As I get inside, I see some of the high merchants and nobles. 'Each and every one of them must be as rich as Illyrio, if not more.'.
"Hello there, you must be Hellryder," says a pale man with piercings in his mouth. "Hey, yeah. Are the pureborn inside??" I ask, 'God, if anything, I want to leave this place as fast as possible. I feel my nerves on edge in here.'
"Yes, they are. Follow me," he says as he walks through a curved-shaped door with another two guards by each side; it's not as big as the front door, but it's not that small either.
As we pass through the door, I see all sorts of people walking behind us. 'They seem to be gossiping about me; well, it doesn't matter.'
It seems we are in a corridor; as we continue walking, we pass through a garden that has exotic animals and fruits. 'If I were to compare it to something, it would be heaven.' I think with a stoic face.
At the far end of the corridor, I could see another door the same as the one before in its shape and size, with two guards on each side.
"Please wear your blue slippers," he says while looking at my feet with a strange delight. 'Ughhh!!!' I feel chills running down my spine; I take off my boots and store them in my satchel.
There suddenly was a lot of murmuring from the people behind. 'They really are spoilt children. If simple stuff like this is enough to impress them, then they are stupider than I taught.'
I then take a pair of blue slippers from my satchel and quickly wear them. "*Tsk* In here, esteemed guest." says the man with a frown on his face as the guards open the door.
In front of me was a hall with hundreds, no thousands, of thrones, each adorned with different stones; they were all competing against themselves.
A majority of the thrones were used, while the rest were empty. They all had a great deal of interest in their eyes as they looked at the door.
"We have completed the mission that was given to us and slain a total of 63 wormmanger. 26 large and 37 medium." I said, while looking at the pureborn in front of me, I could feel their eyes on me.
"Did you bring proofs to us, great hunter??" Asked one of the pureborn, "Yes, I did, esteemed hosts." I said as I released all the dead bodies from my pouch.
"Woahh!!!", "So many!!!!", "Where did they all come from!!!" shouts emerged from all onlookers behind and before.
All the pureborn had fascination in their eyes. "As promised, for each large wormmonger, 1500 coins, and for each medium, 1000 coins," said who I presume is Egon Emeros.
"Bring the money!!" he shouted; three slaves came back with a chest brimming with coins. "In there, there are 80,000 coins." Egon continued.
"With all due respect, great ones. But my reward is 76,000; there's mo...", "I would like to ask something of you for the rest." He asked, 'That wasn't a rhetorical question; in other words, he expected me to say yes.'.
"And what might you need of me??" I asked with my right brow up, trying to figure out what he wanted. "Well, I heard you have a Griffin," he answered, "Yes, and??" I asked with a dark look on my face.
'If this is going where I think it is, then I am going to destroy this whole place!!' I shout in my head, 'I have raised Brightnight since he was a cub; I am not going to sell him!!' I continued in my head.
"I would like to..." I ready myself to draw my weapon as he finishes his sentence, "Ride it!!!" he says with stars in his eyes.
My eyes nearly popped out at that. "ride it??" 'do you think Brightnight is your horse to ride it.' I wanted to say it, but the words couldn't come out of my mouth.
"Yes, ride it," he asked again rhetorically, "with all respect, great host." But Brightnight accepts no one as its rider but me, and if you ride him well, he might harm you or much worse." I justify.
"I see. So I can't ride him; then slaves take the 4,000 coins from there." He said with a cold look, 'He wasn't expecting me to say no to his request. Do you think I will let anyone ride Brightnight?'.
"It is done, pureborn," said one of the slaves. I head towards the chest, and with a full swoop, I store it in my coin purse.
"Thank you for the reward, esteemed hosts." I said, 'Stingy bastards!! Not a single added coin!!' I screamed in my head as I left through the door.
'You have so much money!!' *sigh* I thread my fingers through my hair, 'Tomorrow will be a new day.'