Chapter XXXVII
Capella Village is not hard to find, although it is a small village built in the Wailing Glade, but they will occasionally go out and exchange goods with the outside, and with the simple map that Acoste got from the Friendly Arm, the group made it through the Wailing Glade to the village in the evening.
"Stop! Who are you! Just as they approached the gate of Capella's village, the guards at the gate spotted them, and they pulled up their longbows and asked, Yacoste believed that if they didn't reveal their identities in a short time, they would definitely do it.
"We're the Scarlet Frost Adventure Squad, and we've taken on a mission from Baldur's Gate to help you exterminate kobolds." Acoste shouted loudly, and walked over with his hands held high, signaling that he had no ill intentions.
"Well, it's great that you're here to help our adventure team." When the militia from Capella village heard Yacoste's identity, one militiaman ran towards the village quickly, and the other militiaman also put down his weapon and said excitedly.
"I'm sorry, it's night, and I thought you were those damn kobolds." On the continent of Faerun, the vast majority of ordinary civilians are very simple, they easily trust outsiders, of course, there are a few local people who are very strong, and they are very repulsive to outsiders.
"It's okay, it's necessary to be vigilant at night on the Feron Continent." Acoste waved his hand unconcerned, but his sharp eyes saw the militia with bandages on their shoulders. It smelled of herbs, and it was obviously freshly tied, "Is the situation here bad?" ”
"yes, this is the wilderness after all, the territory of those monsters." The militiaman, of course, noticed Yacoste's expression, and he shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "But we humans are not easy to bully, I killed at least 12 kobolds." ”
"Where are those adventurers?" Just as Acoste was chatting with militia Daeron, an old man on crutches suddenly came out of the village, and he walked over with a brisk walk.
"I'm the head of Kaman in Capella Village, and you're here to help our adventurers, do you have any credentials?" Although Carman looked at Yacoste and the others with an excited expression, he still asked Yacoste for proof very sensibly, even if he thought that without that group of boring people, he would have nothing to do with the mountains and rivers in Capella Village.
"Of course, honorable old man." Acoste saluted politely, then took the Adventure Guild's quest scroll from his bosom and handed it over.
"Great, great. You're finally here, dear adventurer, and let me arrange a lodging for you now. Carman looked at an alchemy product that resembled reading glasses for a long time before handing the quest scroll back to Acoste, and warmly invited Acoste into the village. Acoste originally wanted to refuse, but in a blink of an eye, it was already very dark, in the woodland, with the shade of those lush trees, obviously the environment would be even darker, Acoste and Lavis are half-elves with the talent of dim vision, but Ling and Li Qing are indeed real humans, so for a better combat environment, Acoste still accepted the kindness of the old village chief.
After entering the village, almost all the villagers came out of the wooden house, they looked at Yacoste and the others cautiously, but did not dare to come out to say hello or make a sound, as a small semi-closed village, they had heard that adventurers were a group of powerful but arrogant, freewheeling people, who might fight because they were not satisfied with the reward or verbally offended. Of course, the vast majority of adventurers are indeed such a type of people, and Acoste, who abides by the law and obeys the order, is purely forcibly blackened.
However, when the villagers looked at them with three points of fear, three parts curiosity and four points of hope, Yacoste was also secretly observing them, but as the observation became more nuanced, Yacoste's heart sank.
Carman led Yacoste to the largest wooden house in the village, complete with tables, stools, washbasins, and four makeshift beds, even if such conditions could not be compared to the Friendly Arm Hotel, Yacoste knew that this was the greatest sincerity of Capella's village. Before leaving, Carman asked Acoste if they wanted to have a supper and if they needed to find a few people to serve them, but of course Acoste politely refused.
"What do you think?" When the wooden door was closed, the regular smile on Acoste's face disappeared and was replaced by a furrowed brow.
"It's not easy, almost everyone in their village has wounds, and I have even found them in children and women in their teens, so it can be seen that their situation is very difficult." Ling pulled a chair and sat down with a big grin, picked up the water on the table and drank it. Her voice is not small, but she is not afraid of being heard by the village chief of Carman, she has the skills of a thief to listen, the warrior monk has the expertise to listen to the wind, and Lavis is the existence of a humanoid radar, and there are few professionals in Capella Village who can not find anyone who can eavesdrop on what they say without being detected by them.
"Very good, this is definitely not caused by kobolds, or a group of [100-200] kobolds, I have seen all the militias in this town, although they are not low-level professionals, but most of them have people with warrior rank." Acoste nodded at Ling and said, sensing other professional levels on the Faeron Continent generally relies on the momentum exuded by the other party, and adventurers of each rank have a special temperament, although this method cannot accurately see the specific level of the other party, but sensing a rank generally does not make a big mistake [except for wanderers].
"Now let's start voting, and if we don't continue this mission, if half of the people are against it, then we'll get out of here tomorrow." Acoste thought for a long time and finally said his purpose.
"I think we should stay, if we can't do it, we have to wait for tomorrow to investigate the field before deciding whether to give up this mission, we are not so unlucky, last time it was an accident. Also, we're running out of money," Reichi said, knowing how cautious Acoste, who had gone through the last "disaster" mission, was now, imagining almost every situation to the worst.
"I think we should get the job done." Li Qing has finally spoken since yesterday, but after such a simple sentence, there is no more.
"Okay, then let's go check on tomorrow, and rest now." Acoste heard Ling and Li Qing say this and decided to continue the mission, anyway, the mission goal is about kobolds, even if there are other monsters, they only need to be responsible for cleaning up kobolds, and even if the people in Capella's village don't admit it, they can go to the adventure guild to receive the bounty.