With New Recruit Roben's guidance, the Tracking Mercenary Group headed to where the war merchant was. They were people who used soldiers as guards and handled logistics or sold byproducts after battles. If lords were the state, war merchants were public corporations.
Because they used soldiers rather than mercenaries, they didn't spend more on guards, and being merchants, they thought maximizing margins was best, so inevitably more money entered the lord's hands.
Because they received the lord's protection, not touching them was the best policy. Because the lord's flag could be seen in any village, everyone knew it.
True to a merchant, he had a warm face, and the war merchant, who hung out with soldiers so his body was also quite trained, wore fairly expensive high-class clothes.
Red silk was splendidly attached to both arms and golden embroidery was sewn on his chest.
Obviously clothes that had been worked on.
'He must have a lot of money.'
