The Author's POV

[Caïssa - Headquarters]
"Here are all the files of the people you requested for me to find"
"Alright, thanks"
Without glancing at Smallsnake on my left, I took the files from his hand and threw them on the desk I was currently working on.
A week had passed since I learned about Ren's past, and nothing changed.
The renovations for the warehouse were pretty much done. With my limited budget, I could only redecorate the place to make it look more presentable, but there really wasn't any high-tech equipment nor training rooms here yet.
I was too poor for that.
"...What are you doing?"
Seeing me discard the files he had just given me, rolling his eyes, Smallsnake couldn't help but ask
"I'm making preparations"
"Preparations for?"
"Well, let's just say that in four months I'll be going on a long trip with a couple of people..."
Frowning, Smallsnake couldn't help but tilt his head in confusion
"...if it's in four months why do you need to start making preparations now?"
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you"
I will be going to find a cure for a curse that has been universally acknowledged as something that didn't have a cure.
...was what I wanted to say, but he wouldn't believe me even if I told him so.
Moreover, I also didn't tell him that I was not going to be on earth throughout that whole trip.
So may as well just dodge the question.
Speechless, Smallsnake could only pinch the middle of his brows as he continued.
"Anyhow, I did look at the profiles of the people you had previously
recommended to join our mercenary group, and I still don't understand why you want them?"
Taking the file that I threw on the desk, Smallsnake opened it and took out three profiles.
"I sort of understand why you want to recruit Ryan Polive, but why a monster tamer and an old mercenary?"
Pointing towards Eva's and Leopold's files, Smallsnake frowned.
"Isn't the monster tamer class useless since they can only control one beast? Moreover from what I've been told, the beast they tame can't even increase in strength."
Without glancing at Smallsnake, I continued scribbling on a piece of paper.
What he said wasn't wrong.
Monster tamers weren't very sought after due to their limitations with regards to how many beasts they could tame. Normally one, on rare occasions two.
Moreover, the beasts that they could tame couldn't become stronger. Their strength was fixed. Meaning that if you tamed a ranked beast that was it.
No matter how much food you fed to it or how much time you spent training it, the beast was forever going to stay at rank.
Unless you got a new one, you couldn't raise its rank.
...and that's where the real problem laid.
The expenses needed to sustain a monster tamer were astronomical.
The costs of capturing and feeding a ranked beast probably amounted to the same costs needed to raise multiple ranked heroes.
It just wasn't worth it.
"Don't even get me started about the mercenary"
Seeing that I was still scribbling stuff, Smallsnake continued
"From what I've found in the files, he seems to be a regular member with seemingly no out-"
"Stop"
Sigh
Putting my pen down, I leaned on my chair and looked at Smallsnake, and
sighed
"Smallsnake, just trust me. I know what I'm doing."
-Flick!
Flicking the pen that was rolling down on my paper, I continued
"You think I would just choose random people without having put much thought
into it?"
Shaking his head, Smallsnake responded
"No"
"Then what's the point of asking? just wait and I will prove to you that my
judgment wasn't wrong"
Frowning for a second, Smallsnake eventually nodded his head.
"...alright"
Seeing Smallsnake nod, I faint smile appeared on my lips.
Although Smallsnake was a very capable person, he tended to question my every decision.
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...well, he wasn't wrong in doing so. I
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It wasn't wrong of him to doubt me. Especially since he didn't know what I had in store for the members I was planning on recruiting. The content is on Novelxo.org! Read the latest chapter there!
In the end, with due time, Smallsnake will eventually understand what I was
doing.
"Any other problems?"
"Yes actually"
Smiling, my brows twitched.
"You weren't supposed to answer that..."
Shaking his head and ignoring my rumbling, Smallsnake continued
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"According to the information inside
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"Gold graded?"
"...yeah"
Resting my face on my hand, I softly mumbled
"This is indeed a problem..."
A gold-graded guild.
I knew that Ryan was currently being scouted by a gold-graded guild, but that still
didn't change the fact that this was a problem.
Guilds were divided into five different ranks, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and
diamond.
In order for a guild to be classified in the gold ranks, it meant that they had to at
least have someone who was ranked in their guild.
For platinum, they had to have at least one