Chapter 203.1
Compensation
Count of Melrose frontier. He was the Prime Minister of the country and the head of a dark organization.
I knew that he was aware of it. Although I denied his words, I felt that he had given me assurance through that exchange. It was inevitable. The moment I saw him up close, I knew he was a close blood relative of mine.
Now that I still have the princess’s protection, I doubt that he would resort to forceful measures. Still, if he was related to me by blood, he would probably not give up. If I admit to it here, I would be troubled again. …But perhaps it was because I have felt such a blood connection that I felt a little sad.
Perhaps the Prime Minister felt the same way, and then, as if he had understood my thoughts, he nonchalantly moved on to talk about the rewards for us [Rainbow Sword].
“The reward for you this time will be one thousand large gold coins. Normally, we would pay the Adventurers’ Guild 10% as an intermediary fee, but since you have slayed an attribute dragon in the Empire, the story is a little different.”
One thousand large gold coins…even if these were divided among the six of us, each head would be more than a commoner would earn in a lifetime. There would have to be a brokerage fee. The majority of adventurers were freemen who pay no taxes other than the toll tax, so this wasin lieu of a tax on their fee.
However, since the tax on commoners was 40-50% of their income, adventurers who explore unchartered areas at the request of the government were treated very favorably.