Chapter 46 (1/2)

Chapter 46: The Bandits’ Treasures

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In the game, whenever players wanted to search for loot after battles, they would either search the Boss’ body or scan for collectible items on the map. Generally, loot was raided from the corpses of fallen enemies. This might seem dishonorable, but it was, in fact, commonly regarded as chivalrous, resourceful and prudent as well.

But in reality, the Flamingo Band of Mercenaries exposed Link to the other side of pillaging—the wild side. They were so eager that Link stood dumbfounded as the mercenaries descended upon the Brotherhood’s treasures and belongings like a swarm of locusts.

Every single object in the Silent Mine that could be sold for a little bit of money was seized. Even the Dark Brotherhood members’ underpants weren’t spared!

And so half an hour after Viktor was dead, Jacker, Lucy and Gildern stood on the plain of the Cove of Echoes, their faces flushed, and beside them were spoils piled up as high as a hillock.

All the Dark Brotherhood members were stripped clean of their leather armors—not even the normal members in the cave were spared. All their weapons were grabbed and collected in a pile.

In total, they collected 75 ordinary leather armors, 28 elite leather armors, 50 bows, 100 swords of various qualities, 30 shields, and 25 daggers.

Apart from that, there were 4 sets of magical equipment too!

These were Grinth’s Fire Warrior Armor and Blazing Sword, and Viktor’s Dagger of Corruption and Detecting Crystal Ball.

The Shadow Dagger hadn’t been of much use in the hands of Viktor, but it was, in fact, a sterling quality weapon, and could be worth more than 200 gold coins.

Lucy’s face had turned crimson and her almond-shaped eyes were gleaming. She was dashing back and forth gathering the spoils, and that red hair of hers glinted like a kindled flame. She was acting as the bookkeeper, calculating the total cost of their loot on a goatskin paper with a pen in hand.

“A normal leather armor costs one gold coin, a fine quality leather armor costs 2 gold coins…a bow 1.5 gold coins…a standard steel sword is worth 2 gold coins…all of this gear is worth at least 800 gold coins!”

Even before she finished the sentence, both Jacker and Gildern couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment.

“Wow, that’s a fortune!”

“I must be dreaming!”

Previously, they would earn about 5 gold coins for each mission they undertook, and that was if they were lucky. Their usual income had always been in silver coins, for example, in an investigative mission, the reward would be about 20 silver coins (about 2 gold coins), so everyone would get about seven or eight silver coins each.

In the past year, they undertook about ten missions and earned 50 gold coins. They were able to survive comfortably on that income, but they were living by the sword, fearing for their life every day. So whenever they didn’t have any missions, they would spend their money lavishly as if there were no tomorrow. Had Lucy not been cautioning them, they would probably be penniless by now.

But this time, with just one mission, they were able to make 700 gold coins from the equipment alone! That was an amount of money that they couldn’t earn even if they worked for 10 years as mercenaries!

“But there’s more!” cried Lucy.

Lucy’s heart pounded, with this much money, she could get better gear. There were so many things that she had wanted to buy but couldn’t afford, yet now, she could buy them all!

The equipment needed to be sold first before they could get any money. There were still some gold coins around because every bandit had money pouches on them. Of course, they snatched all of it up. Viktor also had his own private chest that Jacker smashed open using his hammer. He found about 80 gold coins inside!

In total, they had around 200 gold coins ready to be spent. The mercenaries’ eyes were dazzled by the sheer amount of gold and silver coins.

What’s more, every bandit had their own private treasure, gemstones, jewelry, pocket watches and various other types of valuable trinkets. All of this could be sold for some money, and naturally, not a single piece of it was left behind.

“One silver pocket watch could sell for 3 gold coins, and this red gemstone ring could get us 5 gold coins…and look at this one, this silver horse trinket—it’s Master Dormick’s work, I’m sure it’s worth a decent amount of money too. But the most valuable must be this pouch of gemstones, look at how exquisite these rare gemstones are!” said Lucy.

These gemstones were, of course, the recompensation Viktor received from the black-robed man.

Lucy quickly made a calculation and concluded, “They must be worth at least 700 gold coins.”

Jacker and Gildern both gulped.

Gildern counted on his fingers, “700, plus 200, plus 700…holy God of Light, that’s 1600 gold coins!”

He should at least get 100 gold coins. He wouldn’t be at peace keeping this much money. No, when he got his share, he must find himself a beautiful wife and have a child with her. That way, even if one day he died in battle, he’d die peacefully knowing he was not the end of his lineage.