Chapter 429 – 429

‘Deception? You gained a strange skill. Anyway, have a normal conversation with the town sheriff…, It’s not difficult. ‘I guess I can go to the police station right now.’

I trudged to the police station where the old town sheriff was.

I met some familiar faces along the way and said hello to them, so I gave them a cursory response and arrived at the police station.

“Hey, old sheriff. Let’s have a ‘normal conversation’ with me.”

“Huh? Dutch? Did you cause some kind of accident again?”

“What about an accident? “I just want to have a ‘normal conversation.'”

“Something is strange. “You look just like you right before a big accident.”

“Stop talking nonsense. Let’s start with a ‘normal conversation’ and end it.”

“Hmm… There’s something suspicious… “I doubt it.”

“What is so suspicious and suspicious?”

“Ah… ! Anyway, it worked out well. There is something I want you to do. It’s a job that suits a village idiot like you who’s good at fighting. Still, aren’t you a warrior who knows how to fight? It’s a job that other guys are too scared to do, so guys like you have to do it anyway. They say there are no useless things or people in the church, and I think that’s exactly true.”

“What on earth are you talking about?”

“You know that place upstream of the river above the village with lots of valleys and caves? Miss Ellen, you and your friends went there for an outing and had your wallet stolen by homeless thugs who came in from another area. They said they were threatened with guns and knives. Either you go and get them, or just get my wallet back. Then he said he would give you half of the money he recovered.”

“Hmm…, Half of the money recovered…, Not bad. But will those guys obediently return my wallet? “I think they’ll shoot guns or swing knives and never give it to me?”

“So you’re asking me to do a favor for you. Because you know how to fight. “You are not a gentle sheep like other villagers, and you are a predator like them.”

“No, don’t say such clichés. … If there is too much resistance, can I kill you? Otherwise, it will be difficult to receive requests like this.”

“Okay. Good. In any case, they are not from our village, but a group of homeless beggars and thieves who came from some unknown place. I will not hold you accountable for your sins, whether I captured you alive, chased you away with kind words, or killed you because you resisted so much. Just bring back the money of Lady Ellen and her friends safely.”

“I went there, and they might have already spent all their money. Now that I think about it, I might not even get much money after working so hard.”

“It can’t be. How can they spend their money in that valley? I would have to spend the money in our village, which is closest. They have never been to our village. If there was no money in the wallet, they would just hide it in the ground.”

“Good. Accept this request. … Wait, but the most important thing. How much money has Ellen’s family and her friends been robbed of? “If the amount is small in the first place, there is no need for me to go.”

“They said it was about 1 pound.”

“A pound? That’s amazing. After all, a woman from a wealthy family carries a different amount of money in her wallet.”

“It’s not like Ellen’s family carried that much. “I combined all the money my friends had.”

Now the American colonies were no different from a competition arena where various currencies were used.

First, the official currency was the British pound.

A currency consisting of 1 pound being 20 shillings and 1 shilling being 12 pence.

However, those who primarily used this currency had to trade with their home country, England, or come from a civil servant family or an aristocratic family with connections to England.

Although it was the official currency, it meant that the amount of currency circulating in the market was small.

Therefore, most people mainly used the international trade currency, the Spanish dollar, colonial currency (low credit), or commodity currency such as tobacco or rice.

‘A loaf of bread costs about 4 to 5 pence, a cow costs about 5 to 6 pounds, and a worker’s daily wage is about 1 shilling (12 pence)…, 1 pound is a lot of money. You can roughly think of 1 penny as being equal to 10,000 won. So, 1 pound is worth about 2.4 million won?’

Roughly speaking, if 1 penny in the United States in the 1750s is equivalent to 10,000 won in Korea today, I think the exchange rate price calculation would be correct.

So, one cow costs about 12 million to 14.4 million won, which is a bit more expensive than modern times, but it’s roughly right.

But then you might be wondering why a loaf of bread costs 40,000 to 50,000 won, and based on the prices of this era, bread is so fucking big.

It can be seen that it is much larger than the whole baguette bread that you sometimes see at bakeries.

Campagne or country bread is famous for the common people’s meals. Small bread weighs less than 2 kg, but large bread weighs more than 5.4 kg.

It is so expensive because it is standard bread for common people’s meals, which is completely different from the typical small bread we know.

“Hmm, it’s about 1 pound. Not bad. Good. I’ll go. … No, wait. I didn’t come here to do this kind of request. “I came to have a ‘normal conversation’ with you, old man.”

“Yes, yes. ‘Ordinary conversation’ is good. I’ll do whatever I want when I finish this job. Go quickly and come back. If you have a hard time because there are so many of them, don’t overdo it and come back and ask for support.”

“Under! That won’t happen. Can these homeless beggars avoid my guns and knives? My name is Dutch Von the Micah IV. … Ah, Mr!. “I feel like I’m being caught up in the old man’s speaking skills, so why not just start a ‘normal conversation’ and end it?”

“I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with ‘normal conversation,’ but it never works. It will never be finished. Go quickly and come back. Then, let me end this ‘ordinary conversation.’ Oh, don’t walk. I’ll lend you a horse, so ride on it. How long can it be easy to reach the valley on foot? Tsk tsk, sell your favorite horse for gambling money…”

“You’re noisy, old man. I, Dutch Von the Micah IV, do not sell my words. “I just left it to you for a while.”

Proudly boasting my name, I borrowed a police horse from the town sheriff and headed towards the valley upriver above town.

‘I used to have a good horse that I used to ride… I lost my money gambling. The original protagonist… He was quite an asshole. It was a nice horse named Belle.’

While thinking about this and that, I arrived at the valley upstream of the river.

Then, without going to the trouble of looking for them, homeless beggars surrounded me with guns and knives pointed at me and said this.

“Hey, bro. Give me the money you have and get out of there. “If you want to live.”

There are a total of 6 people.

With my current skills, it wasn’t a particularly difficult opponent.

‘Two guys with knives, two guys with pistols, one guy with a blunderbuss, and one guy with a long gun. The most difficult thing is the blunderbuss. I think the guy with the blunderbuss is the leader…, Kill that guy first.’

“… Under! You’re lucky. I saved you the trouble of looking for me. Thank you.”

“What are you talking about? … Brother, does your head hurt somewhere? “Can’t you see I’m pointing a gun at this?”

“Huh, I can see it well. What I mean is… “They say you’re all going to die here.”

After calmly getting off the horse, I quickly pulled out a sword from subspace and cut off the head of the leader next to me with a horizontal slash.

He couldn’t even react properly to my speed.

This guy with his head cut off is the guy who tried to talk me into giving him money and a horse, and just looking at him, I can tell he’s a beggar and a king… So, he looked like a leader, and he was carrying a blunderbuss (an old-fashioned shotgun) that was the most dangerous up close, so I killed him first.

It happened so quickly, in the blink of an eye, that when the others could not react properly, he rushed at the other gunmen nearby and clung to them, then stabbed one of them in the heart with the tip of his sword, killing him, and quickly pulled out his sword. I cut the carotid artery in the neck of the guy next to me with the blade.

Both of them had pistols.

“… Whoa, whoa… !”

“Keuuk… !”

“Uh, uh, uh, that guy… !”

“Shoot! Shoot!”

– Bang! –

Since I had already taken out three guys with guns, the only guy left with a gun was one guy with a long gun, who was at a disadvantage in close-quarters combat.

Moreover, I was already fully prepared to dodge by looking closely at the gun pointed at me, so when I saw the gun pointed at me and took an evasive action, the gun’s bullet missed me by a long way.

Hehe, you didn’t get it right? How many minutes would it take to reload with those hands shaking from nervousness? “It was a time when breech-loading rifles weren’t even fully developed yet.”

When I ran towards the guy shooting a long gun, he threw away his long gun and took out a dagger from his waist and tried to fight me.
It wasn’t a bad decision.

However, my swordsmanship skills and speed were too overwhelming for him to fight back.

Weapon skill level 70, Samjae Sword Technique 12 stars, strength and agility reaching level 28 as an awakened… Etc.

Honestly, my fighting skills, which were a combination of many factors, were too big for these guys to deal with, and it was like a natural disaster like a tsunami.

“… Gagging!”

With a simple but incredibly fast horizontal slash, I cut off the head of the guy who took out the dagger like the head of the guy.

It was a good choice to throw away the long gun and take out a dagger, but I was too strong as an opponent.