Chapter 76: Pound City

Chen Mian prepared 6 Divine Berries, and the effect of the Divine Berries she prepared after upgrading to the next level could last for three days, considering that this mission might last a little longer than before, Chen Mian went to the trading area after cultivating and spent 5 crystals to exchange a large amount of gold and silver.

Enter the task transfer space, and the task information will appear in front of you.

"Sewer Labyrinth (Hard): The Pound City Guards discovered that there were a small number of giant rats in the slums, and all the humans who were bitten had varying degrees of bestiality before disappearing into the city.

The City Guard soldiers who followed the giant rat found that the dark and dirty sewers had become a haven for rats, and no matter which entrance they entered, if they encountered a single rat, they would be immediately besieged by hundreds of rats.

In desperation, the city guards blocked and strengthened all the sewer openings, sent people to guard them day and night, and recruited adventurers to solve the sewer rat infestation.

Gradually, no one dared to accept this bounty.

Please address the sewer rodent infestation. ”

Just after reading the mission information, she realized the difficulty of this mission, the enemy is not one, but an unknown number of groups, and it seems that there is a connection with each other, killing one will attract a litter.

Even if her individual strength is weak, she may not be able to defeat it, because there will always be a time when her mana is exhausted, and when the time comes, she will be surrounded, and she will die.

Chen Mian thought about the coping strategy and chose to start the task.

Appearing in the bustling crowd, Chen Mian was in a trance for a while, and then curiously observed the pedestrians on the road and the buildings on both sides.

In the middle of the street, light carriages passed by from humble to delicate, and the drivers of the staggered carriages nodded to each other, and sometimes the owners of the carriages met acquaintances, stopped to say hello as they passed sideways, and then hurriedly said goodbye to the carriage behind them, and drove forward.

Most of the pedestrians walked on the one-meter-wide sidewalk on both sides of the carriageway, and a girl in a half-worn dress carried a basket covered with a beige thin cloth, and passed by Chen Mian with her head bowed next to the wall, and the rich smell of bread under the thin cloth penetrated Chen Mian's nose.

Chen Mian turned around along the scent, just in time to bump into the girl curiously and secretly looking at her, the girl's fair skin quickly turned red, lowered her head and ran away.

Most of the buildings on the roadside are small brick and stone buildings with two to five floors, and the first floor facing the street is a variety of shops, which is very much the medieval style of the Western countries of the Blue Star.

She found herself attracting the attention of many passers-by, always stopping on her robe first, and then secretly looking at her.

Passing by a tavern called "Oak Hand", Chen Mian thought that the tavern was always a good place to gather news in adventure novels, and she walked in.

The shop was full of people and very lively, and the customers were dressed in very different clothes from those outside, most of them were wearing cloth armor, leather armor, and weapons, and they were chatting loudly at a table in twos and threes.

As Chen Mian entered, they fell into a moment of silence, drinking and shouting as if nothing had happened, but they were obviously absent-minded, and their attention was elsewhere.

Ariel was the owner of the shop, and after an adventure, he made a fortune and bought the house, which was used as a tavern on the first floor, an inn on the second to fourth floors, and his private residence on the fifth floor.

Today there is a distinguished mage lady in his shop, this is the first mage to come to his shop, and only the youngest daughter of the city lord in the entire Pound City is a mage apprentice, who has studied magic with the court mage in the imperial capital, even if there is the entire Pound City as a backing, he has not been promoted to a formal mage so far.

After the continent was shattered, the inheritance was lost, the energy concentration plummeted, and the difficulty for professionals to enter the extraordinary increased exponentially, the warrior profession was like this, and the mage profession was even more severe, so even just a mage apprentice was enough to attract onlookers.

Look at the mercenaries and adventurers in his shop who usually shout and only boast of their knowledge, don't they also secretly pay attention? Ariel felt honored, and in the entire tavern of Pound City, only his Oak Hand could attract the mage.

He straightened the clothes on his body and looked at Chen Mian with a smile that he thought was kind.

Only he didn't withdraw a gaze that stayed on him, Chen Mian naturally felt it, and also noticed the difference between this middle-aged man and other adventurers.

Dressed in more elaborate silk clothes, he stood straight inside the bar without armor or weapons, indicating his different identity.

Ariel raised his voice when Chen Mian's gaze fell on him, "Drink, Miss Mage! He raised his hand and motioned for Chen Mian to sit on the empty seat in front of the bar.

Chen Mian sat down and ordered a glass of apple juice. She didn't hide her purpose, and asked Ariel about the sewers.

"Oh my God, that filthy sewer is too dangerous, Miss Mage, you still have to be cautious, the huge bounty of the city guard is like a treasure on the other side of the abyss, you can only look at it, I secretly told you, the matter of the sewer is not simple, there may have been a rat man inside, if you are bitten, you will be infected with the beast curse."

Ariel said that he said it secretly, but his voice was not small, Chen Mian estimated that this matter was no longer a secret in the city, and the rat man was not mentioned in the mission information, "Is the rat man and the beast curse very powerful?" ”

"If it were an ordinary rat man, one or two ordinary adventurers would be able to easily take it down, but Pound's sewers have become the world of those damn rats, and if they are infected with the beast curse, only the level 3 magic of removing the curse can save them, and the level 5 priest has not appeared for many years", Ariel swore an oath.

Chen Mian was silent, feeling that it would not be so powerful, if this was the case, Pang De City would have been a world of rats for a long time, how could there still be peace in the city, and there was no sense of urgency for the crisis to come.

Chen Mian's silence made Ariel's heart worry, he had just accidentally made a mistake of bragging, and quickly remedied, "You don't know, most of the sewer openings are blocked now, and the rest are also heavily guarded, as long as a mouse dares to come forward, it will die under the sword of the city guard in an instant."

And only people with poor physical fitness will be easily infected by the beast curse, so as long as you guard the sewer mouth and don't enter the sewer surrounded by rats, you will be safe and worry-free. ”

Chen Mian nodded, inquired about the location of the Ariel City Guard, left the small gold nuggets cut in advance, thanked him for his hospitality, and left the Oak Hand Tavern.

The headquarters of the city guard is at the gate of the north city, and you can see it by walking along the road outside the tavern in the direction of the outside of the city, Chen Mian originally wanted to see the city from the air on a broomstick, but after asking Ariel, he was asked by him if he could really fly, he had never seen anyone fly in the sky.

Only then did Chen Mian feel that the existence of transcendence was not a secret in this world, but it was rare, and the adventurers that could be seen everywhere were only level 1 warriors at most, and there were not even level 1 warriors in the entire tavern.