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272 – The Golden Disaster, the Great Depression (2)
There is no such thing as infinity.
Especially in the area of resources, what appears to be infinite simply appears to have no limits in human estimation.
This perspective may need to be thought of a little differently now in the golden age.
“Gold is infinite, huh?”
I looked up at the tower of gold bars displayed on one side of the Marquis Castle Square.
A gold bar tower as tall as a four-story building that is hard to find even in the royal capital.
A golden tower that is not empty inside like the golden airship that was being manufactured in a certain warehouse of the Government General, but is also filled with gold ingots.
‘I was properly fooled by the incompetent king.’
It was not only the empire that suffered a great loss from the golden crisis caused by Saint Geo Nostrum.
I also suffered greatly.
Based on the gold he had collected in the land of Barcelona, he dug up magic stones and tried all kinds of tricks to make it look like he had a lot of gold while using the gold to a minimum, but all of his actions ended in vain.
‘If I had known this would happen, I would have prepared enough magic stones to float all the gold.’
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It was possible to make a house out of gold by making bricks, so why couldn’t you make an airship out of gold?
It was a moment when I felt a little skeptical about myself after working hard to build a boat for half a year.
Of course, technological advancement cannot be ignored.
The experience of combining all the technologies that went into the golden ship to turn it into the tomb of an incompetent king cannot be ignored.
For example, if gas hidden in the empty space inside comes in contact with fire, it can easily cause an explosion.
The gold hidden in the aircraft is concentrated only in a specific area.
Unless you are in danger of death, there is no need to escape into the panic room inside the golden airship.
And regarding the operation of the airship, if someone with the blood of Gibraltar performs a certain operation, the magic engine and wind stone of the airship will all ‘stop operation and self-destruct’.
By researching such technology, we reached a stage where we could physically recreate it, but it ended up being useless.
‘I can only hope that the incompetent king steals it later.’
Could it be that the Incompetent King can’t stand the golden airship again, and that a traitor or something else is gleefully stealing it, saying it’s something he should have?
If that happens, it will be the icing on the cake, but right now it is just a complex that is ready for operation in a warehouse.
It’s just a huge chunk of gold.
‘At least now people won’t be so offended if a golden airship flies in the sky.’
When you have nothing, you may feel uncomfortable that all that gold was used to make an airship, but it’s a different story when each person is holding 5kg of gold bars in their arms.
Has there ever been so much gold in history?
Someone says.
It appears that exchanges with the empire have become active and the empire’s culture is slowly trying to encroach on the kingdom’s economy, but it was all just kneeling for this day.
The golden hero, Golden-Saint Geo Nostrum, has been holding back in order to spread infinite gold across the canyon in order to destroy the empire’s economy.
Well, of course it’s nonsense.
The situation on the continent is currently at its worst, to the point where some people make jokes like this and mentally declare victory.
About 2 months.
By mobilizing knights from the Marquis of Gibraltar and killing the golden slaves before they approached the Marquis’ Castle, the amount of gold secured amounts to about 5 tons.
Just by simple calculation, it is a story that 5 tons of gold, or about 5,000 kg, were collected, and about a thousand golden knights were eliminated.
It’s like this in Gibraltar alone, but what about the entire continent of Nostrum?
If we include the amount of gold that was secretly stolen by gold chasers who hunted golden knights outside the Marquis of Gibraltar without officially reporting it, how much gold would have increased?
And the scariest thing is that no one knows how much more it will increase in the future.
So.
Currently, the empire is preparing.
The emperor quickly returns to the imperial castle and mobilizes all the administrative power of the empire to prevent the golden crisis, while at the same time trying his best to find the culprit behind everything.
-Find the missing Saint Geo Nostrum.
Following the emperor’s orders, the shadows of the empire traveled throughout the kingdom looking for the emperor.
Whether it’s magic, a miracle, or a curse, killing the ‘magician’ is the most fundamental solution.
However, as everyone knows, or even those who did not know, there is one thing that they have now realized again.
“Where is our Highness hiding?”
Although he is incompetent, the man who is more capable than anyone else when it comes to running away is Saint Geo Nostrum.
It’s already been two months since St. Geo Nostrum went missing from the royal capital of Toledo, reportedly under an assassination threat.
Today too, the gold on the continent increases, and I have another mission.
“Now then, what should we do from now on to get this gold off the market?”
Removal of gold.
The task is to secure the real gold that has already been released into the market and to eliminate the false gold that is pouring out indiscriminately due to the curse of Nostrum from the market.
So-called disposal.
“How can I turn all these golden nuggets into trash?”
I asked the magic stone I was holding.
“Administrators of the Barcelona Governor-General. If you have a good idea, please speak up without hesitation.”
Beyond the magic stone, you can see the administrators gathered in the conference room of the Barcelona Governor-General.
“It’s already been almost two months since the Golden Rebellion took place. Until today, I told everyone to bring in one idea at a time. I’m sure it’s not like I’ve been neglecting my work because I’m not at the Government General, right?”
A governor-general without a governor.
“Or perhaps you, too, have some kind of power, and have been looking for golden heroes at night to collect false gold? Should I go to the Government General? I want the Golden Spirits to come to the Government General in Barcelona, not to the old county territory. .”
As to why there is no Governor-General in the Government-General, the reason is simple.
“Or perhaps you are asking me to send one of my younger brothers to Barcelona Castle instead of me? I trust the administrators. If you show great results this time, won’t the Emperor trust you?”
The golden slaves always seek Gibraltar’s blood.
They regard anything that stands in their way as an obstacle and draw their weapons, but basically they march towards the territory of Gibraltar, whether by using the highway, climbing over a mountain, or swimming through a river.
“I hope you have found traces of the incompetent king, or have found a way to dispose of this gold. Otherwise… We, Gibraltar, may have to live trapped in the Marquis’ Castle for the rest of our lives.”
Tracing the blood of Gibraltar.
If the blood is somewhere else, it will try to move somewhere else.
“Tell me, what should I do with all this gold?”
[Governor. We gathered opinions from administrators belonging to the Construction and Urban Affairs Bureau.]
Among the administrators, the Director of Construction and Urban Affairs was the first to stand up.
The other administrators swallowed their saliva and looked at the Director of the Construction and Urban Affairs Bureau, and the Director of the Construction and Urban Affairs Bureau opened his mouth nervously, like a man carrying a gun.
[From what I understand, I heard that there is no real difference between fake gold and regular gold.]
“So, what is it for?”
[…Build a house, right?]
The other administrators closed their eyes tightly at the words of the Construction and Urban Affairs Director.
[Use gold instead of bricks. Since it melts easily anyway, wouldn’t it be okay to harden it into a brick shape and use it? On the outside, you can either apply dirt or build bricks made of limestone or marble.]
“Indeed. The inside is filled with gold?”
[Yes.]
“…”
The administrators working at the Barcelona Governor-General’s military power are not at the level of masters or the best among high-ranking knights, but they are carefully selected and sent by the emperor.
“Is that the best?”
[It may not be the best, but I think it would at least be appropriate to utilize the gold that is immediately overflowing.]
Those people made this decision.
“Let’s build a house with gold?”
[Not only houses, but everything else is built with gold, right?]
“…”
Let’s use gold to make something.
“Adoption.”
[…Yes?]
“Let’s build a house, a road, and even a train made of gold. We’ll make an automatic magic ship entirely out of gold, and we’ll dig up gold mines with a pickaxe made of gold.”
[Well, sorry! We…]
“What is there to be sorry for? I mean it sincerely.”
[…Yes?]
This is a problem if you hold a meeting remotely through magic communication from afar.
I am speaking sincerely, but as the administrators listen to my voice remotely through magic communication, they cannot tell by my voice and nuance whether I am serious or joking.
“Let’s build a house out of gold. How do we make a castle out of gold, starting with the governor’s office?”
[…
“Does this seem like a joke?”
[Oh, no. Shall we… Pursue it?]
“Okay.”
I am serious.
“We have to do something now. The price of silver is already chasing gold, and if we don’t use gold like this, gold will become cheaper than silver. …Although it is premature.”
And if gold is not used in this way, there is no way to calm down the imperial economy, which has already begun to shake due to the golden crisis.
“Keep talking. Let’s talk seriously and frankly about how we can waste our gold on pretty trash.”
There is too much gold pouring down to tell you not to play around.
* * *
Gold here, gold there.
Although the whole world has been dyed gold, that doesn’t mean everything turns to gold right away.
Why do people call the gold pouring from Nostrum ‘false gold’?
What is the difference from real gold, so they call it fake gold? In fact, even in Nostrum, they will secure the gold that is pouring in countless amounts, but are they reluctant to do something with it?
Is it the blood that moved a dead body?
Because it feels like you’re insulting the deceased?
Because it is a substance that contained the soul of the hero of Nostrum, even if only for a moment?
Or is it because they are on guard at the individual level, knowing that it will lead to a huge rise in prices in the kingdom and empire economy?
There may be reasons for that, but the fundamental reason is the ‘insecurity’ that is different from real gold.
“Research is finished. Finally.”
The results of Director Bathory Erzsebet’s two-month study on false gold have been released.
“There is only one difference between gold as a mineral and false gold. Minerals are eternal, but false gold is a substance created by magic.”
Is the origin natural, or was something from nature created through magic and miracles?
“It basically has the same structure as gold and reacts the same, but it reacts differently to certain reactions. What do you think that is, Master of Gibraltar?”
“Blood of Gibraltar?”
“That’s right.”
Director Bathory, with dark circles under his eyes, thrust two gold bars in front of me.
“Do you want to drop a drop of blood here? No. It’s okay if it’s not blood, but saliva.”
“When I said blood, it looked like something huge, but when I said saliva, it felt like something was suddenly going down.”
“Seriously. Come on.”
“…”
I briefly cut the tips of my fingers with the fingernail of the other hand and then bled on each piece of gold.
Excited, Excited.
One gold bar began to wriggle as if its heart was beating.
And then-
Passsss.
“Ta-da. It disappeared without a trace.”
“…”
“It’s just as I expected. Ah, don’t misunderstand. I tried using somnus, silver, and all kinds of reagents to check the reaction, but nothing happened.”
“You tricked me, Director Bathory.”
“It was an impromptu experiment. Huhu, is it true that the research has been completed? If it reacts to the blood of Gibraltar, that is the answer, and if it does not react to the blood of Gibraltar, this is permanent gold that humanity cannot do anything about.”
The false gold reacted with the blood of Gibraltar and disappeared like fog within a few seconds.
“To give it some magical meaning, the only people who can reap the golden blessings of Nostrum are those with the blood of Gibraltar. How about that? Or…”
“The only one who can judge Nostrum is Gibraltar?”
“That could be possible.”
“…”
If there is a spell cast on false gold, and the blood of Gibraltar is needed to undo this spell.
“…If it’s not the blood of Gibraltar, isn’t it no different from gold?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“Would you like to continue the experiment? About the correlation between blood and gold.”
False gold.
-If Gibraltar is not touched, it will not disappear.
The conclusion was reached.
“Well, you can’t turn false gold into pretty trash…”
…
“Director Bathory. Are you interested in art?”