Chapter 10 Escort Mission
In a forest in the middle of the continent of Oscar, the midday sun shone on the shrub-covered land, and the cool autumn wind blew gently, rolling up the few fallen leaves on the ground.
In the beginning of autumn, the leaves gradually began to turn yellow, and this year's autumn was a little colder than usual.
In the autumn wind, a team of more than 300 horses was hurrying away.
This is exactly where the team of Sanssouci for this escort mission is located.
Because it was only a small escort mission, Long Tian's team did not fully perform, only the previous eight people plus worry-free.
The four of them were all noble magicians, so they were arranged to walk in the middle of the team, protected by the mercenary warriors around them. A few people were hurrying along the procession, talking in low voices.
This escort mission has to escort a nobleman from the Northern Moon Empire. Although he is only a small baron, the status of nobility has always been high and high for these commoners.
The baron, who thought himself heroically, rode the wildebeest of a second-class demonic beast at their side.
Of course, this is actually what he thinks, but in reality it is not like that at all.
Real heroes are all out of the realm of life and death, although the baron in front of him is not sitting in the carriage like everyone else, but staying in the protective circle of a large number of mercenary warriors, close to the team of magicians, what kind of hero is this!
In fact, most of the mercenaries are very puzzled, as a noble mercenary to protect it is understandable, but to hire a team of two hundred people, their own one hundred guards are not counted, a total of three hundred, even if the nobleman's goods are very valuable, there is no need to be so excited.
How did they know that although this nobleman was greedy for life and afraid of death, he was really not afraid of death.
Baron Robin's way of making money was to catch slaves, and to be precise, he was a notorious slave trader.
At this time, he had just returned from the orc territory in the north. With his army of 100 people, he had just ransacked a small fox tribe a few days ago, killed most of them, and then captured all the young women who had been specially captured alive.
Baron Robin believed that he had done a very clean job, killing all the witnesses, and that he had left the territory of the orc clan, and had hired two hundred mercenaries to protect himself on the road, and he was not worried about the safety of the Sunset Forest to the Northern Moon Empire.
In fact, this is not the first time such a thing has happened, Baron Robin has come here several times to hunt slaves, and each time he is unaware.
Otherwise, with his small baron, how could he have the financial resources to hire a mercenary team of two hundred people. For him, money is important, and his own life is even more important, which is why every time he returns to the Sunset Forest, he hires heavy soldiers to protect it.
As for the income from the sale of orc slave girls, the cost of hiring mercenaries is really not worth mentioning.
For example, this time, he successfully made a big profit, more than a dozen beautiful fox slave girls, each worth two thousand gold coins, plus some animal skins and magic cores seized from the tribe, this time the harvest can almost reach eighty thousand gold coins.
For Baron Robin, this is definitely a huge amount of money, and the hundred people he leads, including people and horses, and equipment, add up to only three thousand gold coins, and the remaining gold coins are enough to squander them for a while.
However, for Baron Robin, how to transport it is still a headache, after all, the relationship between the human kingdom and the orc kingdom is good, everyone knows that Lu Dao explicitly prohibits the sale of each other's slaves, if it is discovered, it will be a shameful thing.
But this is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, whether it is the nobility of the human race, or the leader of the orcs, who does not have a few female slaves of the other race? Where did these slave girls come from? Isn't it by catching slave traffickers?
When humans were plundering in the orc kingdom, the so-called heroes of the orcs were also rampant in the control area of humans. So Baron Robin's explanation for this is that he is for the country and he is a hero.
As long as you return to the Northern Moon Empire safely, everything is not a problem, auctions and black markets are in short supply of these orc female slaves, no one will ask where these come from, everyone understands and does not trace the source. This emboldens the traffickers, as long as they are not detected in transit, nothing is a problem.
In the middle of the magician's squad are three carriages, one of which has two large wooden boxes on it, and the other two are covered with a tight black cloth, which should be two wooden boxes in shape. In fact, these three carriages, two of which were prison carriages for slave girls, were covered with cages covered with black cloth, and the cages were drugged and sleeping slave girls, and one of the two boxes was specially set up by Baron Robin to cover up his crimes.
The mercenaries only thought that Baron Robin's cargo was very valuable, so they hired so many people to guard it, and they guessed that it was very valuable, but it was not the goods but the slave girls.
It was already dusk, and the procession came to a halt under the command of the Baron, and the mercenaries began to light fires and set up camp in anticipation of the night. The tents of the mercenaries were set up around the wagons, so that they could take care of the safety of their goods while resting.
When the camp was set up, the mercenaries roasted all kinds of monster meat around the fire for their dinner.
This is the first time that you have grilled meat by yourself, and it feels very fresh, and I usually eat other people's grills, but now I feel very interesting to do it myself. However, it is obvious that our carefree young master is not that material, and he roasted the meat into a piece of charcoal without paying attention, which caused Long Tian and the others to laugh at him.
Later, it was our elf Mia who gave her to Carefree, and as a result, she took Mia's roasted Warcraft meat and ate it happily. Gulping down the barbecue he had made, he grinned at Mia.
Mia was so dazzled by her laughter that her face turned red when she came back to her senses, and she lowered her head shyly and continued to roast the meat.
Because everyone was very hungry after a day's journey, they buried their heads in eating, and they didn't notice Mia's abnormality, otherwise the blushing appearance of the elf Mia at this time would definitely fascinate a large number of people.
It was already dark, and some of them were left to keep vigil, while others went into the tents to rest. Since Long Tian was sent to take turns keeping vigil for the delegates and the other mercenaries, it was arranged for Sansso-fu and another male magician to go to rest first.
In a small space, it was a little embarrassing for Carefree to be so close to a strange man for the first time. However, the simple Hu Cheng didn't feel the slightest worry-free embarrassment, and fell asleep.
After a while, he heard Hu Cheng's snoring, smiled carefree, found a place next to him and sat down and began to meditate.
As a magician, you can replace sleep through meditation, and for many years, Worry-free has developed this habit, although he changed places, and there was a discordant person next to him, but Worry-free quickly adapted to it and entered a meditative state.