Chapter 141 - 141. Beauty World = Booty Whirl, New Bandits Established (2/2)

Soon the 5 robbers were busy hoisting the stuck wheel inside the pothole and replacing the pothole back with dirt to smoothen it out again. A few caravans passed us and saw the robbers were filling up the hole and exchanged pleasantries and information.

I explained to them that these are the new men from Booty Whirl and they would be tasked to collect 20 credits for every caravan moving in and out of towns.

”20 credits? That's a reasonable amount. And they are maintaining the roads too? What happened to the 'Rusty Blade' highway robbers now?” asked a passing merchant.

”Oh, they are now transitioned into Booty Whirl and right now the main task is ensuring a safe and smooth journey. They would be wearing a pair of uniform and be recognised through the coat of arms here.” I showed the merchants the tunic with the coat of arms emblazed on the left-hand side and acknowledged while he dropped 20 credits in a small pouch to the nearest ex-robber who had now become our latest gang member.

”Look, 20 credits even without asking or even harassing them. This is a dream come true, guys. Money does drop from the Heaven's and it has just dropped into my hands.” exclaimed an ex-robber excitedly as he placed the pouch of coins inside an empty old wicker basket.

A few more caravans passed through and they paid up as they overtook us and heads to the next town. Within the time we were there, they had been paid a total of 120 credits and this was collected in 6 small pouches.

Next, I told them to strip except for their arming gear and changed into the tunic and hands them a longsword each. ”If I ever hear anyone if you rob once more, I will decorate the road with you intestines from this point until to the next town in one single line.” I sternly warned them as I made a cutting gesture with my thumb across my neck.

”I want you to send word to all your friends to face and pledge allegiance to our new Gang. All 4 of you, go and send the word to all the rest and I would meet them at the next checkpoint.” I instructed as I want them to convince the whole Eastern Border highway robbers to bow down on us, change their livelihood and save their assess from being captured, tortured and killed”

”You, the oldest member here. Link up all the checkpoints with me and we would be able to teleport there instead of relying on the caravan itself.” I asserted to new members of the Booty Whirl and he quickly linked up and send me all the coordinates of the checkpoints to me.

”Now, that was easy... You better delegate a junior member to be here and all 4 of you go and spread the good news now. Return to me soonest possible and we would be able to meet them personally to hand them the instruction, their allegiances, the new tunic and weapon.”

All the new members of Booty Whirl quickly teleported to each checkpoint in the Eastern Border and came nearly 2 hours later.

During that time I had gone to the back of the caravan and had told the adventurers I need some time alone as I meditated and went to the Realm of Mind.

I duplicated 450 longsword and 450 tunics to be handed to these Highway Robbers after they were chastised and convert their faith towards Booty Whirl instead.

*Ding* You had earned 23 points for your base levels and 1 points for each of your professions. Congratulations, you had unlocked another profession. Negotiator.

”Heh... In times like this enables me to unlock a new profession? Hmm, that would be 6 professions and any points earned would be divided equally. Haisshh... Well, you win some and lose some I guess.” I shrugged my shoulders and logged off my meditative state and heads back to the real world.

Merchants heading out from Ingmery and heads to Oxborough paid their 20 credits willingly as the dropped the pouches of credits inside the wicker basket and the youngest member thanked their merchants and bowed slightly.

I smiled as my crude idea worked and when the 4 of them arrived, they said that the others had agreed to the terms and conditions and were not filling up the potholes and waiting for our arrival.

That night alone we had settled all the checkpoints in the Eastern Borders and each of them was told to spread the word to stop robbing with effect and to fill up the potholes in the roads. 145 ex-robbers were turned to road marshals by the company name of Booty Whirl to ensure safe passage for all merchants and traveller for a small fee of 20 credits.

Road Tax, Manual Road Pricing or whatever you would name it, to me it's a subtle way of day and night time robbery for road users and it became worldwide attention as each governing country adopts this way to collect revenue for their fat stomachs. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This the case of Booty Whirl, all benefits goes to them 100%.

After we had done settling all the checkpoints in the Eastern Border, we intend to settle the Western Borders on the next following day.