Orlando and Hebrew also turned their eyes toward Kyle, eager to hear what good ideas he had.
After all, running around the Ash River Valley region was no solution.
"Greed is common to most living creatures. It can devour a person's reason. If we set things up properly, the Monster Clans will come to us on their own."
"You mean using the same method we used to ambush the Centaurs five years ago," Velin said, realization dawning on him.
"Exactly."
The other three quickly agreed to the proposal and began discussing the details.
Half an hour later, they had drawn up a plan to lure the monsters in: use the several thousand gold coins Velin had on hand as bait and spread rumors of a fake treasure hoard.
Only a little over a hundred men would remain in plain sight, while the other three hundred would hide to avoid scaring their prey off.
The plan went into action the next day.
As the first day of a new year, it was an auspicious start.
First, they would capture a batch of slaves to mine for them, deliberately leave gaps in their security to let a few escape, then tighten the net and wait for the fish to bite.
The two brothers, Orlando and Hebrew, would carry out the plan. Velin only needed to wait for the results.
That evening, just as expected, the familiar voice sounded in his ears again after a nine-month absence.
A super-large gold deposit lay one hundred kilometers north of the underground world connected to the Lake of Star Prayer's Teleportation Array.
Velin was deeply shocked by this news.
By this world's classification, deposits with reserves below one hundred tonnes were small gold deposits, those between one hundred and one thousand tonnes were medium deposits, those