608 Decision (2/2)

I glanced at all the other bastards in my party. Not a single one of them seemed like they intended to give me any ideas.

”How much longer until the first demon wave explosively arrives?”

”According to historical records… Actually, every time has always been a sudden arrival with zero hints beforehand. However, even for pure creatures of Chaos like demons, gathering such a large-scale fighting force will require time. We still probably have at least one or two months.”

”Then no matter what decision we make, we'll have to act swiftly.”

Should we simply do nothing with this information? That seemed like too much of a waste. While I was still hesitating, a pitch-black bat suddenly flapped its way into our room through the window, landed on my shoulder, and tossed a fairies' special edition report onto my hand.

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”Damn, the fairies are so good at writing super headlines that will attract attention!”

I glanced over the report and saw that most of it was only speculation. However, there were some things that were confirmed. This fight took place in Anslo's personal Divine Kingdom. The three Chaos Main Gods who fought there were Anslo, the Guardian God of the Elves, Abyss Prince Karwenz, and Sophocles the Deceiver. I checked the date to see when ”last night” was, and saw that it had only occurred two nights ago. The result of this fight was quite obvious already from the headline.

Any Main God who was seriously injured would require far more than one or two years to recover. I truly couldn't understand what had happened.

”The elves are going to be finished in this case?”

I no longer hesitated. Since Anslo had been rendered useless for the time being, it would be inconceivable for the demons not to hurry and use this time to do something. It seemed quite likely that the first demon wave might happen at any moment.

If there had been half a year, the elves could have attempted to directly try and conquer human kingdoms' territory. If there had been three months, the elves could have organized a major escape. But if there was only one month, the number of things that could be done would be quite limited.

”I'll discuss things with the fairies and have them sell this information to the moon elves as the fairies' information channels are the quickest. I'll give 60% of the money earned to your adventuring team since this information was mainly your accomplishment. The remainder…”

”Cough, cough, cough.”

The dwarf priest who had been silent up until now suddenly interrupted me. I instantly understood what he wanted when he awkwardly pointed at the gold coin emblem on his chest.

”I'll give 50% to your adventuring team, and 20% to the Church of Wealth to shut Beyana up. The rest will belong to us.”

It wasn't that we lacked money. It was that these were simply the rules of society. Since we were participating in this incident as adventurers, we would naturally receive payment according to adventurers' rules.

This wasn't only because adventurers needed money. If doing good deeds had no benefits whatsoever, adventurers would definitely stop helping out as often. The main reason why adventurers would be able to complete highly difficult missions so often was because missions would always pay a reward according to the difficulty scale.

”I can save the world, but you must pay me a fee on the scale of saving the world.”

From a certain standpoint, this was the foundational reason why adventurers could commonly be found in every dimension.

Currently, giving half of the information sale proceeds to the adventuring team could be considered quite generous since we had basically saved their lives with our intervention. According to adventurers' rules, splitting the reward 50-50 in such a situation would be normal. Also, Beyana had guided this adventuring team all the way here too. It would have been impossible for this adventuring team to reach the 100th level of the Chaos Abyss without her assistance, so Beyana also had the right to be paid. Still, giving half to the original adventuring team who had put in most of the effort was the right thing to do.

Even though this was only a piece of information, it was critical information relevant to the potential destruction of an entire species. With the fairies who were such skilled extortionists acting as our intermediary, and considering the moon elves' astonishing wealth, I felt that we would likely receive at least several pieces of God Equipment in exchange for the information.

However, the dwarf priest cracked an awkward, wry smile.

”…My Goddess Beyana says she wants 30%. Apart from her personal portion, she also needs to pay that Holy Knight group their fees and condolence money for the deceased.”

”Okay, that's fine.”

I would have forgotten about that Holy Knight group if Beyana hadn't mentioned them. Although they hadn't been very useful, they had tried their best, and several of them had died. After the fight against Donatis concluded, the surviving Holy Knights told us that they had their own path of retreat, so we split up back at the 100th level.

”Did they successfully return to the mortal plane? Or did Donatis find them?”

The bearded dwarf priest nodded at me and confirmed that the Holy Knight group had safely returned. This was good news.

Now then, the rest would be our own tasks.

What, you're asking why we weren't going to the Moonwheel Capital battlefield? I had no intention of being sent back to Hell to reincarnate again. Not even a Main God would likely be able to directly resist against the first demon wave.

”Ahem, since everyone's here now for our party, let's go grind against a boss first, a Main God level boss.”