyries have already been deployed and are in the process of securing control of the land.

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　And as I told my brother Byte, this land in the west was meant to be prepared for the future.

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　Perhaps, if the Kingdom of Fontana were to achieve a kind of unification of the whole country with all the nobles.

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　To create a stable country, it is necessary to eliminate conflicts.

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　For this reason, the Fontana army, the driving force behind the unification, may need to be disarmed.

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　When that happens, the fear is that the soldiers will become unemployed.

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　If the world becomes a peaceful place without conflict, the number of soldiers that we have been demanding will no longer be necessary.

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　At the very least, there will always be enough men to maintain the peace, but the military is basically a money-grubbing organization.

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　The military is basically a money-grubbing organization, but it costs too much to maintain, so it has to be reduced.

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　But then a problem arises.

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　There are also those who have been able to earn their livelihood by being in the military so far.

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　There will be many who want the rewards of a fiefdom, but there will also be many who do not want to lose their place of work due to disarmament.

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　There is a possibility that such people will become dissatisfied with the policy of the country and cause a new uprising.

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　Therefore, it was meant to be prepared.

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　However, the west is a rather difficult place to deal with.

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　There are, after all, many demons, and they are strong.

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　Even if they secure a territory of control with the help of Valkyries, it would be difficult to keep expanding the territory.

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　Above all, we needed a system to recover what we got in the west and convert it into money.

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　So, I came up with the idea of creating adventurers.

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　Adventurer is the name for the brave men and women who work in the west.

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　The job description is as follows.

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　At first, we would fly westward by using the transfer magic circle we had set up in Balka Line.

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　Then you register as an adventurer at the base over there.

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　Registered adventurers venture into the jungle or into the sea.

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　The goal is to bring back information or goods from the adventure.

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　The information can be anything.

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　For example, it could be a report of a new species of plant found in the jungle, or that it is edible.

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　Or, you may have defeated a demon and asked to buy its materials at the registration office in your base.

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　You can also collect fish and other things from the sea and have them purchased.

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　The cost of the purchase should be set a little high.

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　If it is a material of a demon that is not in the Kingdom of Fontana, it will surely be sold at a high price just by bringing it back with a transporter magic circle.

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　It will not hurt to set the purchase price high.

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　At first, the work of adventurers may be mainly inside the walls built by Valkyries.

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　But gradually their sphere of activity will move outward, and adventure will begin in the true sense of the word.

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　They will have no idea what will sell for a high price, and they will have to search for it by hand.

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"Wait a minute, kid. It's all well and good to create a system of adventurers and the like, but will it attract people?　If it's so dangerous, why would anyone do it?"

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"Not at all, old man. Basically, there are still many poor people in this world. In Barca it may be decreasing, but in other places, people are thrown out of their homes to make ends meet. They are now being taken in by Fontana's army, and this adventurer system will take care of them.

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"...... I see. It is true that there are still people who volunteer for the Fontana Army, which is supposed to be a conscripted force. In other words, they are looking for work. And they are offering the hope of becoming an adventurer as a job where they can make money.

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"That's what I mean. It doesn't matter if the monsters are strong or not, the important thing is to make them think that they can get rich. If they think that they can get so much money that they don't have to work for a few years if they bring back materials of a new kind of demon, there will be people who will do it even if it's dangerous.

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"I see. ....... So you want to make the system similar to the explorer's union in the labyrinthine city. But the main reason for that was that we could get the magic stone. Not only the materials for demons, but also the money that could be made by digging for the magic stone would have allowed even the weak to continue their work as explorers.

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"That's right. That's why it is necessary to prepare an alternative to picking up magic stones as the first easy job for adventurers."

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What do you have in mind?

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"Yeah. Sap collection."

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"Sap?"

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"Yes. The forests that stretch to the west, I call them jungles. The trees that grow in the jungle have sap of an unusual nature that can be extracted by damaging the bark. I think it would be a good idea to let novice adventurers try to collect it.

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"What's the value of sap from a ...... tree?"

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"Of course, old man. I think it's safe to say that the most rewarding part of our search in the west was the discovery of this sap. I can't say for sure, though, because I've only just begun to study it after leaving it with Gran."

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　Being an adventurer is a dangerous job, but a fascinating one with the potential to turn your life around.

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　In this way, we may be able to send the young people who are languishing in the country's various regions to dangerous lands infested with demons to do work of their own choice.

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　But no one wants to die.

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　Probably, many of those who are lured by such sweet words to the west will not be able to get a lot of money in reality.

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　Therefore, there should be jobs for such people.

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　It is a kind of permanent request in the Adventurer's Guild.

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　It is not the kind of goblin extermination as described in the story.

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　What I was planning to prepare was a sap collection.

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　I cut down a tree and made a path when I tried to retrieve the corpse of a sky dragon in the jungle.

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　I noticed that sap was coming out of the cut trees.

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　Then I looked at the tree and felt that I had seen it before.

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　There was a fern-like plant wrapped around it, but the tree with the fern was probably a rubber tree.

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　However, I have seen it only once in my previous life, and I do not know if rubber can really be made from the sap of that tree.

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　Since I don't know, I am trying to see if I can ask Gran to make rubber from it.

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　If so, I would be very grateful.

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　Once we have rubber, we will be able to do many new things.

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　Rubber that can be used for all kinds of things.

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　We are thinking of using the job of collecting sap to make rubber as a safety net for adventurers.

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　All the goods collected by adventurers will be purchased at the registration office of Balka, which has a transfer magic circle, and brought to Balka Line, the city of magic trains, to be sold.

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　Even if he pays the adventurers more, it will be much less than the amount of money he sells them for.

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　In other words, Barca can make a profit by giving jobs to the young men who headed west with hope, and by buying and selling the goods they risked their lives to acquire.

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　At least, not at a loss.

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　Because there is currently no rival.

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"So, I'm thinking of building a town for adventurers in the west, what do you think, old man?"

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"...... might be a good idea. That would be profitable. Another advantage is that we can make money without having to deal with the demons ourselves. I think it's worth a try.

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　With the old man's approval, I decided to build a town for adventurers in the west.

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　Unfortunately, there was no adventurer's guild as promised in the other world, but I could create one by myself, and I couldn't help but smile.

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