Chapter 70: The New Members
His words made their faces be startled while Lan laughed. "You will get used to this in time," he said before yawning once more, "but we need not to wake up in the morning to do this."
Jim smiled as he turned to Rili. "Thanks for waiting," he said.
"I'm glad you are happy, as other people aren't."
The answer of Rili was mysterious to all but Jim who understood who he was referring to. "Hahaha, let them be for now. I just want you to squeeze them for better deals."
"Count on me for this," Rili excitedly said while the coins he received hours ago was still a lingering memory in his mind.
"Now we will go out there and start hunting down those thieves," Jim said while glancing at his bigger team, "tell me your abilities now," he demanded from the fresh members of his team.
They started to narrate their strengths, abilities and spells. Unlike his old team members, those were considered veterans. All had already participated in many fights and were nourished by their former masters.
What surprised Jim was the fact they didn't all hail from Sandy. Each couple would speak about their common old master before narrating some info about their abilities and spells.
Jim started to memorize their traits with care while his mind finally let go of his excitement about the two spells and started to focus on these knowledge.
Gradually many forms of battles started to take shape inside his mind. After everyone finished, Jim started to explain their plan for the fight.
"We will follow the same plan as before, a main group formed of Bulltors, wizos, Torens, and colders would stay behind with Ashley, Roo, Kro, Rick, Gorden, Pat, and Deno. As for me, Jenny, Lan, the shapeshifters… we will act as the terrified group."
The wizos were those holding staff. Each used one spell but it was so strong that it could rival the wide area abilities of Rick and the two kroaks.
As for Torens, they were those resembling goblins. Jim was surprised to know they excel at defense, as they could delay any incoming attack using a variety of spells like the mud pool, the swamp stamp, and a couple others.
Colders were those fog people who seemed slightly different than the one Jim fought before. They excel best at assassination, but very weak in group fight.
This was the best arrangement he had in mind for them. As for the shapeshifters, despite the old three of his weren't that special at all the other five had stored the shape of one mighty race to use all the time… the phoenix clan.
Those five were the only group here that hailed from the same master it seemed. They knew each other well, and they told Randy, Orand, and Lenor that they could touch their bodies after changing to mimic the phoenix race.
But Jim didn't like this and told the three just to use their already stored giant form from before.
"Are we going to kill one group and return?" Lan yawned again as he asked what he was most interested in.
"Do you have any other lightning ore?" Jim totally ignored his remark as he seriously asked.
"No, yawn."
"What about you?" Jim turned to Jenny to ask.
"Me neither," she shook her head while rubbing her eyes, resisting the urge to yawn as well.
"Can you bring me some lightning and fire ores?" Jim took out one academy coin as he threw it towards Rili's location to vanish the next instant.
"Give me a couple of minutes," Rili disappeared for minutes while Jim stood there in silence watching his old members getting to know the new ones.
They were arranged in main groups where Deno was excited to talk with the five Bulltors, the old three shapeshifters were speaking excitedly with the new group, and the rest were just getting to know each other.
As for him, he was just eyeing this group of his, feeling so blessed to gain such aid on his early steps in the academy. "The first week there will be much exciting," he inwardly laughed as he already imagined himself crushing all the teams who challenged him and gaining fame and wealth out of it.
"Here are the ores you asked for," once Rili appeared, two large piles of ores appeared suddenly in front of everyone.
"Wow, this is such a large amount of ore," Jim laughed while pointing to Lan and Jenny to move and get these ores.
"You asked for ores equal to one academy coin," Rili weirdly said, "didn't you know the market prices for them?"
"In fact… no," Jim embarrassedly laughed before adding, "thanks for the help. Please follow the things still hanging."
"Don't worry, I'm just worried over the angry ones," Rili sighed while speaking again in riddles for others not to understand.
"Just let be on fire for now," Jim smiled before turning to face his team, "let's go. We will act like we are going back to the academy and then we can start our hunt."
"Just a reminder," Rili stopped him as he added, "out there don't try to attack any team on impulse. The teams can't attack you unless they are equal to your grade at the academy or one year higher, but this doesn't apply to you."
Jim got the message as he said to confirm what he understood, "I'm not bound to such a rule, right?"
"Indeed," Rili said, "right now you won't until you start studying in the academy."
"Does this mean everyone out there is an academy disciple?" Deno asked with doubt.
"Well, either current or former disciples," Rili said before adding, "but anyone enters the academy and starts learning there will be bound by that law. As you didn't, you need to be cautious to not cause yourselves much trouble."
"Thanks," Jim said before saying to his team, "let's go."
Rili watched them leaving from the gate before sighing. "Damn, never heard of fresh disciples going out of their own way to attack those gangs. That human… he can't be a human at all!"
He then vanished to keep tracking Jim's business and try to hunt down more clients of his own, hoping he might find a hidden tycoon like Jim out there.