As soon as they left the store mark questioned the young man
"Reiner why did you agree to his conditions that's not like you at all". Lisa was also listening at the side.
"That man is stronger than me probably a Tier 2, and one at such a young age. He could send us to the wilderness to hunt. Also did you not observe the store? such customers he's bound to be rich and known soon. It is better we take him up on his offer at least that's what my instincts say."
The others were truly in disbelief that max was a Tier 2 at such a young age but they didn't question what Reiner and just kept quiet as they left.
Meanwhile max took Pedro down towards his employees, it was almost night and they were about to close.
He introduced Pedro as the new general
manager of the store.
Max closed and went home he took a shower and went to sleep. He had a lot to do in the coming days he wanted to spend two
weeks in the wilderness to increase his energy and enlarge his storage space whiles also taking the black dragons out to hunt for beast for their meat ,it was the fastest way to advance in this world.
As for techniques he already had a lot in his possession thanks to daoist Qin.
The technique book he had was still there and since he just wanted to make money he could just give it to the mercenaries to get stronger.
Over the following days max just converted gold to cash and sent large amounts of supplies to the New world he also handled various business transactions.
He had also given old man zack and the others the weapons they ordered and put the rest of the weapons in the store for sale he had also given Zao Lin an order to continue production.
His store was now well known in the city and surrounding towns after all he was the only on e who could provide sugar and spices.
His canned foods to were a hit in the public and some nobles even wanted to procure some for their families. Meanwhile the whispers of war kept on circulating and had become widely known by all.
On the fourth day mark,Lisa,Reiner and the rest of the mercenaries came as agreed upon.
There were forty eight of them, two were said to have died some days ago after getting into a scuffle with another mercenary group. They looked sloppy, were in old and worn out armor and their weapons looked cheap.
"Since you are here I'll tell you I only require your loyalty and hard work.Do your best and I'll not mistreat you, now I'll have your leader sign the contract henceforth you all work for me"and with that max signed signed the contract with mark.
"Grace have the new workers bring the special armor I kept in the second storage room" max gave an order after signing then contract.
Grace soon came followed by a group of workers holding sets of armor and different variety of weapons.The armor looked beautiful.
They were all black and silver with a painting of a domineering roaring black dragon at the shoulder with a black cloak behind it.
These armor are yours put them on and pack up the supplies we are going for some training outdoor.
Max gave them the order as soon as they were ready.It seemed that mark and Reiner had trained them well as they were disciplined and obeyed orders.
After packing up supplies of canned food salt and camping tents max bid farewell to Pedro and grace before setting off with the forty eight men and women. Before leaving he had transferred tons of supplies which were more than enough to sustain the store so he could train without burden.
Max and the gang left the city far behind as they went further into the wilderness. This forest was the same one that max teleported into the first time he came to this world.
It was very large and was connected to two kingdoms and the spirit tree empire. The fact is all the surrounding nations added together could not compare to it's size and there were numerous fierce beast and demonic beasts inside. The spirit tree empire had even confirmed that the was a Tier 7 demonic beast inside despite numerous Tier 5 and 6 confirming that it was very dangerous.
There were classless beasts and Tier 1 beasts at the edges but to really get Tier 1 and 2 beasts one had to venture a bit inside.
Max and the others soon reached the edges as they fought he didn't dare let them venture too far. Luckily about eighty percent of the millions of beasts inside the forest were classless and Tier 1 beasts.
Soon they realized that about two hundred horned wolves had spotted them and were about to attack. Most of the horned wolves were classless with about twenty of them being Tier 1.Max didn't intervene and observed them as they fought.
Reiner was the most skilled especially with the sword he took on two mid Tier 1 wolves on his own and fought without losing against them, max took notice of this and decided to nurture him as an elite soldier under him.
Another was Lisa the girl had talent with the bow.She was even able to make arc shots without taking proper aim.
The middle aged man mark used a hammer and relied on brute strength to crash the wolves.
Some of the other mercenaries too performed well especially a skinny boy who looked nineteen years with light armor on his body. He used a pair of daggers and whenever he passed would have horned wolves with slit throats, they creatures themselves couldn't even catch up with his speed. If max remembered correctly his name was Lucas.
The group was able to fight due to the high quality armor and weapons max had given to them, everything was going well when soon
"Awoo" a loud wolf roar sounded in the surrounding.The mercenaries turned towards the source and turned pale at the sight of a horned wolf with two horns larger than the rest with white fur standing proudly and looking at them with menacing eyes. By looking at its size one could see this fellow weighed more than two hundred kilos.
Before the wolf could attack a fast arrow was already before it. The creature dodged but got grazed in the process it stared at the man with a crossbow with hate filled eyes for hurting it.Max also stared at it for a while and got it's details.
Double Horned wolf
STRENGTH: 212
AGILITY: 252
STAMINA: 220
SKILLS: Air cannon, Accelerate, pack command.
An evolved horned wolf pack leader that is fierce and relies mostly on it's speed and fast attacks.Note that it is smart and can command the pack to surround the prey.
This was a beast that relied on it's speed and intelligence with and looking at the stats this horned wolf is an early stage Tier 2 fierce beast. He could totally take it down.
The double horned wolf also seemed to understand that max was the strongest here so it commanded it's lackeys to keep attacking the mercenaries whiles it faced off against max.
It kept circling max whiles keeping it's eyes on him. Max took aim at it and fired as soon as it rushed at him.
The wolf avoided the attack and seemed to understand that the crossbow only fired one at a time it jumped at him intending to pin max down and go for his neck.
But it was in for a big surprise as the crossbow in his hands disappeared and another loaded crossbow from his storage space appeared in his hand. The poor double horned wolf had already done its jump and was in the air limiting it's mobility.
It knew dodging was useless so it activated one of it's skills.It opened it mouth wide and howled at the arrows heading for it.
Immediately an air cannon in the form of sound waves were launched at the arrows, the force was so strong that even with the blood qi coating it and increasing it's power it was forced back.
The remaining force of the air cannon headed for max who was on the ground.Sensing the attack headed for him max stored the crossbow and took out a sword before placing it in front of him to dispel the rest of the attack.
'what a fierce attack!! fortunately it's not that easy to use' max mused whiles observing the wolf that had landed on the ground. It was panting and it looked like it had lost a lot of energy in that attack.
It looked at max again and then howled again before many of it's stronger underlinings disengaged from the other mercenaries leaving the weaker ones to attack them.
Five Tier 1 horned wolves with the strongest being an advanced horned wolf surrounded max whiles the double headed wolf retreated.
'This bastard want's to use them to delay and exhaust me whiles it rests' max realized when the double horned wolf retreated whiles keeping it's eyes on him.
Seeing this max obviously wasn't going to play along he took out his sword and side arm which he kept and activated his sharp shooter skill.Immediately it was like time had slowed down for him he aimed and fired quick shot whiles aiming at the eyes of the horned wolves he blinded four of them but the advanced Tier one wolf reacted and attacked him lunging at him.
Max leaned back whiles raising his sword and attacking the underbelly of the wolf cutting dividing it and spilling it intestines all over, by the time the wolf already hit the ground it was already dead.
He then sprinted at the wolf which had taken advantage of the chaos to sneak attack him.