When Aldrich returned to the Black Cat Tavern with a bag full of coins, he was surprised to find most of the members of the Scavengers' Guild, including a few scavengers, staying in the hall, chatting and looking at the door from time to time, and when they saw President Triss walking into the tavern with a smile on his face, they all let out a relaxed breath.

The 'veteran mercenary' was amused, but he understood the feelings of the unemployed who had just come out of their state of depression and lived a hungry life, and Aldrich knew very well that they had been deceived and teased so many times that they had formed a kind of reflex.

"I'm not a bastard, sewer cleaning is a long-term business, follow me and work hard to ensure that you will have a new life. ”

Empty words are the basic skill of a liar, but the truth is that the scavengers' union president has set a goal or wants to achieve so much that he disdains to covet this little money with a clear conscience.

The first 'paycheck', Aldrich decided to pay it himself, he chose the escalator leading to the second floor, and reached out to recruit the two vice-captains, the former ship's sailor Duvel, and the construction company's dismissed employee Todd, a daily salary of half a silver coin, plus a reward for the exploits of the bigfoot goblin ear.

Seeing the real money salary, the people in the hall couldn't sit still, got up one after another, and crowded towards the staircase, in front of the line, of course, the official members with good personal force, and the noisy voice almost turned the Black Cat Tavern into a street vegetable market.

In order to prevent the people outside from thinking that something terrible was happening in the tavern and embarrassing the person in charge, Aldrich stood up and suddenly overwhelmed the noise with a loud thunderous voice.

"Order, order! The members of the union obeyed the order and arranged themselves in a neat line according to their position, otherwise all daily wages and remuneration would be abolished. ”

The hall fell silent for a moment, and then began to be noisy again, but the voice was much lower. As the best of the sailors, Deauville had a good reputation, and when he received a reward from President Triss, he made up his mind to follow him. Seeing that the people downstairs were really noisy, he immediately stretched out his hand to signal to his partner, and the queue under his jurisdiction was tacitly quiet, comparing with the people nearby, clearly reflecting a certain discipline and obedience.

Silence was a powerful emotion, and the halls of the Black Cat Tavern grew quiet, but it was hard to say whether Aldrich's personal prestige was at work, or whether his threat to deduct the noisy man's salary was more effective.

In short, all the members of the Scavengers' Guild and the attached scavengers formed a neat line and walked up the stairs to President Triss to receive their share of the payment, and then returned downstairs by another escalator.

Aldrich was quick to move, and he had made a form in advance to register everyone's gains, and even if someone was dissatisfied with the amount of their salary, when they saw the clear accounts, only a person with a bad conscience would say that President Triss had maliciously exploited them.

The cheers came and went, all in praise of Aldrich's generosity, most of them from the heroic legends of the bards, but the name of President Triss was reworded, and Aldrich, who was familiar with poems such as "The Legend of Kings" and "The Brave Slaying the Dragon", could not laugh or cry, and felt that he was still a long way from those epic heroes, and he was a little ashamed.

Golgau, a professional gambler who has been a cold watcher, is certainly not optimistic about the future of this scavenger guild, but he is extremely interested in President Tris, who has shown extraordinary strength and defeated the famous Dead Eye Knight Holm in the underworld twice.

Especially when Gorgaard's salary was the lost turquoise ring at the gambling table, even the cold heart of the stone was touched by Aldrich and almost melted.

Despite having retrieved his lucky charm, Gorgo did not choose to leave, and for the sake of President Triss, he decided to wait and see for a while.

Aldrich was satisfied with his own vision and judgment, and for a maverick professional, he who could barely keep him, but could not keep his heart. It is better to let Gorcau go as soon as possible, lest he end up with a person who is not a person inside and out.

Tris had foreseen it, and returned Gorgau's ring ahead of schedule, but the ring in his heart remained with him forever. This kind of psychological skill is not very clever, and there are many examples of what I have seen and heard in my previous life, but it is just a trick to control the power of my subordinates.

As a small lord of a country manor, he is naturally familiar with it, but when the world situation and atmosphere change, this kind of little trick is not very effective, after all, once the greedy appetite is opened, it is difficult to fill the ravine of desire.

As it turned out, he had won the bet, and the old-school figure like the professional gambler Gorcau still maintained a certain morality-based character, which, though not comparable to the virtues of knighthood, was much better than most people who had no bottom line.

The speed of progress was very fast, and after half a day, I gained a half-diehard. In addition to Golgao the Wanderer, the other half is the vice-captain Duville. Do I have some kind of domineering aura in me? That has to be a constant shock!"

After the payment of his salary, Aldrich stayed on the second floor to watch how the union members used the extra money they had at hand, and to his satisfaction that most of them chose to store and use sparingly, perhaps because of the experience of a long life of poverty, they took their belongings outside of them very seriously.

Of course, there are also people who eat and drink a lot with their life money, and even open a small room in the attic, and recruit rogue warblers who do businessless business from the outside, and are in a hurry to live happily.

'It's a big forest, and there are all kinds of birds. Aldridge's face showed no emotion, he did his best to fulfill his duties as the president of the adventurer's guild, as for what the people below did, it was their right to choose their own lives, and there was only tolerance and understanding.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Aldrich left the Black Cat Tavern and decided to go to the sewers alone to investigate the changes, the whereabouts of the trainee Black Knights, the life and death of the Earth Alchemist, the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Bones and Thorns, and the reaction of the Black Knights Group 'Grey Shroud', and even some off-the-board information, he must grasp it as soon as possible in order to decide the next move of the Scavenger Guild.

Dauville, the sailor on the front side of the ship, saw President Triss leave the tavern and planned to follow, but he was afraid that his former companions might gossip, and the dignity and pride of being a warrior were like shackles to his feet, and he remained firmly in place.

However, the professional Gorgau is different, he is used to being alone, he does not care about the strange eyes of others, and follows Aldrich's footsteps in a grand manner, seizing every opportunity that can be taken advantage of in time, which may be the nature of professional gamblers.

The sewer entrance near the Black Cat Tavern must not be used, and the two walked to the next street entrance together, and continued uneasily until Shell Street, where they came to a secluded place that was inaccessible, lifted the heavy iron cover, and jumped down one after another.

The smell of this section of the sewer was somewhat refreshing, but it was expected that the scavengers would clean it up in the morning, and after the drainage fences on both sides of the street were dredged, more light came through, and the long corridor looked less dim.

After opening his true vision and looking around to make sure there were no strangers nearby, Aldrich opened the way in front of him, protecting Golgau, a professional who was at best an enhanced version of a first-class warrior.

When they arrived at the entrance to the kingdom of Bones and Thorns, they were surprised to see that the walls that had been blasted open by the apprentice black knight were restored to their original state, and after a tentative tap, they were surprised to find that they had turned into solid rocks.

Aldrich tried to use penetrating force, but it did nothing but loosen the texture of the large granite half a meter square.

"Strange! I can't mistake my memory, this must be the entrance, a gloomy palace inside. In a short period of time, what happened was that all traces were almost perfectly concealed. ”

Golgaard, a professional, squinted his eyes at the masonry of the walls, and shook his head helplessly when he found no flaws in terms of color, texture, and newness.

Aldrich followed his gaze and walked around the nearby wall, fortunately, everything that happened not long ago happened to awaken the old sunken mage tower, and signed an heir contract with Taring Christine, and knew a little about spellcasters and alchemy, not a little bit of the past.

"Perfectly repaired, turned mud into stone, a high alchemist can turn decay into magic, that goblin who calls himself Difes can stand tall in the sewers, and must not be taken lightly. Maybe we won't be long away before we'll clean up the apprentice black knight and clean up the mess and get everything back to its original state. ”

"Is this possible? More than thirty black knights, even though it is only a probationary period, not a single alchemist can solve it in a short time!"

"Don't forget, the kind of goblin bomb that explodes at the touch of a button, the smaller the place, the more powerful it is, and the battle puppet made of alchemy, even I have a headache. Besides, spellcasters tend to choose the most favorable venue for their own strengths, and it is entirely possible that the trainee Black Knight will be led by the nose into a death trap. ”

Goregor thought about it carefully, and somewhat understood President Tris's thoughts: "In this way, the alchemist Difes is hiding in his tortoiseshell-like fortress, and the gray shroud with heavy losses has no goal even if he wants to find him. ”

Aldrich nodded: "That's right, the sewers where chaos and order coexist in the underground world, if they show their declining momentum, they will be coveted by competitors, and then tempted, scrambled, and divided, the Black Knight Group competes and cooperates with each other, and the Gray Shroud has been strong enough for a long time, and there will definitely be people who want to pull teeth from the tiger's mouth." We might as well take advantage of the calm period before the storm to expand the territory of the unions. ”

"As for the directions, you can go from the edge of the sewers, which belong to the corners occupied by the inhuman aliens, to wage war against thieves, robbers, murderers, and smugglers, and compress their living space, so as to make enough territory in the sewers for the survival of the union. ”

When Gorcau saw President Triss's ambitious declaration, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed, for many years, he had not met a person with such lofty ideals, and resolutely entered the dark world.

It is a thorny road destined to be rugged and bumpy, paved with blood and bones. I don't know how many people fell along the way, but both of them knew very well that it must be a large number, even including themselves.