Chapter 68 - You Decide (1/2)

The room quieted down again. Roland slowly sipped on the warm water, waiting patiently for Hawk to ponder quietly over this idea.

For a person like Hawk who had been in charge of a large-scale guild, before anything was done, he would ponder it ahead of time. Even back when he was killing n.o.bles, he contemplated it beforehand.

Could it be done and should it be done? What effects will this bring to the organization?

He had to consider all the aspects. It wasn’t as simple as getting a good idea and just doing it—that was the way of a lone wolf. It wasn’t the att.i.tude a deputy leader of a guild should have.

Roland had already finished three cups of water before Hawk finally spoke after contemplating for nearly ten minutes. “It’s not a problem to gather the beggars, but how should we cooperate—how should the power and benefits be distributed?”

“It hasn’t even been done. You’re already starting to consider the power and benefits?” Roland was slightly surprised.

“Of course,” Hawk said matter-of-factly. “Even for a gaming guild like ours, with a mere few hundred people, the majority are still occasional players—there will still be disputes of interest. Not to mention, if we really could gather the beggars, the benefits that arise may be even greater than we imagined.”

Roland nodded; he couldn’t help but agree with Hawk’s point.

It was just as Hawk had said: in places where there are lots of people, there will always be disputes of interest. Even if the members of F6 were all childhood friends, there were still small hidden groups amongst them.

For example, Roland and Schuck had a better relations.h.i.+p with each other, while Raffel and Li Lin were even more familiar with each other than they were with the rest.

There were at least over ten thousand beggars inside this city. Even if they only gathered one-tenth, that would be over a thousand people.

A thousand people would undeniably be considered a large force inside this city.

“Actually, I’m not interested in establis.h.i.+ng an organization.” Roland thought for a moment and said, “For me, those things are too problematic.”

Hawk was somewhat confused. “Then why did you give me this idea?”

“As I said earlier, I want you to investigate something for me,” Roland explained. “As for the matter of the beggars, I just happened to see this and came up with the idea in pa.s.sing. After all, I don’t want to be taken as a pushover and be messed with by the n.o.bles. If they control or force you guys away, Betta and I will have to deal with their malice next.”

“We’re on the same boat, at least that’s what they see.” Hawk sneered in disdain. “Those n.o.bles don’t dare to face us head-on, so they thought of this despicable method to chase us away!”

Roland also laughed and said, “Only once we’re gone will they be able to continue to do evil with impunity. For example, eating human hearts or kidnapping and killing young girls.”

The room went silent all of a sudden.

The three of them all thought of different scenes. The scene that surfaced before Hawk’s eyes was the corpses of the boys and girls drifting on the river, while what emerged before Roland’s eyes were the dozens of bones inside the cave.

“This ignorant, cruel, and primitive world.” Hawk clicked his tongue in disgust. “I really want to smash it to pieces.”

Within his words, there was an indistinct wrath. This was a pa.s.sionate young man. If he weren’t so, he wouldn’t openly go against a n.o.ble for the sake of the corpses of those young boys and girls.

“Then you should recruit more people, and perhaps there’ll be a change,” Roland said with a smile. “As a guild’s deputy leader, this should be something you’re good at.”

Hawk’s thick sloping brows knit into a frown, then somewhat puzzled, he said, “I can’t help but feel that this is a little unfair. We’re doing all the bitter and strenuous work and we have to gather information for you, while you only have to come up with the idea.”

“There’ll be places where I can help,” Roland said with a smile. “I’m currently the deputy chairman of the a.s.sociation of Mages in this city anyhow.”

Hawk was momentarily startled. He stuck his thumb up in approval. “I thought you simply joined the a.s.sociation of Mages, but I didn’t realize you were already in the upper echelons.”

Roland chatted with them for a little while longer. He then left after he cast Language Proficiency on them.

Then, he returned to the magic tower and continued to work on the derivative spell Character Proficiency.

As he produced more and more data, he progressed faster and faster.