I BECAME A SKULL IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH THE LABYRINTH MASTER'S WORK.

CHAPTER 228: WHY DON'T WE SEE THEM AGAIN?

Lust was part of the 7 great sins that followed Elos. Although Lust does not have the strength of Pride and Wrath, but he has his own advantages, namely about economic and financial problems, Lust is the expert.

Even Elos appointed Lust as finance minister is not without reason, at least Lust has helped Elos solve many financial problems in his territory, especially when Ark and Tersin stopped trading with the territory of the Master of the Labyrinth. If not without Lust's help, then the economy in the Elos region might have already fallen.

Besides Lust has another uniqueness, he is a Dark Elf who has 2 jobs simultaneously namely Poison Witch and Master Merchant, therefore he is very expert on financial matters as well as poison.

What interested Elos most now was that Lust had never reported anything to Elos, Pride often reported to Elos if there were any problems in his territory. But Lust never reported to Elos despite financial problems in the Animal Man Kingdom and beyond, she always assumed that she herself could overcome them, after all Lust is very confident to address all the problems in the financial field.

Therefore, Elos was a little interested that Lust actually reported to him this time. Whether Lust has changed or there are huge financial problems in the Elos region to Lust who always feel confident even though he has to report to her.

Seeing that Elos was very interested, Hergaf wasted no more time and immediately said "Master, according to the information Lust gave then there was a problem with some merchants in Portus Aureus Province, he said, the place where Governor Nors works".

"What problem?", asked Elos a little confused, after all Portus Aureus Province is not a new province that belongs to Elos. More precisely Portus Aureus Province is the 2nd province controlled by Elos so there should be no more problems here, let alone there is a labyrinth also on Novus Island near the capital Portus Aureus.

"Based on the report that Lust received from Governor Nors, it seems that these merchants gathered together and formed groups of under 1 person. Surprisingly these traders always give money without hesitation towards the figure they refer to as the chairman, even they move according to what this chairman says. The problem is that their recent actions are harming all residents in Portus Aureus Province, they raised the price of the goods they sold up to 2 to 4 times more expensive than the price in the province of the other master".

The face of Elos suddenly became gloomy, were these merchants not trying to fight against Elos by doing this. But Elos was still a little clueless, why were these merchants still fighting him. Is Elos's lesson in traitors and bribes not enough for them? Are these merchants far more concerned with money than their own lives?

"What did Lust do? If there is such a problem then he no longer needs to report to me, just arrest the traders who tried to deceive these residents and let the law teach them a lesson. However our territory already has laws, so let them be legal according to the existing laws, but make sure they get the most severe laws" said Elos who felt a little strange, which is not the case, according to him, this problem did not need to ask Elos anymore because Lust only needed to directly punish these traders.

"Sir, if it were just a normal trader or group of traders then Lust would have already punished them without hesitation, but these people are a little different so Lust can't punish them recklessly without your decision" Hergaf said, explaining Lust's reasoning.

"Different? What's different? As long as they make a mistake then give them punishment according to the law! Although they are protected by Ark or Tersin, do not hesitate to punish them also as long as they make mistakes against existing laws" said Elos firmly, this is not questionable.

Hergaf became a little hesitant before deciding to go back to explaining again "However, their chairman is a friend of the master so that Lust does not dare to act recklessly, however, at least without the master's permission then Lust was afraid of angering the master if he attacked this group of merchants".

"The head of the group is named Yazou and his wife is Gisha, they claim to be a close friend of the lord of the earth, even Yazou has a picture with the master when he was on earth first", hergaf said, "The reason why the merchants of Portus Aureus Province gave Yazou money was because they were afraid of Yazou's threat, who was the merchant who did not give him money, then he would report the merchant to the master to have their business closed".

"Not only that, Yazou also said that they could report this matter to master. But as long as they do that then they themselves are the losers because Yazou and the master are friends, the master must kill anyone who tries to report Yazou because they mean traitors. Therefore the traders agreed to give money and did not report, if not Governor Nors who discovered the actions of these traders then we certainly do not know this problem until now".

"After that, the act of increasing the price of goods was also Yazou's idea. According to him he and the master are friends so there is no problem to increase the price of goods in order to get more profit, all the merchants who refuse will report to the master to be dismissed. So the merchants could only do everything according to what Yazou said, I don't know if all of these actions had anything to do with Gisha, but it seems that Gisha also used the money Yazou earned and never stopped her actions, even though she knew everything Yazou did".

Elos was a little surprised, thinking that after Serun who became a hero did not exist then he would not meet again with the people from that earth except Riona. But who would have thought that Elos could still hear their names, let alone these people using names as friends of Elos to take advantage of the existing merchants.

Elos' face turned cold, he now understood why the merchants dared to do all these actions, apparently they thought that the price increase was Elos' decision conveyed through Yazou.

"Are these traders stupid? How could they possibly believe so easily?", said Elos, should the merchants be made up of cunning people who were not easily deceived.

Hergaf also smiled bitterly "Evidence the image of Yazou while on earth with the master has made the traders believe, he said, however they knew that the picture Yazou showed was not a trick at all but that master had indeed been a close friend of Yazou".

Elos does not speak anymore, he and Yazou used to be close enough as friends so they must have pictures when they were together, Elos never thought that Yazou used all those images to deceive the people in the territory of Elos.

When Elos was angry, Riona who was behind him said with a cold smile "Elos, why don't we meet them again? After all we and they are old friends on earth, and then they dare to use your name to deceive the merchants of our territory! So, why don't we go to catch them directly! With the problem of fraud as well as giving huge losses to existing traders and residents, they might be able to go to jail for decades or even to death according to the existing rules, am I right?".

Elos thought for a while before slightly nodding "You're right, it doesn't hurt to meet this old friend who dares to make trouble in our territory! Let's go, it's time to reunite with Yazou and Gisha!".

Elos decides to return with Riona to the Animal-Man Kingdom, although they can allow either Lust or Pride to capture Yazou and Gisha, but with Riona's advice, Elos thinks it's better to go directly to catch them.