The air was filled with hammers hitting the stones and iron, upon arriving at the construction site, Michael saw the bare bones of the building. The wooden planks, iron beams, and half-built walls which were glistening in the daylight radiated certain charm. The building resembled a rectangular prism, on the long sides, there were five arched windows, each window was approximately 3m wide and 7m in height, on the front of the building, there was one arched door between on arched windows on each side.
The building was lifted by a 3m foundation so one could enjoy the view of the river clearly. On the far end of the building, Michael noticed the vents, stoves, and ovens being built by another set of workers. Michael walked up the few stairs to enter the building when he saw a couple of carriages stopping in front of the building. Both Gaya and Michael frowned at this sight, the carriages had scratches, burn marks, and cuts all over them. It was evident these carriages were attacked, soon, people slowly came out of the carriages, wounded. This scene attracted the people of River town, few of them stepped forward to support the wounded soldiers,
Gaya's face instantly turned cold the moment she saw the people taking out dead ones from the carriages. All the dead bodies had deep cuts, burned marks, and severed limbs.
Following the dead bodies, a short sturdy man with a large beard jumped out of the carriages, carrying a huge battle-ax. The short man compensated for his lack of height with his muscles, the man carried that huge ass battle-ax like it had no weight.
"Dwarf" Michael mumbled under his breath. This was the first time he had seen a dwarf in real life. The dwarf was exactly like one of the dwarves in the Lord of the Rings movies.
"Fovar, what happened?" Gaya asked as the dwarf put the battle-ax on the ground producing a loud thud sound.
"Bandits happened, lass, ye told us there be nae bandits between here an' Bradford"
"Bandits? Where?" After Jane sent bandits to harass their customers, Gaya personally went to the forest surrounding the Sunrise sect as well as the forests surrounding the River town to kill every single bandit.
She was sure there are no bandits to harass them until now.
"Fucking bloody beastmen, ambushed us near tha moon goddess temple, these puny humans stood nae chance against their gorilla attack" cursed Fovar failing to notice Michael in the heat of the moment.
"Beastmen wouldn't usually enter a human kingdom, Ghost we have to investigate this' ' only when she mentioned the name Ghost, the dwarf turned his gaze at Michael. For a second, Fovar just stared at him to sense his cultivation level, soon, his eyes slightly widened in surprise.
"So ye be that famous Ghost o' River town yeh, lad, you need to do something about these bandits. They already destroyed most o' tha materials I needed ta finish tha building"
"Destroyed the glasses?! I'm gonna rip them to pieces" veins popped on Gaya's face. Considering this plan of Michael's required more glasses, even than the stones, this shipment was extremely important. These were not normal glasses, the dwarf ordered them, glassmakers, to custom build the glasses which cost them a huge chunk of gold coins.
"Go and check out the forests but I guess they are long gone by now"
"I have to look," she said and rushed towards the place where they left the pegasus.
"Master Ghost" soon after Gaya left, his two henchmen came towards him. Both Daniel and Ricky suffered wounds, Daniel had a deep cut running across his chest, his brown tunic was drenched in blood while Ricky limped, holding the deep cut on his thigh.
Michael quickly willed the system to give him the healing potion in the storage, in a flash, two vials of healing potion appeared in his hand.
"Here take this' ' both of them shuddered, the thought of a single vial of healing potions cost 9000 gold coins prevented their hands from reaching out to take the healing potions.
"Ma-"
"Drink it, it's an order" thinking about those bandits who almost killed his two loyal men, Michael wanted to flay the bandits alive. He could simply buy materials but loyal men like them were hard to find.
Daniel opened up the vial, slowly pouring the potion into his mouth. Their wounds closed up at a swift pace, the dwarf was surprised he wasted two valuable potions on these two commoners.
After their wounds healed up, Michael retrieved a couple of more healing potions, "mix them in the water and distribute the water to the wounded. For those who lost their lives" Daniel and Ricky saw a large pouch of coins appear in his hand,
"Give their families 2000 gold coins" his words instantly caused the people to go crazy, there were gasps and muttering among the crowd. Even if they were alive, they wouldn't have earned 1000 gold coins in their lifetime by working on the construction sites, not to mention 2000 gold coins. He just changed their lives, with this amount, their families could live their entire lives without ever going to work.
As far as he was concerned, if he didn't compensate them with a handsome amount, workers might avoid working for him in the future as they might fear for their lives. But now, they would gladly give their life thinking their families would get richer and live their life with no worries.
Many wives would gladly take 2000 gold coins instead of their drunk husbands, any time of the day.
After all, for Michael, even 20,000 gold coins weren't much compared to his grand plans. He wanted the restaurant to be up and running as soon as possible," as for those who survived, you will receive 50 gold coins for the inconvenience" Those who survived bowed and grinned in glee despite the excruciating pain. Although it was nowhere near the amount 2000, at least they live to enjoy the 50 gold coins.
"Lad, what aboot me? ye need ta compensate me too" asked Fovar, smirking.
"I will compensate you handsomely when you lose a few limbs in the next bandit attack"
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"You were right, I didn't find anything except this" while he was making new batches of pills and potions back at his home, Gaya came rushing into his room.
Michael looked at the baby dragon as he hopped towards Gaya and grabbed the medallion in her hand with his mouth. He then hooped back at Michael.
The medallion was black, made of high-quality black iron, on its surface, a wolf's head etched onto its surface.
"Those who attacked Fovar is not bandits, human, it's the Grim Reapers"
Michael did not utter a word but waited for her to explain,
"When you need beasts, bandits and problems like that disappear, you go to adventurer's guild, when you need a noble to disappear or even a king disappear, you go to the Grim Reapers. If you have enough gold coins, no matter what evil shit you want to do, they will do it for you"
"Someone paid them to attack the shipment but who?" he scratched the baby dragon's chin, thinking about who might have done this deed.
The only enemy he had until now was Jane, obviously, she couldn't have hired the Grim Reapers. He didn't think Celina would have done this either,
"You said they do anything right?"
"For the right amount," She said.
"Fovar said the glassmakers may have extra supplies we need, buy them and bring them to Fovar personally"
"What will you do?"
"For now, I will finish all these, and then, we'll go to Aragoth to seal the deal," said Michael, showing no emotions on his face.
"So we'll do nothing about this?" she questioned him, only to see him shake his head.
"Grim Reapers won't tell us who hired them in the first place, right?" The Grim Reapers sounded just like the dark underworld back on earth. Although he only killed a certain group of people, there were assassins and fixers who would kill or do anything for the right amount, but the dark underworld would not reveal anything about who hired them to do the job, to anyone.
This secrecy what made the dark underworld extremely powerful and if his instincts were correct, the Grim Reapers would follow the same rules.
His assumption was proven right when she nodded,
"Nope, those bastards value client confidentiality more than anything. If we went there asking for this information, they would either try to kill us or ban us from using their services in the future"
"Then there's nothing we can do except trying to hire them to protect our carriages,"
"This might work if this was a one time task but if someone hired the to attack our carriages every time," her voice trailed off but the killing intent in her eyes intensified,
"Then we'll simply hire the adventurers to do the job for now"
Gaya creased her brows," what do you mean for now?"
"Today they attacked my men, I won't simply forget it. One day, I'll visit them, kill every single one of the reapers who did this, not as Ghost but as Lucifer" Gaya grinned devilishly, thinking about the day they'd seek revenge against the infamous Grim Reapers.
After Gaya left the room, he finished making pills and potions enough to sustain the Majestic for a week. He stood up, the baby dragon on his shoulder,
"Ruby Cuisine branch manager" Michael mumbled under his breath, before dashing out of the room.