“You’re getting paid handsomely,” Zach pointed out.
“Yet I’m still starting to regret it,” Ibak said. He looked towards the sulrothum settlement in the distance. “Incidentally, there is another group of sulrothum incoming. This time from the settlement we were going to visit before this interruption.”
Zorian looked towards the settlement and noticed that Ibak was correct. The local sulrothum did not dare interrupt the ziggurat tribe emissaries while they were talking to Zorian and others, but now that they were gone, the locals seemed to be hurriedly assembling their own emissary group to intercept the humans.
“Are we still going to talk to them about allying against the ziggurat tribe?” Ibak asked.
“I don’t see why not,” Zach said, shrugging. “There is no guarantee that the high p
