Chapter 1: Love Ronica's melancholy
Eronica sat quietly, no one around dared to make a sound, even if this was the Parosan Bar belonging to the Mercenary Guild, even if it was the most noisy mercenary bar, it was terrifyingly quiet at the moment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Maybe from the outside, this woman is just a little girl who hasn't grown all her hair, but as long as anyone who eats in the Mastan mercenary world knows that there is no good stubble under the blood-red rose. Even this little girl, who can barely be called delicate, has at least a dozen lives on her hands.
Mercenaries are all murderers who lick blood with knives, and it is normal to sell their conscience and sell their lives for dozens of Mastan silver coins, and it is not all because they are afraid of her strength that they don't want to provoke her, but more because they are afraid of the banner behind her - mercenaries are a lowly profession, and the nobles at the top are disdainful, and the combat professionals who are unwilling to be constrained by the army and the magnates always have to beg for food, although there are very few of them, but there are still a few of them on the territory of Mastan - the blood red rose is one of the best.
The Mastan Mercenary Guild is a well-established guild with clear authority, and its supreme power is in the hands of the royal family, and its main power is composed of three banners: the Bloodthirsty Frost Wolf, the Glory of the Sword, and the Blood Red Rose. The total strength of these three mercenary groups is no less than that of an ace army in the Kingdom of Mastan, but they are limited by meritorious service, and they have not been able to seek a piece of noble territory, so that they can wash their origins and get rid of this embarrassing status.
Although Eronica is not a direct mercenary of Scarlet Rose, the "Sword and Rose" mercenary group she formed has always been infamous in the circle, but no one dares to underestimate her, she has the strength of a swordsman at the age of nineteen, not to mention, her father is the current head of Scarlet Rose, "One-Eyed" Elon.
In this case, naturally no one wants to disturb this "noble girl" in the mercenary world.
Of course, not touching this volcano that could erupt at any time does not mean that the mercenaries are not curious, especially when Eronica is both a powerful mercenary and a delicate beauty.
In fact, the mercenaries present had a general understanding of why the girl was so angry - the employer of the "Sword and Rose" mercenary group planned to rest for three days in Mecarona City, and during these three free days, Eronica took on a cleaning mission to clean up the kobold lair near the lumber yard in the eastern suburbs.
Originally, this was a simple task, kobolds are a subhuman race, and like orcs, they are the product of the failure of the primeval gods to shape the ether, but compared to the orcs who also failed to shape, whether it is intelligence or strength, they are so different that no race on the continent recognizes their status as an intelligent race.
These small creatures live in groups, and according to prior investigations, the total number of kobolds in the lumberyard settlement is only about fifty, and with Aronica's forces, it will not be too easy to sweep them away.
But many times, reality is not as rosy as imagined.
There are only about sixty kobolds in this group - this data is correct, but the key thing is that among this group of kobolds, there is a mage.
Yes, that's right, a noble mage! Kobold Mage!
Mages and priests are noble spellcaster professions, and their origins are much older than those who prayed to the gods of the astral realm to borrow their powers, and according to legend, in the legendary era of the primeval gods ruled the firmament, the gods told some gifted mortals the mysteries of their power - that is, the original mages.
For this reason, mages are also called god-like.
In the face of such a god-like settlement, the kobold settlement that could have been easily swept away would have to pay the price of at least a few members of the group who were injured and even life-threatening, and such a price was unbearable for the "Sword and Rose" of only a dozen members.
On the other hand, the employer is about to set off again, and there is only one last day left for them, and it is not realistic to invite a few professionals who can hold the mage in this last day. In front of "Sword and Rose", it seems that the only option is to abandon the mission.
But the label of "mission failure" is a shame for a high-minded girl, besides, for a small mercenary group that has just been established and has no credibility at all, the failure record of the third mission will greatly reduce the evaluation of the mercenary group in the eyes of the association, and I am afraid that it will only be able to take on some thankless small tasks in the future.
This is the harsh reality of the mercenary world.
It would be nice to have another professional.
Eronica didn't stay in the tavern for long, in fact, if it wasn't for the necessary information, the girl wouldn't want to stay there for a moment. She knew very well what the mercenaries thought, and knew that they were actually eager to see her make a fool of herself, and ran to her father in a gray manner, crying like a big lady.
She would never do that!
Secretly clenched her fists, her goal is to become a mercenary like the ancestor, it is for this reason that she refused her father's appointment and started from scratch to form her own mercenary group - "Sword and Rose", her own "Rose" and "Sword"!
She wants to prove that she is no worse than anyone else.
She doesn't want to be Romantil the second, but to be the one and only love Ronika!
However, there are not enough troops......
The high-spirited girl who had just raised her head once again lowered her noble head and succumbed to reality.
In the mercenary group, there are only three people who have obtained the battle position, including her, and three professionals in the fourteen-person mercenary group are already an incredible proportion, if it weren't for the fact that the girl was in contact with some "upper-level" people in the mercenary circle, it would be impossible for two professionals to defect to her.
The profession is a privileged class below the nobility only.
As far as the classification of professionals is concerned, in addition to the mysterious spellcaster, the classification of the warrior is actually very simple, starting from the apprentice, the lower entry, to the upper achievement, and finally to the legend standing at the peak of the continent, there are only four classes, and each class is like an abyss.
Eronica and her two companions are only at the second level, the lower entry stage, and they are proficient in using the "energy" condensed from the apprentice stage, and have one or two unique "secret meanings", which can roughly solve the ordinary sergeant of about ten people.
In terms of physical fitness, kobolds are better than ordinary soldiers, but their overall quality is much worse than that of the army, which is why Aronica has the confidence to easily sweep the kobold colony of about fifty people.
It's just that people are not as good as heaven, and no one expected that there would be a mage in a settlement of only fifty people, even if it is a human with a much greater probability of becoming a spell caster than a kobold, mages are a rather rare species - at least, the girl has only seen it a few times by her father's side.
Kobolds with mages will have unified command, as well as a strong will to fight, coupled with the mage's powerful spells, casualties are almost inevitable.
The only good news is that the kobolds, as a race of sapient people who are not sapient races, the primeval gods don't give them much potential, and usually, they only have one or two spells - in yesterday's battle, the maiden had already noticed that it only rubbed a few fireballs in the whole battle.
"If only there were one or two more professionals."
Eronica never thought of a better way, no one could hold back the caster, and if one was not careful, anyone on the field could die under the mage's fireball. Whether it is an ordinary mercenary or a war officer, everyone is equal in the face of death.
"What should I do......
The girl meditated and kicked the stones by the bridge in front of the hotel in boredom.
Time just ticked by.
"You seem to be very annoyed, can you tell me about it?" A crisp and pleasant voice came from behind her, and the girl woke up from the tangled. She had heard this voice, and when she accepted the escort mission, she also questioned the identity of the owner of the voice, making a joke that was not too big or small.
It's the elves. This voice is the employer.
She turned around, and unsurprisingly, a small figure was in front of her. Although she wore a cloak and a hood, she could still imagine what it looked like in the shadows of her employer, and she still remembered the amazement of the first meeting - long black hair as silky as satin reached her waist, delicate facial features like a doll, soft and warm crimson pupils that could drip water, and a silver head ring on her forehead, and in the center of the head ring was a purple diamond-shaped gem that would make people ** go in if she didn't know why. If it weren't for her slightly pointed ears suggesting her race, the girl would have thought she had met a fairy in the woods.
It's the elves.
Elves don't have a high status on the continent, and in terms of what they have done, it's basically a history of suffering, and since the Old Gods ended the rule of the primeval gods, the elves have always been in a state of slaughter. Even now, the new gods have ushered in a new era, and on the mainland, the trade of elven slaves is legal.
That's why Eronica later understood that little girl was the employer.
"Tell me about your troubles, maybe I can find a solution." The little elf said, blinking her big cute eyes, "Don't be so outward, we're friends, aren't we?" ā
"Got it, got it, Monia." The mercenary girl nodded helplessly, this kind of look is simply foul, who can refuse ruthlessly. She told the cute elf girl in front of her about what happened and the difficulties. In the end, I only sighed helplessly: "I am really unwilling to give up like this......"
"That's right." The elf girl lowered her head slightly, then raised her head, looked up at the girl and said, "Aini-chan, actually, I can help with this." I'm also a professional. ā
"Well, okay...... " Aronica subconsciously responded, but then reacted, "Huh, huh...... How is this possible, you still ...... You're still ......," she gestured with her hand, and finally said, "How can you be a professional at such a small size." ā
"How can't it be, really, you all think I'm a child." The elf girl, who was only about seven years old, pouted dissatisfiedly, "Don't look at me so small, I'm actually much older than you." ā
"Yes, yes." The mercenary girl bent down and stroked the elf girl's head as if she was soothing, "Our little Monia is not small at all, she is a little adult. ā
Monia heard the affirmation in front of her, and raised her chin proudly following the girl's touch, revealing a comfortable posture of the kitten after being praised, but the subsequent ridicule made the elf girl look stiff, and she stomped her foot and said, "I'm really a professional!" ā
"It's not that I don't believe you." Eronica explained, "However, little Monia is so tall that she can't hold a weapon or anything......"
Before her words fell, she suddenly froze.
In the hands of the elf girl, a cluster of flames burned quietly.
"Actually, I'm a mage."
The little girl said proudly, and the flickering flames illuminated her face.
Suddenly, the mercenary girl remembered the name with the elf girl, a name she had never seriously thought about.
- Monia? Keith Ridge.
A very common name, but she had overlooked it before......
Surname, that is a privilege that only nobles have.
Whether human or elf;