My Servant System

The decision was made quickly, and now we stood by the main entrance of the Terracotta Grottos, ready to plunge into its monster infested depths in search of treasures and fights - depending on who you asked.

Most of the Demons seemed far more interested in the potential changes that the monsters might have undertaken thanks to the abundance of Nature Mana in the air, whilst Anput, Leone and I seemed to be the ones who were more interested in the resources that we would find, especially since this would be an opportunity to find some really cool things...

With how much mana is in the air, it wouldn't be surprising to find a bunch of Mana Crystals and potent gemstones waiting to be utilized, and if we could find a few Water Mana Crystals, well... I could only imagine what incredible items I could make with those.

And to be fair, Ammit seemed equally interested in everything, the air headed Cimeriesa muttering to herself about the ingredients to be found inside the Grottos, which would come from both the earth itself as well as monsters, so there was one Demoness who seemed less interested in a good fight.

"So how do we plan on splitting what is found? We agreed to help, yes, but that doesn't mean we aren't getting paid... and considering how thick the Nature Mana is in the air, well... I expect there to be an absurd amount of wealth waiting for us in those depths..."

Satanya was the only other one thinking about something besides the resources or the monsters, and instead focusing on the third, obvious option that no one else was truly focusing on; money.

She wanted to earn some serious coin from this endeavor, or at least make away with some serious profits in the form of materials - not because she actually wanted or needed materials, but because she could use them to barter and sell off for both her own gains and for the benefit of her Clan...

Jahi glanced at her before looking around at the others, finding that most of the Demons were leaving this up to her, though it was clear they expected a cut from this... which was only logical, since they were doing something dangerous.

This might be a debt that Satanya wanted to pay, but that didn't mean they were working entirely for free, and that was understandable.

"We get priority on 8 items, meaning we'll take 8 things guaranteed. 2 per person of my party. The rest will be split evenly between my party and yours. If we get a pound of herbs, we both get a half pound; if we get 50 chunks of ore, we both get 25 chunks. Sound fair?"

Satanya pursed her lips, before she too took a look around and saw most of the Demons shrugging, with Ammit being the one to speak up as she curiously asked "8 items of priority? 2 per person? Agreeable. Understandable. After all, there will be more than 8 items of interest inside the Grottos. Abundant. Powerful. I see no reason to decline?"

"How do you want to issue that priority? Like, you have priority over an entire vein of ore or gemstones? An entire monster corpse?"

Jahi pursed her lips this time, glancing at us and getting her answer that way as we all nodded, each of us thinking about the things we could get with our 2 items of priority.

"Yes. That's exactly how it will work. That should be agreeable, no? If we find a vein of... let's just say gold, and nearby is a second, smaller vein, you can go ahead and claim that. It'll be split, but... you get the idea, no? With how potent the mana in the air is, I imagine we'll be finding more than enough to go around. And we can discuss different splits on different things if you want; if there is an ore that you want more of, we can trade."

"That's... yes, that's acceptable. This was supposed to be your own expedition, but we joined you, so us getting anything from this is a bonus. Does everyone else agree?"

Satanya looked around at the other Demons, who all nodded in agreement with the terms; terms that were weighted in our favor, but if we were right about this Dungeon, it wouldn't matter much at all.

If you equated the mana in the air to humidity, each breath felt like we were swimming in a stew of Nature Mana; it clung to each breath you took, it thickened the area around us with natural power and pressure...

Even those with pure Fire Mana - like Leone - were benefitting from this mana abundant atmosphere, getting a nice amount of energy and strength from the atmosphere, whilst those of us with either Earth or Water Mana were benefitting even more...

Our Cores were being filled with more mana, which allowed us to cast stronger spells and strengthen our bodies even more, all while we could regenerate mana at a quicker rate.

If this was the atmosphere at the entrance of the Grottos, then what would it be like deeper inside this Dungeon?

If we were benefitting like this already after just a few minutes of being here, then what would the monsters be like who were living in it?

Both of those questions were exciting to think about, since it meant that the monsters were definitely stronger and that the Grottos had created an abundance of mana rich resources inside its confines, which was both a boon and a bane.

Wealth waited for us within its depths, but so did danger; greed for more resources, lust for another battle... both could lead to overestimating our abilities and lead to injury or death, and that was a fine line that we would need to tread.

How much could we extract from this Dungeon before needing to pull back and rest?

What could we fight within reason without risking tiring ourselves out and potentially injuring ourselves?

Being deep inside hostile rich territory with no strength was a death sentence, after all...

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