"This really is a fair trade," Jude said, "You know , I wouldn’t refuse a deal as fair as this one."
"Good." Ireya nodded, revealing the terms of the deal, "I need you to help find a dragon."
"Find what?" Jude was startled, suspecting sothing wrong with his ears.
"A dragon... the one in the swamp; I need you to locate it for ."
"Just like that, I find the dragon, and then you let go?" Jude asked.
"I won’t let you go because of your identity, I must chop off your head." Miss Rabbit said seriously.
"Ha... So what’s the point of going through all this trouble, just to see a dragon before I die?" Jude scoffed, "You might as well chop my head off right now."
"I will have you executed, and that won’t change, but do you really resign yourself to be killed by ?"
"What do you an?" Jude was confused.
"It ans, won’t you run?"
"Look, if I could have run, I would have... wait," Jude stroked his chin, gradually figuring sothing out.
It seed that this stingy Rabbit was implying that if he could find the dragon, she would facilitate an "accident" before the execution to let him escape.
This made the remnants of the Enríquez family quite tempted.
As long as he could regain his freedom, there was no difference to him whether he was released or "escaped" on his own.
Jude looked up again at Ireya, "I need an assurance!"
"Have you been locked up for too long that your brain has gone soft? How could I possibly assure you of such a thing? Believe it if you want, or don’t if you don’t." Ireya said impatiently.
Jude quickly weighed the credibility of the girl’s words in his mind.
Based on his previous dealings with her, although the Rabbit was miserly, she was quite credible and not as shaless as other nobles typically were.
Thus Jude asked, "It’s just finding a dragon, why don’t you send your own people?"
Upon hearing this, Ireya fell into silence, and after a mont said, "How do you know I didn’t send anyone?"
"They didn’t find it?"
"They didn’t co back. A squad of twelve, led by a knight, with a Squire Knight and the family’s elite warriors, each equipped with the finest armor and weapons. The whole squad was wiped out."
"No wonder this task eventually fell to ," Jude said, then glanced at the three lizard people beside him, "and it looks like you even found guides for ."
"You can make any other requests now, as long as they are related to finding the dragon and are not too excessive, I can satisfy them."
"I need more manpower," Jude said unreservedly.
"Err... In terms of warriors, I can only reluctantly pick out three or four whose skills are still decent."
Jude interrupted Miss Rabbit’s words, "I don’t want warriors from the Arias family, I can’t command those big shots, rcenaries, just find so rcenaries."
"Are you sure?" Ireya frowned. "You said you can’t command the warriors of the Arias family, so will those rcenaries who only care about money listen to your orders?"
"Moreover, most rcenaries’ equipnt and capabilities are inferior to those of the Arias family’s warriors, and the really capable ones often demand outrageously high prices. Although I promised to help you find people, we need to consider the cost."
"No need to look for those powerful guys, just help find so ordinary rcenaries to make do with. As for command, I never expected them to listen to ."
This ti, it was Miss Rabbit’s turn to be puzzled. "Then what use are those rcenaries to you?"
Jude grinned, "If we really run into danger, I’m counting on those guys to save their own lives. I can’t outrun that dragon, but surely I can outrun them? As for companions, Black Beauty is all I need."
"........."
"I have another question," Jude paused and then continued, "How am I supposed to prove that I found that dragon? Surely you won’t just take my word for it."
Li Yu, who had been silent beside them, then spoke, "I can lend you a Holy Artifact."
"A Holy Artifact?"
"Yes, if you do as I say, it will faithfully record whatever your eyes see. So, if you really find that dragon, the Holy Artifact will testify for you."
"There are such miraculous objects in this world!"
If it were soone else saying this, the remnants of the Enríquez family would probably scoff, but with Li Yu saying it, Jude couldn’t help but believe.
After all, on the journey back to Green Field with Ireya, Jude had witnessed the various miracles of Saturday, and previously in Rock Snow City, it seed Li Yu had employed a similar thod to record sounds.
Now being able to record images was not strange; indeed, the exposure of his role as an insider seed to have sothing to do with Li Yu’s thod of recording images.
"But I am not a follower of Saturday, can I still use the Holy Artifact?" Jude then asked.
"You can," Li Yu said, "I will unlock the seal of the Holy Object when the ti cos, and anyone can use it, but the available ti will be very limited. Without Divine Power imbued, the Holy Object will quickly lose its effect, so you should not activate the Holy Artifact carelessly before you encounter that dragon."
"Understood," Jude nodded and then looked at Miss Rabbit beside him, "I have no other questions."
"Then I will also gather the personnel as soon as possible. If it’s fast, three to five days; at most, it would take ten days, then you can head to the swamp," Miss Rabbit replied.
"Don’t tell those guys we are going to find a dragon, just say there is a monster in the swamp. This way we can further lower the reward, and also don’t ntion the encounter of that previous squad," Jude reminded.
The girl was shocked; every ti she thought she had seen the worst of this man, he would reset her expectations.
"It’s not just about the money," Jude explained. "If they knew from the start that the target was a dragon, I’m afraid everyone would scatter at the sight of it, and I wouldn’t be able to record much. You probably want to confront that dragon, right? We need to gather as much intelligence as possible before that."
Ireya, struck by what he said, pondered for a mont and then spoke, "What if I recruit so rcenaries with bad records and misdeeds..."
"No problem, they are just bait anyway, I don’t care whether they are good or bad," Jude laughed.
"Don’t you have even a bit of a moral sense?"
"Moral sense? From the mont I was born, whether bad people or so-called good people, they all wanted my head, so to , they all look the sa. Maybe in the world of ordinary people there’s black and white, but for , there’s only one color in this world, and that is the color of blood."
Jude scoffed, "I don’t need any damn morals; they’re just a burden and only lead to one’s demise. All I need are my axe and Black Beauty."
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