Chapter 517 Adventurers and mercenaries
I didn't respond when Cecilia asked me this.
Instead, after thinking for a bit, I said, "Can you gather the representatives from the adventurers and mercenaries? I want to discuss this with them."
Cecilia was surprised to hear this, but she gave a nod before turning to gather the ones that I asked her to gather.
During this time, I turned back to look at the dungeon. I didn't even know what I was looking for, but I just couldn't help staring at it for a bit.
After a long silence, I turned around and walked back into the camp.
I went to the large tent in the middle which was the central command tent.
When I came in, I found that there were people that were already in this tent. The way that they were sitting, it was as if they had been here for a while.
Though I could see that many of them were injured and covered in bandages. They should have just received treatment.
They had been talking to each other, but they fell silent when they saw me come in.
These people that were gathered were the representatives of the mercenaries and adventurers. Though there were far more adventurer representatives than mercenary representatives.
That was just the difference between the two.
Mercenaries worked in large groups while adventurers worked in small groups.
Adventurers partied up in small groups while mercenaries formed large companies.
So the adventurers sent representatives for each party which was why they completely outnumbered the mercenary representatives.
The mercenaries only had three representatives, all of which were the leaders of their own company.
Though one of them really looked like they shouldn't be here.
This was a bald headed muscular man who was wrapped up in bandages, showing that he had been seriously wounded. Someone like him should be resting in bed, but here he was sitting in on the meeting.
There was even a cute red headed girl who was helping him, though it was clear by the look on her face that she wanted him to rest instead.
But bringing a girl to a meeting like this...he really was something else.
Though I can't say anything since Cecilia also moved to my side when she saw me come in.
I walked through all of these adventurers and mercenaries that were all looking at me, as if they were sizing me up.
Simply put, they were overthinking it.
I was actually about to throw money at them since I knew that money would make this matter go away.
I had the goddess of wealth Haley on my side, so it wasn't as if I lacked funds to do this.
It was more important to clear out this dungeon to eliminate any dangers in the future.
After a long period of silence, it was the adventurer who had spoken earlier who said, "Your lordship, can I ask if you're serious?"
I looked at him and gave a simple nod.
Seeing this, the adventurer then said, "Twenty gold coins?"
"Thirty it is for everyone." I said with a simple nod before saying, "Any objections?"
The adventurers all shook their heads when they heard this.
In the first place, they were only being paid ten gold coins a group to explore this dungeon and now that had jumped to thirty with just a few words?
How could they complain about anything?
It was just too bad that they didn't know that this was just the first offer that I was willing to make.
I had been planning to go up to five times the price if they weren't willing to accept this, but it seemed that I had overestimated these people.
It seemed that they didn't have as much ambition as I thought they did.
Since they were fine with just this, then there was nothing for me to say.
All of the adventurers and mercenaries revealed excited looks when they heard this, except for one.
The bald man with the red haired girl.
He had his brows knitted during all of this, as if there was something that he was displeased with.
But he was the one that I was the most concerned about since he was the one that was in charge of the largest mercenary group.
The other two were smaller mercenary groups that could be replaced, but it was hard to find a replacement for this mercenary group that had over a hundred members. They were basically a small army.
So I had to do something about this leader of theirs that seemed like he was displeased.
