The fighting outside had done nothing to disturb the bustle inside the Harvest Tavern.
Seeing Qin Ran return, the Lone Wolves raised their glasses in greeting.
They would not ask what he had gone off to do.
Even if they knew about the fighting outside and were intensely curious, that would not change.
Every place had its rules.
Inside the Harvest Tavern, the rule among the Lone Wolves was to rein in unnecessary curiosity.
Qin Ran nodded in acknowledgment, accepted the free lemonade Lawless handed him, then went around the bar and headed toward the tavern's small lounge.
"A good haul?"
Rachel looked at Qin Ran as he returned and asked him outright.
"Yes."
"It was what I deserved."
"Just like the appropriate payment I'm getting from you."
Qin Ran nodded, reminding the tavern owner of the payment she owed him.
"Money-grubber!"
The tavern owner snorted.
Qin Ran shrugged, utterly unfazed.
With Lawless around, he was not worried about the tavern owner going back on her word, but that did not mean he would give up his right to remind her and hurry her along.
A money-grubber?
By any measure, that was true.
But what was wrong with that?
The miser had always treated it as one of his guiding principles.
"Do you want Points?"
"Or tiered items?"
"Or information?"
The tavern owner asked.
"Information."
Qin Ran answered without hesitation.
With Bakel's "assistance," he was not short on Points.
The same went for items.
Unless they were something truly special.
But Qin Ran believed that if Rachel had any truly special items she could part with, she would already have offered them as payment for inviting him here, rather than giving him three choices.
Information was therefore the best option.
Besides, the information he had obtained from Rachel had proven