Jared leaned back in his chair, and Caroline sat quietly beside him, as she always did. Across from them, the Lord of the Heavens was sitting - not as an illusion this time, but as a real entity. Apparently, all five Chanting Ambassadors had some kind of special skill that allowed them to appear anywhere at any time. That was why Jared wasn't particularly surprised when the Lord of the Heavens walked out of Wendy's room. After all, with Kura's precedent, he wouldn't be surprised if the rest of them suddenly emerged from some dark corner.
"I solemnly thank both of you ... I know this is certainly not enough."
The Lord of Heaven reached out and gently stroked his hand across the table, and three strange things appeared on the table: medals, gold coins, and maps.
"You have done so much for the San Marino Empire, for the College Council, Mr. Jared, Miss Caroline. You may choose your own rewards, and this is my promise to you as President of the College Council. Territory, honor, money. You may choose as you wish, but of course, I want your choices to reassure me, not worry me. ..."
The meaning of the Lord of Heaven is simple and clear.
In any case, man has to work and be paid for it.
It's a very natural, but important thing.
Jared and Caroline not only thwarted the crazy and ridiculous plan of the Minister of Magical Affairs, but even forced back the invading army of the Federation with just two people ... This is not a small thing, although Serenity and others were not present at that time, and were completely unaware of the situation at that time. But the San Marino Empire is not so stupid that it can't even run an intelligence network in other countries, one hundred and fifty officers of the upper and lower ranks were killed, and the casualties of ordinary soldiers totaled more than 3,000 people. Jared and Caroline's achievements were already big enough to give them a title, but the Lord of the Heavens was very uneasy, after all, Jared and Caroline's identity was unknown, and they were not the citizens of San Marino Empire. The Lord of the Heavens understood that they didn't have much sense of belonging to the San Marino Empire.
It's gonna take a lot of effort to get them to stay.
But now the Lord of the Heavens is confused, and even with her intelligence, she is completely unable to see through what Jared and Caroline want.
Beauty was filtered out from the start, after all, Jared already had Caroline by his side, and the Lord of the Heavens himself thought it would be no easy task to find a maiden in the entire empire who could compare to Caroline.
With regard to money, the two did not seem to show a particularly greedy look, according to Wendy's report, the two do not have the general style of aristocratic luxury, although Caroline's cleanliness is a little serious, but that does not explain what the actual problem.
As for rights and status ...
The Lord of Heaven has never seen such a headache for himself, the businessman's greatest fear is not to understand the buyer's mind, and the same applies to the political scene, the ruler's greatest fear is not to know what his subordinates really need.
Jared looks at the three items in front of him and thinks for a moment.
Then he glanced at Caroline, who nodded gently.
So Jared reached out a hand and pushed the three back in.
"I knew my choice would upset you ."
Jared stared at the Lord of the Heavens, it seemed that even so she had absolutely no intention of revealing her face to the people, for a moment Jared even got up the stupid idea of simply changing the reward to letting her show her true face to let herself see.
"I'm afraid you won't feel at ease even if I say I don't mean to make an enemy of you, so be it."
Jared withdrew his hand and snapped his fingers in the air.
"We can work together ..."
He looked at the Lord of the Heavens and spoke rather sincerely .
By the time the true ruler of the empire left the room, it was sundown.
Caroline stood by the window, enjoying the sunset and the view. Kula was cowering in the corner with her doll, squinting and sleeping. Jared played with the gold coin in his hand, looking pleased with himself.
(Are you sure this is a good idea?)
"We always go around in a big circle and come back to square one, don't we?"
Jared smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders. The gold coins in his hand flew up, and after reflecting the light of the setting sun, they fell down and lay steadily in Jared's palm.
"I appreciate the Empire's policy on gifted warriors, so I'm willing to help her. But that doesn't mean I'm a good person, you know, the only dream we ever had was to come back from our adventures dragging our tired bodies with a warm nest where we didn't have to worry about safety."
Once again, the gold coins flew up and down.
"We needed a home, and this seemed like a good choice."
In the end, Jared made his decision.
And the Lord of the Celestial Sky agreed to his suggestion with great peace of mind, she was no longer worried about the possibility of Jared being drawn in by another country, after all, people like this who could not be bought with money, status and power, once they had truly gotten the other side's help, then there would not be any problems. Jared just needs a promise from the Lord of Heaven, and that promise is the key to the whole deal.
"Since the other party is willing to keep her word, there's nothing wrong with us doing it again for her."
Jared collects his gold coins and stands up.
The trading part aside, I have to say that this Cthulhu quest has even gotten Jared a little motivated to do it.
Infiltrating the kingdom of Marco, looking for favorable evidence. Apparently, the Empire was ready to go to war against this country, and Jared clearly didn't hate it. He'd already heard from Kelly at the dinner about Marco's racism. The idea of killing all the gifted races disgusted Jared, and reminded him of his own experience in the old world, where he had fought alone. But now is different, this is a war between countries, Jared's role is to play before the war began to try to deplete the power of the other country.
Needless to say, Jared's reason for accepting this commission was, in a sense, to make a clean break with the past. He couldn't bear the thought of a country that challenged his values in a world he was about to inhabit forever.
Of course, as part of the show of good faith, in order to avoid being suspected by Jared of having ulterior motives ... such as stabbing them in the back, the Lord of the Heavens ordered Wendy to travel with them, and this time unexpectedly Kura also volunteered to join. Although Jared is not very trusting of the Cthulhu who is wrapped in a white cloth and is not even willing to show his true face to people, Kula is the one who has been unanimously recognized by him and Caroline. After all, the Lord of the Sky is still searching for the truth of the Forest of the Undead, which means that Kura did not tell her the information that she had gotten from herself.
Kylie rightfully asked to come along, and no one said no.
Since hatred is what keeps a person alive, it's not a good thing to let her go on like this.
After all, the only wayto change is to live.
If you die, the possibility of change is lost.
During his time with these wizards, Jared finally realized that while magic was powerful, it wasn't omnipotent. It couldn't reenact the past, nor could it give access to lost relics.
And the only possibility that the Lord of Cthulhu is stubbornly searching for the cause is that she thinks there might be some kind of treasure or artifact hidden in this forest - or she knows what it is, but isn't about to tell everyone.
Jared thought nothing of it, letting the mummified lady go on searching for her imaginary artifacts, and indeed, it was fortunate for Jared if she was foolish enough to set her sights on such a narrow area.
"Let's leave now, before it's too late."
Jared did not bring anything, happy leisure. But followed by Yuri and a few other mercenaries are sad to carry a big bag, even if the elite team, there must be able to deal with the daily chores of the people. After all, this world has no courier, no bank. Caroline slipped on her tiny white silk gloves, and the young girl named Layla followed her, clutching the violin case in her arms. Kylie stood silent, but the terror she gave off was too much for her to approach. Kula has leaned on Jared's side, into dreamland. As for Wendy ... although I do not know whether or not in, but as long as the voice to call her words, probably will be able to see her existence.
Serenity had not traveled with them, and in fact, just as everyone had expected, the Celestial Lord had appointed her to run the city - until Jared returned. Serenity's most important task now was to build and protect the city that belonged to them. But now, Serenity's face turned a little uneasy.
"Mr. Jared, why the rush? Wait at least another day ..."
"I'm not going to do it, those stupid nobles have been after me to give them an explanation, and who are these idiots being played for fools to get an explanation?"
Jared waved an unhappy hand.
"I have not cut them down with one sword is already very cheap, the rest of the matter will be left to you and Mr. Holguin just ... right."
At this point, Jared clapped his hands together as if he suddenly remembered something, and then he leaned into Serenity, ignoring the blush that rose on her face, and whispered.
"Tell old Mr. Holguin not to forget what he promised me."