Tales Of The Throne Seekers

Space Flower

Gashna looked at the groups, evaluating the chances of death for each while making adjustments to the member compositions to better ensure the survival of each member. Gashna soon stood before two of the people he found interesting within the expedition. He hadn't seen either of them in combat but his instinct warned him to be warry of the cloaked figure, while he couldn't see through the cultivation of the sliver-haired human.

"I haven't seen either of you in combat but you seem to be confident enough in each of your abilities for it to just be the two of you," searching eyes scanned them pryingly as Gashna's words brought them to the attention of the others.

Noticing the looks of those around them, small muscle twitches, and shinning eyes, they both realized what the Orc before them was hoping to accomplish by drawing them on the center stage they silently cursed in their minds at the sly bastard.

"We are confident in ourselves to look after ourselves yes, thou I wouldn't say that about other people as neither of us seems to play well with others and I'd rather not be slowed down in such an environment," like a chilling wind, Rian's voice froze all the members about to approach them with his statement.

Looks of displeasure soon started to surface on the faces of many within the crowd that directed fierce glares at the two young men standing before them at the implication of them being dead weight.

Not expecting such a response that would turn the crowd against them, Gashna was momentarily frozen but he quickly recovered his wits about himself. Casting a more serious look at the cloaking wearing young man, Gashna considered his options on how to progress, 'this is just a temporary party and will most likely never work together again so they don't need to care for the thoughts of the others, plus as he said weaker ones are dead weight and it's hard to.....'

Gashna's eyes sparkle with delight "you've made yourself clear about why it's just you but do you have so much trust in someone you've only seen a few hours ago and only spoken to for a few minutes. Would having more people in your group serve to restrain each other to lower the chances of backstabbing."

Thirio gave a nod after listening to what Gashna said as he wasn't wrong, it was pretty common for such things to happen when one was out doing missions in dangerous areas such as this. Truly it was a major concern for many people joining large expedition but there were many ways to solve it as such method was Gashna's suggestion; a smirk on his lips Thirio looked over to Rian seeing his pulling a black crystal with golden mist swirling within.

"There's no need for you to worry about that happening between us. A contract has already been formed between us in regards to that problem, with this I hope all your worries have been put to bed," his voice was neither too slow nor fast, it was flat and cold seeming to keep all that could hear at arm's length.

Eyes focused on the black crystal before him Gashna could only accept his defeat as with the contract crystal before him he could no longer try to force the two into taking a portion of people with them.

"Since you've both decided and I have no reason to worry, let's leave it at that. All the other groups are already sorted so let's move out and being our search for the objective and I hope everyone keeps in mind the time you have to reach back to the gathering point."

Hearing voices of affirmation Gashna gave a nod before everyone scattered in random directions to begin their search.

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Tress and shrubs blurred by as Rian led them through the forest towards the location of treasure they sought after. Thirio followed closely while converting and storing the energy he too from the air around them.

"I don't think I really need to say it but as you haven't I will, were being followed, four or five people are following us from quite a distance back," without breaking stride Thirio sent his words to Rian through energy transmission.