Chapter 700

Chapter 700: Working with the People Here Temporarily

There’s no friendship here. Just mutual goal. To tame as many monster as possible so they can make money to stay in the middle area of the city.

I also didn’t talk much with them. Just following their order.

After a while, we encountered several monsters. The fire mage’s magic was too weak even though fire was supposed to be the weakness of the monsters we encountered. The tamer only brought his bull to pull the carriage. And the earth mage only there for protection.

“Hey, you! You’re a wind mage, right? Make my fire stronger,” the fire mage ordered.

I just obeyed his order. Though it’s not wind magic. I just made some flammable gas to make the fire bigger.

“I won’t make the fire too big. We need them alive so we can get money,” I said.

“That’s good enough. Seems like we’re at the right place,” the fire mage said.

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The tamer and the earth mage, after seeing that the monsters weakened after getting hit by the fire magic enhanced with air magic, or wind magic since that’s what I make them to believe, smiled seeing how easy it is to capture those monsters.

The tamer then tamed those weakened monsters with the earth mage protecting him, while the fire mage and I were working together.

“They are not that strong, but since there are many of them, we can get enough money already to stay in the middle area of the city. What do you think? Should we keep going or return?” the tamer asked.

No one speak at all. But no one said that’s enough and let’s return. I guess they want to keep going. But seems like no one here is willing to say it.

I was thinking that I should just obey them, but I guess I need to take action here.

“Let’s make things clear first. We’re all here to get some money and live. Am I right?” I asked.

The three of them nodded. But with the cult’s teaching, I guess being a coward and afraid to die will only make them think that they’re traitors for being afraid of death. That’s why no one is willing to say it out loud.

And now that I pointed it out, they nodded in agreement. They are all willing to leave. Though I don’t care if they are forced to join the cult or not. I’ll just end up getting a headache if I found out that there are more innocent people here. Just the girls alone is enough. I don’t want more of them.

“Then we’ll decide after we hear what each of us want. I want to stay somewhere further from the wall so I won’t get caught in those attack again. And I want more money so I can sleep with women. What about you?” I asked.

By saying it first, the others will feel less reluctant to tell their intention.

“I’m also the same,” the fire mage said.

“If possible, I want to save a lot of money so I can leave this world and return to Earth,” the earth mage said.

“I like it here. There are a lot of monsters I want to tame. But I’m too weak and so are you. If I can have more money, I can hire stronger mages to help me tame strong monsters. If I’m lucky, I might be able to tame those vampires who attacked. I’ll say that we keep going,” the tamer said.

We’re all agree to it. But I don’t care.

Though maybe this is for the better. Maybe I can let them die if we continue with the mission.

“Does everyone has enough mana to continue?” the fire mage asked.

“Since our targets are those monsters, I only need to increase the power of your fire slightly. I’m fine. Though I will say this. If we face stronger monsters, I’ll escape on my own,” I said.

“Yeah, that’s what everyone will do. Anyway, it’s all depend on how much more monsters that our tamer can tame. So, how much is it?” the earth mage asked.

“Hmm... I have got seven monsters now excluding the bull. And my maximum number of monsters I can tame is twenty in one day. So, it’s thirteen,” the tamer said.

“Then we will look for at least seven more monsters before we return. I think it will be easier now since we have the help of the monsters. No need to force the tamer to get more monsters. If everyone is fine with it, let’s continue,” the earth mage said.

Now the earth mage is assuming the position of the leader of this made up group. Well, we might just be together for today. And sooner or later, they will all die anyway.

I’ll just play along with them today. I only want to pretend that I’m with the cult.

Soon, we encountered similar monsters. There are ten of them, which is still within the limit. And with the help of the recently tamed monsters, we tamed them all easily.

And so, while it was still afternoon, we return back to the base.

The bull carriage brought us to the gate while the tamer is bringing the bull and his other tamed monsters to the gate for monsters.

I gave the black coin to the gatekeeper and we’re allowed to enter.

As we enter, we walked to where the tamer is waiting with our money. I wonder why they think it’s a good idea to give the tamer the money. He can easily divide the money unfairly.

I checked the place where they are holding the tamed monsters. And the monsters we caught is being counted. And as we arrive there, the tamer is receiving our money.

Without anyone else noticing, he grabbed some cash and hid it under his clothes before leaving that place and approach us.

“Where should we go to share the money?” the tamer asked.

“Let’s just find a cheap place to eat. We will use the money to pay for the meal, and then divide the rest to the four of us equally,” the earth mage said.

After that, the money was equally shared. With the tamer still hiding the money he grabbed previously.

It was enough for me to stay at the inn in the middle area for a few days.

“So, will we team up again tomorrow?” the earth mage asked.

“I don’t think so. I will just leave when I’m almost out of money. If not, I’ll just stay at the inn. I will leave whenever I want, so I don’t think that joining with any group permanently is a good idea for me,” I said.

“I usually go out once every two days. I won’t work tomorrow, but if it’s two days later, you can ask me if you need any help,” the fire mage said.

“I want to get as much money as possible, so I will go every day. What about you?” the earth mage then asked the tamer.

“I also want to go every day. Let’s make a team with just the two of us. It will be easy to get someone to join us. And we can ask these two as well when they want to gain some money,” the tamer said.

I don’t think I will go out again to help the cult find more monsters to tame anymore. I had enough. And I learned a lot as well.

Other than those who are really close with each others, they treat other people as strangers. Even now, we’re not really close.

The two who just partied together didn’t even tell each other their names. Just how distrustful were they?

The money I got was so little compared to the money I looted from the destroyed houses, or the money I stole from the passerby. Though it doesn’t matter anyway.

We split up after that. There should be no more need for me to meet them anymore. And none of them are staying at the same inn as I was.

Inside the base, there’s nothing unusual. Other than some people who are extremely on guard for the next attack. Which will probably not happen anytime soon. Unless the vampires who are charmed by Arin and free to do anything they want decided to come again. Though they captured some men, so I think there won’t be any attack for a week at least.

I return back to the inn I stayed and when it’s midnight, right when the people here lowered their guard the most even though the base was just attacked last night, I move to an empty alley where I opened a portal to enter here before.

I’m going to get the woman who is willing to be our spy here. It’s finally time for her to make her move.

I checked the surrounding and didn’t see anyone. There’s no expert level mages nearby. And even though the gate always have someone guarding, I don’t think there will be anyone to return here late at night. Those who are outside should be camping now.

After everything is clear, I opened a portal and get the girl who was in a room with the other girls I brought back to Earth, entered. The others whispered good luck to her as the portal is closing.

“Wear this cloak for now. We’ll go to the inn you were before. Try to convince them.”