Chapter 283: Development of the Floating Fortress
In just one day, the number of adventurers who accepted the "Investigate Missing Caravan" commission was so high that it made the wrists of the clerks responsible for registration ache.
The long paper list stretched from the oak counter all the way to the stone brick floor, over a dozen pages insufficient to record all the scrawled or neat signatures and their respective team information.
The matter of the Misty Bay Harbor Trade Alliance was far from over.
Yano, the nominal Guild Leader of the Adventurer's Guild, was still stationed at the Gold Lionheart Fortress. Therefore, this preliminarily screened list of adventurers could only be presented in the main control room of the floating castle for Chen Yu's personal review.
Silver Sparrow hovered beside the oak desk, her slender fingers gently waving as the floating lists and documents flipped rapidly as if moved by an invisible hand.
Her voice was ethereal, like a precise instrument reporting: "Master, the preliminary review of the data is complete. No records of obviously forged identities or backgrounds have been found. All applicants meet the basic conditions stipulated in the Trade Alliance agreement."
Chen Yu squatted on the high-backed chair, his round, gelatinous body swaying slightly with thought. He said with satisfaction, "That's fine. The so-called review is essentially superficial work done for the merchants of Misty Bay Harbor. As long as they can't pick out obvious flaws, we don't need to set the bar too high ourselves."
He understood very clearly that this adventurer exchange was, fundamentally, not some friendly cultural exchange. It was the product of an unspoken game and probing between the Slime Kingdom and the Misty Bay Harbor Trade Alliance after the Gold Lionheart Fortress incident.
He wanted the kingdom's adventurers to enter the Trade Alliance with legal status. On one hand, it was to investigate the whereabouts of Casimir's caravan; on the other hand, it was also to gather commercial intelligence within the Alliance.