Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Lucius looked at Gellor who seemed to be determined to fulfill any request that he put forth and internally nodded.

"The Job that I want to send you on is a Rune Beast hunt." Lucius said.

"A Rune Beast hunt? What kind?" Gellor questioned.

He actually felt better that Lucius had asked them for a rune beast hunt rather than other types of job as this was the kind of job they were proficient at. While Gellor and his team did a variety of jobs, they still preferred the Rune Beast hunts.

Their team was optimized to handle and hunt beasts and thus, these kinds of jobs were the easiest for them. Of course, there were still several parameters that could change the level of difficulty of a job like this, but at least in this one they had far more experience.

"The rune beast that I want you to hunt is not really dangerous per see, it's just hard to track; a Mist Veil Beast." Lucius answered.

"A Mist Veil Beast… I don't think I've ever heard of this rune beast before." Gellor said as his brows furrowed. 

"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. I'll provide you all the informative material needed to learn about the beast and its habitat." Lucius replied.

Gellor nodded his head, thought that this would be fine. As long as they had the information about the beast, they should not have that many problems. Lucius gestured to the servants, and they went to bring in the documents that Lucius had prepared beforehand.

"Here are the things you asked for, Young Lord Asher." The maid said before handing the stack of documents.

Lucius took them and passed them to everyone at the table.

"Take a look and tell me what you think," Lucius said to the mercenaries.

Lucius's original plan was to get the Mist Veil Beast crystal from Kain through the Artificers guild. But a few days ago he had gotten a reply from Kain, in which he informed Lucius that each Rune beast crystal of the Mist Veil Beast would cost him around fifteen thousand gold or a thousand Aether crystals.

The reason for this was because there was currently a lack of supply of Aether crystals and their cost had risen once more. Usually, a rune beast crystal of a D rank beast should not be this expensive. 

At most, a D rank rune beast crystal would cost about five thousand gold coins or five hundred Aether crystals. But the cost in the case of the Mist Veil beast had been increased due to the distance at which the beast was found.

It took one nearly a month to reach the Hills of Koran where the Mist Veil Beast lived and then it would depend on the hunters' luck on how long it took them to find the Mist Veil beast. 

Plus, even if they found the Mist Veil beast, it was not a guarantee that they would be able to kill one. Mist Veil Beasts were hard to kill because of their gift and unless the combination of wind and fire gifts was used, it would be nearly impossible to hunt them down.

Even the gifted who had fire and wind type gifts needed to be very skilled with them. If they missed their chance, the Mist Veil beast would escape and would leave them empty handed. The escape of one Mist Veil Beast might even lead to the entire area's Mist Veil Beasts evacuating.

On top of all this, Kain also told Lucius that there was currently only one Mist Veil Beast Rune crystal left in the Artificers guild. The information that he had about them was a bit outdated when he told them there were several of them in the guild.

Because of this, Lucius was left with no other choice than to commission, some mercenaries to hunt down those beasts. He had even put the plan on the back burner and thought that he might select someone other than John for the gift upgrade.

But then the situation with Gellor and Finch came up, which allowed Lucius to rectify his plan once again. Still, Lucius was not sure if they would be able to do this job since it needed a specific combination of gifts.

He was just hoping that Gellor and his team had someone with these types of gifts. Lucius would have directly used Nexus to learn about their gifts, but knew that biding his time for now would be the better option.

'They are already indebted to me so it is only a matter of item till they tell me about their gifts…' Lucius thought with a smile. 

The others would have seen his eerie smile had it not been for his hands that were covering his mouth and nose as he leaned on the table. Lucius watched on, as Gellor and his teammates read the documents.

Thirty minutes passed like this, and Lucius patiently waited. He knew very well there was no rushing in matters such as these. Even if he insisted Gellor and his team to take up the job, while they would go on it, it was likely that they would just fail the job. Instead of pushing them to do something they were not confident in, Lucius would rather send them on a different job.

This was how one was supposed to utilize man power. From what Lucius had seen till now, there were very few nobles here who seemed to know how to properly assign man power to tasks. They just seemed to put it on any random person, who 'they' thought could do it and left it there. And if the person failed it, they would just keep on forcing them to do it till it worked.

Such thinking was improper and highly inefficient. Better use of manpower could greatly increase productivity and profits, which Lucius knew very well.

Gellor put the stack of documents on the table and let out a long breath.

"So what are your thoughts on it?" Lucius questioned.