Chapter 320: Thoughts on the Witcher Guild

"This is a good opportunity, Mr. Wayne."

"You should also often feel troubled by the bad reputation of witchers among the people."

"Now many nobles and kings in the North are feeling troubled by the matter of these monsters, and the bottom-level civilians are urgently in need of professional witcher masters to help them."

"Because your numbers are too scarce, a mercenary combat profession called Monster Hunter has even emerged."

"However, facing those monsters from other worlds, ordinary human warriors mostly just become food for the monsters, or become a member of the monsters because of the necromancy from other worlds."

"If your new Witcher Order is willing to participate in this work, presumably those civilians will also understand that the bad reputation for witchers in the past was just a misunderstanding."

"The new Witcher Order can also get the support of the northern people, allowing the profession of witcher to regain respect."

At the end of the dinner, Tissaia did not hide it and clearly stated her intention.

Regaining respect.

This was a quite tempting condition, at least for old-school witchers like Vesemir.

The situation was about the same as Wayne expected. According to the intelligence from the Wayne Chamber of Commerce, the entire North was currently troubled by the chaos brought by monsters from other worlds. Although it did not cause major turmoil, it affected the daily lives of ordinary people.

Because of the existence of these monsters, big cities protected by city walls were not obvious, but the empty wilderness became more dangerous. Caravans and tax officials were more likely to encounter attacks by monsters and bandits when going out, and many big merchants had to spend more money to hire caravan guards and mercenaries.

The increase in business costs led to soaring prices, eliminating a batch of merchants and giving up market share.

To a certain extent, this was also one of the main reasons why the Wayne Chamber of Commerce could develop rapidly and quickly have a place in the markets of various countries.

"This is indeed a good opportunity, Ms. Tissaia."

"However, nowadays, our Witcher Order has just been established and is in a stage of waiting to be revived. The number of witchers who can go out to participate in combat is really too small, and most of them are busy with other work and do not have so much time to run back and forth in the Northern Kingdoms."

"I can only thank you for your kindness, but we cannot accept such a commission for the time being."

After listening to Tissaia's suggestion, Wayne politely refused on the surface, and was even more dismissive in his heart.

It was a joke. If this condition were placed in the Wizard World without Wayne, it might be a good way out for witchers.

This commission, which was large and filling, could not only improve the public opinion pressure on witchers in society but also provide them with quite a lot of rewards. In such a world with scarce materials, it was always better than fighting with those poor farmers for a few gold coins for a drowner.

Unfortunately, now, the leader of the Witcher Order was Master Wayne, a witcher with the ability of money. Now the entire Witcher Order no longer needed to worry about money problems.

It was estimated that even if the wealth of all members of the Sorcerers Brotherhood were added together and doubled, it would not be one-tenth of his. How could they buy the current Order with money?

Even if the Sorcerers Brotherhood did not intend to play any tricks this time, but sincerely wanted witchers to help them stabilize the situation in the North, Wayne's Witcher Order could not be under others, become the thugs of sorcerers, and become the cannon fodder of rulers.

Tissaia's suggestion also gave Wayne a reminder. Although the witchers in the Order were all under his arrangement and had their own work, they rarely went out to perform witcher commissions.

But the witcher apprentices in the Order still lacked field experience and also needed to be tempered by human nature in this chaotic world.

However, now was indeed a good opportunity to change the reputation of witchers. Presumably, those nobles who were overwhelmed would also actively cooperate.

But if it were done through the channels of the Sorcerers Brotherhood or the northern nobles, Wayne felt that he could not trust them. The ending of the Witcher Order in the past was vivid in his mind; this was a lesson of blood.

If it were really to be done, it could be operated with the help of the network laid by the Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

Placing hope on those despicable outsiders was always unreliable. Only by operating it himself could he feel at ease.

"Is that so? That's a pity." "However, Mr. Wayne, the chaos brought by these monsters will last for a long time."

"If you change your mind, you can let Triss tell me. The Sorcerers Brotherhood looks forward to cooperating with the Witcher Order."

A trace of sadness appeared on Tissaia's dignified and beautiful face. As a conservative sorceress, she sincerely hoped to use the power of witchers to stabilize the monster chaos in the North, and at the same time, let the ancient profession of witcher flourish again.

As a high-level sorceress over five hundred years old, she almost watched the profession of witcher go from prosperity to decline. Even the founder of witchers, Alzur, was not a stranger to Tissaia, and was almost the most dazzling peer in the same era.

In a sense, Grand Master Tissaia could be considered a living history figure like Francesca. This was probably why they could become close friends.

After refusing Tissaia's long-term commission, Wayne suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile:

"However, Ms. Tissaia."

"Although we do not have the ability to complete long-term commissions, if the Sorcerers Brotherhood encounters monsters that are difficult to deal with and needs some powerful warriors to protect them, you can communicate with us through Triss and let us provide protection."

"The duty of a witcher is to protect weak civilians. Although they have been misunderstood and maliciously accused for a long time, we have not forgotten this point."

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After the dinner, Tissaia left with Francesca.

The conversation with this lady was quite pleasant. Perhaps because she had served as headmistress for hundreds of years, Tissaia was a bit old-fashioned and conservative in her words and actions, but she was not the kind of person who played conspiracies and tricks, and was a quite upright lady.

In this regard, she was much better than many corrupt nobles. At least there was no need to worry about her stabbing in the back.

The next afternoon, after a night of intense combat, and after the red-haired beauty Triss, who hadn't tasted meat for a month, left satisfied, Wayne contacted Syanna through a magic communicator and gave his latest instructions to this manager of the Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

He required her to use the power of the chamber of commerce to establish a Witcher Guild in all cities in the North, based on taverns, to collect intelligence and handle various combat missions, and use high rewards to incorporate all mercenaries currently on the market called monster hunters.

Compared with other organizations, the Wayne Chamber of Commerce could use its own business network and high-quality resources to provide all monster hunters who joined this guild with, but not limited to, high mission rewards, cheap and easy-to-use equipment and weapons, various conveniences in food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and even provide some intelligence support across the entire North.

In the future, after the apprentices of the Witcher Order left Kaer Morhen, they would also operate in the Northern Kingdoms through this organization.

They would no longer need to bargain with those stupid farmers or greedy nobles themselves.

There would be specialized people in the chamber of commerce to discuss mission issues, and witcher apprentices would only act as a profession similar to monster experts, hiding among many monster hunters, quietly developing their strength.

In this way, not only could the organization of the Witcher Order be quietly hidden and confused with many monster hunters, but it could also take the opportunity to dissolve the bad reputation of witchers in the North, and even make ordinary people forget the profession of witcher, but remember the more popular monster hunter.

When the Order developed a mutation potion formula that broke through age restrictions and was no longer confined to children, Wayne could absorb those loyal and talented members into the Witcher Order through the Witcher Guild.

Of course, to achieve this goal, the Witcher Guild must have a reward system that could enhance cohesion and loyalty, giving guild members benefits and interests that could not be obtained elsewhere.

Wayne was quite confident about this. After all, he mastered the method of traveling through many worlds and could provide members of the Witcher Guild with various products from other worlds that other organizations could not provide.

In this way, after many years, the Witcher Guild could exist in this world as a subordinate organization of the Witcher Order.

And the profession of witcher would no longer be as scarce as non-human races, becoming so conspicuous and easy to be hated.

They would become the most loyal and powerful elite members of the Witcher Order among many monster hunters.

After the Witcher Guild grew and developed after many years, Wayne could even let internal elite members execute commissions from other worlds by issuing commissions, becoming cannon fodder for the Witcher Order to explore other worlds.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 321 =====