Chapter 93: A decent person.
"It's some kind of a special mission where only the higher ranked treasure hunters can take part." Tycen reported, "I doubt we'll be on the list."
"We might figure something out." Edward said, "But what's so special about it?"
"It's to a challenging mountainous region. They'll send people to gather wind sparks." Tycen said.
"What about humans? Do humans live there?" It was sad how obvious the princess's despair was. While she said the words in the usual prideful intonation, the urgency and the contents betrayed the mask she was under.
"Sorry, your majesty!" Thycen sighed, "The description of the natives in Haonia are kind of similar to us, but from what our guy in the office said, they are thinner and taller. And their skin is covered with bright scales ..."
"More fucking lizards!" Princess hissed, "Can we even trust this so called our guy? What good is he? We've been paying him for months, but we're still stuck here ..."
'Respect!' Lee couldn't hold back a praise, 'These guys are here for half a year and already have bribed a caretaker? That's what you get with the heirs of politicians! I've got to learn how to do that!'
It was baffling to hear how these guys got around while he was sweating in the fortress, learning to stab and charge. They even had a house in a good neighborhood, well, except it was in Ashland and everything about this place sucked.
Lee noticed another thing that was wrong. From the looks of it, Victoria was left only with three people – Edward, Deen and this Tycen guy. It seemed that the stay in this world claimed lives of her own men, not only those strangers that lie in Victoria's back yard, or whichever place she had buried them.
"Only Lunax decides the targets of expeditions. No one can do anything about it, even caretakers." Edward said, "Now back to more pressing matters! How to deal with the corpses ..."
"Leaxa! There you are! We've been looking for you all over!" Arax's worried voice immediately killed Lee's mood.