Rex found a seat, sat down, and began carefully reading the book in his hands.
The gnome really was an old hand at this. At his first glimpse of the book, Rex was astonished. How many people like him must the gnome have received to compile a book like this?
The number had to be at least in the hundreds. The surprise flashed through Rex's mind, then faded as he began studying the book.
It did address quite a few of the questions Rex wanted to ask. He had only glanced through it, and of course it could not answer every single question he had, but it could easily resolve most of them.
The first question compiled in the book was precisely the one that interested Rex most at the moment.
How could he recruit Heroic individuals?
That was the heading of the first question. Why had Rex come to this Tavern? To have a drink?
That was absolutely out of the question.
A single drink in this Tavern cost more than Rex could spend on drinking in an entire year.
It amounted to several hundred gold coins. If Rex had not had a purpose of his own, why would he have come here?
Naturally, Rex had come here for exactly what this question described: to recruit Heroic individuals.
He began reading it word by word. The rules for recruiting Heroic individuals in this Tavern had changed considerably from those of the old Tavern. These Heroic individuals were not lifeless things, but living people. To recruit them, he naturally had to appeal to them. It was like negotiating terms: once he persuaded them to sign a contract of their own free will, he could recruit them.
At first glance, this seemed extremely simple, much simpler than before. Entering this Tavern