After planning what he was gonna do for the future Lin started to begin his first steps to get his plan in motion.
'I cannot directly influence Linley's life as Beirut is most likely going to start monitoring him the minute he contracts with Bebe, so that means I must get a subordinate to save Linley's life after the apocalypse or during the necropolis of gods or perhaps even supply the Radiant church with items to endanger Linley's life so that my subordinate can save him and to establish a bond. Lin though.
However to start his plan he needed funds but that could be easily be acquired by selling the cores of a few 3rd/4th rank beasts that he hunted. After killing two 3rd ranked beasts and four 4th ranked beasts he promptly dropped it onto the hands of the doppelganger only for the cores to phase right through the hand of the doppelgänger.
That was when Lin remembered ' right the doppelgänger has no physical form, its literally made of wind '
To solve the problem of the cores phasing through the hands of the doppelgänger Lin had to experiment with the doppelgänger for a while, and eventually he was able to find a solution. He had the doppelgänger practically levitate the cores within it's hands by having invisible and undetectable updraft winds carry the cores.
Lin then raced to the closest town he could find and paused when he was about 100 meters away from it and formed his wind doppelgänger, he controlled the doppelgänger to enter the town and attempted to find a shop where he could sell the cores.
Lin was eventually able to find a shop that was called Xanders and controlled the doppelgänger to enter the shop, he then bartered with the owner of the shop on the prices of the cores by having the wind carry his voice. He was eventually able to settle on a price with the shop owner and sold the two 3rd rank cores for 150 gold pieces each and the four 4th rank cores for 300 gold pieces each.
Afterwards Lin searched for caravans that were preparing to leave and checked if any of the children on the caravans had potential or not, he was able to find one that he was satisfied with that was going to leave in three weeks'
Lin then found a bandit tribe that was few hundred meters away from the town he was in before and had his doppelgänger approach the tribe.
" Hey Wuip wake up! someones coming" said one of the bandits
The bandit named Wuip yawned and then woke up and saw that there was indeed someone walking towards them the person was covered in a black cloak that obscured his face from the bandits.
" Who are you?" said Wuip
" Who I am is no matter, but what does matter is that I have a business proposal for your boss and your tribe" said Lin and with that he tossed a pouch Wuip
Wuip caught the pouch and then checked to see what was inside and saw the pouch to be full of gold pieces.
" Thats only a small portion of what I am going to pay your tribe if you accept my request" Lin said
" a, a, a, alright ill notify the boss, just stay here!" Wuip stammered as he never saw so much money in one place.
Lin smirked and then proceeded to wait for a few minutes before Wuip came back with a man that towered over Lin the man had scars all over his body including one that stretched all the way from his cheek to over half his torso.
"So I heard you had a job for my tribe?" questioned the man
"Indeed I do, the pouch that I gave to your subordinate earlier was only a small portion of what I am going to pay you if you decide to accept my request" said Lin
" Lets introduce ourselves first before we move onto the request shall we?" said the man
" My name is Gisdomed Hesta and i am the leader of this tribe!" said Gisdomed
"You can call me L and I'm simply a wanderer" Lin responded
"Very well, what is this request that you have of my tribe?" asked Gisdomed
"My request is very simple I want you to attack any and all caravans that pass through the Eltois trail for the duration of this month, you do not have to attack any caravans that are being guarded by 5th rank warriors and up. I do not care about the items that the caravans are transporting, all you have to do is attack and kill the people on the caravans. " said Lin
" And how much are you willing to pay?" asked Gisdomed
" I am willing to pay 1500 gold pieces in total" said Lin
" ho? thats quite a-lot for just attacking some caravans" said Gisdomed
"That matters not, so are you willing to accept this request?" said Lin
"HA! if you don't want the money I will gladly take it off your hands, my Cruel Claw tribe will accept your request" said Gisdomed
" Since your willing to declare it so boldly I'll pay the money upfront but I expect you to follow up on your end of the deal" said Lin
" Of course I will, I Gisdomed will never go back on my word once I have given it!" said Gisdomed
With that Lin tossed a big sack towards Gisdomed, who tossed the sack to his underling without checking what was in the bag.
"To a wonderful cooperation!" Laughed Gisdomed as he though this was a fool who did not know how to properly spend his money.
"To a wonderful cooperation" Laughed Lin as well but for a totally different reason.