100,000 gold coins!
A brand-new Cork Sailing Ship only cost 25,000 gold coins to build!
Now she was offering the equivalent of four ships as a bounty on one man?
Even Joel Coleman, who had quite a reputation in the Inner Bay, wasn't worth that much, was he?
Edwin thought so to himself, but voiced no objection.
The coachman knew his mistress was informing him, not asking for his opinion, so he bowed in assent.
"Yes, my lady."
With that, the coachman turned and left.
Two minutes later, Uls came in.
Unlike Edwin's open, straightforward manner, the man Malinda had chosen to be her Chief Hunter moved silently, all but slipping in through the shadows along the wall.
"My lady!"
Uls bowed and greeted her softly.
"Use the South Los bounty taverns to post bounties on those fellows in the Inner Bay taverns. Then activate our hidden pawns and post bounties in the bounty taverns of South Los, West Berlin, Einhaas, and Bette Territory on some of the fellows who targeted that person before.
Start the bounties on those fellows at 1,000 gold coins.
For those who targeted that person, start at 10,000 gold coins."
Malinda gave her instructions softly.
"Yes, my lady."
Uls left as silently as he had appeared.
As for "that person"?
Naturally, Uls knew who she meant.
The Count of South Los!
Compared to the attacks on Malinda, the Inner Bay's attacks on the Count of South Los had been truly bloody. Every encounter had involved blades drawn.
To muddy the waters, Malinda certainly didn't mind spending a little extra and taking a roundabout approach.
What?
Was she making the Count take the blame?
No, no, no!
This wasn't shifting the blame.
This was avenging the Count.
*Besides, I only wanted to protect Arthur and take