82 Chapter 82 - The Good Kind of Weird (1/2)

The three women that were still on a mission finally arrived in the middle of the night.Ahk's armor that covered her right forearm was a bit roughed up but other than that she looked to be fine.Tahloh's leg was slashed open so she was wearing a bandage on it and Korra was helping her into the building.Korra was completely unharmed but the shield that she carried was nearly split into two.Anybody looking at the three of them would recognize that they had a tough fight.

Sven and the insect-type demihuman with large scythe arms were currently on watch when the three women arrived.Sven went to go wake up Gren but he wasn't in his room; there were only a few places he'd be so late at night but lately he had been in the workshop.Nobody really knew why he called it a workshop when it was an empty room every time someone got to see it but nobody wanted to question the person that paid them their wages; especially when that person was a god or at least a demigod.

The door was locked, as always.Gren was very secretive about what he was doing inside of the workshop.After knocking on the door door, there was the sound of something metallic falling and then--shortly afterwards--Gren opened the door.Peeking in, it was empty as usual which made Sven wonder what made that noise.

Gren had been messing around with the system to try making a tent frame that was easy to set up.The already-constructed ones could only be used by him and the current ones they used required the wagon to carry around.In his old world there were some large tents that could easily fit into a duffel bag so that's what he was trying to make.Theoretically, he could put the new type together on his own but it was difficult to screw the poles into the small cross section at the top and getting distracted by Sven's knocking didn't help.”Did you need something?”

”The last of the mercenaries have returned.The orc woman has an injury on her leg and you're needed in the infirmary.”Hearing that Tahloh got injured was surprising; they were only supposed to kill some wolves.

Gren started to jog towards the infirmary while Sven followed behind him.”Is there anybody else hurt?Did they say what happened?”

”It doesn't seem like anybody else is injured and nobody mentioned any injuries but some of their equipment suffered major damage.”As long as there were few injuries then Gren was fine with it.

There was no need to worry about the equipment.Ahk was the real breadwinner around the guild so she basically had a free pass to destroy her equipment; if she needed anything besides an axe then it was pretty much guaranteed that it would be mangled when she brought it back.As for the others, Korra had only lost one spear before this and Tahloh had never lost anything.Even if all of their gear was lost or destroyed, their point balance that he had been having the system track would still be in the positive.

Tahloh was actually pretty high up in the rankings, only coming behind Ahk and Jasmine; she was catching up to Jasmine but Ahk was already millions of points ahead and couldn't be reached by the others.Although Luna, Midna, and Korra completed a lot of missions but they didn't use the system's weapons that often.

Inside the infirmary was a group of women blocking his way.One of the side effects of having so many bored people in the guild was that there would always be a crowd when something interesting happened.When they realized that Gren had arrived, they got out of the way.

Tahloh's leg looked bad even after they added hemostatic ointment and bandages to it.There were bits of metal inside her wound that needed to be removed before he could use healing magic on her and the wound itself was pretty large.This was definitely not caused by a regular wolf.

Gren used the system to absorb the metal flakes before using healing magic on her.”The discomfort will go away in less than a day.Can you tell me what happened out there?”Tahloh told Gren about how they were ambushed by a great wolf after taking out the wolves that had been eating the rancher's animals.It was a massive white wolf with claws that tore through Tahloh's armor and Korra's shield like they weren't even there.The iron was a bit too thin but if he made it any thicker then it would be impossible for anybody but Ahk to move while wearing or carrying the equipment.

Researching steel might fix the problem but it wasn't guaranteed or his top priority.Monsters like the great wolves were rare and researching firearms would allow someone like Tahloh to easily catch up to Ahk in points if they used them on large monsters.For now he would just replace the gear with exact copies.In the morning they'd be having a meeting so Gren told everyone to get some sleep.

———————————

Gren woke up to a hurt stomach and he wasn't sure what was going on.”Papa, wake up!No being lazy!”A second blow to his stomach caused him to fall out of bed and hit his head on the floor.

”I'm up.I'm up.You can stop hitting me.”Ruby either didn't know her own strength or she just didn't care.Gren healed his head and stomach just to be safe.”Why are you trying to wake me, anyways?”

Ruby had her upper arms crossed in front of her chest and her bottom arms on her hips.”Everybody else is ready but you're up here procrasalading.How shameful.”Who was she pretending to be?Also, procrasalading was not a word.

”Do you mean procrastinating?”Ruby puffed up her cheeks and turned her head away.She wasn't going to admit that she made a mistake.”Go tell whoever sent you that I'm up now and that they need to pay me back already.”

Ruby walked off and left him to get ready.Gren made sure that the door was locked before cleaning his body with his water magic.He made sure to hurry down after putting on some new clothes and donning his armor.Hopefully the person responsible for his suffering fell for his trap.

There were some new faces downstairs that Gren wasn't familiar with.They really stuck out with their mismatched armor and cheap clothes.Those must be the independent mercenaries that Jessica was talking about.”Hey, what is this about me owing you money?”Gren turned to see Annie with her hands on her hips and a pouting face.That answered the two questions that he had.

”My healing fees.You sent my daughter to beat me up.”He was glad that Annie was able to get around now but sending Ruby to assassinate him was too much.

”I only sent her to wake you.If she had to beat you to wake you up then maybe you should fix your sleeping schedule.”Gren didn't believe her but he didn't have any evidence to prove that she was lying.

”So, those are the independent mercenaries, huh?They look kinda shabby.”They would probably end up leaving if they heard what he said.”Should I give them new armor to go with the weapons?Some of them don't even have any armor on.”And they would definitely stay if they heard the rest of his words.”Let's go greet them.”