As Reign followed after Dain and entered the main office on top of the castle, he was surprised to see that every other higher-up of the castle was already inside. Raigon, Ilas, Lieara, and 4 more people were currently sitting at the table, two chairs were empty, one for Dain and the other for Reign.
As the two sat down the meeting finally took place. Reign wasn't familiar with the 4 new people present in the office, but soon he found out that they were the ones responsible for logistics and supplies for the fortification. During the battle they were absent as they weren't the ones that had any experience with such things, merely sending a paper that documented all of their resources was enough, but when it came to the spoils of war, they were here in order to try and get more things for their respective department.
"Alright, first let's go over what we have from the battle," Raigon said as he took a long list out of his pocket, the list was made by the logistics department as their men had gone to the battlefield last night in order to get all of the equipment. They didn't partake in the party as unlike the soldiers, their job started only after a battle.
" So, we got 2 132 sets of rank C armor, 22 rank B armor sets, over 2 000 rank C weapons, 24 rank B weapons, and 2 rank A weapons." Upon hearing Raigon's words everybody nodded their heads in agreement, those were the items that they had managed to get, at least those that came in bulk. Other than that there was some jewelry, some items that could be used once or once per day, resources that the fortification might need in order to bolster their defenses further, and more.
The two rank A weapons were not the ones that the two leaders had used during the fight against Reign, they were merely two weapons found on the battlefield, from what they could infer, one was probably in the hands of the vice-leader that Reign had killed.
The poor bastard was probably trying to save the skill it had in order to win against Lieara, or perhaps there was no skill on it and as a result, he was killed by Reign with ease. Even if the weapon had a powerful skill, it was debatable whether or not he would have been able to survive the fight against Reign anyway.
The weapons and spatial rings that Reign had taken from the two leaders were not mentioned during the meeting, he had managed to kill them by himself and they were naturally his. Reign on the other hand didn't really care, the weapons weren't really useful for him, the stuff in the spatial rings even less so.
He merely left some potions that he thought would be useful and decided to give them the rest of the contents. He had transported all of the things from Yufan's spatial ring to the one Sios wore. As he threw the ring on the table he was met with confused looks from the others, upon explaining that he was giving it all to them they were all happy, but also confused.
"I don't need them, you can keep all of it." Reign said as he looked at them, he kept Yufan's ring, not because he needed it, but simply because he didn't want people to know about his inventory. Even if nothing happened because of it, he felt it would be annoying if people were to suddenly ask of him to carry stuff around in the inventory at times. So to make everything easier he simply decided to act as if anything he pulled out of the inventory came from the ring. The inventory luckily had the option to put anything from it into the ring directly without alerting anyone, which was a great function that he would most definitely use a lot in the future.
"Are you sure, even though you don't need them, you can still convert them to contribution points in the logistics department, this way you will get nothing," Raigon said as he looked at Reign who simply shook his head.
"No need, just take it." Reign didn't really feel the need to get more contribution points, he had already gained enough from what he did previously by killing the leaders and all those soldiers. Not to mention the fact that Reign didn't feel the need to get more points as not only would he not be here for that long, if everything went well, but there were also not a lot of things that the kingdom had which would pique his interest.
For example, even though the kingdom had some rank S items, they were all in the hands of the first evolution combatants and the top combatants, there was a slim chance that an outsider such as him would get one from the kingdom. There was simply nothing for the kingdom if they did that, rank S items in the area were rare and could be regarded as the top items, for the kingdom to give one to Reign only for him to later go back to his planet would just make them have less of them.
There was also the possibility of the kingdom lending such an item to Reign, but there was no saying whether Reign would respect that and wouldn't take it with him when going back. Thanks to that he knew that the possibility of him getting any such item without getting it himself on the battlefield was almost zero.
The rest of the meeting went relatively well, the four higher-ups fought for more resources and equipment, each citing their own reason as to why and what would be improved thanks to the influx of resources. Raigon and the others all listened to them patiently before Raigon decided how to distribute the spoils of war.
After that came time for the distribution of weapons and armor, the ones that were somewhat useful for the other departments were given to them, as for the rest, they were now going to decide which troops were going to get what. Lieara, Dain, and Ilas were the ones that debated this time, Lieara was trying to get some weapons for her elite troops as there was no need for any armor pieces, the elite troops already had their own, and more was simply not needed.
Dain wanted a bit of everything, citing that the normal troops were in need of better equipment in order to deal with more powerful enemies that might attack them while Ilas only picked the weapons that would be useful to his men in terms of stealth, assassination and the like.
Thanks to all of them having different needs, this part of the meeting was shorter compared to before, each of them nodded gratefully after hearing what their men were going to receive before everybody stood up. There was nothing else to report or talk about today as they had pretty much gone through everything, as everybody started leaving Raigon suddenly spoke.
"Reign, could you please stay."
"Sure." Reing turned around as the door of the office closed, he was now alone with Raigon and the man simply smiled at him before motioning for him to get closer. Right now the two were looking outside the giant window that was present in the office, from there they had the whole gorge visible to them.
"You." Raigon started speaking before suddenly stopping and looking at Reign straight into the eyes. His expression was quite neutral, Raigon didn't exhibit any fear, anger, joy, or sadness when looking at Reign.
"You know, don't you?"
"What exactly do you mean?"
"I mean both things Reign, and please don't insult my intelligence by lying to me, I saw the way your expression changed when the array was activated, even before that I noticed your look when I was activating the device."
"That's quite impressive."
"Thank you," Raigon said as he turned his head around and stared outside the window.
"I don't really mind, I would simply appreciate it if you would keep it a secret, ther-"
"Alright."
"Huh?"
"I said alright."
"Don't you want to know the reason?"
"No, not really, some things are better left alone, to be honest, not to mention that I have a feeling that the answer will be shown to me in the future anyway."
"Truly, I don't know what to make of you, your strength is excellent, no, even above that, it is probably above even the two we have in the kingdom, even though it looked like you were struggling a bit against those two, I have the feeling that they only managed to make you show the tip of the iceberg."
"You flatter me." Reign smiled warmly at Raigon before switching his gaze to the gorge.
"Not to mention that you also know what to do in the right situation, the way you feigned weakness against those two, how you managed to calm Lieara down immediately, even now, you gave us the ring and managed to improve your figure in the eyes of all of us with one simple action, I have to say, I'm glad that you're on our side."
"As I have said, you flatter me, compared to you, I'm afraid I'm still a bit off." Both the men shared a smile before Reign nodded at Raigon and left the office.
Upon hearing the door close Raigon shook his head and chuckled.
"Interesting, truly interesting."
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