“Can it be fixed?”
“I would have preferred it to be completely destroyed rather than dealing with this. It’s not easy to dismantle this rubble and rebuild, and… the way this stone wall has been turned into this round shape…”
The laborers were sweating profusely as they tried to dismantle the city wall, but it was not an easy task.
“Even with our skills, it seems impossible to restore. It might be better to completely destroy and rebuild—”
“How long would that take?”
“Even if we try to blast everything, clear the rubble, and rebuild the city wall as quickly as possible, it would still take more than four months…”
The laborer lowered his head as if ashad.
Four months of practically leaving a hole for external invaders to exploit. During that ti, the number of people trying to infiltrate the city, exposed to danger, would decrease.
Changed city walls, collapsed buildings, a dead knight order, and news of the invasion had caused the population to dwindle.
“Ugh… This is maddening.”
Leeha was a sharpshooter, a musketeer.
He had an enormous single attack power of over 30,000, but such abilities were of no help in fixing the city walls.
―You’re here? How does it feel? Not as easy as you thought, right?
At that mont, just when he felt like crying, the voice that resonated in Leeha’s mind was like a ray of light.
―Ram Hwayeon!!!!
Leeha couldn’t help but call her na, filled with sincerity.
***
As Ram Hwayeon sifted through docunts at Castle Dale’s inner court, her face flushed.
“Sis, your face…”
“Huh? Ah, well, it’s nothing, Hwajung.”
Ram Hwayeon hurriedly raised the docunts to cover her face.
Ram Hwajung gave her sister a deadpan look, then spun around in her chair.
“Lady Ram Hwayeon, aren’t you making the room ssy like that?”
“Uh.”
“Ugh… Stop that and you need to get used to reviewing these docunts now—”
“Not doing it.”
Jacheong, who was standing by, was perplexed, but Ram Hwayeon didn’t even notice such things now.
―What, what is it? Am I so happy to see you?
“Did Highha wait for ?”
Why?
Without even having ti to organize her thoughts, Leeha imdiately responded to her.
―Of course! How could I not have, considering how much I’ve been thinking about you, from earlier until now!
Ram Hwayeon’s face reddened even more. If this were reality, her cheeks would be completely crimson by now.
―Leeha, don’t you think I’ve been stuck with my 24-hour ga console? I only went out for a while because of Father’s business.
―Of course. It’s the Lamrong Group, after all. Dependable as always!
―What brought this on? You’re talking like you want sothing from ?
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Ram Hwayeon’s heart pounded as she covertly glanced at Leeha.
She wondered what Highha might be thinking. Could it be that she and Highha were on a special wavelength?
―She’s really changed the way she thinks. You’re an amazing woman.
―What’s so amazing about it?
―Why are you being like this—
Thump, thump, thump!
Ram Hwayeon’s heart raced so much that she worried if there might be sothing wrong with the Middle Earth Access Device, fearing it might force a logout due to excessive strain on her body.
―Did you manage the city well?
―… What? City managent?
And Leeha’s imdiate reply was, naturally, not what she had hoped for.
In the first place, Leeha had waited for Ram Hwayeon because the chiras had a vulnerability to fire magic.
And now, with the invaders Igor and Zar barely repelled, he sought advice on city managent.
Either way, it was not what Ram Hwayeon had been expecting.
―Yeah. Like you said, it’s not an easy task. It’s really not the usual. Moreover, the city has been completely devastated by the attacks from Faust and Igor. And these NPC idiots are not even thinking about cooperating…
“Wh-what?”
“It wasn’t Bluebeard who was causing havoc with the chiras in Minis.”
“What? That can’t be true. Then who else could it be?”
“Well, sorry, I might have left sothing out. I’m sure Bluebeard is involved in so way, but this ti, it’s clear that Faust has been appointed as the leader for the action.”
“Just a collaboration? Like the user being a kind of representative for the monsters? Not even an NPC…”
“But that’s not all. Igor and Crouly are also there. It might even expand further.”
“Unbelievable.”
Ram Hwayeon looked at Leeha with a face of disbelief.
It was a fact that Leeha had told her before that Faust was likely involved, even though he was also aware of Bluebeard’s connection to the matter. However, after experiencing the City Gaza attack incident, Ram Hwayeon had co up with several hypotheses, and the most plausible one was shared with Ram Hwayeon.
“Certainly. Faust beca the overall commander over there. It’s very likely that he used the fact that you beco much stronger in terms of stats and skills when you beco a demon lord as bait.”
However, Ram Hwayeon still had so lingering questions. How did Igor know about this? How did he get in contact with Faust?
“In the end, it all cos back to the idea that soone is involved. It’s likely that soone inford them of this. That pesky guy causing trouble in Shazrashia Federal State ca all the way here, near the southernmost part of Minis? Soone surely must have inford him and helped him bridge the gap.”
As Ram Hwayeon pondered, her conclusion led to one particular possibility.
Soone who had played a pivotal role during the national war, soone who had an in-depth knowledge of the events happening within Minis.
“There’s undoubtedly soone behind this. The one who was ‘outside the opposition’ and was by Evin’s side during the national war. But who exactly could that be…?”
Since then, sothing had been bothering her.
“Anyway, since the war has concluded, I didn’t pay much attention to it afterwards, but now I regret it,” sighed Leeha. “If I had sohow found and exposed their identities back then, it would have been better.”
“But now it’s a situation where there’s no way,” replied Ram Hwayeon.
“What are you going to do about this? Do you have a plan? Honestly, this is the first ti I’ve seen a city get destroyed like this.”
“We have to restore it, there’s no other option,” said Ram Hwayeon.
Leeha let out a sigh. “So, how are you managing external security in Castle Dale?”
“We… Hwayeon handles that. She uses so kind of magical stone, placing them like markers all over the place and then connecting them with her own mana. It creates a huge magical fishing net, blocking most infiltrations.”
Ram Hwayeon continued to explain what she knew, but even for Ram Hwayeon, the explanation wasn’t easy to grasp.
Even for a fellow mage like Ram Hwayeon, it was difficult to explain precisely. This led to the conclusion that Ram Hwayeon was likely creating so kind of boundary based on items and skills.
“R-Ramhwayeon, you’re truly a genius in Mid Earth. It’s not sothing I can utilize. I guess I’ll have to go back.”
“Go where?”
Leeha reached for her crystal ball, interrupting Ram Hwayeon’s explanation.
Ram Hwayeon raised an eyebrow, wondering where she was going.
“I just realized I need to contact Ramhwayeon.”
“Why so suddenly? What will you do if you suddenly disappear like this?!”
“Oh, and sothing I heard from that pig lord earlier, let see… ah, never mind. Got it?”
Leeha didn’t just spend her ti idly while she waited to contact Ram Hwayeon.
During the post-war recovery period, she took the ti to talk to the lord NPCs and their advisors about the general aspects of city managent.
Among the things she asked about, this one was the first.
“[Delegating Authority]? Are you telling to manage everything here for a while?”
“Just wait a mont. I just need you to cover for while I’m gone.”
Ram Hwayeon was surprised as she looked at the hologram window that appeared before her. It ant that she would have the authority over City Gaza, possibly even concerning inco and higher-level decisions, for a while. But Leeha, with a warm smile, just vanished.
Left alone, Ram Hwayeon pondered the last words Leeha had left for her.
“I trust you….”
Leeha’s words unexpectedly kept Ram Hwayeon’s heart racing all day long.
The place Leeha had gone to was Hell and Vill, a fact that was revealed through her contact with Ram Hwayeon.
It was a rather simple realization, considering that Mid Earth was an online ga.
“It’s surprising yet obvious. This isn’t SimCity. Whether it’s managing a city or anything else!”
Online gas were not ant to be played alone.
When you have soone reliable nearby, the difficulty of online gas decreases significantly.
“Bottleneck Ajusshi!”
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