Chapter 1: The Lion Quest
"Welcome!"
The door of the bar opened, and a young man walked in, smiling and greeting the owner of the bar and many acquaintances, and the young man found a place at the bar and sat down, enjoying the atmosphere of the bar while sipping rum in a relaxed sip. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info The young man's name is Reed, a commoner and an orphan who has lived a life similar to that of a beggar and a wanderer since he was a child.
He didn't have a name, and it didn't mean anything to a wandering orphan. When he was 7 years old, about 7 years old, an old man took him from the street to a place where there were many children about his age, the children were very enthusiastic, everyone was rushing to introduce each other, said a lot of names, he didn't understand what a name was at all, but he found that there was one sentence that was used the most, "My name is xxx, I am 7 years old this year, what about your name?". So he replied, "I...... I'm also 7 years old, my name is, the name is yours (Reed)? And just like that, his age and name were given in such a vague way - 7-year-old Reed.
After a year of bringing Reed back from the street to test him on some hormones and what hormones to take, Reed became a trainee summoner, learning how to fight with summoned beasts as weapons. At that time, Reed slowly learned that the place where he was adopted was originally called the Adventurer Association Adoption Center, which was an affiliate of the Yulia Continental Adventurers Association, which specialized in adopting some stray children and cultivating various mercenaries according to their respective physiques to serve the Yulia Continental Adventurers Association.
Reed's life in the adoption center is actually very free, after learning to read, except for learning the basic rules of mercenaries, wilderness survival and other basic courses, as well as summoning training, the rest of the time he spends the rest of his time in the library, reading all kinds of books, completely unsystematic but enjoyable.
When Reed was 20 years old, he had to leave to serve the Yulia Continental Adventurers Association for 10 years according to the rules of the adoption center, which made him regret why he said at that time that if he was 7 years old, he could be at ease for 2 more years if he was 5 years old. However, there is no regret medicine in this world, so Reed sighed that the leisurely days were over, and at the same time, he still seriously completed the mercenary task given by the association, so that the association was also Reed's reborn parents.
It has been 4 years since he sighed, and Reed's title has officially become a junior summoner. In the past four years, there have only been two or three thrilling scenes in the mission, but it has often woken Reed in his dreams, and he can't remember how many silent nights, Reed prayed to every god he knew, hoping not to put him in danger again, because it was really uncomfortable to watch the picture of his companions flying with flesh and blood. Therefore, in the past 4 years, although Reed has gradually become accustomed to the thrilling life of mercenaries, every time after completing a mission and before receiving the next mission, Reed likes to go to this "top" bar to relax, after all, the life of a mercenary is quite stressful.
Just as Reed's eyes were roaming back and forth between the dance show and the waitress on stage, a nice magnetic male voice sounded in his ears: "May I ask you are Reed, the summoner known as the 'grocery store'?" ”
Reid looked back and saw a handsome man with little curly blond hair, about 30 years old, and Reed replied, "Yes, I'm Reed, what's the matter?" ”
"Hello, my name is Aris, the leader of the Wild Lion Mercenary Regiment, and it's a pleasure to meet you. That's right, we have taken on a mission, and the team members are ready, but in order to be safer and deal with possible emergencies, I plan to temporarily borrow a support team member from the association. The waiter at the association recommended you to me and said that you should be found here, so I came over and asked if you were interested in joining. ”
The Wild Lion Mercenary Regiment seems to be quite famous among the low-level mercenary regiments, at least Reed has a little impression, Reed has black hair, which is relatively rare in the local area, so it is not difficult to identify, and it is not strange that Aris can easily find him. And the waiter who recommended Reed was probably the cute little girl who gave the other party a 1 silver coin tip when he replied to the task in the morning, and Reed was relatively generous to her tip every time.
"How many levels of the mission are there?"
"B1, 7 team members, including a junior fire mage and a junior priest."
Yes, there are 2 very rare professions of mages and priests, and in 4 years, Reed has only seen 3 mages and 1 priest, no wonder the wild lion can get mixed up. Originally, with Reed's level, he could only cope with the task of about C2, but there was a B1 task of mage and priest, and it was only assisted by Reed, which was very easy. Reed's combat effectiveness is not high, but a variety of summoned beasts allow him to cope with all kinds of tests, which is a super support, so the partners gave Reed the nickname "grocery store". Reed once asked to change it to "Shito" to sound better, but those guys who know how to fight and kill all day long, and don't know what "Shito" is, don't know what "Shito" is, so Reed spends his life miserably carrying the "grocery store".
"What about the specifics of the mission?"
"B1 search mission, go to the Black Forest to find a nest of demon binders, and bring back at least one unhatched demon spider egg. Starting tomorrow, it will take about 2 weeks, and it will not take more than 1 month at most. ”
"Looks like a good fit for me, well, ok, I'd be happy to participate in this mission."
"Great, welcome to join us, gather at the square tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, I wish we a happy 2 weeks together."
Aris and Reed shook hands and left, to make final preparations for tomorrow's departure, Aris is a very responsible regimental leader, polite to people, and the tone of voice when he speaks feels very comfortable, he is simply a gentleman, very interested in Reed's appetite.
On the second day, after completing some loan procedures of the association, Aris briefly introduced the basic situation of Reid and the other 6 team members, and their 8-member search team left Yati Town and set off for the Black Forest. After a long 3-day trek, the Lion finally reached the Terry Mountains, on the edge of the Black Forest.
Voles are at the front of the line, acting as scouts. Vole's profession is a junior thief, and his real name Aris did not tell Reed, because classes such as thieves and assassins generally don't want others to know their details, so Reed didn't ask questions. Aris and Yara walked behind the voles and slightly protected the sides of the team, Aris is a one-handed weapon warrior, with a long sword in one hand and a giant shield in the other, as the core of the whole team, Aris already has the level of an intermediate warrior; Yara was a two-handed warrior, a huge two-handed sword that seemed to be worth a lot of money. Yara is still a junior fighter, but Aris says he'll be taking the mid-level test next month. In the middle of the group were 4 people, the junior fire mage El, the junior archer Archie, the only woman on the team, the junior priest Night, and of course the junior summoner Reed. Closely following the rear was the junior warrior Famo, holding a giant axe in his hand, which seemed to be of the power type, and his muscles bulged.
As soon as the wild lion entered the Black Forest, it kept this formation forward, and there was actually no big trouble during the search, only encountered a small group of wandering blue-eyed wind wolves, mage Al and archer Archie almost eliminated all the blue-eyed wind wolves, Aris only swung a sword, hacking and killing one that slipped through the net, and the rest of the team members did not make a move. Oh no, Saya the Priestess also did the same, and she saved a water rabbit that was about to serve dinner and healed a mountain deer's broken leg. The reason why the Wild Lion is not allowed to eat the rabbit is that it is too small, and there is not enough for the 8 people of the Wild Lion to stuff their teeth, so don't kill it at all. And the broken-legged mountain deer forbade everyone to stretch out their magic hands on the grounds that the mercenaries were really tasteless in hunting a prey that was incapable of escaping. Reed felt that this excuse was bad enough, because it was easy for any one of the 8 people in the wild lion to hunt 2 healthy adult mountain deer in 5 minutes, and when he only expressed this point of view tactfully, Xiaoye fully agreed, and immediately proposed that Reed be in charge of the food hunting activities for the future trip, and the result was unanimously approved, which made Reed depressed for a long time.
In short, after going deeper than 150 kilometers into the Black Forest and discovering 2 abandoned caves of unknown monsters, the Wild Lion Search Team finally found the target habitat of their trip - the nest of the demon binding spider.