“What do you mean, my credit score is in the red?!”
"Due to 'chaotic conduct', 'disgraceful combat maneuvers' and 'merciless killing of one's own kind,' your karma has moved towards the faint shadow of chaotic evil," Mir read him a report with a frown. . "Your new course doesn't inspire confidence either."
"This is ridiculous! I earned them by saving baby dragons from predators!"
"The adventurers who lose their jobs indirectly contribute to your losses, and most of these dragons are dangerously destructive. Opposing a precursor plot will reward you, but not enough to offset the downward spiral. If You want to keep the benefits of your existing coverage, we're going to have to increase your subscription rates."
Victor's head hit his desk hard. These thieves already took away half of his SP at the end of every month!
"I'm sorry," Mir tried to comfort him. "I'm doing my best to defend you, but my superiors are putting a lot of pressure on me."
"They blame you for my falling scores?"
Mir sighed, clearly as annoyed as he was. "This is a hard job with strict rules and regulations, and my superiors want to prevent too many unworthy people from escaping the karmic retribution they deserve. I hope the rules can be relaxed a little, but I didn't make them."
"Why don't you do it yourself?" Victor suggested, massaging his forehead. "Free enterprise and everything."
"Like a hell of a company?" Honey shuddered. "That's not how heaven works, I'm definitely going to fall."
As he battles the forces of evil, the more Victor hears, the more he feels that chaos suits him better than the alternatives. "Heaven sounds like a big, slimy bureaucracy."
"This is it." Mir sighed. “I wish I could spend more time relaxing instead of dealing with heavenly red tape.”
"Maybe I can help you relax. Maybe we could have a drink?"
"Dear customer, are you teasing me?"
"I'm just saying, I'm high-level, rich..." As he said that, the ground shook, possibly due to another ma
b
The rocket explodes. The Jelly Tester has dodged two attacks so far. "and available".
Charisma check…
Partially successful!
Finally! Vink was right, that rich line worked!
"That would be very unprofessional," Miel replied, although she did sound like she was considering the job. "Besides, you already have a partner, don't you?"
"I haven't committed to anything other than a second date," Victor pointed out.
"I must warn you, a harem will negatively impact your karma score, although not as much as being in a committed monogamous relationship with Chocolat. My prediction is that if you go there, your karma will drastically increase Decline. I cannot stress how much I disapprove of this."
"What can I get away with?"
"If you somehow convince Chocolati
e change for the better and you'll get what we call 'RedemFi
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Bo
us', which is very popular there. "However, I strongly recommend that you marry a more positive person, such as Miss Bekele."
"Well, I'm drawing a line here, I'm not going to let insurance dictate my love life," Victor responded. "I'm already risking my life."
The angel sighed. "As for your offer, if your karma turns to good, I'll consider it. I don't want to jeopardize my career by messing around with an evil mortal, and while my superiors are ambivalent about the mess, they don't care much about it . Alas, you are soaked in sin..."
"Are you trying to make me feel guilty?"
"God has patented this method," she replied with a good-natured smile. "We will save your soul no matter what."
Yes, right. Victor felt she needed to relax a little and tone down the holier-than-thou tirade, but he kept his mouth shut. At least she meant well and wasn't stuffing her pockets like Malfi. "How are sales going?"
"Great! She answered too quickly and laughed too hard to be serious.
"Honey……"
"I don't understand!" Her facade soon broke. "During the Feather Friday sale we reduced the price by 70% and the result - our lambs still flocked to our competitors!"
"Really?" Victor raised his eyebrows, but this didn't surprise him too much. "Maybe I should go use the restroom-"
"No, thank you!" she begged him, the drastic change in her attitude making him jump out of his seat. "You're our star client! If you cancel, I'll be fired. I'll be homeless, I I will die alone in the snow!"
"We're in the desert and it never snows," Victor pointed out.
Miel looked at him with wide eyes and tears.
Another attempt at guilt-inducing, but successful. What he does for a pretty face. "Look, I'm not promising anything," the vizier said. "But I can look into that later. Maybe you just need to revamp your marketing strategy."
Victor comforted Angel for five minutes until her face was dry, then dismissed her to focus on other things.
A ghoul comes in to take her place. "Hello, Jolis." The minister greeted the necromancer, and they had now become friends.
"Good morning, Victor," the Necromancer replied before sitting down. "I hope you can recover from your last fight."
"Don't tell me." Overall, though, the adventure ended much better than expected. The survivors were imprisoned in the castle's dungeons and interrogated, but had little to say. Most of the items found in the Adventurer's Base, including the Black Crown, were confiscated and sealed in the basement. Although Fu
ibo
The escape was a mess, but they gained a lot of loot from the adventure and even a new mount. "I'm actually looking forward to discussing course progress with you. I like to work my way through problems, but I have a recurring charm problem."
"I don't think it's strange," replied the wizard. "My impression of Monster Knight and Death is that both professions are very well-rounded and have no particular focus. What other courses have you taken recently?"
"Grand Vizier."
"Oh, you should be fine then. Vizie
) variant of Noble has a strong increase in Charisma. "
Victor raised his eyebrows. "Really?"
"You will need a lot of charisma to convince the ruler to continue to employ you, despite your obvious tendencies to be treacherous."
Be fair.
"I've heard they have very useful perks, but viziers are rare and poorly studied. I'm sure they can hide most of their abilities and karma at some level, but other than that, the Professional users keep their cards close to their chest.”
Hmm? Hide your karma?
Thought provoking. "I have levels in Chaos Knights, and I have levels in Assassin."
"Well...[Chaos Knight] is a combat class with strong physical attributes but lacks charisma. However, [Assassin] is usually combined with a noble class at some point, usually something like [Caligula] or A rare combination like [Kingmaker]. But it’s not a guarantee.”
Not good enough for Victor. "Are there any classes dedicated to diplomacy?"
"If you don't mind more negative karma, I suggest you (politician)."
"I've lost money, but I still have dignity." Well, at least he now knows that there are rewards for rulers to lie to the people. This explains a lot.
"So summoning professions," Juriris said, "most have S-level charm growth, and considering your current dealings with outer planes, you should meet most of the requirements. But other than that, I just recommend that you focus About upgrading your ministers. If there's a class that can lie its way out of trouble, it's this class."
"Yes, but do I have to betray Vaikl for this?" Because that will never happen. "
"I don't think so. If you stick to running the government and follow your instincts, you'll be fine." Does he really have such a bad reputation? "However, please allow me to ask, what is your current overall level?" ?”
"Forty-two, Wacker is one level worse than fifty."
"Well... that's too unfortunate, because you've all reached the experience peak of level 40. I doubt that unless you practice a class every year like Rolo does, or take advantage of some rare skills, you won't be able to get to higher levels. While you have the talent to put yourself in dangerous situations and come out alive, I don't expect getting a new level to solve your problems anytime soon."
"Then what's left, can the equipment enhance my charm?"
"And spells and magic," Julius suggested. "What's your current level of witchcraft?"
"Three."
The ghoul was happy to hear the news. "Great. You should be able to learn skills that will be useful to yourself and His Majesty the King. I will be happy to help you find the Necromancer."
Maybe now it's Victo
and Vai
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It’s time to explore the abilities they already have, rather than hoping to acquire new ones.
Charlene walked into the room without knocking. "We are in trouble!" Victor's secretary announced nervously, holding a pile of documents in his hand, his skin as white as snow. "A very, very big problem."
"We are under attack?" The minister frowned.
"Yes, yes, we are!" Charlene replied as she threw the pile of paper out. "Our economy is under attack!"
"What, Gadmani is closing the border?"
"Oops! According to my records, we have high inflation. Prices are rising very fast due to the constant influx of gold!"
Victor blinked. "Vai
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A perk? A very fitting masterpiece?"
"Also, magic items, foreign investment, and dirty money keep flowing in!"
"The aristocracy was severely restricted to avoid this happening," Jules said.
"How high do we expect inflation to be this year?" Victor asked, and Charlene handed him a piece of paper. He started reading, and then...and then...
Oh, gods... He felt his heart skip a beat at the sight of this horrific sight.
Vitality check successful!(I
sta-Death) negation!
"Your 'space program' is also driving our already modest public budget into the red," Charlene continued. "If this continues, we will have to ask Ga
demag
eBorrow money, call Shesha Church, or establish a new source of income. "
"You mean taxes?" Victor guessed.
"Yeah! There's so much money coming in from abroad, and we can't get any shares!"
This is something Fankel will never allow. How do you run an economy when your leaders believe taxes are evil and coins that go into the treasury never leave the treasury?
"This is a serious problem," Victor agreed. "Skyrocketing inflation will destroy the value of our gold reserves and exports, and ultimately cause local wages to lag behind prices."
Charlene raised her eyebrows. "I studied economics," the vizier replied, although he never fully understood the lessons until his IQ began to rise. "All of this suggests that we have a recipe for civil war."
"Are you two too panicked?" Jules asked. "Your servants are loyal to Wen Ke, even if he doesn't pay them. Although Mu
mu
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New residents are welcomed every day, but much of the infrastructure worships the land upon which His Majesty walks. "
“You underestimate the power of the dark side of the economy,” Victor said. "Especially if we have financial bubbles and panics. We have to regulate the movement of money in and out. Are the paperclips ready?"
"I repeat, this is a stupid idea," Charlene frowned, opposed to the plan from day one. "Paper money will never catch on. This is a clip for gold."
"That's not the answer." His assistant sighed resignedly, confirming that they had printed enough. “Great. We are going to launch this new exchange currency, Vai
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USD and create Mu on the same occasion
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National Bank. "
By encouraging citizens to store their gold safely in Winkle's castle as a reserve, and using paperclips instead, Victor should be able to control the money coming in and out.
“Where does our budget and the funding for this initiative come from?” Charlene pointed out. "We have an almost unlimited workforce, but very few resources that we can avoid importing."
"V&V owns the mines, the undead workers, and the land," Juris said. "Much of the latter is not being utilized. The Treasury could easily make money by moving labor there."
Charlene replied: "Of course we can't develop the land, we are in the middle of the desert." "As far as I know, the reason there is still a piece of land here for development is because a golem farmer has been working day and night for centuries. We There are not enough (astrologers) or (meteorologists) such spellcasters to help with this."
"Maybe I have a solution," Victor said. "Dragon's."
It was time to introduce Wink to a Feng Shui practitioner, as Henry suggested, and see if it would work as advertised. However, if his friend is right and his dragon friend has reached an experience plateau, then this will be more difficult than expected...
"My friends, you don't see the real problem," Juris said. "In other words, who would tell the king that too much gold is bad?"
There was a tense, heavy silence between them.
"That's your mess." Charlene immediately put the responsibility on Victor. "You do it."
"I'm afraid you are the most qualified." Juriris said in agreement, patted the minister on the back, threw him aside, and left him to fend for himself.
Before he could protest, there was a knock on his door. Allison opened the door without waiting for authorization, looking worried. "Vic, can I have a word with you? Maybe an hour?"
Has his office become a revolving door? “We are in the midst of an urgent crisis!”
"It's about Winkle," the dryad said, and Victor immediately narrowed his eyes at her. “He somehow learned to mine gold and started practicing in Rollo’s fields with Jock’s help.”
Of course, at any time, this is happening now. marvelous. "Did he call you monster again? Or summoned another demon?"
"No, he was actually growing gold. Coins in the ground."
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