Chapter 1178: A Mandate from the Duke's Family (Part I)
The grand festival, coupled with the serial killers that are not very well matched, gives Ann a feeling that big news is about to come out.
In the end, he often causes trouble, and he is very sensitive to this aspect......
An Yi pointed to open the task list, and saw that there were no multiple tasks on it, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.
This quest has not activated any quests so far, and it is clear that it is the type with a super high degree of freedom, and the main line and branches have to be found by themselves.
A rumor alone is not enough to activate the mission, and besides, it doesn't do Ann any good to catch the serial killer, and the brave invincible may ask in detail. And Ann Yizhi? Forget it.
The driver didn't know much about this rumor, and it was all from his peers or customers chatting, maybe it was just a rumor.
It is precisely because the degree of freedom of the dungeon is too high that it is not easy to find a task, so An Yizhi set the initial goal at the Adventurer Association, planning to see if there are any tasks worth doing, and by the way, visit the equipment store in the imperial capital.
It's just that the imperial capital, which is the capital of the empire, is too far away from the last time An Yi pointed to them to Seviara, and it is estimated that Master Olivet will not be able to see it.
- The latter also said that he did not want to see it.
The location of the Adventurers' Guild is easy to find, follow the main road leading to the station, turn left when you see a roundabout with a particularly large fountain, and you will see the Adventurers' Guild after two intersections.
The area naturally cannot be compared with the headquarters of Saviara, but it is not bad, it is a very magnificent three-story building.
An Yi pointed to the fare and pushed open the door to enter.
In an instant, the sound of drinking and laughing poured into my ears, and the scene of adventurers blushing and laughing and scolding was indeed very noisy, but I felt a little relieved when I got used to it.
Appearing as an adventurer for a long time, An Yizhi is no longer strange to this kind of scene, if one day, the bar where adventurers gather is very quiet, and they are polite when drinking and eating, it will make him feel uncomfortable.
Carrying his staff, Ann pointed to the quest wall placed on the other side of the wall, which was already covered with small notes of various quests, and sorted them according to their ranks.
Although there are many adventurers here, most of them are only active at the wine table, and almost no one looks at the quest wall.
This is also due to the influence of the Midsummer Festival, where everyone prefers to drink and have a good time, and it is right to give themselves a few days off.
There are a lot of monsters in this world, so both the empire and the federation allow adventurers to exist, and hire these people to deal with a huge number of monsters with a fairly cheap amount of money.
Adventurers are very free and take vacations whenever they want, one or two are fine, but most adventurers take vacations, which results in more and more tasks on the quest wall.
An Yizhi stood in front of the C-level task board, anyway, this time it was himself, without Red and Apple Tea, he could directly take the C-level mission.
Nine out of ten of them are to destroy or expel as many as hundreds of monster races, and adventurers who don't have a certain strength or means don't dare to take it at all.
Anyway, the content of the tasks is similar, and the location of the tasks is usually not too far from the emperor, An Yizhi casually found the highest paying task and tore it off, and walked to the front desk to find the young lady to handle the business.
It is estimated that she has been idle for too long, and the young lady at the front desk saw An Yizhi coming over and showing a smile that was even brighter than usual:
"Show your Adventurer Qualification Card."
Fortunately, it's not been a long time since the last time I came to this copy world, otherwise the card that is about the size of an ID card wouldn't know where to be stuffed by An Yizhi.
He casually took it out and handed it to the other party, who looked at it and said:
"Are you sure you want to take on this task? There is a message for you in the association, and it is a national message. ”
Adventurers have a lot of mobility, and if the client wants to designate to find a certain adventurer, it is basically equivalent to trying luck, so there is a 'message' function, as long as the adventurer returns to the association to hand in the task, the front desk will tell the adventurer the message.
Of course, it's not free, especially the kind of message that is valid all over the country, and it's even more expensive.
"What is the content of the message? Who left it? ”
"The other party wants you to take over a task, and the person who left the message claims to be from the Grand Duke's family."
A message from the Duke?
An Yizhi knew that there were four grand dukes in his empire, and vaguely remembered that there was a person who claimed to be a duke at the end of the copy last time, but at that time, An Yizhi was attracted by the gold and didn't pay attention at all.
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Thinking about it, the only characters who have been in contact with him and have a relationship with the duke are the blue-haired girl and the blonde boy who were escorted last time, and it is estimated that they were commissioned by one of them.
After all, to entrust this thing, An Yizhi is here to refuse, as long as the remuneration is sufficient, it is easy to say.
And the most important point is that An Yizhi feels that this commission is likely to be the main task, and first determines the main line, and only after he has the bottom of his mind can he rest assured to find the branch line.
Now that you've made up your mind, there's no need to take on any other tasks.
The young lady at the front desk took An Yizhi to the living room behind the association to wait, and then sent someone to inform the client.
In fact, the time of the message was not long ago, and I almost walked with An Yizhi, and the people who came to handle the message business had not gone far.
Therefore, An Yizhi waited in the reception room for more than ten minutes before he heard footsteps in the corridor. Then I saw a blue-haired girl walk in.
She was still dressed in a basically light uniform, completely ignoring the functional uniform, presumably because of the interest of Master Olivet, and felt that it was an idea to make the uniform of the School of Magic into this virtue with Jace Kode.
- Disrespectful to the old......
It's just that she stood very upright after seeing An Yizhi, and then gave a military salute:
"Mr. An Yizhi, I thank you for your help last time."
And Ann pointed to ...... He didn't know what he was helping with. (See Chapter 1062 for details)
But this did not prevent An Yizhi from accepting the other party's thanks in full, and then he knocked off the tobacco in his pipe and said:
"What do I want to entrust with this special message?"
"There's something tricky about it......"
The blue-haired girl took two steps forward, and then wondered:
"Where's your teammates?"
"They went back to their hometown to get married."
An Yizhi casually arranged the apple cart and Red, and the latter didn't care, but sat on the sofa opposite An Yizhi and said:
"I want to hire you as my bodyguard."
"If I'm not mistaken, you're the daughter of the Duke's family, right? Personal security requires hiring adventurers? ”
The four dukes who are the pillars are so miserable, if this is the case, the empire would have been destroyed by the federation long ago.
"The situation at home is more special."
The blue-haired girl didn't blink her eyelids, and still said with a serious expression:
"My father was a typical pragmatist, he didn't allow waste in the family, both men and women had to prove their worth, or else they would be thrown away as a prop for political marriage."
An Yizhi rolled his eyes:
"Does this have anything to do with you hiring me as a bodyguard? Or are you being attacked by someone in the process of 'proving your worth'? ”
The other party nodded lightly and said:
"This is a process to prove my worth, I can't get help from my family, I can only rely on my own strength, and what I have to investigate has a certain danger, and my swordsmanship level may not be able to cope with it."
The children of this kind of great nobles do not need to train their strength to the level of rebellion, enough to protect themselves, after all, they are not expected to charge into battle, if the empire really reaches the point of letting these high-ranking officers and government personnel fight bayonets on the battlefield, it will not be far from the death of the country.
Unless they have a talent at the level of Long Aotian like Nikolai, the combat power of most of the noble children is quite improvised.
"Spending money to hire people is also on your own?"
"Of course, financial resources are also one of the strengths."
The blue-haired girl explained:
"I've been investing in the industry since I was 12 years old, and I still have a little savings."
This is the difference between the children of the big aristocratic families and ordinary people, and the New Year's money is enough to engage in industry......
An Yizhi tapped on the table and said:
"I need to know who the enemy is? At least have a rough idea of what you're going to investigate, otherwise I wouldn't have taken on the task in a hurry. ”
Although the more commissions the better, not all commissions can be accepted, and some commissions must be taken more carefully so as not to be calculated.
Especially when it comes to the entrustment of people in power such as the great nobles, it is not a pleasant experience to be used as a political prop.
The blue-haired girl hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"I'm investigating a serial murder case that is still at large."
An Yizhi's premonition was still very keen, and the news he learned from the coachman before was really related to the mission.
"Is the murderer very strong?"
"Very strong."
She said:
"There was a whole team of guards who blocked him in a dead end, but by the time the army arrived, all the guards had been killed. He was very agile and ruthless, and many of the people in charge of this matter were killed one after another, so I want you to be my bodyguard. ”
A quick guy, this is the type that An Yizhi is not good at dealing with, but then again, it shouldn't be the turn of a duke's daughter to investigate a murder, right?
In fact, this has something to do with the last time Ann pointed at them, because there was a traitor among the Key Keepers, and the Empire was unable to obtain the huge number of magic guide cases.
Although she also got the design drawings of the plane, and the plane that was temporarily rushed out of the construction temporarily put the military balance between the two countries back on track, for the blue-haired girl, her attempt to prove her operation failed.
After returning to China, many nobles who knew the inside story did not have a high opinion of this, thinking that failing to see the identity of the other party's traitor was the biggest mistake.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the blue-haired girl had to find another way to prove herself, so he asked his father to take the initiative to take over this task in order to recover the lost impression points.
Therefore, the aristocracy is really tired of living, and they still care about such an ethereal thing as wind reviews.
- After all, not everyone has a thick skin like An Yizhi, and the blue-haired girl's reaction is quite normal......