Chapter 49: NPC Recruitment (2/2)

“Vela, are you willing to entrust your future to me?” the young lord asked earnestly with a steady gaze to match.

“M-My lord?”

Vela who had always had the image of a female mob boss was now as shy and flustered like a maiden. Her cheeks immediately flushed pink as she looked at him with her mouth agape, not knowing what to say.

“I know you must have your doubts, but please give me a chance! I will treat you well (in pay)! I know this is sudden and I can’t hope for you to put all your trust in me because I’m still young and inexperienced…” The young lord saw that she was swayed, so he continued to convince her.

“No! I, I…” The young lady first cut off his words, then as if that exclamation used up all of her bravery, she mumbled, “I-I do…”

After saying those words, her body went weak as if she used up all of her strength.

“Really? Thank you, thank you!”

Angora cheered happily before pulling out a scroll and unfurling it, revealing it to be a contract with all the terms and conditions, as well as the duties and rights to becoming an NPC. Then, he pulled out a pen and put it into Vela’s hand gently, pointing at the blank space at the bottom of the contract. “Sign your name here please!”

“???”

The young lady froze in place. She looked at Angora, then looked at the contract and looked at him again.

“This was what you meant?”

Angora nodded innocently. “Yeah, what else?”

“…”

From nowhere, Angora felt a chill run down his spine as he felt something rising from the young lady like a cloud (probably bloodlust).

He asked warily, “Is something wrong…?”

Vela shook her head. “No, it’s nothing.”

Her mood turning sour, she took the pen and wrote her name on the contract.

The next moment, Angora received a system notification.

[Vela Newman has become your subordinate.]

After that, Vela’s page popped out. For some reason, there was a silver R shining next to her name.

Below her name was her loyalty. It was maxed out at a hundred points which greatly pleased him.

After that were the stat displays. Different from the STR, SPD, and INT stats of normal Players, the stats displayed were for Military Strategy, Internal Affairs, and Diplomacy. Perhaps it was because she was a normal hunter girl from a small town, her military strategy and internal affair stats were extremely low. She did have forty-two points in Diplomacy, which was pretty good.

After that were NPC skill slots, which were currently empty. According to the system notification, Angora would have to buy skills himself for her, which made him feel cheated somehow…

Before he could continue talking with Vela, the old mayor ran frantically over to him.

“My lord, that man called Marni has brought around a hundred people here, I think they’re going to overthrow you!”

“Huh???”

This is a pun on the modern term 钢铁直男 which literally translates into ‘steel straight man’ and refers to men that have no taste or are not sensitive. The author uses the term 奥利哈刚直男 which means ‘orichalcum straight man’ which means he’s even more thick-headed than a normal ‘steel straight man’