The cats thoroughly exchanged opinions. (Mostly Cat Lina talking.)
The Storm Lord Cat of Thunder Valley and the Mist Immortal Lord Cat of Xue Nan Giant Cat Territory held a friendly exchange and reached an agreement. (Storm Giant Meow had been bought off with fishery products.)
In the end, they reached a treaty of mutual assistance. (Storm Giant Meow had been hired.)
At the price of one modest middle-class salary per giant cat (ten thousand a month counted as modest middle-class), plus a daily reward of three barrels of Golden Tree ghee for each giant cat, Jiang Han hired fifteen giant cats, including Cat Doyastin herself, from the legendary Storm Giant Cat Lord Doyastin.
Scratch, scratch, scratch...
Jiang Han set down her pen, glanced at the mission reimbursement form, and felt slightly pleased.
Even if secret missions left no records, expense forms still had to be retained. That was a legitimate right. These were items that needed to be recorded and filed away, preserved in the Witch Agency's secret database as proof.
If it was simply marked as [Secret Mission, No Records], then the witches might use [No Such Document Exists] to disregard any subsequent consequences and reimbursements.
Thus, in order to safeguard the rights of secret workers—and the witches' credibility—the Witch Agency kept files on every commission, including secret commissions (sealed and unopened). Though they trusted Angelite completely, the best kind of trust one could give a person was [Never Test Others].
"A total of one hundred and fifty-six Cat Gold Claw Marks, around ten barrels of oil per giant cat." (Roughly three hundred thousand yuan.)
Jiang Han blew on the form, fully satisfied.
She had not filled it out arbitrarily. Instead, she had calculated the order share granted to Cat Doyastin's territory according to commodity prices. In other