Upon hearing Cambrona's introduction, Hopes was silent for a while before saying, "Should there be an internal war in the Commonwealth, it would also only be along the Republic's borders. We're heading to a place of our own, and it would be isolated as well… surely the risk wouldn't be too big then?"
Hopes had really wanted to earn that large sum of money. Furthermore, the proposal of the expedition meant that it was highly likely for mining veins to be found. Thus, it would be easy to receive five times the pay.
His original pay was already rather high as he worked outdoors. Five times of his pay was a large amount!
This was like how on Earth, prospectors were paid rather highly—Sui Xiong used to have a neighbor's child who specialized in this and had graduated two years before him. His salary had been about six thousand each year, and this was two times Sui Xiong's pay as a store man.