The air was filled with hammers hitting the stones and iron, upon arriving at the construction site, Michael saw the bare bones of the building. The wooden planks, iron beams, and half-built walls which were glistening in the daylight radiated certain charm. The building resembled a rectangular prism, on the long sides, there were five arched windows, each window was approximately 3m wide and 7m in height, on the front of the building, there was one arched door between on arched windows on each side.
The building was lifted by a 3m foundation so one could enjoy the view of the river clearly. On the far end of the building, Michael noticed the vents, stoves, and ovens being built by another set of workers. Michael walked up the few stairs to enter the building when he saw a couple of carriages stopping in front of the building. Both Gaya and Michael frowned at this sight, the carriages had scratches, burn marks, and cuts all over them. It was evident these carriages were attacked, soon, people slowly came out of the carriages, wounded. This scene attracted the people of River town, few of them stepped forward to support the wounded soldiers,
Gaya's face instantly turned cold the moment she saw the people taking out dead ones from the carriages. All the dead bodies had deep cuts, burned marks, and severed limbs.
Following the dead bodies, a short sturdy man with a large beard jumped out of the carriages, carrying a huge battle-ax. The short man compensated for his lack of height with his muscles, the man carried that huge ass battle-ax like it had no weight.
"Dwarf" Michael mumbled under his breath. This was the first time he had seen a dwarf in real life. The dwarf was exactly like one of the dwarves in the Lord of the Rings movies.
"Fovar, what happened?" Gaya asked as the dwarf put the battle-ax on the ground producing a loud thud sound.
"Bandits happened, lass, ye told us there be nae bandits between here an' Bradford"
"Bandits? Where?" After Jane sent bandits to harass their customers, Gaya personally went to the forest surrounding the Sunrise sect as well as the forests surrounding the River town to kill every single bandit.
She was sure there are no bandits to harass them until now.
"Fucking bloody beastmen, ambushed us near tha moon goddess temple, these puny humans stood nae chance against their gorilla attack" cursed Fovar failing to notice Michael in the heat of the moment.
"Beastmen wouldn't usually enter a human kingdom, Ghost we have to investigate this' ' only when she mentioned the name Ghost, the dwarf turned his gaze at Michael. For a second, Fovar just stared at him to sense his cultivation level, soon, his eyes slightly widened in surprise.
"So ye be that famous Ghost o' River town yeh, lad, you need to do something about these bandits. They already destroyed most o' tha materials I needed ta finish tha building"
"Destroyed the glasses?! I'm gonna rip them to pieces" veins popped on Gaya's face. Considering this plan of Michael's required more glasses, even than the stones, this shipment was extremely important. These were not normal glasses, the dwarf ordered them, glassmakers, to custom build the glasses which cost them a huge chunk of gold coins.
"Go and check out the forests but I guess they are long gone by now"
"I have to look," she said and rushed towards the place where they left the pegasus.
"Master Ghost" soon after Gaya left, his two henchmen came towards him. Both Daniel and Ricky suffered wounds, Daniel had a deep cut running across his chest, his brown tunic was drenched in blood while Ricky limped, holding the deep cut on his thigh.
Michael quickly willed the system to give him the healing potion in the storage, in a flash, two vials of healing potion appeared in his hand.
"Here take this' ' both of them shuddered, the thought of a single vial of healing potions cost 9000 gold coins prevented their hands from reaching out to take the healing potions.
"Ma-"
"Drink it, it's an order" thinking about those bandits who almost killed his two loyal men, Michael wanted to flay the bandits alive. He could simply buy materials but loyal men like them were hard to find.
Daniel opened up the vial, slowly pouring the potion into his mouth. Their wounds closed up at a swift pace, the dwarf was surprised he wasted two valuable potions on these two commoners.
After their wounds healed up, Michael retrieved a couple of more healing potions, "mix them in the water and distribute the water to the wounded. For those who lost their lives" Daniel and Ricky saw a large pouch of coins appear in his hand,
"Give their families 2000 gold coins" his words instantly caused the people to go crazy, there were gasps and muttering among the crowd. Even if they were alive, they wouldn't have earned 1000 gold coins in their lifetime by working on the construction sites, not to mention 2000 gold coins. He just changed their lives, with this amount, their families could live their entire lives without ever going to work.
As far as he was concerned, if he didn't compensate them with a handsome amount, workers might avoid working for him in the future as they might fear for their lives. But now, they would gladly give their life thinking their families would get richer and live their life with no worries.
Many wives would gladly take 2000 gold coins instead of their drunk husbands, any time of the day.
After all, for Michael, even 20,000 gold coins weren't much compared to his grand plans. He wanted the restaurant to be up and running as soon as possible," as for those who survived, you will receive 50 gold coins for the inconvenience" Those who survived bowed and grinned in glee despite the excruciating pain. Although it was nowhere near the amount 2000, at least they live to enjoy the 50 gold coins.
"Lad, what aboot me? ye need ta compensate me too" asked Fovar, smirking.
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