Chapter 90: Chief (1)
When we arrived back in town, there was a group of people that were there waiting for us.
These were people that I had hired from the town to help us handle these criminals.
The ones that put up these bounties were the rulers of the large cities that had been offended by these people, which was why they put up these bounties in the first place.
The bounties that I had done before were ones that were quite close, so I didn’t need to actually send them to the places where I could claim the bounties.
But now that I was taking these higher tier bounties, it took a while to actually claim the money from those that were offering the bounties.
After all, it was different from in the game where the money just appeared.
To get this money, the ones that the bounties were on had to be delivered to the ones that issued the bounties. As such, I started hiring the people of the town to help me deliver the people in the bounties to the ones that posted them.
I might not have trusted them previously, but it had changed once I had brought Shaka in.
Seeing that I had even brought someone like Shaka in, the people of the town had started to turn to me for protection. Once they started turning to me for protection, it was only natural that they would come to rely on me.
At the same time, it meant that I could start trusting them to work for me since they were attaching themselves to me.
There were a few times where they ran off with the bounty, but most of them came back with the money in the end.
I wasn’t as strapped for money since as part of the protection deal, the townspeople actually paid money to me. At the same time, with the increased bounty amount in these higher tier bounties, I was earning far more than before.