The Black Stone Valley was located in the middle of nowhere, all the buildings here were old and rusty, so one restaurant was worth no more than one thousand silvers. However, it was harder to name a price for someone’s life, if someone’s rich, they could be worth more than thousands of silver, and if the person belonged to a famous family, then they would be a lot more valuable, as they already own a fortune.
According to the law of the Windy Nation, for each normal person who lost their life in an accident, their family would be compensated with five hundred silvers, which would probably be enough for their family to live comfortably for a span of ten years. Now that Ye Chen had taken out twenty thousand silvers, after leaving out the thousand silvers for the restaurant owner, the rest of the nineteen thousand silvers would be enough to compensate thirty-eight families, while the number of people that lost their lives was even less than that.
Maybe it was the misery of being poor, but most of the people who had lost their family member would rather take the five hundred silvers than have their dead family come back alive. Because at least the former could insure their life for the next ten years, they would even have money for their children to get married, and maybe even repair their houses.
The owner of the restaurant kept nodding his like a little chick eating rice off the ground, “Young warrior, you don’t have to worry. With these many witnesses present, how would I dare to take more than I deserve?”
“I hope so.” Ye Chen agreed.
After he handed over the gold note, Ye Chen was just about to leave when all the surrounding mercenaries came up to him.
“Young warrior, you were so skillful. The Bloody Butcher had killed countless people. There were many people that wanted to kill him, but ended up being killed by him. Now that he is finally dead, there would probably be many people that would like to thank you.”
Ye Chen could not simply turn them away, he said: “You guys are flattering me. There is always justice, if I don’t kill him today, then someone else will do it later.”
“I admire you greatly young warrior. I wonder what your name is.”
Ye Chen knew that one’s reputation was bound to be affected while traveling the world, sometimes even if you were not interested in fame, other people would respect you for your deeds, eventually there would be no way to escape that pattern. So, Ye Chen thought that he might as well just accept it, and replied: “I am Ye Chen, an inner disciple of the Sky Cloud Martial School.”
“Young warrior Ye, I am Two Blades Xu Shan.”
“Deadly Arc Sun Ruhai!”
“Iron leg Liu Wan!”
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All of a sudden, all the mercenaries yelled out their names. As they already had a little bit of reputation for their names in this area, they felt that if they could be in good terms with an inner disciple from the Sky Cloud Martial School, then their reputation might increase a lot, and they might even gain more respect from people.
Ye Chen forced a smile. He knew that fame was not always a good thing, as it sometimes attracted trouble.
By the time he had gotten rid of all those people, it was already afternoon.