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[Somewhere in the open field dungeon]

An old dwarf fighting a group of white mercenaries with peculiar staff, enhance with strong light magic. Their attire also resembles that of the church

(I hope someone is watching this... but should they manipulate the watcher like 100 years ago...) [Old dwarf]

Another chantless spell coming from them, but the old dwarf isn't one to fall without a fight. He takes it like a champ, even deflecting it back towards them

"That old man!" [White attire A]

"He is strong!" [White attire B]

"Hmph, he is just a non human, we of the human race should prove our superiority!" [White Attire C]

"Yeah!" [Others]

As the barrage of light magic from afar begin to take it tolls into the old dwarf body, his knee begin to giveaway

(I might not be as strong as the rumour traveler king, but...) [Old dwarf]

The old dwarf begins his chant, channeling all his earth mana magic to his axe before smashing it to the ground, creating a large pitfall, no, a separation that divides them. Some of the unfortunate men find themselves in the dark pit below, only to met their end due to the height from which they fell

"Come at me!" [Old dwarf]

"I should take that invitation" [?]

"You, how come you're still alive!" [Old dwarf]

"Right back at you" [?]

"Agnes!" [Old dwarf]

As he begin to swing his axe, all he sees is a black curtain, covering his vision before he find himself stumble into the ground

"Why you!" [Agnes]

As a last ditch effort, he made a large spike that penetrate the sole of Agnes foot right into her hip

"Tch! This fool! Just perish!" [Agnes]

(Be safe, all of you...) [Old dwarf]

With her darkness magic, she makes a large anchor like structure and begin to pierce the old dwarf head, killing him on the spot

"Mrs Agnes" [White Attire C]

"We are sorry for our incompetence" [White Attire A]

"Just go and find those slaves!" [Agnes]

"Yes!" [Others]

The white attire resume their cat and mouse game.

(That said, isn't here where she is right now... They better find those slaves fast before the slaves meet her) [Agnes]

She tried to stand back up with the help of the healer team that try to heal her but...

"DAMN YOU KARONLIR!" [Agnes]

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Director of Orphanage, basically those who oversee and take good care of the orphanages, both in Estel and Malsia, as well as the future orphanage that we will open. An immediate question that they ask when I designated Mira as the director is, why not me? I can and if possible I would like to be one, but given how I am usually tasked with various important jobs from not only Estel, but now Malsia as well, I opt not to. Plus, between Mira and me, she is the better choice as her experience in merchant will surely help manage the Orphanage, as compared to me who only knew how to fight. Heck, even back on earth, I am no one special, so it shouldn't take a genius to see which one of us is the better person for the job. Of course, Mira is reluctant at first, plus she also has her merchant job to do, and to secure an additional fund for the orphanage, surely it will be a headache for her. Thus, I gave her the Crystal spawning block that I got inside the Gift from Earth dungeon.

Just like how the zombie spawning block spawn zombie, and how the marine spawning block spawn marine monsters, this block will spawn crystal, but not a crystal monster (as those thing do exist), but instead just your regular crystal. Name it, diamond, gold, titanium, fantasy material like vibranium, mytrhil, it can produce it in an instant (well, not exactly instant, you have to give an enormous amount of mana, especially earth and fire mana as well as golem mana, and it will take some time to produce the said material. That said, when compared to the natural process, you can say that it is instantly made).

With me giving her the right to bare and use this item, her problem as a merchant is solved (or so she said, but I'm sure this will only cause her to have frequent future headache), but hey, at least she can continue to be a merchant and generate an income for herself as well as the orphanages. I will also receive a fixed percentage of sell through my account with the merchant guild, so an added bonus for me!

That said

"How exactly this little miss here will handle such important item?" [Malsia merchant guild master]

He seems reluctant to give up, well...

"I will leave it to her, it's up to her how she will use it." [Ash]

"Then why not to us!" [Noble]

"Simple, I don't know any of you. Mira however, is someone I know, and someone who can take good care of the orphanage" [Ash]

"We can also take good care of the orphanage" [Malsia merchant guild master]

"Maybe yes, maybe not. Whatever it is, I don't want to take any unnecessary risk" [Ash]

"Just give it to us! Us in the Ministry of Finance can put that thing to better use, and also can take good care of the orphans!" [Noble]

"Nope, plus, isn't this thing mine. I can give it to whoever I want, even destroy it if I so wanted to" [Ash]

"!" [Other]

I won't, it is a valuable resource for the orphanage, so I won't. That said, they really are persistent. I just hope they will keep quiet and leave

"Then we can simply have her working under us" [Noble]

"That won't be necessary" [Haliza]

"Princess!" [Nobles]

"She's my friend, and the castle already shown support for the Orphanage under my guidance. So, she's one of my worker, and should you touch her, I will ensure a capital punishment serve in the pretext of harassing a royal worker" [Haliza]

"Then, have her married into one of us noble, surely we can guide her better!" [Noble]

"Horny old man, just know your place will you!" [Ash]

"What is that!" [Noble]

Yup, I snapped a bit. Can you blame me, she's treating one of my coworker like an object, so of course I will snapped

"I will say this only once, the spawning block will be handled by the Director of Orphanage, and should anyone of you have any sort if complaints, then we can have a private "talk" among us. Of course, for your safety, you may bring however many "guards" that you want, but don't expect them to leave the same" [Ash]

"Your highness, he is threatening us noble!" [Noble]

"Shouldn't he be prosecuted!" [Noble]

Oh boy, this have turned into a mess, me and my big mouth. King Estel might favour me but I don't know much about King of Malsia

"Like he said, it's only a "talk", so you don't have to worry much about it" [King Malsia]

"But..." [Noble]

"Moving on, I will first congratulate Mira as the first Orphanage Director in this country, please do your best in doing your job" [King Malsia]

"Thank you your highness, I will do just that!" [Mira]

Hoo... so he does back me up. Guess with him having seen my work firsthand do help. Plus, I'm sure it is also due to King Estel letter, saying about my "unique" personality. Haliza and Diana must also have their fair share of stories about me and they definitely have told him about it. That said, I do hoe he wouldn't take advantage of Mira, since his daughter and Mira are friend.

(I'll just have to wait and see for that) [Ash]

I hope nothing happen. Should he take advantage of that, I'll just ask Mira and all the kids to move to Estel then, as easy as that

"As for Mr Ash here, could you explain about the new portal stone that you find, peculiar" [King Malsia]

"I will your highness" [Ash]

Guess it's my turn to talk (formally that is)

"As we knew, the portal stone that I previously found serve as a mean of transportation from one place to another. A good example is the King Behemoth case, as well as the recent Ghost monster attack at Estel, from which those monsters uses the portal stone found in Malsia" [Ash]

The one that take interests in it nodded unconsciously, recollecting back the info that they know, while the other, let just say they mind their own business

"But this one, what peculiar about it is that, the monster have undergone some changes as they get transported. I don't know whether it's just a coincidence or not, but the puppet golem master that I fought do feel strange, it magic core simply deactivated, as opposed to being destroyed. That said, it might be a one time event, but it's worth noting it down" [Ash]

"Can the corrupted Thanatos be attributed to this as well?" [King Malsia]

"Maybe, maybe not, since I'm more inclined to say that Agnes is the one responsible for it. And if we want to further theorize this, Agnes might have done something to it, and thus, the new peculiar portal stone" [Ash]

"I see" [King Malsia]

That's about it I guess for my report. It might be only a fluke, might be not, but nonetheless an important one. You don't want an army of peculiar monsters suddenly barge into your country

"That said, may I buy the two magic core that you manage to get at the dungeon?" [King Malsia]

This feel nostalgic

"For fortress defense magic?" [Ash]

"It is" [Haliza]

"Sorry, but I have to refuse it. I wanted to use both of it for the Orphanage" [Ash]

"!" [Other]

"How nostalgic" [Diana]