Lu PingAn received a call from a stranger, but the moment the caller explained what it was about, he ran even faster than the reporters.
"...Thanks. I really didn't expect the promised payment to arrive so quickly."
Facing this commissioner supposedly sent from the central government, Lu PingAn happily accepted the check, planning to deposit it in the bank right away.
Unlike other Professionals, he supported an entire team. It included not only professional fighters, but also logistics staff, research and development personnel, Factory workers, Beast Tamers, and beasts. His daily expenses were already quite considerable.
The team's main business was Otherworld Exploration, while its side businesses were smuggling and human trafficking. Ahem, trading in otherworldly techniques and specialties, and helping otherworld natives find local work.
His "Rebirth Merchant Guild" was actually no longer small. Including the otherworldly knights still working back on the Homeworld and the local Office Workers employed at the Factory, there were two or three hundred people in total.
Even counting only frontline personnel such as fighters, experts, and logistics staff, there were nearly twenty of them.
The other side of gaining a reputation for strength was, naturally, enormous expenditures.
In other words, if he could not secure a stable income, every day he spent on vacation back on his Homeworld meant massive losses.
"As we should. Without your sacrifices and efforts, we wouldn't have gained an entire world."
"Heh, you're too polite. Given the situation back then, if we hadn't fought with everything we had, we would have been waiting to die."
Lu PingAn glanced at the amount on the check again. Even with his broad experience, it struck him as shocking.
"...Six point seven million Joint Coins. That really is absurd."
Lu PingAn did a quick calculation. If it were converted into East Country