The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

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“Your name is Shien right?”  Balon finally spoke up and addressed Shien, “I thank you for your hard word.  In that case, as for this matter-”  

 

This matter, allow me to support you in this.  

 

That was what Balon was planning to say.  

 

From Balon’s point of view, if they can guarantee that the people sent by the Old Demon Faction will end up flinging themselves into a trap and get completely taken out, then there would no more need for him or his people to undertake some secret quest.  Just wait and prepare right here and take care of everything at once.  They’d even end up getting more out of it, with even more merits earned.  

 

However, at that moment, Shien once again change the topic and interrupted Balon’s words.  

 

“Speaking of, I haven’t even thanked everyone yet.”  Shien addressed everyone there with obvious gratitude, “For everyone to have put in so much effort into ‘helping me’ transport Jillian to the capital like this.  Why I really am a little embarrassed at that.”  

 

When those words were uttered, everyone, including Balon, stopped for a moment.  

 

“Helping you?”  

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Balon, Leon, Markray, Eudrice, and Alrith were all confused.  

 

What’s the logic behind that?  

 

Everyone was quite puzzled.  

 

However, a second later, everyone’s expressions had changed due to Shien’s words.  

 

It was something that had never happened before.  

 

Because-

 

“Although it was only thanks to borrowing the power of a magic item that ‘I successfully subjugate Jillian’, however, since I did end up subjugating such a major criminal and transported him to the capital, I think the Kingdom wouldn’t be stingy in its reward for me, right?  Why, I’m looking forward to it just thinking about it!”  

 

Shien’s joyful words, this time, had made everyone’s heart let out a “crack” sound.  They finally realized what the issue was.  

 

That’s right!  

 

The one who subjugated Jillian was Shien, not them!  

 

In other words, Shien was the one who truly deserved the credit.  They were only peripherally involved!  

 

It’s not that everyone forgot about that point.  Rather, normally speaking, there’s a way that things were done when someone makes a major contribution within a particular territory.  Unless it was a matter capable of shaking the entire kingdom, unless it brought an enormous advantage for the entire country to the point where the person who made the contribution had to be acknowledged by the nation itself, rewards will normally be something that are realized in tiers.  

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For example, if a commoner accidentally found a ruin, and that ruin had enormous value to the point where even the Kingdom had to be involved, then said commoner wouldn’t be directly rewarded by the Kingdom itself.  Instead, he’d be rewarded by the noble of the territory who received the news.  

 

Then this territory’s lord would report it to the Kingdom, and the Kingdom will consider the matter as the lord’s merit, and reward the lord.  

 

That’s what the tiered reward system meant.  

 

After all, there’s no way that a commoner could directly make contact with the royalty and report the matter, right?  

 

Thus, this was true even in Shien’s previous world.  Rewards will drip down step by step.  By the time it finally reached the actual person, it would have already gone through who knows how many steps, and it would be unknown just how much of the original reward’s value ended up reaching the person in question.  

 

Shien’s one matter here ended up this way too.  The merit that a level 10 new adventurer earned could just be rewarded by the administrator of Lamdrion.  Shien himself had neither the right nor method to contact the royalty and get the reward directly from them.  

 

Given all that, from Balon’s point of view, he just needed to hand Shien a reward.  Then, he could fully claim the Kingdom’s full reward without any issues.  

 

However, now the situation had changed.  

 

Shien watched the expressions on everyone’s faces, and his smile became more and more pronounced.  

 

(Weren’t you guys trying to fight over the merit?)

 

Then I’ll make it so that there is no merit to fight over!  

 

That was Shien’s real goal.