Chapter 58.1
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“Your Highness!”
“Burton, thank you for your hard work.”
He was Benjamin’s aide. Grace didn’t understand why he was there.
“I asked him to go ahead and check. If there are no issues, he will come down the road to meet us, saving us time. And if there are problems, we can prioritize sorting them out based on urgency.”
Abel Burton didn’t look too tired, luckily.
He handed Benjamin the documents he was carrying.
“This is a list sorted by the number of residents in this territory and the urgency of patients.”
“You’ve done well.”
“What are you talking about? It’s my duty to assist Your Highness, and I feel honored to be able to do such things on behalf of Your Highness.”
“….”
Grace glanced briefly at Abel Burton.
He spoke without batting an eye with a somewhat stiff face.
Benjamin laughed heartily.
“Speak with a bit more honesty with your stiff mouth.”
“I mean it sincerely.”
‘Did I ever mention checking Count Ardel’s territory in advance?’
In fact, Grace’s request to accompany on the mission could be considered quite absurd.
Grace knew the original work, so she knew that this place was a source of contamination, but others could not be sure of this fact.
However, Grace was not a person who could give logical reasons that everyone would agree with.
In the end, everything went well, and Grace was also happy that Benjamin believed her words without a reason.
‘Though my image might not be good outside…’
It seemed that there was no negative perception of her within the Felton Duchy. Grace felt uncomfortable somewhere in her heart for no reason.
“Well, let’s distribute the goods and send a doctor to places with serious patients first.”
“Yes.”
“And also…”
Grace looked at the geologists awkwardly stuck between those who were taking out the luggage in the distance.
“I have something to ask those people to do. Can I take them separately?”
“Yes, they are the staff that My Lady has gathered.”
“Thank you.”
“That’s what I should say.”
Benjamin gently grabbed Grace’s curly carrot-colored hair and said.
“It was thanks to you, we were able to discover and prepare for the source of the contamination more quickly, right? If it had been later, there would have been greater damage than this.”
“….”
Grace’s heart was itching again.
“I-It’s nothing. It’s thanks to Your Highness for listening to my insignificant words.”
It was strange, both ticklish, embarrassing, and uncomfortable at the same time.
Thinking it was because of her conversation with Benjamin, Grace quickly got away from him. Benjamin looked down at his empty hand in an instant and watched Grace’s back as she moved away from him.
He didn’t say anything for a moment and turned his head to Abel Burton.
“Since you know the people here best, can I entrust you with the role of guiding the doctors?”
“Yes, please leave it to me.”
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The current time is 1:30 pm.
It would be a long time before the sun sets.
After instructing the geologists to prepare, Grace divided the team.
The teams, selected from a large number of people, were scattered to inspect the soil in the village and select crops that would be helpful in the current situation.
‘In fact, her actual goal wasn’t this.’
There was another separate and important goal.
‘The mine.’
There was a mine in Count Ardel’s territory.
But it was just a mine in name only, and nothing valuable came out of it. The quality was poor and the light was weak, so it couldn’t even be sold at a cheap jewelry store.
“After Aria purified Count Ardel’s territory, the temple would periodically check for contamination and perform additional purification work if needed. The people here were so grateful and sorry that they didn’t know what to do to repay.”
So one of the priests who participated in the expedition at the time, who was a representative of sorts, asked for the mine on this land to be donated to the temple.
In fact, it then became a good rumor as the temple just asked for a mine that was difficult to treat.
Although it was not even what Aria had demanded, some people still praised her.
‘Anyway, it might be because Aria is a saintess and the symbol of the temple.’
This mine had been closed for a very long time. So when the temple demanded the mine in the original work, the attitude of the young people in Count Ardel’s territory was that they had never heard of it, and only the older ones were surprised.
‘If I were from the temple, I would have asked for a donation of some of the first crops cultivated after the land is revived. Otherwise, I would have asked them to help people in equally difficult situations.’
That way it would be easier to uphold the temple’s status.
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