The next day, Hulim arrived at their caravan base according to the address provided by Chandel.
"Ms. Hulim, welcome~!"
Cheadle invited Hulim in with great enthusiasm.
While eating the snacks provided by the other party, Hulim stated the purpose of his visit.
"Mr. Chandel, I wonder if the bounty for this bandit group's subjugation has been paid yet?"
"Speaking of this, if you hadn't come, I would have sent for you! Come, bring up Miss Hulim's things!"
The assistant soon came in with a bag full of money.
Cheadle handed the purse to Hulim.
"Miss Hulim, take a look. Are you satisfied?"
Hulim took the heavy purse and opened it. Most of it was gold coins, only a few were silver coins, and there were no copper coins at all.
"Mr. Cheadle, are there so many?"
Hulim was quite surprised.
"Haha, Miss Hulim, you're joking. This is what you deserve. We agreed before that the rewards would be distributed according to contribution, and you were the one who provided the intelligence. You were the one who came up with the solution, and even the fact that we were able to capture the bandit leader was your contribution! Tell me, who else deserves the most credit if not you?"
“Hmm…”
Hulim couldn't refute it, but after calculating, he found that the amount of money was still wrong.
"Even so, isn't this still too much money..."
"No, it's all distributed strictly according to the ratio we decided in advance. You think it's more because we were lucky this time. There happened to be two thieves with high bounties among the thieves, so we got a lot more money in the end. Thanks to this, even if we don't make any money on this trade trip, our caravan will still make a lot of money."
"Two high bounties..."
Hulim understood the reason and stopped refusing, putting the purse away.
"Mr. Cheadle, could you please tell me who those two high bounties are?"
"Those two people? Hmm, I think they were the second and third leaders of the bandit gang..."
The second and third bosses?
A hint of doubt flashed in Hulim's eyes.
"Only two or three leaders? No big boss?"
Chandel nodded. "I'm also very surprised by this. I even went to check and found out that there is indeed no bounty on that big boss."
"How strange..."
"Haha~, Miss Hulim, don't worry too much. No matter what that big boss did to cover up his crime, he's already in jail, right? Is there any way he could escape from Earl Leicester's prison? There's no need to worry!"
"Yeah, that's true..."
Hulim nodded, thinking that she must have overthought it.
After leaving Chandel's Chamber of Commerce, Hulim went straight back to the inn.
She poured all the money she had left on the table and counted it.
After completing the inventory, she showed a rather subtle expression.
"How much money did my father give me when I left? I remember it was 100,000 kol... and now here is... 823,540 kol!"
"... It was clearly a costly trip, so why did the cost increase at the end?"
Hulim calculated carefully and found that the reward given to her by Alex was about 120,000 kol, which was roughly the normal price for a C-level adventurer to provide long-distance escort.
The total bounty for defeating the bandit gang is more than 660,000 kol.
The total amount was more than 780,000 Col. Taking into account his original 100,000 Col, and deducting the expenses along the way, especially yesterday's expenses, the final result was 820,000!
"... Could it be that I have a talent for making money?"
Hulim folded her hands and thought so, but then denied it.
"No, no, no, that's not right. Rather than saying I have a talent for making money, I'd say I have a talent for being an adventurer!"
After all, a veteran C-rank adventurer could earn about 100,000 after working hard for several days and nights. Moreover, it was a question whether he could get such a lucrative commission in a month. Most of the time, the commissions were only worth tens of thousands of kol, which was already very good. A D-rank adventurer could only take on commissions of a few thousand kol, and an E-rank novice could only take on low-level tasks worth a few hundred kol.
"In one go, they earned what a seasoned adventurer could only earn after escorting them seven or eight times... Adventurers are so easy to earn. No—the bandits are truly worth the money!"
"Would you consider becoming an adventurer in the future..."
"Well, let's keep it as a backup option!"
Afterwards, Hulim found a larger pocket and hid most of the money there, leaving her wallet filled only with the amount of gold and silver coins she might need for the journey.
Making money is a good thing, but being seen by others will definitely not bring good things.
... ...
In the blink of an eye, a day passed.
Hulim checked out of the hotel and came to the vicinity of the post station.
It was still early for the convoy to depart, so Hulim simply stored her luggage on the animal cart she was going to take, and then went to the nearby street food stalls to wander around.
"Hmm~!"
Hulim was wandering aimlessly on the street while eating some unknown kebabs.
Suddenly, she seemed to see something, her whole body froze, and then she suddenly hid behind a street shelf.
Through some gaps in the shelves, she looked again at the figure she had just seen.
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