NOVEL SIMPLE 22. Cheerful Gothic Goddess
“That’s a weird Request.”
”You don’t understand. Monster Creation isn’t a Service exclusively useful for the Darkness, but also The Light.
Saints and Pope's can summon so called Holy Beasts, which is in fact, a Temporary Summoning of Monsters.
And my Sister probably also wants to have her own Monster, or Divine Beings, how she calls them.
That, with all the Dungeon Masters out there and your Monopoly about Monster Creation, makes you have a large Customer Base.”
”Ok, wait. About the Light and so on is new to me, but I meant the wording.”
”?”
The Goddess before explained very feverishly now tilts her head.
Why does she act like that but wears something like that?
”Reserve a Place in the Queue. You mean to reserve something for you?”
”Yes.”
”Well, the in the Queue is strange to me.”
”Okay. You’re from another World, so it seems you don’t say that over there.
How is it then? Do they get to be always first when reserved?”
”?”
”Is something wrong?”
”I believe we have different images for reservations.
A Queue is when one didn’t reserved or can’t at the business.
A reservation is to be able to request a service in a Timespan till end of the Timespan, mostly.
Like a restaurant place. From 12:30 to 13:30 one can reserve a dish a week before.
Then, at the day and Time, one can ask for the reserved place.
There are things like payment beforehand or similar things.
I am not to familiar with finer Details.”
”But what are Queue for? When one can reserve like that?”
”For the People who came spontaneously, mostly.”
”…”
”What?”
”It’s a bit weird. Not that something like that didn’t exists.
It’s just establishment either get only reservations or are quick to serve.
How would commoners know when they can come?”
”? Because they stand in the Line?”
”Stand? Can you tell me more about your version of Queue?”
”Sure, but please explain to me what is the common form here.
In my old world, or home world or whatever, a Queue is when people stand in line.
Mostly before a business. The foremost request the service.
In a Takeout or Supermarket, they go when they finished the business and the next in Line comes.
Let’s say, in a Saloon, they go when a place for them gets free and then the next in Line comes.”
”So they physically wait?”
”Yes. Is it that weird?”
”Normally, Reservations and Queue are when someone roch enough to not work all day ask for the next best time to Request the Service.”
”And the not so rich?”
”Most are working without overworking themself and then Relax.
When they Buy something they go quickly to the place it sells. Rarely, there is an overlap with someone else.
Then, they just wait.”
”…. What kind of services is common for commoner to ask for?”
”Food, general household things, work-related things like Tool repair and resources for work.”
”So no entertainment or like a day off?”
”Commoners get either employed by rich or have their own jobs.
Rarely, someone tends the Store of someone else.
When employed, the either have to do that after that time till that time or get as much work done as possible.
The ones who are on there own do as much work as they can without doing to much that they wouldn’t profit.”
”What if someone employed drags the work out to get more money?”
”? The get payed a certain sum at the end of the project, or at checkpoints of the project.
If they drag it out, the have less time to earn more.”
”I see. What about Merchants?”
”? Well, they are probably a lifeline for some.”
“? Please explain.”
”Merchants are far and view. They transport some vital resources from a nearby village to another one.
Adventures are mostly at Dungeons or help Merchants who travel through a Dungeon City.”
”Wait, wait wait wait. How many Cities are their who aren’t based on a Dungeon?”
”Like, 12.”
”Twelve in what?”
”On the whole World. There was a time when there were like 25, but got overrun by Monster or run out of Resources.”
”Are there Bog Merchants? Like, based on a Dungeon City and the Transport much and so on?”
”There are Business who do really well. They have up to five stable trading routs, so on can say they are big.”
”…”
I will have to purely guess, but I would say, something about transport is really lacking.
She talked about escorts, so either Monster or Bandits, maybe Both.
My impression is, that on the World, travel outside Villages is really unsafe.
There are few Merchants between Villages and every Village has to sustain itself, mostly.
Or something like that?
The Question now are the Rich, the Adventures and the Government.
”How are the Rich like? Or how are they defined as rich?”
”Oh, that has to do with history.
Before, like a Hundred Years, our System was very supportive of Sapients.
They Build Kingdoms or something and had Nobles.
Very Rich dudes or something. They also had magic Tools for transportation.
After we took off the training wheels, everything was going downwards for them.
Like, nothing really preserved. They couldn’t reach a ridiculous level of swordsmanship mastery anymore just through swinging a Sword and so on.
And everyone was like WHAATT? Kings couldn’t rely on their class anymore and had to think actively for themself, and so on.”
“…”
”My Sister said that it would be a Good Idea, let them learn what they can do and so on.
Now the Civilisation is crippled. You know about Laylas Dungeon and the Magic Tool?”
”Yes, she told me about it.”
”One could say that the Wind-blowing Magic Tool is the greatest Achievement of them.
They don’t even understand the underlying Principle. If on of them wouldn’t even be a Perfectionist, it wouldn’t even function.
At least the “Artefact”, how they call it, was high end, so a big version is manageable, cost-wise.”
“Some Remnants of the Rich and successful business can protect themself through Magic tools.
The Business are immobile, like massages and so on.
The Rich are literally living in the Magic Tools for transport.
They get everything they need for warning for oblivious threads or being in the city, were they also profit from their Defense.
Otherwise, they are always overworking their Guards.
And Business from old still have teachings, which were for beginners, now being legendary techniques.
And also communication Magic Tools. So, the say when they are next in Queue.”
”And that only Works because of my Sisters Preservation Magic.
Without that, the Business and Magic Tool would have been ruined before anyone could have made use of them.
Only her Church is somewhat advanced, living on her Withe Whale Divine Beings, called Mobby or something.”