Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

It wasn't only silver falcon, literally everyone else exclaimed out in shock, as they never thought this tasty, full of energy meat would be from the monsters they usually hunt everyday.

"Is this real?" Torend asked, with much doubt, and disbelief.

"Yes, brother Torend, this is real," Arthur simply replied, as he waved to Ron, who was standing on the side, hardly holding his laughs.

"Bring more of the meat," Arthur paused as he glanced at them, "do you want more or…" he stopped his question, waiting for their answer.

"Sure, sure, any amount you have just sent to me," Omgalden hurried to say, as Arthur nodded his head to Ron, who went outside, knowing what to do. "Brother Willy, is there any opportunity for this meat to be sold?" Omgalden asked, as he wanted to buy as much of this meat as possible.

"Sure," Arthur simply replied, while eating another piece of the meat, "but it's only available to those who live under my rule," he added, to clarify things, and bringing the topic back to its main course.

"Sure, sure, we need to know more about living here, so we can decided," Torend said.

"Anything you want, just feel free to ask," Arthur acted in such a magnanimous way, showing them his generosity, and letting them express their doubts and thoughts.

"I just heard from brother Omar you want to establish a branch for the bounty hunter guild here, making a strong alliance with this branch, and start working and operating in the area under your jurisdiction, is this correct?" Omgalden was the one to lead the questions, and he seemed to use Omar's card all the time when speaking of something.

"Sure," Arthur nodded, but didn't say anything more.

"May I know what conditions you ask for this branch? What you want from its members?" he asked what he had in mind, after a while of awkward silence.

"I want nothing but loyalty, and not do something to harm my clan's interest," Arthur simply replied.

"You don't require us to provide you with rogue mages for the trip to the academy?" Silver falcon asked, as this was the sensitive point for him.

"No," Arthur shook his head, "I already have more than a thousand mages to choose from," he added, like he said something casual.

"One thousand mages?" Lendy exclaimed with surprise, as her knowledge, and everyone else here, stated that Arthur had at max one hundred mages, mostly acquired from the rogue mages he absorbed under his wing.

"Yes, they are my clan's mages," Arthur said, at the moment Ron entered with a long row of servants carrying wider plates with much more meat on them. they all got silenced by this, as they looked at the meat with passion, like they were in love with it.

"C'mon let's eat together," Arthur said, inviting them to eat first, "Ron, tell me, how many mages do we have now?" he suddenly asked Ron, casually, like it was a normal thing to do.

"Up to date, we have one thousand and four hundred and twenty three mages, clan head," Ron replied while nodding his head. This number freaked the guests out, as this was much more than the number of mages they already brought with them.

The plan they drew together was to bring many mages with them, plant themselves here as the main force, backing Arthur and gaining his trust and support in his clan. This was the only guarantee for them to own a place in the shadows, however now all their preparations were gone.

Arthur read part of their plans already, as he kept his tongue for a while, before saying:

"I know this might seem awkward, but I have to be honest. I need a branch of the bounty hunter guild with the ambition to be a whole entity on its own."

He finally used the card he was holding in hand, and his words managed to attract everyone's attention away from the magical meat.

"What do you mean brother Willy?" Torend faked ignorance, as he asked.

"I mean what I just told you from before, I want to establish an existence above everyone else, new to all the regimes and rules known to this world. To do that, I will need to use a way to control rogue mages, a hunter guild that answers to no one but me.

That's why I'm looking for a branch of the bounty hunter guild to be established inside my lands. As you can see, I already own a huge army of mages, enough to flatten earth, crush any clan, even the black raven clan, and this isn't an exaggeration," Arthur said, before eating a piece of meat, like what he was saying to them was a chit chat talk.

"I want a branch to be led by ambitious and courageous mages, mages who would gain full support from me, to go unbounded by anything, amassing all the rogue mages from anywhere in this world, and ruling them all with fist of iron and loyalty," Arthur added, as his intentions were cleared now in front of everyone.

He finished eating all his meat, and drank a small mouth of the good wine they had in the clan head house, which was a mere bitter tasted useless wine to him, as he looked at them and directly asked:

"Are you the ones I'm looking for?"

At this moment, he wasn't just Willy, the current clan head of the golden lion clan, but he was Arthur, the legendary cultivator from the cultivation world. his domineering aura forced everyone to stop eating, and look attentively at him, while feeling the invisible pressure exerted by him.

"Brother Willy, you are so generous and brave, we sure would love to assign ourselves with you, landing our ship on your shores, and act together towards what you aspire," Omgalden said, declaring finally their submission to him.

Arthur was sure, unless they had a brain damage, they wouldn't reject such a chance. Their biggest fear would be for Arthur to constantly pouch mages from them, but this would be real stupidity. It would be like cutting your own meat to feed your hunger, and eventually you would die.

His magical card, the solution he gave them, and the task he assigned to, had eliminated all their doubts. He didn't want to pouch from them, he wanted to pouch from all the guild branches in this world and any rogue mage he could find.

This way, they would grow and be legendary figures, and he would have his own personal army, with many brilliant mages to fight for him.

This was the best win-win situation he could think of, the best scenario anyone would dream of.

"Good, let's now eat, and after that let's talk about business," Arthur then said, before looking to Ron, "Give all the mages who came with them a warm welcome, and prepare the place for another round of absorption and pets," he instructed Ron, who just nodded silently, before exiting the place.

"Brother Willy, what do you mean by these preparations?" Lendy asked, while looking with her bright eyes to him.

"Oh, it's something nice, consider it a present for striking out this deal," Arthur just said, without revealing anything, but Omar and the two others whispered to them about the importance of such a chance.