Osvid's terms were extremely tempting. The advantages of that territory had been mentioned before. Though it had never been particularly fertile land, its uniquely favorable acquired conditions had made it almost the wealthiest place on the entire continent. In the past, its lords had even been too lazy to collect poll taxes and other miscellaneous levies from the people within the territory. Compared to the generous tolls and commercial taxes, there was hardly any profit to squeeze from those impoverished commoners.
Now that Osvid was handing this golden goose over to him, Solam was naturally tempted. Though Solam was already very wealthy, who would ever complain about having too much money?
Of course, Solam could tell that Osvid had a reason he could not avoid for being so generous. And this reason absolutely could not be allowed to reach Chalanona's ears. A secret worth such a high price from Osvid was certainly no simple matter. At the very least, it definitely involved a powerful undead creature. After all, Kirlis's Monster Staff's greatest function was its ability to bind an undead creature to its wielder's service regardless of level or strength.
However, Solam was not particularly curious about it. He was no world police; what the hell did it have to do with him if someone was controlling undead? If something really went wrong later, there would naturally be plenty of people to deal with it. There was no need for Solam to worry about it.
Seeing that Solam was tempted, Osvid was exceptionally straightforward. He directly took out a blank high-level magical contract, one witnessed by the very source of magic itself. This was an extremely precious item. At least, Solam had never seen a physical copy of one on the Material Plane, only records of it in certain magical