Chapter 18: Junior Mercenaries
The speed at which the return stone was activated was so fast that Shi Leiyin was taken to a huge stone house by a white light before he could sense the time for the return stone to be activated
Due to the fact that he had left a clone to take care of the three children in the place where he lived, Shi Leiyin could vaguely feel that he had been carried by the Huicheng Stone for a distance of about two to three kilometers, but this was only a horizontal distance. The underground layer is more than sixty kilometers away from the secret realm above, and the earth has already broken through the crust and entered the magma. This depth is close to the maximum contact distance of Shi Leiyin's clone, which means that if the distance of moving up and down is not more than 100 meters, it is difficult for Shi Leiyin to judge whether he has moved up and down through the sense of distance between the doppelganger and the body.
One thing Shi Lei Yin can be sure of is that this huge stone chamber is definitely in a very safe and almost sealed state.
Shi Leiyin appeared in a corner of the stone chamber, or a smaller room attached to the edge of the large stone chamber. After entering the stone chamber through a door through guò, you really enter the stone chamber. Looking around for a moment, eight of the same small stone chambers were arranged in the form of nine palaces on the edge of the large stone chamber. In the center of the stone chamber is a teleportation array.
"The matching of the hedron and mana has been confirmed, and the user's high-level intelligent slime-Shileiyin has confirmed. Welcome to Mr. Shi Leiyin's first use of the return transfer service" Just as Shi Leiyin wondered how there were no guards and no maid in charge of the transmission in the stone room, a voice sounded beside him.
At the same time, the space around the teleportation array emitted a fluctuation, and several figures quickly appeared around the teleportation array.
And the owner of the voice beside Shi Leiyin also revealed his figure, and it was a giant green mantis with a metallic luster in mixed colors.
"Steel Mantis?" Although Shi Leiyin was taken aback, it was more because he had encountered an intelligent steel mantis.
The Steel Mantis is a very powerful insect-based monster, and in terms of pure combat effectiveness, an adult Steel Mantis has a minimum strength of level nine. Moreover, because the Steel Mantis is a very rare combat race, as long as it can survive the battle, the Steel Mantis has almost unlimited growth possibilities, and in the records, there are many individuals who have reached the eleventh or second level. At the same time, in order to adapt to a variety of different battles, the Steel Mantis has special abilities such as magic detection, super vision, super hearing, qi flu response, mimic stealth, short flight, breath concealment, etc., which are almost all used to adapt to combat. It can be said that if it weren't for the fact that the intelligence of this creature is too low, it is simply the best choice for bodyguards.
It's just that like most insect monsters, the Steel Mantis is also a low-level monster, and its intelligence is almost not much higher than that of ordinary mantis insects of the same form. At the same time, the appearance rate of intelligent individuals in the population is also low, and it is not even as high as the appearance rate of intelligent individuals in the slime population where Shi Leiyin is located, and the most important point is that ordinary steel mantis will also take the initiative to kill the offspring of intelligent types. Originally, the appearance rate was low, and it was necessary to escape the pursuit from his mother when he was born, so it is conceivable that the rarity of an intelligent steel mantis appeared. In Shi Leiyin's opinion, this is not much different from the chance of climbing a mountain and encountering an ancestral dragon.
The Steel Mantis did not respond to Shi Leiyin, but turned on its stealth ability again and disappeared in front of Shi Leiyin's eyes.
However, Shi Leiyin was mentally prepared this time, and two smaller holes appeared under the two bright spots of his eyes again. That's the ability to absorb snakes and bats, infrared irradiation and ultrasonic detection. Shi Leiyin did not use magic to detect, once this is where the teleportation array is located, the magic power will be disturbed by a certain amount of dù. Second, magic detection is a means that many monsters like to use, and this conventional method has no effect on the steel mantis at all, and the stealth ability of the steel mantis can easily deceive monsters like the magic eye. However, infrared irradiation is not the same as ultrasound, and this kind of physical means is very effective against creatures that rely on magic or racial talent to stealth. Although the Steel Mantis is an insect-based monster, its body temperature is still somewhat higher than the ambient temperature, which makes Shi Leiyin quickly discover his location.
But I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm really shocked when I see it. Because of the switch to the infrared vision mode, Shi Leiyin found that there were actually five steel mantis hidden in this stone house, including the one that opened the door. The one that spoke before, and the other steel mantis, kept wandering in front of the door that connected the eight small rooms and the large stone room. The other three are distributed in a triangle around the central teleportation array.
Silently withdrawing his infrared vision, Shi Leiyin walked towards the teleportation array.
Next to the teleportation array was a minotaur demon who was nearly four meters tall and a chamber maid. After Shi Leiyin passed, although the Minotaur Demon did not speak, he showed a smile. On the chest of the Minotaur is his mercenary crystal card, and the dark blue card edge is slightly red, indicating that the strength of the Minotaur Demon has been able to participate in the red mission.
It seemed that it was the trust of the Steel Mantis, and the maid of the Chamber of Commerce directly activated the teleportation array to send Shi Leiyin back to the teleportation square in the secret realm without any further verification of Shi Leiyin.
When Shi Leiyin returned to the chamber of commerce hall again and handed over the task completion in the mercenary service area, this first mission was officially completed.
After a while, Shi Leiyin's mission evaluation officially appeared. Except for the completion time, which was evaluated as extremely fast, there are only two words for completion in other aspects. And because it's the lowest-level cleaning task, even if it's extremely fast, it doesn't have any unnecessary impact on the points.
However, No. 37 explained to Shi Leiyin that although this kind of task will not affect the task reward even if there are multiple evaluations beyond completion, there will be a limited number of tasks in the blue and green missions that are required in other aspects. For these tasks that are subject to special requirements, if they can exceed the requirements of the task, additional rewards will be given according to the requirements of the task.
After Shi Leiyin made a note, he turned his gaze back to the task pillar. The time spent on the first task made Shi Leiyin confirm that he could complete the task at least twice a day in his serious state, and if he didn't sleep, he could complete the four missions in twenty-four hours.
In six days, Shi Leiyin successfully completed the ten tasks required by the trainee mercenaries. All of them are cleaning, in fact, only the cleaning class can be undertaken by trainee mercenaries. However, because of the fact that there was a task that encountered the adventurer's sudden intrusion again before departure, Shi Leiyin stopped him at the predecessor of the teleportation array, and waited for a long time before getting a notice that the adventurer had been cleared and allowed to enter the mission. As a result, the ten missions that were supposed to be completed in five days became six days.
Under Shi Leiyin's deliberate choice, the areas selected for each cleaning task are far apart, and after ten missions are completed, Shi Leiyin also has a vague idea of the first layer of the maze area. Although No. 37 had reminded Shi Leiyin after noticing his choice that if the mission required it, the Chamber of Commerce would directly give him a map of the maze in three-dimensional form, Shi Leiyin still preferred to experience the maze himself.
After taking the junior mercenary card from the maid in the service area, which had completely turned into pure white, Shi Leiyin directly set his eyes on the position of the green crystal pillar.