“You wish to buy Lydia?” The man said with a sneer. “Like some peasant like you could afford her.”
“There’s a rule, right?” I asked the Guild Master, “If I can pay the fee, he must free her, right?”
The Guild Master nodded and crossed his arms. “That is true.”
I nodded, “I’ll pay off her debts. How much is she worth?”
I hated saying words like that. Lydia was worth everything to me, but I had to set her to some arbitrary value here. I didn’t like treating her like an object, but it was the only way to save a slave.
The noble crossed his arms smugly. “fifty gold coins.”
I let out a cough. All I had was a bit over a gold coin.
“You bastard…” The Guild Master snarled. “He asked you the amount of the reward. That’s ten times the amount he even put in himself.”
“You said it’d be at the value the slave was worth? As I understand it, Lydia was purchased from a discounted bin because she failed to be a proper courtesan?”
The man that he had called a slaver seemed to be listening to all this with interest. He made me a bit uncomfortable, but I had to focus on Lydia at the moment. Only the Guild Master knew what he was doing in Chalm, but given the residents of Chalm’s demeanor, he didn’t seem welcome.
“She told you that?” Tibult shot Lydia an angry look, and she wilted under his gaze. “That’s clearly because this slave is a known liar. Lydia, tell him you’re a liar.”
Lydia stepped forward, a stubborn and anguished look on her face. “I… I…”
“Go on, say it!” He raised his hand, and the Guild Master tensed for a moment.
“I lied… to-to you… about everything…” She said, tears starting to fall down her cheeks. “Just… forget about me…”
I stared at her pained expression, and my body tensed even more. I remembered the time we had spent in the dungeon. None of that could possibly be a lie. That night we spent together was no lie!
“You’re giving me the reward, right?” I asked the Guild Master. “In that case, I’ll pay it.”
Tibult blinked. “Ah…”
The Guild Master grimaced. “My boy…”
I turned to look at him. “I’m just asking for my due. What I choose to spend it on is my own business.”
The Guild Master had an awkward expression on his face. “I’d normally agree. However, we sent the reward money to the capital to try to bait a dungeon diver. We had to scrounge up every last bit of money the city had to pay for this, especially after paying the rewards to all the adventurers for that last battle. It’ll take a few days to recall the amount so that we can provide it to you.”
“Then, in a few days, I’ll…”
“Oh… sorry there…” The noble’s malicious grin returned. “I’ll be leaving town immediately. Won’t be able to stick around.”
“You… why?”
“Don’t worry, Guild Master, you can have my five-gold reward. This… somehow… feels much more satisfying.”
“You can’t do this…” I took a step forward.
“Do you dare tell a noble what he can and cannot do?” The man asked, his voice twisting angrily.
The surviving slave bodyguard stepped between us. Even if I could fight Tibult, the other man was pretty strong. I couldn’t forget that he had managed to fight down to the 5th floor while protecting a noble and a weak slave. I wasn’t confident I could defeat him.
“That…” I shot the Guild Master a look.
He gave a guilty expression and shook his head. “I’m sorry, my boy, there is nothing we can do here. You need to have the money to pay the amount due, and you have to be near the person to pay it.”
“No worries.” Lord Tibult chuckled. “I’m returning to the capital. Once you have the money, you can just come to the capital. I’ll happily sell her to you then.”
Lord Tibult let out a malicious laugh. It gave me the impression his words weren’t true. I didn’t know what he had planned, but I had the feeling I’d never be able to buy Lydia from him. He turned around and started walking away. Lydia looked at me with tears in her eyes, the hope that had been there a moment before being quickly snuffed out.
“Come, you useless slave!” The noble barked.
Lydia turned around and followed with her head down. Within a few moments, I was all alone in this world once again.
Imo, he should have asked Lydia to stay in/near the dungeon, cuz the noble would have assumed she was dead and not looked for her.
No point in returning lost goods, imo, especially if no one would look for it.
Tag: Slice of Life, replace with Tag: Drama. No signs of slice of life since the very start. Predictably every slave acquired will be through similar circumstance. "I want that (slave), but I can't have, so (contrived, idiotic and weak-willed emotional suffering)."
It will not. This will be resolved up pretty quickly, and is how he familiarizes himself with the slaver he'll be using the rest of the series. Compare this to my other work on Scribblehub, and you could see how much I'm holding back in the drama department.
I've believed karma will do the punishment. Let that stupid noble died in an accident on his way back to the capital. Make it all happen based on his stupid choices
@EZ2412 I would laugh if this actually happened...after all, I imagine he has his own enemies, and he's traveling with a rather small group without knowing his "useless" slave can fight. Even if he did become the hero, there may be other nobles who absolutely don't want him to have more influence.
In any case, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Haaa... f*cking annoying...
Yep... really annoying... can't wait to see her being free.
What's this idiot doing just take her he has the skill and a dead noble tells no tales...
f*ck you author
Well support job still sucks and he should have at selected jobs like necromancer, tamer or druid then after leveling em up he should have gone for the pure healing build.support classes based on pure healing need at least a full party to show it's potential. So by choosing a support class with some offensive ability he might not have to be dependent on everyone else
Step one
Discombabulate
Step two
Discombabulate the liver
Step three
Discombabulate the left leg
Step four
Traumatize the throat
Step five
Discombabulate again leaving the guard in a 9 month coma
Give him the ring for her. It was already stated to be worth at least fifty gold, wasn't it? If he refuses, he's violating the law. And you can't say selling can only be for currency as that would simply be a copout since you never said anything like that.
Party member switch back slash I would have tried to kill dat mother fuker at leas 100 times by now
Did he forget about the slavemancer skill of take slave