This time, I won't be the devil.

After saying that, Frey threw a contract to Wright.

The contract with the goddess Alice can only take effect if both parties sign it voluntarily, so he has to set a trap for Wright first and force him into a desperate situation.

"If you don't want to die, then sign a contract with me..."

Frey smiled at Light, imitating the tone of a certain little bastard who went around tricking people into becoming magical girls.

"Become my employee."

Although Wright didn't know what "employee" meant, and he couldn't understand the dense clauses in the contract, he guessed that Frey wanted him to sign something similar to a slave contract, so he asked:

"You actually took advantage of someone's misfortune. You have absolutely no chivalry at all!"

"I am not a knight, so I naturally do not have the spirit of chivalry."

While they were talking, the quicksand continued to sink and soon reached above their necks.

Under the threat of death, Wright no longer cared about so much.

"I sign, I sign!"

After getting Wright's promise, Frey descended from the sky and used earth magic to create a sand wall to keep the yellow sand ants out.

After rescuing half of Wright's body, Frey stopped casting the spell.

According to the contract, adventurers cannot directly harm others in the maze.

But the contract doesn't stipulate that you can't save a person but only half of him.

Frey explained the content and terms of the employee contract to Wright. In fact, the conditions he offered were not too harsh. Not only was it not a slave contract, but the treatment was even better than some guild contracts.

The reason for having Wright sign the contract was simply to ensure his loyalty.

After listening to Frey's explanation, Wright was surprised. Signing this employee contract was not even a bad thing for him.

But Wright still put forward a condition:

"My four escaped teammates can't handle that Desert Butcher. I have to rescue them first. If you agree to this, I'll sign."

Hmm?

Frey was very puzzled when he heard this request.

"Didn't they throw you out as bait?"

"I know, but rescuing those in distress is a knight's virtue. Moreover, I received the hire money, and they are my teammates now."

"If I turn a blind eye to the suffering before me, I am unworthy of being called a knight. That would be no different from killing me."

"On this point alone, I will not give in."

Looking at Wright in front of him, Frey couldn't help but sigh:

"What a knight..."

Chapter 72 The Black Knights

After agreeing to Light's additional conditions, Frey signed a contract with him and went to rescue the four adventurers.

By the time the two of them arrived, the four of them had already been seriously injured by the Desert Butcher's pursuit. If they had arrived a minute later, they would have all been killed.

When they saw Wright coming to rescue them regardless of past grudges, the first thing they felt was confusion and bewilderment.

After Wright safely got the four people back on track, they left in shame without even a word of thanks.

"They didn't seem to appreciate it."

"I didn't help them just to be thanked."

According to the intelligence Frey had gathered, this was not the first time Wright had been betrayed by his teammates during his time as a mercenary.

The reason why he is still alive today is because he has a talent called [Perseverance]. This talent gives him physical strength and recovery ability far beyond that of ordinary people, so he can escape death many times.

Although he had heard that Wright was a weirdo who considered himself a knight, it was only after meeting him today that Frey realized that Wright had an almost obsessive pursuit of chivalry.

However, Frey doesn't care about Wright's personality and ideas at the moment, as long as he can get the job done.

After re-entering the labyrinth through the entrance to the second level, Frey took Wright to the elevator of Petrarch's tomb.

At this time, the produced Fulida pulp has been loaded into a huge iron barrel similar to a gasoline barrel, and then sent up using an elevator.

Just like when Frey and the others first came, there is a huge stone door and a magic barrier protecting the elevator. Currently, only Frey, Noelle, and Didoris know the password Oblivious.

"I've already told you that I plan to produce a batch of beverages, and all you have to do is transport these iron barrels filled with the puree out of the maze every day."

The capacity of a barrel of raw pulp is 100L. If there is sufficient raw material, 5 barrels of raw pulp can be produced per day.

"I don't quite understand, but all we need to do is get these cans to the surface, right?"

It would take 5 hours to travel from the entrance of the maze to the cemetery and back at full speed, but considering that ordinary adventurers are not as fast as Frey, and they have to transport heavy objects, one trip would take more than 10 hours, which means they can only make one trip a day.

"After the guild is established, I will hire four helpers for you. Your main task is to protect the transport team from monster attacks along the way."

With Wright's defensive power, even the third-level monsters would find it difficult to break his defense, not to mention these second-level monsters in the second level. Moreover, Frey also dispatched several two-thorn monkeys to be on guard on the transportation road. If any unexpected situation occurs, they will give advance warning.

In terms of salary, Frey offered Wright a higher salary than his unstable mercenary job.

"Why don't you just talk to me directly about this kind of work? Why do you need to sign a contract first?"

"Because I don't want to be backstabbed by the future president." Frey said bluntly.

Since the guild was established using Light's status as a gold-level adventurer, he is the nominal president.

In order to actually control the guild, Frey must ensure that Wright is absolutely obedient to him.

Hearing Frey say this, Wright quickly retorted:

"I will never betray the members of the guild!"

It seems that he must have had an unpleasant experience in his previous guild.

"By the way, since you want to register a guild, what's the name of the guild?" Wright asked.

"Good question!"

When he was in the second grade of middle school, Frey was deeply moved by an anime. At that time, he decided that if he ever established his own organization one day, he must give it this name.

Now Frey finally has the chance to realize his middle school dream.

"The name of the guild is the Black Knights..."

(Note: The Black Knights are a terrorist organization founded by the protagonist Lelouch of the Rebellion in the anime)

Wright was also very satisfied with the name of the guild.

After explaining the work content, he excitedly carried two metal buckets back to the ground.

Watching Wright's departing back, Frey sighed:

"It seems the transport team only needs to hire three more people."

……

After submitting the association's registration application in Wright's name and paying a handling fee of 5 rupees, it will take a few days for approval and the registration will not be completed until after the new year.

Noelle had expressed unease when Frey proposed forming a guild.

"Once the guild is established, there will definitely be new members joining."

"Frey...are you going to team up with someone other than me?"

Frey said there was no need to worry, the maze exploration would still be carried out by the MyGO team, and the employees in the guild were just workers and could not be considered teammates.

"MyGO is indispensable, employees are replaceable..."

In the days before the New Year, Frey and Noelle were leveling up by killing monsters on the third level, while also taking the time to renovate his own mansion.

At their current monster-killing speed, it only takes half a day to reach the experience cap, so they have a lot of free time every day.

As a person who is proficient in earth element magic and has mastered modern civil engineering expertise, building houses can be said to be what Frey is best at.

Moreover, unlike working on a construction site, he is now building his own house, so he is particularly motivated.

After preserving the cottage where Petrarch and Laura had lived, Frey decided to demolish and rebuild all the other dilapidated buildings on the land.

In the overgrown backyard of the mansion, there is a huge, carefully cultivated cherry tree, which forms a sharp contrast with the barren scene around it.

"I planted this cherry tree myself the year she disappeared. Now it has grown tall and majestic," sighed writer Ye Tailang.

"I've packed my things and will be moving out today. If you think this tree is in the way, you can cut it down."

"It's been planted for 10 years, so let's keep it."

The branches of the cherry trees are twisted and gnarled, like giant umbrellas. When the flowers bloom in March, it will surely present a magnificent sight.

"By the way, where are you planning to move?"

"I'm going to live in the stables."

Considering Ye Tailang's current financial situation, he could only make this helpless choice.

"Why don't you stay in the little room in the corner for now? It's where the original owner of this mansion lived. I don't plan to demolish it. The accommodation fee will be deducted from your royalties when the time comes."

Frey kept the hut out of respect for Petrarch, and the reason he gave it to Ye Taro was because he remembered what Didorice once said:

"If it's Laura, she probably also hopes that this flute can continue to be used..."

According to the tradition of the elves, they usually give their relics to those in need.

After receiving Frey's help, Ye Taro displayed the traditional craftsmanship of the Eight Islands, bowed deeply to Frey, and said:

"I will definitely finish the novel you entrusted to me within a week!"

After settling Ye Taro, Frey officially started the construction of the mansion.

In the center of the land, he built a magnificent Western-style building. The first floor was used as an office and for receiving guests, and the second floor was used as a bedroom.

As for the basement... I haven't decided what to use it for yet, but let's build one anyway.

Next to the western-style building is a warehouse for storing Fuleda, and in the space behind it, Frey decided to build a courtyard with several side rooms in the courtyard.

But the courtyard belongs to the field of landscape design, which is beyond the knowledge of Frey, a civil engineer.

When it was actually built, it was discovered that the remaining space was not enough, so Frey had to reduce the scale of the building. The final product looked more like a small Japanese courtyard.

Looking at the huge cherry tree in the courtyard, a name came to Frey's mind.