after Valthorian left to sent the message, seeing I won't be sleeping I intend to use it to read the encyclopedia of race to understand more of the race beside mine, starting from the orcs race and dragon/dragonoids race, the book explain about their anatomy, weakness, and strength of the race.
after reading through the book about the dragon race, Farian enter the workroom reported the president of the adventurer association will soon arrive and saying that Valthorian is already waiting in the safe zone to greet him.
putting my self together to went and meet with the association president, walking out of the room I went on my way to the safe zone and seeing the safe zone now develop into a small village with the most impressive building that is own by the traveling merchant, I can see Valthorian is waiting in front of the door, after seeing me he said "sir please go inside and wait with the merchant, let me greet our guest." hearing his word I nod and continue walking inside and went to the room prepared by the merchant for this meeting.
"Good day Esteemed Dungeon Master, I am sorry about the previous event, it seems I did not review the person thoroughly and letting your subordinate waste his time."
"it is fine Merchant, please record the result of this event in a neutral point of view."
"certainly sir, I will guarantee my self to be neutral."
after the brief chat with the merchant not long after the door is open and I can see it seems Valthorian is guiding a Old Caucasian gentleman and with him is a Burly man that have a feeling of a delinquent with dark black hair with full armor on himself, seeing this I and the merchant stood up to show some respect, Valthorian then continue walking and finally standing beside my seat while the old gentleman standing in-front of me while his company standing just like Valthorian
"it is nice to finally meet you personally."
"likewise, please take a seat and we will start the meeting."
after we seated ourselves the president talked first.
"before we talked about the condition I would like to apologize for my subordinate, when I sent him as a representative my order was to invite and inform you about the alliance I suggest."
"it is not just you that need to apologize, it seems my subordinate is a little heated when hearing your subordinate word, but now let put that aside, what I want to know is what is your plan sir?"
"we plan to have an economic and strategic co-operative relation, first we will agree to not attack each other, second it seems your dungeon has an enchanter we would buy enchanted weapons and items, and third we will buy food from the dungeon since undead does not need food, as for strategic we would guarantee to protect this dungeon and vice versa, that is it for now after all I know little of your dungeon output."
while hearing his words I communicated with Valthorian with him through our mind and asked him if he was lying, Valthorian replied that the word he said is genuine.
"ok then I can agree with your offer, when will we sign the agreement?"
"we can sign the agreement in the middle of both territories."
"ok then, the president do you agree to having the traveling merchant organization to become the witness of the agreement?"
"It is fine, we believe in the traveling merchant organization to be neutral."
hearing his words we continue to talk about the contract, to be more detailed so we have less loophole and not an open interpretation, and the merchant checks it again so the terms are neutral and equal, well it seems neutral but if you have information about the underground movement of a 3rd party you will start to notice that some of the penalty is very deliberate.
after finishing both of us prepared to leave, but suddenly the burly man talked.
"Old man I want to challenge this person." while pointing his finger at myself, Valthorian beside me already prepare to make a move but I stopped him.
"I denied your request Darius, you can challenge him after we have a stable relation." the president put his pressure on him.
he took a look at me trying to provoke me, I intend to agree since I want to gauge how strong he is and since he accompany the president it means he is one of the strongest member in the association so, I said "it is not impossible to agree with that request, but you need to give me a reason to agree?" hearing my word he immediately replied "I will buy you one item from the traveling merchant."
listening to his offer I am quite intrigue to his offer but even without his word I can easily buy his item, after all even though it is rare I can buy them with the weekly output from my business.
"not interested, I can buy it myself."
"how about I give you a special item."
while talking he took a golden colored key which look extremely complicated, he continued to explain "this item was gain from the initial Gift box I have, of course you need to add a condition that you need to win against me."
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??? Master Key
A golden colored key that are created with an extremely precious gold called Eternal Gold it is enchanted by a vet complicated rune and magic circle that contain very powerful rule, it use is unknown, you need to find someone to identified this item.
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seeing the item it seems this item was very similar to the compass I have, it pique my interest so I agree to his offer and ask him to follow me outside the safe zone of the dungeon and have a duel in the forest clearing far away from the dungeon.