269 Closing The Deal With Gamers
“John, stop it!” Lilith gave him a sharp gaze that instantly silenced him. I simply ignored his mean attitude, hoping he would stop acting as a jerk or else…
“So are you going to support us as well?” she turned to me and asked with a very firm attitude.
“As long as you’ll do whatever I say,” I said that while focusing my eyes over that jerk, “then I’ll promise to support you in ways you’ll never imagine.”
“Do you have stat points?” Will directly asked, and I nodded.
“How much do you need?” I simply said before adding, acting like a real tycoon, “tell me how much your entire forces need and I’ll give these stats to you as a welcoming gift.”
“Do you have gears as well?” Lilith seemed to gain more courage when I responded in such calmness over Will’s request.
“If you needed a ton, I can provide two,” I didn’t hold back my big hand, “just state how much and I’ll bring them out now.”
“Damn! You are really that rich!!!” John’s eyes were all wide opened, not only from his shock but also tainted with greed.
That jerk… he was seeking his own death faster than if he was fighting against herds of monsters.
“Alright, we will run the maths and tell you how much we exactly need,” Lilith said with a cheerful smile that seemed alien to this bossy girl, “also give me the coins, I’ll create that post now.”
“Alright, first come here for a sec,” I stretched my arm and with strange gazes towards me and the other two, she slowly walked towards me.
“Now accept my friend request,” to tease John even more, I placed my arm not over hers but over her shoulders. It looked like we were a loving couple, and for a second there her face turned slightly red.
“Don’t overthink it,” I whispered in a voice she could only hear, “I already have a complicated relationship with two chicks that is already driving me nuts!”
She gave me such a weird look, part was filled with surprise, part with shyness, and the rest was filled with aggressiveness.
She was like a real tigress, and it seemed my words here stirred her arrogance as a girl without my intentions.
But on the side from that, John’s face was dark ashened at this moment.
“Here, test your loyalty again,” without hesitating more, I took out one compass and threw it towards that jerk.
“I… already did that!” with a darker face he said, yet I didn’t accept the compass from him.
“Just do it,” I grabbed my glaive with that core attached to it. My face was damn serious at this moment. Last thing I’d want was for one of my trusted aides to turn over me and work for the enemy. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“John… Do it,” Lilith was already a few steps away from me, as she turned to that jerk and gave him a cold gaze.
She wasn’t stupid, neither was Will. The two seemed to notice what I did just now. I was trying to hasten this jerk’s betrayal. If he had a seed of it deep within him, then it should have grown to a big tree by what I just did with Lilith.
I noticed how he looked at her. It was love without doubt. And that love which gave him strength, was also the same thing that would cause his downfall without doubt.
How ironic it was!
Surrounded by all of us, that jerk had no other way but to comply. I held the compass and when I saw that short arm of it moving towards the hostile section, I moved my glaive faster than light and claimed his life.
“Ahhh!” he screamed out, asking for help from the other two. But it was too late buddy, my glaive was already faster and much more powerful than before.
“This…” despite knowing what was going to happen, the two’s faces changed and dropped when their third friend fell in the middle of his blood.
I grabbed back my glaive to my side, used it as a stick to lean over. “He is a traitor, I won’t tolerate anyone like that in my trusted people.”
“…”
The shock was clearly visible over the two’s faces. Yet I totally ignored this, opened the friendliest of mine, and sent five million coins to Lilith.
“This…” the next moment her face changed when she saw the amount she got.
“This is just a mere support from me,” I shrugged, “now go back and write that post. From now on, you are going to be my personal agent inside that community of gamers.”
“O… Ok,” faced between the betrayal of her close friend and the rich reward I gave her, she had no other choice but to accept what I did.
I watched the two walking away after I asked them again to scan everyone and tell me how much they lacked. I promised to prepare everything I needed here before leaving.
As for the city, I decided to let them use it as their base. I also told her to specify this city as the main gathering place for all the allied and cooperative gamers.
This wasn’t much away from Boston and Cambridge cities, the two I intended to merge and form a big and brand new city to be my kingdom capital.
So I had Albany city to act as the front fort and the strongest defensive city in the East. and I got this city here, Worcester, to act as the recruitment place for all gamers.
Now all I missed was to go to the two cities in the West, take control over it before thinking about what I should do next.
I had to send my troops around and claim the areas here. That looked like an easy task before the arrival of Hectors. Now I had to pay closer attention to this, hopefully these Hectors would bite the bait I threw at them.
If they did, then I’d be able to proceed with my dungeon plan. If not, then I’d only go once for the dungeon and hold back until I stabilise things here first.