59 Chapter 59 - Meeting of the Minds (1/2)

Gren helped Yun bring Annie to the bed since she seemed to be struggling to hold her up.”I would never abandon you, Annie.”Jasmine and Tahloh were at the doorway, waiting to be of assistance.”We're going to have a meeting soon and I would like to have you there.It's going to be about creating our very own mercenary guild.”

Annie recoiled a bit when she heard his last sentence.”A mercenary guild?Who's backing it?”She was worried that the backer would be someone like that perverted merchant.

Gren was reminded of Annie's past history and quickly answered her.”It will be a completely independent mercenary guild.All of the money for it will be coming from me and the requests that are fulfilled.”

Annie was happy with Gren's words.The idea of a mercenary guild completely run by women was attractive to her.”If you can afford to run the guild then I would love to help you in any way possible.What kind of big sister would I be if I just left you to do everything by yourself?”

Gren gave her a hug.”Thanks, Annie.Don't worry about the money since I have it covered.In the beginning I expect to lose money but I can easily make more money outside of the guild.I'm not good enough to heal you yet but I have been studying healing magic.”Gren showed off the green glow from his magic.

”Come on, let's go.”Gren wanted to keep talking to Annie but Jasmine didn't want everyone to keep waiting.”I'll pick up Annie while Tahloh gets Faith.Gren, you and Yun can walk on your own.”Gren gave an awkward smile to Yun as they were left behind before following the other women out of the room.

Gren saw the magician woman on his way back to where the meeting was going to take place.”Thanks for letting us know that not everybody was there.The name's Gren, what's yours?”

The magician woman was surprised for some reason.”Your name is Gren?But everybody kept referring to you as Ratslayer.”Gren didn't want to go over this right now and waited for her to give her name.”Anyways, my name is Aqua.My parents thought it'd be a great idea to name me that since they were both water mages and wanted me to follow in their footsteps.”

After greeting Aqua and finally getting her name, Gren finally went downstairs and got ready to discuss the creation of the mercenary guild.Most of the demihuman women could be seen on the lower floor with the rest looking down from above.The feeling of everybody's eyes on him reminded him of the feeling he got when in front of the cameras on stage but this was real life and there were no second takes.He would have to make sure that this meeting ended with the women looking forward to the future.

”Is there anything you'd like to say before we get started?”Jessica asked Gren to see if he wanted to give an opening speech but he decided against it.It was Jessica that researched the mercenary guilds and how to create one so he'd wait to gain more information before adding his input.”Okay.Everybody!Welcome to our first group meeting!If you have a question then raise your hand and you will be called on.Feel free to ask questions about anything you want as we go on but please try to be courteous and don't interrupt others.”

There were a few women that raised their hands at the beginning and Gren pointed towards one of them.”You, the woman with purple skin and a horn.”Gren decided to ignore the fact that she has one eye when he was calling on her.”Sorry, I don't know everybody's name yet but you have a question?”

She slowly lowered her arm and spoke softly to the point where Gren could barely hear her.”What type of meeting is this?Do we even get a say in what happens as slaves?”

Gren was glad that someone asked those questions.”This meeting is to discuss the mercenary guild that we're creating and, as for your status as slaves, I don't care.Everybody gets a voice here and I plan on freeing you all soon anyways.”Gren made sure to speak loudly so that everyone could hear.Other women raised their hands while a few lowered theirs.Gren pointed towards a mermaid this time.

”Do we have to fight?I don't think that I will be much use outside the water.”The mermaid required enough water to keep her body wet so outside of rainy days she would be incapable of even surviving outside.

Gren had already thought of this problem earlier when he realized that the dryad wouldn't be able to move around and couldn't even be here for the meeting.”No.The decision to take a mission will be discussed between all of us and we will only take it if we have enough people interested in participating.I'd rather not risk someone's life by forcing them to do something dangerous.Taking missions will make it where I free you earlier but I will eventually free everybody even if they do nothing.”

Gren noticed that one woman's hand had been raised from the beginning and decided to call on her next.She had bat wings and a furry bottom half.”Will there be any men joining the guild?I haven't had sex in over a month and it's driving me crazy.”

Gren remembered something written in the notes that the slave company gave him; this must be the succubus.”There are three men that are going to be joining.While you're free to have sex with whomever you like, they have to be willing.I don't want you using pheromones or aphrodisiacs to force them to have sex with you.Don't bring anybody back to the house if they're not part of our group.”Gren didn't like answering those sorts of questions but the succubus seemed happy with the answer.

Annie raised her hand so Gren picked her next.”Three men are joining?Can you tell us more about them?”Annie wanted to make sure that they wouldn't be any trouble.

Gren nodded and told Annie the truth about their identity while hiding their motives.”The three of them were knights belonging to the Church of Healing Knights.They decided to join our mercenary guild when I told them that I was creating it.I don't know where they'll be staying yet but we've got time to figure that out.”Gren's answer satisfied Annie's curiosity.If they were from the Church then they wouldn't be the kind of men that she'd need to threaten to keep in control.

Most of the questions were minor ones dealing with simple issues they had with their living conditions and Gren made sure to note them down so that he could help make them all happy.The biggest request that couldn't be fulfilled so easily was for individual rooms but Gren decided to use dividers as a temporary solution.This would at least allow them to have privacy even if they couldn't have their own room.

With that the main portion of the meeting was complete and Jessica could explain their first mission.”In order to be accepted as a mercenary guild by the kingdom we need to fulfill a request by them.Here in the Adier Dukedom, most of the simple requests are fulfilled by the soldiers.The easiest request I could accept was one to kill rock lizards that have taken over a mine.Is there anybody interested?”