Sofia. Tedmis's face looked a little ugly.

She had just left her brother Akara. The mansion of the Count of Tedmis, back to her villa.

In fact, the villa registered in Sophia's name is next door to the City Lord's Mansion, although she has converted it into the home of the Rose Mercenary Regiment of Tedmis. But usually Sophia will not stay here, including her niece Sophia II, so often only when it is necessary to arrange the actions of the mercenary group, Sophia will come here, as for the reporting work and the daily management and operation of the mercenary group and the villa, etc., are all in charge of the deputy head Tony.

When they saw Sophia, the real leader, many people in the mercenary group had to wave and say hello.

It was only halfway through her hand, and after seeing Sophia's face clearly, all the mercenaries in her path immediately scattered.

Just kidding, Tydemis's Rose Mercenary Regiment's first survival rule: never show up in front of the captain when she's in a bad mood.

Sophia glanced at the crowd who were afraid to avoid it, snorted coldly and continued to move forward, not bothering these guys.

Soon, she was in the study of what was used as the council chamber of the Rose Mercenary Regiment of Tedmis.

Although Tedmis's Rose Mercenary Regiment can be regarded as Sophia's word, she is responsible for giving orders many times. But in fact, a lot of work actually needs to be apportioned, and for the stability of the entire mercenary group, in terms of receiving tasks and arranging executive personnel, of course, it is impossible for Sophia to have the final say, and it always needs to be discussed with others.

It is precisely because of this that this chamber exists.

And now, everyone, including the deputy head Tony, the next head of the mercenary group, Sofia II, and the five captain-level high-ranking officials, has gathered together.

When Sophia pushed the door in, the others had obviously finished discussing several issues - the day-to-day operation of the mercenary group was basically Tony's responsibility, so under normal circumstances, as long as Tony and Sofia II were present, the council chamber would be operational. After that, the only thing Tony needs to do is report to Sophia what has been discussed, and if Sofia disagrees, then the project will be reconvened.

But most of the time, Sophia, the shopkeeper, doesn't bother with this.

So when Sophia suddenly appeared in this chamber today, everyone present expressed shock.

"All the next affairs of the mercenary group are suspended." Sophia ignored the shock of these people and said bluntly, "We won't take on any tasks for at least three months in the next three months. ”

The five mercenaries who served as captains looked at each other, a little puzzled, but in the end, everyone's eyes were also on Tony.

"Is something wrong?" Tony spoke.

Sophia glanced sideways at Tony, and only this guy who was always smiling dared to talk back to herself, always refuting her opinion.

"You know, our current mercenary group, the daily expenses are not small, if we have no income for three months, I am afraid it will increase our burden." Tony said with a smile, "Recently, a lot of new equipment has been added, and the equipment of the team members also needs to be maintained and updated. ”

The implication is that the recent expenses have been a bit large.

The gold-rank mercenary group is naturally better than the silver-rank mercenary group in terms of treatment.

Of course, the biggest reason is that there can't be so many gold level missions. Therefore, mercenary groups that have reached the gold level only need to complete one mercenary task of gold difficulty every year to keep the rank level of the mercenary group. And Tedmis's Rose Mercenary Group, this year's gold-level difficulty mission has also been completed by Sophia's team last time, so even if they don't take any tasks this year, there will be no danger of lowering their rank.

However, the real reason why Tedmis's Rose Mercenary Group has always maintained an average of one Gold difficulty mission completed every three months is only because the rewards for such missions are relatively rich, and they need these rewards to maintain the daily expenses of the entire mercenary group.

After all, Tedmis's Rose Mercenary Group is an elite one, so even if there are less than thirty people in the entire mercenary group, its expenses will not be low.

"What I have is money!" Sophia snorted coldly, expressing her other identity, but she is the sister of an earl, and there will be less money in the private house.

"Okay, okay, I'm sure you still have a lot of money, even if we don't take on any tasks for a year, it won't be a problem." Tony still had a bright sunny smile on his face, "But I'm curious about what led you to make that decision. ”

Staring at Tony for a long time, and finally being defeated by his big smile, Sophia could only say, "The city of Acala has been infiltrated by the hand of the fallen." ”

This time, the faces of everyone in the conference hall became serious.

Even Tony put away that bright sunny smile: "Are you sure?" ”

Sophia nodded and said, "In fact, everyone has guessed about the matter of the Dark Support Mercenary Group before, but it just lacks sufficient evidence. But I think you know about that this morning, right? ”

This morning's incident is naturally the bloody massacre in the south of the city.

"That villa is indeed the branch stronghold set up by the Fallen Hand in the North." Sophia didn't wait for everyone to say anything or say anything, she continued to talk to herself, "My brother, the Earl of Endrie, has found a thousand letters in the basement of that villa. Among them is evidence that the Dark Guardians mercenary group collaborated with the Fallen Hand, in addition to the evidence that many wealthy merchants and nobles have also joined the Fallen Hand. ”

Everyone in the conference hall fell silent.

"Not long ago, four members of the Dark Hug Mercenary Regiment, including the Dark Hug Mercenary Regiment, were forcibly arrested." Sophia's voice was a little low, "There are also many lone mercenaries. …… The mercenary guild in Acala City will definitely weaken a lot at this moment. ”

"Ha, the Mercenary Guild will definitely not give up." Tony let out a sneer.

The collusion between these professional guilds and various power organizations is very clear to everyone in this world.

Among them, the one with the deepest collusion must be the Thieves' Guild.

As for the Mercenary Guild, the Wizards Guild, and the Adventurer's Guild, which have always preached maintaining a neutral attitude, there will definitely be some biases, positions, and bottom lines.

Like the Mercenary Guild, as an organization similar to an intermediary, they will not pay attention to any conspiracy and trouble most of the time, even if Earl Endri orders the arrest of a mercenary group or a mercenary, they will turn a blind eye and choose not to help each other. But if this kind of behavior affects the strength of a mercenary guild's branch, then this matter is a different matter.

In the entire North, there are only four branches of the Mercenary Guild.

The Northern Winterfall Mercenary Guild, responsible for all matters north of the Northern Winterfell.

The Mercenary Guild of Vadaan City is responsible for the affairs of the area north of the Ancient Tower Fortress to Vadaan City.

The Akara City Mercenary Guild is responsible for the entire western part of the northern territory between Vadaan City and Northern Winterfell. As for the eastern part of the area, all affairs are handled by another mercenary guild: the Silver City Mercenary Guild.

Originally, among the four mercenary guilds, the strength of Northern Winter City was naturally deservedly the strongest. It is followed by the Vadaan City Mercenary Guild, but the strength between the third-ranked Acala City Mercenary Guild and the Vadaan City Mercenary Guild can be said to be a radius of eight taels, which is probably the distance between the mercenary group of the golden rank.

But now, Akara. Count Tedmis ordered the rectification of Akara City, which had almost become a thousand holes, which was a big blow to the mercenary guild in Akara City - at least, in the headquarters selection in the next few years, the mercenary guild branch of Akara City must not want to surpass the mercenary guild of Vadaan City.

"Indeed, they hope to be able to keep these people and give them a chance to make meritorious contributions." Sophia said with a headache.

"I see." Tony nodded, "So at this time, Count Endri wants to use us as a confrontation by stopping all activities?" ”

Sophia nodded.

The Rose Mercenary Regiment of Tedmis is not only the strongest mercenary group in Acala City, but also ranks among the top three in the entire northern border. But you must know that the real decision-maker of this mercenary group is the sister of Count Endri, and she also has noble blood in her body. So when the interests of Count Endri and the Mercenary Guild conflict, Sophia's choice naturally became very clear.

Tony shrugged, "I'll make it clear to those guys." ”

Sophia rubbed her eyebrows, looking a little painful: "Okay, you just know how to deal with it." …… Also, there has been some turmoil in Acala recently, so we may be ...... if necessary Will assist the sheriff and the city guards. ”

"It's not the first time, we know." Someone next to him laughed.

The Rose of Tedmis, its nature has been determined from the day this mercenary group was created.

"That's right." Seeing that this matter was almost clear, Sophia asked as if she suddenly remembered something, "How was the thing you did before?" ”

"He refused." Tony showed a helpless wry smile, and then told him about his visit to Su Yan.

"Wait." But after listening to Tony's words, Sophia said with a strange face, "You mean, you personally went to the headquarters of the Storm Mercenary Regiment?" ”

"Yes, to show our sincerity."

"And then, in front of the members of the Storm Mercenary Regiment, ask him if he would like to join us?"

"Any questions?" Tony blinked.

Sophia didn't look at him, but turned to a young man about twenty-three or four-year-old next to him and asked, "That's how he came to look for you in the first place?" ”

"It's not." The young man shook his head.

Even when Sophia thought that Tony was most likely drunk this time, the young man spoke again: "He just met me on the way to the Storm Mercenary Regiment, and then it happened that he and I didn't have lunch, so he took me to the restaurant next to me and invited me to dinner while talking about it." …… Well, in front of Lunes, oh, in front of my other companion in the Stormwind Mercenary Regiment. ”

Sophia was really stunned this time.

She turned her head, looked at Tony, and said seriously, "I really doubt why you haven't been beaten to death so far." ”

"It's funny, that's what Levi asked me." Tony didn't understand why Sophia would say the same thing as Su Yan.

"And how did you answer?"

"Because I'm strong enough." Tony said with a serious face.

Sophia's facial muscles twitched a few times.

And the rest of the people in the conference hall had already stopped looking at Tony.

If you can't really beat him, I believe many people will want to kill him.

But as long as you think about it, after Tony is indeed the well-deserved first person in the north when the two heroes in the north don't make a move, many people dispel this idea.