Guild Boss's Ambition

As someone in charge of the lives of six hundred people, I could only sigh.

I warned fiercely, "Okay, okay, I promise you can get close to my sister, Brannie, within the scope of my permission, but! I will not give you any privileges beyond friendship, so please be careful about the extent of your pranks. If you let me know that you made Brannie cry, even if Bai Ye and I are in cahoots with each other, I will never let you feel good!"

"The extent of the prank?" The foxy clown blinked her big watery eyes and asked, "What extent does that mean?"

I thought about it and answered solemnly: "At least it must not break the law and it must not hurt others."

As soon as she finished speaking, a smile that made me shudder broke out on the fox clown's face.

In the moment of relaxation, the fox clown broke through my defense and pressed my mouth on the small cherry on her chest. Then I heard her yelling outside: "Ms. Raftan! Help! There is an assassin! No! There is a cockroach──"

Upon hearing that an assassin had appeared, the paladin guarding outside rushed into the tent very competently. After she entered, she naturally could not see any assassins or cockroaches. She only saw her own president pinning an adventurer of the guild to the ground in a riding position, and while he was touching her all over, he greedily put his mouth on the girl's soft spot.

“Pull—”

I wanted to explain immediately, but the fox clown reacted faster.

"Oops! The cockroaches are scared away! Miss Raftan, there is nothing for you to do here, you can go out now~~"

Hearing this, Miss Raftan rushed out of the door with a red face, not giving me a moment to defend myself.

Damn mischievous fox!

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22. The Fox and the Knight and Negotiation (Raftan)

(Raftan-Fritze)

It's really unexpected.

I didn't expect that the President and the Fox Clown would have such a close and special relationship──

"Ms. Raftan, please don't misunderstand me. She and I really don't have that kind of relationship!"

"President Ehard, I understand. ViVi only came to give us the new version of the map today, and because she played a prank on you, you pinned her to the ground. As for the kiss marks on your bodies, they are all signs of skin sensitivity. In short, everything I saw just now was a misunderstanding."

After finishing the matter, President Ehard, who had just taken a bath together, immediately convened an emergency meeting. In order to prevent her from being too shy and brooding over it, I had to solemnly assure her again that I would treat everything as a misunderstanding.

After hearing my assurance, the president, who had packed everything neatly, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she glared at the blue-haired fox girl beside her in annoyance, like a wife yelling at her scoundrel husband, and shouted in a stern voice: "Wild fox, why don't you quickly take out the new version of the map you mentioned?"

"Hey, don't worry, it will be ready soon~~It will be ready soon~~"

The blue-haired fox conjured up a sheepskin scroll from its space ring and spread it out on the floor of the tent.

Since the ground was covered with bamboo mats, the three of us could sit on the ground comfortably without having our bodies and clothes, which had just been washed, immediately get covered with mud and moisture again.

According to Foxy Clown, this map is the second edition of the tactical map sent by the military.

Unlike the first version of the tactical map we looked at, this version has made many new revisions.

It's all some bad revisions.

The military treated all of us adventurers who accepted the mission to destroy the food supplies as abandoned pawns!

In the first version of the map, all enemy supply routes are located in the heart of the high elves. I believe that nine out of ten guilds that have taken on the task of destroying food supplies will adopt the same strategy as us - let the supply-stealing team go to the target location early in the morning to wait, and then take advantage of the chaos when the two armies are fighting to leave the battle area.

but!

If we follow the defense line contraction method of the second version of the map, then after we succeed, we will have to rely on our own strength to return to Mopolis City. But at the same time, our ambushes will become thorns in the eyes of the high elves. In order to prevent being attacked from both inside and outside, the high elves will certainly make annihilating the ambushes their top priority!

In this way, we are bound to become the target of public criticism, which means we will become the best shield for the military!

"President Ehard, what are your plans?" I asked solemnly.

"ViVi, besides this map, did Hai Lao ask you to help convey a message?" Ehard asked the fox girl.

Clown Foxy grabbed the black ants on the ground and stuffed them into her mouth as snacks, while answering: "No, the old man just asked me to bring the map to you. He didn't tell me anything else. But I heard that he asked Xiaolan to ask Water World for help. Maybe he can bring you some reinforcements, right?"

you.

The fox clown is talking about you.

This means that her tendency to keep to herself will not change.

I asked the Knight Girl, "President, I'm sure you are aware of the situation. What are your plans?"

"Please allow me to think for a moment."

Ehard folded his arms and looked at the map in deep thought.

After a while, she pointed at the map and said, "No matter what, we have to leave this forest. If we don't leave as soon as possible, the food we carry with us will be consumed sooner or later. In addition, according to the rules of the war mission, if we don't return to Mopolis City within a month, we will be regarded as deserters by the military."

Finally, Ehard asked the fox clown bluntly: "Hey, Wild Fox, you should have encountered the army of high elves when you came here, right? Where are they? Mark them all out for me."

Perhaps because of her inexplicable special relationship with the president's daughter, the clown fox girl did not make fun of such a serious matter for the first time. Instead, she picked up the small stones on the ground and represented the army of the high elves according to their sizes. She marked out what she saw along the way to the Panlong Forest one by one.

"That's roughly what happened. The two armies have already had a preliminary clash on the front line. This time, the high elves didn't seem to anticipate that the Alliance of Light had already made preparations early on, so they didn't have the upper hand in the first round of fighting. And because the surprise attack failed, the high elves' vanguard has slowed down and temporarily retreated to the rear to wait for reinforcements from the main force."

ViVi performed a tactical analysis for us in a professional tone: "For you, the defeat of the vanguard is not a good thing. The defeated elf vanguard is guarding the barren plain outside the Panlong Forest. Now, as long as you stick half of your head out of the Panlong Forest, those ruthless butchers will surely come to greet you immediately."

Ehard stared at the map calmly and analyzed calmly: "Indeed, the only time we can break through the Panlong Forest is when the two armies are fighting. However, the situation is not very bad, because we only need to wait for the large army of high elves to appear, and the war will resume. In other words, the opportunity to break through will eventually come to us again."

"But how can we know the time when the two armies will fight?" I asked.

"If this wild fox is willing to help us, then things will be much simpler."

Ehad glanced sideways at ViVi.

The fox clown smiled charmingly, poked the knight girl's chest with her finger, and said coquettishly: "Isn't it very simple to ask a fox for help? As long as you give me a reasonable price, I will naturally serve you wholeheartedly. Isn't the so-called adventurer's life made up of these transactions?"

"Price? Dedication?"

"President Ehard, how did you get this fox into bed?"

I am very ashamed that in such a serious occasion, my thoughts still accidentally drifted to those unclean places.

Hearing this, President Ehad suddenly smiled evilly, then raised the clown's chin domineeringly, looked at her and said: "According to the terms of the contract, you must obey my orders. The benefits I gave you just now are my biggest concession. Don't bargain with me, otherwise I will punish you by military law now."

"Martial law? Wow~ I'm so scared~"

The foxy clown smiled coquettishly, half-closing her eyes and saying, "It's okay for me to help you get information, but Miss President, after the mission is completed, how do you plan to distribute the reward? Think about it carefully, it's impossible for a gold-level adventurer like me to get the same salary as a silver-level or black iron-level adventurer, right?"

Although her tone was not serious, the fox clown did raise an important proposition.

Talking about money always hurts feelings.

Even if the Fox Clown doesn't raise this issue now, the president will have to give an explanation for it sooner or later.

"I will distribute the mission rewards according to the rank of each adventurer." President Ehard replied.

"Yeah - is that all?"

The fox clown grabbed her own tail and cried out in disappointment: "So that means if I can bring more benefits to the guild, the guild will not reward me for it? Oh my, just thinking about how to complete the task safely instead of trying to win the bonus that can't be spent in ten lifetimes in this battle, is this also called an adventurer?"

President Ehard frowned and asked, "ViVi, what exactly do you want to say?"

The blue-haired fox girl pounced on President Ehard like a puppy, rubbing her head against her chest while saying in a slightly evil tone: "I think this war is the best stage. It's not impossible for me to perform if you want me to, but I can't compromise. I will only perform what I want, but at the same time I want to receive a reward commensurate with its value."

The president guessed and asked, "You want me to reward you based on your merits?"

The fox clown chuckled: "I want to make the Adventurer's Guild return to the way adventurers do things. Those who can complete the mission will receive rewards, and those who fail will get nothing. Of course, if you think that such a rule is too cruel to the weak, you can only use it on me, a volunteer."

The president asked cautiously, "What do you want?"

The fox clown climbed down from the knight girl, pointed to the red line on the map, and said with a smile: "I can find out the battle situation for you, but in return, I want you to transfer the entire mission of destroying the grain truck to me alone."

The guild leader warned seriously, "You mean you want to take on the entire war mission and the reward by yourself? Do you know what will happen if you can't complete the mission by yourself? You have to pay a fine of one thousand gold coins! That's not a small amount even for our entire guild."

Hearing this, the fox clown still looked relaxed.

"Just a thousand gold coins? I thought it would be more—"

"Do you really think the food trucks won't come?" The knight girl reminded him with a worried look on her face. "Even if the military intends to trap us in a place where we will die without a burial place, the replenishment route on the map is indeed a prediction with basis."

It's a pity that the good intentions of the Miss President were just a cold response. ViVi looked like a teenager who couldn't stand the nagging of her mother: "In short, give me the mission and I will help you complete it. When the time comes, not only will you have a war mission to complete, but you won't have to pay those fines. I really don't understand what's so hesitant about this?"

"Dear Miss Fox..."

"President Ehard said that because he cares about you and doesn't want you to bear a huge debt alone, right?"

"Why don't you understand her good intentions?"

I sighed silently for someone who didn't know how to appreciate the good fortune he had, and President Ehard had completely lost her patience with the naughty clown. She rubbed her temples and agreed, "Forget it, since you have that confidence, I can only agree to your request. As long as you can send me the news of the two armies' battle on time, then this war mission will be yours alone."

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23. The Time Has Come (Raftan)

(Raftan-Fritze)

There is always calculation between people.

As if the military was deceiving us, Ehard and I did not explain our thoughts to the adventurers under our command.

Because we who are in a lower position are always patients with persecution delusions. No matter how upright and honest our words and deeds are, the subordinates who are managed will still be stimulated to have the potential to be great storytellers. One or two of them can become experts in three-question essays. In less than a day, they can imagine stones, weeds, and girls as an epic story of destroying the world.

Since the military morale is currently stable, there is naturally no need for us to shake it ourselves.

We only need to tell them about the desperate situation when it comes, and then the desperate situation will force them to act according to the script we arrange. Only through this scheming approach will the adventurers who are accustomed to seeking benefits and avoiding harm focus on completing the same task together, rather than fighting each other like a pile of scattered sand.

It's a pity that they are not my subordinates, otherwise I would definitely teach them what true unity is.

True unity is mutual cooperation with a common purpose, rather than a simple common interest. If one simply takes advantage of people's tendency to seek profit and avoid harm to play power games, people who are controlled by power games will gradually degenerate into evil spirits who feed on profit and harm.

How can there be sincere cooperation between evil spirits when they are only suspicious of each other?

The reason why unity is a virtue is that unity only occurs between people.

Solidarity is a proof of being human.

However, war is so cruel that the world has gradually become a purgatory.

"Raftan, it's time to get going."

On the thirteenth day after the blue-haired fox girl left, and also the thirteenth day after the war began, we finally got news from the Joker.

"Will the battle begin at dawn tomorrow?"

Reading the crooked handwriting carved by the clown on the leaves, I asked President Ehard: "One last confirmation, is the plan still the same? To be honest, if the situation you described does not occur, then what awaits us will be the end of annihilation. In fact, if we follow the path I described -"

Before I could finish my words, the president interrupted me decisively and said, "Ms. Raftan, please believe in the tacit understanding between me and Ebisu. We will wait for the most needed support at the most critical moment, and then return triumphantly together."

In my opinion, the plan made by the president is unreliable.

Since this is the second map, the task of destroying the grain carts that we initially undertook has become an unknown. Also because of this unexpected situation, in addition to breaking out of the Panlong Forest, we must also look for other opportunities to complete the war mission. However, the president has set her sights on the garrison support mission of Luruga Village.

Luruga Village is located 900 kilometers southeast of Panlong Forest. It takes a day's journey from Panlong Forest. If we calculate based on the withdrawal time on the new map, when we set out, the alliance's army will be about to launch a second round of defense line contraction. At that time, Luruga Village, which was originally on the second line, will become a front-line battlefield.

President Ehard's idea is to launch a surprise attack on the high elves outside the village with the soldiers guarding Luruga Village on the way back, hoping to return to our sphere of influence through this surprise attack and collect 200 heads of high elves to complete another war mission.

To be honest, this is an excellent strategy, provided that we really have the strength to defeat the high elves.

In response to my questioning, President Erhard made a prediction whose truth or falsity is unknown.

She said Ebi will arrange reinforcements for us.

But in fact, Ebi never told her any information about arranging any reinforcements.

I still remember that when I was in the tactics class, the first thing the teacher taught was the "Three Major Illusions of the Battlefield".

——There is no one in the bush, I can kill him, everything is self-explanatory.

However, our President Ehard committed all three offenses at once. Not only did she assume that there were no high elves' spies in the Panlong Forest, she also thought that she, who was alone, might be able to backstab the enemy team and then counterattack. What's worse, without proper communication, she also preconceived that her teammates would cooperate with her to turn defense into offense.

But no matter how much I complain, the commander-in-chief still has the final say.

At noon, the adventurers who had been on standby for more than half a month finally received the second action order.

Unsurprisingly, after listening to the explanation from the Miss President, they all expressed that they were unable to accept the sudden change.

"President! It's only one day left! If we wait one more day, and if the high elves' supply team doesn't arrive, we can leave this forest unscathed! Even if the new map you mentioned is true, it doesn't mean we have to rush to break out. Wait one more day! Isn't it also okay to wait one more day before breaking out?!"

The questioning voices are not unreasonable, what they say all has its own reasons.

However, this kind of lucky mentality is fatal.

Under the attack of the high elves, Koruru Village might not be able to hold out for a day.