Role

Chapter 10

Viera has grown to the 34th title. She has also managed to accumulate 100
gold coins in the bank, which turned out to be a fairly simple feat. She
has also found that it is equally simple to spend those 100 gold coins.
This small and simple fact is a good analogy for how she has matured in
her thoughts and desires. Older, stronger, and wiser now, she has quite
drastically adjusted her goals.

First, magic and knowledge is paramount. Gaining her 100 gold coins was
very simple upon correct application of the Summon spell taught by her
guild. She would travel to a new city, and summon creatures with valuables,
slay them, and sell those valuables to the shops in the city. A few trips
was all it took to make 100 coins. It turns out, that knowledge and
personal power could easily bring great wealth as she desired.

Second, a successful adventurer has great resources. There is no need to be
stingy with her own resources. Now, Viera will frequently eat expensive
gourmet meals whenever she is in a group with others, to make a casual
display of wealth and confidence in something as trivial as choice of food.

Third, titles and possessions are flimsy and somewhat illusory. She has
seen supposedly high-ranking or wealthy individuals easily slain by might
and magic. This has dampened her level of respect for grand-sounding
titles and the illusions of high positions in a hierarchy. But her
ambition to be truly feared and respected is still in force.

Her initial fear of Daran Frostspear's retribution has now vanished.
Though she had left her post, it seemed from her parents' letters that no
one had even noticed the absence of a lowly, unwanted grunt in the Black
Sect. For all of Daran's grandstanding, it seemed there would be no
personal attention from him... as it always had been. Regardless, Viera
had seen adventures far beyond what she had ever dreamed. She had been
hunted by keen, quick, lethal adventurers who could pursue her across the
whole stretch of Thera. She no longer fears Daran Frostspear. She knows
that she would be capable of overcoming him should it come to that.