Chapter 65: The Players Negotiation Strategy is the Best in the World! (1/2)
After Croakatoa shrank in the corner, everyone in the conch house returned to the topic.
“Since you talked about the dry-skinned that attacked us, then you should know something right?” The village elder asked, his cheeks puffed as he stared straight at Vela.
“Those people that attacked you are the bandits of the Society of the Secret Eye. They found a sea route, and want to conquer this tidal flat to change it into a harbor to allow them to smuggle their way to the Western Continent.”
It wasn’t classified information in the first place, so she told the elder the information about the enemy.
“We are the adventurers from the town outside the Valley of the Tragic Dead. We’ve had some small conflicts with the Society of the Secret Eye too, so we can help you.”
“It isn’t like you dry-skinned to be so generous.”
The village elder didn’t rush to agree or decline, seeming to understand the psychology of humans quite well. He didn’t believe that Vela and party would help them battle against their own race for some ‘small conflicts’.
It was true that in this era before education was widely spread, most humans didn’t have the ability to see the big picture and acted mostly on their urges. And so, most demi-human races looked at humans as the most selfish and greedy race in the world.
This was a world led by deities and gods after all, and leaving aside the deities that weren’t bound by mortal laws, most church leaders like popes and archbishops as well as the monarchy that were at the top of the pyramid didn’t want any insurgents popping out from the commoners that could affect their rule. And so, they all worked together to restrict education and make the commoners foolish and easy to control.
This was also the reason why in a world of magic and divine arts, with much greater development potential than Earth would maintain in such a medieval era after so many years.
As Vela was thinking about how to make the frogmen trust her, Joe who had been sitting on the floor until his legs were numb shouted indignantly. “Enough of all this chat, just say what we have to do for you to believe us! Is it enough if I kill myself for the cause?!”
“Heh, you’re just a cowardly dry-skinned, you wouldn’t kill yourself…” Croakatoa who was picking at his toenails with a conch spear at a side croaked and laughed out.
Hearing the frogman say this, Joe jumped up from the floor, and ignoring the kelp around his wrists, he ran over to Croakatoa and snatched away his conch spear.
Croakatoa was so terrified that his deep green skin became pale, but his first reaction was to block the village elder from any harm.
Contrary to his expectations, Joe didn’t attack Croakatoa or the village elder, instead stabbing the conch spear into his chest without any hesitation, spurting out blood from his mouth as he scoffed. “This is nothing! I’ll die for you right now!”
After he said this, he pulled out the spear and blood spurted out from his wound like a fountain, splashing all over the place. The extremely gruesome scene even scared the two frogmen guards next to him.
Not only the young frogmen guards, but even the village elder that had lived an extremely long life was shocked by this action of his. Since when did humans become such a courageous race?!
Everyone in the room waited for a while to realize that Joe still hadn’t died, and his wounds even seemed to be closing up and healing.
“F*ck, my HP is too high, lemme…” Joe realized the reason why he hadn’t died yet. Even though he impaled his heart, this attack of his that would have definitely killed a regular person didn’t make him die under the protection of the laws of the game system. Even though it was a critical hit because it hit his vitals, he still had a lot of HP left.
And so, under the petrified gaze of the two frogmen, he cursed and attacked himself with the spear again, spearing himself through the throat this time.
“F*ck, I can finally die…”
After saying this, Joe died with an extremely satisfied expression on his face.