“A pot of gold?” Siegfried doubted his ears.

— Yes, a pot of gold. I think a few Adventurers would refer to it as a mother lode[1]? Anyway, it is a very profitable offer.

Michele seemed to be well aware of the terms used by Korean gamers, but Siegfried had no idea where he had picked them up from.

“Why do you think so?”

— The Adunyadet Kingdom is on the brink of destruction.

“Really? It looks like Stone Island is the one on the brink of destruction to me…”

— It looks like that on the outside, but based on my resources, the Adunyadet Kingdom is on the brink of financial bankruptcy after its excessive investment in this war.

“How bad is it?”

— The Adunyadet Kingdom’s royal family is known for their opulence and extravagance, but they are currently auctioning their luxury items off. Not only that, the amount of military rations they have been procuring has been reducing day by day.

“How do you know that…?”

— I have been maintaining good relations with merchant companies to collect information. After all, a nation’s economy is directly related to its military might, right?

“Oh! As expected of our brain!”

— And I heard that the amount they have been paying the Adventurers has been reduced to a third of the original payment that they had promised the Adventurers.

“That sounds a bit strange…” Siegfried recalled that most of the Adventurers that the Adunyadet Kingdom had hired were useless.

‘Are they really taking austerity measures?’ 

Siegfried had an idea of what was going on over there based on the quality...