The world, like the earth before, revolves around a fiery sun, which is getting closer and closer to the sea level, and the fiery red sunset is reflected on the sea like a beautiful picture. As the sea calmed down and it grew darker, Stern was soaked from top to bottom, half-lying on the sand, his back against a rock on which hung the coat he had taken off before he got on board. After a short rest, Stern stood up, picked up the coat on the stone with his left hand and touched it, the clothes were already dry, he quickly took off the only remaining soaked undershirt and shorts on his body, put on a long coat, put on boots, and walked towards the small hill behind. The hillside is about a kilometre from the beach, which may give him a good vantage point to find a suitable place to rest before it gets completely dark.

Standing on the hillside and looking around, I found that this is a small island, surrounded by sandy beaches, and there are several mountains in the middle of the island, which are not very high, not far away, and there are bamboo forests and tall trees on the mountains. Stern walked over to the nearest tree, where he was going to spend the night, there might be some unknown dangers on this unknown island, and it was relatively safer to rest in the tree. Stern expertly climbed up the tree, his feet crossed flat on the thicker branches, his back pressed against the trunk and his eyes slowly closed. Having arrived on the island in a marvelous way, and spent the first day on a rickety ship for a long time, he felt exhausted, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Since he hadn't eaten anything from yesterday noon to now, he was cold and hungry, and the sky was only slightly bright, and Stern was woken up by freezing, and it would be nice to drink a few sips of rum at this time. He got up and slowly climbed down the tree, climbed the hillside towards the beach, and saw the stranded ship lying peacefully on the calm shallow water stall from a distance, and his heart was relieved. Now that there must be no fingers in the cabin, Stern found a rock and sat down on the beach, intending to wait for the day to dawn again before getting on the boat to carry his things. In the distance, a dark shadow was constantly moving under the rush of the sea, which aroused Stern's alarm, and he stood up close to the black shadow, and found that it was Carter, Stern's teammate who had come on the boat with him. Just half a month ago, he teamed up with Stern in the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild to take over a task to go to the Sauron Empire to purchase blood orchids, blood orchids are raw materials used to make healing potions, and they are a specialty on the independent island of the Sauron Empire.

The Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild is the only intermediate platform for issuing and receiving missions in the Bauhinia Empire, and its branches are open in all large and medium-sized cities in the empire. Anyone can post a bounty task in the guild after paying a certain fee and staking all the fees required to complete the task, as long as the price is reasonable, there will be mercenaries to accept the task, and after the task is completed and submitted, the guild will deduct a certain percentage of the commission from the client's deposit and pay it to the mercenary. In order to receive a quest in the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild, you must first pay two gold coins to the guild and register as a mercenary of the Holy Dragon.

There are three levels of mercenaries, beginner, intermediate, and high. After becoming a mercenary, you can take low-level tasks in the guild, and each time you complete a mission, you can get 5 to 10 points and record them in the guild record, and when the points reach 200, the mercenary level will be automatically upgraded from low-level to medium-level. After becoming a mid-level mercenary, you can take on intermediate tasks with 10 to 50 points. When the points reach 1000, they will be promoted to high-level mercenaries, and they can accept high-level tasks with more than 50 points. Complete a 5-point mission to earn a 5-gold bounty, and complete a 50-point mission to earn a 50-gold bounty. Stern is a mid-level mercenary, and has completed more than 60 mid-level and low-level tasks before and after, and currently has more than 900 points, or it won't be long before he can become a high-level mercenary, and then he will be able to take on high-level tasks with no upper limit of points.

Stern shamelessly rummaged through Carter's body to see if he could find something valuable like gold coins and amethyst on him, knowing that Carter was a high-level mercenary and should have a lot of money. After rummaging for a long time but not finding anything, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, just as Stern was about to drag Carter's body to the dry beach to bury it, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of Carter with a ring on his finger, and suddenly blossomed, and quickly took off the ring and put it on his hand. The Space Ring requires the control of the human mind to be used properly, so the first thing to do is to establish the connection between the human mind and the ring, Carter's death made the idea of controlling the ring disappear, and the ring is now ownerless. Stern carefully bit his finger and dripped a drop of blood on the ring, from then on this ring was his, and probed into the inside of the ring with his mind, there was about 1 cubic meter of space inside, 1 meter in length, width and height, and such a space ring on the market cost at least 500 gold coins, and there was no market.

Inside the ring was a bag of dried cassava, two buckets of fresh water, a cup, and a few sets of clean clothes, all of which were supposed to be prepared for going to sea, along with a tomahawk, a dagger, a bundle of rope, and a few empty sacks, which were essential tools for being a mercenary. Stern took out a heavy cowhide bag from the ring, opened the pocket and found the glittering gold coins inside, poured it on the ground and counted about 365 gold coins of the Bauhinia Empire, 39 gold coins of the Sauron Empire, the gold coins of the Sauron Empire are heavier, and two gold Sauron coins can be exchanged for 3 Bauhinia gold coins. Stern put the gold coins back into the cowhide bag, and then threw the cowhide bag into the space ring, so many gold coins are estimated to take 15 to 20 missions in the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild to earn, and it will take at least 2 years to complete in terms of time.

Stern dug a pit on the edge of the beach far from the sea and buried Carter in it, walked to the beach and washed his hands, then found a stone and sat down, took out some dried cassava from the space ring, got a glass of water, and ate breakfast leisurely. With the tools of the axe bag to greatly improve the handling he had to carry next, after breakfast Stern walked towards the bamboo grove at the back of the hillside, he was going to use the axe to chop some bamboo, and make a simple bamboo raft from the cut bamboo, which could be used to carry the ship's goods, so that he could transport the ship's goods to shore as quickly as possible, which was the easiest and most effective way he had thought of so far.