Stern told Tarot Stern about his trip to the Ice Plains and was chased by demons, and Tarot was very surprised when he heard it, "So the demons have infiltrated into the army of the Bauhinia Empire?"

Stern nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise who would have the great ability to instruct the city guards to post the portraits of me and Yulia all over the city! And these two portraits are still from the hands of demons, so I think there must be demons among the officials of the Bauhinia Empire."

Tarot Stern pondered for a moment and then nodded and said, "Okay, then I won't go to work in the barracks from now on, I'm old, it's time to stay at home and recuperate, by the way, since you are targeted by the demons, you must be careful and low-key when you go out, although I don't know what the demons look like, but I think they must be very powerful."

Stern raised his hand and said to the timberwolf Ash lying in the corner, "You see, it takes two timberwolves like this to defeat a lowest-level demon, and the demon king of the demon race is so powerful that even the legendary dragon can't defeat it."

After listening to Stern's story, Tarot grabbed Stern's hands and shook his head with palpitations and said, "I didn't expect you to take such a big risk in the months you went out this time, it's better to go out less in the future, so as not to make me and your mother worry about you."

Stern smiled comfortingly and said, "Father, don't worry, now our strength is not bad, you have also seen in the past few days that each of us has our own contract demonic beasts, and the strength is not bad, after all, the number of demons is not much, so we will not encounter any danger when we go out."

In the past few days, Tarot Stern has indeed seen that in addition to the Timberwolves and the Wind Leopard, there is also a Snow Cloud Leopard and a Flame Tiger at home, so he patted the back of Stern's hand with satisfaction and said, "I didn't expect my son to have such strength now, and you should be able to control your own proportions when you grow up, and I will no longer interfere with your work in the future." Lunch ended soon in the conversation between the two fathers and sons, and the old butlers, Lily, and Nana put away the dishes, and Stern returned to the space to rest.

After dinner, Stern braved the cold weather and left the manor to go to the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild alone, as the only mercenary guild in the empire, it would not be closed due to the cold wave. "Sir, is this really a dragon's blood fruit?", a young waitress in the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild asked in surprise as she looked at the blood-red fruit that Stern was holding in his hand.

"Yes, I spent four or five months personally going deep into the ice field to find the secret of the ice lake," Stern said solemnly. The guild waitress thought that the task of 30,000 gold coins was not something she could make decisions casually, and after thinking for a while, she said to Stern, "Sir, please wait here, I can't make decisions on my own for such a high-level task, so let's wait here, I'll go and ask our president to come and talk to you in detail."

Stern nodded, and the waitress immediately turned around and headed towards the second floor to call them president, and a moment later, an old man with a white beard and a rich dress followed the waitress slowly down the stairs. He slowly came to Stern, his squinting little eyes opened slightly, looked Stern up and down, and then stretched out his right hand and said, "My name is Sotor, Harrington can call me Sotor, I don't know what this little brother is called?"

Stern stretched out his hand and shook hands with Sotor and said, "The junior is Andy Stern, and Mr. Sotor is fortunate to have met." "I heard that you went to the snowfield and picked the real dragon's blood fruit, can you show me?" said Sotor to Stern in a hoarse voice.

Stern took out the dragon's blood fruit and handed it over, Sotor picked up the fruit and looked at it carefully, "In the past, a few cunning mercenaries took a few fruits from the Southern Lion Empire to deceive me, and in the end I saw through it", he looked at it carefully for a while and continued, "Your fruit looks like the legend describes."

Sotor raised his head and stared at Stern with a slightly sharp gaze, as if he wanted to see something in Stern's eyes, and after a moment he looked away, bent down and took out 30,000 gold coins from the cabinet and handed them to Stern, "Young man, I believe this fruit is real, this is 30,000 gold coins, please put it away."

In the autobiography of Nethan Kadia, Sotor was very curious to see the dragon blood fruit in the secret realm of the ice lake, and he had always been weak and sickly, thinking that eating the dragon blood fruit would improve his physical condition, so he hung up the task of collecting dragon blood fruit in his guild five years ago.

In the past five years, several mercenaries have submitted tasks with the so-called "Dragon's Blood Fruit", and he has seen through them one by one, but this time when he saw Stern's fruit, he was convinced that this dragon's blood fruit should be real, of course, he will only know if it is true after actually eating it.

In order to avoid losing 30,000 gold coins in vain, he quickly picked up the dragon blood fruit and put it to his mouth while Stern had not left the mercenary guild, as the book said, after entering the mouth, a strange fruity fragrance instantly spread from the tip of his tongue to his throat, and it didn't take long for a majestic energy to fill his whole body, and Sotor, who was shivering with cold just now, would already be warm all over his body.

"Young man, this fruit is really a dragon's blood fruit, how many people have gone to the north to find the secret realm of the ice lake have failed, it seems that your luck is very good." Stern nodded and said, "This Ice Lake Secret Realm is really difficult to find on a very high mountain range, and if I hadn't been lucky by mistake, it would have been impossible to find it."

Sotor then took two bites of the fruit and quickly took a jar to put the fruit away, he saw that Stern was about to turn around and leave after counting the gold coins, he quickly raised his hand and said, "Little brother, you won't only harvest this dragon blood fruit when you go to the Ice Lake Secret Realm, if there are other things if you are willing to sell them, I can recycle them at a high price, how about it?"

Seeing that Sotor was staring at him sincerely, Stern took out six purple dragon scale fruits from the storage space and put them on the counter, "Old man Sotor, this is the dragon scale fruit I picked in the secret realm of the ice lake, although its effect is not as good as the dragon blood fruit, but it is far from being comparable to ordinary fruits, if you want it, I am willing to sell you these six dragon scale fruits for five thousand gold coins each."

Sotor picked up a dragon scale fruit with one hand, looked at it carefully, and then leaned close to his nose and sniffed it, a refreshing fragrance wafted into his nostrils, which suddenly made him feel refreshed, "Well, it's really a dragon scale fruit, since Andy's little brother is willing to transfer these fruits to me, then I will accept them all", after saying that, he bent down again and took out 30,000 gold coins from the cabinet and put them on the counter, "Little brother, this is 30,000 gold coins, you count them yourself" , Sotor felt very lucky to be able to harvest one dragon blood fruit and six dragon scale fruits, as the president of the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild, a mere sixty thousand gold coins was nothing to him, even if it was six million gold coins, he would take it out.

Seeing that the pile of gold coins was about the same as the pile just now, Stern stopped counting them, raised his hand and put them all into the storage space, and then said hello to Sotor and left the mercenary guild.