"Yesterday's matter?"
Fang Li raised an eyebrow slightly.
Aureolus spoke with extreme calm.
"Because of you, we paid quite a price to settle yesterday's disturbance. If calculated as compensation, you would need to work for one thousand three hundred sixty-five years, eight months, and fourteen days to fully repay our losses."
Hearing that, Fang Li narrowed his eyes slightly.
What a guy.
The chairman of the General Council was actually planning to use this method to force him into some degree of compromise?
Compensation?
If he truly had to compensate them in the way Aureolus described, that would simply be impossible, wouldn't it?
Then Aureolus must have intended for Fang Li to do something of equal value.
In other words, he intended to have Fang Li work for him.
At that, Fang Li smiled faintly and said this.
"If I'm not mistaken, the reason Aureolus, that Rune Mage, came looking for me seems to have been your arrangement, Chairman?"
Fang Li's implication was simple.
"I cooperated with your arrangements and resolved the incident. Now that it's been resolved, you want me to pay for the losses incurred during it. Isn't that a little disheartening?"
As Fang Li spoke, his tone abruptly shifted. As though he had remembered something important, he suddenly came to a realization.
"Come to think of it, this incident can also be considered me working for you, Chairman. And it seems I haven't received my payment yet, have I?"
Fang Li instead demanded compensation of equal value from Aureolus.
That seemed to make Aureolus fall silent for a moment.
However, the silence did not last long.
Almost in the very next second, Aureolus spoke.
"Then, if I am willing to pay you, would you be able to accept any job?"
The meaning behind those words did not