4 Mage (1/2)

After watching Fario's fat silhouette flee into the distance, Lin Yun turned back around and looked at Jimmy's two thugs. ”Still not leaving? Are you waiting for me to invite you to stay for dinner?”

The two dumb thugs were knocked out of their stupor by Lin Yun's words. ”Eh? We are on our way, let's go…”

Once the two thugs carried Jimmy away, the big house once again regained its peace, and Lin Yun led the old butler to a chair. The bruises on his arm had been wrapped. They weren't much of a hindrance, but he was still frowning as he muttered, ”Young Master, the eight thousand gold...”

”Rest assured, I can deal with it,” Lin Yun casually answered. He truly didn't take a debt of a mere eight thousand gold seriously. The reason behind this wasn't the fact that the concept of currency had fallen out of use near the end of the world. In fact, Lin Yun thirsted for money more than anyone else. He'd long since had his fill of that world where people would fight to the death for a bit of fresh water. His situation was far better now. As long as he was wealthy enough, he could buy anything that he needed or wanted.

But eight thousand really wasn't much, at least for someone who was far beyond the mages of this era. Repaying eight thousand gold coins wouldn't give him much trouble at all, since he had many ways he could get that much within three days.

Given that he'd just had a narrow escape from the end of the world via transmigration, then ended up in an unfamiliar body, and finally was confronted moments later by Fario and Jimmy... After all this, his mind was in a mess, so how could he still have time to think about a mere eight thousand gold?

But even if he didn't care about it, it didn't mean that his butler wouldn't. Seeing his young master's carefree face, the old butler hurriedly warned, ”Young Master, we can't really get this sum for the time being. In order to compensate for the losses, we already sold all our properties and compensated the family members of the deceased. We really have no money…”

”I just remembered that when my father was alive, he put an alchemy workshop under my name, didn't he?” Lin Yun had looked through Mafa Merlin's memories and found this fact rather interesting. But although the workshop was under his name, it would normally be operated by Locke Merlin's people. The only thing his father had done was to make it easier for him to purchase magic materials and reagents.

”That alchemy workshop is still there, but…”

”But?”

”But after the accident at sea, the three alchemists all left. I don't blame them. With the current situation of the Flashing Gold chamber of commerce, they also need to think of themselves,” the old butler explained while shaking his head. The most important part of an alchemy workshop was its alchemists. Locke Merlin had spent a great amount to get those three alchemists who were at the peak of Thousand Sails City from the other chambers of commerce. If they had stayed, they might not have been able to let the Flashing Gold chamber of commerce truly rise again on their own, but there wouldn't have been an issue with dealing with the current crisis. After all, that was an extremely lucrative business, and it would easily generate much more than eight thousand gold.

Unfortunately, all three of the alchemists left, and even if there were still materials left in the warehouse, they would only be cheap goods. Without the abilities of an alchemist to turn certain raw materials into gold or other things, selling all of that certainly wouldn't be enough to repay the debt.

”Anyways, let's take a look.”

”Young Master wants to take a look?” The old butler froze for a bit, feeling a bit strange. Ever since his Young Master woke up from that fainting spell, he seemed a bit different. The previous Mafa Merlin never would have been able to say such bold words in front of that wretched Fario.

And there was that Jimmy. The miserable scene of him howling and weeping after his right hand was burnt scared the butler too. His young master didn't even frown or wince and remained perfectly calm while roasting the thug's hand. It was as if he had become a totally different person from the anxiously sighing young master from a few days ago.

'Young Master truly grew up from facing the adversity. Unfortunately, Master will never be able to see it.'

As the two talked, footsteps could be heard on the other side of the door. This guest was a youth that seemed to be about twenty years old and was not very tall. He was wearing a black gown, on the cuffs of which was embroidered a wyvern. This was the standard gown of Okland, the best magic school in the eastern side of the kingdom.

This was definitely a student of the Okland magic school, and he must have already become a mage, because only a mage was qualified to wear a black gown.

That young mage hurriedly entered without waiting for permission of any sort. After a glance at old Pavey's dusty bandage, he suddenly grew angry. ”Mafa Merlin! Look at what you did! My father has worked for your Merlin family for more than 30 years, and now he still has to help you deal with your mess. Is this the worth of the Merlin family? How could you feel no shame letting my father be harmed like this?”