<h4>Chapter 65: The yers’ Negotiation Strategy is the Best in the World!</h4>


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    After Croakatoa shrank in the corner, everyone in the conch house returned to the topic.


    “Since you talked about the dry-skinned that attacked us, then you should know something right?” The vige elder asked, his cheeks puffed as he stared straight at V.


    “Those people that attacked you are the bandits of the Society of the Secret Eye. They found a sea route, and want to conquer this tidal t to change it into a harbor to allow them to smuggle their way to the Western Continent.”


    It wasn’t ssified information in the first ce, so she told the elder the information about the enemy.


    “We are the adventurers from the town outside the Valley of the Tragic Dead. We’ve had some small conflicts with the Society of the Secret Eye too, so we can help you.”


    “It isn’t like you dry-skinned to be so generous.”


    The vige elder didn’t rush to agree or decline, seeming to understand the psychology of humans quite well. He didn’t believe that V and party would help them battle against their own race for some ‘small conflicts’.


    It was true that in this era before education was widely spread, most humans didn’t have the ability to see the big picture and acted mostly on their urges. And so, most demi-human races looked at humans as the most selfish and greedy race in the world.


    This was a world led by deities and gods after all, and leaving aside the deities that weren’t bound by mortalws, most church leaders like popes and archbishops as well as the monarchy that were at the top of the pyramid didn’t want any insurgents popping out from themoners that could affect their rule. And so, they all worked together to restrict education and make themoners foolish and easy to control.


    This was also the reason why in a world of magic and divine arts, with much greater development potential than Earth would maintain in such a medieval era after so many years.


    As V was thinking about how to make the frogmen trust her, Joe who had been sitting on the floor until his legs were numb shouted indignantly. “Enough of all this chat, just say what we have to do for you to believe us! Is it enough if I kill myself for the cause?!”


    “Heh, you’re just a cowardly dry-skinned, you wouldn’t kill yourself...” Croakatoa who was picking at his toenails with a conch spear at a side croaked andughed out.


    Hearing the frogman say this, Joe jumped up from the floor, and ignoring the kelp around his wrists, he ran over to Croakatoa and snatched away his conch spear.


    Croakatoa was so terrified that his deep green skin became pale, but his first reaction was to block the vige elder from any harm.


    Contrary to his expectations, Joe didn’t attack Croakatoa or the vige elder, instead stabbing the conch spear into his chest without any hesitation, spurting out blood from his mouth as he scoffed. “This is nothing! I’ll die for you right now!”


    After he said this, he pulled out the spear and blood spurted out from his wound like a fountain, sshing all over the ce. The extremely gruesome scene even scared the two frogmen guards next to him.


    Not only the young frogmen guards, but even the vige elder that had lived an extremely long life was shocked by this action of his. Since when did humans be such a courageous race?!


    Everyone in the room waited for a while to realize that Joe still hadn’t died, and his wounds even seemed to be closing up and healing.


    “F*ck, my HP is too high, lemme...” Joe realized the reason why he hadn’t died yet. Even though he impaled his heart, this attack of his that would have definitely killed a regr person didn’t make him die under the protection of thews of the game system. Even though it was a critical hit because it hit his vitals, he still had a lot of HP left.


    And so, under the petrified gaze of the two frogmen, he cursed and attacked himself with the spear again, spearing himself through the throat this time.


    “F*ck, I can finally die...”


    After saying this, Joe died with an extremely satisfied expression on his face.


    For a while, the entire conch house was filled with an ominous silence.


    The yers and the frogmen looked at each other for a while, before the silence was broken by Gou Dan, unable to stifle hisughing anymore.


    “Hah!”


    Gou Dan’s reaction was quick, however, and he immediately acted as if nothing had happened, looking around at the scenery. Granted, there was nothing much to see in the room.


    Croakatoa looked at Gou Dan with an appalled expression. This dry-skinned must have borrowed many salted fish from the one that died and was severely in debt, or else he wouldn’tugh after his ownrade died!


    He had guessed that these dry-skinned were acting dead to trick them, but Joe’s chest and throat had definitely been impaled thoroughly by the spear, and his heartbeat and breathing had all stopped. From every sign, it was clear to see that he was dead, but Croakatoa felt as if something was wrong...


    “Fine, we ept your sincerity.”


    Seeing that Gou Dan was trying his hardest to hold in hisugh, V quickly talked with the vige elder, trying to seal the deal. “Let’s talk about how we should work together.”


    “Uhm, shouldn’t you take care of yourrade’s corpse first?” The vige elder asked, confused by the entire situation.


    Seeing his reaction, he already seemed open to the idea of working together with the yers. After all, Joe had already sacrificed himself to prove their honesty, so he was scared that if he hesitated any more, the party of humans would all kill themselves in a heartbeat.


    Those enemies of the Society of the Secret Eye had already been a lot for the frogmen to handle, so if these humans that called themselves adventurers that could even kill themselves without any hesitation attacked them too, the frogman tribe would probably go instinct...


    “Ah, that...” V didn’t know how to deal with Joe’s corpse either.


    Was she supposed to tell them that the corpse of the yers would naturally disappear after a day if no revival spell was cast on them?


    “Why don’t you unbind us and let us drag him out?” Edward immediately spoke up, seeing this situation.


    It was actually alright to let the frogmen drag him out, but first of all Edward wanted to test out how much they cooperated with them, and second of all....They all really wanted tough.


    And so, Croakatoa took the conch spear that Joe had used to kill himself to cut the kelp around the yers’ wrists, unbinding them.


    Under the supervision of Croakatoa, the party dragged Joe’s corpse out of the conch house, while V stayed in the room to converse with the vige elder about how they should work together.


    Seeing that Croakatoa was there, the other frogmen didn’t think much of the yers’ actions.


    Once Croakatoa went back to the conch house, Edward and Gou Dan burst out inughter.


    “Bwahaha Joe is such a dumb*ss! I almost died holding in myughter!”


    “Don’tugh, he used his own life to pave the way to a peaceful future...Hahaha, sorry, I can’t continue anymore, it’s too funny!”


    The merryughter coupled with the brutally killed corpse attracted all the attention of all the frogmen in earshot...