Su Yan didn't plan to stay in Northern Winter City for too long.

After gathering enough information, he took Anna to a rich breakfast the next day, and prepared enough dry food, and then left Northern Winter with Anna.

He had planned to wander around several professional guilds in Northern Winterfell, and register for a mercenary status by the way. However, the thieves' guild here in Northern Winter City left a bad impression on him, so after thinking about it for a night, Su Yan finally gave up his plan to register his identity in the mercenary guild in Northern Winter City, and also gave up his plan to visit the professional guild in Northern Winter City.

And this means that during the trip before arriving at the Ancient Tower Fortress, Su Yan will not be able to obtain further information by visiting these professional guilds.

It is estimated that the Mercenary Guild should be able to encounter a few along the way - on the way to the Guta Fortress, Su Yan has to pass through the territories of the three counts at least, and the territories of these three counts all have a small city of considerable scale, although it is not as good as a big city like Northern Winter City, which gathers the resources of the entire north, but at least the cities of the three counties still have the office of a mercenary guild.

However, other organizations such as the Magic Guild, the Warrior Guild, and the Knight Guild are impossible to see.

This type of guild is usually only found in large cities or commercial cities, where there is a lot of traffic.

For example, the center of the New North. Northern Winterfell, Iron Wall of the North. Ancient Tower Fortress, Tria Royal Capital, Pearl of the South. cities such as Tucsers.

When he left Northern Winter City, Su Yan thought that the people from the Thieves Guild would send someone to follow him.

But then he realized that he seemed to be thinking too much, and the Thieves' Guild did not send anyone to continue to follow him.

However, in fact, the people of the Thieves Guild did not expect Su Yan to leave Northern Winter City early the next morning - although the hotel was the property of the Thieves Guild, Su Yan did not prepare dry food at the hotel when he left, but went to other shops to purchase dry food, so even the Thieves Guild did not receive the news.

At that time, they were busy going to professional guilds such as the Mercenary Guild and the Warrior Guild to investigate and understand the situation, trying to obtain Su Yan's identity.

After all, as the head of the Thieves' Guild in Northern Winter City said, a person with black hair like Su Yan was too rare in the Tria Kingdom.

Most of the inhabitants of this kingdom have reddish hair colors such as chestnut and brown, and although there are many people with blonde and flaxen hair colors, on the whole, these warm colors are predominant. As for the black hair, the Kingdom of Tria cannot be said to be absent, but it is definitely a mark with obvious image characteristics, and it is impossible for people to miss it. Especially for people with black hair and high strength, it is naturally easier to impress.

Therefore, when he suddenly saw such a powerful person like Su Yan in Northern Winter City, the Thieves Guild naturally wanted to investigate and understand the identity of the other party for the first time. It's just that they underestimated Su Yan's ability to act, so by the time the Thieves Guild found out that Su Yan was no longer in Northern Winter City, it would already be the next day.

Although they really wanted to continue to explore the matter about Su Yan, the head of the Northern Winter City Thieves Guild finally stopped his men from following Su Yan after thinking about it for a long time. However, he also fulfilled his duty and sent some relevant news about Su Yan back to the headquarters. As for how the general assembly of the Tria Kingdom planned to deal with the matter about Su Yan, it had nothing to do with him.

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After leaving Northern Winter City, Su Yan embarked on the road to Count Endri.

This is the closest city to North Winter.

Although the settled population is small, about 20,000 or 30,000 people, the urban planning is well done and does not look chaotic. It can be seen that Count Endry is a very ambitious fellow, and he obviously wants to develop the city in his territory into a commercial city second only to Northern Winter - after all, in terms of geographical advantages, this city of Accala, named after Count Endrie, does have a unique advantage.

Whether heading north to Northern Winterfell, or leaving Northwinter and heading south, Akara is the final and first stop.

In particular, the distance between the two cities is not too far, and for small and medium-sized caravans, it is only about fifteen days. Even a traveler like Su Yan with a daughter would only be about ten days away at most without considering the journey. And if the mercenary is in a hurry, the time can even be shortened to less than seven days, or even less.

Therefore, as long as Count Endri is not too greedy, the prospects for the development of the city can almost be said to be promising.

Anna is not averse to camping out in the wild.

She had one-half elven blood—Su Yan guessed that it was the blood of a forest elf, because Anna was obviously not very accustomed to the noisy environment of the city, and she had not been seen to show any unique talent in places like the plains. On the contrary, when she is in the woods, her expression is more relaxed and happy, especially when a breeze blows, she always lets out a giggle of laughter.

It was the elf in the wind playing with her.

This is the fifth day that Su Yan has left Northern Winter City with Anna.

He didn't go out of his way to go on his way.

Looking at Anna's curiosity about everything around her, Su Yan felt that she should take this opportunity to let Anna have an interesting childhood full of good memories. Instead of being running around all the time, and then having to live a boring life in isolation with those elves.

Half-elves are mostly able to inherit the talents of the elves' unique bloodline, such as dexterity or magical advantages. But in terms of lifespan, half-elves can't get the ones that can live for three to five hundred years like elves, and almost all half-elves are almost the same as humans in terms of lifespan. Moreover, all the descendants of the half-elf bloodline will not be able to inherit the elven bloodline, but will transform into a pure-bred human bloodline.

Little Anna, naturally, will not be an exception in terms of longevity.

So Su Yan didn't want the little guy to have even a little happy childhood memory after returning to her mother's side.

This is why Su Yan is not in a hurry, but takes Xiao Anna forward with a leisurely attitude.

However, as time passed, even if Su Yan was not in a hurry, he still arrived at Acala City at noon on the thirteenth day after leaving Northern Winter City.

The city was indeed inferior in size to Northern Winterfell, the height of the walls was only about six meters, and the guards on duty at the gates were only six people.

Five rookies who haven't passed level 5 yet, and a captain who is level seven.

They charged each visitor two copper coins to enter the city, and only allowed them to stay for a maximum of seven days, and if they wanted to stay in the city, they either had to own an property and become a permanent resident, or they had to pay a new detention fee. As for the caravans, the tax was drawn according to the number of vehicles in the caravan, and the tax on each wagon was a silver coin - this commercial tax was not heavy, but it was not light, and it was exactly the standard that the merchants could afford.

From this point of view, Su Yan could determine the lord of Acala City and the lord of the Earldom of Endri. Count Tedmith was a lord of ambition and vision, as well as talent and ability.

There were no accidents in the process of entering the city.

The only thing that makes Su Yan dissatisfied is that Anna also has to pay two copper coins to enter the city - when she was in Northern Winter City, Anna didn't need to pay the entrance fee.

The reward for the four copper coins was two wooden plaques painted with black paint, which recorded the time when Su Yan and Anna entered the city.

These two black wooden plaques were temporary residence permits for Akara City—Su Yan had already seen this system when he was in Northern Winter City, and he even wondered where these people from the other world had learned this term—only travelers with such temporary residence permits could stay in hotels in the city. In addition, if they are interrogated by the guards, only this temporary residence permit can confirm the identities of Su Yan and Anna, and they will not be imprisoned or fined.

Su Yan also noticed that the businessman's temporary residence permit was blue.

For mercenaries, you can directly show the nameplate issued by the mercenary guild. Of course, you still have to pay the entrance fee, unless the other party can prove that you are a permanent resident.

As for the permanent resident sign, it is white. In addition, Su Yan had also seen wooden signs in gold, red and other colors, and he guessed that they should represent other identities.

However, this kind of management system seems to be implemented only in cities.

Because Su Yan had not encountered this situation when he passed through villages and small towns before. He thinks it may be because the population of the village and the small town is small, and they are more wary of strangers, so there is no need for this management method to verify their identity.

After entering Acala City, Su Yan took Anna directly to the Mercenary Guild as soon as possible.

Along the way in the past few months, Su Yan has fully understood the role that a mercenary identity can play in this world.

First of all, mercenaries can get certain discounts when they enter the city: for example, the entrance fee to Acala City is two copper coins, and mercenaries only need to pay one copper coin. Secondly, when mercenaries buy housing and other industries in the city, they can also get a certain degree of discounts. Finally, there is the unique intelligence-sharing mechanism of the Mercenary Guild - but the conditions for the use of this mechanism are differentiated according to the mercenary's own level.

For example, if a mercenary has already obtained a platinum nameplate, then he can naturally share the information of the mercenary guild at the platinum level and below.

It is worth mentioning that the internal level distinction of the Mercenary Guild is black iron, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, mythril, and diamond from low to high.

And under the black iron are the newcomers who register mercenaries.

They can only be promoted to Black Iron mercenaries after completing ten Black Iron Level assessment tasks.

As for newcomers who register as mercenaries, they are not eligible to share the internal information of the Mercenary Guild, and they are also not eligible for any preferential policies.