"Ugh, what a pair of deadbeats."
He tossed the two money pouches in his hand and weighed them. They looked like they contained more than a hundred coins, but most of them were silver coins, and there were fewer than ten gold coins in total.
But when he thought about it, they were still unexpected gains. His powerful bow had only cost a little over ten gold coins. For two people below the Professional Rank to be carrying this much money while traveling was already pretty good. It seemed their professions were quite lucrative.
"What? You're really willing to give me this money?"
After completing the exchange in the woods and obtaining the benefits, Xuan Ye still couldn't resist needling the two men with a few malicious remarks.
Clearly, as two old hands who had spent years scraping by, the bruised and battered pair knew when to advance and when to retreat. Although their faces had been beaten nearly out of shape, they still forced out ugly, obsequious smiles.
"Not at all, not at all. This is what we ought to offer you. If you hadn't saved us from that Corrupted Gnoll, we would be dead. What's this little bit of money compared to that?"
Hearing such shameless words all of a sudden, even Xuan Ye felt his face grow hot. Damn, they can do that?
As a young man raised under the red flag, Xuan Ye still retained many of his old habits despite occasionally indulging in some malicious fun. If these two hadn't been so aggressive and threatened him, he wouldn't even have thought of taking their purses. It was his first time doing something like this, and he had felt a little awkward about it. Yet this Forest Ranger had even come up with an excuse for