Volume 2 Chapter 18 (1/2)

Conanna's Curtrude trading company arrived and the city grew even livelier. For why would it not be when there were so many humans that had come here in such a short amount of time as result of the merchant's use of his contacts to promote our city? The adventurers too added to the buzz with their satisfaction over the great array of new products brought by the trading company—products that the store managed by the fox-girls didn't have.

That said, that didn't mean the sales of the store managed by fox-girls declined for we still had the apples that were blessed by Ancient Elf and the swords forged by the Dwarf Smiths, both of which couldn't be bought anywhere else.

So basically, we sold our specialty products while the Curtrude trading company took care of the rest. We existed in complete harmony without interfering with one another.

In contrast, the city benefitted from the opening of the trading company's branch store by it creating jobs. The employees of these jobs increased our count of settlers.

Although the merchant and I came to an agreement that the city's store would only sell the things that could be harvested in the city or the things that could be made from the products being sold by the stores here, it wasn't really a bother. If I did want to increase the kind of things our city could sell, like meat and eggs, all we needed to do was raise them.

In fact, it might be a good idea to have at least one more special product other than the apples and swords or maybe even build a recreational facility like a casino or something like that.

And then there were the increasing number of farmers.

In the city of Eclaba, 70% of the crops they had grown were taken away from them as tax but in this city, that amount was reduced to only 30%. Moreover, in addition to the promise of an abundant harvest, our farmlands were being blessed by elves and the harvested crops were bound to be extraordinarily nutritious and delicious. Information of those alone should convince a lot of the farmers to immigrate.

The timing was perfect too. The farmers had just harvested their crops for this year so instead of growing their crops back in their previous respective towns, a lot of them opted to terminate their contract with their landlords and move here.

At the moment, I was patrolling the city along with Kuina, Elder Dwarf, and Ancient Elf.

”It's all going so well, it's kinda scary.”

”The humans are amazing. Kuina's a little surprised.”

Gazing at the city that had all of a sudden became populated and abuzz, Kuina exclaimed so.

”I agree. Even though we can make amazing things, that is something beyond us.”

”I know, right? They're weak so in order to live, they have to be wise and ingenious. It's in this regard that we are inferior to them.”

Elder Dwarf and Ancient Elf expressed their agreement to Kuina's thoughts.

The people of the Curtrude trading company had assumed various duties so the girls' workload had lightened. Add in the fact that the number of Dwarf Smiths and High Elves had increased, the girls were actually quite free.

When I had given the humans the authority to govern themselves to a certain extent, they were able to quickly make rules that would allow them live peacefully and easily.

They were basically autonomous although I still held the final say on things.

All that said though, that didn't mean everything was perfect. Since the people of the Curtrude trading company were handling most of the management of the city, much of the authority also befell on them.

Still, I had the right to have the final say. And probably most important of all, we were the only ones in charge of handling the city's security. With these in mind, I doubt anything strange would happen anytime soon.

”Master, Kuina, Elf, I have something I must show you all. I have at last finished the new weapons. I finally got the time to develop weapons so I did my best.”

”Woah, Kuina's shotgun got even stronger??”

”Mhm. I've leveled up so my enchant magic also got stronger and thus the things that I could do have increased.”

”Thank you, El-chan!”

Kuina then embraced Elder Dwarf. In the battle against the Emerald Dragon some time ago, Kuina was forced to use the full-auto mode of her shotgun and as a result, it broke down.

It was repaired soon after but Elder Dwarf had promised Kuina that she was going to improve the gun and make it able to endure firing fully automatically.

”I have also finished improving Elf's anti-materiel rifle. I promised you that I will improve its range and firepower more than what it was currently capable of and I had done just that.”

”I love El-chan as well!”

Ancient Elf proceeded to hug Kuina and Elder Dwarf while they were in an embrace themselves.

Kuina was overcome with her emotions and thus hugged Elder Dwarf but Ancient Elf did so simply because she liked cute girls and enjoyed seeing Kuina and Elder Dwarf in such a happy mood.

Oh well, it's alright, I thought. Three beautiful girls embracing one another was quite the sight.

”Ugh, it's hot. Let go of me.”

The short Elder Dwarf spoke in a somewhat pained voice and separated from Kuina and Ancient Elf.

”Elder Dwarf, sorry to be so sudden but can you show us the new weapons?”

”Yes, I planned to do so from the start. I had it prepared.”

And so, we headed to her workshop.

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The moment we reached the workshop, Elder Dwarf brought out two cases.