Isekai.. The Legend of Supreme Magus Beginning (Isekai.. Legend of the Supreme Magus Begins)
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In the morning they continued their journey..

Their journey is safe because there are only a few small monsters they meet that Argus just passed by..

By noon Argus and the others had almost entered the border area. It was not a village, but just a wall that stretched to limit everything so that it could not pass..

And the border has only two large gates that separate people in and out of the city of Taito..

Near the wall there were only a few houses where the soldiers lived and some houses belonged to merchants.

After a while they finally approached the border, there were many people who also wanted to cross the border...

"Hey see that..! "

"What's that..?? Is that a Golem..?? "

"Could it be something that has been a rumor lately..?? "

They are very interested in the car driven by Argus and others, let alone them out of the forest path.

Argus initially wanted to come in line but Roland said to just pass, so Argus headed straight for the checkpoint..

"Stop..!! Sorry you had to..

Ehh..?? Prince..?? " Say the soldier.

He intended to get Argus to line up, but suddenly he saw Roland inside..

"Open gate.. We're leaving now.. " Said Roland.

"Good prince.. " Say the soldier.

"Open the gate let it pass..!! "

Then the gate is opened so that the Argus Vehicle can pass. The system there is one-on-one inspection, and if in a sense of security they will only open the gate..

At each gate there are two lanes, pedestrian and train tracks.. And the gate itself is only on the train track, but even though there it is called the actual gate from the point of view of Argus it is more like Portal only..

It was not a door but a portal. But maybe because its function to stop is the same as the gate, it is called the gate there.

"Hey..!! Why did it pass without being checked..?? " See someone who is being checked and still can't get through.

"of course.. Inside that thing was the royal family, who would dare to examine it..?? " Soldier said there..

"What..?? Is it possible that it's a new vehicle-type magic artifact product..?? " Task that guy again.

"Either.. It's not my responsibility, have issued permission immediately.. There are still many waiting in the back.. " Say the soldier.

"No.. I'm not leaving.. " Said the man suddenly.

"If it's a new product, I want it too.. So I'm going back to Taito city to wait for the news.. "

After saying that he immediately turned his carriage back and drove back towards the city..

The conversation between the two was also heard by many people who were queuing up behind, and some people started to rethink and finally decided to stay in Taito again.

"Who else wants to come back too..??!! " Shouted the soldier as he saw some people turn around.

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Meanwhile, Argus and the others continued their journey, and before long Argus saw the sky start to dark even though it was still daytime.

"Will it rain..?? " Said Argus.

"Get my brother.. Can this vehicle withstand the rain and still work if it rains..?? "

"Just calm.. This car can still go under the rain.. " Said Argus.

"That's great.. " Said Roland.

Then the vehicle continued to accelerate and finally began to enter the slope of the rock hills.

And that was the same time as the rain fell. So Argus slowed down his vehicle to keep it from slipping on that cliff.

But when they pass one of the cliffs. They heard a loud noise that turned out in front of them is now an avalanche and cut off the path of their vehicle. .

"Is there another path..?? " Task Argus.

"No.. It's the only path if you want to go.. " Said Roland.

"While the entrance to the city is on the other side of the hill, so if we want to go there.. It means we have to turn around.. "

"And it will be very troublesome if we cross paths with other trains.. Since the track there is the same as this line, it only fits one train at a time.. "

"It's troublesome.. " Surmuring Argus, he thought about what to do now.

The path that was in front of him at the moment was completely cut off forming a huge gap and it would take a lot of time if it was to fix it..

What else is raining. The rocks around there are currently unstable, so if you want to create a new path Argus still needs to think about the safety of that environment so as not to avalanche again.

After thinking for a while, Argus decided to retreat first..

He rewinded his vehicle, fortunately there was no other vehicle behind Argus at the moment.

So he can easily retreat without having to be blocked by other vehicles.

After arriving at a safe place Argus then get out of his car.

"I'll check if I can fix it.. " Said Argus.

Then he made a protector so that his clothes would not get wet.

After that he began to drift upwards and saw the entire path of the hills. And sure enough, the top of the cliff is very unstable and can landslide at any time.

After that Argus chose to descend on the hill, then he began to refine the surface there to be much more stable by condensing each of his Rocks using earth magic..

When he finished he began to descend down to the street in the previous.. Then he started to clear the entire rock avalanche there and made the bottom a little better so as not to landslide again.

After everything was done, he returned to his car again..

"Is there a problem..?? " Ask Roland.

"nothing. I've fixed everything and now we can continue our journey.. " Said Argus.

Then he started running his car.

The road there is now better as argus makes it much flatter than before..

After passing through the stone hills of Argus and the others finally saw the first village in the city of Mania..

When entering the village it was mostly inhabited by traders. And this village turned out to be the transit village of the merchants who would and after from the city of Taito..

Argus decided to stop there first while buying some other necessities..

While there Argus saw Roland who was buying something seemed to be arguing with the store owner, probably because Roland was wearing a head covering so the store owner was not aware of him.

"Hi uncle.. Even though I never bought here I still know the price of the goods.. " Said Roland.

"The price you're offering is double the normal price.. That's too expensive, isn't it..?? "

"I'm sorry, but this is the price now.. " Say the shop owner.

"The price increase here is not just in my store, if you don't believe try asking other stores and it must be much more expensive now.. "

"I'm still raising only twice as much, in other stores it's probably a lot more expensive than here.. "

"What is there until the price of each item becomes very high now..?? " Ask Roland.

"That's because the tax requested by the city of Mania today has doubled from before.. So we had to raise the price of each item as well.. " Say the shop owner.

"If no.. We'll have trouble paying that tax... "

"tax increase..?? There doesn't seem to be anything like that on the report.. " Murm Roland.

"Do you know what causes the tax increase to occur..?? "Ask Roland.

" I don't know for sure.. Because I always stay here and just wait for the supply of goods to come from the city.. "The shop owner said.

" Okay, thank you.. "Chap Roland.

After that he came back..

" Is there a problem..?? " Task Argus.

"Yes. There seems to be a problem in Mania.. " Said Roland.

"Taxes in the city have doubled.. This wasn't in the report I'd handled before.. "

"Forget it now.. We'll know when we get to town.. " Said Argus.

"Yes you're right..

I'll stay at the inn to find some other information.. What about you guys..?? " Task Argus.

"Actually we've rented a room at the inn, because of this I'm looking for you too. " Said Argus.

"Did the price of the inn also go up..?? " Ask Roland.

"I don't know.. I've never been here before so how do I know the normal price here.. " Said Argus.

"Oh right too.. Ii'm sorry.. " Said Roland.

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Arriving at the hotel, they ordered food.

And while eating they hear the conversation of people who intend to go to Taito.

"Help.. Taxes here are getting more and more outrageous.. " Say someone.

"really.. I don't know what else to do.. If I sell things at a higher price I could lose a lot of customers.. " Say his friend.

"If the price stays the same and I don't raise it, I will lose it.. "

"Yes.. I heard that many people chose to flee to the forest or other cities because they could not pay taxes here.. "Speaking people before.

" Of course.. If I wasn't a merchant and a commoner, I'd run away too.. Who can afford the ever-increasing taxes..?? There I can be a slave later.. "Speak the other guy.

" I don't know what the nobles think until they raise taxes as they see fit.. "Speaking people before.

" I know there are problems at sea that it is difficult to sell goods out or enter goods, but this tax increase is too excessive.. "

"I don't know.. I will go to Baisi after this and will probably stay there.. " Say the other person.

"Oh I heard there the price is quite low, right..?? I'll probably think about that later, too.. " Say the other person.

On the Argus side.

"So is all this because of problems at sea..?? " Task Argus.

"Either.. But the tax increase cannot be taken for granted without the consent of the Kingdom.. " Roland's Speech.

"So whether there is a problem or not the city of Mania is not entitled to increase taxes as they please.. "

"Yes, I agree with you.. " Said Argus.

"You'll have to deal with this later in town and see what really happens..

If it's just a matter of monsters or something I can help you, but if it's a matter of nobles.. I raise my hand, it's your business."

"I know.. Thanks though.. " Said Roland.

After they had all finished eating they chose to rest and sleep in the hotel.. The next day Argus and the others continued on their way again.

They rushed to get to Mania city as soon as possible.

But this time before entering the city of Argus replaced his vehicle with a horse carriage..

It was so as not to attract attention upon entering the city, so they could search for information much easier.

And when he passed the examination and had to pay the entrance fee, Roland was almost angry because the fee charged was almost three times the usual cost..

"Silent.. We'll find out what really happened after this.. If you go out now everything will be free.. " Said Argus.

"I know.. And if there's a problem with Marquez or anything else, I'm not afraid to break their necks.. "

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