The group eventually reached the outskirts of the Alterran region, and the group had to be divided up to head to the respective territories. They stopped just before they entered the Town’s scope of influence, with the ’recruiters’ doing their best to get as many as they could.
Fortunately, the fee paid to Alterra was just an additional 4 gold, fixed, regardless of how much the ’slave’ was bought. After all, if it were in percentage, then some people would become way too expensive.
Alterra was not stingy, at least. After securing a certain amount of new talent, they didn’t really care where the rest would go as long as they headed to an associate territory.
In the end, each ally and subsidiary managed to get several hundred new elementalists, which made them all very happy.
If they had more money, they’d have bought even more! Sadly, their territories had a lot of expenditures and could only budget so much for new manpower.
Still, thousands of new elementalist injected into the region were a major step forward.
As for the rest, they’d be further divided between Alterra and the satellites. The lower-leveled ones would likely head straight to the satellites, though. It wasn’t because of the administration being elitists. Rather, people below level 10 simply had much better chances to grow in villages.
Before separating, the familiar caw of the messenger bird sounded and it landed right at Mao’s head.
"Ow."
Sammy smirked (he may or may have trained this one to do this) and raised his arms next to Mao’s head. The bird cawed again and jumped onto his arms, with Sammy easily taking the message while Mao almost lost a clump of hair.
The dark-skinned man read for a moment, and his eyebrows rose midway. He looked at the groups.
"All Lords were called in for a meeting in Alterra, and the meeting will last 2 days," he said. "They just want to inform us in case there’s business with them."
This way, if there were urgent matters concerning the Lords, there would be no detours.
Misha’s eyebrows rose, and so did Otto’s. With a grin, he turned to look at her. "Looks like you’re heading to Alterra in the end," he said. "Shall I be your tour guide?"
Misha looked at him curiously. Putting aside the flirtations, an aborigine using the term ’tour guide’ so casually was really interesting.
At this, the girls Stephanie and Lacie immediately squealed. "How wonderful~"
Misha’s eyebrows rose and she gave him a teasing smile, waiting for what he was going to do.
At this, he smiled at the women.
"There will be plenty of guides for everyone. I’d like to spend a day with Misha, if you don’t mind."
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