"What do you take me for? Some raider demon who makes a living robbing other monsters?"
As he spoke, Glargong deliberately raised his voice a few notches, drawing curious looks from nearby passing Goblins.
Babayak twitched his lips, thinking, Isn't that exactly what you are?
Taking advantage of his position to openly demand bribes, squeezing every last drop from anyone who passed by.
If they were really comparing—
He was even worse than those raider demons who lived by the blade yet still followed a code...
"Then what do you want?"
Out of options, Babayak asked with a pained expression.
"I don't want anything." Glargong waved his hand again and said righteously, "Right now, I just want you to stay here obediently and wait for the elders to come judge the matter."
"But I really am in a hurry!" Even Babayak's sparse brows had furrowed into a knot.
"Can't you let me off just this once? Once I finish what I need to do, I'll definitely make it up to you..."
"Let you off?" Glargong put on an uncompromising look that said, I'm going to make things difficult for you no matter what today.
"That would be dereliction of duty!"
"If one moment of softness from me led to the entire settlement being wiped out, I couldn't bear that responsibility!"
The honest Babayak was completely at a loss, so anxious that he paced in circles on the spot.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Glargong casually cleared his throat and said blandly, "Still... I'm a warmhearted person. Usually, I can't stand seeing my own kind run into trouble."
"Just tell me what you need to do in the settlement. Why not have someone take care of it for you?"
Babayak froze and looked at Glargong in disbelief.
"Really?"
"Damn, what