29. The Second Mission
In the game, God blesses this state and cannot be blocked.
Of course, the main reason is because this ability cannot be taken away. Moreover, NPCs who have already mastered this ability are often too strong, and even if the player knows that they have special abilities, it will not help.
But Su Yan didn't know the state of the world, so naturally he didn't know why Anna's mother wanted to cover up Anna's divine blessings.
It stands to reason that it is impossible for the average person to know what Anna's God-blessed power is. Because so far, Su Yan has not seen anyone with the same intelligence inquiry ability as him, otherwise his level would not be able to hide it at all.
Then there is only one possibility.
In this world, there is some kind of special ability or item that can detect God's blessings. That's why Anna's mother hid Anna's divine blessings so that others would not know that she was a charismatic people.
As for the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Anna, the other party does not necessarily already know about Anna's divine blessing. It is very likely that the target is actually Anna's mother, so she tries to get her mother to comply with Anna.
But no matter what the situation is, these things are still just Su Yan's speculation.
If he wanted to know the truth, he had to go to the headquarters of the Fallen Hand.
After thinking about these things clearly, Su Yan did not immediately change his plan.
Therefore, he decided to act according to his previous plan for the time being: first become a silver-rank mercenary in Acala City, and then use his identity to learn more about this world and the Kingdom of Tria. After that, we will head to the territory of Viscount Wedel to meet the imprisoned elf and see if we can get more information about the elf from the other party.
Finally, it is to go to the Ancient Tower Fortress - whether Su Yan is going to the elven gathering place of the Elder Council in Dongsen, or to continue south, the Ancient Tower Fortress is a place that Su Yan must pass through. But now, he had one more reason to go to the Guta Fortress: the headquarters of the Fallen Hand was located in the Guta Fortress.
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The next day, everyone in the cottage got up.
It was still Bonn who was in charge of cooking.
This guy is just like Stuelsen and Lena, he has an amazing talent for cooking, and he is always able to turn simple ingredients into delicious dishes. So much so that Su Yan even began to wonder if it was a bit condescending to let this guy be a mercenary. Perhaps Stuelsen turned Bonn's cooking into a benefit for the Storm Mercenaries, which would instead attract more people to join the Storm Mercenaries.
For Anna and Thomas, as long as there is good food, then it is their happiest time.
After a hearty breakfast, Thomas was still in charge of cleaning.
Su Yan and the others followed Stuelson to the hall.
Yesterday they had already agreed that they would discuss the next plan of action today.
"So, let's discuss together whether to take on the second mission right away, or take a break for a few days." The opening remarks were made by Steulson.
But in fact, everyone present knew very well that the next plan of action of the Storm Mercenary Group no longer depended on the regiment leader Stulcon, but on Su Yan. The reason is naturally that he is currently the strongest existence in the entire mercenary group - of course, Steulson, Lena and others actually have some careful thoughts, they do long for the Storm Mercenary Group to be reborn and return to the top.
However, this situation is obviously not something that can be reversed by relying on Su Yan alone.
If a mercenary group wants to develop smoothly, reputation is important, but it is more about its own strength. With the current situation of the Storm Mercenary Group, it is obviously impossible to return to the top, after all, a mercenary group of the silver rank cannot rely on only two masters of master strength, but at least five or more of them are needed to barely maintain the normal operation of a mercenary group of the silver rank.
If you want the Storm Mercenary Group to grow smoothly, then the best strategy is to stop continuing the mission and focus on training the members of the mercenary group and recruiting new mercenaries to join. Only in this way can the Storm Mercenary Group regain its growth.
But unfortunately, the development of the mercenary group does not seem to be in Sturson's hands.
"You can continue the mission." Su Yan opened his mouth and said, "Even if it's a gold-level mission, it doesn't matter. ”
With Su Yan's strength, there is naturally no problem in carrying out gold-level tasks.
In fact, the mercenary group in the entire city of Acala now knows about Su Yan's strength - it is no secret that he defeated Vail and Pader. Many people believe that Pad must have died at Su Yan's hands, and it is said that there are sheriffs who want to trouble Su Yan because of this. It's just a pity that the sheriff didn't find any clues and traces of Pader's disappearance, and the only thing that can be confirmed is that Su Yan once took Pad's long sword and sold it.
However, if this is to be relied upon as evidence, it is obviously insufficient.
It is precisely because of this that no one in Akara City wants to trouble Su Yan now, and judging from the way he dealt with Pader, he knew that this guy was very difficult to mess with.
However, even if he knew that Su Yan's strength was very strong, it was useless.
The Mercenary Guild is not a place to show off its muscles, everything needs to be done according to the rules: even if it has the strength of a high-ranking hero, it must start by registering a new mercenary. Of course, compared to a true newcomer who has no foundation in strength, a rookie mercenary with the strength of a high-ranking hero is much easier to raise the rank.
But Su Yan was full of malicious guesses, it must be because the Mercenary Guild could only deal with the strength of the upper heroes.
If he was willing to reveal that he already had level ninety-nine strength, maybe the Mercenary Guild would be willing to give him the green light.
But this thought, just think about it, Su Yan doesn't plan to really expose his full strength because of this.
"We just experienced a failure, and although we have now completed a mission record, I am afraid that in half a year, the Mercenary Guild will not let us accept any gold-level tasks again." Stuelsen smiled bitterly, "If we want to carry out this kind of promotion mission, we need to conduct an evaluation. Not to mention our current state, the assessment will inevitably fail, and even if we can really pass, we don't have so much and so much margin. ”
"Margin?" Su Yan looked at Stuerson with some confusion.
"Yes." Turson knew that Su Yan didn't understand anything, so he explained, "When we accept the assignment, we all need to pay a bond. Then, when the mission is successfully completed, the deposit and the mission reward will be returned to us. If we fail the mission, two-thirds of the deposit will become an additional bounty for the mission, which will be awarded to the next mercenary or mercenary group to complete the mission. ”
Su Yan didn't ask where the other third went, the Mercenary Guild was not a charitable organization.
"All missions are the same?"
"Yes." Stuelsen nodded.
"So, how much is the margin?"
"Roughly equivalent to the full reward for the mission." Stuelsen spoke, "The previous promotion mission cost almost all of our Storm Mercenary Regiment's savings. ”
"Okay." Su Yan nodded, indicating that he understood, "So what kind of tasks can we accept now?" ”
"If you don't split yesterday's bonus, you can probably accept a mission with a deposit of less than a hundred gold coins." Stuelsen thought for a moment, then spoke, "Actually, most mercenary missions on Silver difficulty don't have such high rewards. Those silver difficulty tasks that hang on the high bounty list are only about fifty gold coins. The reward of about 100 gold coins is almost the same as a mission on Gold difficulty. ”
"It's a shame." Su Yan sighed regretfully.
He is indeed very short of money now, because Anna's appetite seems to be gradually increasing, which makes Su Yan feel very distressed.
"I do know there's a silver-level quest with a very high reward." Lunes on the side suddenly spoke.
Then both Lena and Stuelson reacted.
"Looks like you know something?" Su Yan glanced at everyone, and then spoke.
"Indeed, there is a silver quest that has been on the high bounty list for a long time." Stuelsen spoke, "The quest reward is very high, about eighty gold coins. Of course, it's definitely more than that now. ”
"Why?" Su Yan began to become curious, but soon, he realized the problem, "Someone planted it?" ”
"Two mercenary groups were disbanded because of this mission. They all tried to turn around with this task, but the end result was that they lost too many people, and in the end they couldn't even maintain their daily expenses. Stuhlson's expression was strange, "Now this mission, including the additional bounty amount, is probably close to about seven hundred gold coins." …… I heard that it has failed more than ten times, and now many people regard this mission as a death mission, and no mercenary group is willing to touch it. ”
"Including that Tedmith rose?"
When Lena heard Su Yan's question, she couldn't help but show a disdainful expression: "Those high-ranking guys don't care about such a task. Whether they disdain it or don't care, they never took care of the task anyway, as if it didn't exist. ”
Su Yan's brows furrowed slightly.
He wasn't as disdainful as Lena, his instincts told him that the mercenary group of Tydemis must know the inside story of this mission, so they didn't take it.
"What's going on with this mission?"
"The mission is very clear, about three hundred kilometers west of the city of Akara, there is a canyon, located in the canyon there is a plant, the commission is to pick this plant back." "But no one knows where the plants are growing, so it's a collection task that needs to be explored. It doesn't matter if it's just that, it just takes some time. ”
"There are monsters in the canyon?" Su Yan asked.
"Yes, and it's very dangerous." Lena nodded, "Anyway, none of the mercenaries who entered the canyon came out alive. The Mercenary Guild itself seems to have sent people to investigate this mission, but after they came back, they also raised the danger level of this mission to the gold level difficulty, but then I don't know why, it was downgraded back to the silver level, but it was precisely because of this precedent that no mercenary would send them to death later. ”
"I see." Su Yan nodded, "Then, let's take this task." ”
"Are you sure?" Stuelsen asked, "The danger of this mission is high. ”
"At the moment, it sounds pretty high." Su Yan shrugged his shoulders, the expression on his face was very calm, "But for me, it's not a problem." So I decided that I would go alone, and you would just take on this mission on behalf of the Storm Mercenary Regiment. ”