Chapter 2: The Wisdom of Mercenaries
Mercenaries are a group of people with strong survival ability, no matter how human society changes, they always exist, and even tolerate all things, absorbing other races of mercenaries, this profession even radiates to the world of elves and dwarves, Amacer has been engaged in the mercenary industry for a period of time after leaving Sulama.
Once people mention the word "mercenary", they will think of a burly man who is hungry for money, has a bold personality, and is always ready to fight, but in fact, this group is all-encompassing, and it is far from being an image that can be summed up.
Unlike the swordsman and mage associations, where rank promotion requires assessment, and unlike players, where everyone has a panel and level for others to query, mercenaries have a self-contained system of points and rank promotion. It not only ensures that capable talents will not be buried, but also ensures that those who have brains, have accumulated a lot of experience in adventures, and have hard power for one reason or another have an evaluation that matches their comprehensive strength, which can be said to be more reliable than the assessment of any association.
This may be the so-called wisdom of the masses.
Someone once joked that a mercenary with a gold-rank badge may not be able to beat a gilded swordsman, let alone a purple-robed mage. But if all three are thrown into a wilderness full of demonic beasts, the last to survive must be the mercenaries.
And for this kind of person, all kinds of commissions and tasks are what they rely on to survive.
The magic boards that announce the quest are usually hung with some emblems of different shapes, which may be black rats in the sewers, big lynx in the fields, or golden-threaded snakes or blood-clawed tigers.
The rat-level is generally a task of running errands to deliver letters or finding lost things, and the Bobcat class mostly involves the killing and cleaning of designated targets, and the Golden Thread Snake requires the collection of resources, or potions in dangerous places, or parts of some kind of monster. Bloodclaw Tigers generally represent large-scale tasks such as escorts, which need to be carried out in groups.
As for the "Dragon" class that Deres casually mentioned, it was a mission that appeared a long time ago, at least before the establishment of the Morning Star.
The lord of a certain city-state suddenly wanted to slay the dragon, so he simply announced the first-ever dragon-level mission, pulling 3,000 troops, a total of 59 regiments, large and small, and giving them to the dragon as rations.
Since then, the thing has lived on in a legend, and of course Deres is just a joke.
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"Although it is only the 'Lynx' level, the difficulty is even higher than the 'Dragon' level."
Eugene said contemptuously, as a gold-level mercenary and the leader of a team of 44 people, he has always been very accurate in judging the essence of the mission.
After all, the mercenary industry is too deep, and the slightest carelessness can compensate the family.
The difficulty of the task is determined by the content of the task, which is submitted by the employer to the union and judged by professionals. The difficulty is related to the range of deposits, pensions and commissions, which has led to many cases where unscrupulous employers deliberately conceal information in order to reduce expenses.
A year ago, there was a mission to collect 4 kilograms of fire grass near Rukmar, an extinct volcano that had not erupted for a long time, and the mission was designated as a snake class at the time.
Because there is no upper limit on the commission, regardless of whether the commission is accepted or not, there is a large ticket of the team to go to Rukmar to pick grass. For a moment, the foot of the volcano was crowded with mercenaries, and even the only source of water, a small pond, dried up.
Then tragedy happened, and that volcano erupted.
If it weren't for the fact that a white-robed mage was conducting experiments near the crater, I don't know how many people would have died on that trip. In the end, it was he who opened the barrier and barely supported it for more than ten minutes before the group of people withdrew from the foot of the mountain without being burned to death.
Eugene was one of the survivors of that time, but he was a spontaneous survivor who had already sensed something was wrong when he arrived in the town ten kilometers outside of Rukmmar. The water that flows from Rukmar is so warm that many of the cold-loving fish are roasted alive and float on the water, and there are yellow shimmering star grass growing on the river's edge, all of which is unreasonable.
His rich experience allowed him to escape, and it also made him have a heart for the future: he is not sensitive to those employers who deliberately hide their identity information, and he also respects those employers who have bad records.
For example, the current task, which he jokes about, is this type.
The task is very simple, find a personal servant, master the lingua franca, have a clear voice, and are good at reciting is preferred, familiar, and preferred.
The mandate promulgator also hides his identity.
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Hearing Eugene say this, Dres also understood, this is actually a "secret" that everyone in Jialan Academy knows, but it doesn't reveal on the surface.
Principal William's grandson, the son of Mr. Dodge William, Janssen, is a wreck.
Of course, this sentence is also said by the classmates in private, and no one dares to call him that on the surface, he doesn't even dare to mention his name, and occasionally he uses "that child" instead.
It is said that Janssen was born with atrophied limbs, and this deformity may have been abandoned in ordinary families, but after all, he was the grandson of a white-robed mage like William, and he was treated and barely grew into a person with a sound appearance, but because of this, he only had physiological functions above the waist.
About five years ago, when Deres first entered Jialan, he heard that Mr. Daoqi was choosing a mentor for his children among the senior students, and although the commission was high, there were very few applicants in the end, which made him very puzzled. Later, after several inquiries, I learned that all this was because of Janssen's eccentric temper.
Not only was he very repulsive to those who approached, but he was also moody and perverse, and almost all of the applicants were chased away by him, except for Mrs. Shanna, the nurse who had taken care of his mother, no one could stand this temper, and even Dodge himself had to put up a slumber charm and cautiously step forward when he tried to get close to his son.
After a period of "looking for a teacher" turmoil, Dodge stopped, and he seemed to realize that doing so would cause trouble to his son and himself, so he simply gave up and kept running at both ends to take care of his son himself. A few years later, or half a year ago, Dodge died in the Morning Star turmoil and was placed in the Seinsa Cemetery in the city of France. A week earlier, Janssen's caretaker, Mrs. Shana, had also returned to the countryside due to an eye problem, and as a last resort, Headmaster William had sent the assignment to the Mercenary Guild.
For seven days, there was an endless stream of applicants, but they couldn't stand Janssen's temper. Because of the high hush money given by the William family, they couldn't say much, and Eugene was so well-informed that he knew the twists and turns.
It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a "dragon"-level mission.
"Old blind Duke, do you remember," Eugene said with a smile: "Duke said that the kid is full of food, and the problems are all habitual, so he should be replaced by him as a servant, and he will be thrown into the field for a night, so as to ensure that the treatment is obedient and will not make trouble again." He's counting on this hand to try his luck. ”
"Then you have to stop him, don't let his other leg be broken by the William guards." Dreas smiled.
Old Blind was a member of Eugene's team, and he was an excellent scout when he was young, but he was later bitten off a leg by a monster and blinded by an eye, and Eugene saw that he was pitiful and took him in, and he taught Deres a lot of things.
"Don't talk about that, I have a big deal for you here." Only then did Eugene understand what he meant.
"What's the big deal?"
"There is a new tavern at the mouth of the alley, called 'Dusk Tavern', and the owner will make some strange things, and we will go and talk while eating." Eugene put his arm around Derees' shoulders and walked out.
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