CH 18

Plant Mage 18

I’m Thinking of Buying Land (4)

I counted my assets in front of the receptionist.

In total, there were about 96 million yen in my leather bags.

I was 4 million short to purchase the land.

「In addition to mithril coins, you even have a large number of big gold coins….」

「Yeah but it is still not enough.」

I can’t help but shrug my shoulders.

I thought I would be able to purchase my ideal land smoothly but….it seems like I was a little naïve.

「How about joining a guild? It looks like you’re a mage. If you enter the mage guild or magic tool guild, not only this is more than enough but you can also get a loan.」

「No, I would refrain.」

I immediately denied it.

I don’t want to join an organization where I need to socialize.

「So, are you going to give up.」

「No.」

I can’t do that either.

「I’m going to make some money. I’ll be back by evening….no, by afternoon so would you please prepare the land for purchase? This is so nice so I think someone might buy it immediately.」

「Eh?」

I took my wallet back and left.

There must be something I can do.

The receptionist stared at Riito’s back in amazement.

「It’s nice?....that land in the middle of nowhere?」

He muttered “What a strange kid” and took out documents here and there.

Usually, the phrase “I’ll earn 4 million yen by the afternoon” can only be thought of as a lie but he thought he should prepare the registration just in case.

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「So, four million yen.」

I’m thinking about what to do while walking around the city.

That’s an amount that you can only earn with time.

When I was still an adventurer in the empire, I earned money by completing quests ordered by the country. Dangerous and difficult monster subjugation would earn me around 500 to 1000 gold coins.

However, there are only a few requests like that per year and there are no new monsters appearing on the upper continent. The Hundred Year War Against Monsters ended in victory for humanity.

「Then, I can only think of business but….」

I need something that can be sold for as expensive as possible.

The only thing that I can do is to make plants grow faster.

If I produce too many crops, their value will plummet. Even if there are a lot of crops, there is a limit to the amount that people can eat.