Chapter 39: The Dragons Attack
What kind of plan? Boris's move was all planned? Lin Qian recalled the scene when he met Boris on the night of the auction, did he have an improvised idea or had a plan?
Such a note made Lin Qian pay attention to Boris and the Welsh family again, and their plan made Lin Qian wonder if they might be behind the scenes.
However, because of the accident of the merchant's robbery, Lin Qian also had doubts about the mercenary's ability. Especially for this kind of escort mission, there are many unexpected situations, and if the average magician is not capable, it is likely to cause a situation where the task cannot be completed. Each mercenary should have a standard to measure his own strength, according to which he can accept the task within his ability, so as to ensure the success of the mission.
So next, Lin Qian envisioned that each task should be marked with a level, and each mercenary should also have a level, and those with a lower level could not take on a high-level task, and the evaluation task level and mercenary level should be assessed by the Magic Guild.
The simplest tasks, such as the first task to collect the hides of the wolf, should be an E-level mission, which anyone can do, and after completing it, the mercenary's level will be upgraded to E-level. Then the E-rank mercenary can go to D-class tasks, such as obtaining the horns of a unicorn monster, completing a D-class mission, and raising the mercenary level to D-class. By analogy, mercenaries can only do tasks one level higher than their own level at most, unless it is a task to hand in items, as long as there are materials, they can hand in at will.
At present, the number of tasks is small, and there are not many tasks for mercenaries to upgrade their levels, but Lin Qian is not short of money now, and he can release some tasks to hunt beasts and hand in items on his own, and try to ensure that there are tasks from A to E. As for higher missions than A-class, it depends on whether anyone is willing to cause trouble.
As soon as Lin Qian told Clausen about his idea, he immediately got the latter's approval. Clausen felt more and more that Lin Qian would run the Magic Guild well.
Lin Qian didn't use some rules and regulations to bind those mercenaries, or even the staff of the guild, the only thing he used to maintain these people was money. If you know magic, then you can come to the Magic Guild to create wealth, and everything else can be avoided. It seems that the whole guild is scattered, but in fact, as long as there is enough pay, these mercenaries will swarm like ant colonies, and the goals will be uniform.
Clawson quickly conveyed the idea of mission levels, and a row of missions soon appeared on the bulletin board, and the rules board in the lobby also detailed the mission levels and mercenary levels. Each mercenary, after completing the task, will have their own magic identification card, recording their name and level, this card is free of charge, and the information on it cannot be modified. After completing the mission, take your card to the lobby and exchange it for a higher-level card to determine your level.
Naturally, low-level cards are just ordinary pieces of cardboard, C-level is replaced by bronze cards, B-level is replaced by silver cards, and A-level is replaced by gold cards, and all the information on them is burned by the guild's internal personnel, and if it is modified again, it will be invalid. As for the S-class or even the SS-class above the A class, no one knows yet.
There are currently 7 missions neatly posted on the mission bulletin board: Rank E - turn in the skin of the wolf, Rank D - turn in the horns of the unicorn behemoth, Rank C - kill a bandit outside the Blue City and hand in the token to enter the cottage, Rank B - defeat the Flame Behemoth in the forest outside the Flame City and turn in the crystal nucleus, Rank A - find the dragon's hiding place, Rank S - take the head of the Magic Guild Master Lin Rank, SS rank - take the head of Princess Elena of the Blue Empire.
Almost all levels of tasks already exist, and mercenaries need to do tasks of the corresponding level if they want to level up, but fortunately, these tasks do not need to be accepted, as long as they are completed, they will be directly upgraded to the corresponding level. And these tasks are just to make a foundation for the success of the subsequent external tasks, as for whether someone can complete it, it is not within the scope of Lin Qian's consideration.
"I know the whereabouts of the dragon, I was there the other day and heard a roar similar to that of a dragon. A middle-aged man hurried to the window and whispered.
"Hello, we need to confirm," the staff inside said with a smile, "We will arrange for a few magicians to accompany you in a while, and if it does exist, we will pay you accordingly, a total of 200 gold coins." ”
"Okay," the middle-aged magician couldn't hide his excitement, "you go and arrange someone!"
"Okay, wait a minute. The staff smiled slightly and explained to the people behind him.
Lin Qian soon got the news, he had never seen a giant dragon, but he heard that it was a treasure, and someone had killed a giant dragon in history, and it was the result of the joint efforts of dozens of magicians. The number of dragons is scarce, and it is too difficult to find its traces alone, and if you can escape if you see it, it is also a manifestation of ability, so it is not too much to set this mission as A-class.
"Dragon, dragon, keep your eyes open......," Lin Qian asked while humming a song, "Clausen, do you think this is true?"
After all, Lin Qian didn't know the habits of the dragon, and it was difficult to tell whether this news was true or false. Clausen has a wealth of experience, and he also knows some habits of the dragon in some ancient books, and his judgment should not be wrong: "If you can hear the roar of the dragon, it means that you have entered the territory of the dragon, and the dragon will be aware of it, but it is extremely difficult to escape." I think the man must have misheard, or just lied. ”
"Let's go and take a look, you arrange a few masters to go on a trip, if you really find something, then you will make a lot of money." Lin Qian still has a bit of a fluke mentality, and would rather believe in it than believe in it.
"Well, after all, it's a mission we issued, and if that person is lying, it's not too late to clean him up. Although Clawson didn't have much hope, he also decided to verify it, and now he obeyed Lin Qian's orders.
Clausen's side arranged for six ninth-level magicians to follow him to the land of dragons, all of whom were top strength. This is only the vanguard force, if this is true, the six mages will hold back the dragon, and then send a signal to the headquarters, and then send the master to support.
The middle-aged magician who led the way claimed to be Raymond, and according to the man, the dragon's habitat was hundreds of miles south of Azure City. It's full of swamps, and there are no big roads in between, only the footsteps of a few adventurers have reached it. The swamp goes further south to the southernmost point of the continent. Generally speaking, if you want to think of the south coast, you have to go around this area from the east and west, and you have to watch out for wild beasts in the swamp from time to time to feed.
The closest city to this area is the aforementioned Flame City, which is mostly plain to the north to the Blue City, with a few forests scattered and muddy swamps to the south. Flame City, named because of the hot and dry climate, so it will attract many flame beasts to inhabit nearby, but in the swamp not far from here, the climate gap is unusually large, with a lot of rainfall, high humidity, and high temperature, resulting in a dense lake and river in this area, forming a swamp.
There is a portal from the blue city to the flame city, several people are magicians, and they can learn this kind of teleportation spell as soon as they learn it, and after Elena's approval, several people entered the portal and teleported directly to the flame city.
Raymond passed through the portal and knew that the relationship between the president of the Magic Guild and the princess was really unusual, not to mention that the princess didn't care about the bounty posted by the princess, and the princess who was able to enter the portal this time actually agreed, you must know that the portal has never been open to outsiders.
"Do you remember the road you had last time?" several magicians became suspicious of Raymond as soon as they entered the swamp.
"I remember, it's just that there are no conspicuous signs here, and I'm afraid I can't figure it out for a while. Raymond cautiously replied that he was the worst in magic, and he didn't dare to offend any of them.
"How far is it from here?" a few people paused to ask first.
"It's not far, and I don't dare to go in when it's deep. Raymond smiled wryly.
"Alright, let's fly over when it's not far away. One suggested.
"Well, this guy can't fly, let's take turns taking him for a while. "Flying through with wind magic is obviously much faster than walking in the mud.
Before Raymond could object, he was taken into the air by one of them and flew straight south.
"You're heavy!" grumbled the magician with Raymond as he struggled to cast his spell.
"No, substitution!"
It didn't take long for the man to be unable to support it, and seeing that he was about to fall behind, he hurriedly asked for a replacement, and finally complained: "What did you eat to grow up?"
After rotating six people like this, they arrived at the jungle that Raymond had described.
"There seems to be a lake inside, do you think the dragon will be in it?" A magician had just come down from the sky, and the trees were so tall and dense that only a circular lake in the jungle could be seen from the sky.
"It's almost there, the last time I heard the roar of a dragon near that lake. Raymond seemed anxious to explore inside, urging the group to hurry to their way.
"Don't worry, since you've arrived at the place, you'd better rest before you go in, don't get caught up by the dragon inside. "The six of them took Raymond to fly a lot, and their mental strength was weak at this time, and if they went in, they would really die in the mouth of the dragon.
"I said, why are you so heavy?" asked the wind mage of the six, if it was to fly, he must be the most relaxed, but he still found it difficult to fly.
"Hey," Raymond smiled awkwardly, "usually eat a little too much." ”
"What do you usually eat? I see you're not fat. ”
"The main thing is to eat wild beasts, especially some large beasts, and you will be almost full after eating a few. Raymond's voice became gloomy, and the content of his words also frightened several people.
"Sometimes I'm bored, and occasionally I want to go out to eat a few people to satisfy my hunger. Raymond opened his mouth, but it was full of fangs.
"What kind of monster are you?" the six men stepped aside and hurriedly signaled.
"Monster? don't you want to find my traces? Why don't you know me when you see me?" Raymond opened his arms and roared, and in the blink of an eye, he swelled dozens of times, turning into a lizard-like monster with two horns on his head, wings on his back, thick hind limbs, and short forelimbs.
"Dragon?" The six magicians were horrified, it turned out that this was a trap, and this guy was a dragon at all.