"Do you know what kind of monster it is?" Ian asked Sid.

Sid shook his head: "I haven't seen it, I haven't heard of it. Then he said uncertainly: "Maybe it's a breed that only exists in the Federal States." ”

The heavily armored old man has a lot of experience in actual combat, and even a novice like Ian can see it. He held the two-handed sword and constantly adjusted his posture, with a clear order of advance and retreat, and fought with the demonic beast to attack and defend.

Everyone was confronting the monster in front of them, and even the layman could tell that they were all experienced warriors, but Ian's eyes were always attracted to the heavily armored old man. His every move, as if it had magical power, made Ian unable to take his eyes off. Sid was the same, the old man used almost the same weapon as himself. He looked eagerly, as if hoping to learn something from the old man's moves to help him improve his sword skills.

While they were engrossed in the battle, the earthquake trembled, as if a herd of cattle were running not far away.

Ian turned his head and looked in the direction of the rumbling. I saw a human running from west to east along the outer wall of the Chamber of Commerce, naked, with a scimitar at his waist in his left hand. The smoke and dust billowed behind him, and the sound of hooves shook the sky, and he couldn't see how much or what was chasing him.

"Help! it's going to be bad!" the man cried out in an exaggerated manner as he ran. As he got closer, Ian saw that the man was wearing a mask that completely covered his face, and that the mask depicted strange patterns. Behind him, a group of even stranger monsters are chasing him. Each beast had the head of a wild boar and long fangs, but under its neck was a body like a cow.

The warriors who were guarding the Chamber of Commerce seemed indifferent to his pleas for help, and they didn't even take their eyes off their targets.

"Don't you have to help him?" Ian asked Sid.

"No, no, that's Giggs!" Lena suddenly interjected behind her, then waved her hand at the man and shouted, "Giggs!

"Ah...... Lina ...... You...... Don't come and help me...... A handful?" the man named Giggs shouted at Lina and gasped at her.

Lena pointed to the archer on the roof: "You are slow, Sister Titi's arrows are about to shoot with you!" As soon as the words fell, the silver-white light in the sky turned into a rain of arrows.

"Hey!" Sid was shocked, he didn't expect the archer to attack his own companions indiscriminately.

The rain of arrows fell to the ground with a sonorous sound, stirring up a burst of smoke and dust that was even bigger than just now.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" A coughing sound came, "Okay, you Titi ......" The man in the strange mask walked out of the smoke and dust, coughing and cursing as he went, as if everything had to be preempted.

"Look, he's okay, is he? Giggs is so fast, Titi hasn't shot him once!" Lena looked very proud of him.

"Didn't shoot once?" Sid secretly frightened, the archer who Lena called Sister Titi was already very good at archery from his previous performance. With this indiscriminate rain of arrows, it's hard to imagine Titi deliberately avoiding the position of his comrades, and the only reasonable explanation is what Lena said: Giggs is extremely fast. Fast enough to avoid the dense rain of arrows on Titi while dodging the monsters?

"Are you friends?" asked the masked man named Giggs as he approached her. The smoke and dust cleared behind him, and those strange monsters had fallen to the ground one after another.

"Yes," Lena replied, "and I asked them to escort me back." ”

"Well done, well done, long live Miss Lena!" Giggs said with some inexplicable excitement, "Let's get acquainted?"

He spoke as briskly as Lena, but Lena was much quieter than he was apparently, and he was excited, as if he were at the climax of a party at all times.

"I'm Giggs, the fastest man in the Scars Mercenary Regiment. Giggs bowed slightly, and suddenly exclaimed again, "Ah! It's not that kind of 'quick'! Don't think about it! I see your expression, boy, it's too innocent for your age!"

Ian and Sid didn't know what expressions and words to use to deal with him, and he was already talking to himself.

"Giggs!" a deep but deep man's voice came from the Chamber of Commerce hall behind him, "Why don't you come over and work, don't you see that everyone is busy!?"

It was the first time Ian had seen someone so visibly stir up that Giggs didn't even say a word, and turned around to join the defensive battle at the guild's main entrance. With him joining, the entire battle immediately fell to the mercenary group. The monster with fiery eyes and resembling a tiger was able to spit flames in its mouth, but it never touched half of Giggs's hair, but instead showed a flaw because of him, and was cut in two by the giant sword of the heavily armored old man.

It didn't take long for the rest of the demonic beasts to be killed gradually. The old man in heavy armor seemed to make arrangements quickly, and everyone scattered to the surrounding streets. A group of gray-clothed people walked out of the main building of the Goldtail Chamber of Commerce in an orderly manner, and the one in the lead looked around, then waved his hand, and the gray-clothed people behind him immediately divided into two ways to the left and right to walk towards the corpse of the demonic beast. At this time, the old man in heavy armor beckoned to Lina's side.

Lena ran happily towards the old man, grabbed the old man's leg, and whispered to her, but the old man touched her head comfortingly.

Ian and Sid followed their employer and walked over as well.

The heavily armored old man lifted Lena from his lap and rested it on his left arm, along with her huge rucksack.

"Hahahaha!" the old man laughed heartily, "It's okay! It's okay! Why are you crying?"

Lena wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "When I heard that Oasis Town was attacked by demonic beasts, I remembered those villages......"

The eagle-beaked warrior with a double axe passed by and said coldly, "What's the hurry, you can help when you come back?"

Lena grimaced at him and yelled at his back, "I'll rush back to help you collect the body!"

It seems that Lena is very nice to everyone, but she has a particularly bad attitude towards this fighter.

"Come, ignore him, and introduce your friends to Grandpa!" the old man smiled kindly, judging the fierceness of the battle just now.

"Ah, yes. This is Ian, this is Sid. Lena stretched out her hand and said, "Oh wrong, this is Barn, this is Heath." ”

Ian and Sid looked embarrassed.

The old man was stunned, then immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, don't mind, Lena is this temper." ”

He withdrew his two-handed sword back into his sword pouch and introduced himself, "I am the leader of the Warscar Mercenary Regiment, Rodel. ”

"They...... What are you going to do?" asked Sid as he saw the warriors scattering in all directions.

Rodell said: "The Chamber of Commerce Hall has been cleaned up here, but it doesn't mean that the rest of Oasis Town is also safe, there should still be remnants of demonic beasts." They had to help the Oasis guards clean it up. ”

"This is also a matter for the mercenary group of the Chamber of Commerce?" Sid tilted his head to look at Rodel. As far as he knew, the mercenary groups hired by the Chamber of Commerce were generally only responsible for the safety of the Chamber of Commerce, that is, the employer. This should also be the basic common sense of all mercenaries.

The old man smiled: "We are indeed hired by the Chamber of Commerce. But the Goldtail Chamber of Commerce is in Oasis Town, and it carries more weight than the mayor's words. So if something happens, like today, we're going to have to do more than the town's guards. ”

"Looks like you're mercenaries too, aren't you?" he caught a glimpse of the Blackstone insignia around Ian and Sid's necks, "The Mercenary Guild might not be safe yet, so let's sit down for a while." With that, he turned around and walked towards the hall of the Golden Tail Chamber of Commerce. The old man spoke kindly, but he always revealed unquestionable majesty.

Ian and Sid looked at each other, didn't object, and followed.

"That's right, Captain Rodel, may I ask ......" Sid glued on with a hippie smile and asked Rodel about the situation in Oasis Town.

Ian silently followed them. Judging from the architecture of the Goldtail Chamber of Commerce alone, it may really occupy a very important position in Oasis Town, as Rodell said. It is a castle with four towers, each of which occupies a corner of the fortress. The archer, Titi, was running lightly from the top of the main gate tower along the ridge to one of the guards, and then leaped up, climbed to the window, and burrowed into the tower.

The main entrance of the castle is not a standard gate, but a very open arch - after all, it retains the architectural character of the Chamber of Commerce, and is not exactly a solid defensive fortress.

The arched door slowly opened from the inside before Rodel approached, and the two maids saluted respectfully.

Ian followed them into the hall, only to find that the hall was very different from the Mercenary Guild.

Compared to the latter, the hall of the Golden Tail Chamber of Commerce is simply a tavern, and it is very spacious. It's not luxurious, but it's far more magnificent and complete than an ordinary tavern.

A long bar with generous seating, a dozen long tables for multiple people and a few square tables for up to four people in the center of the hall. There are also a few sofa chairs by the fireplace opposite the bar, which looks like they should be VIP seats. The surrounding masonry walls are adorned with hanging flags with the chamber of commerce's emblem and a specimen of the head of a dragon – unusual to see in this case.

"Commander, you're back. "There was an elegant female cat man standing at the bar, dressed in a neat short dress, in the standard bartender attire. She said hello without humility or arrogance, and just looked at them quietly.

"Maggie, give me—and my friends, a drink!" Rodell called out happily, and Rashid sat down in the high chair in front of the bar and asked casually, "What about the President?"

The bartender nodded at Ian and the others, said hello, turned to the wine rack to get a drink, and said in his mouth, "The president is in his study, and he is not in a good mood." She turned back and smiled unnoticed, "After so long, I thought I was going to fight." ”

Rodell laughed dryly, noncommittal.

"Drink, I'll go see the president, I just have something to report. Lena threw her bags to the ground and walked up the stairs to the second floor. The staircase faces the main door, not far from the bar, and the steps on the left and right sides converge on a small platform, which is then folded upstairs.

This platform must be where their president calls the shots, Ian thought. He imagined a short, fat-brained businessman boss standing on this small platform and talking. Lena turned off the platform, and Ian thought again, "By the way, it should be a subhuman, Raccoon Man!" and the image of the fat merchant became even more distinct.