Chapter 324 - The Deal
If there was anybody feeling more perplexed by the situation than Lin Li, it would have to be Sienna…
Sienna felt his legs turn to jelly at the thought of the thousands of Skeletal Warriors. He would have left this place as soon as he could, as far away as he could get from these Undead creatures. However, he knew very well that not only could he not leave this place, he would have to lead his men into the eerie ruins of the town as well. Well, he did accept Miss Yvonne’s payment…
That was 50,000 gold coins worth of deposit—she could have easily hired the best Adventurer in the whole of Roland City with so much money. When he accepted the mission, he had secretly been celebrating, thinking that he had stumbled upon an easy mission, one that could easily earn him so much money at that.
Only now did Sienna know that he had actually stumbled upon something else…
He did not know if he would be able to receive the remaining payment of 15,000 gold coins, but the most important question was whether he and his men would make it back alive to Roland City. Damn it, to think that there would be so many Undead creatures hiding in the ruins of Syer Town. It would be a most difficult task for him and his men to save someone from this place.
He had already witnessed the ability of these Skeletal Warriors. It was safe to say that they were only slightly trumped by Roland City’s army in terms of agility. There were thousands of Skeletal Warriors, which meant they would have to go against thousands of soldiers—for 30 Adventurers to fight against such an army, it was like trying to break a rock with a stone.
Sienna looked at the bell tower in the distance, and then at the castellan’s missus, who stared at him, and felt a headache coming. Barging in blindly was out of question since he had no idea what other monsters could be hiding there, and he could not abandon the mission, either, since it was already clearly written in the files that he had accepted Miss Yvonne’s payment. If he dared make a run for it, he could bid farewell to his career as an Adventurer since nobody would even hire him for menial tasks in future.
“Amazing, Mr Jason is the strongest adventurer in Doland indeed…” As Jason tore through the Vampire with his sword, Sienna hurried to give his praises.
Everybody loved praises, and Jason was no exception. He could not help the smile as he listened to Sienna singing his compliments, and only replied with false humility. “You’re too kind Mr Sienna, I’m just lucky…”
“Haha, Mr Jason is humble indeed.”
The two of them were going back and forth before a faint noise came from the house, and Jason turned around shocked before he saw blood splatter…
Then, he saw the back-cloaked Norfeller walking out slowly.
Jason’s face paled. He was drenched in cold sweat as he could clearly see two corpses lying behind Norfeller. The same bodies that looked like they were made out of black fog, the same long fangs and blood-red eyes…
Once he saw this, he naturally understood everything.
No wonder it had all been such a coincidence—it’d been a carefully laid trap. One of the Vampires had made a sound to attract their attention, while the other two hid in the dark, waiting to deal a lethal blow when they were engaged in a fight.
If Norfeller had not helped them in time, Jason would have become food for the three Vampires, yet he was laughing about his luck…
“Thank… thank you, Mr Norfeller.”
Jason thanked him repeatedly with a pale face, but Norfeller seemed not to hear it as he wiped the blood on his nails without any expression and quietly returned to stand behind Lin Li.
Jason did not mind Norfeller’s indifference, and only smiled before forgetting about his embarrassment. Norfeller had been like this the whole journey, and Jason thought that this was befitting a powerful individual like him anyway. He was able to kill the Ice Howler with his bare hands and kill two Vampires in a flash—with such capabilities, nobody would fault him for being cold and proud, for he had good enough reasons to.
Or what? Should he smile like a hawker as his useless employer did?
The attack of the three Vampires had only been a small interlude. The group continued walking to the town square of Syer Town after dealing with them.
The eerie bell tower was on the other side of the square; they could clearly see black fog shrouding the bell tower from where they stood.
“Such strong death aura…” Lin Li stood a distance in front of the bell tower as he frowned unconsciously. The intense death aura made him slightly breathless. In his opinion, it was probably stronger than the death aura when he’d encountered the Lich in the Shadowglen.
Just as Lin Li was secretly taken aback, a hoarse voice could be heard coming from within the bell tower. It was not a clear voice, but everybody in the square heard it very well.
“Welcome, my guests from afar!”