This time she hesitated, -yeah no matter how rich you are thats 8 years of an imperial scholars wage-. she spoke "I'll quadruple it if you compete in the 'all martial war' matches in Doosik's place. Since he would've been representing the Tang family in the if he hadn't have gotten a concussion, and fractured ribs that will take at least month to heal."
She frowned when she said this, and added ice to her tone giving off the idea that she was very dissatisfied, when in actuality she was thinking. -If someone like Doosik who is just below me and is on bar with the lesser dragon, and the wandering cloud phoenix. Was beaten to this extent after an intense fight, where he Doosik lasted under a ruthless beating, he must be high, especially after Doosik talked about how skilled he was and how intense their fight was after he caught up to him. It is a bit unfortunate that his qigong is at a lower level then Doosik's though-.
She was also curious about what this mercenaries name is since he should be well-known if he's at the level of the dragons and phoenix's, and she heard from Doosik he looked to be quite young. So she added "and since you'll be with us for at least a month, I think it be a good idea if you showed your face to me and my guards, for trust reasons of course."
Gyun who sat across from her was thinking internally and weighing the benefits, he figured that since he plans on establishing a faction the most important part would be talents. Where else would be better to discover talents then the 'All Martial war' tournament. He could use the chance to discover talents, and he could gain a bit of reputation which could bring talents to him. When he established a mercenary group under an alias, and would serve as the public face of his faction. On the other hand he would have to alter his voice, but he didn't know a technique for that. -I guess I could just ask the Tang since they specialize in poison and stealth, but they might suspect me, well I could intimidate Doosik into giving teaching me since he probably knows it-.
"I'll do it" he said as he took off his hood revealing his face "but I will be wearing a mask, and you can call me 'Jin'. Now since I told you my name, I'd like to know the names of the people I'll be traveling with for the next month."
Ms. Tang hesitated for a moment before answering, her face clearly surprised at his age and looks. Though she quickly regained her composure. "Thats fine since the rules allow it as long as it's not anything that will inhibit or help your performance. Well I guess I should intorduce me and my escorts, behind me is Shuran and I'm Tang Soso and..." she smiled. "Behind you is Kwak Doosik who you met yesterday whom you met yesterday."
Doosik suddenly revealed his presence trying to catch Gyun off guard, unfortunately for him Gyun rolled his eys. "Ok then when are we leaving?" Tang Soso observed his reaction with amusement "we leave tommorow in the morning , we'll be outside the West gate I trust that wo-"
Gyun cut her off "yeah ok I'll be there, I'll be bringing some guys with me is that ok, and don't worry they're perfectly average mercenaries." "Unfortunately" he added under his breath, Kwak and Shuran looked at Soso, she shrugged "thats fine with us, but we're not paying for them."
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Authors note - sorry for the short chapter but I don't have time to finish it this week so I'll make the next chapter especially long.