Chapter 102: The Rewards for Everyone

In the open space in the middle of Momona Village, the surroundings were bright at this moment.

The small glowing orb Jier had conjured provided ample illumination, causing the night to temporarily retreat from this place and bringing light back down to the earth.

From time to time, people drank wine, excitedly singing slurred, lewd ballads, celebrating with laughter the victory of the battle and the feat of sweeping the evil parasitic monsters clean!

In this counterattack plan proposed and led by the Baron Heir—Bell-Sasi, everyone who joined had contributed their own strength, so at this moment, everyone could confidently pat their chests and believe they had made a contribution to the peace of Northern Sasi County.

They drank heartily from the large amount of ale transported in the afternoon, gulping it down with pleasure, loudly boasting to one another, and singing off-key victory songs.

Unlike these dissolute Town Guards and Armed Civilians, the warriors under Jier's command were currently arranged in neat ranks, standing straight, their eyes burning as they watched the Baron Heir striding toward them.

No, what these warriors were actually looking at more were the Yemei Town officials behind Bell, who were holding individual money bags.

These warriors all knew that the beautiful fruit borne of their valiant fighting these past few days was finally going to ripen and fall today.

"Ahem, everyone, brave warriors."

It was not the first time Bell had said something in front of a crowd, but facing these elite warriors who were highly skilled and fully armed still made him feel a sense of mental pressure.

Although he himself was an Apprentice Knight in training and considered his own strength to be far greater than these ordinary human warriors, his aura was still inferior to these dozens of people staring at him with burning eyes.

"Ahem, I won't say any more superfluous words. Thank you all for your valiant fighting, and thank you all for the contributions you have made to the peace of Sasi County. Without your fighting, I and my people would not have been able to retake the many villages that were originally occupied by the parasitic monsters."

"Especially a portion of the villages in the north of Yemei Town." Speaking of this, Bell glanced at the Sun God Church Priests not far away, clearly slightly dissatisfied with these fellows who talked big.

And because of their unauthorized actions—using the 【Sun Child】 method, which could alter one's faith orientation, on the Knight Jier whom he himself had invited—it had caused him and his people to privately compensate Jier with two good things related to knight skills.

"Thanks to your many days of hard fighting, killing hundreds of terrifying monsters, the homeless Villagers crowded outside Yemei Town can safely return to their respective villages."

"And for risking extreme danger to follow me in destroying the nest of the parasitic monsters." Bell pointed to the surroundings—Momona Village.

"I know, I have seen, and I have heard of your every battle. I have witnessed your fighting techniques, your fearless Yongqi, and your tenacious physique. Therefore, please allow me to use a small amount of wealth to reward such outstanding warriors as you!"

He clapped his hands, and the Yemei Town officials holding the money bags behind him strode forward.

With the officials' deliberate, showy movements and the swaying in their hands, the Gold Coins and Silver Coins in the money bags emitted a clear, loud clinking sound.

What a wonderful sound it was; the gazes of everyone at the scene were attracted to the money bags emitting this wonderful sound.

The warriors' breathing grew heavy, and quite a few people stared fixedly at those money bags without even blinking, as if by staring hard like that, the money that would fall into their hands in a moment might be a little more?

Jier coughed lightly, and most of the warriors came back to their senses, lowering their heads, but their ears pricked up again.

Bell reached out and took a long Scroll from the attendant beside him. This Scroll had specifically chosen a beautifully decorated long scroll paper with blue mosaic patterns and gold-inlaid vine patterns as the main body, and the two upper and lower crossbars of the scroll were flashy gold-plated handles, which looked suitable for recording the names of every warrior at this time and the amount of reward data to be given to them.

"First is Knight Qiao-Jier, who had the most kills, so he is listed first."

The warriors all looked at Jier, and Jier shrugged and walked up from the side.

Bell loudly read the record on the scroll: "Starting from Banjiu Village in the first step of the counterattack, all the way to finally facing the Alien Evil God behind the parasitic monsters, Knight Jier rushed to the front line valiantly and made countless contributions. The number of ordinary parasitic monsters killed is already hard to count, but it is roughly above the number of five hundred. As for the bounty-bearing flowering monsters, after multi-level statistical counting, Knight Jier eliminated a total of forty-two. According to the bounty of five Gold Coins per head, Knight Jier can receive a total of two hundred and ten Gold Coins!"

This number of Gold Coins made the warriors gasp, and many of the onlookers were also so surprised their jaws dropped. Many people might never possess ten or so Gold Coins in cash in their entire lives, yet Knight Jier had earned over two hundred Gold Coins through fighting in just these few days.

This was a very exaggerated number.

But at this moment, Jier did not step forward to collect the money, and the Yemei Town officials holding the money bags beside Bell had no intention of taking out the money either.

This was a bit strange, but Bell's subsequent words explained everyone's doubts: "After private discussion, Knight Jier has waived the reward method of receiving physical Gold Coins and instead chosen to use rare Magic Materials to replace this wealth at an equivalent value."

A servant of Bell's walked up holding a Wooden box of considerable size, kneeling halfway to present the Wooden box to Jier.

Jier took the object casually, showed a smile to the people around him, and waved his hand.

Many of the folks did not know what Magic Materials were, but they understood the meaning of the term "equivalent replacement." Simply put, the thing in that Wooden box was worth exactly two hundred and ten Gold Coins, and Knight Jier was very satisfied with this.

In fact, there was nothing in the Wooden box; the Sasi Family's Magic Materials were all in town and naturally could not be transferred over in time for Jier to choose and exchange for them. So, to make the situation look good, Bell's subordinates prepared an empty Wooden box, and everyone pretended there was something inside to perform a "show" under the eyes of the public.

Only after returning to Yemei Town would Jier have time to go to the Sasi Family's treasury to choose the equivalent Magic Materials he wanted.

After Jier took the "reward," he retreated to the side, and the next name Bell read out was his subordinate, Weier.

Weier's kill count was second only to Jier's, especially in dealing with the flowering monsters; he, along with Bawei and Sipulu, had cooperated to kill a great many flowering monsters. And in the most intense battle to attack Momona Village, he also cooperated with a young woman from a local Knight Family to kill quite a few difficult enemies.

These cooperative kill counts naturally counted as well, though the bounty for each had to be split equally with the person he cooperated with. But even so, Weier still received a large reward of nearly thirty Gold Coins.

This also incidentally included a portion of the hiring fees Bell paid them.

Of course, compared to the bounty for killing flowering monsters, this bit of hiring fee was nothing.

At this time, everyone watching finally saw those officials take out the shiny Gold Coins one by one from the money bags, count out the sufficient amount in front of everyone, put them separately into a sturdy leather money bag, and then have Bell himself personally hand it to Weier, who walked up.

At this moment, most people realized that this young man, who was handsome to an unbelievable degree, actually had very formidable fighting skills. People had actually seen Weier before, and quite a few had privately and sneakily fabricated some exaggerated words, believing that this exceptionally handsome guy was the young Knight Jier's same-sex lover.

But it wasn't until later that everyone saw Weier fighting together with the young woman from the Knight Family that they realized it was not as they had guessed.

And now, the combat bounty calculated through rigorous statistics immediately proved that this handsome young man also had very remarkable skills, at least stronger than ninety-nine percent of the people present.

Weier also accepted the money bag with self-satisfaction. He shook the money bag in his hand, but he did not have the wild joy others had imagined.

Although nearly thirty Gold Coins was a large sum of money, and getting so much money in just a few days was already unimaginable to many, for Weier, this money could not prove anything, nor could it accomplish much.

He learned from the young woman from the Knight Family, whom he had become familiar with recently, that the price of the precious Potion required for Knight Training in the Saint Hors Kingdom was approximately four hundred and fifty to six hundred Gold Coins.

Sometimes when production was higher, the price would drop a bit, and when production was lower, the price would rise to nearly six hundred Gold Coins.

But even in years with higher production, the lowest price was around four hundred and fifty Gold Coins, and this was not something you could buy just because you had money. One must be a Knight Lord under a local Baron's recognition to be able to order and purchase one limited bottle of Life Energy Potion from the Potion master's workshop at the Alchemist Guild under the provincial Noble Council.

After taking this Potion, one would gain a powerful Life Energy replenishment effect in a short time; if a normal person took this Potion without understanding the knights' Life Energy conversion method, the whole person would directly explode. Only by having another knight's personal instruction and a bottle of Life Energy Potion could one conduct primary Knight Training.

The money Weier possessed was far from enough to cover the fraction of a Life Energy Potion, and he was not qualified to purchase such a precious Potion with restricted eligibility.

Rob a bottle of Potion?

That was impossible, because the Potion workshop belonging to the Alchemist Guild was not located elsewhere, but in the bustling area of the Province Capital, and it was guarded by stationed formal knights at all times.

Only a knight could oppose a knight, and if a knight wanted a Potion, why wouldn't he ask his liege for a qualification to purchase one? And for knights, four hundred-plus Gold Coins was not a difficult amount of capital to raise, right?

After all, everyone knew Jier's bounty just now was over two hundred Gold Coins. If such hiring came just two more times, one could save up enough capital.

Weier wore a smile on his face, paid his respects to Bell with a noble etiquette of the Southern Alliance Kingdom, and then retreated amidst Bell's astonishment.

The person who came up next to collect the bounty was not Aoni, nor was it Sipulu; it was actually Bawei!

This rude Two-handed Axe warrior who liked to be boisterous was overjoyed to hear his name listed third after Jier and Weier.

He proudly nudged his chin at Aoni, who had a sour face, and then proudly patted his chest and bulging arm muscles at Sipulu. Aoni was secretly annoyed, feeling that he had a tendency to be outdone recently, and he must learn a few more powerful skills from Jier later to completely suppress Bawei, the subordinate he hadn't thought much of, in future battles.

Sipulu didn't feel anything about Bawei's pride. Most of Bawei's bounties were obtained by cooperating with him to defeat flowering monsters; that is to say, in the final wave of fighting in Momona Village, Bawei relied on the heavy Plate Armor on his body to charge and kill on the front line of the battle many times, which was a solid achievement. Sipulu did not envy Bawei's reward; on the contrary, he recognized this partner's courage and perseverance.

You must know that the weather was too hot during the day, and wearing metal armor plates all over one's body was a very miserable thing; Sipulu had seen with his own eyes that this fellow Bawei drank a large amount of water after every battle, yet throughout an entire battle, until they completely crushed all the parasitic monsters by noon, Bawei hadn't urinated even once.

All the water he drank turned into sweat on his body, soaking his entire suit of armor.

Bawei's reward was also over twenty Gold Coins, though it was five Gold Coins less than Weier's, just a little over twenty. But this amount already made him excited beyond measure.

When Bell handed him the money bag containing the Gold Coins, this young Warrior let out a strange cry of excitement and asked a question that left Bell somewhat stunned: "Lord Knight Bell, can I also spend some money to buy some Magic Materials suitable for forging weapons?"

Bell was extremely surprised, because the Warrior in front of him didn't look like a smart guy at all; that exceptionally handsome fellow from the Lianmeng Wangguo in the south who was just here should have been the one to ask this question.

But he still nodded generously: "Of course, you are a brave Warrior and have rendered meritorious service to Sasi County; you have sufficient qualifications for this. Afterward, take your money, and when we return to Yemei Town, have Knight Jier bring you to find me, or my Butler."

Bawei still hadn't forgotten his dream—to own an imposing and majestic Spirit Two-handed Axe, just like the one Jier had!

Jier also shook his head at this moment, feeling that for a Warrior like Bawei, it would be best to earn a large sum of money and then go home to farm. Of course, he didn't look down on Bawei as a person; a person who has a dream is happy, and there are plenty of dull people in this world who don't even understand what they want.

When a person has a goal, regardless of whether this goal is reasonable or realistic, it is a good thing. With a goal, people know where they should go and where they should strive.

And in the process of completing the goal, people will be happy.

This is good.

Subsequently, according to the total reward amounts arranged by the tallied kill counts and cooperative kill counts, following them were Sipulu, Aoni, the Tusi Brothers, and other direct subordinates of Jier who possessed Armor protection.

Mixed in the middle were also a few capable Caravan guards and shop thugs; their own equipment was not good, making it difficult for them to fight the parasitic monsters head-on, but relying on their rich experience and skilled combat techniques, these people who temporarily joined Jier's team also received some extra rewards.

Of course, for these fellows, their biggest harvest was not these cash rewards that were visible to everyone, but the various wealth obtained from looting the Villages after the battles ended when they followed the team to capture those Villages occupied by parasitic monsters.

This was the bulk of the harvest for these people who temporarily joined the team.

Naturally, it was impossible for them to carry these various spoils, which were not small in volume or weight, on their persons during the intense battles. They cleverly buried most of the things they looted in secret corners outside the various Villages.

Once the blockade of northern Sasi County is lifted later and everyone can move about freely, they can secretly dig up those "treasures" buried in the cover of night and transport them to Yemei Town to find someone to process them and exchange them for money!

Although Yemei Town is in a rather remote location and lacks the convenient transportation conditions of Dorn Town, it is, after all, a town that vigorously develops commercial trade; there is indeed a Thieves Guild active in the town, and although there is no large-scale Underground Black Market, it is still relatively convenient to offload some "spoils of war."

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