Reyek returned to his headquarters in the Mercenary Guild with his members.

Mercenary groups of this rank of the Serpent of Yevrk have their own separate stations in the mercenary guilds of most cities.

"Commander."

The attendant in the station, who specialized in taking care of the clutter in the regiment, immediately stepped forward to greet Reyek's return.

"Bring me the employment contract." Reyek entered the chamber inside the station, and gave orders to the squire.

Only five members of the mercenary group followed Reyek into this room, and these five people can be said to be the pillars of the Serpent of Yevrk.

The squire pulled out an old parchment scroll from a magically sealed iron chest, and Reyek took the parchment and spread it out, browsing its contents in deep thought.

"Commander, are we scouting the enemy this time?"

One of the five, a black-robed mage, glanced at the contents of the parchment scroll and asked Reyek in a hoarse voice.

"I don't know."

Reyek finally gave this answer after reading the various terms on the parchment scroll.

This is a contract of employment.

It's not a mercenary contract from a mercenary guild, but a contract made in private.

The purpose of this contract is usually to hire them to do something unseemly, but the pay is far more generous than the assignments received in the mercenary guild.

"The head of the regiment must be thinking about a plan! After all, if we kill that shopkeeper, we'll get more paid than we can do for a whole year's tasks combined. ”

The archer, who had been in a state of boistery, was also one of the pillars of the Serpent of Jevrk, and he looked like he was already in a state of eagerness.

"I'm against it, that guy isn't something we can deal with."

A cold voice interrupted the archer's enthusiasm, and all eyes were on a swordsman leaning against the door.

"Isn't it the Chaos Demon? Maurice, are you afraid to fight your kind? ”

The archer enthusiastically placed his hand on the cold-faced swordsman's shoulder, but before the archer could say the next word, a long sword was already pressed against his neck.

"I'll admit that the Chaos Demon's ability to nullify mana is tricky, but that shopkeeper doesn't seem to be able to fight at all, and he probably doesn't even know how to wield his sword, am I right? Morris. The archers raised their hands in surrender.

The swordsman's blade was wrapped in gray magic, the most visible symbol of the Chaos Demon.

"Really? I don't know how to use a sword, but I can still kill you easily. ”

The Chaos Demon named Maurice shook his hand slightly, and the blade severed the two arrows floating behind the archer in an untraceable trajectory.

"The power of the Chaos Demons is not only their magical power, but also the purest body and reaction that surpasses humans." He glanced at the archer's raised hands and said, "The actions you just dodged and counterattacked were as slow as a child in my eyes, do you think there is any point in your swordsmanship?" ”

"Maurice, that's enough." Reyek reminded the two of them that they had stopped confronting each other.

"The trickiest thing is that that guy isn't just an ordinary Chaos Demon." The swordsman put his sword into the scabbard and said, "He has the surname of Arnorod, Josius Arnorod, the absolute ruler of the Chaos Demons, even if he doesn't know swordsmanship, he can crush your skull with one hand." ”

"The abilities of the target individuals are of the lowest importance."

Beside Reyek, a man with gold-rimmed glasses intervened in their conversation.

"He has a very close relationship with the Seven Sages of Nolan, and the Grey One sent owls to watch, or... Protecting him in the shadows, the chances of us trying to deal with it secretly in Nolan City are basically zero. ”

"So do you want to give up this commission so easily? I won't mention the deposit provided by the employer, the alchemy medicine he gave him can indeed cure the effects of the gray mist, right? ”

The archer's hands clapped on the table with some exasperation, and he looked at Reyek.

Reyek, on the other hand, fell into a long silence.

The Serpents of Yevrk are indeed the strongest mercenary group in the world, but a year ago they had a near-devastating accident......

While exploring a mysterious ruin beneath the Frost Country, they encounter a group of monsters they have never seen before.

These monsters are different from ghosts and banshees, but their abilities have caused great mental trauma to the members of Reyek's team.

At that time, there were twenty-two members of the group who were affected by those monsters, and although Reyek commanded his mercenary group to retreat, half of these twenty-two members lost their minds halfway through and turned into extremely violent monsters.

Only the remaining half of the members of the group also endure all kinds of horrific hallucinations for many years.

For the first half of the year, Reyek had spent the first half of the year traveling the world looking for a cure for this strange disease, but he found that in addition to camping, he and the rest of the group were drunk and sang and danced like idiots and sang a song or two, making the traumatized members laugh at them in order to get them out of the illusion of fear for a while.

In the course of half a year, he lost another six members of the group, but luckily Rejek came to Nolan... Here he heard the singing of an elf.

The elf's singing voice temporarily alleviated the symptoms of the group members, allowing them to live as if they were normal people.

Reyek looked up from his memories to find that the only five remaining pillars within the Serpent of Yevrk were already arguing.

"If this mission fails, the price we have to pay is not so simple!"

"It's enough to lure the target out of the city, and you don't need to come to Nolan again after the mission is completed!"

Reyek listened quietly to the argument between them, and took out the two sheets of music that Qiao Xiu had given him before leaving.

"You're in the wrong place." Reyek intervened in their quarrel with a loud voice, his eyes scanning everyone present: "If we complete the commission and get rid of the target, the magic net will completely disappear from this world, and Miss Tylene's new song may not be heard in this life!" ”

At this moment, the five members of the group, who were still arguing just now, fell silent in an instant, and the whole room was enveloped in a strange atmosphere, and the five of them glanced at each other, and no one knew what method to refute.

Rejek, who was silent in front of outsiders, poked at the most scruples in everyone's hearts with a sentence at this time.