Chapter 46 (2/2)

The townsfolk had fled too hurriedly, and many escaped without any food nor bronze Pykes on them.

If that was not the case, they would not have taken such a big risk to attack the convoy of Baron Marcus. Attacking the nobility was a serious crime, and should the news go out, they would be hunted down by the troops of Norland and hanged.

After being captured by the vampires, Rackel was even mentally prepared that most of the people would not survive the winter.

Yet now, this vampire patriarch said that he would provide them food for free, which raised his expectations from the gutters to the sky.

“Is-Is what you say true?”

Harrison and Augustine, standing behind Reed, were immediately infuriated when they heard Rackel’s impudent question.

“Human, do not use your shallow insights to question the patriarch of the Vampires of the Divine Light, and the Lord of Dawnbreak. If this were the past, you would have been hanged.”

Hearing those chilling words immediately made Rackel recover his calm, and he quickly apologized. “I’m sorry, Milord, I…”

Reed waved his hand and did not say anything. His identity was the greatest amongst the vampires, and his word was inviolable.

For a human to not be killed after so impudently questioning him was a good reflection of Reed’s good upbringing.

In the kingdoms of man, common folks who dared speak against the nobility would be killed without any justification. This was a world that was cruel and ignorant.

Life was the cheapest of objects and was not even worth a noble’s toy.

“Don’t worry, as long as you do not make any mistakes, you will not be harmed. If there is no problem then I will leave the matter to you. Rackel, I’m sure you still have a lot of questions, but time will always make a devil show his true colors. Whether the Vampires of the Divine Light are good or not, time will give you an answer.”

Seeing Reed’s smile, Rackel felt inexplicably moved. For such a distinguished person to say something to comfort him, he had somewhat believed Reed.

Perhaps, this was really an opportunity for the townsfolk.

“My Lord, I will work hard to see the task you gave me to completion.” Reed nodded with satisfaction. “This is a good start. Everyone in this job will be paid 10 silver Pykes a month. As the team leader, you will be getting 15 silver Pykes.”

10 silver Pykes? Ollie almost bit his tongue when he heard this. Not only were they getting a job, but they were also going to be paid like those guards back in town?

In Ayric, Marcus’ guards were only paid 8 silver Pykes a month.

Rackel took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart.

He did not expect he would be getting such a generous salary for a job that was supposed to be unpaid.

Ten silver Pykes… If one was a bit thrifty, it could feed a family of three for over a month and a half.

The city’s lord was really different from the vampires from the legends.

Reed took the cloth bag that Harrison had handed over and tossed it onto the table.

A loud sound of metal colliding rang out.

“There are 100 silver Pykes here. You can pay half of the salary to those who are willing to accept the job, and pay the other half after a full month has passed.”

Using gold to buy horse bones, this was the first cooperation between man and vampires.

Reed believed that as long as someone participated in the matters of Dawnbreak, the humans would quickly let go of their inner fears and caution and truly integrate into Dawnbreak.

That was only the first plan. There were plans to allocate land, allocate work, and even reallocating houses.

Every plan had certain preconditions, and only after the humans met these preconditions would they really get land and houses.

It was impossible for these simple townsfolk to escape his schemes.

Reed—the King of Schemes—Kaschar had already dug plenty of holes for them.