Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

Dorian lazily sat before snapping his fingers again.

~Snap.

Two other books left the open wooden box, with one flying towards his men and the other flying towards him.

Good.

With that, the books all opened wide to the pages Dorian wanted them to be.

And as he spoke and prices, costs and why they were charged, the books in the trio's hands flipped from page to page as well.

Firstly, the Hybrid ghost he fought against was a Class 2 one.

With Ghosts, they were ranked from Class 1 to class 9, before reaching The Breeding Class and finally, the deadliest of all, the Humongous Class.

But, one should know that ghosts were weaker than Halos, Ghouls, hell hounds and all the other demonic and evil entities.

Thus, the highest ghost level was nothing compared to how deadly other underworld creatures could be.

And this ranking was only for Ghosts.

Ghosts were the only forms with different danger-ranking systems.

The other underworld creatures followed a different one.

That said, for a Class 2 Hybrid Ghost, there was a standard fee.

Following that, Dorian charged for every talisman he used today... including the ones he used in making the numerous bags of salt sacred.

The use of spell energy, and even the clearing of the seals and markings, all went into the cost.

One should know that Dorian's strength wasn't at his peak, and in truth, he had used a lot of strength to deal with this hybrid ghost.

The thing was that he hadn't fully recovered his strength from last night's event.

And he planned to use an entire day or so to prepare himself.

But this morning, he was already brought in when he was still in his recovery time.

So he had just barely been able to make it.

'Looks like I'll have to increase my strength fast.' he thought while still coming up with the price list.

In all fairness, cultivation was expensive, and the energy used up alone, as well as the materials he would need to get himself back on track, were indeed pricey... like the two-hundred-year-old ginseng and so on.

As for the candles used today, the Ghu household wouldn't pay for the entire thing since not all the wax had melted.

No... they were just paying a standard service fee per candle used today.

.

Back in this world, scamming or overcharging was near impossible.

Why?

Because before one became an exorcist, they had to take a heavenly oath to be fair and just, or they would get killed by the heavens.

Now, they were drawing powers from above to fight evil.

So if they took the powers from above to do evil instead, the heavens were always watching.

And because of the oath, they could get stuck by lightning and die in an instant.

Of course, this was only the case if they took the oath.

This was why many organizations in his former world had people take the oath to be fair, just, never collude with the underworld creatures or do bad.

But, as one would know, there were still rogue exorcists that refused to enter the academies but chose to find ways of stealing exorcist materials instead.

Yes. They wanted to learn and maybe even overpriced people and get rich without worrying about any immediate heavenly punishments.

Some of them also turned into evil cultivators, doing evil things for wealthy clients too.

Some even refined other innocent lives just to extend theirs too.

But what they didn't understand was that even though they wouldn't be punished immediately... the heavens were always watching.

And it might take 2 to even 10 years for their uppings to come.

But when the heavens struck, it was fiercer than when taking the oath.

One could get dragged to hell to take on the punishment for millions of years before getting a chance for rebirth.

And even when reborn, they might not be humans again but caterpillars, chickens or something else.

They had lost their right to be humans.

And only after suffering several more lives as prey, would they get the chance to be humans again.

But even at that, they might still get sent to an awful world where they would like terrible lives.

The punishment for an evil exorcist was Harsh!

Thus, it was better to take the oath to constantly remind oneself to stay on the right path.

Provided one didn't use the powers of the heavens for evil, then things were good.

Of course, mortal strengths like brain power, winning arguments, and self-defence weren't technically okay... So one would just be punished by the heavens as any regular mortal would.

It wouldn't be as harsh as being punished as an evil exorcist.

.

Very fast, Dorian waved his hands, and words began forming on a paper.

He fairly priced and tallied everything up before flicking the paper to Ghu Dwo.

"Here... My price."

Ghu Dwo looked at the price and didn't think much of it.

6 Million!

For all he saw today, he even felt like it was a little cheaper than he was expecting.

But what he didn't know was that if Dorian were stronger, then the price might've been way less costly as well.

Today's event had also taken a toll on Dorian.

Ghu Dwo looked at the price and felt it was just alright.

His wife spent such amounts on bags and clothes alone.

So what more of this?

He even decided to add an extra 4 million as a gift of gratitude, rounding it up to 10 Million.

This gift was also there to establish a friendship with Dorian.

This way, if they needed his help again, he would willingly come over, right?

As a businessman, Ghu Dwo felt like this was a move that he needed to make.

Dorian looked at them and smiled.

Good. Easy clients, easy payment.