The next morning, when the weather was gloomy, the mercenary team got up early to carry Sterling's body to the river outside the village, where they were to hold a simple cremation ceremony for their comrades and brothers, and then take their ashes home.

The villagers also came spontaneously, and hundreds of people stood densely on the river beach.

Alan knelt in front of Sterling's body and took out two bottles of mule from his bag, which Elvis had given him when he set off from Boulder City a dozen days earlier, and was supposed to be drunk in celebration as he was preparing to complete his mission.

"Brother Sterling, I know you like wine, these are the best wines, give them to you on the go!"

Alan opened the wine and poured it on the ground in front of him.

James stacked the prepared wood neatly around the remains, and Alan threw a few fireballs at them, and soon the flames were blazing.

After the cremation ceremony, Captain Hackitch collects Sterling's ashes in a clay pot, and the group returns to the village chief's house and begins counting the spoils of the mission.

In terms of the commission and difficulty of this mission, the mercenary team has suffered heavy losses, but if you look at the actual difficulty, it is still lucky. A 6-person mercenary team without a great magician and a great swordsman in charge, at the cost of one death and one serious injury, wiped out a wind wolf group led by the Wind Wolf King composed of fifteen wind wolves, if this matter spreads, it must be a good story in the mercenary world, and the mercenary team will also be famous because of this, but the current parties are not in the mood to consider this at all.

A half-burnt corpse of the Wind Wolf King and the corpse of fifteen Wind Wolves, the most valuable of these corpses is the magic core in the head, except for the Wind Wolf King's magic core, which has been burned, the other magic cores are intact.

Durant has already taken out all the magic cores, and although the remaining wolf skins, wolf meat, and wolf manes are not as valuable as the magic cores, they are also worth some money, especially the fur of the Wind Wolf King.

"It's a pity that most of the good fur is burned out!" said James, with some regret as he cleaned up the wolf's skin.

"If it doesn't burn out, we're gone. Durant said.

That night, they stayed at the village chief's house, ready to leave the next day.

After dinner, Alan walked alone along the village path to the shore of the cremation of Stirling, and sat down facing the sunset.

The sunset is like blood, reflecting the flowing water, and there are small fish floating on the river, waving red ripples. The breeze blew slowly, swaying a few branches of the weeping willows by the river, swaying the lonely silhouette in the setting sun.

Alan stared blankly at the willow trees on the other side, but the picture after meeting Sterling flashed in his mind, from the Traveler's House Bar to fight for righteousness, to show his might with one enemy and four enemies, to get himself drunk with rum, to run to buy python scale armor for himself, to use a donkey as a mount to play himself and then be played by himself, and finally to the sacrifice of his life to save each other, one by one, it is clear as if it had just happened.

"Alan!"

Just as Alan was immersed in the thoughts of memories, the voice of Captain Khavic came from behind.

"Captain, why are you here. ”

"I finished eating, I was in a bad mood, I came out to relax, and I happened to meet you here!"

"Captain, we're leaving tomorrow, right?"

"yes, it's been a long time, it's time to go home, are you really sure you're going with us?"

"Yes, I'm going to see Big Brother Sterling's family and see if there's anything I can do to help them. ”

"Allen, I don't know if Master Fox has told you that being a mercenary is like this, and the partners who drink and eat meat together today may be separated by life and death tomorrow. ”

"I know, it's just that I can't accept it, two days ago we came with six of us, and now we leave with only five people. ”

Captain Hack patted Allen on the shoulder.

"I understand your thoughts, a familiar person suddenly leaves you, and will never see each other again, and it will be difficult for anyone to accept it. Alan, let me tell you a true story. ”

Captain Hackich was about to show his eloquence again, only this time Alan didn't make an excuse to run away, but nodded.

"More than twenty years ago, there was a newcomer who had just joined the mercenary group, and once he and a team of a dozen people went to the Western Desert to complete a mission, and the goal of the mission was the magic core of an adult salamander. They searched in the desert for several days, and finally they found a salamander, but the salamander was alert, and when it saw them, it began to flee from a distance. ”

So a group of them, following the salamander, chased after them, and before they knew it, they had stepped into the range of the Cullen Mountains. ”

"The Kulun Mountains are the most dangerous area known on the continent, because it is the territory of the dragon, and on those snow-covered peaks that reach into the sky and are covered with ice and snow all year round, there is the most powerful race on the continent - the dragon race, in addition to the dragon race, the creatures who can have territory in the Kulun Snow Mountain are all the top powerhouses on the continent. ”

"Unfortunately, when the mercenary team finally caught up with the salamander and successfully hunted it down to complete the mission, they encountered a passing king of thunder beasts, who seemed to be very disgusted with them outsiders, and launched the thunder tribulation magic almost without saying a word. ”

"Thunder Tribulation?" Alan took a breath of cold air, of course he knew that it was a real large-scale qi magic, compared to which the Giant Blade Dance that the Wind Wolf King could cast could only be regarded as high-level qi magic.

"Yes, Alan, you can imagine the sight of dense buckets of lightning falling from the sky and slashing through the crowd. Almost instantly, everyone fell. ”

"Where's the newcomer?" asked Allen.

"He was lucky, because he was a newcomer, and he had been standing at the end of the team during the mission, and most of the time he was just watching, and he didn't need to do it at all, so when the Thunder Tribulation came, he was not directly struck by lightning, but was stunned by the aftermath of lightning. ”

"And then?"

"A few hours later, he woke up. The King of Thunder Beasts had long since left, but none of his teammates had come back to life, and he didn't even have time to grieve, so he picked up the salamander core in the captain's hand and ran back alone along the path he had come. Luckily, he returned to the human town with the Demon Core and handed over the mission, and when the other mercenaries knew that he was the only one who escaped from the hands of the King of Thunder Beasts and successfully completed the mission, they all admired him and regarded him as the most potential rising star in the mercenary world. But only he knows that he was just lucky. ”