Porter

"Lin Fan, can you come and help over here?" The team leader called out to me.

When I heard this, I immediately looked up and waved my hand while saying, "Got it! I'll be there right away!"

Then I dropped off the monster corpse that I had been carrying and walked over to the team leader.

In front of the team leader and several other members of the team was a large orc.

This orc was much bigger than any of us, so naturally it took a lot of us to carry.

In fact, this orc was even bigger than normal orcs, which was why it took so many of us.

"One, two, three!"

On three, all of us suddenly lifted the orc up and we carefully carried it onto the butchering table. Once we set it down, the butchers grabbed their knives and set off to work while we headed off to carry the next load of monsters.

The team leader came over and slapped me on the back as he said while laughing, "Lin Fan, you really are something else! When others join our team, they always slack off, but you're just always ready to work and help others! It'd be great if you could work for us forever."

I just nodded with a smile on my face and just casually responded with a few polite words.

The work that he was talking about was as a porter.

That was the part time job that I had taken.

Porters were those that carried monsters or drops for Awakeners after hunts.

It was a very important support job, but since porters didn't fight, or rather most porters weren't able to fight, people looked down on them.

Still, the porter job was a well paying one since it was still working with monsters and there was a factor of risk to it. Unless one was given proper compensation, there wouldn't be that many people who would be willing to take this job.

However, this was a job that only required physical strength, so anyone was allowed to do it. Even those that didn't awaken or those that had terrible skills like me were allowed to take this job.

It all depended on how hard one worked.

As we walked over to the next batch, the leader put his hand over his eyes to block the sun before looking at the pile of orcs that were in front of us. He gave a sigh before saying, "Those Awakeners really don't hold back at all. They don't care about us porters and just tell us what to do. It seems like we have another day of overtime ahead of us."

After he said this, the other porters on our team all gave a sigh.

Seeing this, the team leader said, "Alright, alright, let's not complain. At the very least, we'll get overtime pay and I'll make sure to get some proper takeout for everyone."

When they heard this, the porters all revealed excited looks as they cheered for the team leader.

I also looked at the team leader with a look of admiration.

In the week that I've been on this job, I've seen many different teams of porters and team leaders.

The team leaders of the other teams were completely different from our team leader.

Some of them just kept their heads down and did their jobs without caring about their team. Others let their positions as team leaders go to their head and they started looking down on their subordinates, acting just as badly as the Awakeners.

The former was better than the latter, but those teams were not good to work for. 

I had seen the bitter looks on the faces of the members of those teams, it was clear that they didn't enjoy working here. The only reason they didn't quit was because they needed the money, so they sucked it up and worked hard even if they weren't appreciated.

We were about to go pick up another orc corpse when a voice suddenly said, "Yo, look at all of these bottom feeders here. They're just collecting scraps from the monsters that we killed."

When we heard this, our team members knitted their brows.

But the team leader revealed a smile as he turned to the one that spoke and said, "Sir Awakener, it's an honour to talk to you."

The young man who was in tank armour looked down at the team leader from the pile of orc corpses and said, "Ha, look at that smile. I bet I could cut off one of his arms and he would still thank us."

The other young Awakeners who were with him all started laughing at this.

I could see that it wasn't just me who was getting angry, but all of our team members endured this. The team leader also just gave a small laugh to go along with this young man.

The young tank suddenly jumped down from the pile of orcs and landed in front of the team leader. He pulled his sword out of his sheathe and then brought it up so that it was right above the team leader's right shoulder.

With a smile, the young tank said, "How about we test it out? Let's see if he still keeps laughing if I actually cut his arm off."

The other awakeners kept laughing at this, but the team leader couldn't keep laughing anymore. After all, it was his arm that was being threatened right now.

The team leader wanted to say something, but the young tank just threatened him with the sword when he was about to say something. It was as if he did say something, the young tank wouldn't hesitate to cut off his arm.

So the team leader could only remain silent.

The young tank was about to do something, but before he could, there was a cold voice that said, "What do you think you're doing?"

When the Awakeners heard this, they immediately jolted before turning in the direction the voice came from.

There was a beautiful young girl with long blue hair and piercing blue eyes standing there with a frown on her beautiful face.