Chapter 104: Currency (1/2)

The wooden door closed with a thud.

The room was bare, apart from a pair of decent wooden bed frames with accompanying chests. There was a single open closet to the side and no other furniture in the room. It looked like they had just converted a slightly larger single room into a double room and couldn't be bothered to add another closet, instead, it looked like they were meant to keep their stuff in each chest or decide who gets the closet.

After opening the window blinds, they could directly feel the cold air and moonlight that shone in through the thick ashen clouds.

Tyler was somewhat disappointed as he finished his circular sweep of the room. Although he had not expected much from an inn, the merchant guild had still hyped up this place as high class. Perhaps this was what high class meant for commoners or they were just messing with him.

Even the abandoned Demon king's castle was a hundred times better than. this. Of course, comparing a castle to an inn for merchants and Hunters was unfair.

”I can't believe he would call this place high class and dare let you stay in a place like this, Lord Ty.”

”Don't mind it, this is only for the night, once we join the magic institute we would be provided with better lounging.”

Tyler tried to soothe Nadine after closing the window blinds, without expressing his dissatisfaction. The room only possesses a single magic lamp that barely illuminated the entire room. But Tyler's vision was almost perfect at night, perhaps it was due to the racial change he went through or something else.

Nadine was a beastman and therefore had Darkvision so she was fine as well.

Still… the life of the hunters we've met so far and the once downstairs seem to be pretty banal.”

”Hunters huh.”

They were practically the same as adventures in the human continent and there was a time Tyler was one of them. Aside from hunting monsters and accompanying merchants on protection duty, they mostly spend their time drinking, eating, and having sex with whores as well as each other.

He supposed that could be called banal, well when the great war had started, they were forcibly enlisted into the fray so maybe despite all that, it had been a lot more interesting then.

Hunters tend to be an integral part of a monster siege and they were mostly the ones that kept monsters from attacking the small towns and villages by actively hunting them down. In a perfect world, they would be lookup upon like heroes to the common man but this world was not perfect.

While the strongest of the bunch were hailed as heroes or in the Demon continent, behemoths. Most of them weren't. This was because the ruling authorities or nobles did not smile at the existence of armed groups which they could not control. Therefore, aside from the prices they commanded, hunters did not have much status until recently and those that do were still only the powerful ones.

Basically, it was all down to strength, the strong got stronger and the weak remained the same.

According to the information he got from Zomatsu, some regions actively recruited hunters with absurd wealth and status while others had banned them from their region entirely.

Tyler banished the thoughts from his mind. There was no point in worrying about those regions for now. He still had several agendas on his list before he could visit the magic institute tomorrow.

Tyler took off the thick coat on him revealing his outfit underneath. He wore a white T-Shirt and black pants. His half-boots were made of a reddish-black leather, and they were embroidered with silver thread.

Tyler took off the black gloves he wore to hide the single ring on his left middle finger and place them in his storage ring. His ring was very different from the typical storage rings. Even though most of them had slightly different designs they were mostly the same.

He wasn't sure if anyone would notice it or not but he didn't want to take any chances.

Tyler worked his shoulders and savored the sensation of being free from his thick clothing. Just then, Nadine asked a question:

”Speaking of which, should I deal with those five in the corner?”

Tyler had no idea who the hell she was talking about, but he knew she could keenly sense the intent of all the gazes locked on them and had probably noticed an abnormality. Why she didn't say this about all the guys that were giving him deathly looks because of her he had no idea.

Tyler kept his composure and with a straight face, he replied as though he was already aware. ”Ah, the ones in the corner. We don't have to worry about them for now, there is a chance they could lead us into a golden opportunity.”

”But, but, what if they end up causing problems for you lord Ty.”

”Well, if that happens then we would have a legitimate reason to handle them however we see fit. It would be bad if we are the ones stirring up trouble and are found out. All our work thus far would be wasted.”

”I understand Lord Ty.” She said nodding her head.

”Hm, hey, don't call me Lord when we are in town, just call me Ty, or better yet Lix.”

”Understood, er... um... Mr. Lix.”

”Maybe don't just call my name in public and we'll be fine.”

”Understood.”

Tyler took a seat in one of the beds and continued their conversation. ”Let's go over the plan for tomorrow.”

”Yes!”

Tyler turned around and found Nadine genuflecting before him which had startled him for reasons that were unknown to him. He was glad her head was currently lowered and she hadn't seen his reaction but he still wanted to ask what the hell was she doing before suddenly remembering something.