Misfortune is where fortune leans; fortune is where misfortune lies hidden.
Austin, who had recently been studying Earth culture, felt this saying was damn right!
Ever since he had helped Lu Li, one of the Brocade Boots Warriors, and paid a hefty price to commission other members of the Overlord Army to post bounties for the escaped Chen Family higher-ups, his luck had inexplicably improved.
First, he had been assigned an easy post, leading a team to garrison the Zhou Star Zone.
Every day, aside from scheduled patrols, routine surveillance, weeding out troublemakers within the star zone, and handling a few minor, low-risk matters, he could freely use the rest of his time.
It was practically like switching locations for a vacation!
And the key was, he earned no less military merit!
It was even just a tiny bit higher than miserably garrisoning Watchtower Star and patrolling around the perilous Demon Eye.
It was freaking awesome!
He had thought this treatment was already the limit of his good fortune, and that he would soon be knocked back to reality.
But not long after, there was news about the bounty!
The escaped Chen Family higher-ups had shown themselves in the Tempest Domain, and the search area had been narrowed to the Palu Star Belt at the edge of the domain.
However, because the place was remote and belonged to a gray area with tangled factions, the Overlord Army member who had found the trail could not immediately move in to make an arrest.
They could only submit the lead to Austin first and claim part of the reward.
This sort of arrangement was extremely common within the Overlord Army—payment according to work done.
Austin did not mind it at all.
He was even secretly pleased that it had saved him a