Prime Minister Magna replied in the king’s stead. “Monster materials? We’ll gladly purchase them. As long as they’re not materials from low-tier monsters like goblins. We can always resell materials of certain qualities or use them for research.”
“That is an acceptable request. We may be the ones to profit in the end,” The king said in agreement with the prime minister.
“The materials are stored in my Item Box, so I can take them out at any time. Where should I place them?”
“The storage facility at the Royal Guard’s headquarters should suffice. It’s easier to transport from there. I’ll let them know.”
Receiving the king and prime minister’s approval was huge. Cain wasn’t running out of space in his Item Box, but he didn’t want to hoard monster materials in there forever.
“I’d like to play some Othello today as well, but…” the king trailed off as he glanced at Magna.
Magna immediately shook his head. “No. You have a meeting today. There isn’t much time to waste.”
Stopped by his prime minister, the king sighed with a dejected look. “How unfortunate. Another time then, Cain.”
The king rose out of his chair and left the room.
“You can head immediately to the Royal Guard’s headquarters. I’ll let them know you’re coming,” Magna said before following after the king.
Left alone in the room, Cain left as well and headed towards the Royal Guard’s headquarters. He had gone there once when he first arrived at the capital, so he knew where it was. He told the knight stationed at the entrance why he was there, and after entering, he ran into a familiar face.
“Yo, long time no see, Hero Baron Cain.”
The vice-captain of the Royal Guard, Daim, was there waiting for him.
“Long time no see. I’m not a hero, Vice-captain Daim. I spoke with the prime minister, and I’m here to deliver some monster materials.”
“A servant from the prime minister arrived just now and told me already. Follow me,” Daim said, gesturing at Cain to follow him. The two walked to a small storage building nearby.
“Is this place good enough? This is where we usually store monsters.”
The small storage building was roughly sixteen-by-sixteen feet in size. It was large enough to store small monsters, but there were many large monsters within Cain’s Item Box as well, and there was no way they would fit in this small storage building.
“Vice-captain Daim, I’m sorry, but this place isn’t large enough to hold them all.” Cain decided to be upfront with Daim. He didn’t plan to unload everything he had here, but he had stockpiled a lot of materials from sufficiently-ranked monsters by this point.
“Just how much do you have stored in that Item Box of yours?”
“Enough to fill about ten of these small storehouses. One of them can only hold a single large monster.”
Daim was naturally astonished by Cain’s words. “I heard you’ve placed a red dragon at the entrance of your mansion. Do you have more monster corpses of that level?” Daim hadn’t attended Cain’s housewarming party, so he had likely heard about it from somewhere else.
“No, I don’t have any more of the same level as that dragon. I do have several twenty-foot earth dragons, though.”
“Hang on, earth dragons? The same A-rank earth dragons that require an entire team of A-Rank adventurers to defeat?”
“I don’t know what rank they are, but they’re definitely earth dragons. I’m not registered with the adventurer’s guild, so I don’t really know about their classifications.”
“You sure are a mystery, Sir Cain. For now, can you just place the materials outside? We’ll get some knights to transport them later.”
“Okay. Here I go, then.”
Cain began to take monster corpses out of his Item Box, one after another. Twenty-foot earth dragons, thirty-two-foot anacondas, ogre kings, ogres, orcs—Cain dumped out a lot of monsters, including Variants. The corpses formed a small mountain.
“That’s all I have.”
Cain was very satisfied, as his Item Box now looked a lot tidier.
Item Box was already a rare skill, and Cain’s Item Box had a monstrous carrying capacity. Daim’s jaw dropped in disbelief as he stared at the mountain of monsters. He could also hardly believe his eyes when he saw the monsters themselves. Monsters ranging from C-rank to A-rank were placed onto the heap, one after another.
Did Sir Cain hunt all of these himself? That’s not possible…
A-rank adventurers would not be capable of doing so. Even S-rank adventurers might not be able to.
Cain, of course, didn’t know that. He looked up at the small mountain with satisfaction.
Daim cautiously met Cain’s gaze. “Sir Cain, are you, by any chance, a Hero? Or a Disciple of the Gods?” Daim was barely able to get the words out.
Cain’s body unconsciously reacted to the words “Disciple of the Gods.”
“…Huh? No, no. I’m just the third son of Margrave Garm…” Cain answered, tensing up.
“…I won’t inquire further. It’ll take us some time to go through this many corpses. Do you mind if we pay you at a later date?”
“The king just paid me for some wine glasses, so I’m not in a rush. Contact me once you’re ready, and I’ll come by.”
Between his stipend and the percentage he collected from Othello sales, Cain didn’t have any monetary problems. He also still had the jewels he acquired from defeating the red dragon. Once he started selling the Venetian wine glasses and bidet-equipped toilets, he’d likely be even richer.