Chapter 227 - Back to MurkWater Town. (2/2)

”I will work with them as freelance,” replied Shadow.

”You really think that they would be cool with that?” asked Agua sarcastically. He was quite confident that they would refuse his potions to be sent to anyone other than them. Freelance means that other players would also get access to his antivenom which was definitely not acceptable to them.

”Not an issue. I will tell them that I have already signed a contract with you guys to produce a certain number of antidotes per day. It wouldn't be much of an issue, but I will have to probably increase the amount of time I spend on making the antidotes,” said Shadow.

”They would just offer to cancel the contract or force us to cancel it,” said Agua. ”That is a stupid idea.”

”Not if I tell them that the price of the contract was me losing my proficiency and in return you were going to sell auction my potions and give me 50% of the profit along with materials required. My name is not known or famous. I am a new player who just started in this game,” said Shadow. ”From the perspective of a player trying to build a new guild, it is a good contract, and they can't say anything about it.”

”Why not?” retorted Agua irritated. ”They won't care about morals and the like and will force the guild to disband by attacking us.”

”Ah, don't worry about that. I know how to handle the bulling kind. They need to be just threatened properly with a good amount of incentive. As long as they get the lion's share they will be appeased. That is just the way they are operating in the town. They are just a bit more greedy than the usual guilds.”

”Screw it, do as you will,” said Agua. He felt that Shadow was either overconfident or has appropriate way to deal with them and doesn't want to tell him about it. If it was the second thing, it was reasonable for him to behave so. If not, he would sooner or later learn his lesson and be a bit more co-operative. Either way, it was just the beginning of the game and they had more time to change things later.

”Cool. Now, let us get going,” said Shadow. ”We had enough rest.”

After the grassland, the rest of the journey wasn't much eventful. They encountered a few more beasts but they were lower level beasts than them and could be taken care of while protecting Barnabus without any mishaps.

”They are checking for you,” said Agua pointing at them.

”That was obvious,” replied Shadow. ”Your men informed you about it.”

”Ya, they told that about 2 or 3 guys waiting at the gates. This is more than twenty,” said Agua.

”I am counting on them to sell my goods while they are so bad at counting,” joked Balthazar.

”Stop your nonsense and decide what to do?” asked Agua.

”Just let me talk to them,” said Shadow as they as they went closer. He moved ahead of the other players and the horse as they came to the gate to meet them. One of the players from the raiders guild also came forward as he noticed their names which he was searching for.

”That is Hard Head, a berserker from the raiders,” said Agua as they came close. ”He is like the stupidest guy and just blindly listens to orders. He is usually sent to force other players to submit. This is going to be hard.”

”What about the others?” asked Fleet-footed Rogue (that was the disguise he had used on him as he came to the town). Though he had put on a disguise, he needed to finish the talk fast as he couldn't have the disguise on for a long time. So, he needed as much of information as required.

”He usually doesn't allow others to talk when he is talking,” said Agua. ”You can guess from his Id about his personality, can't you?”

”You don't have much info about them. Do you?” said Balthazar as he looked at the others behind Hard Head. ”Don't worry, I found someone whom I could use.”

He found the guardian Grand Puba among the few who are behind Hard Head. He was clearly sent by the Ardent Ronins. Balthazar found him a reasonable player and looking at him he understood that they had chance to negotiate.