Unexpectedly I received a response almost immediately.
[Lord of Lords: Are you buying hides?
Lord of Knights: Correct how many do you have]
Looking at the message I glanced towards the stack of hides next to Thorn. There are 8 of them but I want to keep 2 to use for bedding. Deciding on this I reopened the chat.
[Lord of Lords: I have 6 flame hound hides
Lord of Knights: I'll buy each for 15 wood. Is that alright?
Lord of Lords: Can you do 20 wood each?
Lord of Knights: How about 100 wood for the 6?
Lord of Lords: Fine.]
With this, I stood up and walked towards the hides grabbing 6 of them before going to the shop tab and setting up a private trade between Lord of Knights and myself.
[Trading 6 flame hound hides for 100 wood.]
[Confirm?]
"Confirm," I said out loud, causing the 6 hides in my arms to dissolve into particles of blue light, then out of nowhere, a large stack of wood appeared at my feet.
[You have acquired 100 units of wood.]
After this Lord of Knights and I talked for a little longer before saying goodbye and promising to work together in the future. Truthfully, I didn't like this Lord of Knights guy after all, he was obviously dumb putting his talent information on the chat, but he obviously had access to materials that I didn't.
Not having much left to do I grabbed a hideous and made my way into the lord's hut. Looking at the empty ground I set my hide down in a corner and laid down. Drifting off to sleep I couldn't wait for tomorrow and the adventures that were to come.
As the sun began to rise, streams of light shot through the cracks of the hut, hitting my eyes. Slowly, I got up, letting out a moan as I stretched. Still shirtless from the previous day, I opened the door of my hut to find Thorn rapped in a hide next to the fire, asleep. Walking up to his unconscious body, I shoved my foot into his back, causing him to stir awake.
"Time to get up. We've got work to do." I said in an emotionless voice as I began to walk towards the summoning gate to do my daily summon.
Arriving at the gate with Thron not far behind, I once again activated the gate, causing another explosion of blue light, but this time I didn't look away.
Slowly a body started to walk out of the light. Looking forward, I found a tall man a bit shorter than me, probably around 6 foot 3. He had jet black hair and a youthful grin on his face. As he approached me, I noticed that unlike Thorn, who had nothing, this guy actually had a weapon, even if it was just a dagger. As the man stood in front of me he slightly lowered his head before speaking.
"Sir my name is Alvin, it is a pleasure to serve you." The boy spoke out. Surprised by the boy's tone, I couldn't help but look towards Thron with a disgruntled expression, causing him to avert his eyes.
Looking at the boy I summoned his status window.
[Profile:
Name: Alvin Forager
Job: Soldier (Begginer)
Loyalty: 70/100
HP: 80/80
MP: 40/40
STR: 10
VIT: 8
INT: 4
AGI: 7
Skills: (Dagger fighting lvl 2)]
Looking at this guy's stats, I was a little surprised. After all, he was far stronger than me when I first arrived. Smiling at the young man I spoke out. "My name is Knox, I am the lord of this place." Hearing my words, Alvin finally raised his head, meeting my eyes. As I stared into his pitch black eyes, all I could see was anticipation; it was obvious this guy is like me. He loves battle. "Sir, can I get stronger if I serve you?" Alvin spoke out, still looking into my eyes.
Hearing his question, I broke out in manic laughter "If you follow me, I can promise that you'll become stronger than you've ever imagined!!!" I screamed still laughing. Hearing my words, Alvin also started to chuckle before dropping to one knee and stating, "Then I'll be in your care." Throughout this whole process, Thorn didn't say a single thing; he nearly stared at the two of us as if we were crazy.
After a couple more minutes of talking, I placed my hand on Alvin's shoulder, pulling him along with me as we began the search for today's prey.