Chapter 304:
“That’s ridiculous… Do you think you can just appoint the next head of the guild as you please?”
“Accepting or not is up to you. But if I go straight to Belman Bessia and undermine Leonora’s standing, who do you think will be the next head? Naturally, I’d have a say in it.”
Isaac’s words were no different than saying, “I’ll let you choose the next Pope of the Codex of Light.” It was absurd, but a ridiculous deal was sometimes needed to shake the opponent’s resolve.
For Isaac, a poor and penniless Holy Grail Knight, this was the kind of bait he had to dangle to buy Shalok.
‘If I kill Shalok, I’ll earn the grudge of his mercenaries and the displeasure of the Golden Idol Guild. Leonora might resort to even more drastic measures… It’s best to just bribe someone like Shalok.’
Whether Shalok could deceive Leonora into thinking he was on the verge of success was crucial, but that was up to him.
Shalok had already been calculating how much he could sell the “next guild head nomination” for.
As soon as he figured out a sum that would let him live comfortably even if he spent his life writing plays that never sold, Shalok nodded with feigned difficulty.
“An unjust contract with evil is annulled before a righteous and noble Paladin. Well, if I can just keep doing what I’ve been doing…”