Chapter 37: Forming a team

Inside a pub in the Pyroxene town , Palin, Satan and the new president of the Thieves Guild “Gray Eye” Rhodes sat together to drink .

Rhodes’ attitude was incredibly humble . He beamed a flattering smile, copied Teacher Gu Long’s way of speaking . He was hating himself that he didn’t kneel down to lick the boots of Palin and Satan .

After seeing the undefeatable power of Highness Hollow Mask, he, who was not considered a loyal believer of the Thief God, was somewhat moved . Right now, he wholeheartedly wanted to be Highness’ subordinate .

The Thief God was not a mighty god . Although other Gods treated him as a senior, it was an extremely good thing that this senior was still alive until now . This was mainly determined by his working style—-his main priesthood was robbing, hiding and illusion . From the first glance, he might look superior . But in fact, this God always educated his believers to watch yourself, not get involved in dangerous affairs, restrain their desires, a person who could survive from a little crisis could live theri lives peacefully . . . So on . Under his education, except for the traditional robbery, abolishing exhibits and selling information, the Thieves Guild main business also included manufacturing and selling fake stuffs, operating grocery stores, pubs and inns, as well as locksmith, evaluation, etc . . . Apart from those things, they still did something similar to an upright occupation such as housing and cemetery construction, archeology, and some mid-to-low range traditional teachers about self-rescue from disaster .

It was not difficult to make a fortune from these things . However, if one waned to rely on these things to get to the top in this Jianghu, it was obviously unrealistic . If there wasn’t any other choice, it was definitely not bad to get rich and live through the day . But after seeing the formidable power of Highness Hollow Mask, Rhodes couldn’t help but have an idea about religion .

It was not that the Thief God was bad or he didn’t want to die to go the Thief God Kingdom . But everyone knew, it was not easy to go to a God Kingdom after dying . The power of the Thief God was limited to God’s realm . It was impossible for him to accept his believers’ spirits widely . Even the president of the Pyroxene town’s Thieves Guild wouldn’t be certain to get to the God Kingdom .

If Rhodes couldn’t get to the God Kingdom, then the outcome waiting for him would be not so good——these years, although he didn’t do anything too horrifying and wicked, only stealing, counterfeiting, defrauding and other crimes were enough to get his head chopped off several times . Not to mention, he absolutely had no relationship with the justice in the underworld war .

When thinking about this, he couldn’t help but envy Rennes’ death .

Going to the God King of the God of salvation was not very good choice . This God’s doctrine was to let his believers save themselves and others . Rennes didn’t only save himself but many other people too . Although he had genuinely atoned for his crime, he could not also be at peace . Just like what the God of Salvation had said, he still got a long way ahead . From Rhodes’ point of view, he just could avoid the tragic result of going to hell, he still had to go through long-term torture and cruel treatment .

But . . . . this was not bad either!

If he could form a good relationship with Highness Hollow Mask, even though he would not get God’s protection on normal days, when dying, he could ask for a God’s blessing, to get a chance to redeem his sins and avoid going to hell—–this benefit alone had shaken Rhodes’ heart .

Let alone, Highness Hollow Mask was extremely protective toward his subordinates, which made other people very jealous!

There were many Gods in this world . But was there any God whose hair would stand up in anger and tip off his hat when seeing his believers were harmed by other, would strongly go against the God of Conspiracy?

Not to mention—–Win! The Battle!!

In comparison with that, our president, whose position was like a lord, betrayed . The Thief God couldn’t discover an action from such a great existence like that . It was a bit . . . . Oh!

Palin was pretty young, lack of experience, short of the ability to judge other people . While Satin was an experienced man, he relied on his brain to make a living . He could even suppress Gerrard once thanks to his intelligence . Just with a simple glance, he was able to see through Rhodes’ intention, couldn’t help but sneer .

“President Rhodes, let’s get straight to the point—–do you want to become a believer of God?” He directly asked .

This blunt speaking style of this fellow clearly didn’t suit with the slow and bargaining speaking style of Rhodes . These words made him choked . A while later, he wrily smiled then nodded .

“Immortal Thief God (alias of the Thief God) is not the one who haggles over every ounce . But as the president of the Thieves Guild, aren’t you scared of being punished if you betray your religious God?” Satan went straight to the point .

Toward this problem, Rhodes obviously had thought thoroughly, he answered right away: “Strictly speaking, right now I am still a vice president . I have not officially been appointed as the president by Highness yet . Highness, of course, won’t forgive a disloyal president . But to a vice president, he will forgive easily . Not to mention, Highness Hollow Mask in the end is his enemy . Even if the enemies who have same enemy could not be ally, they at least would be friends . “

“It seems that you are clear about the pros and cons . But I think there is a problem . ” Satan continued, “Our Highness is one of the natural Ancient Gods, is also not the one who is not fond of spreading his religion . You said you wanted to join us . So what do you think you can do for Highness? If you just worship, then forget about it . “

Rhodes froze for a moment . He didn’t think he would encounter such a problem like this——most of the Gods in this world were obsessed with promoting their religions . Hence, increasing the religion power was the common way to enhance God’s realm . But to a natural Ancient God, who was born by the world’s resource, having religion or not was basically not a big thing . It was good to have someone believe in them . It also would not affect them if no one believed in them .

Therefore, wanting to join the church of a natural Ancient God was extraordinarily hard .

After all, they didn’t intend to recruit an ordinary person .

Rhodes thought for a while then spoke up: “In this northwest four towns, I am still counted as info-savvy . Moreover, my evaluation skills are still pretty skillful . Even though I am from the Gold Coin Federation, I also qualify to be considered internal expert . Besides, I also excels in counterfeiting documents, manufacturing and breaking all kinds of traps . I do have a considerable amount of knowledge about geography, history, flora and fauna . . . “

“But are these things useful for my Master?” Satan asked .

Rhodes thought for a long time then disappointedly shook his head .

A natural Ancient God freely existed outside the civilized world . Those who were useful in the civilized basically had no use for this God . And about the knowledge of geography or flora and fauna, a great God also didn’t care about these trivial matters .

While he was being frustrated, Sui Xiong’s voice suddenly resounded in the air: “Aren’t these pubs managed by your Thieves Guild?” Do you know how to open a store?”

Rhodes shook his head: “There is another person in charge of running business . I only know a bit of business . “

In front of God, he didn’t dare to lie .

“Then, how about you, Palin?” Sui Xiong asked again .

“Highness, I can learn . ” Palin answered immediately, “As I am young, I learn very quickly . Furthermore, before I learn, I can find some veterans from my uncle to help . “

“Find as many assistants as possible for!” Rhodes hastily interrupted his words, “Highness, I know many capable people . Among them, there are at least ten businessmen with good background!”

“Then, use your strength to contact them . . . ” Sui Xiong laughed then said, “Gerrard always wants me to build my own church and my own religious system . Although I temporarily haven’t got a decision yet, trying exploiting villages is also a good experiment . Rhodes, if you are willing to, I will let you and Palin support founding this village, how about that?”

“This is no problem! I will definitely do my best . ” Rhodes rejoiced, patted his chest to promise .

While Palin bowed to promise: “Highness, I’ll definitely try my best . “

He knew at such young age, his power was limited . What he could guarantee was to try his best .

“Don’t worry . Founding a village is not that hard for us either . ” As a result, Rhodes on the contrary encouraged him, “To establish a village, we simply need three things: food, people and weapons . As for the food aspect, we just need to pay for it . About people, it is also not hard to find ground-breakers . As for the force, it is clearly no problem . With the Giant Gerrard by our side, as long as we don’t build our village the nest of the most ferocious monster in the Ash Forest, could those bones perhaps be able to block his ax?”

Everyone was suddenly enlightened . Just like Rhodes said, under the circumstance where they had protection guarantee and enough money, building a village in the Ash Forest was basically not a hard thing either .

It was like seeding . The seeds were good . The soil and climate were suitable . The water and fertilizer source were sufficient . In that case, everyone just needed to patiently wait .

When thinking about this, Palin and Satan couldn’t help but reveal a smile .

As for Highness Hollow Mask, founding a village was just an insignificantly little game . But to them, this was the chance to show their sincerity to their religious God .

A natural Ancient God usually had no desire . Believers for this kind of God often didn’t exist . But in this world, there was a regulation to operate anything . If a believer couldn’t follow the ideology of one’s religious God or didn’t contribute enough for their religious God, even if they could join the God Kingdom after dying, they would not be able to reincarnate and become immortal . In the natural Ancient God Kingdom, the number of people, who couldn’t successfully reincarnate, sleep peacefully between life and death, now and then their spirits would wake up, was indeed countless .

No matter it was Palin or Satan, they both didn’t want to have such ending . Therefore, they had to take advantage of this chance to show their efforts in contributing for their religious God in the hope of smooth reincarnation .

To this first mission from their religious God, all of them wanted to do their best to set up a front surveyor’s pole for later, to pave numerous solid bricks onto their path to the God Kingdom .

Hence, they quickly started to discuss detailedly about the plan to establish the village: Where to buy commodities? Where to recruit villagers? Where is the village’s location? Where is it? How to transport? How to construct? These problems were brought up one by one . They then discussed to find the solutions for each problem .

At the beginning, Sui Xiong interestedly listened, but he got bored very quickly afterward . He transferred his energy outside the pub to check on Gerrard’s situation . He discovered that Gerrard had already been teaching the bandits martial arts . Even though, on normal days, this giant fellow’s personality had been getting more and more straightforward, more and more candid, his nature instinct of liking to lecture others still didn’t disappear . Right after he saw these guys had pretty poor skills despite possessing good bodies, he couldn’t stand but want to teach them something .

Seeing his believers busily planning, Sui Xiong also didn’t want to disturb them . Hence, he calmed his mind and started to read the documents that the God of salvation had given him .