"Our days are getting better and better."
Humming a tune that came out of nowhere, Rorschach settled the payment with the mercenaries.
The original mission was to complete all the exploration work. Now, it could only be considered as an end, so naturally, it wasn't considered complete.
It was only half a night and a few hours of exploration. They didn't even experience a decent battle, and the adventurers didn't even get any decent results. It was impossible to get the original payment with such a result.
According to the rules of the Adventurer's Guild, they would give a discount based on the contribution and risk. The time was too short, the results were too little, and no one died in battle. This amount was already good enough … But when Rorschach settled the mission based on this discount, most people chose to reject it.
"Not completing the mission is the shame of our Adventurer's Guild/Adventurer's Team. Please let us complete this mission …"
"Heh, let's settle it after we complete the mission. We'll call whoever comes. "
One by one, people of noble character and unquestionable integrity appeared just like that. They didn't even want to be paid.
But how could Rorschach not know what they wanted?
Now, a Sorcerer's half-plane exploration mission had begun, and it was the primordial territory of a legendary super boss. There were countless riches and opportunities in it.
And judging from the current situation, the danger level wasn't high. It was just an exploration step by step.
Previously, they were forced to charge forward by Rorschach's power. Now, they were tempted by the benefits and didn't want to leave … Rorschach smiled. He didn't explain that the next mission was probably ten times or a hundred times more difficult than the previous one.
Anyway, I need cannon fodder here, and I also need to recruit a team. Not only will there be positions for all of you who stay, but I also need to recruit new people. If you're willing to stay and bring your own food to work for free … There's no reason to refuse, right?
It was worth mentioning that the three temporary leaders and their people that day didn't intend to leave.
And judging from the overly respectful attitude of those who chose to stay, they seemed to regard Rorschach as a golden thigh that fell from the sky. Not to mention rushing up to hug him tightly, there were even people who lowered their heads and wanted to lick his boots … These two days, Rorschach was so disgusted that he returned to the life of an otaku.
Those who wanted to leave were basically individual investors. Rorschach settled the accounts according to the agreement and even gave them a little extra as a covert hush money. Of course, before they left, he also asked Seviala to make threats and promises, saying, "This is a national secret, you know that right?" and "As long as the news is leaked, I don't care who leaked it."
Of course, Roxia wasn't confident at all that it would be useful and could be kept a secret.
After all, many of them were old foxes. Casually selling information was considered an old profession of adventurers. They would disappear after taking the money, and would not think too much about it.
And even if they really could keep their mouths shut, the archmages that he met that day would be able to clean out the contents of the bottle without even touching it.
Rorschach estimated that those archmages probably already knew about the entire process of the exploration by now.
But the current Rorschach couldn't do anything about those archmages, so he could only try his best to reduce the number of people who knew.
When he came out, he was still slightly worried that someone would come and force him to hand over the key. But in the end, he waited from dusk to dawn, and from dawn to dusk, but he didn't see a single person.
"Is it because the Mother of Wood Spirits' reputation is too terrible, or is there too much of a problem with the surname Harloys … or perhaps, both?"
Rorschach didn't dare to be certain, but it was naturally a good thing that no trouble came to him. Everything that happened that night mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Rorschach even tried to buy information from that secret society, but nothing happened.
It wasn't Rorschach's personality to think about what might have happened all day long.
The most important thing now was the duel in a week. Rorschach didn't want his apprentice to mysteriously die on the road in less than two days.
And so, he naturally took action …
"… This is the last carriage, right?"
"Yep, no more."
Rorschach's luggage piled up in the inn was sent over in a small carriage.
He didn't have many personal belongings. Most of them were various experimental equipment purchased here, and now they were moved to the front door of the flower shop.
That's right, Rorschach decided to simply move over.
This was a flower shop, and also the entrance to the half-plane. But for a long time, it really was a shop that was open to the public.
After confirming that this small flower shop was fixed with a secret spatial magic, and that this small, dangerous building was indeed a sixteen-story, spacious tower, Rorschach unhesitatingly moved.
But perhaps because this really was a flower shop not long ago, there was nothing in the hallway apart from the empty counter. Rorschach's entire belongings didn't even fill up a tenth of the first floor.
And when the door opened, quite a few customers really did come.
Most of them were filled with curiosity about this place. Customers who didn't know what was going on walked by and saw that a shop that had never been open before was open for business, so they came to take a look.
And those who knew the original owner of this shop were full of caution and fear when they came to visit.
After being disturbed a few times, Rorschach simply wrote a sign and hung it up: "Renovating, open for business in a week."
"Hey, it's not good to just lie to people."
"Why would I lie? When the time comes, I'll take out some things to sell. Recently, I've made a little too many half-finished products. I'll just use them as scrap to recoup some costs."
Rorschach was very calm. He had already made up his mind. If he couldn't produce results when the time came, he would sell some of the weeds from the half-plane. That kind of strange life force and elemental structure would definitely attract the interest of many mages.
At least, even the previous him would be very interested in these little things.
"Did you get a lot? I think you just plucked a lot of weeds and flowers. Most of them were used to add to the meal. You were just collecting ingredients … "
Rorschach didn't even bother to answer Seviala's doubts.
To outsiders, there was no difference between precious and rare magical plant samples and weeds. Him collecting samples along the way was probably just pulling weeds in their eyes … Although it was undeniable that there were so many mutated plants that even he, who had full marks in botany, couldn't distinguish them. He did indeed pluck a lot of random things (most of them were weeds).
And after confirming that many special plants were full of nature power and were very helpful to nature mages, nature rangers, and druids who used nature power, Rorschach naturally wouldn't refuse to add to the meal.
Rorschach was too lazy to explain the difference between weeds and mutated plants. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, there was no difference at all.
"Would I eat weeds? Those are all special magical plant materials, full marks for nutrition and taste. I didn't give them to you because I was worried that you'd explode. "
"Keep talking nonsense. I clearly saw you feed that disciple of yours grass. You didn't dry it and sprinkle some salt on it before eating it in a basin."
Rorschach really didn't know how to explain it.
"… For me, I've just begun to learn how to use nature power. Those foods that contain too much nature power can't be digested at all. Teacher, this is a diet that is carefully adjusted according to my personal strength."
Looking at this honest smile, Rorschach pursed his lips and couldn't bear to look at it. He really couldn't say, "I'm too lazy to make another serving, so I just let him eat grass."
And from the sudden silence in the atmosphere, Rorschach knew that he probably said too much again …
"Hehe, at least teacher is good to me. Mm, eating grass is good, as long as it's helpful for the growth of my strength."
Rorschach, who was still able to smooth things over at this time, was a little moved by Morton's words. And these words were all true, he really thought so.
"Looks like I really didn't take in the wrong disciple this time. Mm, give him some more ingredients. Anyway, he's already half a plant, so he shouldn't die. Mm, probably. "
The current Morton was probably really getting further and further away from being human.
In this exploration, Rorschach, who had gained a lot, used all the new results on this experimental subject … on his apprentice, and the results were really good.
"I'm a little looking forward to next week's competition. If they look at you with the same old eyes, they'll probably be at a disadvantage. "
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