Chapter 21: Fengyuan Town

The stage of the story, the Absolute God Continent is divided into four continents, which are named the Eastern Regions, the Western Ying, the Southern Continent, and the Northern Wilderness. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the continent where the wind and dust are located is the Eastern Continent among the four continents. In the extreme south of the Eastern Continent, there is an endless forest, and because it is so vast, it is said that no one can reach its end. In fact, not many people enter this forest, just because in this forest, there are countless magical beasts living in it. From the first-order demonic beasts to the demonic beast lords who rule a domain, all of them are entrenched in it.

Of course, the existence of the Demon Beast Lord, which is comparable to that of the Venerable, will only be active in the depths of the forest, and most of the demonic beasts that operate on the periphery of the forest are below the third order, and they are basically only active in the forest, and rarely leave the forest to enter the human habitation. Therefore, there is a small town on the outskirts of such a dangerous forest.

The town is called Fengyuan Town, and the total area is about the size of 1,000 acres, which is not big or small. The population of Fengyuan Town is about 10,000 people, which can only be said to be almost appropriate, and it does not seem crowded, but the population is nearly 10,000 people, and the crowd of people in Fengyuan Town is not only this number, but there are at least thousands of mercenaries operating here. Because the town is geographically close to the Warcraft Forest, in such a remote town, it is also fortunate to have the existence of a mercenary guild, which is something that only cities have, and explains why there are so many mercenaries here.

Speaking of the Mercenary Guild, it can be said that everyone in the entire Absolute God Continent knows about it, and no one knows about it. If the Mercenary Guild is regarded as a force, then there is no suspense, the Mercenary Guild is the number one force in this Absolute God Continent, and it is a force of this level that rules the entire continent. Almost all the cities in the Absolute God Continent have branches of the Mercenary Guild, and there is no doubt that each branch is one of the top forces in the city, and its strength is self-evident.

Why is the mercenary guild's power so huge? The reason is actually very simple, just because the number of mercenaries in the mercenary guild accounts for more than half of the number of cultivators in the Absolute God Continent. In other words, one out of every two cultivators is a mercenary. There is no other force that has reached such a level of cultivators.

Of course, having said that, although more than half of the cultivators have mercenary status, the number of cultivators who are truly affiliated with the Mercenary Guild cannot be so large. Moreover, in essence, the Mercenary Guild is just a platform for communication between cultivators, practitioners in need publish tasks, pay the corresponding remuneration to the person in charge of the Mercenary Guild, and the Mercenary Guild collects a part of the intermediary fee, and then publishes the task for other practitioners to receive, and after completing the task, they receive the remuneration provided by the publisher, as well as a certain amount of mercenary points. Speaking of mercenary points, this is another system of the Mercenary Guild, the mercenary point system, which comes entirely from the mercenary guild's own welfare system.

The mercenary point system, on the one hand, is to distinguish the contribution made by mercenaries to the mercenary guild, that is, the amount of tasks completed. Generally speaking, the higher the points, the higher the level of the mercenary, although it has no substantive effect, but it can grow some face, after all, this is the era of mercenaries for all, the mercenary level is high, and they can also hold their heads high when they go out.

On the other hand, it is also a way for the Mercenary Guild to maintain its own operation: the tasks are divided into different levels of tasks according to the difficulty, and the original reward is provided by the publisher himself, while the points are judged by the Mercenary Guild and different points are awarded for each task.

When the points reach a certain level, the mercenary level will also rise, and if you want to take on advanced tasks, you must meet the standard of your own mercenary level. After all, if the task fails, the mercenary himself does not need to compensate for anything, and he has not been paid, and the person may die in the process of the task, and the employer will naturally not go to the mercenary, but only the mercenary guild behind it, and the mercenary guild will have to compensate the employer for the loss, which will outweigh the loss.

In order to avoid this from happening, the Mercenary Guild chose this method. The more advanced the task, which means that the task is more difficult, and the higher the strength required. Because every time you raise a level, the points of the task increase exponentially, and no matter how many low-level tasks a low-level mercenary does, they may not be as good as a high-level mercenary in the end. In this way, it is difficult for people with low strength to become high-level mercenaries, and naturally it is difficult to get in touch with those dangerous missions.

All in all, as a communication platform for cultivators, the Mercenary Guild is very powerful, otherwise it would not be able to unify the cultivators of the entire continent and connect them through itself. But on the other hand, it is almost harmless, because it has transcended and become a kind of organization that is beneficial to most cultivators, not to mention low-level cultivators, even Venerable-level cultivators often haunt the mercenary guild and take on some **-level tasks to earn materials or other things that they urgently need.

There is too much to say about the Mercenary Guild, so I will stop here for the time being and add them one by one in the future.

Why did you want to set up a mercenary guild branch in Fengyuan Town? The reason is naturally to be close to Fengyuan Town, this boundless Warcraft forest. Where demonic beasts grow, there are often countless elixirs growing, and all kinds of treasures and materials are buried. With such a big market, how could the Mercenary Guild let it go?

And these thousands of mercenaries, except for a few people brought by the mercenary guild itself, most of them are aborigines of Fengyuan Town, and they frequently go in and out of the forest every day for the rich remuneration of mercenary tasks. Over time, Old Man Zhang, who lived at the entrance of the forest, actually remembered all the mercenaries in the town. Whenever he passed by him, Old Man Zhang would greet him cordially and pray for these mercenaries to come out of this forest safely.

I don't know if Old Man Zhang's blessing is really effective, for a few years, the total number of dead mercenaries is not more than five, you know, even if the task is simple, what they entered is the Warcraft Forest, even if some tasks are so simple that they just go around the periphery, and the level of Warcraft encountered is extremely low, but the strength of these mercenaries is not high, and no more than five people die in a few years, which can be described as a miracle almost.

On this day, Old Man Zhang, as usual, put his old chair at the door, watching these young and middle-aged mercenaries come and go, and greeted them one by one: "Xiao Liu, I'm here again today, but be careful, you just married your daughter-in-law not long ago." "Xiao Wang, I haven't seen you for a few days, could it be that you're sick?" "Brother Li, what mission are you going to go in this time?" The mercenaries who were called by Old Man Zhang all smiled at Old Man Zhang, didn't say anything, and quickly walked into the forest.

"Alas, although there have not been many people who have died in the past few years, there is still danger, I hope they can be safe," Old Man Zhang couldn't help but sigh as he watched the backs of several people disappear into the forest. "Hmm, someone is coming out again, strange, no one has been in before today, could it be that the three guys just now, who forgot something?" Old man Zhang's memory is very good, the first wave to enter the forest today is the three people just now, and now they come out of the forest, they must also be one of the three.

As for whether he entered the forest yesterday and did not come back, Old Man Zhang has also ruled it out, because he will make a count in his heart, the people who enter the forest every day, and the people who come out, use these two to judge whether someone has encountered an accident in the forest, so as to facilitate the notification of others for rescue.

But this time, it is destined that Old Man Zhang is going to miscalculate. Looking at the people coming from the forest, the figure became clearer and clearer, but it became more and more unfamiliar, and when the other party came out of the forest, Old Man Zhang saw it clearly, and then he was sure: the other party was definitely not from this Fengyuan Town. "How could this person come out of there?" Old man Zhang couldn't believe it, someone actually came out of this forest, it was so inexplicable, this was something that had never happened in decades.

Old man Zhang was still in shock, but the other party had already seen old man Zhang, stepped forward, and asked Old Man Zhang, "Old man, where is this place?"

"Old man, where is this place?" Fengchen looked at the old man in front of him, and found that the other party was looking at him with a strange look, Fengchen felt a little strange in his heart, but it was not easy to show it. "You, did you come out of that forest?" the old man in front of him didn't answer his own question, but actually asked himself. Strange as it was, Fengchen had no choice but to reply, "I did come out of that forest." He secretly said in his heart: "It's not that you can't see it, why do you still ask me." ”

"Eh, old man, please tell me, where is this?" Seeing that after the old man Zhang listened to his answer, he fell silent, and Fengchen said in a hurry. "Oh, oh, this is the town of Toyohara. Old man Zhang remembered that the other party seemed to be still asking him questions, and he woke up like a dream. "Fengyuan Town, it doesn't look like you've gone wrong. Fengchen muttered in a low voice, raised his head and asked Old Man Zhang: "Then, old man, is there a mercenary guild in this Fengyuan Town?"

"What are you going to do there?" At this time, Old Man Zhang recovered from the shock, and noticed that Fengchen looked like a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, and couldn't help but wonder why Fengchen wanted to go to the Mercenary Guild. "Well, well, I'm going to do a mercenary test. Fengchen thought about it, although it had nothing to do with Old Man Zhang, how could he ask for help, and it was not good not to answer when asked, so he could only tell Old Man Zhang the truth.

"You're going to take a mercenary test?!" Old man Zhang was a little unconvinced. Fengyuan Town is just a small town, and there are no talented people, and the aborigines here are the first to become mercenaries, and they are also after the age of sixteen. But now, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy stood in front of him and told Old Man Zhang that he was going to take a mercenary test, and Old Man Zhang's first reaction was ridiculous.

If there is a first reaction, there will naturally be a second reaction. Soon Old Man Zhang realized that the young man in front of him came out of that forest, and if he could come out of the Warcraft Forest, no matter what the reason, he must be different from the people in his own town, and it seemed that it was not impossible to take the mercenary test at this age.

Fengchen was speechless for a while, judging from the other party's performance, Fengchen knew that the other party was not optimistic about him, otherwise he would not be so surprised that he was going to conduct a mercenary test. Being looked down upon like this, Fengchen doesn't know what to say, it's impossible to be violent to the old man in front of him, right? What's more, Fengchen has to ask from the other party if there is a mercenary guild here.

"That, old man, can you tell me now, is there a mercenary guild here, and if so, can you please tell me the location as well?"

"There is indeed a mercenary guild in the town, right in the middle of the town, and you can see it by walking straight from here. Old man Zhang remembered that the young man in front of him was still asking himself questions, and hurriedly replied, but because he was an old man, he didn't rely on the old man to make things difficult. "Well, okay, I see, thank you. After Fengchen got the answer, he thanked him, and then stepped in the direction pointed by Old Man Zhang. Knowing this time, Old Man Zhang noticed that there was a knife pinned to the waist of this half-grown young man, although the blade of the knife was wrapped in cloth by wind and dust, Old Man Zhang could see that the handle of the knife was a very conspicuous fiery red.

Old man Zhang didn't stop Fengchen, although he was very curious about the origin of Fengchen, but just asked Fengchen like this, it seems impossible to get an answer, how old man Zhang said it has been alive for decades, just now Fengchen showed obviously, he doesn't want to continue to talk to himself, old man Zhang doesn't want to continue to entangle, as for curiosity, a lot of age, there are more curious things, where can I figure it all out? Just let it go with the wind. Thinking of all this, Old Man Zhang leaned back in his chair, crossed Erlang's legs and continued to do his statistical work.

So, why is Fengchen here? As soon as he thought of this, Fengchen smiled bitterly. Just a few days ago, Fengchen's cheap master, Old Man Chen, told Fengchen that he had already taught Fengchen the basics of cultivation, and for a long time after that, Fengchen had to work his own. Okay, it's nothing, come by yourself, don't you have a saying that the master leads the door, and the cultivation is in the individual? The spirituality and martial arts of the cultivation are all given to him in advance, as long as you follow it, it doesn't mean that you have to be old man Chen.

However, the pit is there, after the old man Chen finished saying this, he added: "That, anyway, you don't need the old man for the time being when you are cultivating now, the old man has been trapped in the formation for a few years, and there are some things that need to be dealt with, you take these things, there are some letters in them, you can only open one now, and that letter will tell you what you should do next, and the old man will leave first." After saying that, Old Man Chen actually flew away like this, yes, that's right, this cheap master left such a passage and threw the wind and dust in the Warcraft Forest. Fengchen could only be stunned in place, and it took a long time to react, and he scolded: "You old guy, you actually left me here alone!" It's just that at this time, Old Man Chen couldn't hear it anymore.

There was really no way, Fengchen had to open the thing that Old Man Chen gave him, took out the letter inside, and after trying it, he opened the only letter that could be read, only to know that not far from where Fengchen was staying now, there was a small town, only two days away. In addition, the bad old man only said one other thing in the letter, that is, to make Fengchen a mercenary, and when Fengchen's mercenary level reaches a certain level, he can use his mercenary badge to unlock the ban on the next letter.

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